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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1892-07-16
THE WEST INDIES.

A Pleasant Place In Which to Spend the
Winter.
Americans can have no idea of this
island, that the people here call Little
England" and it is well named, too.
The enterprise of the placeis remark
able, and at times can hardly realize
that I am 50 far from home. And as
for the comforts and luxurics of life,
they arc not lacking. Many things arc
much cheaper than they are in America.
The island is about twenty-four by
fourteen. but SO densely popu-
lated people swarm everywhere.
The last census showed twenty
thousand. but there is not much
doubt but what the next will he
thirty thousand. A large proportion
of the people are colored. but are Of
high order Of intelligence. The houses
are nearly all built of limestone (pcr-
haps l ought to say of the better
classes). The very poor each have
their own home, and you would be
surprised to see how clean they are
kept.
The streets arc cleaned and watcred
every day. and il is not only necessary
from sanitary standpoint, but for the
comfort of the foot passengers. as we
have no sidewalks suppose we have
the best pavemcnts in the world, as
they are of limestone, and are as smooth
and nice as any floor.
They don't raise great many fruits,
although the markets are well supplied
from other islands. The chief produc-
tion is the sugar-cane. and it is a pretty
sight to ride either by train or tram
(horse-cars) through waving fields of
cane. Several times have gone of
into the country to feast my eyes with
beauty of the landscape. and it is so
hard to think of you all at home shiver-
ing with the cold, while here it now
seems like our June weather. From
now until February is our coolest
weather, then the hot times begin again.
The thermometer averages about
eighty-five degrees now.
II people in America only knew what
q delightful place this was, more would
want to spend their winters here
Idalette B. Mills. in Watchman.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1892-07-16
KNEW HOW IT WORKED.

The BOY Understood the Law Of Retslla-
$50 you're the boy who wants to 60
to work here, are you?" asked the senior
clerk.
"rm de kid" replied the boy.
"You can read and write, of cOurse?'
'Sure."
"And you're not afraid of worls?"
Il kin sleep with it without bcin'
cared q bit"
"Are you lively in getting around?''
'Quicker'n compressed air ordi.
Lance"
The senior clerk looked over the boys
recommendations and decided that he
would do.
"Now. hold on" said the boy. "Does
the boss kick much?'
"Who do you mean?'
1.-THE boss-the main guy"
"What's that 10 you?' asked the clerk
sharply. "You have nothing to do with
him."
'Dat's all right" returned the boy.
"But I has with the fellers - gets
his kicks, and after he jumps ON them
they catches me BY the collar and bangs
me up agin the wall and calls me
names. Every time the boss gets mad
l gets jumped on BY every fellcr he
jumps on. No, Stree! gets all the
worst of il an there amt even . cat
around for me to kick. II the boss
kicks, Gully, I looks for another job.
See? l knows all about these places
where the boss kicks"-Chicago Trib-
u1e
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1892-07-16

lin eiviae The dsvl his due yeu ar6
liable to give yourself sway.-Atchisoa
Globe.
Some men win do you . favor and
then bore you IN hour talking about It
-Atchison Globe. rf
Even the definition Of the phrase
good weather depends entirely ON the
point Of view" remarked the man who
has umbrellas to hirc.-Washington
Star. ESQ.
-Pulverized.- d.-Cumso- thought
you were let in ON the ground floor in
that stock deal" Fangle-''I was, and
was ground fine, toO."-DetrOit Free
Press
An English lady has introduced
sewing into boys' schools She knows
that the man who marTies the modern
girl ought to be proficient in it.-Texas
Sifting~
-COmmissioner-"Di you ever see
this officer when he wasn't on the
beat?" Antonio Bananjo-'.Na; never
saw ana policeman who was not Ons de
beat."-N. Y. Herald.
"A Tip to BorrOwe-"why don't you
fight Drayton?' Borrowe (pompcusly)
II kill. sir, only a man who il my
equal" Reporter-''SO? Then you'll
have to commit suicide. Free
Press.
Pointing the Distinction.-''Is this
song POPULAR" she asked Of the music
store clerk. WELL he answered, lots
Of people sing it, but as yet, no one is
suiIicicntly tired Of il for it to be what
you'd call popular song."-washing'
ton Star.
"A newspaper writer asks the ques
ton: ''Why is it that . young man will
sit beside young lady for hours and
vet say hardly anything to her all the
time?" We venture the suggestion that
perhaps he is too polite to interrupt her.
Boston Transcript.
-"And when you have finished your
lecture" said the professor Of elocution
and department to young Dulle. ''how
gracefully and leave the platform on
tiptoes." ''why on tiptoes?' queried
Dulle $50 rs not to wake the audi
ence,- replied the professor.
"A Case Of Necessity.-von Bloomer
~ understand that you have bought
. cottage at the seashore for this sum-
mer" De T0Otville-'I bought two.
side by side" Won Bloomer-''What
do you want two for, with your small
family?~ De Tootville-''One is for my
wife's trunks.-Closk Review.
-ContradictWy.-
Can Keep ny hDs froo cAapptns"
Q1eneA Marion. young and gsy.
Papa ays can. II only
Iwill kesp ths chaps sway"
"But," - smiled. and boushed b smiling.
To heS dainty finger tipo.
IF the eAaps can not como neaP theO.
what's ths use q nicersd lpsy"
-Pharmaceutical Era.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1892-07-16
ORNAMENTAL AND, USEFUL.

