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ents usually attended. On this occasion
the old gen tleman said to his wife:
"We must go, suppose, to hear this
Bliss; prehaps he may be some relation
of ours; no telling, although have never
known relative of mine to be minis
ter.''
eyes, we will CO." Mrs. Bliss replied
"and if we learn that he is relative, it
would be very proper to ask him to come
home with us and spend the night"
~ do not know that 1 would have any
objections to that" her husband an
swered.
Somehow he appeared to be in more
melting mood than common; probably he
was reminded that it was the anniversa-
ry of the fourth year since his son left
them; at all events, he this evening, on
his way to church, spoke Loraine's name
for the first time in his wife's hearing.
cit is four years to-day" he said,
''since Lorraine went away, isn't it?"
eyes," she said, mournfully.
"Wonder where he is now? Sometimes
wife, think I was little hasty with
him."
''Then you would oe glad to see him,
perhaps?"
eff l could be sure he had reformed"
BY this time they had reached the
church, finding they were little late, as
the minister was giving out his text ;"As
ye sow, so shall ye reap" Quietly they
entered the door, and there for a moment
Mr.. Bliss speechless stood, and then
tremblingly moved along to his seat,
where his wife was sitting with her head
leaning on the seat ahead of her. Could
it be possible, he asked himself, that the
long lost one stood before him-that he
really beheld him again--not as before
but still the same? Yes, it was most as
suredly his son, whom he drove as a vag-
abond from his door, clothed in the garb
of holiness, commissioner from God.
And he, listening to him, stood like
guilty wretch, transfXed to the spot.
His injustice toward the one now so su-
perior to him rose before him and he felt
condemned.
1t was observed by the audience that
the preacher was becoming deeply affect
ed as he looked in the direction of the old
remembered pew, and each moment wax
ed more and more eloquent as he enlarged
upon the subject of his text: GAS ye
shall SOW, SO shall We reap"
eyes," thought the old gentleman, "as
/ sowed, so have rcaped. For the last
four years / have lived in constant regret
of my unjust treatment, my harsh Ian
guage to thee, my son. Had been kind
and forbearing with him from the first he
would not have been led away to the
haunts of dissipation which came so near
proving his ruin. But by his mothers
gentle conduct and the grace of God his
feet have been arrested in the slippery
downward course he once pursued
After the service was ended Mr.. and
Mrs. Bliss remained in their pew until a
part of the congregation had left the
aisles, and then moved forward to the
pulpit to meet their son and pour their
tears upon his neck. Then all was for
gotten, and he went to their home, never
to be turned from their door again.
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Ticket OMce at TOsUa,,d0.

REDUCED RATES to all principal points WEST.
For passage tickets, cooniss tickets tickets for
party of passengers, apply at the office of the New
York, Lake Erie 81 Western r. r., Ward House,
Towanda, Pa. Baggage checked to oil points.
JOHN Il. WARD, Agent
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this advice, for the next morning his first
salutation to Lorraine was: \
"Where did you stay SO late last night,
you young scrapegrace! Unless you
mend your ways you'll leave thesv prem
ises for good and ALL"
Lorraine, who had been penitent
through the night, resolving to do better
in future, now felt his temper rising and
his resolutions melting away, and he sat
down to the table in sullen mood. But
he shortly after made up his mind to go
to meeting that evening and return home
at half-past 8 or 10 o'clock. Therefore at
halfpast z he stated for church, and
on meeting three or four of his old as
sociates, told them of his plan.
"Well come with us first, just for a
few minutes to the club rooms," said
they.
"No, no, not tonight" he replied.
Il have to go home early and cannot
possibly go with you"
But they dragged him along and it was
impossible to get away from them; and
once there, there was on such thing as
leaving, for in the excitement of the
place he was induced to drink, and as the
liquor was drugged he felt no inclination
to move from the charmed spot.
SO the hours moved on until late into
the night before he went home. When
he reached that place it was 3 O'Clock.
His mother was at the door; she had not
slept moment, she said, from watching
for him, and his father had awakened
three or four times, angrily inquiring
of him. But he was now asleep, and she
wanted Lorraine to creep noiSelessly to
bed, so he might not awaken him. But
alas he did awake, and the scene that
ensued was awful.
Meeting the stupefed boy on the stair
landing, he ordered him to leave the
house at once; he could stay only at the
peril Of his life. The poor mother beg
ged that he might be allowed to remain
until morning; but no, into the street he
was driven, with the threat that if he
ever entered the house again he should
be expelled with still greater harshness
Lorraine crept silently to the most con-
venient shelter, which was the carriage
house. and there slept on the carrirge
cushions till morning. There his mother
found him, as she arose before her hus-
band.
"My dear boy" she said, winding her
arms about his neck, ''it will not answer
for your father to find you here, so will
bring you out some breakfast, and some
money with which to get out Of this town,
where you have so many vile associates;
and hope you will find something to do
and become good and steady. After q
few days write nae where you are, and
will send you trunk of clothes and an
other of books. In future Shun all evil
company, and when you next meet your
father let him sec one who has entirely
reformed, and who will bring him no
ftrther diShonor."
''I will, dear mother. do just as you
say. did not mean to get into disgrace
last night. | started for church and
should have been at home at an early
hour, only was fairly dragged in anoth-
er direction by my companions. 1 think
if father had taken a different course with
me would not be where 1 am now. You
know how stern and Grabbed he has been,
and never since left college have I felt
that could enter his Office and study un-
der his tuition. Had he been kinder and
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DISSOLU ON.-The partnership
- heretofore existing between Saml. Woodford
and ,Jno. VanDorn under the firm name of
Woodford SC VanDorn, is this day dissolved by mu-
tual consent
The books and papers of the late firm are left in
the hands of Saml. Woodford, to whom all debts
due the firm must be paid and by whom all debts
owing by the firm will be settled.
SAMUEL WOODFORD.
JOHN VANDORN.
Towanda, March is, 1881.
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AND PHAMPLKT WORK A SPECIALITY
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AT TRE REVIEW OFFICE.

