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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1888-11-10
How Rhymes Are Made.

Poetry Is a more mechanical art
than most people believe. Fred
Latham, who is q cousin OF Lord
Tennyson, has told me that when the
laureate is writing q poem he con-
structs q rhyming dictionary of his
own, thus: A, b, c, d, e, 4. &. h, i, j.
k. |. m. q. o, p. q. r, S, t, u. V, W, X, v,
when he has written q line, say:
Whore Claribel low-lieth-
He starts down the alphabet hunting
for rhyme, getting 'buyeth.' 'crieth.
'dieth,' 'lieth.' 'sigheth.' .tieth.' try
eth,' 'vieth, and SO on. out of which.
Of course, it is the easiest possible
thing to get the line
The oak tree. thick-leaved, ambrosial sighsth.
when the proper time comes to intro
duce that verse into the poem. Usual
" Lord Tennyson conceals the art by
which he gets to his rhymes by putting
the manufactured line first and letting
the second one carry the real burden
Of the thought. as any one who will
read .Loclsley Hall critically viii
see."-H B. Dess. in Chicago Nsrs.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1888-11-10

FULL a. run
-WAsa - S1yesaasnAsFtainnAl
AGn ths TOP of . van = INT H. -
~ eAjsoe -. it's ths vanl
"A man WITH Glx 09zlagsabl>
daughtses mys tha3 hi house II . reg
ular court house evsgy Sunday nighA-
Doseo~ Rssk 81,
-Buwn-.I hear Smith .,has 4
chloroSoem his clothes every night "
White -''What forl" Brov.-':Be-
cause they arc % loud they keep him
awakA"-kxeAo~Qe.
.-Passenger-"Do We stop long
enough at the next station 70 cat .
sandwichp" Cbnductor- sir; We
only stop twenty minutes. "-LiG.
IN eAsw yoa up. 0fimalkiD said -
TAo0as ylts - 0eovl
'Td Mks - sst-sAsw doing =" aUsth' 1osnss
-Xenker's Gazette.
Stranger (sddressing an old colored
bricklayer)-''Uncle. who's building
this houseP" Colersd Brieklayer-
'.Ar. Hirshbug he build Dc house. but
Queen Ann she drawed do plan."AHor.
per's Basas.
Wife (carelessly) ly)-'What's thai
fire alarm ringing forf Husband
(freshly)-'F0r . Ars. Of course
Wife (ealmly)-"Well. what do yos
suppose It wants with . hre such day
- thisr- WaaAssgtoS Critic.
How Is your employer. Ssmbol
I heard he had . bad fall" '.Yes. sab.
butts he's su6erin' most from tho 70
action before he fell. sab" %, the
reaction eame Arst did it?" '.Yss. sah.
Dc mule kicked him obsr."-SprisQeeld
UisioW. -.t.s.
Lieutenant waking up)-'Donner
wetter! Already ten o'clock! John.
Why did you not wake mo when J
orderedp" John III have already
wakensd you several times, but per
haps you have not heard m&"-f9ie.
gessds Bluttsr. 1
Student (not very clear a to his
lesson) THAT what the author says.
any way" Professor-''I don't want
the author; / want you" Student
(despairingly) We'll. you've got
ms."-HiladelpAia Quiz.
: -He had just declined her pro6ered
heart; but, wishing TO soften the blow.
was about TO add: But viii always
b . -" when the fair girl raised
her hand. 'Hush. George" she said.
.'when your budding mustaohe Is n
long % the whiskers ON that chestnut
you can use it for . muf{ler.-Tszas
Slsisss.
-'1hat's thimf" said Nulcahey,
pointing 70 the nfe-peeservers On deck.
Those arc lfe-preserveEs." saiA the
omcer. ''Oh. life-preservaxs. are
theye Thin Why don't yea sind thin
b ther h0uhpi1u1A vAsro there's plinty
dying and dying I'll the toime. bedad1"
-OceoML
-Steve-'Yes. poor Blivins does
look melancholy. - you ~. He still
suffers from tho consequences Of IN
early love affair."" Maud (insEankly in
eerested)-'Oh. tell M Bid the
young lady die or prove false7" Sieve
':Neither. She married him -n-Nsse.
-He was doing very nicely in the
parlor. when . solemn voice came
the open window from the
rcvrh. ssTh.N vns,nr man nahaa NM
rory tired" Don't be alarmed, Mr..
sampson" said tho girl. - he hastily
Itarted up. 1T II only Polly. our par-
'ot" Il understand it's the perrot."
Ae replied. ''but would like 70 knDw.
Who taught her 70 talk. IN T. 6ss -
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1888-11-10
MIsQUoTE0 LINES.

