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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1884-12-13
A Man Who Likes to be Hung.

A few days ago a young German
named Anton Dresser, who had been
discharged from the employ of fruit
peddler, and who boarded on German
Street. attempted to commit suicide by
hanging. When discovered and cut
down his heart had almost ceased beat
ing, and it was two hours before he
was restored to consciousness. He
was yesterday asked by a representa-
tive of this paper to describe his sensa-
tions, and he promptly replied:
"They were so pleasant that 1 may
try it again some day.
..Did you have the idea on your mind
. great while?''
..No. From the moment it entered
nv head to the time I swung off was
not over half an hour. tied the rope
to a beam in the barn. put my neck in
the moose while standing on a barrel,
and then kicked the barrel away. The
only fear had was that the rope would
hurt me-"
..And did it?n
.Yes; for a second or two it was like
dull knife saving at my neck"
"And you must have choked terri
blyP"
..I did not fully realize it. l was dim.
" conscious of kicking around, and |
know raised my hands and grasped
the rope. suppose l suffered for ten
seconds and then it was very pleasant
thing"
"How?''
.Why, the pain disappeared, and the
feeling was about like when you are
flighty with fever. Queer things danced
around me and made up faces at me.
and l felt as if was moving through
the air."
"And you were conscious9?"
"Barely so. 1t seems now that
dreamed it all"
..But you did not know when you
were cut DOWN."
20, no! The dream, or whatever you
may call it, finally faded out. and the
next thing l knew was in bed in the
house and they were treating me-"
"And you rather like hanging?'
Il would rather die that way than
any other. l wouldn't like a drop to
break nv neck. as is the case on the
gallows, but if they would swing me OF
and let me choke would face the mn.
sic any day. ."-DetroI Free Press
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1884-12-13
SulphurOus Gas.

Repeated experiments have proved
that fowls can be cured of Group speed
ily by the fumes of sulphur. 4 safe
method of administering this is to take
four strips of board about two feet in
length and six inches in width: nail
these together so rs to form the sides OF
of box; nail boards across the bottom.
and this forms box that will hold
earth. Place three inches of soil in this
box and set it in the poultry-house or
stable where the poultry or other sick
animals are. Take strong iron kettle
one that is wide and shallow is best
adapted to the purpose and put in two
or three shovelfuls of coal from the
stove Set the kettle in the box of soil
and sprinkle on couple of spoonfuls
of sulphur. The fumes will soon pene-
trate every part of an ordinary-sized
room and cause the croupy fowls to
cough and sneeze, bringing up mucous
and phlegm through the nostrils and
mouth. Repeat this treatment three
times daily for three DAYS. If the room
is small one spoonful of sulphur will do
at time When cattle in barns are in
tested with lice. fumigate twice a day
for three days and the lice will disap-
pear. For large stable a greater
quantity of sulphur is required. A
physician who has tested the merits OF
sulphurous gas. says: ''For children
with Group or whooping-c cough, catarrh
or any affection of the bronchial tubes,
Inflammation of the lungs. etc.. give fl-
migation with sulphur before any physic
is taken into the stomach. In cases OF
typhoid fever fumigate with sulphur
twice day."-San Erancisc o Ciron-
icie.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1884-12-13
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

