St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-04-19

portant movements are daily expect
ed, and all furloughs to go home are
strictly prohibited. The best I can
do is to send the captain to Farm.
vile for 30 days." There was an
army hospital at Farmville, which
was only 80 miles south of Rich
mond, where sick officers were sent
| to rest and be treated for their all
ments. And SO he Endorsed upon it
Farmville, and in the next blank 80
days. Suddenly a thought came over
me that 1 could not resist. I knew
that "Old Hooks" post Office in
Georgia was named Farmville. 1
stepped into the hotel and took q
pen and quickly added GA" to the
word. I knew that it was risky and
rascally, but 1 did it and took it to
"Old Hook" and told him to get
ready to leave next morning. How
quickly he frightened up and how
thankful he was to me. He went
home on that pass and came back
in due time, renewed and recovered.
He said the conductor looked ard
at him and at the pass, but let him
go by the hospital and then he felt
safe. I knew it had told him what
had done he couldn't face the mu-
sic and tell lie. After the war his
people sent him to the legislature
and my people sent me there, too,
and we rejoiced to get together
again every night and rehearse the
soul-stirring times that we had in
old Virginia.
From time to time I receive good,
earnest letters from the young folks
girls and boys-asking what books
to read and where to get them. One
came to-day from young miss who
is teaching a country school. She
says she cannot go to college, for
she is too poor, but manages to save
a little money and wants to know
what books to buy to improve her
mind. Well, if I was too poor to buy
some good encyclopedia, I would buy
Shakespeare, Macaulay, Goldsmith,
Tom Moore, Burns, Pope, Gray. Cow
per, Campbell, Tom Hood, Caldridge,
Wordsworth and some of Scott's
novels, such as "Ivanhoe, "Kenil-
worth" and canine of Guernstene."
Buy some of Dickens works, as
'sDombey and Son" and "David Cop
perfield." Then there is "John Hall
fax" by Mrs. Muloch. and "Ten
Thousand Year." by Warren. Buy
''The Vicar of Wakefield" for tho
sake of the hermit. Of course, our
own authors should not be neglected,
such as some of Irving's works and
Hawthorne and Longfellow and Bry-
ant. Buy Halleck for his Marco
Bozaris," if nothing else There are
two text books by Miss Rutherford,
of Athens, Ca, the cultured prin-
cipal of Lucy Cobb institute, that
should be in every respectable house
hold. One is English authors and
the other is American authors. Both
together make a good library and
are always ready for reference. I
had rather give up any two other
books than those. ''The Fisherman's
Prayer" by Jean Ingelow, in the
first named, is worth twice the cost
VI LAC OOOh NO" u1OSG " JucSC
books can be bought nicely bound
at prices from so cents to one dollar.
But there are hundreds of good
books by such authors as Mrs. Aus
tin and Charlotte Bronte and Mrs.
Mrs. Sigourney and others.
name only a few to fit the slender
purses of our young people. You
ian now buy the plays of Shake
'peare separately for q small cost,
and SO I would get Hamlet "Mac-
oeth," Romeo and Juliet" and 'sMer-
chant of Venice" When you are
able by all means get a cyclopedia
If biography, so that you can turn
% the interesting sketches of any
great man Or woman, such as CAL
i1eo, Mozart, Handel, Raphael, Beeth-
wen, Audubon, Linnaeus and hum
lreds of others. But don't crowd
,our youthful mind with modern
lovels. They are made to SELL
hats all.
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