ALVORD & SON.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1881-09-03
A choice lot OF
HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE

Consisting Of fine Mahogany Bed
steads, Armoirs. Bureaus, Chairs, Mar
ble-Top Washstands, Sideboards, Center
Tables. Etc. Also. large lot of Dining
Room and Kitchen Furniture.
Terms of sale-Cash.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1881-09-03

The cheapest, best, easiest put
up and strongest lightning conduc-
tor is copper wire, says a writer in
the New York Tribune. Get at
metal store coil of the length re-
CURED, and as large as, or larger
than, common telegraph wire.
Fasten one end over your chimney
top. run along the ridge and down
the end of your house. fastening
with common blind-staples driven
into the wood. Be sure to have
the lower end thus terminate in
permanently moist earth or in a
well, not cemented cisteru. Use no
glass insulators, patent tips or other
humbug nonsense, and you will
have the cheapest and most perfect
conductor that can be
made.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1881-09-03

Reed Gilt Edge Tonic prevents
dyspepsia.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1881-09-03
BAD NEWS FOR WATER
DRINKES.

The age Of the earth is placed by
some at five hundred millions OF
years; by others, one hundred mil
lion years. and still others,
of latter time, among them the
Duke of Argyll, place it OF ten mil
lion years None place it lower than
millions, knowing what processes
have been gone through. Other
planets go through the same pro-
cess. The reason that other planets
differ 80 much from the earth is that
they are in q SO much earlier or
later stage of existence. The earth
must become old. Newton surmised
although he could give no reason
for it, that the earth would at one
tine lose all its water and become
perfectly dry. Since then it has
been found that Newton was cor
rect.
AS the earth keeps cooling it will
become porous, and great cavities
will be formed in the interior
which will take in the water. It is
estimated that this process is
now in progress, SO far that the
water diminishes at about the rate
of the thickness of sheet Of writing
paper each year. At that rate, in
5000. 600 years the water will have
sunk q mile, and in 15,0OO,O 900 years
every trace of water will have dis
appeared from the face of the globe.
The nitrogen aud oxygen in the at
mosphere are also diminishing
all the time. It is in an inapprecia-
BILE degree, but the time will come
when the air will be SO thin that no
creatures We know could breath it
and live; the time will cone when
the world cannot support life. That
viii be the period of old age. and
then will come death.-Richard d.
Proctor.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1881-09-03
Religious Notice.

