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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1882-09-02

not tell her his name. "This colt
does step off III good style. He
doesn't seem tired. Driven him
far?"
No; only over to Mr.. Browns .
"Oh. yes; he's one Of the school
board | believe, isn't he?"
He is treasurer.
"lou taught in a good district.
Some of them make their teachers
wait for their pay. but believe this
one never does"
Il think not"
Have you long to teach?" asked
the man, evidently bent on trying
to be sociable.
My school is done" said Laura,
still wholly unsusricious.
"And you've been after your
money" said the man, with a sud-
den change of manner, "ard III
take ii" he added, as he drew a re-
volyer and pointed It at her head.
No use to try to resist. They
were passing through lonely strip
of woods, not house near them.
She was 9 frontier girl, with plenty
of nerve. She remembered that
she had two pocket-books-one
empty and one full.
IF you want my money, get it."
she said, snatching the empty pock-
et-buok from her pocket and throw
ing 1t as far as possible behind
them into The snow. The man
sprang afser it.
Size caught the whip from its
socket and laid It sharply, with all
her force, the whole length of Ban
quos nervous back. With a mad
plunge, he was off like lightning.
The man opened the pocket-book,
and, enraged at his defeat, fired
couple OF shots alter her, but they
did not touch her.
"Ihe colts runnin away with the
schoo!-ma' am" shouted John, as
she dashed IN sight; but she guided
him up to the gate in good order.
YOU'RE plucky," said Mr.. Ben
net. when sue told the story; and
shes plucky one," said every
body, when it was repeated.
The man proved to be one of the
neiehhor's hired men. He was
never again seen il that part of the
country.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1882-09-02
\ WHITEWASH THAT WILL
LAST.

A white wash that will last several
years costs but little more than one
that will wash and rub off in as
mary months, as they usually do.
Take of free burned lime peck
and slack it with hot water, add
half a peck of salt dissolved in hot
water, three pounds of rice -four
dissolved in warm water, one pound
of glue dissolved in warm water,
and one pound of Spanish white
STIR it all together and let it stand
three or four days before using.
Stir it well every day. When used
heat in kettle and put it on aot.
A pound of yellow ochre will give it
a pleasant cream color.
Make it with care and put il on
well while hot, and my word tor it.
1t will last ten times as long as cr-
dinary whitewash. It lasted we'll
eight years on my cook-house. A
wash similar to this has been long
used on the public buildings in
Washington. The "White House"
received, its name from the effects of
this wash.-Er.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1882-09-02
THE ARCH FIEND.

Men don't believe In the Devil now, as
their fathers used to do;
They've forced the door of the broadest
creed, to let his Majesty through.
There isn't a point of his cloven foot, or
fiery dart of his bow,
To be found in earth or air to-day, for
the world has voted itso.
But who is mixing the fatal draught that
palsies heart and brain,
And leads the bier of each passing year
with ten hundred thousand slain?
Who blights the bloom of the land to-
day with the fiery breath of hell,
If the Devil isn't and never was? Won't
somebody rise and tell?
Who dogs the steps OF the toiling saint,
and dig" the pit for his feet?
Who sows the tares IN :he field of time
wherever God sows His wheat?
The Devil Is voted not to be. and of
course the thing Is true;
But who is doing the kind of work the
Devil alone should do?
We are told he does not go about as the
roaring lion now;
But who shall we hold responsible for
the everlasting row
TO lie heard in home, in church, in state,
to the earth's remotest hound,
If the Devil, by unanimous vote, is no.
where to be found?
Won't somebody step to the front forth
with, and make their bow, and show
How the frauds and crimes Of a single
day sprung up? We want to know.
The Devil is fairly voted out, and of
course the Devil is gore:
But simple folk would like to know who
carries his business or2
Exchange.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1882-09-02
HAPPINESS.