GoDtl119 xxpeoooa00o 1Aoe Arc Generally
Quessa WroaS.
Il Il . peculiar faculty Of human
memory to misqu0te proverbs and
poetry, and almost invariably to place
the credit where It does not belong.
Nine men out Of ten think that The
Lord tempers the wind 70 tho shorn
lamb" II from the Bible, whereas
Lawrence Sterne IL the author. '"POurs
ing oil upon troubled waters" f. alss
ascribed TO the sacred volume. whereas
Il is not there; in fact, no one knows
lts origin:
Again. We hear people say: Tho
proof Of the pudding il in chewing tho
string" This u arrant nonsense. and
the proverb says: The proof Of tho
pudding Is in the eating thereof and
not in chewing the string"
Nothing Il more. common than to
hear: "a
A man convinced against his viii
II Of TIE same opinion still.
This Is an impossible condition Of
mind. for no one can be convinced Of
one opinion and 1t the same time hold
TO IN opposite one. What Butler wrote
was eminently sensible:
He that complies sGainst his wiz
u of hio own oDinteo stfll s. =
A famouc passage Of Scripture is
often misquoted thus: He that IS
without sin among YOU. let him cast tho
arst stone" II should be: LET him
first cast . stone" - "a
Sometimes We are told: Behold
how great q IRE little matter kim
dleth." whereas St James said: '-Be-
hold how great matter . little hre
kindleth," which II quite . dtherens
thing.
We also hear that - mis- 10 - goo&
a. . mile,n which II not - sensible %
iorcible - tho true. .proverbe "A mass
Of IN inch u - good - . mile" 81
Look before you Lap" shsuA boz
.And look before you ere you leeP.
Pope il generally credited with have
ing written
lnDedsss vesds ad0it a No osfeaeA
Foe vast of deecaey y waas Of senes.
though IL would pussle any orc 70 hnd
the verses in his writingA They wero
written by the Earl Of Roscommon. wha
died before Pope was born.
Frsukltn said: Honesty IL the best
policy" but the maxim h Of Spanish
origin and may b found In Don Quiz
o,a"5EMlsdelDsia Ti,sea
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1888-11-10

Guest Indignantly Waiter. there
re feathers in this soup.
Waiter (inspecting it)-why. 50
there are. ! thought ! was giving yon
bean soup. It's chicken broth. sir;
costs ten cents more. (Changes figures
on the check. 1-Chicago 7ri6xae.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1888-11-10

The line might stretch out infinitely.
and at last there could be no balance
struck, because most evils at which
people complain are SO trifling as not
possible to compare with the beautiful
blessings Of life. In plain words, let
US all join the Lookup Club"
Look up and not down,
Out and not in,
Forward and not back,
And lend hand.
Mrs. Grace Curtis, IN Chicago Ad-
rance.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1888-11-10
GOOD SIDE.

GOOD SIDE.
Baby alive and able
to be cross and creep.
Had = breakfast.
Ninesy-nine timss
out OF one hundred
bread good.
Great possibilities OF
. new girl.
Home to keep. hus-
band and children 70
love; dear friends.
lovely world, pleasant
times, people to help.
Lovely opportunity
to prove myself supc-
-ior 10 circumstances
Lovely lesson TO
teach me common
sense in shoes.
I have feet. How
much better than
horses.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1888-11-10

nAD SIDE.
Baby crOsA and
creeping into every
thing.
Breakfast late.
Bread sour.
Hired girl going.
Too much sewing:
back-ache, cross, tired.
NO good living.
Fire out in dining
room. ..... ......
Corn aches
Mrs. LOFTY has . car
4iagc.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-06-20

To Africa in Six Hours.
From the Albany Telegram.