A Protracted Meeting will com
monce in the Methodist Episcopal
Church, in Covington. La, on Sat-
urday, the Sd day of September.
1881, and continue from day to
day, holding two services daily. at
ia. ". and 7:30P. n.
Rev. B. S. Rayner, assisted BY
Rev. Mr.. Howard, Of Pennington,
Miss, and other ministers are ex-
pected to be present.
List of appointments for ST.
TammaIy parish, for the month of
September, 1885,
First Wsek-Sharpe's School
house, Saturday, Sept. 8, at IL A. n.
Vaudeville, Sunday, Sept. 4, at
LA. u.
Bayou Lacombe, Sunday, Sept. 4,
at 4 r. N.
Second WseE-Tally's Church,
Bogue Chitto. Saturday, Sept. 10.
at IL A.M.
Parkersville, {new church), Sun
day. Sept. II, at Ii Az.
Abney's Schoolhouse. Sunday,
Sept. IL. at 4 Pm.
Third Week-German Settle
ment, lBoniface,) Sunday, Sept.
IL, at III Al N.
Pages Schoolhouse, Sunday,
Sept. Is. at 4P.M.
Fourth Week-Spring Hill. Fri
day, Sept. %. at IL An.
Gum Creek. on the same day. at
4P.x.
sadler's Ridge. Saturday, Sept.
"a. at 7P.M.
Oak Grove, Sunday, Sept. rs,
ut Ill A. n.
Hickory Grove, on the same day,
ut 4P.A.
GEo. T. VIckERs, Pastor.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1881-09-03
WHAT THE CLERK WANTED.

Old Pinchem sat in his private Of
fee the other day figuring up his
profits for May, when his head
clerk, looking as pale As sheep
and as red as COW by turns, enter
ed and began:
"Mr. Pinchem. II"
Have you got those goods of
for kalamazoo" interrupted the old
man.
Eyes, sir. they are of. Mr.. Pinch
EN-. ! long"
"And about that order for starch. ("
THAT has been attended to, sir.
Mr.. Pinchem. I have long wanted
to speak to you"
"Ahi speak to me. Why I
thought you spoke to me fifty times
day."
"Yes, sir. ! know, but this 10 o
private matter"
private? Oh Ali wal. till I see
how much We made on that 10000
pounds Of soap. Six times four are
twenty-four; FIVE times two are ten,
and two to carry are II. three times
seven are twenty-ons ard one-ah,
well. go ahead; I'll finish this after
wards"
"Mr. Pinchem, I have been with
you ten long years"
"Ten. chr Long years, eh7 ANY
longer than any other years? Go
ahead"
'And have always tried to do my
duty"
Have, eh2 Go on.
"And now make bold"
"Hold onI what is there bold
about it? But never Mindful hear
you out"
"Mr. Pinchem, I want to ask
ask want to ask"
"Wel why don't you ask then? /
don't see why you don't ask if you
want tor"
"Mr. Pinchem, I want to ask you
for-for-for-"
"You want to ask me for the
hand of my daughter. Ahl Why
didn't you speak right out? She's
yours, my boyl Take her and be
happy. You might have had her
two years ago if you had mentioned
it. Go long now, I'm busy"
"Mr. Pinchem."
"What, you here yet? Well
what is it?"
I wanted to ask you for"
Didn't I give her to you, you
rascal ?"
ayes, but what I wanted to ask
you for was, not the hand of
your daughter, but raise of salary"
"Oh, that was it eh? Well sir,
that is an entirely different matter,
and it requires time for serious
thought and earnest consultation.
Return to your work now, and
some time next fall I'll see about
giving you a raise of a dollar
week. Six times four are twenty
four and two to carry; and three
times" Detroit Free Press.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1881-09-03
WILD HONEY.
Kingston IN. ~ Freeman.

AA6Ss~AA w. ~
twill soon be time for those who
love to make business of hunting
bee trees to start out on their expe-
ditions. A gentleman. an old bee
hunter, told q story how he once
took some honey out in the woods,
warmed it on stones, then left it
there as sort of feeding place for
the bees, and a day or two after
ward noted the direction in which
they went after loading themselves.
and BY following them some dis
lance found there we're two lines Of
bees running parallel to each other
In about three hours he found one
tree, marked it, and then again set
out his honey. In short TIME he
took the other line for the other
tree. He hunted and hunted for o
long time without success. Finally
reaching q cliff of rocks, while trying
to pick bis way down, be accidently
slipped and slid to the bottom.
Somewhat stunned he lay q few
minutes. and looking up to see how
be had come, 10 and behold his
experienced eye saw bees going in
and out of hole in 8 tree within .
few feet of him. From those two
trees he took eighty or ninety
pounds OF honey with considerable
quantity of bees-wax, and consider
ed it one of the most successful
hunts he had ever had. Besides
honey, there is used in bee hunting
q strong flavor OF young clover as
it il called, of which the bees, seem
ingly, are fonder than honey itself.
The proper way to trace bees is to
heat stone, drop honey on it. have
the comb near by, and the heated
honey will Immediately draw the
bees, who will then find the comb
and proceed to load themselves with
IL and return to their homes. It re-
ouires sharp eye to follow the line
but the term q bee line is well
known to be a line straight as an
arrow, and all the hunter has to do
ia to get tho course of the bee and
follow it staight until he has reach
ed the vicinity of the tree. as near
"a he can judge, after which he will
try his honey again and SO tell
whether he has not yet reached or
Uone By. Some hunters select q good
f;velv bee, throw -four over him,
and then, by noting the time it re-
cn;res for that bee to unload him.
. salf and return, get an idea of the
distance
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1881-09-03