There was a young man from Ha-
vana, Who trod on piece OF banana;
His heels few up, the rest slid. down.
And he was injured in q most frightful
M anna.-N Y. Herald.
Why is life like y harness? Because
life cont aims traces of care, lines OF
trouble. bits of good fortune, breaches
of good manners, and bridled tongues,
and every one has atug to pull through.
Golden Days.
Visitor: 30, ho! Here you are
Found you out! What snug little
den - Recluse (chuckling): "Yes.
here am, with my pictures and my
books: and here can sit and read all
day long and nobody a bit the s1iser.-
~ y Ledger.
A lady of high rank once tried to
bribe Judge in England. by offering
him pair of gloves filled with gold
coin. He kept the gloves, but returned
all the money. saying, with keen wit
Il prefer my gloves uithot1 lining"
Wife 4 notice statement to the
effect that in this city every year S22,-
900, 900 is spent for liquor. but only
1000, 900 for religion. That's signifi-
cant. Husband-Signiicant of WHAT
Wife-That you men are having
plessanter time in this world than you
will in the next. Chicago Tribune.
"A Scotch woman wishing to
frighten her husband from nightly Wis
iting a dram shop, got . man to scare
him on his way home. As he rose from
behind bush. John called out, 'who
are youo" IL am Auld Nick" was the
reply. "Come AVA mon," said John.
..gie me q shake of your hand; l am
married to . sister o. yours.
1t is stated that Russian has been
awarded q patent which promises to
work a revolution in the match
| making industry" II it will prevent
rich mems daughters from eloping with
their fathers coachmen. and encourages
legitimate matchmaking. which will
prove satisfactory TO the old folks, the
revolution" can't strike this country
. dav too soon.-N0r1tstoUn Herald.
81 understand your son has just
finished . course of rhetoric. Does he
show much Improvement in his writ
ing?" .Wonderful improvement! He
used TO write in . simple, straightfor-
ward way that anybody, even . child.
could understand. Now it is almost
impossible to tell what he is driving at.
| Yes sir: It is wonderful how he has
improved, wonderful" Boston Tran
script.
-Ayoung law student in the South
west went to an old Judge to be exam
ined for admission to the bar. After q
desultory conversation the Judge said:
..Well, young fellow. hang out your
shingle and 20 ahead" ..But you have
NOT examined me-" "Never mind.
was the brilliant reply; IF You don't
know no law you won tget no practice
SO you won't do no harm nohow.
Boston Post,
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1884-12-13
Vaccination.

At the instance of Mr.. Burt, par
liamentary paper is just published
which will not make pleasant reading
for the characterization fanatics. 1t
shows at a glance the annual number
of deaths from smallpox in the army
and navy since 1860, together with the
ratio of such deaths per 1000. and the
number of men joining in each year.
Throughout the whole period. with
very few exceptions, the tendency has
been toward a constant dimlnution of
mortality. In the case of the army,
this is all the more gratifying OH ac-
count of the much larger number OF
recruits now joining the service, class
particularly liable to catch any infec-
tious disease which happens to be rife.
During the first five years to which the
table refers, tho average annua. mor-
tality from smallpox in the army was
295, and the average number of re-
cruits 1929. But in the last five years
the mortality per annum fell to 3D.,
while the number of men joining rose to
1866. Turning to the companion serv-
ice which had 20 fatal cases in 1860, we
find clean record for two years In sue.
cession-1S77 and 1S7S-and the fina!
ratio per 1000 is only .03, the same as
in the army. 1t appears established.
therefore. by these tests that compul-
sorry revaccination is slowly but surely
operating to stamp out smallpox both
in the army and navy, and if this hap
pens in these cases we have warrant for
believing that the same results might
be accomplished in the civil population.
London Globe.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1884-12-13
THE OLD REAPER.
MID the brown haired and the black-hairet

Mid the brown haired and the black-haired
men,
With ruddy faces aglow.
The old man stood in the harvest field,
With head as white as snow
''Lct me cut a sheaf, my boys" he said.
Before it is time to 60"
They put the sickle within his hand:
He bowed TO the windy wheat;
Pleasantly fell the golden ears.
With the corn flowers at his feet.
He lifted a handful. thoughtfully:
1t was ripe and full and sweet.
Many and many sheaf," he said.
81 have cut in the years gone past;
And many and many sheaf these arms
On the harvest wains have east.
But, children dear. | am weary now,
And think this is-the last.
"Let me rest awhile beneath the tree;
For like to watch you go,
With sickles bright, through the ripe, ful
And to feel the fresh wind blow"
And they spread their working coats Tor him
'Mong the grasses sweet and low.
When the sun grew high they came again,
For drink and their bread and meat;
And in the shadow he sleeping lay,
With sunshine on his feet.
Like a child at night, outspcnt with play,
He lay in sumber sweet.
When they came again. he family said:
Il have crossed the meadow stile.
My work is done: 'tis nearly dark;
shall rest in little while.
That night il was Harvest Home with him;
But he went away with a smile.
-Amctia E. Barr. in n. 7. Independent.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1884-12-13
They Won't ElOpe.

