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Of the plant 10 drunk By young ana
old. especially at festivals. and 10 E,ild.
y stimulating. The drug itself. how
ever, il smoked In pipe. with an equal
quantity Of tobacco. the smoker top
ping the pipeful with . piece Of live
charcoal. Its first elect ID delirious
cxhilaration or frenzy. under the infiu-
ence Of which the smoker 10 liable to
commit murder. The uindoos call the
tabitual hasheesh smoker "hashash."
tho plural form being "hashashiV."
whence comes the English word "ss-
sassin." Strangely enough. We 90 to
far-away India for . word to describe
the man who. under some maddening
influence, commits murder.
The frcnzied stage Of hasheesh II
succeeded by one Of dreamy enjoyment
aud, il the dose has been strong enough.
this il followed BY heavy stupor-like
condition which lasts for hours. Il Il
said that 4 fortnight's indulgence in
the hasheesh pipe will make . life
long victim. hasheesh fiend.
Although the British government has
put down the voluntary self-immola-
ton Of Hindoo devotees ut Jaggernath.
here the piously inclined throw them
selves under the ponderous wheels Of
the professional car of the god Krishna,
and has also prohibited the suicide Of
the widow on her dead husbands fu-
neral pile. it does not interfere with
the self-inficted torture practiced on
themselves BY the yogi" aud the
'fal.ir." Thcse religious men punish
themselves in strange aud barbarous
fashion to propitiate the goddess ksies.
uook-swinging 10 favorite method. A
six-inch iron or brass hook il inserted
into the muscles of the back and tile
victim i swung around . pole by the
temple attaches, while his shrieks Of
agony are drowned by the blowing Of
conches and tho beating OF tom-t0inA
Less violent but longer torture II 70
sorted to by other seekers after immor-
tai happiness. Some pass years hold
ing an arm upright above the head un-
til It becomes impossible to lower it.
others remain standing sgain~t tree
until they are unable to bend their
legs. While these shocking exhibits
are becoming less common with the
advance of civilization one doesn't have
to live long In Bengal or central India
without seeing specimens OF the tor
tured 'yogee." Oftentimes within 100
yards of the Christian church may be
seen tho poor little Hindoo temple
whose shrine il blackened BY the SCOT
from the hundreds OF votive lamps.
II you live near any sacred" city
like Benares, for instance. you will b
shocked by the spectacle Of dozens Of
yogeea. rivaling each other in the
OF their dress and the in.
gcnious unpleasantness of their self.
imposed penances, walking. crawling
or rolling along the road or prowiing
about your servants quarters in search
Of aims.
No stories or sketches Of life in India
are complete without story about that
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1897-03-27
THE HIGHWAY.

~ highway lies. all bare and brown,
naked line across the down,
worn by 2 hundred hurrying feet.
Ine u0e OF life along 1t flows,
ma busy commerce comes and goes.
Where once he grass grew green and
sweet.
The worlds fierce pulses beat.
Wen for the highway that It lies
1ne passageway OF great emprise!
Yet from its dust what voices cry
volces OF soft green growing things
A1mpled and torn from earth which
clings
100 closely. unperceiving why
Its darling bairns must die!
y hearts q highway, trodden down
By many . traveller Of renown-
0rave thought. and burden-bearing
deeds.
Ana strong achievements envoy fares
win laughing joys and crowninG cares,
AsonG the road that woodward leads
Once rank with foolish weeds.
Glad II my heart to hear them pass:
1e1 sometimes breathes q low alas!
Inc tender springing things that grew
sne nursltng hopes their feet destroyed,
sweet ignorant dreams that youth en-
joyed-
And blossomed there the long year
through
Would could have them too!
Louise Belts Edwards. In Harper's Maga-
zine.
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strange resident, the elephant. The
pachyderm u very much in evidence,
sometimes a. a beast Of burden, used in
the lumber yards, where he handles
huge sticks Of lumber a. IL he rather
enjoyed pulling and hauling. while, in
lighter work, he II employed to carry
his native masters, to he gayly caparl.
soned for holiday professions and to be
used by the dominant British instead Of
the horse to bring the heavy artillery
10 the parade ground. or assist in NOV.
ing the tents and other military goods
when the regiment 10 on the march.
The elephant il very like u child in some
respects. He can be coaxed by petting,
by pieces of sugar, and even by prom.
ises Of future reward. The Hindoo
mahout is accustomed to get extra ef.
fort from uooshiar Haiti (the wise ele.
phant) by promising It "backsheesh"
(reward), and the beast will look for
larger and sweeter "chupati" (cakes)
Ut supper time for his backsheesh. Woe
betide the mahout il he falls to keep his
promise, and forgets the large chupati
The elephant never forgetsi
J. IRVING CRABBE
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A DOG TO eE PROUD or.

