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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-10-21
NERVOUS WOMEN.
These Whose Fears Are wrought N
During the Ozark Scenes"
at the Play.

Ozark changes" at the theater-when
stage and auditorium are suddenly
wrapped in black darkness, while q
scene is changed-are greatly dreaded
by many women play-goers, who in
stantly become nervous till the lights
60 up again. Il never have an instant's
peace. said lady, speaking of her
dread of the incident, It'll the light Is
turned on again. Sometimes feel that
l. shall scream aloud if the darkness
continues another second. / get .suf-
locating feeling and sometimes fell
as though should faint il didn't see
light somewhere. For heavens sake,
| whoever introduced the idea, and why
in the world do they have those hor-
rid. awful, terrifying dark changes?"
The dark change" is not Of very re-
cent origin, and is introduced to height
en- the dramatic effect of the play-to
prevent the audiences attention wan
dering from the story as told in one
scene till the thread is taken up in the
| next. What the dramatist and man
ager always aim at is to gain and hold
the auditors attention, not to let it
wander, as it does during an entr' acte,
when the curtain goes down. the lights
so up and buzz of conversation
springs up all over the house.
Try the theory on yourself. Begin
to tell a story. Let no interruption &C.
cur, and see what sort of hit you
make when You have to begin again
with: "As l was saying" It's apt to
be more like "As / wasn't saying" for
you'll find that the attention of your
audience has to be gained over again.
and the restarted story does not seem
like the same thing.
The dark change" prevents this.
What dim quiet there is in the audi
torium, with all eyes--though you cant
see them-riveted on the darkness into
which the stage vanished.
This is the theatrical why" of it,
but for the benefit of nervously inclined
women who ''get a smothering feeling
when the lights 60 out and who repress
. desire to scream some words of COM
iort may be said.
Don't get scared when with sudden
click every one of the hundreds of elec.
trio lights goes out. Don't imagine that
the man who turned them off has gone
away and can't instantly relight the
house. With the turn of a single but
ton he has plunged the auditorium and
stage in darkness, but with another
turn of the button, on which he keep.
his hand. he can instantly fill the the
ater with blaze Of light.
He stands in the proscenium arch,
just off the stage-the first exit''-and
never leaves his post. He keeps his
hand on the button and the attention
Of eye and ear upon the house. II You
were to utter that repressad cry OF
faint in half second the house would
be relighted, whether the stage was
set or not.
It's the business of .'the man at the
electric switchboard to watch the
house narrowly. Yoa needn't be ner-
vous.
but suppose screamed and the but.
ton didn't work 2" Miss Nervous says.
Don't scream. But if you did and the
button didn't work, shrouded gas jets
lit, are in the auditorium. and they are |
ready to at once make the place light
and discover you looking exceedingly
foolish.
Don't be afraid Of '.the dark change
Ern,,sror
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-10-21
Inmen.e Ear Of Corr.

What is believed to be the biggest
corn ever grown. in this part of the
country at least, is on exhibition in a
grain Office at Atkinson, Kan. One ear
is l6H inches long, and another meas
ures exactly ten inches in circumfer-
ence. Another ear is 14H inches long.
The corn was grown on the farm of
George Liebig, of Wetmore. Kan. Many
samples of corn from northern Kansas
are coming in, and last years big ears
still on display are mere dwarfs by COM
parison to the new crop. The late corn
is maturing. and reports of enormous
yields are coming from all sections Of
northern Kansas. where the big corn
producing counties Of the state are 10
saled-
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-10-21
vENTILArING DEVICE.