He went home an hour earlier the
other afternoon, and calling his eigh-
teen-year-old daughter into the parlor
he began:
Susie, have been thinking"
'ies, papa
Il have been thinking that it would
be good plan for you to marry Will
lam. our coachman."
"W -hat.'
..He is old enough to be your father,
to be sure, but he would doubtless
make you a good husband.
"Never neverl'
He is plain-looking and uneducated.
b tt believe could respect him as .
son-in-law."
"Why, father, have you lost your
minde l marry William! l wed that
long nosed, hump-back, big-mouthed
boor I'll die first''
"But, Susie, you know"
..I'll not listen Say another word
to me and I'll take poison
Then the old gent slid out to the barn.
assumed his humblest look and said to
the coachman:
..William, I've been wondering why
you don't get married"
"Humph ~
"There's my daughter Susie. She's
young. but will make woman of sense.
/ believe in early marriages. and if you
and she can agree / shall offer no OBJ.
jections.
Your Susie! Me marry her! Beg.
ging your pardon. sir. and hoping you
won't throw me out of nv place for my
boldness, but if that impudent little
chit was the only female left on
earth I'd turn my back on her."
"But, William, would try to be q
good"
mo use, sir! There is never an
hour that don't want to box her ears
If you insist I'll skip the country"
And when the old gent picks up his
daily paper and sees the heading
"Another Heiress goes of with the
| Coachman," he leans back and chuckles
and slaps his leg and cackles: ''Haw
haw haw !'-Detrou Free Press.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1884-12-13
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Paris alone has seventy schools for
mechanical trades, against one when
Francetirst started industrial education.
Only about one-half Of the Protest
ant Episcopal Churches in Pennsylvania
Philadelphia Press.
Mrs. H. ID. Huntington, of Cincin-
natl, who died recently in Colorado,
bequeathed in her will $1,000 to the
Episcopal Church. Times.
The Louisiana State Board Of
Education has decided to locate the
State Normal School at Natchitoches.
that town having given buildings and
grounds valued at S60,O0O.
Obtained as they now are in many
cases, academic honors are an imposi-
ton on the public, blot on our educa-
tional institutions, and hindrance to
the cause of true education.-F. c. H.,
in Monmouth College Courier.
A recent writer on the subject of
common school education declares his
opposition to prize-giving. tits very GER
tain that the system is quite as likely to
develop an unworthy cunning on the
part of students as it is to excite a
creditable spirit Of emulation.--Cur-
rent.
For some reason not stated the au-
thorities of Lambeth Church, London.
have removed the celebrated ''Pedlars 8
Window" from the church. This win
dow has been in existence for nearly
800 wears, and was in some way asso-
ciated with the piece of land bequeathed
to the parish and known as ''Pedlar's
Acre" Beyond the suggestion of the
name nothing is known of the donor.
There are IA theological schools
in the United States. with ga instruct
ors and 4,793 students. The number
of law schools is Al; professors, 229;
students, 1927. Medical schools, 126;
professors, 1,749; students, 1885. The
Harvard library contains 185, 900 vol
umes; Yale. $4,000; Dartmouth, Co.
600; Brown, $1,000; Columbia, 1000;
Princeton, $4,000; Cornell, $4,000;
Michigan. $4,000; Williams, 1900;
Iowa, $4,000; Oberlin, $1,000; Minne-
sofa, Is, ,OOO.- Chicago Inter Ocean.
1t is stated that the number of
Protestants in Francois at present $780,
600, of whom 350, 900 belong to the Re-
formed Church. $4,000 are Evangeli-
sals and 10000 are divided between
Independents, Methodists, Baptists. etc.
Comparing the figures with the gen.
eral population it appears that there is
| in France one Protestant to every sixty
three Catholics. The State pays 7S2
Protestant pastors, although the total
| number of the latter is as high IS 900.
of whom by far the greater number
| (699) belong to the Reformed Church.
Paris counts 10000 Protestants of all
sects, and no less than forty-four build
ings devoted to Protestant services.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1884-12-13

Chinese children in California are
not allowed to attend the public schools,
on the ground that public education is
intended only for those who can become
citizens. There are nearly fifteen hun
dred of them in San Francisco. San
Francisco Call.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1884-12-13

An advertising agent says that, in
these times a man might as well at
tempt TO shampoo an elephant with a
thin bleful of soapsuds as attempt to do
business and ignore advertising.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1884-12-13

A bullet thrown at a girl in Low
ell cartridge factory, to awaken her.
lodged in her ear and caused her death
--BOston Post.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1884-12-13
The Sandwich Islands are the pop

The Sandwich Islands are the pop
ular resort for people on the Pacific
coast who wish to make q sea voyage
for health, just as Europe is for the
people of the East. The tourist travel
to King Kalakaua's dominions has
doubled within the past year.-Son
Francisco Call.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1884-12-13
LIFE UNDER THE SEA.

