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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-12-20

Bargains in Viol,us and Mando-
Inns at the Madlsonvllle Drug
Store.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-12-20

We had thin ice Wednesday
and Thursday morning, the first of
the season.
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Notice to Stockholders.

The regular annual meeting of the
stockholders of the Bank of Coyington
will be held at their banking house.
on SATURDAY, Jan. 3. 1908, at 5P. NJ.
c. z. WILLIAMS, President.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-12-20

Get your girl \ nice box of Chrls.
mas candy at the MadisonviIIe
Drug Store.
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MARRIED-In New Orleans,
Wednesday, Dec. 10, 1902, at st.
Patr'ck's Church. by Rev. +. J.
Fallen, Henry ]. Schneider. Of
Pearl River. and Miss Mamie Mel
son, daughter of MIR. md Mrs. H.
w. Nelson, of New Orleans. The
happy young couple will make
their future home IN Pearl River.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-12-20

DIED.-Gen. Geo. Moorman,
Adiu,ant General IT the United
States Confederate Veterans, Chief
Of Gen. j. b. Gordan's staff, 3
progressive citizen aud gentleman
Of fine aocial qualities, died sudden
" in his office in New Orleans last
Monday afternoon Hewas to leave
the next day to spend weeks va
cation from business matters with
his wife at their charming home in
Vaudeville. The deceased was =
lawyer by profession, but OF late
years was engaged in the real IS.
tats business. He was the chief
organizer Of Camps OF Confederate
Veterans, and his death will be
mourned throughout the South
His bereaved family have universal
sympathy in their sudden afflict'"n.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-12-20

Sunday, December 2l, will be the
shortest day OF the year.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-12-20

MARRIED. AT St. Joseph's
Church, IN New Orleans, on Mon
day, Dec. Is, 1902. Louis Medal
and Miss Medora Aucoin -
The groom is . well-known and
highly esteemed young business
man OF Covington, and the bride is
the popular daughter OF Mr.. and
Mrs. Eugene Aucoin, Of New Or
leans. The happy vonng couple
arrived on the evening Strain, &C.
companied by number Of friends,
and were the recipients Of hearty
congratulations. We wish them y
JOYFUL and prosperous future
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-12-20

Last Wednesdays morning train
consisted of twelve freight cars and
two coaches. The three scl,"oners.
Rosa A., JOSIE Weaver and the
O'Rourke also had Zig freight lists.
Which shows chat business Is in
healthy and prosperous condition
over this way.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-12-20

photographs that always please.
BY w. s. Reid.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-12-20

We have q few Molasses Barrels
that we do not wish to carry over.
Buy from us and save money.
DARLINGTON & co.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-12-20

There was = juvenile game OF
foot ball on the Dixon Academy
campus last Saturday, between the
Farrell School team, of New Or
cans, and Dixon Academy boys.
Both sides put up a game game,
but the Farrels won by score OF
8 to o.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-12-20
MOlaSSeS Barrels a
Cost.
Darlington & Co.
For Sale.

A large young bay mare, double gait
ed. Will work anywhere. Perfectly
gentle. Can be driven by women and
children. Will be sold under guar
antee. Apply to B LABAT.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-12-20

See fireworks ordinance. in an.
other column.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-12-20

FOR SALE Choice corner lot, with
good dwelling house. in CovingtOn, La.
Address inquiry to 50 Oak Street. Mo-
bile, Ala.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-12-20
WEATHER REPORT
FOR week ending Dec. II, 1902

G. CHAMPAGNE. Observer.
The St. Johns herald., 1902-01-25
HE HAD ORDERS TO DIsMouNT.
But When He Obeyed Them He Was
 Sent to the Guardhouse.

