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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-02-14
P1TH AND POINT.

Money creates more wants than il
satisfies.-Ram's Horn. ..
Remedy the follies of the past by
emitting them from the future.-Chi
cago Journal.
You can interest any man by saying
to him: "You work too hard."-At
Gibson Globe.
Two good listeners may be friends,
but two good talkers-never.-Ch Chicago
Daily News.
Evidence.-"They say that man
can't tell lie with his hands open.'
eyes, and I have evidence of it,
"What?" ''You clenched your fists
when you called me a scoundrel the
other day.''-Chicago Post.
Refned.-Elizabeth Ho-
ratio, me mudder says yer amt re-
fined enough ter go in our set" Ho-
ratio-"You're crazy, you are. Amt
me fodder workin' in lard refinery
dis very minnet ?"-DetroitF Free Press.
A Natural Question.-"Have you any
two-cent stamps" inquired the victim
after paying his bill at the Bong Tong
hotel. Il think so,'' replied the clerk.
"How much are they apiece ?'-Phila-
delphia Press.
College of Dialect.-Young men from
universities who have only classical
educations taught Dialect in from two
to six weeks. Those who intend to be-
come magazine writer's would do well
to take a term with us. Any quantity
of professors, and all sorts of Dialect.
Constitution.
Keeping Her Down.-Mrs Lowerten
Sally, I s'pose we've got to cav
on that new neighbor. just take your
scissors and cut some sort of hole in
the middle of our visitin' card. - Daugh>
ter-"What fer, nav? What does
that signify?" Mrs. Lowerten-"It
don't mean anything that knows of,
but she'll think it does, and feel mighty
cheap to find she don't know as much
about society ways as we does IN. Y.
Weekly.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-02-14
Thanking Uncle Ned.

my niece Mary was always a we'll
meaning girl" remarked the old
gentleman, ''but she would say the
wrong thing every time, and she's got
boy who is going to equal her."
The old gentleman's eyes twinkled,
says the Pittsburg Bulletin, as he
drew from his pocketbook small
sheet of note-paper.
Il sent the boy a toy monkey, that
plays all kinds of pranks when it's
wound up,' said he, chuckling.
''Sent it to him for his birthday.
Now you listen to this letter of
thanks 1 got from him to-day. He's
just eight years old.
"'Deer Uncle Ned, I am delighted
with the munkey, thank you. He
makes me think of you very often.
And whenever mamma winds him up
and he begins to jump, mamma and
I feel as if we were back at your
house where all those toys are, and
mamma says, "That's your Uncle
Ned all over" Good-by from your
grateful Hal"
Il think" said said the old gentle
man, as he folded up the letter,
that shall be more careful what I
send him for his next birthday"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-02-14

succeeded in getting within day.
march, and were tortured or turned
back or killed. Even the most accom-
plished explorer of modern times
Sven Hedin, the Incompatible Swede
who had fitted himself for his worl
by years of study and travel, coulo
not pass the Thibetan guards thai
protected the sacred precincts of Las
sa. Yet the Japanese, young and un
tried Adventures, with the exception
of Capt. Martha, who prepared fol
this expedition by living in China fol
several months, succeeded in attain
ing a goal that has been denied tc
the most daring and experienced trav
elers in the world.
But the chief significance of these
remarkable achievements is the rela.
ton of a new force and energy in
the world of action. It reveals an
awakening in Japan such as occurred
in Spain when there dawned upon
her early greatness, and when she
was preparing to send forth into the
world her explorers and conquerors
Columbus, Cortez, Pizarro, De Soto,
Or in England when Drake and How
ard and Hawke led the way to the
glories of England on sea and land
and transformed her into world
explorer and world conqueror. It re-
veals the birth of tremendous nation
al energy and an indomitable nation
al spirit. Japan is no longer group
of islands, collection of people, but
a nation, possessed by fiery nation
al spirit. These things reveal it just
as it was revealed by the greater
doings of the war with China, and
by the splendid heroism of her SOL
diers in the advance on Picking, and
by their more than splendid chivalry
and courtesy toward the conquered
Chinese.
We must now look to Japan for the
Spekes, Burtons, Magellans, Living
stones, Cooks, Marco Polos. We find
some of these tardy and daring ex-
plorers penetrating into portions of
China forbidden to foreigners for CEN
turtles; we find more of them passing
the cordons of Tibetan guards
around Lassa and calmly residing
within the holy limits of the capital
of Lamaism, mistaken and unafraid,
while the English explorers still find
the Himalaya the bounds of their
explorations from their neighboring
possessions in India; and we may
soon find them penetrating to the
north pole with the same noncha-
lance with which they advanced to
the walls of Tientsin and Picking un-
der fire, scaled the walls of Ping Yang
or sank the Chinese warships in the
harbor of Wei-hai-wei. A new, nation
has been born into the world.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-02-14
BAMBOO IN THE HOUSEHOLD.
II II q Wood That II OF Great saius
to the Artisans In Asi@tic
Countries.

