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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1885-06-13
CRACK STEPPERS.

Mid Species Of Insanity With Which
Old and Young Are Often Afflicted.
..See that man over there?" ex-
claimed gentleman to reporter yes
terday, pointing to an old man who was
walking down Chestnut Street in front
of Independence Hall; the old fellow
had his head bent and seemed in deep
thought. That's crack stopper"
IA crack stepperr
Him; you watch him and see how
he walks He won't step on single
crack between the flag-stones, no mat
ter how it inconveniences him. There
are quantity of men who are in the
habit of stepping over the cracks in
fiagstone pavements; it's a mild form
of insanity; l do it myself occasional
w."
$50 do L"
..Do you? Well. most city men do.
Children play games in this way and
men keep it up all their lives. Some
times they vary it by stepping on all the
cracks and taking particular care not to
miss one. There goes an other"
In the course of q half-hour no less
than fourteen men were observed going
up and down this pavement stepping
over the cracks OF fifteen men taken
at random. twelve acknowledged that
they occasionally practiced this peculiar
habit They said they didn't know why
they did it, and sometimes did it uncon-
sciously. but the interesting fact re-
mains that about seventy-fve per cent
of city men are crack steppers.-Pbilo-
delphia Times.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1885-06-13
A Handsome Reward.

While walking on Galveston wnal.
Mrs. Snively fell into the bay and Was
rescued with difficulty by stranger.
Mr.. Snively shook the hand of the res
cuer of his wife, and said:
.'You have saved my wife from q
watery grave, and l must reward you
for it. "
II only did my duty. 1 do not desire
any remuneration.
''Well. if you will not accept my
money I'll give you piece of advice
that will be worth something to you. 1t
will save you doctors bill. Don't eat
sausage in summer. know what they
are made Of. I'm . butcher by trade. "
.-Tcxas Sitlin9s.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1885-06-13
COVINGTON, ST. TAMMANY PARISH, La. JUNE 13, 1885.