1t is a mistaken idea entertained
by many that riches are necessary
tc perfect happiness. tits sca9ely
necessary to state fact SO well
understood. that many men and
women possessed of great wealth
are exceedingly unhappy. A thou
SAID things occur in the fuctua-
tions and busy scenes of lite to
bring sorrow and discomfort to the
homes OF the rich as well as those
of the poor. It is IN the homes of
people of moderate means, as
rule, that happiness is found. The
highest riches do not consist in a
princely income. There is greater
wealth than this. 1t consists in a
good constitution, good digestion,
a good heart, stout limbs, q sound
lnind and clear conscience. Some
one says that good bones are better
than gold, tough muscles than sill
yer. and nerves that flash fire and
carry energy in every function are
better than houses and lands. Bet
ter than money is a good DISPOSE
ton, and that man is rich who has
generous impulses, a noble soul,
and who has the courage TO keep
the even tenor of his way, whatever
may betide him. Such a man is
rich, though not accounted SO when
measured by a money standard;
but he stands immeasurably higher
in point of true worth than the ava
ricious cormorant whose only claim
to consideration consists in his
money bags.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1882-09-02
THE ORIGINAL CENT.

DR.. S. B. Corcheron, an old resi-
dent of Natchitoches, La, has one
of the three original copper coins
struck off and submitted to Gen.
George Washington for his ap-
proval as a national currency. On
one side is wreath surrounding
the words lone cent" and around
the border Unity of States" bear
ing the date "I7S3." On the re-
verse side is medallion head of
Washington, with the words,
washington and Independence" ;"
The ccin is the genuine and origin
al then stamped. 1t was rejected
by Washington with the remark
that this was the peoples country
and not Washington's."
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1882-09-02

A cross, peevish, fretfnl wife is
quite unhappy to herself and to her
own household. But she is to be
pitied, she is a sufferer from a mul-
titude of female ills that have pros
trated her mentally end physically.
She needs some great wonderwork-
ing iron tonic and female regulator,
to relieve the monthly troubles, and
for this purpose ESGLIsH FEMALE
B1TTERs stands ahead of all others.
1t acts upon the female system with
unerring certainty, never failing to
sive entire satisfaction to married
and single ladies. One bottle often
cures O case.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1882-09-02
LAURA'S STRATEGY.
Laura had taught her school, G

Laura had taught her school, and
now she was going to get her money
three months wages. She had
earned thirty dollars a month, and
she had paid for her board III sew
ing and knitting-for Mis-. Bonnet
had large family and was glad to
have her do $3.50 she could have
he whole ninety dollars to do as
-he pleased with. 1t 10, ked like a
very large sum to her, and she
planned a dozen times how she was
10 spend it.
"The boys want The work horses
to draw wood" said Mrs. Bennet.
as she started, "ilnd SO John has
hitched up Banquo for you. He's
gentle enough. but he's a colt, mind
ye, and the best thing you can do
is to let the whip alone"
No need Of the whip, she thought,
as The sleigh gIided smoothly and
swiftly along the weH-trodden road.
She soon arrived in sight of the
house where the treasurer lived.
He was at the door when she drove
W.
"I'll hitch your horse for ye," he
said, coming TO the gate: "come af
ter your money, | s'pose. I've got
it all ready for you. Its lucky you
come when you did, I was just
about startin' off. Got the colt.
have you? Well, l swan! he's a
clipper; but ] didn't s'pose Bennett
ud let anybody drive him. Come
in; Ill sign your order and pay you
right off. l s'pose you want your
money-pretty good bunch for a
girl like you
Laura talked with the treasurer's
wife awhile, and then got her money
and started home. She had not
gone far before a man came out of
a cross-1oad just in front of her.
He stepped aside and waited for
her to come up.
"Good-afternoon, school-marm."
he said, would you object to let
ting fellow ride a little? I'm
pretty tired. and I see you've got
Bennet's colt. I'd like to ride be-
hind him once"
Laura stopped the horse and
the man got into the sleigh. She
did rot know him, but from the
way he spoke she supposed it was
one of the neighbors who knew her;
probably brother of one of ler
scholars.
81 see you don't know me-" he
said. But it isn't strange. you see
SO many: I've been around here all
winter" he added. But Laura re-
membered afterWard that he did
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1882-09-02
WHAT WAS RAISED ON AN
ACRE.

