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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-03-20
CONSIDERATE.
The Fine Feelings OF a Darky Who Re.
fuses to Play Slave.

The Fine Feelings OF a Darky Who Re.
fuses to Play Slave.
A gentleman who advertised for q
man to do general farm work was ap.
preached by negro who wanted the
place.
What can you do?" the gentleman
asked.
80. ken fill de bill. l reckons."
Can you plowp"
"Wall, no, sab; 1 fergot ter tell yer
dat. l doan do no plowin'"
Well, are You a good hand with a
hoe?'
Oats er nuder pint dad furgot ter
mention. No, sab, yer mus 'skuze me
consarnin' de hoe"
"You chop wood. supposep"
"Wall, no, sab, kahn It say dat does. :"
Haul wood, then, of course?"
No, KANT do dat. l likes yer style.
boss. fur allus likes ter hab ur un 'er-
standin' wild er man."
"Well, then, what do you propose to
do?'
'Whut I 'poze to do? wy. sab, I
would see dat de niggers hitches de
hosses ter de carriage, an den would
come ter town wild yer. Whut. doan
want me?" he added. as the gentleman
turned away. ''All right. sab. l doan
'pcze ter be er slabe fur no man. Doan
ketch me er WARM mySe'f out fur no
pusson. ."-Arkansaw 7rareler.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-03-20
Journalism in Austria.

According to the latest official in
formation there are in Austria 1.625
newspapers and periodicals. of which
400 are political. It's economical. 1Sl
agricultural, 113 connected with trades
or special occupation. 90 medical or
scientific. SO pedagogical. % geo.
graphical and historical. 20S represent
ing literature and humor. 13 military:
l29 advertising papers. 53 ecclesiastical,
and lo7 local papers; 727 of the whole
numberare published in the single PROV
mcc of Lower Austria As to Ian
guage 1,054 are German. 225 Czech.
los Polish. % Italian. 81 Slavonian. 32
in other Slav dialects, and "a are
miNed-that is. have portions in differ
ent languages. 1t is noteworthy that,
as compared with the preceding year,
the German papers have increased in
number by Z per cent. the Italian by
6.7. the Czech by 1876. the Slavonian
by 20.7, and the Polish by 81. Hungary
and the provinces dependent on the
Hungarian crown are not taken into
account of this summary, which is
confined to- the Austrian provinces
only.-N Y. Post
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-03-20