tunate servant is not necessarily bad
person. Your page-boy, for instance,
is smart in taking messages,
and quick to learn the niceties
of his Office; he is clean in his
person and respectful in his manners.
How can you say that his unlucky fin
gers are the result of malice prepense?
and it is not worth while to keep him
on. YOU hoping that he will learn more
deftness in handling china and glass
his past clumsjness condoned by his
future improvement? Just so; and yet
we may be very certain of one thing
once mosquito, always a mosquito !;
once the love of annoying or hurting
"rets hold of the moral system. and there
it stays rooted, like couch-grass, or that
Australian enemy the thorn-grass, a
source of damage to everything that
lives near it.
As child, the human mosquito is tn,
'.limb" of the nursery. according to the
vernacular of the nurse. As a boy, he
is the bully over his little brothers and
the inearnate plague of his sisters. As
a man, he is the tyrant and tormentor
of his household. If he runs to prig-
gishness. he makes his children's lives
a burden to them because of fractions
and declensions if he. is an athlete, he
maybe ruins them for all time by the
brutal vigor of his training if he is ef-
Terminate, he interferes with the maid,
takes the reins of domestic government
out of his wifeS hands. orders the din
ners, and looks after the children like
an Indian bearer or a supernumerary
nurse. He is at all times the mosquito
of the establishment, buzzing here,
stinging there, creating fever and irri-
tation everywhere making one wonder
for what purpose such as he are
sent into the world at all, and what
good end they. subserve. In politics,
the restless obstructive and the pert
querist, the oppositionist for the sake of
opposition. and insolent to the EXTREMIST
point. he keeps things alive in the sense
in which fire of thorns can make the
water boil. But suppose you want the
water to be cool and fresh and still,
what good then does your cracking fire
of thorns? Is it not hindrance rather
tkan help? and bane instead of a
blessing?
No, view him how we NAV. we are
forced back to the same position-the
human mosquito is mistake in anthro-
pology, and in no sense creature to be
preserved for its uses in the general
economy. When we shall have mended
all the moral fractures and put society
straight and square, then will there be
no room for the human mosquito; and
the force expressed in his ugly energies
now, will have merged into nobler and
better forms. Meanwhile, seeing that
fighting is useless and all defence-work
illusory, we must bear him with what
patience we can command-no other
moral catholicon having yet been dis
covered able to heal the hurts made by
the creature in its attacks. And per.
haps-who knows?-patience being in
itself one of the sweeter virtues-it is in
the teaching and the exercise of this to
his fellow-men that the human mosquito
has his raison Chambers Jour.
nal.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1885-06-13
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The colored Baptists of Kentucky
have $4,000 communicates, and coll
lege with over 200 students.
1t is said that three-fourths of the
Bibles shipped from New York to for
eign mission stations 60 to Mexico and
South America.
Massachusetts stands at the head
of the Congregationalists in the United
States as to numbers, having 532
churches, with 80. $50 members and 941
ministers.-Boston Post.
The American Missionary Associ-
alton has at the New Orleans Exposition
a fine display of work done by Indian
children and others in the various fields
of labor.
The will of Guy Little. of Bismarck.
d. T.. recently probated. leaves $50, 900
in trust for the benefit of Pembroke
Academy, at Pembroke, N. H., subject
to the life interest of the widow.
The attendance on the public
schools of England is shown by recent
report to have risen within a few years
from 1000. 600 to 5000, 900. As result
Juvenile crime has considerably dimin-
ished.
-Baptists of the South have, since
last May, sent into the foreign mission
field twenty-one missionaries. 1t is es-
timated that it will take $16, 900 each
month to meet the demand of the for
eign field.
"A New England preacher says that
the Chinese students who have returned
to this country after two years ab-
sence in China have great difficulty in
remembering the English language.
which they were supposed to have
learned so well.
Miss Black. who recently started
for China under the auspices OF the
Woman's Missionary Association of the
English Presbyterian Church. is the
fifth daughter that has gone out from
one manse to the foreign tield.-N y
Sun.
Children of school age must be re-
markably scarce in some sections of
New Hampshire, Judging from the fol-
lowing taken from Boston paper: In
Warner there is one school district
which contains but one pupil. four dis
ltiCbS nave Ous eWO puPhS CoSAs anu wv
have only six between them.
The California millionaires appear
to be doing their best to build up the
educational and artistic interests of the
coast. The latest benefactor is Mrs. E.
B. Crocker, who proposes to deed her
art gallery to San Francisco, provided
the people raise one hundred thousand
dollars to maintain the collection.
Current.
-Over-reading as well as over-study
is one of the evils of modern education.
The evil has been commented on by ed
ucators for many years past, but the
multiplicity of books and their growing
cheapness stand in the way of any per-
manent remedy. OF course it goes with
out saying that reading in itself is not
only harmless, but most beneficial. But
children too often read so much that
they fail to assimilate what they read,
and thus the exercise is dead loss.
Much fun has been made of 1.-THE man
of one book" but he possessed at least
the virtue of knowing one book thor
oughly-a virtue which many modern
readers do not possess. If school chill
dren were taught to read less and think
more. it would be gain all around
y. I. Tribune.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1885-06-13
A Great General.

Major John A. Rudd. formerly of the
Confederate army of the Southwest, and
who met Grant and his men on the
CORY field of battle several times. said
to the Hatchet yesterday:
Grant was great General. He has
never been given full credit for his
ability nor the full measure of his good
ness of heart. General Grant is loved
by the Southern soldiers. p whom he
has always been . true friend. Should
he die they will be found among the
most sorrowful of the mourners at his
bier. But hope he may yet survive
the treatment of his scientific at
tendants. Some people in the South
complained of certain Objectionable
things that General Grant did. To
these he said: i am simply enforcing
the laws as found them on the statute-
book. The best way to get rid of bad
law is to enforce it strictly"
Major Rudd related the following
anecdote of the great Captain:
Il called on him several years ago in
behalf Of certain ex-Union officer who
was incarcerated in the Missouri State
prison, unjustly in my opinion. Imade
a plain statement of the case to him and
concluded with the remark that, as a
Confederate soldier who had been shot
all to pieces, l asked that the facts in
the case be given the attention they
deserved. General Grant replied: The
matter shall be attended to- On the
following day the Union veteran was
released. Grant saw the injustice of
his incarceration at once, and acted
promptly, and in the same manner that
he struck his telling blows during tho
war. " Washington Hatchet.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1885-06-13
EL MAHDl.

