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the FADING LIGHT OF DAY.

Jenny. gather up the scraps. and Hetty.
bring the broom;
sally. push the settle back and tidy up
the room:
Now's the time, 'twixt day and dark, to
clear the work away:
For the morn make ready by the fading
light of day.
come, my boys, bring in the wood and
split the kindling fine,
Tetch some water from the spring and
feed the waiting kline;
fouH not need the lantern, lads. the
twiltght's clear and gray,
Haste and you will finish by the fading
light of day."
Thus the dear housemother spake, still
busy all the while,
Helping girls and cheering boys with
gentle word and smile,
TIL the tasks were ended and the sons
and daughters gay
Gathered round the fireplace by the fad
Ing light of day.
Scattered, scattered. far and wide. in dis
tant lands. and dead!
Long the grass has waved above the
gentle mothers head;
But at nightfall even yet seem to hear
her say:
''For the morn make ready by the fading
light Of day."
Wiser now. methinks therein that hidden
meanings Turk,
Teaching ere that night shall come
wherein no man can work"
Every soul be girded ready; God alone
can say
If our eyes again behold the fading light
of day.
Marion F. H. Harmon, in Boston Tran
script.
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To He Proud OF,

The champion prize fighter was ex-
hibiting his massive frame to a crowd
of admirers.
''My short-arm jab," he remarked,
holding out his right arm and indi-
eating the knotted muscles above the
wrist, 'gets it's steam from that
bunch of flesh. It is the best devel-
oped IN the country, and that's no
JOSH"
The open-mouthed. crowd came
closer to view it.
"And how did you develop it to
such state of perfection?" asked
the man with spectacles. Punching
bag, wrist machine, pulleys, or"
"Naw!" replied the champion,
throwing his chest out half foot.
That comes from writing explana-
lions of how I won, and always will
win, fights. I use a typewriter
After all, it is the long-continued
exercise that counts most.-Cincin-
natl Commercial-Tribu
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THE HAY FEVER VICTIM.
Keens Tab on the First Day of the
Dreaded Season and Expedites
the Annual Attack,

"To-morrow-if there only were no
to-morrows!" said the man sadly to
lis wife.
They sat close together in the twi-
light, watching the deepening shad-
ows from the front windows. relates
the Washington Star.
Eyes, but Time waits not and so
on--you know the rest, poor dear"
said the wife, in tone as sad as his
own.
"Ths horrible inevitability OF the
thing!' said the man, hoarsely, after
while.
"But,' said she, as soothingly as
she could, "why protest against the
inevitable?"
The man, however, was in rebel
Eous mood.
"Why," said he, peevishly. SHOULD
I be singled out, with only a small
percentage of others, in proportion
to the mass for so savage an Attic
ton, or infection, or whatever you
please to call it?"
She did not reply for a little while,
and then she said:
| "But do not our Affections chasten
us?'
He snorted violently.
"Chasten be hanged!" he exclaim-
ed. ''Talk sense, Editha!"
After while he calmed down and
resumed his querulous tone of sad
ness.
Sand you know how despise these
separations, my DEAR" he said ca
ressingly.
"But how can you know how long
this one will endure?" she asked him.
Haven't I the miserable expert
ence of many years behind me from
which to draw the conclusion?" he
inquired.
His query seemed so unanswerable
| that she remained silent.
eff it were not such a brutal, I'M
merited punishment" he went on,
after a while.
EYES," she said, comfortingly, "but
try and think of the many, many
others throughout the world who
will be in worse case than you, my
dear"
"Oh, yes" he broke out; Gin China,
I suppose there are several hundreds
of pirates figuring to a certainty
upon having their heads cut off with
with snickersnees tomorrow morn
ing. There are few lepers in India,
too, I understand. Tomorrow be-
ing Friday, I presume there will be
the usual quota of hangings. And the
iails are all normally filled up, doubt
not. Besides, there are some outcasts
starving somewhere or other right
now, I presume. All Of these, I sup
pose you mean, are in worse case than
I[-but not so very much at that, when
YOU come to think of it."
"But," she argued sweetly, "after it
is all, all over, life will be SO much the
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-11-15
Didn't Know Isaac.

