St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-03-15
APPS EXAMINATIONS.
onders Why We Like to Read Ex-
travagant Stories.
- About q Book of the ssBnron
sschausen" Type-Books the
SAGE Of barlow Used to Adj
mire When a Boy.

hi fse. a O. answered more than hundred
concerning the Monticello
OQt that trouble is now about
snd once more l am calm and
lss 1t was q most marvellous en-
Nothing equal to it has ever
n. ed in the south. One woman
Al 81 mat she has written over l 100
s}sss - The area covered by it and
& Cd TINS who suffered isastounding.
correspondents are all women, de-
~, struggling women, and they
81 me land from West Virginia to
no Texas. learn that Month
||sSs1 ~ mas surrendered and assigned,
- means, Of course; that the army
rs s.ss .ya eeeS agents will have to surren-
s s5s and be resigned. Blessed are they
- expect nothing, for they shall not
IN q lisa ppointed.
B 80 now there seems to be lull in
- settlements that have agitated the
- and the public for some time
Y! The negro has almost retired
\ 4rom discussion and is the sd me I'M
3 acerned creature he has always
Prof. Stone, who has been
st1dying them in Mississippi, says that
[ - the delta, where they constitute
~ Per cent. of the population, they are
more contented, more Industrious and
move Aw-abiding than in any region
s1has he has visited. Maybe Bishop
Turner is right and they can take care
M themselves if left to themselves.
4 Bat my philosophy is, let the problem
); aloae and let it work out it's own So
ntion- It may take 20 years, it may
take so, but it will solve itself.
Politics, too, is somewhat tired and
in dormant condition. The country
has ceased to make much ado over
the antics and romantics of the new
president and is just waiting to see
WHIST he will do next. He is Sphinx.
He - going to do what he thinks is
right. but the trouble is he thinks
wrong too often. He is what you
might call finiky. When q man is
fniay. he is finiky-that's all. The
word Is not in the dictionary and has
10 definition. Finiky is finiky.
ne Well, out state politics has subsidized
Efera time. The pot boiled over at first,
bit has simmered down, and we are not
maaing as many governors and other
oAleers as we did before Christmas. I
a1Sat feel very anxious about the next
governor, for with those who are in the
S1ee4 we cant hardly make mistake.
SgAB 0Obe would say: cts all optionary
tsA me" There is nothing left hardly
49, hA T.
9slansa depot. This is enduring stock. I
sAose not been to Atlanta since last
1fnrch and I am not going until they
niA new depot. Nevertheless, we
have the usual amount of horrors
ssn11 wrecks and homicides. 1t takes all
big type to keep the head lines go
Forty years ago there never was
~ played head line nor the picture of
onan Id newspaper. The Rich
y s1d Wing and The National Inteli-
~ ser did not even have caption to
~ editorials You had to read it to
- ont what the article was about.
We glance at the heading and read
Ming else, and as for the pictures we
VET men can't tell the difference be-
Zen Lydia Fnkham and the belle of
" teRtown.
1T the mothers and their children
is iii left us. was rumina ting about
~ books we boys had to read in the
a1es times and how they had disap-
y red and gone out of print. There
- lie ''Arab ian Nights" and 'sRobin-
Crusoe" and "Gulliver,s Travels
ny .sBaron Munchausen" = all were
a0ade up lies, but the bigger the lies the
e4ker we liked them, for children are
and the little stories of
lack. the Giant Killer" and "Jack and
|fhe Bean Vine" and cinderella" have
~ be told over and over again to the
ENttae ones before they go to bed. There
larre two little ones that have to put
rs deep many = night repeating these
'aue old stories. But the 'Baron Nun
ehausen" type Of lies passed away, al
enough it went through many editions
md I have seen nothing like it until
recently, when I received little book
eaiied, .Tm Something OF Liar Ny
.,ee1f." published in London and New
York and manufactured by Baron De-
vore. Of Edgefeld, s. c. l think he is
]. Mreal descendant of Munchausen and
~ improved upon his great ancestor.
81 seems that he fell in with dwarf
A Kansas City, whose name was Ran.
rhis Ran had lived nine years on the
A1.ks Of the Amazon river and told
1s.ron Devore how the ammonia Of
4,e% region produced forests of red
trees that were two or three thou
nd feet high and big round in proper
Tor. He says it took him II days and
- hours and 80 minutes to walk
srnnnd one of them. Ran says the am
,wr6n,a dwarfed him. It enlarged his
Md and heightened his feet, but
-.ra,nk up his shanks and neck. He
-,cre a No. 10 hat and No. collar. His
fAet, were is inches long and flattened
H.. ! ducks bill, and his legs about
~ size Of hoe handle. His feet grew
lcn1 on purpose, for the soil was SO
,oft an ordinary foot would have sunk
down in it. Everybody knew him in
Kansas City and it is dangerous to
scuht or dispute his stories. Ran says
hat some Of those trees were awful
Il crooked and one day he came across
cne that had fallen down from old |
~. II was hollow from the butt to |
M top and was 1900 feet long and
me of its big limbs had stuck in the !
.-ound. and he noticed that millions
q beee were going in and coming out
q the hole in it. So he got help and
nj into it TO get the honey and sud-
a.rlv the limb broke and the crooked
tree commenced rolling and the honey |
pouring out. The tree
80 crooked it could not stop roll