A Naturalist Watching Fishes In Their
Own EIement-The DOnlestic Life of
the Denizens Of the Ocean-Their
SRarss and Habits = Photographs
Taken Under Water-Fishcs That
Walk ON Land.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1884-12-13

The day schools of New York have
$50. 900 pupils, and the night schools
1900
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1884-11-07

resented MN. from the hands ana nearu OF
such a stepmotber as nodded him hoor "
vulgar fellow could not 90 forth. Addicted
to the linioaiisms Of society he never became,
because he wa, too rugged and too chyal-
rulIs AMI rugppdnes, and ChivalTN do not
take on small hypocriscs which society
calls fine, but which are essentially low and
vulgar.
The influence of his stcrmothcr was all in
the direction Of natural, manly and rugged
but noble development. She seem, to have
had no false standards. She seems to have
been of clean, strong sclf-suilicient mind,
wholly devoted to bringing mp Abe Lincoln
into an honest and able man. She had
glimpsas of possibilities for him in misty
way, but her devotion was apparently in
spircd 10y womnnly spirit rather than any
ambition or expectation. His gratitude to-
ward her was Comucnsur ate with her merit.
She made him what he became. Without her
aid he might have been power OF some sort /,
but the richness of his character was the
fruit of her toll Let this stepmothcr be
thought worthy of the homage which Abra
ham Lincoln paid her to the last days of his
life.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1884-11-07
AWhY FROM NEW YORK.
The Sweetness of the Golden Sums
nCr ard ti,c SoH-Eycd Fail.
["Gath" in New York Tribune

["Gath' in New York Tribune
New York has fine mountain hotel sites on
the west, but there is something good in get.
ting away from New York by IA New Yorker
in the summer lie has generally come here
from some other place, and in little while is
more pre- JUDGED against every place but
New York than Rip Van Wrinkle himself
There i, such Il thing as being too urban and
contracted. like q London coCkney or a Paris
cafe pensioner. i've dollars is the carriage
price ut Saratoga to go to the races and
back, about three quarters of a mile. a car
riagc all day at some resort, as above, over
splendid roads, by mills, creeks, frequent old
towns like those of Hartz country, and along
the lase of grac full and nearly awning
mountains, cost, only s., and a one-holse
calTyall for three or four costs only So Il
day.
Then it is joyou, to get away from silk
dresses and the life where women hate
nature and men let m ney and talk brokers
Office talk. There is rlaintivc sweetness in
the air, like one of Bryants poems, VIII re
the word "mllicn" la, never been uttered.
1t is good to have no curiosities nor man mar
wells in the golden summer and the soft-eyed
fall; no woman who has as many trunks a, a
banyan tree, NJ child of Z seven years left
an orphan and a nurse and 100000 in bank
no old man just married to an infant, nc
person more than twice divorced, no loud
creature raised from the honorable washtut
to diShonoiable idlcness and the smoker of
sudden sumptuoueneSS, no Cli diamond
brokers watching for people ON the edge Of a
mistake to want to preripitate them 10y show
ing some large diamonds suggcstivelv off.
color and "tils sheap." Farewell awhile
New York; with no less admiration Of thy
better self but with gOadness to ,ce new
stronger and les, milioni,h people every
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1884-11-07
Chicago Herald