The following is an extract from
letter received from a patient who
had used Compound Oxygen for
EPILEPSY. It is dated March, 1879:
Il commenced taking the Com
pound Oxygen last April (1S7S) for
epilepsy, and had taken four
months treatment. It has helped
me more than all the medicines
which I've taken for the last five
years. Have only had spasms one
time since I commenced taking the
Oxygen. I think I am entirely
cured OF the spasms; have not taken
the Oxygen regularly for several
months, and my health is better in
every way than for several years be-
FORE" Our Treatise on Compound
Oxygen, which is sent free, will be
of great value to all who are suffer-
ing from any chronic disease. Ad-
dress Drs. STARKEy & PALEN, 1109
and I'LL Girard Street, Phila-
delphia, Pa.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1881-09-03

We learned from q gentleman
who visited our sister town of
Washington on the day the boat left
that he counted ffty-eight peddling
hacks in that town at one time,
where they were shipping their
loads Of chickens, eggs, hides, ETC.,
taken in exchang &c for goods in their
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1881-09-03

tour through the country. 1t has
become quite q trade in our parish
and certainly a great convenience to
our planters. Everything q farmer
needs is brought to his door by the
different hacks, fiom calico
dress to a pound of coffee.-&.
Landry Democrat.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1881-09-03
TIE ST. TAMMANY FARMER
CovingtOn. September 8, 1881.
Clubbing Arrangement.

We will send the New Orleans WEEK
LY DEMOCRAT the st. Tammany
FARMER, beautifully illustrated
Almanac, and DR.. Kendall's Treatise on
the Horse, to any address, one year, for
50 25. free Of postage. Subscriptions
mus. be paid Invariably in Advance.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1881-09-03
Ice. Ice. lee.

I am now prepared to furnish my
patrons and the public in general
with ice, at reasonable rates, during
the summer months.
CHAs. HUHTz,
Cosington, La.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1881-09-03

There is some corn in Michigan
- nor That it can't afford to wear
~ Q<kill have 10 return to it's
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1881-09-03
VENIRE.

Eighteenth Judicial District Court for
the parish of st. Tammany-State of
Louisiana.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1881-09-03
Auction Sale.
By S. B. STAPLES.

On THURSDAY, September Is, 1881,
commencing at 10 o'clock \. n, 1t the
Morgan Place, Jon the Bogue,Falia, oppo-
site Covington-
Ellsworth American., 1881-11-03
Don't Whip a Frightened Horse.

1t seems to be characteristics failing Of
most coachmen to lay the la-h upon ! horse
that exhibits fear at any object in the street
or beside the road. Mr.. Bergh, President
OF the Society for the Prevention Of Cruelty
to Animals, says in the organ to that Soci-
ety. what eisrT reasoning being ought to
know, and that il. 10 EsYer whip your horse
for becoming frightened at any sb;act by
the roadside, for if he sees stump. a log
ar 4 heap Of tan-bark in the road. and while
he is eys,Eg it carefully, and about to pass
it, you strike him sith the whip. it is the
log. or stump or the tan bark that is hurt
ing him, in his way of reasoning, and the
next time he will be more frightened. Give
him time to smell all of these objects, aud
use the bride to assist zen in bringing him
to those objects Of ie-s.
Ellsworth American., 1881-11-03
THE OLD & RELIABLE CLOTHING HOUSE !.
lorlo -,r-

| Il. w IL FRIEND.
MAIN STREET. EIL~WOrU. MAINE
Ellsworth American., 1881-11-03
Floors for Horse Stables.