A gentleman who spent part of his
vacation season in a Canadian town
had returned home for a rest before
resuming his labors and related his
experience, thus:
II went off the beaten path for a
few days fishing: In small village
not very great way from Quebec
1 stopped at small inn to get a
drink. The name of the inn was the
Izaak Walton. I said to the man who
brought me the drink:
"'Does Izaak Walton keep this
placer
"'No,' was the answer. Mr.. Smith
keeps it,
"'Then why does he have the name
Walton hung out there?' went on.
'The drink man looked at me as ii
I had said something derogatory to
the establishment.
"'Cant' say SIR he replied. 'Mr
Smith has had the place only this
season. I suppose he hasn't had time
to take the former owners name
down yet. I'm a newcomer myself
| but I think Mr.. Walton died."
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Hot Air in Boston.

Little Observation-Disclosures, find
no marginal note in elucidation OF
this expression, which l observe fire.
qaently to occur in my volume OF
''Fairy Tale Classics bateG
breath" What is the proper inter
probation of the pharse?
Mamma-"With bated BREATH" my
son, commonly occurs in the fairy
tales; your father often returns from
piscatorial excursions with batet
breath. The phrase in such instances
however, has no significance as ap
plying to the bait employed to al
lure the fish, but is merely an elastic
term of dubious meaning and sus
picious origin, utilized, as have al
ready intimated, simply because O.
the sanction which it has gained b.
customary usage in fairy tales gen
orally. Do you comprehend, Emer
son?
"Perfectly. mamma. Judge.
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rra.d tn Get Ont of 1t.

The housekeeper had bought several
tins of tea that came in pound cans.
Going into the pantry one day she dis
covered the maid opening tin with
what she thought was "..due nearness
to the time of opening former. Ex-
postulating that surely all that tea
hadn't been used SO so4n, the maid
tossed her head.
"There's no pound in those tins
ma'am; they say so themselves" And
pointing to the mark Or The LABEL Zone
h., net" she went on triumphantly
''Look, ma'am; you see yourself it says
one pound, nit. Twas a joker that put
that Philadelphia Bulletin.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-11-15
At an Afternoon Tea.

The only daughter of a miner from
the west, who had been a day labor
er before he made his millions, was
pouring tea that afternoon.
An eastern exotic in spats, knowing
the value of money in his business
had asked for an introduction. He
was charmed by the accomplished
manner in which she asked him II
he would have cup of tea, and
bowed low to say that he would be
only too happy.
evil you take sugar in your'n p
she asked, sweetly.
Then for the first time he exper'
fenced the influence OF her lineage
Smart Set.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-11-15
SOLDIERS 1e.a 'Asss.
The Practice Of Wedding ha'f DESERT.
ing Filipino Women e IN mined
by the War Department..

United States soldiers who marry
Filipino women in the future will run
a very great risk of being dishonorably
discharged from the service. The fire.
quency of such marriages has been
made the subject of a report to the war
department. from. Gen. Chaffee, who
takes the ground that rather than
give the soldier an excuse to desert
his native wife when his regiment is
ordered to other quarters, he will
order the soldier discharged without
honor. One of the requirements of
enlistment is that the applicant be not
married, and marriage after enlist
ment is regarded as just as detrimental
to the service as before enlistment,
in which latter case the applicant
would not be enlisted, reports the
Washington Star.
Army chaplains have the right to
marry anyone they please, but they
customarily do not marry enlisted men
without the consent of the command
ing officers. Generally such consent
is withheld in the case of enlisted men,
inasmuch as at posts there are limited
accommodations even for married
commissioned officers.
If soldiers in the Rhi1ippines marry
native women and Aen, when their
regiments are ord1 va. attempt
to desert them, the{ may IN held as
being guilty of cor 1r Hfehl to
good discipline andA 6ASmh the
service on that score. fh as a
soldier enlists as an BED man
the army can make revision for
the care of his wiz
"There has unda lysldly been wan
ton cruelty practiced on native women
by enlisted soldiersw who married them,
hiding in their hearts the cowardly in
tent to desert them whenever their
regiments left the islands," said the
Manila Times in a. recent editorial.
SO It is a question il chap
lains who have thus made it possible
for the men to violate a fundamental
law of honor and deeency may not
themselves be liable totdigclpline for
aiding and abetting AM infraetian OF
discipline.
every departing transport brings
trouble to the division commanders
office. Thirteen renegade husbands
have been discovered hoard the Crook
now in quarantine, and they have been
gently, but firmly, brought ashore to
reioin their weeping families"
During the early American occupa.
ton of Porto Rico many soldiers mar
ried Porto Rico women for whom a
part of the soldiers pay was set aside,
It is not known that any such provi-
sion is made in the Philippines.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-11-15