A farmer living in Maine makes
statement OF what he has raised
last year on acre of land-almost
enough, we should think, to sup
port family. He planted one-half
of his acre In corn, and usually pro-
duced thirty bushels of corn. This
quantity was sufficient for his fam
lily and for fattening two or three
large hogs. From the some ground
on which the corn. stood he raised
Two OF three hundred pumpkins
and an ample supply of beans.
From a bed six yards square he
usually obtained sixty bushels Of
onions; these he sold for 81 bush
ell, which amount purchased his
flour for one year. Thus from one.
half of an acre and an onion bed he
obtained his breadstuffs and two or
three hundred pounds of pork. The
remainder ef the ground was ap-
propriated to all kinds of yegetu~
bles for both summer and winter
use. He also had flower garden.
raspberries, currants. gooseborries
in great abundance, and q few
choice apple. plum. pear, peach and
ounce trees.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1882-09-02
Said q teacher to Que of his hic'

Said q teacher to Que of his high
est pupils: "If your father gave
you a basket of peaches to divide
between yourself and your little
brother, and there We're forty
peaches in the basket, after you had
taken your share what would he
left?" "My little brother would be
left, for I'd take all tfe peaches.
That's the kind of a Congressman
I'm going to be when / grow up
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1882-09-02
Improvement for Mind and Body

There is more strength-restoring
power in a bottle of Parker's Gin
ger Tonic than in bushel of malt
or a gallon Of milk. As an appe-
tizel. blood purifier and kidney cor
rector, there is nothing like it, and
invalids consequently find it Won
derful invigoiant for mind and
body Commercial.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1882-09-02
FIXING HIS HORSE TO WIN.

The writer met the jockey of
Rutherford while dining at the
Winter Palace, in St Petersburg, a
short time after that huge sporting
wrangle, and, in the course of O
conversation ON turf matters, the
astute prodder of horse-fesh said.
with o child-like and ingenious
smile, as lie passed the beans:
Would you like to krow the
dead inside facts as to how that
race was won?'
"Why. you rode the best horse,
didn't your" we asked.
"Not bit of it," replied the
jockey, with a grin. "The fact was
that Rutherford was only about the
fourth choice. and was not rated at
more than eighth or ninth in the
pools. True Blue, Katie Peace and
Thad Stevens all had the call over
Ruthy. But it happened that my
horse was 'bolter, and to steady
him and prevent his flying the
track, 1 put binders and goggles on
him. You noticed then, l sup
pose?"
''There We're two horses rugged
that way" we replied.
Exactly; Stevens was nervous
critter, also, and as soon as his
trainer saw how the goggles stead
led my horse, he put 'em on Thad
too. The day before the race big
idea occurred to me. I got two
pairs of magnifying lenses and qui-
etly put 'em in place of the plain
glasses IN the goggles of both
horses. Catch on to the idea?"
well, partly"
"The only difference was that in
Stevens goggles 7 fastened the
glasses with the bulge inside, SO as
to make them diminishing glasses.
Don't you see?"
Like looking through the wrong
end of an opera glass, eh?"
Exactly; the result was that
while rutherford was encouraged
all tile way by the race-course SEEM
ing only couple of hundred yards
long, the quarter flags appeared
ten miles apart to Stevens. You
see horse can be discouraged lust
as we'll as a man.
"Great scheme, that ="
swell, I should smile. Ruthy
thought he was in for little quar-
ter race, and it kept up his heart
SO that when he had nearly done
the last mile and swung into the
home stretch, and 7 called on him
to let out his last link, he thought
the judges stand was right under
his nose, SO he came home like an
express on a down grade; but Ste
vens, who thought he had about
fifteen miles further to go. went all
pieces, as you remember, and almost
laid down ON the track; he was
cayed in, as it were."
There can be no question as to
the genuineness of this story, but
we deliver it to the intelligent read
er at the importers risk, for all
that.-iSan Francisco Post.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1882-09-02

The best remedy for exerting a
power FIJI tonic effect on the muscles
governing and controlling the action
of the heart is Browns Iron Bitters.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1882-09-02

They were quarreling. and she,
filed with blubbeling grief, said to
him: IF | We're to die, you'd marry
the devils oldest daughter" "The
law will not allow a man in this
State to marry sisters replied the
wretch Of husband.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1882-09-02
Found at Last.

