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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-09-06

must have forgotten. thought that
I merely contemplated writing it,
"You appealed to me-" she said,
"when you commenced your historical
novel. By the way, it isn't finished yet,
I think?"
"No-o," I confessed, hesita tingly.
II don't think I've exactly begun it
yet; but tomorrow"
She laughed and clapped her hands.
"Ungrateful mani" she cried. Ibid
not make your fortune with that COM
edy for the Buskin? And yet you do
not know mel"
Really" I protested, in astonish-
ment, you are mistaken. planned
out comedy, but never finished it.
l sighed. Zone has SO many things to
do"
Il brought you a great cheque-
something in four figures" she said,
plaintively, land introduced you to
lot of managers ready to give you your
own terms for new play, and"
"You must be in a dream!" cried.
"Of course" She bent eagerly for
ward, with her eyes shining. THAT
was where we met. o, you must know
mel"
I shook my head. II remember" I
said, slowly, dreams which never
came true. But you"
H." she said, softly, "am To-mor-
row."
The clock licked out minutes while
I looked vacantly into the dim light.
Then 1 turned angrily to the smiling
maiden.
Il WONDER" I said, Indignantly,
"that you venture to come near me,
after the way you have deceived me.
How dare you look at me like that?"
~ can't help my looks" she said,
with sigh. 1T isn't allmy fault-really
it isn't
"You can help pretending to be what
you are not" I said, sternly. "You
need not wear pink, when you mean
gray, and say yes when you mean
no. and carry a sunshade, when it's
going to rain, and"
"Oh!" she cried, 81 can't help it.
really, 1 can't. And you aren't
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-09-06
A LITTLE NONSENSE.

Maker-"Here is cynic who says
that poetry is disease" Raker-
"That may be true in some cases, ous
in yours it is merely an Mathematician
indianapolis News.
/ Daughter-"The man l marry must
be a brave man." Father-"He Will
be if he marries you while your motnsr
is iving."-N. Y. Press.
do you know of q good tonic 1or
nervous persons, SimPklns No'
what I want to find is good tonic Tor
people who have to live with them.
London Tit-Bits. s rs. 5s
Hoax-'I suppose It's pretty hard to
write a really trustworthy history OF
notifies" Joax-"Yes; the principal
dates in it are bound to CONNECT. how
do YOU mean? What dates? Cand1-
ates.'-Philadelphia Record.
Careless Girl-"Such carelessness Is
little short of criminal" Numbered Dr:
Price Price, angrily. "Oh, DOCTOR
sobbed Mrs. Sassiety-Leders nurse
girl, lido you blame me for the Daoys
illness "Most assuredly. You snou!o
know better than to leave II alone III
the care of its mother, even Tor mo-
ment." -Philadelphia Press.
THAT fellow up there" said the talk
alive passenger to the stranger be-
side him, lis the worst cynic you ever
saw; always pointing the finger OF
scorn at other peoples work. lhat
so? l wish he'd do that at my work"
you do?" Eyes. l make circular
Answers.
Frightful Thought. = Suppose
"Well?" Its terrible to think OF, but
lust suppose" "Well?" Suppose
the historical characters who have re-
Gently figured in the historical novels
had really been the many different
kinds of persons that each one has
been made to appear, and had really
done all the contradictory things
that" For heavens sake quit! Don't
lead us to further horrors. "-Chlcago
Post.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-09-06
Miss Tomorrow
A Dialogue Of To-day
By j. A. FLYNN.