Could Swim Under water and T1fn sFlip.
Flaps" In the AiE.
It was q way the trappers had to spin
a yarn or two and get old 81 Limick
started, for he was easily the most
fluent and imaginative liar that eves
struck q trail.
"Speakin' bout dogs" broke in 81,
with his slow look and honest drawl,
II owned the curl i'stest canine bout ten
year back that ever wagged tail. He
was . ugly little runt an no good fer
bars, but when it kum ter small game
an fish he war p'isen."
what er var given IN bout . dog.
fish, SIP"
Lots O. things in the worl' you uns
never heerd on. That there dog ulster
run roun tn bottom o. . river same's
twar dry lam. seed him swim fer half
mile onct un'er tn ice an bring out q
fish bigger'n hissclf. tn critter could
do 'ithout breathin' from Is ter 20
minutes, 'cordin ter how he war ieelin'.
1 rugged up regular bellyban' with 4
blowed up bladder 'tached by a rope.
That thar doggone pup uster git inter
TIL mersheen on his own hook an 70
sailin."
"But how would he sail back ae'in
tn win, Si?"
He'd jist haul in tn bladder, jam il
atween his forrard legs fer q life per
sarver an pad He in. He never turned
out in tn mor1,in' 'ithout seein' list how
tn win war.
"But what beat me bout that dog war
his 'gility. You uns orter seen him
workin . rabbit In brush heap. He'd
be . yelpin one side, an the rabbit would
start fer ter run outen t'other side.
He'd make bout tn orfules' jump you
ever see. When he'd be half way over.
the rabbitd whirl, an right thar in tn
air that thar dogd turn . rare en- dip
flap an Ian whar he started at time ter
catch tn rabbit Never heard O. no
other dog could do it."-Dctroit Free
Press.
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HOLIDAYS THE WORLD OVER.