Pretty and Artistic Triaes - Deostily the
Vases Of pink glass rising from
spreading vases to three feet in height
are new.
Royal Bonn ware h seen in ever.
shaped vases. with dull, ,leaden necks
and floral bodieA
vssee and baskets Of German faience
have bunehes Of the serriet japanese
ounce 50 natural ~ % look real.
Faience fern baskets Tor the table
have raised continuous deeigns In col.
ora Many people prefer these 70 sil-
yer.
Lamp globes of rcd amber and blue
glass ornAmented with childish scenes
in raised white design have been
brought out
Pitchers Of clear blue and red Bo-
hemian glass are orname ated by . land
Of three lines Of gilt in tne most effect
i've manner.
Rustic scenes in Geymanware are
among the new importaticna. SWANS
on bits of ruined walls axe the designa
The limitations Of the parks, lichens
and time stains are excellent. Jewel
en- Circular.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1892-07-16
ANCIENT TABLE MANNERS.

Old Customs That Seem Strange tn "a
Now.
From the days when our ancestors
took their food in their hands and ate
It with as little ceremony as dog gnaws
bone to the present time of elaborate
dinners is long step. but a gradual
one. 1t was q number of centuries be-
fore dishes Of any kind were used, and
knives and forks as adjuncts to eating
were later still.
The fear of poison, which haunted the
L md of every person of quality during
.he middle ages, gave rise to certain
superstitionS. When dishes are now
served covered il is understood that il
is merely for the purpose of keeping
them warm. This was not, however,
the principal reason why they were not
served covered during the dark ages
1t was the fear that poison might be
introduced into them surreptitiously
between the kitchen and the table
where they were to be served to the
kings or the lords, or even TO persons Of
inferior rank.
The covers were not removed till the
master Of the house had taken his
place. All dishes afterward served were
brought on the table in the same man
ner.
1t was the custom originally, when
the dishes were uncovered, for some Of
the servants to first partale Of them,
but this custom was afterward in part
replaced BY the servants touching the
food with one Of several objects which
were regarded IS infallible preserva-
tives against poison.
These objects were the horn of the
unicorn. . serpent's tongue. the fabu-
lous stone found in the head of the toad.
serpentine, agate and other stones.
The first was considered the best, hut
as the unicorn never existed. its horn
was replaced by that of the narwhal,
or by q sharks tooth, which were sold
by all the druggists instead Of it and
under its name.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1892-07-16

