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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-02-01
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ARE REASONABLY SAFE.
Automobiles Are by No Means m Dan.
xerous ~ Some Writers Would
Have Us Believe.

The fact that every now and then an
automobile blows up and endangers
the life of it's occupants appears to
prove that the self-going carriage has
not vet perfected itself. Possibly it
never will be perfect. 1t may always
be subject to leakages of highly IN
fiammable fluids that supply the heat
ing power, or to leakages of equally
dangerous electric currents that may
shock the sensibilities of the riders.
Even the inflated wheel tires have
burst in hot weather, after long stand
ing on the baking streets, and put the
vehicle out of commission, as we'll as
scared the neighborhood by the We
hemence of the report. Yet we must
not suppose that the automobile has
been counted out on these circum-
stances. We have to consider the 9TH
er aspects of the case and realize that
every mode of transit has it's perils and
disadvantages. Even the bicycle is
liable to lose crank or a brake and
become manageable. Railroad
trains are surely not exempt from ac-
ClueAl, eAouSA eSoA tAAAS III -
done to make them as safe as they are
rapid. The trolley car is liable to
snarl itself in broken wire and to
scorch and terrify it's passengers. And
as to the good old horse, there never
was an automobile half so full of kinks
as he. Your automobile may take fire
and burst and slip cog and break
down ten miles from house, but it
does not go wild in presence OF an old
newspaper; it does not run at a
frantic pace through crowded streets,
paying no attention to it's driver; it
does not try to climb trees and house
fronts and bump into its own species.
There are drawbacks everywhere, but
the automobile has no more than its
Shareholder Days.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-02-01
Japanese Porcelain Repairs.

In the manner Of repairs those won
derful followers of principle and
truth in art, the japanese, have les
son to teach us. When q japanese
connoisseur breaks some precious
piece of pottery or porcelain, he does
not throw it away with disdain. nei-
Their does he try to deceive the casual
observer into the belief that it is un-
broken. Instead, he has it joined to-
gether, generally with gold lacquer, in
such fashion that the fracture is bold
" shown and commented on, AZ it
were, by the frank exposition Of the
method by which it is made good.
Curiously enough, distinctly new
and charmingly decorative effect is in
most cases added by these irregular
gold lines, while the sense of crafts,
ranship is tickled by the marvellous
skill exhibited by the repairer in thus
welding together the two dissimilar
materials. Truth is preserved at NO
loss of artistic beauty; indeed once
more it is made clear that the two
may always walk hand in hand
ConnoisseIr.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-02-01
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The general missionary committee
of the Methodist Episcopal church
announces receipts of 1928, 1856
through regular channels during the.
last fiscal year.
The girls at Vassar have become
interested i'll hockey, game which
the young Englishwoman, Miss Con-
stance Applebee, is so successfully
introducing into the women's col
leees of America. She will be coach
at Vassar, Smith and Radcliffe. Miss
Applebee is also starting fencing
school in Boston.
Lord Mount Stephen has recently
given 70 the Established Church OF
Scotland the sum of 6 10000, the an
nual revenue of which is to be ap-
piled to the augmentation of the sal
aries of some 20 ministers in Aber-
deenshire and Banffshire. This will
assist these pastors-an OF them In
poorly maintained charges-to tho
extent of 6 100 year each.
An English paper mentions the
names of some ten noblemen who
are frequent preachers. OF these five
are ordained priests OF the Estab-
lished church, and one is bishop
who is a 'lord' in his own right.
Among those peers who are preach
ers is included Lord Kinnaird. an ac-
knowledged authority on football.
but not less resolute and Jealous al
q lay preacher.
The largest entering class at Rad
cliffe college, 43o in all, registered
this year. This is q new departure
in the department OF athletics, =
hockey team having been formed.
Miss Constance Applebee, q young
Englishwoman, has come over Tor
the express purpose of introducing
hockey to American girls. and her
services as coach have been secured.
Fifty-two girls have enrolled in the
hockey club.
In Germany the proportion of uni
versity students to the whole popu-
lation has doubled in 30 years. The
total number in 1870 was 1871,
| which gave $50 students to every
10000 German males, while In 1900
it was 46,52o, or 1878 to every 10000.
The comparative figures for the dif-
ferent institutions of higher learn'
ing are as follows: Universities
proper, 1854 and 1884; technical
schools, 2,s2s and 1o,412; mining
schools, IA and 1853; veterinary
schools, 267 and 1,343, and agrlcul-
tural schools, 357 and 800. The for
estry schools remain stationary, the
figures being 261 and 278.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-02-01
MOUNTA1N LIONS AID HERDERS
They Feed ON Wild Colts and Leave
Sheep and Calves of Stock.
men Alone.