this 1897 he last financial year OF the old city OF
York; water rents amounted to $4,32685oo2
The interest on all water bonds that year 18ooo ADD
the cost of and have total OF w.
545656 Subtract this from the water rents received anu the
is left profit ST 78o64oo5 bond issue OF $53oS33oo
Quite as orcble showing the cts dock property Up 20
1905 the dock department had spent $6o89o in acquiring ad
improving private property The rentals received amounted to
224 per the total outlay AS the average nr
on bonds for these has been au
III Der nt the represent sufficient profit to redeem the
principal in less than 20 years. 4
HOWEVER REVOLUTIONARY A PROPOSITION NAY
SEEM AT FIRST SIGHT, IF AFTER CAREFUL DISCUSSION
TT IS FOUND 70 BE BASED ON UNIMPEACHABI.E
TRUTHS IT IS BOUND ULTIMATELY TO RECEIVE EHE
SANCTION OF THE PUBLIC
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-11-15
She Does Not Fltrt.

The one girl in the world who does
not understand the art of flirting is
Eshe of the Philippine islands. She is
womanly and interesting extremely
graceful, as straight as an arrow and
always picturesque, but seldom pref
ty. A. girl becomes a young lady at
IL or 10; by IS she is probably a
grandmother, but even at the adj
vanced age of 50, she is still supple
and graceful and picturesque. The
type Of beauty of all the Pacific is
lands is the same. The skin is yellow
or brown, the hair straight and shiny
black, the eyes soft and lustrous, and
the teeth white. The girls are modest
to the last degree.-Detroit Free Press.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-11-15
k quite H." HIS voice was con.

look quite H." MS voice was con-
cerned.
II feel ill., she answered, sitting
down, and che looked him steadily in
the face; ell and troubled. I have
lost a friend"
"Indeed, who is it-anyone ]
know?"
She was mistress of herself, and
answered clearly and coldly.
ut is you, Mr.. Rising. thought
you were a friend. I trusted you
with my secret, and how have you
rewarded me? By stealing my play,
the work of my brain, and palming
it off as your own. This afternoon
at Mrs. Bryan's reception heard
with my own ears Mr.. Harcourt Dare
tell woman he had accepted COM
edy called An Impenitent Woman
by Herbert Rising, the dramatic
critic. He said he hadn't thought
you had it in you to do such clever
work-that you had . great future
as dramatist before you"
Herbert looked quite disconnected
''You heard him say that?"
do you deny you told him you
wrote the play yourself?"
mo, don't deny it. I did tell
him wrote it,
20, how can you look me in the
face and own such baseness?"
Herbert stared, frowned and rose
to his feet. He came in front of Mar
garet and put his hands on her Shout
ders.
Marcy" he said, unconsciously
privileged to utter; show dare you
suspect me of such unutterable
| meanness?"
"Must 1 not believe the evidence Of
my own ears?"
'1n this case, no."
Margaret flushed slowly, and, look
ing into his face, believed him. Tears
started to her eyes, but not all Of
sorrow. She asked for no proof; the
look in his eyes satisfied her. "For-
give me-" she whispered.
"Three years ago Dare accepted a
play by a Mrs. Averill; he was per.
suaded into doing so. He spent a
large sum mounting it, and it failed
utterly. He vowed never to produce
another play by woman. I there.
fore led him to think I wrote your
play; otherwise he would have either
not read it at all, or read it biased
against it. That is the explanation
"Forgive me-" repeated Margaret,
with shining eyes.
For answer he stopped and kissed
her. MARCY, I love you. It's not
your play I want, but your sweet
self. I want to steal you from this
home to reign in mine, or, rather
in the one I have in my minds eye
1t only wants a wife to complete it. >
"a wife," she said, smiling mistily
eff her name is Marcy, and if she
suspected me of barefaced stealing
of plays, no other will do"
"Then her answer is Yes" Mar
garet whispered.
"And the funny part" said Her
bert, taking paper out of his peck
ct, "is that I didn't come wife-seek
ing tonight, but on prosalc piece
of business. On second thoughts
Marcy, can hardly blame you, after
what you overheard, from suspectine
me. But, to prove my loyalty, reae
this. It's contract on the part OF
Harcourt Dare to produce AN I'm
penitent Woman by Margaret Hal
ston, before the year is out. See
the original name is Herbert Ris
ing, but when he had signed it 1 tole
him the truth, crossed out my name
and wrote yours overhead"
But when can Impenitent Woman
was successfully produced at the
Crescent theater the name of the
author was not Halston, but Rising;
and no one was prouder than he1
husband of the success of what hi
called "Margy's play" Chicago
Tribune.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-11-15
PROGRESS IN PORTO RICO.
Materially the People Are Prospefin8
and Taking Readily to the New
Order of Things.