They were the incest set Of bows vou

They were the incest set of bows YOU
ever saw in your life But at first they
would play truant. Then they caught
it. only whipped for that and lying.
remember one time Dobyns Fouge
and Nit Bramble played hockey. OF
course the next day they had to take it.
pummeled away, and although they
roared like young bulls of Bashan it
didn't seem to me caught the right
note. began to investigate, and
would you believe it, the little rogues
had borrowed blacksmiths' aprons and
stuck them inside of their shirts.
You see, didn't allow any inter-
ference from the parents. When Mrs.
Pougc came to me about Dobyns-rd
walloped him for something or other
l made her a present of him. Take
him. l don't want him. The first
thing l knew she was back, with tears
in her eyes, begging me to take him
again.
''Why, sir, my exhibitions were the
events of the year. Elite here, and ell
the girls, used to come and dress the
church with cedars and colored paper
wreaths. Every candlestick in the
town was ours for the asking; and we
had all the girls finery we wanted
They were only too proud to lend it.
"And as for the people. every hitch
ing post had two or three horses tied to
it. All the country people came and
the First Presbyterian Church would be
filled cram jam. and the rest of the
world look in at the Windows
'Ette," calling his wife again,
what would Mr.. Higgins have thought
if he could have heard Horace Morton
declaim Pollock's description of hell:
"'Wide was the place. and deep as wide,
And perilous as deep
Or Smith Kephart, in a long. black
cloak and tartan cap and feather, give
Lochiel's Warning All! that was
grand. And there was Angus Liggett,
in my niece Antoinette's balzarine
dress. and his hands chained, reciting
The Maniac until there wasn't dry
eye in the house. Exhibitions! There's
nothing like them nowadays. You
may say what you please, sir. there's
no profession to be compared to teach
ing. Give ME forty or fifty boys with
ability and industry, and 1 wouldn't
exchange it for the best business in the
world"
Nobody said him nay, and William
Smith sank back again into his chair.
apparently contemplating the toes of
his shoes. but hiS gaze in fact WAS
fixed in the far away past. the source
of so many pleasant and proud memo
ries.-Mary Gay Hunphries, in N. Y
Star.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-03-20
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The Roman schoolmasters used q
whip made of eel skin to punish their
scholars on the naked back.
The Baltimore Catholic Mirror esti-
mates the colored Catholic population
of the United States at 10O,O 900.
BY all means agitate the question
of grading teachers salaries according
to merit, and let the question of sex in
this sphere be laid aside.-Philadelphia
Times.
Rev. Atticus G. Haygood. Of the
Methodist Church South, says that
since the war the people of the North
have contributed no less than $40, ,0OO,-
600 for educational purposes in the
South. Chicago Times.
Along the line of the Panama
Canal are nine preaching stations kept
up by the Church of England. There
are about 5000 laborers, a number of
whom regularly avail themselves of
the privileges thus afforded.
The Boston Cooking School has
had six men as pupils during the year.
One man cook took thorough course
and the five other men took lessons for
the personal satisfaction of knowing
how to prepare food.--Boston Journal.
Although twenty thousand volumes
have been added in the last two years
to the Columbia College library there
is need of more books to meet the de-
mands of the professors and students
in the various departments of the Uni.
versity, especially in the graduate
courses.-N. Y. Sun.
Arrangements have been made for
a series of conventions in the interest
of home missions in the several Presby-
teries OF. the Synod of Ohio. 1t is the
purpose of these conventions to bring
before the churches all information on
the work and needs of the home mission
fields. Cleveland Leader.
The American missionaries are not
a little proud of the prowess and clever
ness of the Bulgarians. Many of the
bright young men who have come to
the front in the war received their train
ing in the schools established by the
American missions, which have ever
been warmly welcomed in Bulgaria.
For five years, every night in the
year without iutermission, well at
tended Gospel meetings have been held
at the Bowery Mission of the Young
Mems Home in New York. On a re-
cent Sunday evening the fifth anniver-
sary was held. at which wonderful tes-
timonies were given by men who had
been rescued.-N ?. Tribune.
The Poles, Bohemians, Servians
and Bulgarians. and, in general, the
Slavonians living in the city of New
York and neighborhood, are discussing
. project to establish in this country q
Slavonian Roman Catholic diocese in
charge of Bishop, Slavonian by
birth. There is no reason why the
Slav Catholics of this country should
not form union of their own like that
of the German Catholics or the Irish
Catholics. But it is curious that these
citizens of Slav birth intend
to petition the Car of Russia that he
would intervene in their behalf before
the Pope. A Catholic priest, Pole by
birth, has already applied to the Rus
sian Consul of this city on the subject.
IN Y Sun.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-03-20
FASHION NOTE.
The Frlghtful Cruelty Of an Otherwise
Humane Lady.

Colonel Yerger presented his wife
with sealskin sacque. She immedi-
ately insisted on walking out with it on.
1t was very cold and he said with a
shiver:
LET us 60 home; I'm almost frozen
to death. :"
II don't feel cold at all, she replied.
with chattering teeth, ''but let us &c
back and walk past the windows Of
those Pcterbys."
But you may get pneumonia and die
a painful death. "
"Never mind if l do. don't feel cold
at all as long as I've got this sacque
on"
.'But why do you want to go past the
Peterby mansion asain?'
"I want that stuck-up Mrs. Peterby
to see my new sacque once more any
how. 1t will make them gnash their
teeth and turn green with envy when
they see it and think of their last
winters cloaks that they are wearing.
TEXAS Siflings.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-03-20
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