Mountain lions are assisting the
stockmen of southern Utah in reduc-
ing the herds of wild horses which
roam the ranges, writes the Denver
correspondent Of the Chicago Inter
Ocean. 1t is reported that the lions
have considerably diminished the
herds by devouring the colts.
Young colts seem to be, choice
morsels for the wild beasts, and it
is said that not over so colts es-
capped the lions this season on the
Boulder, Thousand Lakes and Fish
Lake mountains. The lions seem to
prefer the colts to lambs and calves,
and since there have been a great
many colts born on the ranges dur
ing the last few years the beasts OF
prey have almost ceased to modest
offspring of sheep and cattle.
AS the lions are not much hunted
and have ready access to choice
food they have been increasing in
numbers rapidly and threaten to be-
come a great menace to stockmen,
especially when the wild horses be-
gin to grow scarce. Down in Kane
county the horses have about desert
ed the haunts of the lion and are in
creasing so fast that the stockmen
have recently decided upon their ex-
termination. A prominent stockman
Just up from the south says that
with this means employed, the depre-
dations of the lions and the starving
to death in hard winters the wild
horse bands of southern Utah will
soon become thing of the past.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-02-01
INSECTS MAKE MUSIC.
Strange Sounds with Which All
Of u Are Familiar.

The grasshopper has wing that is
very curious to look at. You have
seen this little insect, I have no doubt.
Its color is light green, and just
where the wing joins the body there is
a thick ridge and another on the wing.
On this ridge there il q thin but strong
skin, which makes sort of drumhead.
It is the rubbing of these two ridges
or drumheads together which makes
the queer noise you have heard. There
is no music in it certainly. The insects
could keep quiet, if they wished, but
they must enjoy making the noise.
The grasshopper sometimes makes
two rubs on its drumhead and some
times three. The moment it is very
dark they begin. Soon the whole COM
pany is at work. AS they rest after
each rubbing, it seems as if they an
swered one another. Did you know
that bees hum from under their
wings? It is not the stir OF those
beautiful light wings we hear. 1t is
the air drawing in and out of the air
tubes, in the bees quick flight. The
faster the bee flies the louder the hum
ming is. Did you know that insects
feelN They have nerves all over them,
through their wings and out to the
end of every feeler-Prairie Farmer.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-02-01
Ere. and Teeth suffer.

According to the dentists, the teeth
of civilized peoples are steadily decay
ing. result said to be due to the in
creased demand on the nerves and to
the lessening work of mastication put
ON the jaws. Similarly the eyes are
said to be going,a result attributed to
too much reading, to railway trains,
and to the dust of cities. A reviewer,
in a scientific contemporary, finds
new subject for blame and abuse-the
highly glazed paper used by the illus
trated books. eff the use of the high
" pressed and metallically polished
PAPERS. which since the invention OF
half-tone illustrations have become
fashionable in illustrated magazines, is
carried much farther-the danger is
very real and serious-the eyes OF the
rising genera ton will fail them long be-
fore their time"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-02-01
CABINET WITH GLASS DooRA

glass doors, in calm seclusion from
dust, dirt and general contamination.
One mother found that she could have
much better chance for ventilation in
the little back room by moving the
bed to the other side of the room. But
the closet door could not then be
opened, so she bought cheap denim
curtain and asked furniture dealer
the best way to put it up. He told her
of the convenient brass rod and sock
cts which any woman can put up for
herself just inside the frame of her
door, and the second picture shows how
the curtain was hung. In another
house, a window was backed when the
addition was built on, and the contriv-
ing housewife utilized the space left
for book closet. Below it were placed
a couch with attractive cover and cush-
ions and a piano lamp, thus making a
very alluring cozy corner. One of the
most fascinating of little homes has
the "cutest" closet! Once there was
no way to reach the sitting-room from
the parlor except to go around through
the hail.. There was closet between
and chimney. II there had been .
single partition it would have been a
comparatively simple matter to throw
the rooms together. But ingenuity tri-
umphed. Opposite the closet door an
opening in the other partition was
made. These openings were prettily
arched and curtained, shelves for
books with drawers below were
placed across each side and the arch
way closet became thing of beauty
and convenience. Corner closets for
fancy cups and saucers should have
the cups hanging on the little brass
hooks which can be procured for five
cents a dozen or less. Holders for dec
grated plates and saucers are also sold.
Closets should not be allowed to be-
come dust traps or germ breedera
Very often they should be thrown
open to air and light, then busted and
rearrauged.-Good Housekeeping.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-02-01
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LIFE IN WASHINGTON.
Aae the Able Guidsace of Mrs.
"oescvelt Society Will BE Regu-
lated Systematically,