in the cut, and they can be opened and
closed at will from the ground floor.
The triangular pieces nailed to the sides
of the sash hold UP the window little
inclined inward. SO that it falls open
by its own weight when the cord is
loosened. The same result could be OBJ
tained by the usual sash that closes to
a perpendicular position. but has a
second cord running from the outer end
Of the iron rod down to the floor. Pull
ing on this cord would open the window.
while pulling on the pulley cord would
close it, when the line could be fastened
below.-N. Y. Tribune.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-10-21
THE SPIRIT AND THE FLEsn

into this glorious world came,
Lee free-bcrn of the wind and fiama
pound to ne for good or i'll
A body-serf to do my will.
Inough he was frail and pro ie to rest.
sna1ched him from his mot ler's breast
ana bade him serve me. What would YOU
mad great K,ag's work to do:
roHg 10 make right: comfort to bring
10 those in trouble orfowing.
a1eeaed one both swift and strong:
rfeai was the load. the journey long.
= .e. tnis my slave was weak and iamec.
= raiserins at my behest he came.
90, When his strength was almost gone.
LOOK the scourge and urged him on
aet hurry as might to keen
The minutes pace. both food and sIeen
1iy Save must have. Impatiently
saw the glorious hours pass by.
~ could not leave him, for we must
nave nands of dust to work with dust
AZ last he fell and would not rise.
lie called me with imperious ewes
And baGe me pause.
ms small white room, this cot OF snow.
Ministering forms that come and 90
. crouch here listening for his breath.
ana WITH my hands hold back Death.
NY work neglected and undone.
u ne but beckon, swift run
Inis worthless serf of mine n save
az" nard they toll who serve a slave.
p. bsiosman. in Century.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-10-21
HANDY HAULING CRATE.
Convenient when q Single HOG, sheep
or Calf Has to BE Moved or
Carted Away.

It is often convenient to have crate
in which to haul single hog, sheep OF
calf. 1t is not necessary to have it so
large or SO heavy but what it can be
easily lifted into the wagon, or even
taken in the light wagon, where the ami
NAL to be hauled is not too large and
heavy. The frame should be made of
2x4's, strengthened by rods and bolts
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-10-21
For, III Dischargcd, You May Meet
Him Again and Get Even
4 with You.

The man who had been to Europe and
the man who had stayed TO home were
dining together and the service was
| wretched. This is too much to be
borne" said the man who had stayed al
home, land l am going to make com
plant about this waiter to the man
ager."
NO, don't do that, " said the man who
had been to Europe; 1T won't do any
good"
"Why won't it? That fellow has nc
right to treat us this way, and Ill have
him discharged"
"Don't do it." said the man who ha6
been to Europe. LET him stay here
and then you can go to other restaur.
ants and be sure not to meet him. Lis
ten to the advice of one who has had ex-
perience."
"What experienced"
Swell, if you will dwell on painful
subjects, I'll tell you. When was in
Paris the waiter who attended me at
the hotel where / stayed was the
worst / ever saw in my life. You
think service is worse here than
in Europe. Maybe it is, as
rule, but when service abroad is bad,
it is bad. At last determined that
would have that waiter discharged. II
was the last day Of my stay and ]
thought it would make no further diff
ference to me, but was determined to
see justice. just as I was going away ]
called the proprietor and told him how
bad the waiter had been. He called the
waiter and discharged him in my pres
ence, and / went away feeling that
had benefited future guests at that ho-
tel. 1 went straight to Brussels. / got
there late Mt night, went to hotel and
went to bed. The next morning when
came into the diniDg-room, there was
that waiter standing before me, bow.
ing with sarcastic grin and waiting to
take my order. Al long as / stayed
there he did just badly enough to keep
me in worry and just well enough 50
that I couldn't find one thing to com.
plain of. Now, you take my advice.
Remember where the bad walters are,
but don't try to move them around."-I
N. Y. Tribune.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-10-21
Economy with Fallen Apples.

There is much waste in the common
practice of turning hogs into orchards
to pick up fruit and make that their
exclusive diet. The hog will soon learn
to eat only the ripened fruit, saving
that which is W ,rmy. This fruit can be
sold or dried, and If forced to do it the
hog will eat thu wormy fruit before the
worm escapes. But to make this really
economical some grain and milk should
be given to hogs in addition to their
fruit diet. This will make the young
pigs grow and will strengthen their d.
gestion for the exclusive corn feeding
that will come when they are put up to
he fatfened
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-10-21

According to Prof. Moritz, writing in
a German medical periodical, the most
speedy absorption of a drug into the
human system is secured by admins
tering it with water on an empty stom-
ach- In many cases. he says, a definite
effect will thus be produced, when no
effect would be perceptible from the
same dose administered shortly after
the taking of food. Food taken imme-
diately after medicine rrtz-sss the alb
soEption of the drug.-louth's Com.
panion.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-10-21
xevel way 70 Destroy : CAi..ey.