Ocean travel, if one can believe In
ventor Pierce, is about to undergo a
complete revolution. Col. Pierce hopes
to lay double-barreled pneumatic tube
across the ocean, by which passengers
can travel at the rate Of 900 miles an
hour. The cars can be made either 900
feet long or 10 feet long, and will have
wheels on all sides. They will be lit
tie less than feet in diameter,
and the passengers while occupy
ing them will recline on luxurious
cushions. Air will be let into the cars
for purpose of ventilation by means of
stopcocks and for lighting electricity
will probably be used. In order to pre-
vent an undue rush of air at the ter
minus a large number of arterial exits
will be used, which will enable the ex-
presses to slow up properly. Col.
Pierce will allow our government to
furnish the money; if not, European
governments will have the opportunity
Hong Kong, under the new system, will
be reached in II hours and Central
Africa in six hours. Single tickets,
good for either of the points mentioned,
ought not to cost more than $50 apiece.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-06-20

Restaurant Life in London.
From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat

ETOlu lu0 Oh LOUIS GlOOe-Oeu1OCTd
Americans engaged in making the
grand European tour can never under
stand one feature of restaurant life in
London. If you happen to be bach
elor, and therefore dependent on chop
houses for meals, as the hotels rarely
provide for the inner man, you will
probably look around for comfortable
place where you can get acquainted and
take all your meals. That is the great
error into which all travellers fall.
In London you want to select three
different chop houses, one for break
fast, dinner and supper, or if you wish
to be English sans reproche. you must
have another for the evening lunch
about IL O'Clock. These houses all make
a speciality of one meal, and while you
may be supplied with enough to dull
your appetite at other houses, you will
ouly get perfect service at the one table
for which the house has made reputa-
ton. Then, for example, take dinner
chop house: You take a seat, order a
piece of roast beef and have the whole
roast wheeled out in front of your table
while the waiter slices off juicy morsel
that would tempt an anchorite in Lent.
When you come to understand these
things you can live with greater salts
faction on S. a day than an American
could on double that amount at home.
Tips are nothing, as a penny apiece is
enough to satisfy ordinary walters.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-06-20
Lost from the Hotels.
From the New York Sun.


An old hotel steward said yesterday
that it is impossible to restrict large
proportion Of the loss of portable articles
in hotels. The loss is not so much due
to theft as to carelessness and hurry on
the part of maids, and men, and women,
who carry off the teaspoons they have
been using in their rooms, pack up the
hotel towels by mistake, and break a
good deal that is only missed when an
inventory is taken. This steward says
that large hotel collects, spoons nap
kins and towels stamped with the
names of almost all the large hotels in
the country, and of names In Europe.
The spoon packed away with the child's
medicine by maid in Paris is, perhaps,
next brought to light in New York no.
tel, where it is sent down to the kitchen,
when no longer needed.
Thus these little but costly things
travel about and defy safe keeping.
There is a good deal of theft, of course.
Servant women wrap tablecloths and
sheets around their persons, walters
pocket forks, spoons. knives and nap
kins, and bartenders and their helpers
carry off bottles of liquor. As far as
possible, large hotels board and house
their help, because that makes it more
difficult for theft to be practieed.
But the leakage remains very great.
In one case that can be certified to, a
clever waiter established his wife at the
head of boarding house and furnished
her tableware, linen, and great deal of
the food that was eaten from his steal
ings from the different places where he
xx-a anoY,1nuQd
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-06-20
Good as a Time Lock.
From the New York Press.


Daniel Drew was i'll one day and not
able to 60 to his office, but as he was
anxious to have something he had
placed in his safe the night before he
sent for his most trusted clerk and
oivulged to him the secret OF opening it
door being the word on which the
hinges moved. The man proceeded
to the room where the safe was kept
and followed the directions of Mr..
Drew to the best of his ability, but
without avail.
He returned to his employer and
told him of his non-success. Again he
was given minute explanation, and
still without being able to open the
safe. When he reached Mr.. Drew the
third time he was asked to describe ex-
actly what he had done in trying to get
into it. The man said: 81 turned the
key so many times for d. and so many
times for co. and again the same num-
Der Of times for o." but when he
reached this point Mr.. Drew inter
ruptec him and said: co. again; you
mean 'A'-d-o-a-r, doar." The clerk
humbly acknowledged his error, and
making his way to the safe used the
proper talisman and succeeded in turn
ing the lock without the smallest diff
cI1itv
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-06-20