But When He Obeyed Them He Was
 Sent to the Guardhouse.
 No originality claim is made In con- nection with this story, says the De troit Free Press, and 1t may have gone the rounds, but it was we'll told the other evening by Detroit minister who was engaged in very earnest de- bate with an army colonel over the al- legged arbitrary methods of those con- manding the rank and file.
 The colonel had warmly contended that there was every effort to be just and that departures from equity were exceptional. "YOu have given this mat ter considerable attention, and I ven- ture that you cannot give an instance of abused authority toward private?" Cant IY' and the dominle's eyes twinkled. "Did you ever hear of the case of poor Tim Murphy"
 ''Never did, sir"
 '"Tim enlisted in the cavalry service, though he had never bestrOde a horse in his life. He was taken out for drill
  mand of a sergeant. AS luck would have it, Tim had one of the worst buckers in the United States army.
 "'Now, min,' said the sergeant in ad- dressing them. no man Is allowed to dismount without orders from a supa- rtor ossifer, moind thot.'
 "Tim was no sooner in the saddle than he was propelled through a lengthy parabola and came down so hard that he had barely enough breath to subsist upon.
 "Murphy,' shouted the sergeant as he discovered the offender spread out on the ground, 'yeZ dismounted.'
 "T did, sor.'
 "'Did yez have orthersT
 "T did, sor.'
 "'From headquartersP with sheer. "'No, sor, hoindquarthers.'
 "'Take him to tn gard house."
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A Land off Many Thirsts.

The Egyptian never travels without his goolah. He fills it with filtered water and in the morning can command a pint or more of water cooled by evae- oratiOn through the unglazed clay. This precious fluid he does not waste on unsatisfied thirst. Taking off the long white wrap and the piece of cloth that covers his head during sleep, the na- tive pours the water over his head, neck and hands. The European, with all his instinct for cleanliness. seeks first to relieve his overmastering thirst.
 There are in Egypt as many thirsts as plaques, but the dust thirst is the worst. Every pore is sealed; the throat is lump of dry clay, and one feels what it must be to be a mummy.
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explains it in this way: He was court ing a brokers daughter. One day he called upon her, and she happened to be at home, he considered himself for tunate, as she had been out every time he had called for a week, and he de- termined to make the best of his Op- portunity and pop the question. He found her in a room busily engaged with small bundles of dried grasses which she had collected. What a quantity of dried grass you have col lected, Miss Ritchie," he said. Then bis humof burst forth. Nice room for a donkey to get into" Make yourself at home MT. James," she said, sweet ly, before he could finish the joke. He went home. and all the humor WAS crushed out of him forever-Scottish American
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Roosevelt for his service during the campaign of 1896, when, in company with Senator Lodge, the New-Yorker had made speaking tour of the coun- try. He also wanted an energetic man ln the Navy Department The ap- polntment of Roosevelt was a natural consequence, and in April, 1897, he as- sumed the Assistant Secretaryship. From the first he foresaw, it is said, the possibility of a conflict with Spain, and he set about preparing his depart ment for it. He pushed repairs on the ships, and left nothing undone that would in his opinion secure the highest efficiency in the service when the time for action came. When the Maine was blown up Roosevelt had no doubt, it is said, that war would follow, and his energies were bent with redoubled force to getting the navy ready. When war did finally break out, he resigned and organized the Rough Riders. Then he became something of national hero.
 Tn the Tall or the year in which San Juan was fought New York elected Governor The politicians feared him, but the people demanded his nomina- tion. He was elected by plurality of 1S,079. With the approach of the Re publican National Convention of 1900. the politicians, hoping, it is said, to shelve the New-Y Yorker so that he could not be nominated for President in 1904. demanded his nomination for Vice President. His Western friends, from other motives, insisted upon similar ac- tiOn. They wanted to honor him and to strengthen the Republican cause. So Mckinley and Roosevelt became the ticket. The campaign was a memora- ble one.
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go to the Assembly and grasped it. Be fore he was g he was helping to make laws.
 He became Republican leader. In 1883 he made a campaign for the Speakership. but failed. In 1884 he went to the Republican National Con- vention, as a delegate, in George F.. Edmunds' behalf. In 1886 he was the Republican candidate for Mayor of New York, and was defeated by 22,0O0 votes. In 1889 he. was appointed a member of the United States Civil Ser vice Commission by President Harri- son.
 When the great wave of reform fol- lowing the Investigations of the Lexow Committee swept over New York in 1895 and William l.. Strong was elect ed Mayor, the latter thought of Roose- welt as the best man to reorganize the demoralized police force and enforce the laws whose violation had become a disgrace to the metropolis. He was made President of the Police Commis- sion.
 In the Navy Department.
 When President Mckinley assumed office in 1897 he wanted to reward
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and was born of a well-to-do family. As a girl she knew young Theodore Roosevelt. It has been said that boy and girl sentiment existed between them before he went to college; but soon after his graduation from Har- yard he married Miss Alice Lee, of Boston. Miss Carow' went abroad to supplement her education by a course of study and travel.
 When Roosevelt had lost his girl wife and was seeking sOlace in European trip, he met Miss CarOw. When he re- turned to America they began a cor respondence. Their engagement fol- lowed and they were married in 1886. Between Alice RoOsevelt-the only child of his first marriage-and her fathers second wife there has been al- ways the warmest affection; and her husbands sisters have been Mrs. Roosevelt's most intimate friends.
 Like her husband. Mrs. Roosevelt has a pronounced literary bent. She is an Omnivorous reader, an accom- plished linguist and a keen student. Several years ago she published a vol ume of verses, intended for circulation among her friends. She is posted in politics, and keeps up With the news papers and periodicals dealing with matters of current public interest as well as her husband does. She is not athletic, although she rides a horse well.
 She has little taste for club life and the Daughters of the American Revo- lution besought her in vain to be can- didate for President General of their order.
 Mrs. Roosevelt is not handsome, but she is attractive. Her manner is un- affectedly cordial and winning. She has nice brown eyes, and she wears her brown hair parted and carried back loosely from her temples. She dresses with a simplicity that Is becoming. Her street frocks especially border on the severe. For evening entertainments
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God Pity the Idlers" was the title of a poem which appeared in many Of the papers of the country recently. It was written by Samuel NJ. Jones and dedicated to the workers of the world. More truth runs through this little poem than is found in thousands Of sermons. More gold of thought is lock- ed within its lines than resides in scores of sheep-bound books. The jetsam and the fotsam of the lines Is prayer for pity from God for the Idlers, and earth knows no greater ob- ject for commiseration. The Idler does not live. He exists like the stone in the field or scum on the swamp. He is below the horse in dignity. The OK exceeds him in worth. Even the pes tiferous mosquito is deserving of more consideration than the Idler, for the mosquito at least possesses the virtue of keeping busy and dOinng something. This insect may be nuisance to hu- maDity, but 1t atOnes in degree by being a consumer of carrion and a
 