forced to leave without delay, his heart
full of sadness at the indefinite post.
ponement of the realization of his de.
sircs
I'm Tonkin he behaved gallantly.
like the brave fellow he is, and was pro-
NOTED for heroic conduct during the
9ctreat of Langson. This satisfaction
was certainly due him, as was the
cross which soon follower it, for ON the
same day Latriville received in the
head one OF the last Of the Chinese
missiles; he was picked mp in e
dreadful condition. lay for months BE-
tween life and death, finally remaining
blind, without any hope of ever recov-
ering his sight. While the surgeons
were fighting for his life out yonder,
his fiancce was taken i'll with typhoic
fever, and died almost suddenly, going
to her last sleep in the family tomb Of
the d'Espars in her winding-shcet OF
virginal white.
''They dare not tell Latriville of her
death, he would not have survived the
shock; SO by each mail went letter, to
be read at his bedside by a gentle sis,
ter Of mercy, which spoke of the dear
fiance who was waiting for the poor in.
valid and loved him still. In point OF
fact, it was not all falsehood, for the
admirable woman you saw just now,
who was then Louise d'Espars, had
taken his sisters place. had offered te
be, without the knowledge of the
wounded man, the comforter that
Jeanne could no longer be.
"Yes, It is now two years since Latrr
Wills return and marriage; as yet no
one has betrayed the subterfuge; he bei-
lieves that he has the one whom he
had chosen, the thought of whom gave
him strength in his suffering& Fog
him it is Louise who is dead, Jeanne
who lives. So the sharp sorror
that awaited him was conjured away:
his wife is full of the deepest, almost
maternal tenderness for him; hf
adores her. and is happy. Now IL the
situation 30 dreadful"
mo. really" said I, deeply touched
BY the tale, 'but know not which 70
admire most, the sublime devotion Sf
Nine. de Latriville or the delicate affee-
ton of those who participated in the
plot and 50 religiously kept the secr$t
without thought Of their own pain b
constantly hearing the nome Of tie
dear one no longer with them"
1T simply proves that human natute
d not 50 bsd Is it is painted" said
jacques. - he left me to dress for dig
ner.
At dinner time. when I saw Lstfi
vile enter the room leaning on his
wife's arm, the latter radiantly beausi.
full, beamin9 with the soft light of So
rifice, l was so moved that I could r1ot
utter . word I stood there, seized
with admiration for this noble AID
charming creature who seemed to he
the living incarnation Of charity aad
love. would have liked to tell Her
that I knew her story and venera-ed.
her as . saint
She held out her gloved hand to NE,
which L touched with my lips. with.
such deep respect that she guessed nv
thought and the divulgation Of her te-
cret.
'.My DEAR" said she, to her husba$d,
''here Is Mr.. Mayran."
And read in her clear eyes . praSer
ths., in my turn, understood.
ALMA LIZ DUG
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1892-07-16
4 DAKOTA PIONEER.

He HaA HAD Some naA Lack. Hat Wa
Net Diseeas.gsd.
''Winter pretty cold?"
'.Winter? Don't have any winter
here, stranger"
''How's thatr'
.Only have three seasons-spring.
summer and early fall.
He was Dakota pioneer and lived, ~
he said, ''fifty mile from any place"
"what do you do for . doctor when
you're sick?"
"Never get sick"
"But you can't help It sometimes, can
your
Certainly. 'Taint possible. We
won't get sick and there's no two ways
about It."
"How far is It to your nearest neigh
borsT'
Fifty miles."
"You don't have much society. then.
do your
"Don't need it. There's five of us
mother'n me n the kids That's society
enough, amt it?''
''How far must you 60 TO church?"
''Hsve it right in the shack every Sum
day. Got an organette, Joe has, and ho
turns . crank and grinds out any hymn
you ever heard tell of just n nice n you
please. Then Marthy and all the rest
Of Us sing, then read something from
the Bible, then we sing again. an pray
AN church il out"
There was something pathetic in this,
and IL went TO my heart
'How about crops?'
They're big, ! tell ye-thst is, when
We get 'em- Three years ago ! had
every promise of = splenid crop. Had
lots Of snow that winter-ground was
plenty wet an the wheat was loolsin'
6ne whe, all at once, we had . hot south
wind that burnt everythin' up slick an
:lean."
And the next vear?"
Things looked just as promisin. :
Wheat was waist high, yellcr n gold,
an WAS goin' to cut il in . few days
when along came Q hail-storm and beat
the whole field down."
''Then the next year?'
Got nipped BY the frost"
''And the nextT'
''Thsts this year, stranger, and just
look at the wheat sround ye. Nothing
could be finer than the outlook. Guess
I'll have gnod crop this year, bat If
don't" He paused
"We?"
'Well, IL don't, /" he said with quiet
smile. "I'n mortgage my horses to get
seed and try again. lrl be hard pinch
in, but I did't have anything when
came here and I'll stick 70 the country
- long - I can live il IL A man can't
have hard luck always you know.
Things are bound TO turn It's long
lane that hasn't . crook somewhere"
Iwrung his hand warmly and rode
sway.-Detroit Free PresA
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1892-07-16
About to De E1ovnteA.