before President Roosevelt moved
into the white house there was a
great deal of public concern as to
now ne was going to stow away his
extensive family in the limited quar-
1ers of the executive mansion that
are allotted to the president as
residence. Mr.. Roosevelt did not ex-
press any alarm over the question,
out several newspapers grew almost
frantic at the prospect of the little
hoosevelts having to sleep on the
moor. The correspondents of those
papers divided up the living rooms
an every manner possible, but they
could not arrive at any conclusion
but that Kermit and Ethel would
nave to eat at "the second table"
and sleep standing up. This latter
necessity, it pointed out, was GER
tain to make the darlings bowlegged.
PRESIDENT Roosevelt resented such in
reference with what he considered a
personal matter. He even went SO far
rs to Intimate to friend that he
thought Mrs. Roosevelt was capable OF
solving the problem. This gentle hint,
however, was not sufficient to over
come the ardent sympathy that was
going out from the mansions on Co.
lumbia Heights to the president and
his alleged half-homeless family. A
public meeting was called. A resolu-
ton was drawn pointing out with
many whereases the extremities of
the Rooseyelts and resolving that if
the country wanted to do the proper
thing for it's chief executive it should
build palatial residential white
house," which not only should be
in keeping with the dignity of the
nation but also in keeping with the
size of the presidents family.
Mr.. Roosevelt saw that great deal
of high-class sympathy was going to
waste and he decided to stop the ex-
travagance. So when Charles A.
Moore, the clerk of the senate dis
trict committee, called on him to
explain the plans of the park commits
sion regarding the extension of
breathing spots in the national CAPT.
tai the president seized the oppor--
tunity to declare that neither he nor
Mrs. Roosevelt desired any altera-
tions in the white house. He said
they were both exactly suited. and
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-02-01
FISHING FOR MICE.
A Snort In Which Our Gran dfathers
Used to Delight When Rain
Kept Them Indoors.

To go fishing on land is probably a
strange sport to you, unless your
grandfather has told you how he used
to catch mice in the pantry. If he
were like my grandfather he had very
little money when he was boy, and
one cent meant as much to him as
ten cents does to most boys nowadays,
and he used to earn cent for every ten
mice he caught. l..
Suppose the kitchen or pantry or
garnet happens to be full of mice, and
you haven't trap in the house. It is
a very simple matter to make one OF
the old-fashioned kind, with an empty
Jam jar. Over the top tie piece of
heavy brown paper, in the way you
have probably seen jars of currant
Jelly covered. In the middle OF the
paper cut a cross. Then set the jar
wherever the mice are apt to come and
hang a piece of toasted cheese over
the center of the jar. The mouse, at
tracted by the cheese, will climb upon
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-02-01