 claim even these commendable Quali- ties. He will not consume carrion. He must have the same to eat as other peO- pie, but other people must earn it for him. No dead blood satisfies him. He must have the living article and he gets 1t by making others sweat 1t in order to support him. The Idler Is a curse, but pity him mortals and God pity him, too, for his sense of apprecia' tioE of the equation of life has sunk so low that he cannot see his degradation nor feel his reeking shame. He is suf- fering from paralysis of heart, a par alysis of mind, and a paralysis of de- cent feeling that makes his existence tolerable only when we share Gods pity and drown our indignation In the injunction ito love thy neighbor as myself" But how different the pie ture of the Laboreri He is co-worker of God rolling out mans destiny, liv- ing the tragedy of humanity and build ing the fate of the world. The angels in heaven must be envious of the La borer on earth and his GOd-given mis- sion. His Is the work of sustaining the human race. His the work to build the homes and maintain the na- ton. His the work to make life worth living and death worth the embracing when work can be done no more His the work to wiring from the earth the money that builds the schools, the churches and the hospitals. His the work to wear the crown of King of Men, for the Laborer Is King. All men depend upon him for their subsistence. His reign will never cease, because his services are indispensable and he serves all men. With bravery has he accepted this mission. With fortitude has he fulfilled it. With courage will he continue to carry Its cross and to wear its crown of thorns. God pity the Idlersl They need His pity in the misery of their droneful life. They eat other mems bread and spend other mems money, because no one can live without money and no one can get money without earning 1t unless some one else earns It without getting 1t. God pity the Idlers.
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that mild September day of 1881, and the nation mourned for Garfield, there came to the Presidency a man hitherto known only as politician.
 Theodore Roosevelt is already well known; he has been in the public eye in civil and military capacities and has demonstrated the possession of the ex- ecutive ability, as well as of soldierly characteristics. That he will be equal to the requirements of StateSmanship demanded of a President his admirers seem positive. Roosevelt comes of dis tinguished ancestry. Away back, as the eighteenth century was dawning, one of his forefathers was an Alder man of New York. then an honorable position, and many and varied have been the officesSwhich others filled. His grandfather was Supreme Court jus tice and Congressman. His father, Theodore Roosevelt, was a leading merchant, philanthropist and a strong advocate of outdoor life Theodore was born in the metropolis in 1858, and lS tue youHseSl HdH WuO HdS ever SdI In the White House, Grant, the second youngest, being 47 when sworn in. His boyhood and early manhood were spent amid such surroundings as wealth, social position and high politi- cal association would bring to a fam fly. He went through tho best pre- paratory schools, graduated at Har- yard in 1880 and left college esteemed not only for his learning, but also for his ability as a boxer. Then he studied law with his uncle. ever at that time being possessed of the determination to eventually engage in ''the work of government" Long before he was ad- mitted to the bar. he saw a chance to
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CAREER OF PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT.


