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

over the rest OF US. i VlS1leu tHeH Oh
Sunday eve, and was treated with the
10 st cordial hospitality. Their home
is a palace and their garden and
grounds little paradise. ! am get
ting strong again and walked to town
.sst week for the first time in three
months-when l came home my wife
shook her fist at me and said: Il be-
lieve you will outlive me yet" From
the tone of her voice l thought maybe
she was mad about it. We have near
ly completed the finest court house in
the state 1t is in full view from the
window where I write and never get
tired of looking at the beautiful dome
that shines like silver in the sun. "A
thing of beauty is joy forever" Our
garden is adorned with beautiful roses
and l cut them every morning and my
wife allows me to send them to the
pretty girls-no, I mean to the an
Gent mothers in our neighborhood.
My wife is peculiar about that. Az
night I have to help pretty lassle
with her arithmetic and algebra and
Latin. 1 get stalled sometimes, but
we generally get through all right
We have telephone, and my daugh-
ter, who lives a mile away, has one.
So when her daughter gets stalled she
telephones here and our lassie tells
her over the phone how to do 1T.
Sometimes it takes many figures, null
tiplying and dividing, etc., and if there
is mistake made of only one figure
near the beginning it runs through to
the end and gets bigger and bigger az
it goes. And SO my lassie is dlsaP-
pointed because she did not get the
answer. Then go over all the figures
carefully and find the error, and she
has to do it over again. Just so 1t Is
with our habits and conduct. 1t lit
tie boy tells fbs or stories, the habit
will grow on him and by the time he
is grown he will tell lies. If a boy
swaps knives with another boy and
cheats him, he will get into habit OF
cheating in a trade and nobody will
trust him. When Tom Benton was for
the first time a candidate for Office, it
was told on him that when he was .
schoolboy he stole knife from an
other boy and had to give it up and
take a whipping. And SO he didn't get
elected. Ny father always said that
knife story was just a political lie, but
I have known politicians who would
steal knives and lie, too.
I had most grateful compliment
the other day, and it was as pleasant
as it was unexpected. The Dalton law
ers and the Calhoun LAYERS were hero
to attend the funeral OF Col. Harris.
After that sad mission was over they
Joined with our local bar and our judge
and visited me in a body in my sick
room and did me special honor. For
awhile we exchanged wit and wisdom
and pleasant anecdotes. l shall not
forget their kind and grateful visit as
long as I live-such things are worth
being sick for.
And there was baby show yester-
day at my daughters home. She has
fine little boy year old who is be-
ginning to walk and talk. So she gave
dining to two young mothers, who
each had little girl year old and
they too we're learning to walk. IT
beat the Atlanta horse show to sec
the three little tots tottering across the
room as merry as larks as they tried
to show off, sometimes colidfng and
falling down-then up again and on
another round. It was pretty sight
and their mothers were proud and hap
py. A young mother is the proudest
creature on earth. She is always calm
and serene.-Bill Arp, in Atlanta Con-
stitution.