closely followed, is bound to turn even
the dullest dog into passable hunter,
while the bright ones will leave the
place stars.
The most aristocratic student at the
school at present is Sailor Boy, who
is an apt pupil and favorite with
classmates and instructors.
This dog belongs to President Roose-
welt and is Chesapeake of the finest
stock and the color of an otter. The
dog is now finely broken and retrleves
perfectly.
Col. Cody also has dogs at Lafayette.
They are Llewellyn settlers of highly
bred strains.
Other blue-blooded CANNES too nu-
merous to name fill the kennels and re-
ceive a daily course of instruction in
the rules of retrieving and dog etl-
quette. The dogs are divided into
classes and each pupil is given les
sons in the various branches in which
he is most deficient.
"Our chief trouble is with lazy dogs,"
Mr.. Erb remarked recently while dis
cussing the work of the school. "You
can break an energetic dog OF fault
! within few weeks by exercising pa
tient perseverance and kindness, but it
| is a much more difficult task to cure
dog of laziness and a lazy hunter
! is the abomination of all sportsmen.
II have found that there is nothing
like hunger to rouse even the most
| = nh wi
the black name Of lazy is placed in my
| charge, I first make an effort to be-
come his friend and then slowly COM
| mence to let him feel the pangs OF
| hunger.
"When I think he is hungry enough
I take him out for a tramp through
the woods and his lessons in retrieving
begin. When he has gone briskly after
a wounded bird and brought it quick
" and safely to me he is rewarded
with a good swell dinner served on the
spot.
"a few experiences of going hungry
and several more lessons in retrieving
set the lazy dog to thinking and un.
less he is particularly stubborn he soon
commences to take an interest in sport
and before he leaves the kennels will
| tramp miles and miles without tagging
and will bring to hand the last bird
shot with as much surety and quick.
ness as he did the first.
"a slow dog once cured of its lazi-
| ness makes first-class hunter, for
it lacks the nervous disposition which
so often spoils more energetic dog.
"Setters are the most easily taught
They usually have affectionate dispo-
sitions ana learn rapidly. Jim and
Fritz, two of Col. Cody's dogs, had lots
to learn when they first came to me
but they proved apt scholars and now
at IA months, they work to charm
When standing bird they make q
picture to thrill the sportsman'a
| heart.
"Mr. Roosevelt's Chesapeake dog
Sailor Boy, is well along in his studies
He is ten months old, a handsome
smooth-coated dog of the finest Stock
philadelphia Press.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-02-01
spn SPOTS ana Famine.

The hypothesis of Sir Norman Lock-
yer relative to the relation between
sun spots and variations in the earth's
productiveness, resulting in plenty or
famine, prosperity or panic. will find
contra diction or confirmation in the re-
suit of the photographic survey OF
India. At the suggestion Of the Royal
society, Lord Curzon's government has
undertaken magnetic survey. Sir
Norman's idea is that the perturba-
lions of the magnetic needle and sun
spots are intimately connected and
that magnetic currents have direct
relation to Indian droughts and conse-
quently to famines. A number of new
magnetic stations are now being erect
ed, and from the thoroughness with
which preparations for the work are
being undertaken, valuable results
will be obtained, both photographic
and magnetic, even if they do not con-
firm Sir Norman Lockyer's hypothesis.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-02-01
THE SAFEST SAFETY WHEEL.

Life, my boy, is a bicycle path,
And Work is the wheel you should
ride
II you would mount to the crest of the hill
And coast down the other side.
Just oil the machine with cheerfulness
And see that the parts are in trim,
Then straddle the saddle and pedal on
With ready, steady vim.
Don't start with rush up the hill of life
Just pedal a medium gate;
Remember that those who "scorch" at first
Are likely to finish late.
Grasp the handle bars Of the wheel Of
"Work'
With a firm hold-not too tight
Then sit up straight, like a man, and push
Push for the road that's right!
You may wabble bit, and punctures, too,
May cause you to dismount,
But plug up the holes with smiles and
pluck,
They are the plugs which count.
There are other makes Of machines than
work
There's the .'1dle." the Lazy the
Rest"
And hosts Of othere of tempting style,
But the one called "Wsrk' 10 best.
It's low-gear wheel CT homely frame,
But it's safe and sure and strong,
And the man who rides 1t persdstently
Can never in life go wrong.
So straddle the saddle OF Work." my boy,
And push 1t along with pride,
Till you get to the top of the hill OF life,
Then you'll coast down the other side.
Joe Kerr, in N. Y. Herald.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-02-01
A JAPANESE DEVICE.
1t In Nothing Less Than q Mosquito
Lamp Which Lures the Thirsty
Insects to Destruction.

It may be something of consola-
ton to germ-seeking Americans to
know that theirs is not the only mos
quito bitten country on the face OF
the globe.
The japanese are as subject to sting
ing retorts from these pests as we
are, and though they long ago adopted
the mosquito netting, no well regu-
lated Jap ever thinks of crawling un-
der it without his mosquito lamp,
trimmed and burning.
The lamp, which is usually of bur-
nished metal, looks at first sight much
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-02-01
ECONOMY OF SPACE.
There Are Many Ways In Which Odd
NOOks and Corners Can Be
Made of Use.