!. Lasi.-Anerie.a Countries the Psssls
work Oaiy 200 Days IN the Year.
A computation made short time ago
showed that among European coun-
tries the two in which wages were high
est and the hours of labor least were
England and France, whereas tEf two
countries in which wages were pall-
est and the hours of labor longes were
Italy and Russia. In some countries Of
the world an explanation Of the appar-
ent dearth Of progressive industry
among the inhabitants il to be found,
perhaps, In the recurrence of holidays
of a religious, patriotic or purely social
character, and many persons who are
familiar with the industrial usages in
some cities of South and Central America
say that there the number Of holidays
seems to exceed the number Of work.
ing days. There are in such countries
usually not fewer than = dozen church
festivals: and there arc besides patriot
ic festivals. A similar state Of Affairs
exists in all Latin countries, and il to
be found in the United States, too. when
one turns to the legal festivals Of Lou
isiana. There 10 the holiday Of Jam
uary 8. commemorating the battle Of
New Orleans; the Mardi Gras on March
2 in New Orleans; Confederate Mem
orial day in April, Good Friday. All
Saints day. election day, Louisiana
Labor day. on November IS, and Thanks
giving and Christmas days. Florida cell
ebrates the birthday Of Jefferson Davis,
Texas the anniversary Of the battle Of
San Jacinto, and Alabama the days Of
Mardi Gras. Deducting the Sundays
and holidays the number of working
days in the United States, exclusive Of
the Gulf states, is Dos. In Russia there
are 267 working days; Great Britain has
27s; Portugal. 2s3; Spain, 800; Austria,
300; Italy, 29S; Bavaria. Bell um and
Brazil, 900 each; Denmark, Fra .ee, Nor
way, Saxony, Switzerland and Wurtem-
burg, 302 each; Sweden, 304; Prussia
and Ireland, 305; the Netherlands, 30S;
Hungary. 312.
It has been found impossible to get
any accurate figures from the South
American countries, but 200 il the max
imum estimate of actual working days
ic many of them. OF course, if the
number of Sundays be subtracted from
the total number Of days in year there
are left 313, and if one third of the other
days available for work are set apart
for holiday purposes, It il perfectly
clear that there should not be more
than 200 working days in . year. In
countries and in the
United States the special effort Of work
ingmen has been not to reduce the
days of labor, but the hours Of labor in
each day, and thus there has been with
in the last 20 years larger reduction.
really, of working time in the United
States and in Great Britain, than in
the Latin or Lntin-American countries
Detroit Free Press.
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father Is willing he states how much Of
= dowry ne wants for his sons hand.
and such preliminaries being arranged
the marriage il fixed, although the
young couple may both BE- infants ut
the time. II the chosen groom should
die before the couple begin to live to-
gether the girl becomes = widow, and
may never marry again. (This rule
applies only to the higher castles, and 10
not observed by the common people.)
On the other hand. the young man,
whenever he IL left widower, may
marry again A. often ~ he wishes. This
custom of child -6etrothal IL very cruel
one, and great effort II being made to
abolish it. The only plea in favor Of It
i that there il hardly ever case Of
divorce among tho Brahmins, for, mt
urally enough. = woman will put up
with . great deal from her husband
when she knows that she will never b
able to get another one.
a queer result of these child mar
riages happens when tho parents Of
one Of the children make q second be-
trothal for their child. Such . case
came up in the Burhamore criminal
session two or three years ago. A little
girl. six years old, was placed on trial
for bigamy with . gentleman aged
nine, her first husband being still liv-
ing. The prisoner was married when
two years old. and 90 couldn't plead
the lawful seven years Of absence from
the first husband to justify her crime.
OF course. she could not plead 1t all. I
the parents being the chief offenders.
After q trial Of three days tho jury
returned o verdict Of mot guilty" and
the two children walked out Of court
hand In hand, wondering, no doubt,
what all the fuss and talk signined.
The young married people live with
their respective parents until they are
of msrriageable age, and at the we'd
ding the groom sees the face Of his
wife for the first time. There are
very few divorce cases among the
Erahmina, not tone in amillion. although
for good cause the wife will leave her
husband and return to her chiMhood's
home. Az . rule, however, the Hindoo
home 10 . happy one, the wife gentle.
obedient to her lord and master (as
was Sarah. the patraarch's wtfe) and
fond Of her children.
A curious phase OF Hindoo life II tho
religious hermit. or -Sunyasee." Now
and then . man Of prominence de-
cides to forsale the world, its pomps
and vanitics, and to embrace tho life
Of IN ascetic, a life Of contemplation.
While this determination sometimes
comes to the worried. anxious mer-
chant. who takes this method Of get
ting rid Of his cares and worries. II i
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SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The Golden Rule tells of . party d
Americans who visited the pope recently
and took with them IN American dag
The pope reverently blessed the flag;
declaring that America had done more
for the Catholic church than any Other
country.
1t il announced that Gen. Booth h
10 visit this country again in the coming
fall. The purpose Of the visit il said TO
be to conduct IN aggressive campaign
from New York and Chicago. and to en-
deavor to heal the breach and bring Bal
lington Booth back to the parent or.
ganixation.
The British museum has books writ,
ten on the surface Of bricks, tiles, oys-
ter shells, bones, and nat stones, to-
gether with manuscripts on bark, on
leaves. ON ivory. leather. parchment.
papyrus, lead. iron. copper. and wood.
It has three copies Of the Bible written
on the leaves Of the fan palm.
The Northwestern Christian Advo-
cate contains . census Of attendance 1t
morning and evening services in the
Methodist churches of 13 chief cities.
The largest attendance was reported
from Philadelphia. IS churches out Of
los reporting II, ,107 persons at the morn
ing services. Chicago follows with 49,
234 (134 churches. - not reporting).
New York comes next with S,36S "a
churches, II not reporting).
"A very interesting late discovery II
the nearly complete account. on Greco
Egyptian papyrus, of suit brought be-
fore Emperor Claudius against Herod
Agrippa, king Of the Jews, mentioned
in the book Of the Acts, by the two lead
ing anti-Semites Of Alexandra, Isidorus
and Lampo. These two men. who had
been condemned to death under Caliguls
for their misdeeds, attempted to gain
time by bringing . charge against
Agrippa; but the emperor confirmed
the Judgment against them, and ordered
their execution. The papyrus contains
an oflicial account Of the trial.
President Walter Harvey, Of the
Teacher college, New York city, con-
tributes an article ON Sunday schools
TO the Review of Reviews in which he
severely criticises the internati nal les
ron system. Nothing, he says. can be
expected with certainty from the mere
effort to improve the Sunday school
curriculum and the formal adoption Of
superior methods of teaching; but the
best development Of the Sunday school
will always be found in the higher edu-
cation Of Sunday school teachers. par.
ticularly in pedagogy and theology. He
proposes the endowment Of training
schools to meet this demand Of the edu-
cational work Of the church.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1897-03-27
TOLD BY A TRAVELLER.
Peculiar Phase OF Life II Bengal
and Central India
Especial Lctter.l