al SHOULDN'T try to write any
more, dear, if l were you," said
my wife, turning down the lamp.
you'll feel better tomorrow" was
still weak after my illness.
81 must do something" protested.
"Go to sleep and dream of new
character" said she, shaking up the
pillows. II shan't be gone long"
So my wife went out, and I lay
watching the cut flowers on the lamp
shade, and thinking of nothing in par
ticular, and then went to sleep.
I woke up at the soft rustic of a
dress, and saw a girl with wilfully
curved mouth, and big, dark eyes,
leaning back in the easy-chair and
smiling at me. It was obvious that
she was one of my heroines, because
they always have wilful mouths, and
dark eyes-and smile.
"Good evening"" 1 eaid. "Er-my
wife will be in shortly" I thought it
best to avoid any misunderstanding.
You see, my heroines are rather in
clined to be sentimental.
"Good evening"" she replied, in the
low, rich voice which my heroines al
ways have. II shall be pleased to see
your wife, of course. But came to
see you"
"It was-er-very kind OF you" /
said, uneasily. wasn't quite sure
whether it was the correct thing.
You have 10 be so much more careful
T. .oo1 1;fn <Aop in fa1oSt
"You wanted a new heroine7" she
suggested.
Certainly" 1 answered, with de-
light. Certainly. Would you mind
turning up the lamp?' l reached for
nv notebook and pencil.
at is quite unnecessary" she said,
pressing a dimple in her cheek with
one rosy finger. At least, that was
what she would do. The light was too
dim for me to see distinctly. "You
know my appearance so we'll"
"You said you were new" l objected,
with disappointment. @
"New-and old, too," she told me,
with ripping laugh-the usual kind.
Though perhaps you cannot recollect
when we met before"
"Not precisely" confessed. ut is
difficult to understand how could for
get YOU" That. of course, was what
nv heroine would expect me to say.
.'Yet there have been so many occa-
eions,", she murmured. when you
wrote your great epic poem, for ex-
ample"
"Dear, DEAR" cried. ibid l? Why,
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-09-06
CAVALRY OF VARIOUS AGES.
Peculiar Arms and Uniforms of Long
Ago Shown in Recent London
Tournament.

The war has proved the value and
the need Of cavalry and now, oppor-
timely, the military tournament has,
as special feature, g pretty historical
musical ride, which illustrates the de-
velopment of the British cavalry since
the days of King Edward Ill, 525 years
ago, says London paper.
Oddly enough, the earliest British
horsemen did not ride on their horses,
but in armed chariots, as did the
racers, who were their relatives, and
perhaps their ancestors in the region
of what is now Persia.
Much later on, when the horseman
was the chief force in war, he was not
q common soldier, but knight, and
then he grew to be so heavily armored
that the battles, where they were not
merely the sieges of castles, were
more or less only jousts between the
knights on the opposing sides. But
after King Edward l., the great skill
acquired by the English archers, who
were common soldiers, put the
knights into the shade. It was the
English archers who won the never
dying glory of Crecy and Agincourt.
While the archer was developing into
the principal arm of battle, "shield
money" was largely doing away with
the knights, who preferred to pay the
tax rather than go on foreign wars in
which they had no personal interest.
The "shield money" tax enabled the
king to provide himself with paid
army, and Edward III. put his arch
ers upon horseback.
These old mounted archers, the first
real English cavalry, for when their
arrows were spent they could use their
bows as clubs in pursuit of the
enemy, are shown in the Historical
Ride" at the military tournament.
They were strangely dressed COM
pared either with the knights who pre-
ceded them or the men who followed.
They wore helmets, relics of their foot
days, useful for pushing their way
through hedges. Their bodies were
merely covered with a kind of coarse
hop-sacking with great cross upon
the back, remnant of Templar times.
Their arms were encased in mail,
relic of the days of knighthood.
After them, the Historical Ride''
shows how rapidly the cavalry devel-
oped. Under Edward ~, $50 years or
more later, they still wore queer iron
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-09-06

field too which growing tendency
the of the municipality the work OF protecting human
| life and conserving the public health. e.
Take the matter of plumbing and drainage There
foe health than due to defective and
broken drains catch basins In the ampoant of
ncpal supervision of all plumbing work. either of DID,
Chicago of the first cities the formulate and
force of regulations based upon strictly sanitary and scientific
principles That code been adopted least made basis
those force many country.
In rg enforcing the regulations code of this kind there
nothing theoretical about the results that follow than
there those that shown the absence of such code
failure enforce its provisions when it does exist
1t has been shown by actual investigation made by the sanitary
OF the city, IN NEARLY EVERY CASE OF SCARLET FEVER
OR DIPHTHERIA, BAD PLUMBING WAS FOUND IN THE
HOUSES FROM WHICH SUCH CASES WERE REPORTED
The of the department show alarming of
mortality including children under years age what
the river wards compared with that the better
dent districts where the sanitary surroundings practically all that
could be desired.
will be conceded that the presence
muni epidemic of what the preventabe dis
indicates pretty clearly that there has been
either negligence BOTH And the fact that
enforcing municipal regulations sanitary matters
There however, phases of home sanitation which do
under municipal control, but which by
portan agencies in promoting health and securing to the public COM
paratve freedom from disease
Under this head be mentioned light and ventilation At the
have both and municipal laws regulating acto
workshops providing and
aon according the number The city of Chicago
goes further and insists adequate toilets and avaors in all
shops and factories together with by employers
of best possible sanitary conditions.
Unfortunately however, municipal regulations light air
and ventilation enforced the
who darken with heavy opaque shades and
and who consenously admit the giving sunshine
their homes These housewives know that plant
cellar where excluded will shortly yellow
die They should know that THE SAME is TRUE OF HUMAN
BEING
THE SUNSHINE is GODS ScAVENGER. Humanity should
bask should be thrown to its free admission and
for the simple that disease where
ht has free There however, the need
popular education along these lines where municipal authorities
nowees to act except teachers that there among those who
maintain untdy unsanay surroundings violation of all SAM
'''' laws SO, RzsA m4,|
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-09-06
WAR AND THE BIRTH RAIE'
National Strife Has Its Eject In InA
Way as Well n@ In the
Death Rate.