An agreeable dressing for the
hair, that viii stop its falling. has
long been Sought for. Parkers
Hair Balsah, distinguished for jts
purity. fDy supplies this want.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1882-09-02
PATE NTS.

we continue to act as Solicitors for Pat
ents, Caveats, Trade Marks Copyrights,
etc., for the United States, Canada, Cul :,
England, France. Germany, etc. We
have had tilirty-fiye years eXperi-
ence.
!. Patents obtained through us are no
sticed in the SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN. This
large and splendid illustrated weekly
paper, So 90 !. year, shows the Progress
of Science. is very interesting. and has
an enormous circulation. Address
MUM & Co, Patent Solicitors, pub
fishers Of SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, PSI
Broadway, cor. Warren St. New York.
Hand b bUok about Patents sent free.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1882-09-02

SG6 a week in your ewn town.
FERNS and So outfit free. Address, II.
HALLETT & Co., Portland. Ne.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-05-03
What the Surveyor Missed.

A surveyor who was running
township lines in new county in
Arkansas last fall was engaged by a
farmer to survey the line between
his farm and that of a neighbor.
They had line fence. but had en-
gagged in several disputes as to wheth-
er it was on the divide. The sur
veyor was making preparations,
when the owner of the other farm
approached and inquired:
What are you going 20 do now p
Find the exact line" was the re-
ply.
At this the man wheeled and went
at a gallop, and was seen no more
until the line had been run. The
surveyor and the first named farm.
er had just completed the work
when the other came up to within
about ten feet of them and asked
well, have you got through >"
"Yes, all through"
"And is the fence foot on his
farm ?"
No; he has two feet of yours. anG
the fence must be moved so that yo,
can have it."
The man sprang upon stump
faced a thicket about five rods away
and yelled out:
"You there-Reuben and Jane:
and Samuel. The survey is made
and we are all right! You kir
shoulder them shot-guns and g
back to the saw mill, and if yol
meet the old woman coming with
the pitch-fork you kin tell her t.
turn back and git squar' dinner 70
the surveyor w
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-05-03
The Men who Succeed

The great difference among men
of all callings is the energy of char
acter or the want of it. Given the
same amount of learning and integ-
rity. and the same opportunities,
and energy will make one man a
conqueror. The want of it will see
the others failure. Dead-beats are
all men without force. They had as
good a chance as any of their COM
panions. Others went ahead and
carried off the prizes while they
were lying by the wayside dispirit-
ed and Respondent. 1t takes. nerve.
vim, perseverance, patient continu-
ance in well-doing to win a great
prize. And the young man who
goes into a profession without this
pluck and foice will not earn salt
for his porridge. He will drag
through life with the help of friends,
getting some credit with them for
being a well meaning man, in deli
cate health anG unlucky. The real
trouble is he lacks energy.
This is just as true of the minis
ter as of the lawyer or the physi-
clan. Piety is not enough, and piety
with much learning is not enough.
All the Greek and Hebrew in the
world will not qualify a man for
usefulness in the ministry. 1t wants
push, stamina, vigor, courage, reso-
luton, will, determination-in one
word, energy. If the youth knows
a little Greek he knows what an
ergos means, and without it DR..
PARIS knowledge of Greek will not
help him to usefulness or success in
the pulpit.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-05-03

About two years ago, just ~ was
dismiseing party of visitors from
the door of the catacomb. very
plain, modest-looking man of mid
die age, approached and said he had
come. to see and learn all he could
about the monument and Lincoln.
/ proceeded in my usual way, when
visitors are much interested, and
completed my explanations on the
terrace in font of the statue of the
President. From the general bear
ing of the visitor, / should have ta-
ken him for a son ofan original
New England Abolitionist. When
left Off speaking he remained and
seemed reluctant to take his eyes
from the statue. After several min
utes spent in silent meditation he
astonished ne by saying substan-
tally: II was a soldier in the Con-
federate army, and spent four years
doing my utmost to defeat every
thing that Abraham Lincoln was
irving to accomplish. lie succeed
| ed, and have noregrets on that ac-
count"
The visitor then assumed tragic
attitude, and raising his right hand
toward the statue, said with deliber-
alton and emphasis He was an IN
finitely greater man than George
Washington ever was" With his
eyes still fixed on the statue, and as
though his whole soul was in his
words, he continued: Washington
had no difficulty in determining
who were his friends and who were
not. His enemies were principally
on the water, on the other side of it,
or officers and soldiers sent here to
enforce the mandates of tyrant.
His friends were his neighbors, who,
in addition to their struggles for ex-
istence in a new country, were OPP
pressed by taxation without repre-
sentation. The line was clearly
drawn from the beginning. With
Lincoln it was different. His ene-
mics were in every department OF
the Government. They filled the
civil offices, they commanded his
skeleton of an army. they trod the
decks of his ships, such as they
were. Where they colld with inn
punity be open, they were bold and
outspoken. Where it was policy
they were willy, complaisant and
cautious. 1t required two years, or
half of his first term, to learn who
were friends and who were enemies,
but he was equal to the emergency.
And through it all, a little child
could approach him with perfect
confidence, but the most willy states
man could not swerve him a hairs
breadth from what he believed to be
right"
That is what call eulogy, and if
the author of it was not a thorough
ly reconstructed Rebel l never ex-
pect to see one.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-05-03
The Price OF an Island.