Among East Indian women. especial
" Of the higher classes. 1t il the custom
to contract marriages between children.
Il II . disgrace for q high-caste girl to
attain the marriageable age without
being married.. aud 20 the child mar
riage has become the custom. In .
Brahmin family the father of girl 1s
months old begins to look for . hus-
band for her. To make q match he
ricks out boy in o family OF equal
s&:cial standing. and calls to offer his
daughters hand in marriage. II the
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1897-03-27

kickSOn-Jaggers . mind seems rather
clouded to-day.
Bragy-ils must have had. anothes
stormy scene with his wife this m0go-
ing.-Philadelphia North American.
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/ turned UP one day
dead broke. nat
busted and keY6um-
muxed-in . town
way down there in
the southeast cor
ner Of Arkansaw,
Texas and Louisi-
ana. which they
called the name Of
the place Texar-
kama. Somethin had
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1897-03-27

''Ar& Digby's death wss lsoeataboa
wasn't it
~Yes; they have jnse had ! 80 Sus>l
nAee PIT in."-(;hseago Racosd.
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Few people realize the nae11tnde .
which theelectrical industry has Rrown
in the United States. In eleetrjc HRhf-
ing alone there are mote than 1GDoo
plants In operation and the cumhtno6
capital employed II more than half :
billion dollars. At least @1o0, ,Ooo, ,ooo i
invested In electrical appliancss usa)
IN mining and about @15. .0oo 40 In eleep
trio elevators. One Of IL unost ~
portant Developments in this hsanoA
Of science has been in the direa4aon =
electric railways, In which nearly : 81
lion dollars capital h employed Az.
together the combined capital ixvoaou1'
In all electrical enterprises n -
United States is q, ,so0. .0o0. 90, ezslueav$
OF that employed in the manu1astwoA
electrical machinery, which n at Jeaao
half billion more.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1897-03-27
The sweet Rels Of Consolater.

The sweet k0l0 O1 Cooo0lot0x.
"Did you send your 1iancee q valen-
timer"
ayes, two Of them; . pretty one and
Q comic one"
.Hhat? Ono of those atrocities see
in the shop windoNs?"
.Ycs; aud Halter myself that II was
the worst Of the LOT"
"Why did you insult her that way?
$50 that might spend several days
sympathizing with her. and helping her
speculate upon who the unutaerable
william could be who committed the
outrage. SEEM. Y. Truth.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1897-03-27
FROM THE WOODS.
1ho Sage oe Rocky Greek Hns tho
1looG.
was s0nest~ Q LAgAtnla Ao0 Agent
0lev .Sexpggins on The Road with
Family Dabloo-kuoas Family
In TEOub1o.

