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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-01-24
GROW FAT ON FILTH.
Foreigners Who Oppose All Health
Office Edicts.
Latin Settlement of San Francisco II
Repulsive in Dilapidation and
Moral and Physical Deg
radiation.
Especial San Francisco letter.

Especial San Francisco letter.
THERE are about $4,000 Italians
i in San Francisco, and about
$4,000 in the state. They are
the most numerous of the Latin
races, the immigration to. California
averaging 1000 year. They strong
ly compete with the Chinese and jap
anese, work as cheaply, live as eco
nomically and, like the orientals,
send their surplus earnings to their
homes. Orientals are prohibited
from coming except in specified in
stances, while there is no restriction
to Italian immigration. During the
last fiscal year $4,000 Italian immi-
grants arrived in the United States
exceeding those Of any other race.
The Ghetto of San Francisco is the
most extensive Latin settlement in
the United States, and the most
compact. The Ghetto is inhabited by
Italians, Mexicans, Spaniards, Sicil-
ians, Manila men, and small sprink-
ling of French and Portuguese.
These Portuguese are from the Azore
islands, and the other classes of the
Ghetto draw line of social distinc-
ton, which is undesirable to all save
the dwellers in the Ghetto. The
races Of this Latin quarter live prac-
tically apart, each nationality having
it's separate section, yet all are
crowded within it's narrow limits
and economic space about as much
as do the Chinese. The Ghetto COW
ers Telegraph hill, an eminence in
the northeastern portion of the city,
overlooking the bay of San Francisco,
extending westerly. On the north
ern, southern and western slopes of
the hill is the Ghetto. On the east
is the bay. On the south the Ghetto
is stopped from spreading by the
business houses of the city, and
further southwark it runs against
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-01-24
Ghetto is picturesque. but . near

Ghetto is picturesque, but near
approach dispeis the romance, esPe-
cially when one sees the weeks wash
strung. along community line
across dark alley, the torn, tattered
and patched apparel of all colors and
nationalities futtering in the wind,
and two old hays in opposite door
ways hurting vile epithets at each
other. The women seem to be always
washing, and one wonders Why
Gbettoites never wear clean clothes.
But the Garden OF Eden was Ike
wise invaded; and the descendants OF
Adam in some ways are not much bet
ter than their ancestor, who stole the
apple, and then made faces at his wife.
However, their appearance on the
streets is cleanliness personified, COM
pared to the novels in which most of
them vegetate. A family OF half
dozen live in an ordinary size single
room. And in this they do their cook
ing. Passing along the streets at
night, one hears an Italian woman
drumming I'll Trovatore' on a harp,
and Mexican senorita singing LA
Paloma" (The Pigeon), while her
sweetheart accompanies her on the
guitar. They are seated in box-like
front room called parlor, or more
likely on the front stoop. This looks
romantic, and the visitor is charmed
with what he terms bohemian local
color" The local color is less pictur-
esque if one gets an inner view, where
he sees numerous unwashed, ragged
children, the old dame, fat and greasy
looking, smoking cigarette. and her
lazy husband eating tortillas and
drinking sour wine. And as for the
young Mexican beau who is thrum-
ming the guitar, he has not, perhaps,
two pairs of pantaloons to his name,
nor a dollar in his pocket. So long
as he can get money for cigarettes
and an occasional drink of mescal, he
is content to pass his indolent life in
drumming on the guitar. Mexican
life is here seen as in the primitive
Californian days, and the Italians and
Portuguese live after the fashion of
their ancestors in their native land.
A visit to the Ghetto is like stepping
into Italy, Mexico, the Azores, or into
Breton, from which district the
French mainly come. These classes,
like the Chinese and japanese, are not
of the better element, which does not
emigrate. The Italians come from the
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-01-24
SHOULD RAVE BEEN RED.
The Name and the Color of the Ealr
Did Not Correspond, Thought
tho Young Lady.

"At least, Miss Ticklowell," said the
young man, pale but firm, and standing be-
fore ner with folded arms. Z an entitled
to an explanation"
II never supposed, Mr.. Howell" she
replied, facing him with equal drmness,
says the Chicago Tribune, you would ask
me to marry YOU
chat is not an explanation. Leaving
out OF the question the fact that you have
accepted my attentions for period of a
year or more, which l might plead as ample
justification for my presumption, if you 80
consider it, in proposing marriage to you, l
am wholly at loss to understand the re-
pugnance, amounting almost to horror,
with which you have turned me down. Am
l so sagreeable, personally, that"
''No, it is not that" she interrupted, COW
ering her face with her hands. Il admire
you a. gentleman and esteem you highly
as friend, but can you not see~Q, can
you not see?-why any nearer tie is ilhpos-
sible?'
mo! For the life of me can't"
"Mr. Howell" she said, with restored
calmness, 81 had hoped there would be no
necessity for this explanation, but can
never, never marry a man with black hair
and so grotesquely inappropriate name
as Rufus!"
Life is made up of events and occurrences.
-Chicapo Daily News
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-01-24