The increasing importation OF BAN.
hoo seems to indicate that Americans
are beginning to appreciate the ex-
ceedino utility of that remarkable
n]ant In the orient it fills so large
a place that it may be compared with
iron and steel in the occident. When
| dried and cut into slivers it makes nails
which never rust. These bamboo nails
have recently appeared'in Broadway
| shop as souvenirs. When portion Of
it's surface is removed, steamed, or
heated in a fire, it becomes pliable. and
NAV be bent into various angles. These
two properties enable the eastern
| cabinet maker to manufacture it into
stools, chairs, tables, screens, eta
ceres. trunks and armolres.
In the United States, says the New
York Post, bamboo and rattan are
made into ornamental furniture on a
small and delicate scale, but the use
of the large-sized bamboo Tor MASSIVE
and durable furniture has not yet been
attempted. Builders in the cities on
the eastern coast of Asia use the bam-
boo for masts, poles, ladders, step
ladders, scaffoldings. painters stag
ings, and other purposes where both
strength and rigidity are demanded.
With equal weights, bamboo is i've
times as strong as wood, and with
equal strength is but one-third rs
heavy. The joints in the stems enable
workman to lash two poles together
without any possibility of slipping,
which is not the case with ordinary
timber poles. This does away with
the necessity for nails, and so increases
the life of scaffoldings indefinitely.
Every bamboo is practically a series
of air chambers. A boat hook whose
shaft is one of these stems is life
preserver which will support one or
two persons; while bamboo gait or
boom will keep dozen persons afioat.
In household furnishing and decora-
ton the eastern reed offers unlimited
variety. Thus far it has been employed
in this country for picture frames,
easels, fancy chairs, and curtain poles.
In the orient larger sizes, which range
from three to IL inches in diameter,
are sawed into various lengths and
used for card receivers, sugar bowls,
cigar boxes, hand trays, spoon hold
ers, umbrella stands, drinking uten-
sils, and jewel boxes. The larger ones
are cut through and sawed with scroll
saws into various patterns, which are
utilized as jardinieres or the holders
of pewter boxes, incense cases, and
mantel ornaments.
When softened by hot water and
split into thin strips these can be WOW
en- with cord into veranda and window
shades, door mats, and hall mattings.
When split still finer the strips can be
braided into table mats, chair seats,
and backs, dado wall covers and floor
covering, which is almost indestructi-
BILE.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-02-14
INTO THE FORBIDDEN CITY,
The Unparalleled Achievement of
Three Daring Young japanese
Explorers of Hostile Land,

The Sacred City of Lassa, the CAPT
tai city of Tibet. hitherto a forbid
den city to all foreigners, has been
entered recently by three daring
Japanese explorers. They are Capts.
Yoshiteru Martha, Hiroshi Nomi and
Keikai Kawaguchi, Buddhist priest
of Honganji, Kyoto, says Japan and
America.
Capt. Y. Martha is promising
young soldier and son of a Samurai
of the Satsuma clan. He went to
China several years ago, staying in
that country for several months while
he was preparing for his arduous ex-
petition. After many dangers and
hardships he succeeded in reaching
Ls.ssa, having taken several years to
accomplish his self-appointed task.
He stayed in the holy city for Is days,
and then returned to Japan about
two months ago. About the same
time that Capt. Martha visited Lassa
Mr.. Hiroshi Nomi reached the in
terror of Tibet. There has been no
news from him for some time, and
he is supposed to be on his way home.
He is a very young man, but brave
and cool and quiet in his ways. Mr..
Keikai Kawaguchi, the third of the
japanese explorers, had the hardest
experience. He went by way of the
Himalaya mountains, and suffered
severe attack of snow blindness. He
was totally blind for some time, but
ho @l:.
mountain disease. Once he was mis-
taken for a robber by the Tibetans,
who came very near making him pay
the penalty, which is in Tibet to put
the robber on horse and then shoot
him. Mr.. Kawaguchi, who is Budd-
hist priest, at last succeeded in reach
ing Lassa, and is still residing in that
city.
These achievements, remarkable in
themselves, are significant in an
other way. In the first place they
show the tremendous energy and in
domitable bearing of the japanese.
It VIII be found in the case of others
who have tried to reach Lassa, that
they were men who had fitted them
selves by long study and experience
for the attempt, and who made the
final effort under the most favora
bic conditions possible. All of them,
with one or two rare exceptions,
failed lamentably. Missionaries, who
have won the confidence of the Thi-
betans. and who have learned their
language, failed to penetrate even to
the vicinity of the sacred city. Some !
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-02-14