War not only influences the mortah-
ty of the army in the field, but has
maleficent effect on the birth rate ana
death rate of the country which Is
fighting. A low birth rate may be
explained, to some extent, by the tact
that when a nation is at war her peo-
pie at home are less prosperous, and
marriages are not SO
frequent, says the Medical Record.
The increase of the death rate &C.
ours, probably, for the reason that
food is scarcer, and also because at
time when a country is engaged in a
disastrous war, the minds OF its in
habitants are adversely affected.
Those who are in delicate health, or
who are attacked with sickness, sue
cumb much more readily when the
spirits are low than when in normal
condition. 1t is, indeed, the reaction
of the mind upon the body.
The returns of the registrar general
of Great Britain of births, marriages
and deaths for the year 1900 demon
strate the potency of the influence OF
The births in 1890 numbered 927 ,O62.
or rate of 1877 per 1000, this being
the lowest on record and 1.S per cent.
under the mean rate of the past dec
ade. The illegitimate birth rate was
also the lowest on record.
There were 587,S3O deaths, or 1872
per 1000, as against II, ia and IT'S
in the previous three years. The num-
Der of deaths directly due to alcohol
ism was 1858, while the death rate
from this cause was 1872 males and IS
females per 100000. These rates
highest on record. Tuber-
culosis claimed 81, 1902 victims, or
death rate of 1914 per cent. of the
deaths from all causes. The death
rate of the army was 27.6 per 1000, as
compared with 10, IL and 1O.5 in the
years. The mortality rate
in the army abroad was 36.1 per 1000,
as compared with an average of 14.5
in the past five years, and the death
rate at home was 80, as compared with
an average of 4.3 in the previous five
years. r5*S
Thus it will be seen that war drains
the life blood of the nation. Nothing
is said in the above returns as to the
action war is asserted to have on the
production of sex. On the authority
of German scientists it has been de-
clared that the females of nation at
war are apt to give birth to a much
larger number of males than is ordi-
narily the case. s
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-09-06
TWO KINDS OF SPORT.

lis "a, beautiful morning." sportsman
Inc world looks % happy let's each take
no out and kill something for pastime and
And proudest be he uho oo,n. a..
dead, >s '''7 'No'>
1ney blotted out lives that were happy
and good,
0hnded eyes and broke wings that de-
~, lighted to soar:
Lucy killed for mere pleasure and Grip
pied and tore, ~
sa hsnes of aught but the hunger Of
LID they dream that night as they sank to
their rest
nov poor little Broken Leg out in the
All nurseless and doctorless, fever DOS
1elt all OF the tortures that battle
grounds yield?
on1y bird" yet his slayer would groan
oA'y one-hah of that pain were his own.
IT'S a beautiful morning" a snortsnan
W., Mno carried kodak instead Of gun.
Ane wor1d looks SO happy, so golden the
Al slip to the woods where the wild things
The deer that he "sbot" never dreau.d =,
The bird that he "oaught" went on with
her song.
Ieace followed his footstes. n OF slaughter
and wrong,
aet rich were his trophies" and varied his
game"
Then homeward returning. bv mercy nos
sessed,
ne crushed not the snail that his steps
overlook
he paused to replace young bird in its
nest,
Or rescue an insect afloat in the brook:
AA4s JOYS were Joy-giving, not wounds to
appal,
For he wore 1.-THE Crown Jewel of Kind
ness" to all.
They met on the Sabbath these lives apart,
"hen the minister prayed for Christ's
coming again
In mercy and kindness both answered
'amen,'
The one with the lips and the other the
heart
Which prayer won the blessing, which sank
to the dust.
The one that went up with the song of
bird,
Or the one that was drowned by the
voices that poured
From the wounds of the weak to the ear of
the Just?
Whoever restores a young bird to the limb,
Or gladdens the lives Of dumb creatures
In need
Is one of Christ's helpers, whatever his
creed,
Clasps hands with "the angel that COM
forted Him"
Whoever finds pleasure in adding one hurt
10 an innocent life, be it insect or dove,
Is somehow in league with those who found
sport
In mailing the hands of the worlds
Greatest Love-
Oh. how dare We ask Just God to bestow
Inc mercy We grant not to creatures be-
low!
Celia Harcourt, in Mt. Pulaski Qll)
Weekly News.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-09-06
New Use for Dried Peas.