Cigarettes never hurt good little
boys, because good little boys never
hurt cigarettes-by burning them
Philadelphia Call.
An awfully homely man at a
sociable where kissing games are played
looks as lonesome as straw hat in a
snow storm.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
"A surgical journal tells of a man who
lived five years with ball in his head.
We have known girls to live twice as
long with nothing but balls in their
heads.-N. Y. Telegram.
The way that woman lately inden-
titled her stolen parrot was by bringing
her husband into court and scolding
Iwish you were at Jericho. old womanr'
"A woman will face a frowning
world and cling to the man she loves
through the most bitter adversely, but
she wouldn't wear a hat that was out
of style to save the Government.-N.
Y. Ledger.
1t is estimated that in this city 1O6,-
408 men, on the day following Christ
mas. when asked what they got, re-
piled, ..Got left This is a gratifying
decrease of nine since last year.-Pii-
adelphia Call.
If Horn Tooke had not many years
ago had his joke published, some enter
prising funny man might now say in
comment on the burning Of the hat fac
tory in New York yesterday, "The loss
will be felt "-Pitts6,lrgh Commercial
Gazette.
-..What did you do the first time you
got into battle?" said young lady
to an old soldier. .'O course you
didn't run?" 20, no; didn't run.
miss; not at all. but if / had been 60
ing for doctor, and you had seen me.
you would have thought somebody was
awful sick. ."-Chicago Journal.
"A perpetual joy
Nv wife isn't much Of . beauty,
But home keeping BODY ID she;
Eficient in housekeeping duty,
And makes the house pleasant for Ne
She wears the most tasty apparel,
And she's q perpetual joy,
And we've never in life had quarrel,
For she cooks like an angel, my boy.
Boston Courier.
mo, sir; haven't seen the will.
but / propose to fight it. My uncle
was crazier than q loon and couldn't
make will" Lawyer Filchem-"But
I drew it for him, and know that he
bequeaths his entire estate to you"
..Is that so? Then Just consider your
self retained to defend tke instrument.
propose to protect my dear uncle's
memory to the furthest extremity."-
Philadelphia Press.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-03-20
MOTIVE.

II your purpose is high, and your aim ID
pure.
And you toll with patience, and wait and
pray.
tell YOU that work will eudure-end,Ts-
And it matters little what men may say.
A swarm of insects may dim the skies
Till the sun seems shadowei and overcast
But clouds that are only the wings of flies
Must yield to the power of light al the last
Nothing noble can be downtrod
and nothing worthy long hidden from
SIGHT;
Back of this Universe stands q God,
And lie moves all things by the lever of
Right.
1t takes true motive to make true art
Art without motive lives but for a day
anu where there Is purpose, ami feeling, and
heart
1t can not perish though worlds decay
Keep up your courage. and work and wait
O. toilers who toll with an aim su blimei
The eyes of the years shall discriminate,
And read your purpose arisht in time.
Ella Wheeler Hiicor, in Chicago Tribune.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-03-20
A GREAT INDUSTRY.
The Phenomenal Growth Of American
Mining Enterprises.

The report of the United States Geo.
logical Survey shows that the mining
industries of the United States are as
suming giant proportions. Not less
than $500. 1000. 900 is invested in mining g
enterprises us productive capital. and
over 100000 people are furnished EN-.
ployment. and the mineral product Of
the United States for the year 1884 had
value of S413. 10i,6 $40. The follow
ing is Il detailed statement of these
mineral products as shown by the sta
tistics collected by the United States
Ceolopieal Survey:
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-03-20

French scientists are constructing
a balloon which will be directed bv a
steam engine. Should the boiler ex-
piode when the balloon is a thousand
feet or 50 overhead. the aeronaut il
more likely to be blown down than
blown .-Ncrrfs!o,rn Herald.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-03-20

New Zealand, with a population OF
about COG, 900. has debt of nearly f31, :
OOO, 900, or over $3.50 for each in.
habitant.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-03-20
The manufacture of waxis the most

NC HdluIaCtuTe UI WAX IS the MOST
costly item in honey-meking, and this
is 4 loss that can be readily avoided by
using artificial combs. When the bees
have only to provide ',ney they can
produce much more and the swarms
will be earlier and more prolific. .-Bos-
ton Post.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-03-20

The average age OF the fourteen
hundred inmates Of Sing Sing is twenty
six years.-N T. Sun.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-03-20
Twenty religious societies are asso.

twenty religious societies are assO-
ciated in the Brooklyn Union for
Christian work. The receipts of the
past year were S7,575.70 The Union
maintains free reading-room. library
and sewing-school. and is engaged in
general charitable work. k.-Christian
Union.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-10-28
STORIES FROM THE STATE.
FOUR MILES AN HOUR AT S4.
NFaabsna TT,,;o.,