The GcrmaAfYSH Telegraph say The
long debated question q 10 the best mate
rial for stable floors Is being again revived.
\ clay floor was adhered 70 by some for
wears, and such was the earne.tues. Of 10
advocates and the arguments brought 10 bear
upon it. that We were induced some twenty
sears ago u Try il. In three or four month,
we had the piauks back again. being satisfied
Of the disadvantage 0f clay for this pur-
pose. Our present floor II plank j simply
inclined little from front to rear. shere
the usual gutter is made TO carry Of the
liquid voidngs We do not believe IN sand,
coal ashes. sawdu>t. asphaltum. haggs. cob,
ble-stone> OF any Of these modern device, 10
inj4re horses linus far We have never no
sliced that thi, little inclination Was in an,
srav inJesiou> and We doubt whether the
wooden grating that We frequently see plac-
ed over the piank!ng that some use would
be advisable. on the ground that the animal
would be no more comfortable, while this
NOV able grating or second floor might lead
10 aeeideats When a person can keep
horses in good. sound, healthy condition from
i've TO seven years. as we have done on a
carefully constructed plank flooring inclin-
ing httie to the rear. il is just as well to
be satisfied With it, DO what one vii. holes
will be dag bs the stamping Of the feet d.
the clay, and these xii be filed with moist
ure, which viii necessarily result in scratch
es, water crack, etc. If the clay Is leveled
of and beaten down daily il viii make no
differeaee Some time ago we inspected q
number Of stables where many horses were
kept, and We encountered only one which
was composed Of anything but wood. Of
course there will be new things-insantions
-springing up, which are TO meet and Over,
come every objection. and there will be some
70 adopt them. but we shall be satisfied with
what we have until there is something pro-
dUeed without which there is no mistake" q
Ellsworth American., 1881-11-03
No Sensible.

You have allowed your bowels to become
hsbitually eostive, your liver has bscome
torpid, the same thing ails your kidneys, and
you are just used up. Now be sensible get
package of Kidney Wort, take it faith
fully aud soon you vii forget you've got any
such organs, for you will be well man
Albany Argus.
Ellsworth American., 1881-11-03
Pauper Notice.

THE undersigned hereby gives notice that he
i has contracted with the City Of Ellsworth for
the support Of the poor during the ensuing year
and has made ample p DIVISION for their support.
lie therefore forDids an persons from furnishing
supplies 10 any pauper on his account, as without
his written order, he will pay for no goods so
furnished.
HARRY 5. JONES.
Ellsworth, April s, 1881. Iyfl5
Ellsworth American., 1881-11-03

tn sling money away, but invested dol
lar for a bottle of Sulphur Bitters Which
cured me of Dyspepsia. 1t saved me ten
dollars IN doctors and druggists bills
Hachiaist. Lotcell, Mass.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-09-05

Jose ph Thomas is negro physiological enigma which such prominent physicians as Drs. Hamilton, Saver and Woods of New York. and Drs. Hayes and Agnew of Phila- delphia are unable to solve. Thomas is 37 years old, and claims to be native of Zulu land. He is short and stout, being not above five feet four inches in height, and weighs about 150 pounds. The principal peculiari- ty of his makeup is bis internal arrangement. Nature started him into the world with two perfectly developed hearts, both in good working order, and also double supply of ribs. The hearts are located on either side of his body. At recent examination Thom- as produced vernicular action of the recti muscles of the abdomen the convolutions were first upward and then downwards. This was followed by the descent of a second set of ribs. The ribs were counted, and twenty two were found on each side; two breast bones could also be plainly felt. All the true ribs were, therefore, there in duplicate; but one set of floating ribs were found. The multum in parvo then produced several cheerful experiments with his pair of hearts The left organ was brought down into the left inguinal region, which was followed by bringing the right heart into corresponding position on the other side. This exhilarating exercise was repeated several times, and both hearts could be plainly felt beating down in the mans abdomen. Thomas muscular de- velopment is nearly as marvellous as his or ganic structure His muscles are as hard as marble and it was an utter impossibility to indent the flesh with the fingers. The mo- dern Hercules grasped with one hand seven-eighths bar of iron four feet in length and struck it several times across the other forearm. The iron bar was bent more than two inches. Thomas thinks he was originally intended for twins. Everything goes to show it. He has strength equal to two ordinary men, and in every other essential is built i n duD1i