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Mans Iueratitude.

Tramp-I'm not an idler, mum; Pm unfortunate.
 HOusekeeper-Huh! Did you ever work for living?
 Tramp-Yes, mum. used to be salesman for pr. Wings Gold Medal Hair RestOrer, mum; an I worked so hard and faithful fer him. mum, that he discharged me.
 HOusekeeper-Nonsense. Why should he?
 Tramp-YOu see, mum, the worry an OverwOrk tryin' to do big business fer him, made me premature bald, num- New York Weekly.
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The President has written numerous works, some of which will become standard.
HIS DOMESTIC LIFE.

4 Talented Wife and Six Delightful
 Children.
 President ROoseyelt's domestic life has been beautiful. Mrs. Roosevelt never has courted social prominence, but she has been equal to every de mand which the rapidly changing con- ditions of her husbands career have made upon her. By birth, education and cultivation she is fitted to stand by her husband in the high place which Fate has assigned to him, and she pos sesses the ready tact and sympathy which are so essential to the successful hostess, especially in public life.
 As Theodore Roosevelt stands for the type of energetic, healthy Ameri- can manhood, so his wife represents a high type of American womanhood She was Miss Edith Kermit Carow
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There is just one remedy for lynching and it Is idle to talk of any other. The communities that are the victims of one particular crime must be taught not by precept, but by unvarying exam ple-that such outrages will be prompt ly. certainly and terribly avenged through the agencies of justice. In de fault of that assurance, made doubly sure by unmistakable and overwhelm- ing proof, all the preaching in the world will avail nothing. If the law does not give them vengeance quick and thorough. men will take it for themselves.
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HOW tbe Dinner Turned Out.

A tiny girl of gave dinner party the other day, for which 12 covers were laid, and that number of small maidens sat down to dine. It was real lit tie girls dinner, and the little hostess herself presided, sitting at the head of the table. She had been very anxious, in looking forward to it, to do every thing as it should be done.
 Mamma" she asked, shall we say graceT
 ''No," said mamma, ''it will be very informal dinner, and 1 think you need not do that"
 That meant one less ceremony to be gone through and was relief, but the little lady was anxious to have all her small guests understand it. So, as they were gathered about the table, she ex- plained:
 Mamma says this is such an internal dnner that we need not have grace to- day"
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Fifty years ago 1t was considered be- meath the dignity of many substantial concerns to advertise, beyond the inser- tion in the newspaper of an occasional business card. Some of the experiences of that time show how recently adver- Using, as We know it, has developed. A retail hardware house in an Eastern city once found itself possessed of ten times the number of articles of cer- tain kind that 1t had intended to buy. As they had been ordered especially for a new hotel. and were of peculiar design, there seemed to be no way of disposing of them except at a merely nominal sum. One of the younger men conl ected with the concern offered to ''move them" at a fair price, provided he be permitted to advertise. The sug- gestion encountered much opposition, but finally a small sum was set apart to carry 1t out. The advertisement was drafted in an attractive way and the people soon began to buy the new ar ticle. Finally the house was obliged to send to the manufacturers for more.
 When the next seasons trade opened. the member of the firm who had most opposed the experiment whispered to the young man that he had better write out a few notices ''and put them in the papers" From such beginnings the advertising practice has come. Thous- ands of dollars are now spent, not only
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One Kind.