kSS k$I The placid of the oden time who
EESN chimney white capped, her kerchief
smoothly her shoulders, nodded peacefully over
her unfinished stocking world that present
wakeness and neurastena Back the
CO. but relief for may
found in the gentle monotony of knitting.
recognized Of inducing sleep firing of
by of There
themselves sleep Women have their
rocked in the cradle uabes sung
the old days mobiles sleep
ing their heels SavageLa SAYS that
Corea mothers their babies sleep by scrapng them gently
the abdomen The great physician Boeraeve his
patients drowsy by causing them listen drops of
water falling upon metallic surface.
The who tries herself to
historically wakeu by thinking Of the numbers she has
successfully reckoned AS soothing and queng influence knitting
has this advantage other methods its Office
sleep nducr secondary independent of this occupa
ton The kner thinks comfortably of the work she producing:
thus a beneicent selfdecephon is possible
Steel needles best the theory being that quick move
nnts and the tiny click and fash Of the hypnotic in
uence Of the pattern simple character
that the may be without effort without conscious
An apprenticeship OF length may necessary before
neglected be far that the woman shall he
able to knit drowsi did her grandmother yet perhaps the
experiment worth making
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-02-14
LAUGH IT AWAY.

Don't put on your far-off glasses hunting
lions in the way;
Don't go probing round for troubles
Just ignore them, day by day.
Don't go signing: Yes, it's pleasant just
at present, but-ah, me!
There's the sorrow of to-morrow-where
will all our sunshine be?''
If the worst is in the future and has been
there all the while,
We can keep it there by laughing till Va
make the others SMILE
IT the worst is in the future; let it stay
there for we know
That to-morrow's always threatening to
bring US so-and-so;
But Tomorrow with it's sorrow never
comes within our gaze,
For all time is just a pageant OF these
busy old to-days.
Let the worst stay in the future where it
has been all the while!
We can keep it there by laughing till
the others start to smile.
When we look toward the sunset in the
gorgeous afterglow,
Let us thank the blessed Father for the
things we do not know;
Let US thank Him with all fervency that
He has never sent
Any burden quite unbearable; that while
our Lacks have bent
Underneath the load, we've had His arms
about us all the while
Let US laugh away our troubles till the
whole world wears a smile!
Let US laugh away the trouble though
our eyes are dimmed with tears;
Let us laugh away the heartaches and
the worries and the fears;
Just 'be good and you'll be happy"-if
you're happy, you'll be good
For the rules so double-acting that its
seldom understood.
o, there is no future coming with lot
-" Of trouble in
We can fight it off by laughing till the
others start to grin!
p. w. Gillian, in Los Angeles Herald.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-02-14
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