Machias Union.
Stephen Connick Of Meddybemps, walked
from his home TO Edmunds, October II, a
distance of sixteen miles in four hours. Con-
sdering that Mr. Connick is about 81 years
OF age, this was remarkable feat.
A GREAT TRAMPER OR A GREAT LIAR.
Keneebec journal.
Monday man of about average size with
weather-beaten, Drowned face, sunken
cheeks and iron gray hair and mustache
tramped into town and applied for work al
Doughty Bros harness mandatory, which
was given him, and yesterday he was busily
engaged over the leather. He gave his name
as Henry Arey, aged ffty-seven years, and
claimed that he had travelled from Oregon to
Maine, making the entire distance on foot
with the exception of seventeen miles. 81
have been absent frem Maine" he said,
"twenty-eight years. was a native of St
Albans and in 1858 sailed from New York
around Cape Horn to San Francisco and re.
manned on the Pacific coast up to year ago
last February, when l started to tramp to my
native State, the doctor having told me that
my lungs were weak and / must have a
change of climate. have been on the road
ever since, passing through Idaho, Montana
Utah, Colorado, Kansas, Arkansas and St
cago and New York, travelling the most di,
rect route / could find. / crossed the Miss
issippi on the ice and camped out of doors
during warm weather. ] swain one lake. In
Arkansas | asked for shelter at one house
threatening to put hole through me witt
his gun" - This man tells his story to every
body and says it is true
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-10-28
THE STATUE OF LIBERTY.

An event unparalleled in history is to take
place in New York city to-day. The unveil-
ing Of the statue of Liberty Enlightening the
World is fitting consummation to most
remarkable undertaking. 1t was twenty
years ago that the eminent French statesman
and jurist, Laboulaye, conceived the idea of
monument which should commemorate the
early friendship of his own country for the
colonies across the sea. Laboulaye had
been firm friend of the United States
through the long struggle to put down the
rebellion, with pen and voice upholding in
Europe the cause of the North. Besides
this he had firm belief that the sentiment
of gratitude may be cherished by nations as
well as by individuals, and that the Ameri-
cans of his day were yet grateful for the aid
which France gave to Washington and his
compatriots in the hour Of their most desper-
ate fortunes. The event has shown that the
feelings Of Laboulaye were the feelings of a
great many other Frenchmen. BY popular
subscription, taken in all parts of France,
the money was raised to defray the expenses
Of the great work, which Laboulaye induced
Bartholdi to attempt. The statue is intend
ed as gift from one people to another, to
mark memorable historical alliance and
symbolic the ideas Of liberty and freedom
for which both the American and French
people have fought. History records no
similar act of good will between two peoples
so widely apart geographically, and so dis
tinct in language and ideas. In times of
trouble one people have extended to another
the aid which humanity suggests; but the
acknowledgment of a national sentiment
akin to the friendship of one man for anoth-
er, has not usually gone farther than the
hollow phrases of the diplomat. For the
first time we have such an Acknowledgement
from people themselves
The statue which the French people have
sent us is more wonderful than anything of
the kind ever attempted by man. The Co
lessus of Rhodes. one of the wonders of the
ancient world, is said to have been but one
hundred and five feet tall; the great national
statue Of Germany, the Arminius in Bava-
ria, is not over ninety-four feet high; while
the Goddess Of Liberty measures one hun
bred and ifty-one feet from the tip of the
torch to the bottom of her feet, and, with the
aid of the pedestal, looms up three hundred
and six feet
The ceremonies today will be most fitting.
The sculptor himself, accompanied by anoth-
er most eminent Frenchman, who has been
interested in the work, De Lesseps, will be
present. French marines and sailors will pa
rade with naval forces of the United States
and citizen soldiers of New York; the Presi-
dent and members of his cabinet will review
the procession; there will be a naval parade
Of unusual magniffcence for this part of the
globe; and speeches by President cleveland,
Senator Evarts, Bartholdi and other French
guests, with formal Grafton by Chauncey
NJ Depew. With propitious weather this
viii be great day in New York.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-10-28
YOUNG MEMS CHRISTIAN Asso.
CATIONS.