Away up in the attic, see to it that
the carpenter builds in a higher tier OF
drawers for bedding and packed-away
wearing apparel. Have plentiful sup
ply of hooks put up and cheap cur
tain to draw down. SO that what
is hung upon them SHAH be protected
from Dust. When repairs are made it
is wise to utilize space for closet room
and not allow even a little corner to
be boarded up if it might be thus made
useful. The picture here given is from
a photograph of cabinet with sliding
glass doors. This was built into a
space once occupied by ''let-down"
bed in colonial homestead. It has be-
come almost too much fashion to lit
ter a room with bric-a-brac. Some
how the cherished objects, each with
a special value of associa ton, attain an
added dignity when collected behind
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-02-01

separated points of the carbons and
to maintain these points in proper
relation the inventor has provided 8
clamping mechanism actuated by the
expansion and contraction of the
central rod of the governor. The first
action as the rod expands is the
clamping of the carbon pencils to pre-
vent further downward movement
and the second is the spreading of the
points until the arc is formed be-
tween them. AS soon as the points
are consumed partially the rod is
again drawn upward, allowing the
points of the carbons to fall together
once more, which feed is assisted by
the coiled springs attached at the
upper ends of the carbons.-Chicago
News.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-02-01
III. German Cavalry Boat.

A Strasburger, named Reg, has in
vented a coliapsible boat for the use
of cavalry on the march, and the YES
sci has been adopted for practical use
by the German hussars. The frame
work is composed of lances, and these
weapons, after simple adaptation, are
also used as oars. The tarpaulin which
forms the skin of the boat and the
other fittings are made upin two pack
ages. which can be carried by one
horse. On reaching a river-bank, the
framework can be put together and
the boat completed and launched in a
few minutes. Each of these conven-
lent vessels can carry Is men. The hus-
sars have been drilled in the use of the
boat by the inventor.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-02-01
THE FUNCTIONS OF APPETITE.
The Psychologist IL Often APT .
Leave Out the Natter Of
the Taste.

Too little account, it is thought, 10
taken by Psychologists of the func-
tions of appetite. AS these functions
belong in one sense to the domain OF
psychology, the Psychologists are apt
to devote themselves wholly to the
nutritive value of foods, leaving out
matters Of taste entirely. That the
latter are of first-rate Importance 10
the opinion of Prof. ]. p. Pawlow, OF
st. Petersburg, whose lecture on ''The
Work Of the Digestive Glands" has just
been translated from Russian into
French paris, 1917, and is reviewed
in the Revue Scientifque (September
y, says. the Literary Digest. From
this review we learn that the eminent
Russian scientist gives the fullest rec
ognition of the part played by the APP
petite, not only in ordinary digestive
processes, but in bringing on or curing
diseased conditions of the digestive or
gans. Everybody knows, says the
writer, that the normally profitable
food is that which 10 taken with appe-
tite, with sensation and pleasure. So
to restore the appetite is one OF the
most frequent requests made to the
physician. He continues:
"Unfortunately, medical science has
strayed from this legitimate tradition,
which corresponds to real conditions Of
digestive function. II we read contem-
porary treatises on the troubles Of the
digestive organs we shall be struck
with how little attention il paid to the
appetite, either as cause or as cure.
On the contrary, we may read
in certain works the advice that no spe-
cial heed be given to poor appetite,
which is subjective symptom Of slight
Importance! Such views can be re-
garded only as gross errors, : :
"When we advise the patient that he
should eat little at time and not to
safety, when he is put on special
diet, when we remove him from his
habitual surroundings and send him to
a place where his whole life is regu-
lated in accordance with his physiolog-
ic needs-in all these cases the physi-
clan is trying simply to awaken the
appetite, and thus takes account Of II
rs a therapeutic factor. In the first
case, when food 10 prescribed in small
quantities, besides the avoidance of re-
pletion in an enfeebled stomach, the
frequent excitation Of the saliva il Of
great Importance, because Of the rich
ness Of this secretion and its digestive
power.
The author cites cases in which an
abnormally small secretion OF gastric
Juice in the stomach made it doubly
necessary to insure proper digestion
by the saliva.