Here is a novel and economical way
Of destroying large brick smokestack.
The stack was 266 feet in height and
81 feet in diameter, and its removal
was accomplished in the following man
ner. The brick was removed from one
side at about three feet from the
ground. and the opening thus formed
filed with built-up wooden blocks be
tween which were packed tar. sawduSt
and paraffin. This material was then
set on fire and caused the chimney to
crack and fall within space that had
previously been marked on the ground.
Not only was the cost much less than
il the brick had been torn down, but
there was also recovered much material
in good condition for future USE Chi
aago Chronicle.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-10-21

One mans dislike is another mans
Ad.-Chicago Daily Nswe
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-10-21
DON'T KICK ON THE WAITER.

Don't be afraid Of "the dark change.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-15

signed to Bolivia Just closed deal for
900 feet of wharfage on the Seine.
May 27-Have demanded enlarged
accommodations for playing card and
toothpick sections. Am promised a
good share of Russia's space and nearly
half of Senegambia's.
May Siam making vigorous kick
for increased allowance of space. Have
pointed out to the authorities the stu
pidity of supposing that the United
States can possibly get along without
at least three times the space allotted
to all other countries combined We
already have four times, but l don't
admit it.
June 21-By vigorous personal
effort 1 have finally forced all the other
nations outside the various exhibition
buildings, and the United States now
controls every inch of space that is to
be under roof.
July 10-The last foreign power was
forced outside the exposition grounds
at l O'Clock this afternoon. Hooray,
1t has required hard work, but l got
there with both pedal terminals, as we
used to say in dear old Chicago. At
this very moment the United States is
in control of the whole blessed EXPOSE
ton plant, inside, outside, upside and
downside, If France herself wants
space she must come to us, Press the
button and let the eagle scream.
Aug. 20-The highest French courts
have just united in granting an in
junction preventing me from pre-empt-
ing the space now included within the
walls of Paris. But / will fight them
TO the hitter endf''
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-15
CENSORSHIP AT MANILA.

IF any heroes are to be made this de-
partment makes Them" says the press
censor established by General Otis in
the Philippines.
Newspaper correspondents at Manila
are forced TO strike out the names of
men or regiments who deserve men,
ton and are often compelled to send the
names of those who happen to be in
favor.
Letters from the soldiers to their
friends and relatives are not permitted
to convey all the intelligence the
home folks ask for, and it is rarely pos
sible for the Associated Press to send
out dispatch like that printed yester-
day morning showing to what extremi-
ties some of the volunteer regiments
have been reduced.
Then the censorship has been very
strictly enforced in regard to letters
from the fathers, mothers and wives of
volunteers. If they contained matter
calculated to make the men wish them
selves home again, (and what kind of
letter from home will not?) they
were classed among those melting
mutiny and confiscated.
This row over the Edward Atkinson
circulars was apparently started for
the purpose of dividing public senti
ment that it might continue divided
when the truth comes out regarding
the work of the press censor at Manila
and to lessen what would ordinarily be
regarded by free people as the enorm-
ity of his offense.
The Philadelphia Times, commenting
upon this condition of affairs, says:
General Otis might as well try to dam
up the waters of the Pasig with bull
rushes as to prevent every detail of
the campaign in the east reaching
every man. woman and child in this
country. If his reports made at this
time or later are colored, or if by the
power of military censorship they are
distorted when made by the newspaper
writer's, he is laying up for himself
store of sorrow for which his other
successes will furnish most inadequate
compensation"
And yet, this is Imperialism. No
partisan trick of the king maker can
be condemned Mckinley is immune,
Hanna is sacred, in the eyes of these
featherbed heroes who care not how
much fighting is done so somebody
else does il.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-15
show who won the race and captured