"Paw," said the small boy, interrupt.
ing his conversation with a capitalist,
''is that railroad you're tryin' to sell
shares in an elevated railroad?"
"No. my son." was the answer.
well. then, what made you say you
wanted to get out, cause it was goin'
mp higher than Gilderoy's kjte2" -
Washington STAG.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1892-07-16
Ne Attfoeeo0o,

Sour-faced Woman-You get right out
Of here or I'll call my husband?
Tramp-Y'r husband amt at home.
Sour-faced woman-How do you know
he amt
Tgsmp-Tve alters noticed, mum, that
wen . man Is married to . woman wot
looks like you he never is At home ex-
cept at meal-time.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1892-07-16

"A mans political friends are not al
ways the men he would like to trado
horses with.-Columbus Post
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1892-07-16

Tommy canesucker-They do say.
grandma, that you eaa cure almost any
thing with this faith cure
Graudma-Is that 90? Well. Tommy.
next time you pass . drugstore get ne
. bottle IL il doesn't cost more than fifty
cents. feel n il I vas needing some
spring medicine.-Texas Siftingx.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1892-07-16

She-Will you t~keis part in our
theatricnls?
Ks-Aw-wc&lly-I-aw = should -
like tu. What shan take?
She-TcketA-uo2a
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-02-05

The st. JohnSbury Republican has for
some weeks been working up an attempted
boom Of its own for the denomination and
reelection of GOV. Page this year, but i'm
this weeks issue of the Republican Gov.
Page fattens this little boom with a letter
in which he says, in substance, that he
would not on any account accept renom-
ination, and that "those who harbor tn g
slightest suspicion that have any further
political bees buzzing around my bonnet
do me great wrong The letter, in short,
takes just the ground which everybody
would expect GOV. Page to take. \ ST.
Johnsbury despatch to the Boston Herald
qouting this letter says:
The prominent candidates now in the field arr.
COL Levi X Fuller Of Brattlcboro who was lieu
tenant governor in lsN6 col. Franklin Fairbanks
of St JohnshulN. who was defeated in lNs6 by
Col. Fuller; Major Josiah GroH OF Derby. cN-
speaker of the House Of Representatives. Hon
Henry a Fletcher of Cavcudish present put.n.
antgoNernor, and Hon. " +. Johnson, pronri-
n"nt Woodstock lawyer
The Rutland Herald devotes its leading
editorial to this subject this morning, in
course of which it says:
a good many men have p.eu talked Of for
governor. tut the three positive candidates arr,
levi X. Fuller of Batlrboro Franklin Fairbanks
OF 81 JuhnshnrN and Josiah tiruut Of Derby. Con
ccr1iug theS, 1t may hc said that the two first
named will push until they win ur see that they
arr beaten. while Mai Grout will 20 a bit slower
and push DE s,'s opportunities Lieut. Go,
fletchrran several other men arr named as can
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-02-05
Gives Up the Ghost.
The Louisiana Lottery Gets its Death
blow and viii go out of Existence.

The Louisiana Lottery Gets its Death
Elsewhere in this paper it is stated that
the United States supreme court handed
down decision on Monday uphoding the
constitutonality of the anti-lottery law,
advertisements. tickets, and other similar
matter of whatever kind. This was a
deadly blow at the Louisiana lottery octo-
pus, which has been seeking a renewed
lease of life from the state Of Louisiana
but it was not realized how crushing was
this Low until the following New Orleans
despatch was printed in the papers of yes
terday:
NEW ORLEANS, Feb. ,. John \. Morris
of the Louisiana Lottery company has is
sued an address to the people of Louisiana
in reference to the proposed constitutional
amendment granting him and his aSsoci-
ates lottery privilege for - years in con-
sideraton Of yearly license tax of 81 80. e
600, to be- paid to the state by the lottery
company, which amendment was ordered
by the legislature to be submitted to the
people.
Mr. Morris speaks of the crusade against
the amendment, and the enactment by
Congress of the anti-lottery postal law,
and then says that he and his associates.
realizing that they were incorrect in their
opinion of public sentiment on the ques-
tion of the new charter, and not desiring
to see the people of Louisiana involved IN
strife over the matter, hereby declare that
they WnllI mr. la
amendment, even We're it to be adopted by
the people.
''As the supreme court of the United
States says Mr.. Morris, has decided the
anti-lottery postal law to be constitutional,
it is my purpose and that of my associates
to respect that law and abstain from violat-
ing it in any manner
He further says that he and his associ-
ates would be unwilling to accept a new
charter even without the payment of one
dollar of license tax.
This ends forever the great lottery war
which has been waging in Louisiana for the
past two years, and which has brought
about a split in the Democratic party and
the nomination of two Democratic tickets
The lottery company is reported to have
expended between 5000, 900 and 81 900,
600 in the contest.
The information here contained is the
most gratifying that could reach the public
ears. 1t indicates the death of the great
est evil of its kind which ever afflicted this
country, and Postmaster General Wana-
maker, who has been foremost in the fight
of the government against the lottery, has
every reason to congratulate himself on the
result
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-02-05
lie should Bcn Vcrmontcr.