In 1859 the Island of Nantucket
was bought from the Indians forsl50
and two beaver hats. This fact
came out during gathering of the
Coffin family on that island. One of
the buyers ofthis island was Tristan
Coffin. To show how rapidly a
prolific race increases, it is said that
fifty years after Tristan's death his
descendants numbered eleven hun
dred and fifty-eight. They are now
found everywhere. Nantucket has
had a varied history. When whaling
was in vogue it was the headquar-
tiers of that business. Its resident
population was always largely COM
posed of women, the wives and
daughters of the absent whalers.
When petroleum took the place OF
the whale oil Nantucket lost its bus
iness, and for many years it was
impossible to rent more than one
fourth of the houses on the island.
Its health and cheapness, however,
have since made it a popular sum-
mer resort, and now the prices OF
land have advanced to the old fig
ures. Apart from the ocean, the
bathing and the fishing, it is dis.
NAL place to live in, as trees do not
flourish, and the soil is not product
i've.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-05-03
Judge Black Before the Supreme
Court.

The following joke is related at the
expense of Judge Black while he
was arguing the McGarrihap case be-
fore the Supreme Court, in Washing
ton, some years ago;
One day, while speaking to some
motion, Black discovered at the close
of two hours Grafton, that the en-
tire bench, including the Chief JUS
tice, was sound asleep. Much incen-
sed, he gathered up his papers and
left the room. Meeting the Chief
Justice at the dinner at Secretary
Fish's that evening, Black angrily
commented on the occurance,
"Why, my dear Judge" said Mr..
Chase, with a surprised expression,
IL thought you would be the last
man on earth to object to such a
thing. The fact was that all the
Justices were so fatigued from the
Presidents reception last night, that
this morning we consulted together
and agreed to hear you on some mo-
ton or other, SO that we could all
enjoy a good. square nap. We sup
posed you'd been on the bench for
so long that you'd know how it was
yourself.
'The devil you did?" said the old
fat t-5otton,ed k yal lumirary.
Yes, but you needn't alarm your
self, my dear Black. Theshort-hand
reporter made full memorandum
of your remarks"
did, he ?" snapped the Judge.
"Why, he was asleep too"
THE devil he was" exclaimed the
Chief Justice. much vexed. "Ialways
did trust that fellow. In that case
my dear Judge, we will hare to rely
on the jdnitor.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-05-03

WAsnIxorox. April 19.-In the
House to-day Mr.. Taylor, of Ohio,
chairman Of the committee to audit
the expense Of the illness and death
Of President Garfield, submitted a
bill and report on that subject Mr..
Blackburn presented a minority re-
port. Both reports we're referred to
the com aittee of the whole. The
bill apl.,,priates for the relief OF
Mrs. Ga. i-ld $4,000. less any sum
drawn by the late President on ac-
count Of salary. 1t pays to DR..
Bliss 5000; to Drs. Agnew and
Hamilton, $4,000 each TO Drs.
Reyburn and Boynton, $4,000; TO
Mrs. Edison $4,000; to WI Crump,
$1,000; to the Secretary of the Navy,
e10,8S2; to w. r. Speare, undertaken,
81, 1885; to C. F. Jones, of Elberon,
81, ,092; and to various merchants and
others, sums varying from so cents
to 81, 600. It provides for the retire
ment of General Barnes with the
rank and pay of Major General, and
promotes Surgeon General Wood
ward to the position Of Lieutenant
Colonel.