A Hint to Good Boys Who DssiHo In.
formation Of Current Events.
A boy about twelve years Of ago en-
tered store on Michigan Avenue the
other day and asked for the proprietor.
and when confronted by that individual
the lad hesitatingly inquired:
Ill wanted to ask you for some in
formation about Ell Mahdi. Man up
the street said you were posted. and
that you'd be glad to help boy along"
Yes" said the proprietor as he
scratched his ear-sjess 80. Ell Mahdi
yes. Say. hub. I'm awfully busy
this morning. Ask the cashier, and
here's quarter for you. like to help
a boy along, but I'm rushed this morn
ing"
The boy went down to the cashiers
desk and said:
Mother boy and me are seeing who
oan find out the most about FL Mahdi.
Please tell me all You know"
"El Mahdi-y-e-s," replied the cash
ier. Hang it! I've read of him dozen
times over, and the name is very fa-
miliar. Y-e-s-jess so. Say. bub. our
floor-walker knows everybody and
everything. Here's fifteen cents for
you if you don't bother me to-day"
The boy passed along to the gentle
man mentioned and said:
''My teacher wants me to find out all
I can about Ell Mahdi. Where was he
born-how old is he-what does he do
for a living-please give me all the facts
you can?'
The fioor-walker looked the innocent
boy in the eye for long half-minute.
Then he pulled quarter from his vest
pocket, passed it over. and kindly whis-
pered:
'.Not to-day, my son, but some other
day. They'll probably tell you next
door. as they aren't rushedr-Detroit
Free Press.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1885-06-13
"A correspondent sends the follc

"A correspondent sends the follow
ing account of a mistake made by q
little girl in his vicinity. She always
joins the family in reading the Script
ures during the family devotions, taking
her verse in turn. She easily reads the
shorter words. but needs some help on
the longer, but is always eager to pro-
nounce all the words herself and some
times guesses. Recently it came her
turn to read the verse: '.No man can
serve two masters. for either he will
hate the one and love the other. or else
he will hold to the one and despise the
other. Ye cannot serve God and Mann
mon." She made slight variation at
the end and finished the verse: "Ye
cannot serve God and women. CHI
cdgo Tribune.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1885-06-13

There is not an acknowledged
sinner on Block Island. the quaint ocean
resort off the Rhode Island shore. All
the inhabitants claim to have been con-
verted in one winter revival some years
ago.-N Y. Sun
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1885-06-13

New York BARRIERS put mustachss
in curl papers in order to give them
fine curl by the time their owners have
been shaved Or had their hair cut
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1885-06-13

Thirteen hundred houses were built
last year in Washington, at a cost Ut
$4,000, 900.
Daily Republican., 1885-08-28

At the Republican office,
which we will sell at hard
times prices.
Try our 22.cent straw pa
per, and you will like it and
buy it a second time.
Paper bags cheaper than
you can buy them in Phila-
delphia or elsewhere.
We m can to sell to the
people of Wilmington, and
have determined to make
our profits such that
we will not be under
sold on hrst-class goods by
anybody in the business. We
can sell to every store in the
city their wrapping paper,and
we mean to try and do it.
Daily Republican., 1885-08-28

SUMMER seems to be taking sudden
flight from us,and ia leaving in It's trace
snow, frosts and cyclones. All over the
country the Thermometer has fallen
with suddenness that Is almost dan
gerous. Those who adjust their cloth
ing to tho temperature will probably
escape tenn porary discomfort, if not dis.
eases, ,superinduced by sudden change.
Those who propose to shiver on through
in the expectation OF the return OF
summer again will be very apt to be-
come subjects of the DOCTORS care.
Daily Republican., 1885-08-28
WANAMAKERR.

PHILADELPHIA, Friday, Aug. q. 1885.
We are not so wise as to tell
you when is the time to buy.
We tell you the news and
stop.
And some of the news we
may keep till the happy
tenth OF you gets back from
the country; only the little
part OF the news that chiefly
concerns the tenth.
1t isn't news till we tell it.
1t isn't news in France, in
Britain, in Switzerland, Bel.
|gium, Saxony, Germany,
Italy, Austria, Russia and
Asia beyond. Heads de-
vising and hands construct
ing, all over the busy world,
have been busy for weeks
and months and years on
what is going to be news for
you as soon as we are ready
to tell it.
We are in the dark our
selves about nine-tenths OF
the news that is coming.
Daily Republican., 1885-08-28

THE most intense religious zsal ex-
ists amongst the colored Methodists,
down in Rutherford County, North
Carolina. Like their white brethren
they are divided between Northern and
Southern Methodists. The Northern
wing o: the brethren we're holding q
camp meeting, and when their zeal and
emotion were at the highest pitch, an
armed body of Zion Methodis.s of the
Southern wing flung themselves sud-
denly upon their Northern brethren,
firing in all directions and wounded
seven persons. The Northern brethren,
though lighting against the enemy, were
| not prepared for such sudden attack,
! ard hurriedly fled from the ground,
while the victorious Zion shouters piled
up the effects Of the routed party and
made bonfire OF them. Such intense
religious zeal would be better appreoi
ated II shown In q milder form.
Daily Republican., 1885-08-28