The somewhat premature discussion Of
the governorship, which some of the state
papers have INDUCED in, has unmistakably
emphasized to the public mind the fact
that it is not a Representative" man of
any class or occupation who is wanted for
governor of Vermont in 1892, but Yer
monter who fully appreciates the condition
OF the affairs of the state as they stand to-
day. who realizes her opportunities, and
who possesses the wish and the ability to
make the most Of these opportunities. 70
make some man governor this year simply
because he is supposed to represent the
farmers, the lawyers, the merchants or the
manufacturers, would be no more wise than
to select man to manage ones private
business. or to take some other position of
responsibility or trust, for the same reason.
What is wanted is a man who represents
Vermont, and who can help her people to
understand their own possibilities, and
work for their development, while showing
to the outside world that the state has good
and active life in her which is bound to
come to the front in the future as it has in
the past. II is pretty safe to say that it
will he on these general lines that this
years governor of the Green Mountain
state will be selected.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-02-05

The United States supreme court rcnd-
cred two important decisions on Monday.
The first of these atiirms the legality Of
the anti-lottery law passed 10y the last Con
gresS, and through this decision deals
deadly blow at the Louisiana lottery evil.
The case, We're those of the publishers of
the New Orleans States and the Mobile
Register. who were Indicted on charges of
sending through the mail newspaper, con-
tanning lottery advertisements BY com
mon consent the cases were made test
suits as to the constitutionality Of the law.
The issue as raised before the court was
the release on wrtS OF habcas corpus of the
prisoners on the ground that the act was
unconstitutional because it interfcred with
the freedom of the press, and because
Congress had gone beyond its delegated
powers The court held in brief, that the
power vested in Congress to establish post
offices aud post-roadS embraced the rcgula-
tlon Ot the entire postal system of the
country and the designation of what may
and what may not be excluded. The pow
rr granted to Congress was complete. and
carried with il power To forbid the use of
the mails in aid Of the perpetuation of
crime or immortality. There is no abridg-
ment of the freedom OF the press, for the
reason that the government does not pro-
hibit communication by other means, but
simply through the government agencies
which it controls 1t was legitimate eN-
erciNe OF the power of Congress to furnish
mail facilities for the people and it was al
50 true that mail facilities were not requir-
ed to he furnished for every purpose 1t
was not necessary that Congress should
have the power to deal with crime or i'm
morality within the states in order to main
tain that it possessed the power to forbid
the use of the mails in aid of the perpetu-
alton of crime or immortality.
The other decision is that James +. Boyd
is a citizen of the United States, and was
a citizen for tHo years preceding his cleo
ton (by the DemocratS) as governor of Ne
braSka. and that consequently he is entitled
To the office, and that John NJ. Thayer, the
hold-over governor, who denied the right
of Boyd to succeed him, must give way.
II appears that Boyd's father declared in
1854 his intention to become a citizen of
the United States. The court holds, in
substance, that while his naturalization
was never formally completed, the admis-
sion of Nebraska as a state had of itself
made all residents of that state at that
time prima facie citizens of the United
States unless they had by some action Of
their own denied their intention to become
such citizens.
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had for acts done by an intoxicated person
unless the person selling him the liquor
has been notified in writing not to sell to
him-a notification which would be i'm
possible in case of a large city with scores
or hundreds Of dram shops. 1t Withdraws
the power of local option and puts no lin
it on the number of saloons which may be
licensed. So open and shameless a free
rum bill has never been presented in any
Legislature, with prospect OF its favorable
consideration and final passage. 1t is the
reward which the liquor dealers of New
York claim from the Democratic party for
years of steady support through their
votes and their money