A little more than four years ago
Gen. Miles landed in Porto Rico and
the American flag was raised at
Guanica. About two years ago civil
government upon the American
model was definitely established in
the island, says Youths Companion.
The welcome which the Porto
Ricans gave to the American army
they have extended to the institu-
tions set up by the American govern
ment. They have taken readily to
the new laws and the new order of
things generally. The island legis-
lature has used its powers wisely and
with moderation. At the first cleo
ton two years ago. the people were
so unaccustomed to political cam
paigns that one party withdrew it's
candidates in a pet, and there was no
real contest at the polls. Next No
vember a new legislature, mayors
and other officers are to be chosen;
and lively interest is already man
ifested in the political and personal
issues involved.
Materially the poor are prospecting.
They are developing the sugar, coffee,
industries. Last year they sold
abroad nearly 10 million dollars
worth of their products, which was
m pre- than half as much again as in
the preceding year. Improved santa
ton has diminished the death rate;
SO that there were 10000 fewer
deaths last year than the year be-
fore Nearly $4,000 Porto Rican chill
dren are in the public schools. and
two industrial schools are to be
opened this fall.
The prosperity of Porto Rico seems
to be, based on secure foundations
and the future of the island is full
of promise.
Relic OF Hawaiian Royalty.
Capt Croskey reported these facts
to the photographic Office in Wash
ington.
Royalty in Hawaii is thing of the
past, but it has left behind it the
record OF, having owned the costliest
garment in the world. This is de.
scribed as a royal cloak" and came
from the Sandwich islands to London
some years ago for display at the
fisheries exhibition. The garment is
valued at half million dollars. Red
black and yellow feathers are used
in it's construction. The bird from
which the yellow feathers were OBJ
tanned is now extinct. It was Away.
SO rare that it took a century and /:
half to collect enough to make tn,
cloak. Each bird produced but thre,
or four feathers of the requisite del
cacy.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-11-15
PUBLIC OWNERSHIP
M PUBLIC UTILITIES
By HON. BIRD s. cOLER. -,
Walls Broker Of NetD York CITY.
TO this we must come in time.

To this we must come in time.
To this we shall come as soon as peo-
pie realize and appreciate the difference
between expenditures made in behalf OF
remunerative and profitable investment like
docks, street railroads and gas plants, and
expenditures for unproductive investments
like parks, street pavements and public
buildings. These latter, however desirable
and necessary, bring in no financial return
to the municipality and are therefore A
DIRECT BURDEN UPON THE TAX
PAYERS
Municipal ownership-better service
cheaper service, money saved to the tax
PAYERS. New York city furnishes proofs Of
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-11-15
Hay Fever Peculiarity.