MAKING the City Council chamber a
gallery OF art paintings at the expense
Of the tax payers Of the city,i Of rather
doubtful propriety, but the propriety of
havinga well executed painting of Gen.
Grant hung upon the chamber wall 10
something to which nobody could reA-
sonably object. The picture of General
Grant would not be obssnred by the
pictures OF Washington, Jefferson
Jack son, Lincoln and Garfield, which
already adorn the chamber. We hope
Wilmington ar isl will have the honor
of painting the picture. Tho artist no =
lives In this city who can excel In skil
and beauty of finish any picture in tn,
| Council chamber. Let Is be hom,
| lob.
Daily Republican., 1885-08-28

KELLEY, rejected minister Kelley, is
back home again, not in good hnmor
at being booted out of Austria. We
heartily agree with Mr. Kelley that the
day has gone by when a man must be
rejected on account of the nationality
OF his wife, or on account of belief in a
certain religions creed. These are ex-
ploded ideas that have fallen before the
march of intelligence In this country,
but were sufficient reasons for his
rejection In another country. The
people OF this country are opposed 70
Mr.. Kelley on very different grounds,
and are quite as much in sympathy
with his rejection rs the Austrians
were sincere in their rejection of him
because his vile was u Jewess. Mr..
Kelley deliberately aRd Of his own
choice, rem stned an unrepentant rebel
long after the war closed, and only
three or four years ago made q speech
full Of vile abuse of the flag that pro.
tectsd him. 1t Is for this that every
loyal American will rejoice In hi.
rejection. Kelley had become recon
ciled to Italy's rejection, but Austria,
, rejection strikes him IN q tender spot
He gives out that he has sold his library
aud house, and is evidently ready for
Mr.. Bayard'ssympathy. The diff icnlty
now will be to get place for him,
as no nation will care about taking tn
leavings Of Italy and Austria.
Daily Republican., 1885-08-28

CLEVELAND would show a keen an.
preciati ON OF favors shown, il he would
Invite Beeeher and Burahsrd to share
with him the pleasures of his mountain
retreat.
Daily Republican., 1885-08-28

CHARLES MARTEL,of Media, and en-
pioy I'd upon the M-dia Americ,n, was
nominated on Thursday by the Repub-
l1cans OF Delaware County for Jury
Commissioner. He was formerly a resi.
dent of this city and employed upon
the REPUBLICAN.
Daily Republican., 1885-08-28

SINCE the great Southern cyclone
down In Georgia aud Florida, Southern
admirers Of Bob Toombs will come to
the conclusion that here l. someth ipp
else full of wind and bluster.
Daily Republican., 1885-08-28

OUR morning contemporary, that
launched the yacht Pris :illa upon the
Brandywine, flies to the last II sort and
hl ames the error upon tue poor com.
positor, and the latter ha, no chance to
fire back-the Hit" is too steep to
get over.
Daily Republican., 1885-08-28

On THE very day that the New York
Worlds correspondent says Cleveland
and his party ran out of whisky, Cleye.
land left camp and adjourned to 8
hotel. Suggestive coincidence.
Daily Republican., 1885-08-28

All kinds of Printing done at tn Q
REPU URLIGAN Onice, such ms Pos.
ters, Tick etn and Circulars. Call
and gef our Prices
Daily Republican., 1885-08-28

Pnre fresh Chester County butter and
York Ssate cheese, Wholesale and retail,
az Il. z. GaIey's, 81 King street.
Daily Republican., 1885-08-28
PhisdsIpha, Wilmington 1 BsItimon Railroad.
AUIG HRR u4SS.