But more than any alteration in the stat
ute. more shan tie decisions Of courts and
the essays of Iuhlicists and the arguments of
refWmcl, there is needed conscience III the
contraction of marriage and a sense of duty,
which statutes cannot make. in living within
its obligations. The foolish and the silly
will demand that, once married, man and
woman shall be better ana more nearly per-
feet than Lefore wedlock These will assume
that by the ceremony of marriage miracle is
performed, suddenly changing human nature
into the divine. Conscience and COMMON
sense are better than statutes, better than
essays. No man and no woman should marry
until able, out Of love, or lacking love, out
of a sense of duty, to so adapt themselves to
their new relation that mutual respect and
mutual sacrifice shall be its first and its per
maneut consequence. For such these
statutes Of divorce will not be required
1t goes without saying that all laws tend
ing to reduce drunkenness and RIGHTEOUSNESS
are directly IN the interest Of moral mar
riage and pure and happy domestic life.
The man who finds the bar-roOm, the gam
blna table and the low resorts OF great
city attractive is not likely to make
the most just, refined and noble
of husbands Instead of charging the
gates Of conjugal separation, the hope of
women lies i'll their making drinking and
gambling and RIGHTEOUSNESS more difficult,
more expensive and more disgraceful They
have now moral power enough without the
ballot to pl om,te high license. They have
moral power enough without the ballot to in
sist upon the same standard of morality for
men and women. As society shuts them out
if guilty of the great otien,e against the chief
moral law why do they not assert the dig
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1884-11-07
A Lesson In SeIf-COntroI.

Mothers III Council.
One day, when was a very little girl,
was watching my mother making straw
berry preserves. | can see the great kettle
of boiling liquid now, clear as rubes. Beside
the stove stood a large milk pan containing
some squash for company" pies, with a
plenty of milk and eggs in it. "Now,
Bridget" said my mother at last in a salts
fed tone, lit is done; take the kettle off, !"
This was accomplished, and then, with
almost incredible stupidity, the help"
actually emptied the strawberries
into the squash My mother turned her
head just too late. She was quick and i'm
pulsive, but there escaped from her mouth
only a despairing, "Oh, Bridget" Then as
she saw the girls instantly regretful face,
she uttered no angry reproaches, no useless
lamentations. No doubt when my tired
mother, who was not strong Il lost her at 49,
went up stairs to rest she felt disheartened,
and thought that her preserves and squash,
her time and labor, had all leen wasted; but,
probably, she never did for me a more valu-
able mornings work than when she gave me
that unconscious lesson in sweet seli-control.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1884-11-07
The Fastest %en-Going War Vessels.
Nav Work. Post I

The fastest sea going war vessel is the new
Chilian cruiser E,morada, that recently oh
tuine the mean speed of eighteen and one
quarter knots per hour on "A sea trial. The
British cruiser Isis, hitherto the fastest man
of-war, has n maximum speed of eighteen
knots per hour: she is, however, unarmored
and comparatively lightly armed The Es-
meralda may be described as a FASCINATED
monitor with high treeboard and every eS
sential to make her seaworthy for any voyage
She carries ten-inCh, twenty-five ton, breech
loading very long range bow and stern guns
that sweep through more than $50 degrees.of
the horizon, protected with steel shields and
capable of penetrating twenty inches of iron
armour Besides these she carries on each
broadside three six-inch breeCh loading rifles,
capable Of penetrating eleven inches of iron
armour These powerful guns are worked
by the most perfect system of labOr-savng
hydraulic machinery yet devised The Is
merelda carries, in addition to the above
HotChkiss' revolving cannon Gardner and
Calling repeating guns, mounted in every
available place, even in her tops (masthead9,
all protected with steel shields. These latter
weapons are mainly for defense
against torpedo boats. The striking
features OF the Esmerada are her moderate
size, her comparatively light armor, her small
draft Of water, her high speed, and her pow.
ertul armament
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1884-11-07

he much followed 10y others members Of his
profession. His advice to all persona who
take cold easily. who are subject to sore
.hroats and susceptible to consumption,
10 put away flannel Undertaking and
wear stout cotton goods next to the
kin instead. He has given this adj
vice to so many patients that it
IS said the sale of one grade Of Wamsutta
rottois has materially advanced of late in
Boston. This physician says that most co
pie dress too warmly for indoor life, and TINT
it is better, especially i'll winter, TO reducethe
amount Of clothing worn while in the house.
and to wrap up carefully while going cut
He says the cotton shirt worn next the skin
should be very loose, aud the pores of the
Skin should lie given full opportunity 70 per-
form their natural function ! have no doubt
that that this paragraph will reach the eye
pi some persons who need just such advice,
and perhaps it may save their lives.