The Young Mems Christian Associations of
the present day had their origin in meeting
OF London clerks organized by George Will
liams, one of the clerks, in 1874 His idea
was soon initiated in different cities of Eng
land, and in 1851 an association after the
London model was formed in Montreal.
This was the first association Of the kind in
North America Soon after an association
was formed in Boston. They spread rapidly
throughout the United States Eand Canada,
and twenty-years later there were 700 asso-
Citations in this country and Canada, and
100000 members. The associations in the
United States and Canada form an interna-
tlonal convention, which was organized in
1894. Eight conferences of the assscia-
ions OIL all lands have been held. That
az Farls In 1885 limited active men,
Dership to young men who. regard
ing Jesus Christ as their Lord and Sa-
viour, according to the HOLY Scriptures.
ueSire 10 De his disciples in their doc
trine and in their life" The last general
conference was held at Berlin in 1884.
only members of an evangelical church
are admitted.to full membership in the Amer
lean associations, that test having been
adopted at the International convention held
In this city in 1862 ANY young man of good
moral character and conduct can, however,
become an associate member, but he can
not hold office or take part in the manage
ment OF the association. Older church mem
bers are admitted as counselling members
The aim OF the Associations is to be interme
date agents between the churches and tn
young men, and besides maintaining libra
rites, reading rooms, lecture classes for secu-
lar instruction and gymnasiums, they hold
prayer meetings, Bible classes and other re-
ligious meetings.
AT the last international convention held
In April of the present year 1,O66 associa-
tons were reported in existence in the Unit
States and Canada, with membership prob
ably exceeding 10000. Ninety of these as
sociations own buildings valued at Ss.92O.-
$40, fifty have other real estate of the value
of $50. Seyenty-four reported building
funds paid in amounting to S206,s61. and
eleven reported endowment funds paid in
to $2O0,S17. The total net prop
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-10-28

erty of all descriptions of the associations as
far as reported amounts to $5,140,17S, Three
hundred and sixty-six associations have H.
braries aggregating 292,024 volumes. Four
hundred and eghty-seven general secretaries
are employed in prosecuting the work of the
associations. The last report of the interna-
tional committee compiled from statistics up
to May 1886, credits Maine with twelve asso-
citations The Oldest is the Portland associa-
ton which was formed in 1858, and now has
400 members, 524 of them active members.
The other Maine associations are located at
Augusta, Bangor, Biddeford, Foxcroft,
Gardiner, Lewiston, Monson, Rockland,
Searsport, Waterville and Winthrop. The
total membership of the Maine associations
is 800
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-10-28
CURRENT COM NJ EMIT
THE EFFECT LIKELY TO BE BAD.
ROctnn Cloha


THE EFFECT LIKELY TO BE BAD.
Boston Globe.
No liquor can be introduced into Alaska
except for sacramental uses The sacrament
Will rapidly degenerate into sacrilege under
such custom.
A MARRIAGE THAT MAY NOT SUIT
Minneapolis Tribune.
An indianapolis couple were married in the
show windsw of a clothing store the other
day and the proprietor of the establishment
furnished the grooms wedding suit The
divorce suit will be furnished in the usual
way.
RIDICULOUS BOYCOTT.
Newburyport Herald.
The latest boycetti is among the gamblers
of Cincinnati, who have decided to boycott a
firm which manufactures playing cards, be-
cause one of the members is police COM
missioner and was active in closing gambling
dens.
o, FOR MUNICIPAL WATER WORKS.
Rockland Courier Gazette.
Right on top of the Eastport fire comes
word of c0nfiagratlon as great in Farming
ton, laying low all the principal business
part Of that beautiful village, The loss is set
fires within week is all one State is entitled
to. And again the old cry goes up: so, for
municipal water-worksp'
LABOR IN THE SOUTH.
Springfield Union.
1t will not be at all surprising if the labor
ing men of the North, under the lead of the
Knights of Labor, demand of the next Con-
gress some legislation for the freedom of col
ored labor in the South in order that wages
may be equalized all over the country. The
negroes do not receive fair wages for skilled
work, and the Knights of Labor will not
overlook that fact. If the matter is raised in
Congress, the South will throw its influence
against labor legislation, and the sectional
issue in labor viii be raised. In such case
it is easy to predict that the Solid South will
find itself once more in decided minority.
The labor men mean business.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-10-28

The temperance agitation has not pro-
crossed so far in England that brewing does
not continue to be very popular industry.
One Guinness, brewer, whose name is fa-
nous in connection with porter, having been
promoted to peerage, last week sold out
his business to stock company. When the
subscription books for stock were opened at
Barring Brothers banking house in London,
the rush of persons who wanted shares was
so great that the doors of the bank were
broken down. 1t may be that the tendency
of the Crown to recruit the ranks of the no
bility from wealthy brewers, stirred the am
bition as well as the aYarice of the throng
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-10-28

Ladies' Beaver Mufs, $500.
Ladies Beaver Sets, S12. 90 and upwards.
Gents Nutria Collars and Cuffs, $500 and up
wards.