Trains leave Wilmington rs follows
For Philadelphia and intermediate sta
tioas, Q ~. oc, 10 30 a. m; 2so, 90, 40, $50
p. N.
Philadslphia (espress,, 2, sls, a47, 80,
IL Al. Il 45, 81, 5 ~ 55, 20, ss, 0 IS p m;
New York. 2tJ, 3 Is, 847. $50, 90. 90,
Q AZ, 10 o5, IL b5 a IN sl2 Il, ! 81, 2 90, 4 90,
81 "a s 81. 9 20 Q 3s. o<s, I 40 p. N.
For West Chester, via Lsmokin, 0 40 and
s l6 a. nj 30 and 4 Oop m.
Baltimore and inform ediate stations, 10 90
Q. m. 6 90, II l47p m.
Baltimore and Bay Line, 90 .. m.
Baltimore and Washington, l %. = Il, 8 o.,
10 O6, 10 30 q. m ! 90. y II, b6, ! 90 p. m.
Trains for delaware Division leave for:
New Castle, 0 II, s3S .. m; II 30, 2 30, 0 80,
I.ewes and Behosoth. . 70 an; Iass and
Is TO p m.
Harrington, 'Delmar and way stations, So
T. m, and IL IS p, m.
Harrington and way ITS tiors, 20 p. IN.
Express for Seaford, 3 10 p. m.
Express for lover and Deimar. 10 .. m.
Franklin Oity, 10 4. m; and IL u p. N.
sur DAY TRAINS.
Philadelphia and intermediate stations
10 .. m; IL Oh neon, 8 30. 7 40, y b5 p. m.
Philadelphia and Now York. 3 90, 3 Il. 3 AZ
l q m; 8 ~, 9 A8 p. m.
For West Ohss,er, via L4mokin, $40 q. m.
| 80 p. m,
baltimore and Washington, ! 70, 4 IL, o.
lU 90 a. IN. Baltimore, IL ~ p. M.
/ For further Information passengers arc re
feIred TO tho time tables posted at the sta
l ton.
! Trans marked thus ~ arc limited expires
'p'n "A''n '1a ''' J. K WOOD.
General Passenger Agent.
CHARLES Il. PudH, General Manager.
Daily Republican., 1885-08-28
WILMINGTON, DEL.
NO, 5oa MARKET STREET.

nOs O0E N a n N Ell . u
HEBRUAhY ~, toz
Open to receive deposits daily from .. N
until p. M, and on Tuesday and Saturday
evenings from 7 to so'olock.
The charter 1.-THE bank provides that ~
prottsupon Its investments, except 30 much
as Is required for the payment OF necessary
expenses and for suitable surplus fer the So
curity OF deposltors, shall be divided among
the dspoeitors.
No manager is allowed to borrow any pArt
Of the funds deposited with the OorporattoB
MANAGERS.
George W. Bush, y. Allen Hillee,
NJ. l.. ILchtenstein, Goo. 8. Oapelle,
UhAs. W. Howiand; y X Benson,
m. H. Swim, Henry 7. Dure,
Anthony Higgins Edward Pussy,
WAsHINaror HASTINGS.
MONEY LOANED ON MORTGAGES.
Gro. W. BUsR 4no. 8. OAPnLLn
President. vioe-PreetdonA
u. t. TAYLOR, Treasurer.
ny1ew-u jos. NJ. MArHxR Auditor
Daily Republican., 1885-08-28
Tho Levy Cours,s naisssks.

The Levy Court In our estim alton
erred yesterday in not appointing some
citizens on the committee appointed to
investigate the charges Of extravagsnce
against the Trustees Of the Poor. Mr..
CheAirs and Mr.. Taylor evidently
seemed to have proper appreciation Of
the case when they advocated mixed
committee. II the Levy Court had no
connection Whatever with the Board Of
Trustees, If 1t was not the power that
created the Board, then It's actions
might have been proper. But by its
own action the Court has placed itself
in o position that lift does not find
somebody guilty Of malfeasance or vt
least of inexcusable extravsgance,
whether guilty or not, the cry Of white
washing IN offence will be raised
against 1t. 1t Is natural that the Court
should feel itself competent to investi.
gate the doings OF its subordinates, but
1t Is not always the best policy to do 30
even ifit is competent, and this IL one Of
the instances where the interests of jus
tice would be better subserved and the
integrity OF tbs Court better sustained
had that body delegated its power to
others. The feeling of the Levy Court
for the Trustees Of the Poor would
naturally be akin to that OF a father Tor
his son who had met with difficulty
and misfortune. The public will look
upon that sympathy that exists be-
tween them rs being suffi ciently strong
to prevent . vigorous investigation.
Should this committee find anything in
the actions Of the Board OF Trustees
Of the Poor worthy OF censure, they
but censure the Levy Court for the ap-
pointment Of the Board or certain mem
bers Of the Board. Ii is rather sur.
prise that the Levy Court should have
been 30 short sighted, as to have placed
itself In this dilemma. The public will
lose In terest in the investig alton now
that the Levy Court refused to entruss
the Investigation to an outside com.
mittee or even to q mixed committee.