At Warwick, in England, the guardl-
ans propose to utilize tramp labor IN
excayating a subway.
Marked proficiency in drawing with
his toes has been attained by an arm
less boy of IL now in the hospital at
Gosforth, England
Burglars got into the Marseilles Ii
brary recently and stole about $4,000
worth of old coins, including an ecu
dated 1926, Of which only three other
specimens are in existence.
Most fishermen along the coast of
France still avoid going to sea in the
first two days of November, owing to
the superstitious fear of the "de ath-
wind" and the belief that at that time
the ghosts of drowned fishermen rise
and capsize boats.
To widow named Charlotte Die
trich the German emperor sent 300
marks and a gilt cup of the finest
porcelain, together with letter OF
congratulation, on her one hundredth
birthday. She also received 100 marks
duu OLucI pIcScAtS III IAc A<tAAC VI III
city of Berlin.
=" A peasant in the Swiss canton of
Zurich, one morning in November,
found in his stable stork that had ap-
parently been left behind by his COM
panions on their way to Africa. The
bird, which seems to feel quite at home
with the other animals, goes out for
walk when the sun shines, returning
to the stable in the evening.
A Frenchman may light his cigar
with thousand-franc note and yet
not lose cent, provided he saves the
part of the note with the number on
it. On presenting that at the Banque
de France he will promptly get new
note. The bank officials tell story
of peasant who put 2o-franc and
5O-franc note into the barrel of his
rifle, which he never used. His wife
knew nothing about his s'safe," and
one day neighbor borrowed the rifle
of her to shoot a cat. The notes were
burnt to ashes, but these were care
fully gathered and taken to the bank,
where the chemist succeeded in identi-
flying them.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-02-14
Mental strain ON Fast Train.

It has often been urged that man
could not travel at a much faster
speed than 60 miles an hour, as NO
driver could stand the strain upon
the nerves. An, experienced en-
gineer has, however, it is said, de-
clared that when man is running
his engine at mile minute, he has
reached the limit OF mental strain,
and an extra half-mile a minute
could not add to his task. Further,
the same authority gives the reas-
surfing information that, if train
going at the rate of 100 miles an
hour were wrecked, the consequences
would be no worse than if the speed
had been 60 miles.-Detroit News
Tribune
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-02-14
BRA1N-EAT1NG OCTOPUS.
Hide0us Creatures of m African
River That Kill Men and Devour
Their Brains.

A Belgian officer just returned from
the kongo Free State reports that il
the caverns of the Uel1e river there
dwells species of octopus that pre-.
sents a grave danger to all who navi-
gate river in small boats. The
strange beasts are called ''megwe" by
the natives, and are numerous in the
neighborhood of the station of the
Amadis, owing to the number of rocks
and caves in that region. They attack
the native canoes, capsizing them cas-
lily with their tentacles, and, accord
ing to their state of hunger, Selling
one or two men. The octopus drags
there, without inflicting the slightest
external wound, feeds on his victims
brains by inserting the points of his
tentacles in his nostrils. He generally
keeps his prey Is hours and then let's
the body float out on the river.
Il was an eyewitness of disaster of
this kind says the Belgian, according
to the New York Tribune. "A canoe
was capsized in the river, and one of
the three occupants disappeared.
When the survivors swan ashore they
told us that an octopus had turned
their boat over and carried off their
companion. The next morning about
nine O'clock the body was found float
ing, and no trace of any wound could
be found, while the only abnormal APP
pearance was the swollen state of the
nostrils. On examination it was found
that the brain had been extracted. The
natives of the Uelle all dread the meg
we,' while those of the Itimbri know
nothing of it's existence
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-02-14
AMERICAN AUDIENCES.
Al q Rule the Women Are silently
Attentive and the Men Noisy
and Dem0nstrntive.

American audiences are strangely
| alike in some things and strangely dis
similar in others. A good committee
will take as much pains in the ar
rangement of it's audience as of it's
speakers. An audience seated without
crowding is seldom enthusiastic.
Neither is an audience whose hands
are occupied with bundles or umbrel-
las, an audience largely composed of
women, or an audience in a cold
room. The easiest audience to adj
dress, the most responsive and inspir-
ing, are those composed of men,
crowded and packed together and
warm, says writer in Scribner's
Magazine.
Women naturally donot applaud and
cheer. They are by instinct more self
restrained in the public expression of
their emotion than men. Every public
speaker is complimented by their
presence, knowing that their quiet
word at home is oftentimes more eff
fective in results than the most en-
thusiastic shouting on the street cor
ASAo ny VIC OIACA sea- LII q PuUUC
meeting, however, the audience gets
its cue from those nearest the speak
er. remember well two audiences,
both from the same social class, both
crowded, both in large theaters, and
both largely attended by women. One
happened to be in Colorado; one in
Massachusetts,. In one meeting the
orchestra was reserved for women. In
the other women had the lower gall
lery and all the boxes. In both cases
the audiences were entirely friendly
to the speakers. The second meeting
was marked by wild enthusiasm; the
first one, by respectful attention. In
the second case the mass of men in
the orchestra urged on the speakers
by continued applause. In the first
case the men in the galleries who
started to applaud were checked be-
cause between them and speakers was
a mass of absolutely silent femininty
in the orchestra. I do not say that
one meeting was less effective than
the other, but the difference in the
strain on the speaker was marked.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-02-14
On the Plains.