Oncst upon q tims when I was bruistn
around promiscus out In the wild west
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1897-03-27

II have good father" said the young
man. lone who. am sure, always tried
to do his duty. have only one thing
with which to reproach him.
"What is thatY'
sHuman nature is human nature, and
must take it for granted that he Is no
exception to . universal rule. i don't
think I can ever forgive him for the
manner in which he used to 60 around
and bore his friends with the. smart
things I said when I was baby."-
Washington Stur.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1897-03-27

X0O00 Vu0VO810o AS8So
1. The queen has outlived Ill mem
bers of the privy council who were alive
In 1887.
2. All the peers who held their titles
in 1873 except the earl Of Darnley, who
was ten, and Earl Nelson, who was II
in that year.
3. All the members who sat in the
house of commons ON her accession to
the throne, except Mr.. Gladstone.
Charles villiers, the present duke Of
Northumberland, the earl Of Mexbo-
rough and the earl Of Mansfield and
John Temple Leader.
4. Her majesty has seen II lord chan
cellors, ten prime ministers, six speak
ers of the house Of commons, at least
three bishops of every see and five or six
Of many sees, i've archbishops OF Canter.
bury, six archbishops Of York and hve
commanders in chief.
s. She has seen fve dukes Of Norfolk
succeed each other - earla, and has out
lived every duke and duchess and every
marquis and marchioness who bore that
rank In 1873.
6. She has outlived every member Of
the Jockey club and every master Of fox
hounds that Aourished In 1887.
:. She has seen II presidents Of the
United States, ten vieeroys Of Canada,
IS viceroys Of India, and France suc-
cessively ruled by one king. one emperor
and six presidents Of republic. Chico
10 Tribune.
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"And % you are engaged to Cholly
Chcbbins," said one girl.
"Yes," was the reply.
"How did he ever persuade you to
marEy him?
'tOh, he hasn't persuaded me to mar
~ him You know that lovely solitaire
ring he had5
Yea
'1Weu, / wantec it 70 wear 70 pro-
arssaivs sucher rty.-l1dianapolis
Journal.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1897-03-27

The value Of wives, according to III
estimate BY New York Jury, = eoin9
mp. An outraged husband, : welB-knou1
broker Of that city. has Just o6soine3
. verdict for $4,000 against N equaIly
well-kDown physician, who alienafod III
wife's affections This was the full.
amount asked for. and II 80 q tho
largest verdicts ever reeoyGeed n s1ch
IN action. In Newark, II. y, suit =
pending Of similar eharaetee, Il wh3ek
the injured husband asks ~. a1oanm
damagea- The revolver u enine 6us =
use in such cases in our higAor esvilisn-
tion.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1897-03-27

sLcinnne see; what II that saying
sbout the great osk growing from the
little acorn?"
.-Oh. that isn't oak any more: itis :
chestnut" Enquirer.
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SANITATION AND HUMAN LIFE.

NowadAys Cities Are Nearly - Healthy
~ the CountEy.
In . recent lecture on what sanitation
has done for human life, Prof. Brewer,
Of Yale university. said that NO one
doubts that human life has been pro-
longed by the application of science in
tho last so years. How much mathe-
matically this amounts to in years. in
per cent, is an unanswerable question.
We can never have the data in figures.
Even if we had our vital statistics COM
pleted for that period men would differ
as to the relative value Of the several
factors in this problem. OR great cities
would not exist-they could not exist
without the aids of science. We have
had the ancient Egyptian and Greek
and Roman civilizations, which were
pagan. and later Christian civilization,
and all were powerless to convert prac-
tices. Between the epidemics that
ragged from time to time and the high
death rate in the best years, the popula-
tion of Europe as . whole probably
scarcely increased at all for 1000 or
AsSVV y C0AOs AAAO SNuNOAy C0A1SS IA Will
out a single city in Christendom with
l,OOO, 900 inhabitants. Paris had in 1900
but $4,000; London and the suburbs,
in 1901, S6A,S45. The other great Eng
lish cities had less than 100, 900. Great
cities could not endure then. First, the
people could not be fed. Then, most Of
the population had to be fed and food
produced within 20 miles Of the place Of
consumption. Science has now made
it possible to transport food halfway
around the globe and has discovered
new methods of preservation as well.
City population was not self-perpetuat-
ing. Man died on; the death rate was
continually high and from time to time
there was death by pestilence. Even
where there were sewers they were
to drain the ground of water rather
than to carry away sewage. Now cities
are made nearly AZ healthy - the coun-
try.-Mining and Scientific Press.