"Paw," said Tommy. who was ieok- ing at the Household Hints in the week ly paper, "What is society sand wichY"
 "A society sandwich" replied Mr. Tucker, not at all certain of his ground. but unwilling to exhibit his ignorance before the youthful seeker after knOwl- edge, '.is a helpless young man sitting between two lively girls at swell par ty."LChicago Tribune.
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An American bishop in China writes of an ordination servicve in which he and four natives were the chief partici- pants. At the close, after the congre- gation had gone out, there was a deaf ening noise caused by firecrackers with which the native Christians expressed their joy and their congratulations to the newly ordained. Were there such a sequel to solemn rites in this coun- try. how would the average American boys interest be increased!
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A Disqnieting Question.

.Flowery Fields-Willie, hey you mo- ticed any signs uv mental decay about me lately?
 Weary Willie-No. no, comradeI fur frum it.
 FlOwery Fields-Well, den, wonder wOt dat lady over dere could hey meant by askin' me wy I didn't work fer a Twin ?-Leslie's Weekly.
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Why James Forswore Humor

James was always under the i'm pression that he was a born humorist, and his friends never succeeded in con- vincing him to the contrary. But he has given up trying to be funny now; he says his humor was the means of losing a girl with a lot of money, and he has never got over the blow. He
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she dresses handsomely, but never showily. She manages the affairs of her own large household to the small est details.
 Besides Alice, who Is IS years old, the Roosevelt children are Theodore, Kermit, Ethel, Archibald and Quentin. Santa Claus will find a visit to the White House next Christmas exceed ingly pleasurable.
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''The greatest menace to the morality of both rich and poor in New York is the fact that it Is a city of flats and tenements and not q city of homes" ]" This is a remark of an expert from the United States Department of Labor, who, with six special agents, has been Investigating the conditions of living among New York working people, Yesterday" he went on to say, q found the family of skilled mechanic consisting of eleven persons, living in four rooms. That Is indecent There can be no privacy in such conditions, and without privacy there can be no civili- Zation. l would like to ask the men who are building colleges and endow- ing libraries to build model tenements instead. l would see no college en- dowed, and not book given to a IT, brary, until the people had homes"
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00 NLIKE the deaths of Lincoln lC and Garfield, the passing or
 President Mckinley brings to the White House a man whose character !stics are known to the people. When Lincoln fell the reins of government passed to hands ill-ftted to handle them. Johnson's administration was a national scandal. When the last spark of life was extinguished at Elberon on
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Unless something to avert further safe robberies is speedily done it seems to us that the manufacturers of safes ought to give their product an other name. Tween dynamite and drills, jimmies and hatchets and axes, they don't half come up to their high sounding declaration, and, what's verse, they don't give a half promise of ever doing so.
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EeDeuda Ou fhe Womau,

"She's going to marry him, 1 guess" " suggested the wise gossip as the couple went by.
 "He doesn't expect it," returned the casual acquaintance.
 "Oh, that's quite immaterial so long as she does," answered the wise gossip. Chicago Post.
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in advertising itself, but in devising clever catch-words, ingenious phrases and illustrations which will stick in the memory of the reader, as we'll as new general methods. No doubt money may be wasted in ineffective advertising, or in advertising worthless goods. But on the other hand, fortunes are made where there is in an article happy union between publicity and merit.