show who won the race and captured
the prize.
In 1906" says the colonel, Great
Hope, colonized by the Dutch and by
the French Huguenots. with the mani
fest purpose of joining the two points
of Africa, the Cape and Cairo"
We have serious doubts about this
being Great Britain's object at that
time. Both were desirable points for
commercial purposes and military es-
Establishments. and in those days "the
mistress of the seas" was looking for
Gibraltars more than inland possess
sions, but was engaged in promiscuous
land gra bling, a business she has fol-
lowed for more than a century.
But whatever may have been the
original intention, it is evident today
that England is in the Soudan to stay,
and that her Anglo-Egyptian compact
is but a temporary arrangement by
which continental Europe is hood
winked and the remnant of Egyptian
authority is pacified while the beacon
strictor of nations takes its time to do
the swallowing act.
When the Soudan railway is complet-
ed, and it has been built beyond the
Atbara river, some ninety miles al
ready. Great Britain will be fairly well
established in TIE region of the Upper
Nile. When this road reaches Khar-
toum, it is said to be the intention to
push another road from Omdurman to
the Red sea. In the meantime Rhodes
will be gradually approaching this CEN
trail point from the south, and Great
Britain will control the richest half of
the African continent.
The treaty which England forced
France to sign recently insures undis-
puted British control of the Nile valley,
and while the Khalifa, who is now west
of the Nile, may harry the British for
a while, his prestige was destroyed at
Omdurman, and the determination of
the Dervishes is only a matter of time.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-15
TRUSTS AND THEIR OBJECTS.

Some Republican organs, notably the
New York Tribune and Boston Journal,
are still calling for tariff protection.
They admit, even boast, that our
manufacturers are shipping their goods
abroad in successful competition with
the labor of other lands, but they
think that home manufacturers should
be protected in a monopoly of the
home market"
The Herald called attention to these
facts the other day and asked if a
continuance of tariff protection for the
encouragement of monopoly and the
nourishment of trusts was necessary
under such conditions.
The only answer received was evas-
i've an admission that the best way to
check the growth of capitalistic COM
binations is to take the tariff off the
articles they produce. And still an
excuse was made for the existence of
that system which enabled its bene-
ficiaries to amass untold millions in a
time so short that the process could
not have been honest or the system
legitimate under which those fortunes
were accumulated.
c-lce in a while an administration
organ is fair enough to confess the in
fanny of the whole business, to
acknowledge that it was steal from
the American consumer, fraud upon
the public. The Indianapolis News is
one of this kind. 1t is goldbug organ
of pronounced and radical views, a
supporter of Mckinley and a hater of
Bryan. Still the News believes that
the protective tariff is largely response
BILE for the formation of the trusts
which are becoming more numerous in
this country every day, and that the
tariff is their main safeguard. 1t says:
The old claim of protective tariff was
that 1t meant merely to give home man.
ufacturers the home market or the first
and best chance at the home market, while
competition among themselves would
keep prices down. And to a large de-
gree this has been so. If il had been a
fact that in every case of protection the
added TO prices, We should have had
such amounts 10 pay on the necessities
of life that there fould have been a re-
volt. With the formation of trusts con-
trolling almost everything in use there
arises the fair question why. after all
these years of practical monopoly of the
home market, and now after the practi-
cal ending of domestic competition.
should there be law to keep out foreign
manufactures? Why. if we are at the
mercy of trusts when not only industry
on the one side. but consumption on the
other, is the creature of combined mil
lionairism, that draws dividends on
enormous amounts of water, should we
deprive ourselves of the corrective in
fiuences of the markets of the world?
With the assault on trusts that is GER
tain to be made. this question Of re-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-15
i-"Forward, march :"
YOU through, sure