man were working over her, her mind
began to wander. Van Ness came be-
hind the scenes and found them. He
sent Immediately for a physician The
girl was burning with fever and be-
fore the doctor came they took her
home The audience was told what
had happened and dismissed their
tickets we're returned to the door and
were good for the next night. And
the next night, with the old pima dom
ma, who came hurriedly out from
Albany, in the title role, the opera
failed.
But Kitty-Kitty with everything be-
ding one for her that human power
could do, with her mother by her ev-
cry minute, Van Ness constantly at her
knot of violets tight in her hand and
kiss them again and again, and rest
them tenderly on her burning breast
and cry, George, George" her fancy
wandering YEARLY. And Van Ness
took certain sorry comfort in the fact
that they were his violets.
The third day they telegraphed for
George, but the message did not reach
him. And at just the time he was dane
ing down the stage with Kitty's rival,
gayly dressed, and.gaylv trying to sing,
Kitty turned her head toward Van
Ness, opened her eyes and recognized
him. She gave him her hand, laying
the violets, dry and withered now,
close up by her neck with her chin soft
lv in them.
With her other hand she drew her
mother down nearer her, keeping her
eyes all the time on Van Ness, and
strange, glad smile on her lips. Then,
as with a sudden thought, she ques-
toned: "The opera ?"
ga failure. DEAR" answered her
mother, tremblingly.
'I'm sorry" Kitty said.
"But you" broke in Van Ness, though
the grief Of his heart almost choked
him, 'syou were a grand success, Kit
ty."
1t was the first time he called her
Kitty out OF his thoughts.
She did not seem to hear him; she
was still moment and then spoke
again.
sI've new part now to play Oh, if
/ can only play it well-it's not a come
dy, is 1t, mother?" and for the first time
her eyes left the face of Van Ness.
''You must not" she started to say,
but stopped and lifted herself partly up,
looking from one to the other.
Then suddenly she threw one of her
arms out and exclaimed: ooh what a
beautiful, what beautiful chorus !"
and kissed his hand and the play was
finished
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-06-20
Live Stock Notes

A meeting of the patrons of every
creamery should be held once a year
to compare notes as to the amount OF
money per cow realized by the several
patrons. The methods of the most sue
cessful would thus become known to all
There is danger of the character, and
consequently the reputation, of cream
cry butter, from the aim of too many
butter-makers being merely to produce
an article that will pass, instead of do
ing their level best to turn out an
article that will fully please both the
buyer and the consumer.
if she is of good laying variety she will
and leave you profit at the end of the
year. There is no other stock on the
farm that will bring in 100 per cent
profit in one year.
Pekin ducks of good-laying strain
will lay their six eggs per week ior
months together, and the size and
richness of their eggs far exceed those
of hens. Their fertility also is remark
able, commonly reaching IS per cent
and over, under proper conditions.
The best horse for the common farmer
to raise is the draft horse, because it re-
quires less skill to sell him and less ex-
pense to put him in condition for the
market. The general farmer who owns
a 400 to LOO draft horse requires no
special experience to sell him. 1t is
very easy to ascertain the market value
of his horse and put it on him. The
buyer is equally posted, and there is no
trouble to effect a sale.
We cannot change the nature of an
animals natural instincts. Poultry, like
gypsies, have very strong desire for
the greenwoods. Rows of blackberries,
raspberries, or currant bushes afford
them infinite amusement to scratch I'M
der, as we'll as for shade in the heat of
the day, or to dust themselves. Even
if a few roots are laid bare, more good
than harm is the result.
Dr. Peter Collier, director of the &C.
neva On. W Experimental Station, pro-
poses to secure four specimens-two
steers and two heifers-of each of the
following breeds: Guernsey, Holstein,
Jersey, Ayrshire, Devon, Shorthorn,
and one or two polled breeds. They
are all to be young and grow up togeth-
er; the heifers to be developed as dairy
animals and the steers to be fed for beef.
The doctor is bent on proving whether
it is in the breed or in the feed.
No fat sheep pay the producers better
than those weighing from 100 to llO
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-06-20
He Goes IncOg.