A most interesting place is the in
terror of a powder factory. where fine
and special brands of smokeless pow
der and powder used for sporting pur-
poses are made. The smokeless pow
der, which, like all other gunpowder,
is composed of three ingredients
charcoal, saltpetre and sulphur-re-
quires a certain kind of charcoal,
which the manufacturers discovered
at the cost of great deal of expert
menting with fine cedar, lockwood,
maple and ash charcoal. The special
charcoal used in the manufacture of
smokeless and other brands of fine
powder is made, surprising though it
may seem, of dried peas, which are
"burned" to charcoal in kilns like
any other vegetable material used for
the same purpose. These dried peas
make very fine and light charcoal
that is in great demand in the manu-
facture of fine gunpowder.-Scientifc
American.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-09-06
What They Did.

eve had a delightful time last
week." said the city cousin, who was
describing the joys of metropolitan
life. Zone evening we trolleyed out
to a suburban home and ping.ponged
until nearly midnight and next day
we automobiled to the country club
and golfed until dark"
eve had purity good time last
week, too," ventured the country
cousin, with sarcastic smile. Zone
day we buggied over to Uncle Jo-
STARS and us boys got out in the back
lot and baseballed all afternoon, and
after we had dinnered we sneaked up
to the loft and lit q candle and pokered
until l had every blamed cent in the
crowd" baltimore American.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-09-06
Helping the Lord

Pension Commissioner Ware, who
was at the capitol the other day. is
very much interested, as all new of
ficials are, in his correspondence. One
of the letters which he received amused
him greatly. 1t was from a widow
out in Illinois, and this is what she
.said:
Dear Mr.. Ware: I am trusting in
the Lord to get my pension, but as
need the money, I do hope you will give
little help yourseH."-'Washineton
Post.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-09-06
New Telephone Tongue.


Have you noticed" asked the OBJ
servant citizen. that people now
adays don't pronounce numbers as
they did when you and I went to
school, or even few years ago? We
used to say 'one hundred for in
stance, but we don't any more. We
saw 1000 If we want to tell some
body we live at 1850 Blank street.
we tell him our number is 1850
If the number is 1913, we tell him it
IN 1929 and so on. The reason for
the change is plain enough-it's the
telephone. One needs to speak plain
" in telephoning, and as figures In any
communication are usually important
we have learned to pronounce each
one separately, SO as to avoid any
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-09-06

CRIED.
obliged to look at me, you know" She
tossed her head coquettishly.
"You look SO awfully NICE" grum'
bled. "How the dickens is fellow tc
keep his eyes off you?"
"You wouldn't like me to look ugly!'
she said. Indignantly, with the tears in
her pretty eyes. Il try to look just
like the people you admire, and to talk
like they do, and you only grumbie
You are ungrateful-unkind." She be.
gan to cry.
20 don't, please don't!" entreated
"Really, Miss-er-To-morrow Iwould
much rather see you SMILE
"There!" she said, triumphantly
"What did l tell you? Now, whose
fault is it?" She looked radiantly de-
lightful.
II suppose" I said thoughtfuliy
''the fault is in Miss To-Day"
She stamped her foot II won't have
you run down my sister. She has quite
enough to put up with, with things 60
ing wrong in the absurd way they do.
The fault isn't in us at ALL"
I shook my head. "There's some
thing wrong somewhere. don't see
why you should delude people by look
ing so nice, you know"
Don't you?" said she, with surprise.
"Why, it's because-well, 1 have a
song about it, SO, if you don't mind,
I'll sing"
Beyond the dusty road afar
Hope sees fertile plain:
Beyond the ways that part there are
The ways that meet again.
Beyond the clouds there lives the sun.
Beyond the sun the skies:
Beyond the skies some angel ono
With mem'ry in her eyes.
Suppose the road should never end,
The ways should never meet,
The clouds should never part to lend
The skies with sunshine sweet;
Suppose the angel should forget
Who never, never will
1t were the gift of Heaven yet
To leave our fancies still!
bowed my head and was silent, be-
cause of many fancies in the past.
"Some of them came true" she said
softly.
Not many of the best"
"Ah!" She leaned forward eagerly.
"That is just it. They can't all come
true. They are too pretty and good
your fancies of me-"
II see. I ought to make you plain
and prosaic."
NO." she said, ''please keep on
making me nice, and I'll try to live up
to it's
"Very well, pretty little Miss To-
Morrow" / said, Il will; but I hope
the result will be more satisfactory
than it has been lately"
She shook her head and laughed.
"Now," she said, "just for once, I'll
give you genuine foretaste." She
stopped and gave me a quick little
kiss that made my heart leap and my
veins tingle.
you'll be better tomorrow" she
cried.
I woke with start, and found nv
wife bending over me.-Black and
White.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-09-06
HONE SANITATION
BY ED. r. PRITCHARD,
Sec. Chicago Board of Health.