| ducton of the tariff will play a part. We
| surely cannot forever be the sport Of
! favored corporations. When these in
| fants. which we have nursed, have be-
come so strong as to invade the world
and even now are looking to attain COM
mercial supremacy. when they can go
abroad and undersell the best work of
other countries. the American people will
surely ask themselves why they alone
shall be unfavored by world competition;
why they. who have taxed themselves
through all these years to establish these
concerns. have now put them on their
feet so that they can successfully defy
the world. should be deprived of home
competition by means of trusts and of
foreign competition by means of tariffs.
1--WE cannot forever be the sport of
in the past. We have permitted their
fleeing of the people in order to obtain
their campaign contributions. We
have urged the people to add their
sweat to the profits of monopoly, that
the fiat frying" process might not
meet with resistance from the million
aire manufacturers. We have done
all these things, confess Republicans
who are becoming frightened now at
the result of their work, but I'VE can
not forever be the sport of favored
corporations
Protectionists have claimed, and
some of them still have the hardihood
to contend, that the protective duties
which shield our manufacturers from
foreign competition stimulate competi-
ton at home. Yet they have learned
better from the bitter school of expert
ence. They have learned that what
they used to term Democratic theory
is the most practical view of the mat
ter to be taken. They have discovered
their home competition talk to be the
veriest nonsense. They see almost every
day since McKinley's Inaugural ton
that the real effect of protection is to
crush competition at home as well as
from abroad. They have seen giant
trusts that control the market spring
from the cradles of so-called infant in
dustries in less than a dozen years.
And any system of taxation which
makes such things possible is an out
rage upon the people, and was none
the less a scheme of spolation because
carried on in the name of the law and
through the deception and oppression
of the people.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-15
"OUR COUNTRYS HONOR"

The Philippine campaign has been a
hard one. The Washington officials are
beginning to realize the seriousness of
1t, according to dispatches printed yes
terday They are beginning TO make
excuses for OBTAINING the volunteers on
the islands. And. the New York Sun
TO the contrary Notwithstanding. the
chief explanation made is that General
Otis is unwilling to risk the hard fight
ing to the regulars, many of whom are
untried recruits.
That the fighting has not been so
easy as those who insist upon keeping
the volunteers in Luzon seem TO think
is shown by the petition the First Ne
braska regiment has filed with General
Otis. The men ask relief. Nor should
anyone impugn their motives They have
a record that speaks for them. Their
colonel was slain in action. They have
never yet wavered in a charge. From
1900 young and vigorous sons of the
west, the flower OF Nebraskan man
hood. they have dwindled under the
blight of war to 300 able-bodied men,
The rest are in their graves or suffering
III the hospital.
The Utah boys, with five volunteer
regiments, are at San Fernando, says
the cablegram; and many are in the
hospitals, suffering from heat or other
causes"
Every one admires the courage of
these young men; their perseverance,
their fortitude, their true American
grit While they find it necessary to
defend the old flag and uphold the
honor of their country, we are with
them heart and spirit, no matter what
we may think and say of the policy or
lack Of policy which involved them in
this Filipino war.
The sentiments of the boys them
selves are no doubt well expressed in
this excerpt from the letter of young
Will z. Aldrich TO his father at Clear
Lake:
l hope that the end of the war is near
for the sight of our boys killed and
wounded makes us all long for the peace
Of our own dear country. and we know
that every time one of our boys fall. a
great many hearts there bleed for him
! am sire there is not wealth enough on
this island TO pay for the lives of the 800
men who have been killed and the many
more who have died of diseases but our
country's honor had TO be protected. That
the war may soon be over is my greatest
wish.
God bless every one of them who is
willing to risk such dangers and make
such sacrifices for 'our countrys
honor"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-15
SLAIN IN COLD BLOOD.
Philadelnhia Pres }


The kid reporter heaved sigh and lit a
ouondam pipe:
He had treated il to make il old-it GER
tally was ripe
Then he glanced upon the paper and be-
gan his Ole refrain.
For the copy-reader's pencil had been at
his work again.
o We who toll in other fields beyond the
Fourth Estate
You miss the joy it offers in the hours
that are late:
But YOU cannot know what grief ii is.
you cannot know what pain
To see your biggest story by the copy
reader slain.
You get good assignment and are told
TO puff it out"
And you do II to a column and half or
thereabout.
Then the news room gets fake about
some dago prince who's sick.
And the copy-reader's pencil cuts your
story to a stick.
1t is probable that reader has a wife and
child. and he
No doubt must have heart somewhere
in his anatomy;
But the mills that grind so exceeding
fine. and take so long to twist.
Aren't In il for a minute with the copy
readers fist.