By inquiries among 400 persons at
north sea resorts DIR. Thast has con-
irmed the assumption that the chief
popularity of hay fever is an idio-
syncrasy of the .olfactory nerve in re-
spect to the doors of certain flow
ers, and that the only places abso-
lutely free from it are those with
scanty, low vegetation without much
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Medicine.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-11-15
Infauence a. chez

If Scottish scientist il to be be-
ieved, the people Of those countries III
which chess is most frequently played
are invariably more civilized thanS
those who inhabit countries IN which,
little attention is paid to this great
game. The best chess players III theh
world, he points cut, were to be found
in Spain during the period Of its splen-Is
dor, and in Italy during the renaissance,
whereas to-day there are few persons
in those countries who care for the
game Scientific American
Anopt Nho y satisiled
with WI feet Chicaeos
Daily y a
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-11-15

like to go home"
By sheer strength Of will she con-
trolled herself sufficiently to walk
downstairs, and they drove homie.
Arrived there, the girl managed to
make light of her faintness, and got
rid of her aunt, saying she was go
ing to lie down in her room. She
locked the door, and, throwing her
self on her bed, cried till her eyes
were sore and hot and swollen.
It was Herbert's treachery that
struck hardest. Had it been anyone
else indignation would have mas
tered her, but she was too over
whelmed to be angry.
| She had trusted him so implicitly
more, she had learnt gradually to
| love him. She knew it now for the
| first time, and this was the manner
| of man he was!
He had stolen her play, and the
theft would be successfully carried
through. She saw the strength OF his
position; her jealousy guarded Sc
cret was his alone; he held the only
copy of the play; were she to ac'
cuse him it would be deemed the &C
cusation of hysterical girl. If he
defied her to prove her words what
could she do?
| DR.. Halston was dining out tina:
night. Margaret was alone. About
ten o'clock Mr.. Rising's card was
brought to her.
II will see him in the drawing
room," said Margaret. She looked
a fright, she knew, but cared little
at the moment about her personal
appearance. She went down.
allow do you do?" he began
'sWhy, what Is the matter7 You
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-03-28
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The use IF one bottle Of Poine's Celery
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When yo1 go to your dealer see that
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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-03-28
SHORT TEXAS SPECIALS.

r,
ny l.E Kyle public school closed today
u,,', .N'".,'
Ei''lN M2rnlhefN Tor the now water
works plant Ia beginning To arrive.
MlL!itAN.-Au of ne stock mas been
SupS'Hoeu Tor cahn'rS TO ue located mere.
CALVERT The Anti. Saloon league IS 4,
undertake the enforcement of the Sunday
law
WHARTON The contract has boen Ict
for n new Presbyterian church, TO cost
SSuN'
ROUND MOUNTAIN. Tho puhlic schools
clos'd Tor me term with appropriate eXCr-
c'SvS
WALLIS Tho shipment OF rndlshes has
hcen y Successful experiment with the truck
FARMERS
NACOGppCUES- new daily paper i.
To be established here, IL Will be an after
noon 'alll"n
CORSlCANA.-Mrs A. Shwarts Is In n
critical condition as the result of stroke
or paralysis
ABILENE. Gordon Fleming vas convict.
cd ot swudljng and given four years in The
pehltemaN
MAESUALL.--A Franchise has hecn
granted Tor q street railway 10 be operated
10y cl'erio'ty
STANFORD. Their, Is now a movcncpt
under way for the huildius or a Methodist
chnich mere.
IIANO large acreage has hcrp
planted to corn In this section aud all Of II
Is In the ground
CARTHAGE. There was a rcperal i,p
delivery here, three negroes aud white
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-03-28
'7--s.'-'-a-ssa1-a aasH-
CONGRESSIONAL.

The house has appointed a committee e
investigate charges Of bribery made ia con
neetion with the purchase Of the Danish
West indies.
The army appropriation bill passed this
house without material amendment.
The presidents message on the relin
punishment Of the control Of Cuba was laid
before the house.
The senate bill tn promote the efficiency
OF the revenue cutter service was made the
special order In the house until disposed Of
The oleomargarine bill was considered IN
the senate.
Mr.. Patterson. senator from Colorado
made speech critlclsing General Funston
methods when he captured Agulnaldo.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-03-28
WASHINGTON.

The president has sent message to con.
gress formally announcing that Cuba will
be turned over to the Cuban government on
May 20, 1902
The subcommittee of the senate Philip
pine committee decided to recommend that
the present silver standard in the islands
remain undisturbed.
The president has recommended that APP
propriations be made and preparations in.
auEurated for the establishment Of dlplo-
matte and consular relations with Cuba.