Sagebrush Sam-That tenderfoot
says he's a ridin'-school graduate.
Cactus Cal-Mebbe he is; but jest
wait till he tackles that bronze an
you'll see him git a postgraduate
course.-Judge.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-02-14
THE BATTLE OF MONMOUTH.
Find Gen. Clinton.

Following the long winter of suffering Valley Forge brighter
Philadelphia and started for New York the
tateT with the remainder started N Jersey followed closely
battle fought At nigha the
night the British eeated 1t this battle Washington
Iment fromth armv
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-02-14

There Ii a Difference.
Does your pa smoke, little gal?''
mo, sir; he uses cigarettes Chi
cago American.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-02-14
Water in Il Brick.

An ordinary brick will absorb a
pint of water. Consequently a cot
tage whose outer walls contain 5000
bricks can absorb as much IS 6la
tons Of water Science
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-02-14
Railways In Mountains,

A western railroad man says it
costs railway passing through the
mountains great deal of money in
the course of ten years to keep the
tracks in line. and maintenance of
tunnels is even more expensive. Drive
a stake on the side of mountain.
take the location with the greatest
care, and return after few months.
The stake is not in the same loca-
ton. The whole side of the noun
tain has moved-Railway Magazine.
Porto Rico Butter.
Butter is sold on the streets of San
Juan, P. I. It costs cent pat, and
the boy carries plate of it on his
head, crying: Butter of the coun-
try!" 1t is rancid, as rule. Wom-
en- make it by shaking milk about in
an earthen jar.-Indianapolis News.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-02-14
Porto Rico Butter.
Knitting As a Cure for Insomnia
By CHARLOTTE F. BOLDTMANN.
Editor Of Stitches.

MS9 BELIEVE in the wisdom of the who are ady
EES ing knitting remedy for
n ES9 The placid granny of the oden who sat in the
XXSW chimney white capped, her kerchef folded
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-02-14

her husband came in. AS a rule she
saw very little of him; they seemed
to avoid each other by tactic con
sent.
'There is something I wish to say
to you if you are at leisure" he be-
gan. She thought how worn and
gray he looked, though he was man
in the prime of life, as he stood be-
fore her, the hard light from the set
ting sun showing up the lines on his
cold, stern face, as it showed up the
patches of damp on the wall paper
and the unioveliness of the beautiful
ly designed room. He and it both
seemed thrown away under their
present circumstances.
II am quite at your SERVICE" she
answered. "Little Michael is in bed
and asleep, and have nothing to do
cit is about him I wish to speak, -
he said, as he sat down. ''He is al
most well again now.''
''He is very delicate STILL" she said,
quickly. ''He needs a great deal Of
care--he could not stand much -
Could he mean that they wanted her
no longer? she asked herself with a
thrill of fear.
"As you say, he needs great deal
of care he answered, slowly. ''He
also needs more comfort and diff
ferent surroundings to what I can
give him. have wondered-I have
wondered" he repeated, eff you
would like to take him with you when
you go?"
like to take him?'' she echoed,
her face lighting up with Joy. 'sNeed
you ask me?''
NO, perhaps not. I have thought
that you seemed attached to him.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1903-03-04
PRAYER AND DIVORCE.

Perhaps it
O.
that city has a
to live with him
She boldly
family forms pety
KOkomo
while she making bread and had hands
respond
o. and him
her husband against
his a a to
prayer?
seem to have decided both questions in the negative.
The value be mated
But it must be admitted that
God
GU breadr'
prayer les in part
a and happy
concedng the other until spirits blend
by
For be assured that the husband
of right living a its
Religion with han disposition
in Of
peace
and love- family
The wife
table or her own home to find sacred atmosphere
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1903-03-04
HOBSON'S PLEA.

Richmond p IIobson
throughout the country the needs
This pulled
him by silly
a
educating the people
of Europe He thinks
later Besides he the Monroe
have the Philippines
the partition
Since the Spanish
world with
The thunder
least o
Perhaps do need
Objections?
Naves expensve That
the limit of
larger would lead mlssm?
No overturned a
would
of such a
But plain longer be hermit nation
worlds
q