There is no more effective factor in
maintaining low death rate in city's pop
ulation than that of proper sanitary condi-
tons in its homes
Physicians may cure disease, BUT
PERFECT SANITARY CONDITIONS
PREVENT IT. This means the lessening
of human suffering and the lengthening Of
human life. With two objects of such para
mount Importance to be attained only
through perfect sanitary conditions in the
home, it becomes easy to understand why
in all large cities of to-day there exists mu-
nicipal control in this field of sanitary effort.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-09-06
ADMINISTERING cH1oRoFoRM.
Certain Weaknesses of the Heart
Make 1t Necessary to Exercise
Great Caution.

Two kinds of accidents happen from
the administration of chloroform.
One, from prolonging the use of the
drug too far and occurring after the pa
tient is altogether insensible, is rather
uncommon. The more numerous class
of cases occur during the prelim-
mary stages of anaesthesia. Of the
two these are the more perplexing, not
to say startling. 1t is customary when
surgeon is considering the advisable
ity of operating on person to consid-
er the condition of the latter's heart.
Certain weaknesses there are liable to
make mischief when chloroform is
given. Under these circumstances it is
usual to employ ether instead or rely
on local instead of general insensibil-
ity. just why the heart behaves as it
does it not yet fully known. Some
new light is thrown on the problem,
though, by the researches of DR.. En-
bley, of the Melbourne hospital, which
are reported at length in the British
Medical Journal.
According to this expert chloro-
form affects the heart in two different
ways at once, at least in the beginning.
There is partial paralysis of the
heart muscle, in consequence of which
the blood pressure falls off, and occa-
sionally there is cessation of breath
ing. Simultaneously what is known as
the vagus nerve, which controls the
heart, lungs and other organs, expert
ences a temporary excitement or IT.
ritability. This state of things, in
stead of stimulating, depresses the
heart, as long as it lasts. The second
effect is usually not lasting, though,
and gradually passes off. Only one in
fuence then operates.
The great lesson which DR.. Embley
draws from these discoveries is that
great caution should be shown at the
commencement. He thinks that only
one per cent. Tor less) of the vapor
breathed by the patient at the outset
should come from the chloroform, and
that the rest should be air. Others
have repeatedly pointed out the ex-
pediency of beginning slowly, but he
shows why such proceeding is neces-
sary.
Commenting on these revelations,
the London Hospital says: "Anaes
thetists have shown themselves curl
ously obstinate and retentive of ira
ditional methods; but it seems very
clear that, if Dr. Embley's experiments
upon dogs are to be taken as indicat-
inp the conrSa If avonfS in human ha.
ings, it will become our duty to throw
aside all preconceived ideas as to the
safety of towels, masks, drop bottles,
and all such rough and ready meth
DDS of producing chloroform vapor,
and appeal to the mechanicians to sup
ply us with an apparatus for use dur
ing the early stages of anaesthesia
which shall by positive measurement
and with unerring exactitude supply
a mixture of air and chloroform vapor
containing not more than one per cent.
by volume of the latter. We doubt if
such an apparatus exists at the pres
ent time"
Ready for Business.
BEG pardon" said the long-haired
visitor, "but is there literary club
around here anywhere?"
'Yes," replied the editor, signif-
cantly, as he reached under his desk.
"Are you literary man?"-Cathoic
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-09-06

mistake. Everybody uses telephones
now" says the New York Herald,
land SO everybody has caught the
habit of pronouncing each figure of
that way."