: A new fashionable male dressmaker
has turned up, and this one differs from
others, inasmuch that he not only
works with his own hands at making
gowns, but goes into society as well
when his work is over. His shop is in
Oxford Street region, and the gentle
man tradesman, whose brother is an
officer in the Queens household, cuts
out all the dresses himself, using what
is called the scientific system. He is a
great success just now, as he is declared
to have mysterious wrinkles of his own
and to suit his fair customers better than
anybody else, by studying their wants
and peculiarities when he meets them
out of shop hours. His identity is
known to but very few.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-06-20
FARM READING.
A Spring Silence.

week ago the little wood
Grew rosy with the larches bloom
The violet and primrose broke
The dusky covers winter gloom;
A week ago the huntsmen swept
BY wood and cover, stream and fall,
And one went first; oh where is he
Who led them all?
The long dun colored plowlands lie
Quiet and silent to the blue
Pasture and mead and lane are still,
No hound or huntsman passes through;
The soft hours wing themselves away,
The mare stands stamping in her stall:
She waits in vain: he Is not here
Who led them all.
The little wood may leafy grow,
He will not watch its gradual green;
The birds may build, the flowers blow
Aud all things be as they have been;
The year may circle to its close,
The swallows fly, the LEAKAGE fall.
The huntsmen meet; but he is gone
Who led them all.
For cold and deep is now his bed
Who loved the stretch of hill and plain;
And nerveless now his hands are clasped
That loved the grip of whip and rein;
His eyes are dark, his voice is dumb,
Man, horse and dog may list his call,
But he is sleeping, straight and still,
Who led them all.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-06-20

BY STELLA A. EIDLITi

A. II.
SURPRISING in this queer, queer world
4 Queerer thing prove true
That might waken on day
Like to no other day,
In this: That every wilful heart
A wilfu deed might do;
That every one could say Or be
Just what or where the heart
Had taught him that true happiness
Would find at last a part.
oh, little do we realize,
As on our way serene
We pass along, with smile or frown.
Because we know we're seen,
BY all the world are seen
What we would do or what wed say,
IF Just minute we might wish the thing that in
our minds
r guess we'd shock this proper earth
IL we might have our way.
would not waste one second
Of that precious precious day,
7 would not stop Tor hat or coat,
should not even eat;
Z would not rest until / kissed
Thy hair, thy lips; thy brows,
And had taken ali toe bliss
This earthly life allows.
Then. angel of nly silent hours,
When soul to soul is bare
U would 60 back to work and slave
Till God should grant my prayer
-MiL1Udukee Wisconsin
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-06-20
Must be Nice Place 10 Live In.
Cor. New York Sun.

On the principal streets of Hartford
residents kill adders and black snakes
almost daily. John Gathers, an ex-
pressman, killed 49-foot black snake
in Front Street gutter. One theory to
account for the appearance of snakes IN
the city is that they were washed down
freshet after the blizzard and dis
tributed along the river front. me
sun thawed them. They have mad q
potent effect on temperance work II
some parts Of Hartford.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-06-20
Adams Comment.
From Woman.

That 10 woman can wear stays with
out being too tightly laced is the most
deeply rooted opinion of the masculine
breast. Probably the first remark
made by the father of mankind, when
he viewed Madam Eve in her new fall
suit of fig leaves, was something to this
effect: "My dear, don't think your
waistband is a little too tight 2"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-06-20
A DEFENCE.

BY D. F. B.
Why do You blame me that keep
My child-heart still in oder years
Too soon we cease to lsugh or weep
With the old tender hopes and fears
An rather should we JOY to find
We nave not lost SO fair good
The straig ht implicitly of mind
Of which Love said, in reverent mood
ITO such as these in heart are given
The kingdom and the ways OF Heaven"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-06-20

CALIFORNIA papers are boasting of
strawberries eight and nine inches in
circumference.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1888-01-28
POLITICO-ECONOMIC.

From THE STANDPOINT OF THE CAPITALIST
Books higher in price than 80 cents are cloth.
bound Add one-sixth of price for postage
on paper editions and one tenth for cloth
American Political Ideas. Jno Fske. 81 90
A True Republic. Albert Stckney ...... 100
A Federal Union-Not "A Nation. Ham
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Class Interests and their Relations. 100
Currency and Banking. Bonamy Price. 80
Civil Service In Great Britain. Dorman
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Future Civil Policy of America. .Jno.
W. Draper ...,,,.,,.,....... 2O0
Labor and Capital. Edward Atkinson. 20
Property and Labor. Francis Lieber.... rs
Political Economy. J. + Cairnes ........ 80
Paper Money. Richardson ..............,. Is
Socialism and Ultarianism. John Stuart
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