more crowded districts, nearly all OF
them of the very lowest class, and
some of them are criminals, or men,
bers of the Malta, Carbonari and other
unlawful societies. Very few of them
can read or write, and they show no
disposition even to learn English. A
few Of the more intelligent among
them build tenement houses and cot
tages and soon become rich-for ltal-
Of the Ghetto, CT upon its borders,
where they occupy cottages and live
after the manner of their ancestors
in their villas. They lend money to
their poor brethren at illegal usurious
interest. They have their own gov
eminent, or unwritten laws, like the
Chinese have, and manage their affairs
independently of our local laws.
Occasionally, an Italian or Mexican
is found dead from stab in the back,
in "Murderer's alley" which appro-
priately is in the rear of the county
Jail. The police know that it is the
result of vendetta, and they go to
some one of the ''padronesi" for in
formation, or to the liking" of the
Italian colony. This king, always a
rich man, is informally elected by
common consent, because of his tinan-
cial influence and his liberality in adj
vancing money, frequently On slender
security. When he becomes too OPP
pressive in demanding his own he is
dethroned, and another liking" is Sc
lected. To him many OF the disputes
over wages and debts are referred, and
settled w hout a lawsuit, just as the
Chinese curt of high justice settles
disputes among its own people.
The houses in the Ghetto are built
OH irregular lines, without regard to
architectural beauty or convenience.
Some extend into the street and 9TH
ers are pushed back as if attempting
to hide from public view. Most of
them were put up before street lines
were run. and zig-zag up and down hill,
blocking streets and alleys, and the
owners refuse to permit streets to be
opened by tearing down the rookeries.
The Ghettoites resist all attempts to
improve that part of the city. A park
was laid out on the summit of the hill
and an incline railway built, but the
inhabitants resisted the innovation
and this, together with the ''Barbary
coast" dance houses and thugs who
waylay people in the dark alleys, dis
couraged visitors and no further at
+ornpte tn oman tho Ghetto RI ;,1rrovo
ments have been made. The Ghetto
has no architecture, the ruins" are
not interesting nor picturesque, but
are grotesque-even repulsive. in their
dilapidation and dirt. But they are
in harmony with the uncouth, lazy,
superstitious people who inhabit them.
1t has no ambition for the future and
it has no memories worth remember
ing. From its earliest settlement it
was the most immoral and criminal
portion of the city, and it SO remains.
J. M SCANLAND.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-01-24

Bland-"I didn't get Mrs. Barnes hus-
bands vote, after all, although patted
her baby. and told her it was the perfect
image OF Mr. Barnes" Bowers - You
never have seen Barnes, have your.
Bland-"Come to think of it, never have"
Boston Transcript.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-01-24
Has Him on the Hook.

Miss Ascum-Wasn't that Mr.. Bonds
I saw you walking with last night?
Miss Coy-Yes.
Miss Assemblies a landed freeho old
er of the county, isn't he?
Miss Coy-Well-er-he isn't quite
landed yet.-Ht-Bits.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-01-24

II think" remarked the man who had re
Gently won $500 at the races before ne
woke up, chat III play two dollars each
way on this horse" Il see" said the limo
cen; Party, who is anxious to learn,
''that's so if he turns and goes in the op.
posite direction around the track, you win
Just the same, isn't itr-Cincinnat, Com.
hercil Tribune.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-01-24
One WOman's Way,

Mrs. Homer-How do you manage
to get your carpets SO clean? Do you
hire professional carpet beaten?
Mrs. Neighbors-No, my husband
beats them, and I always do some
thing to make him angry just be-
fore he begins the job.-Chicago
News
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-01-24
Measurement.

(Which do you think should be more
highly esteemed, money or brains?"
''Brair.s,' answered Senator Sorg-
hum. "But nowadays the only way
a man can convince people that he has
brains is to get money.''-Washington
Star.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-01-24

Don't worry about money, darling, when
we are married We can live on the proven
bial bread, cheese and kisses. II know,
Archibald; but who is going to furnish the
bread and e?"-Baltimore Herald.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-01-24

Gall country the thought OF which must arouse
citizens soul be Dead the fondes
Dons
lhough those Puians judged have been stern and
80 IN their Christianity yet they buded we'll To-day
old zeal and seadfasness needed public life and the duty of
citizen lies plainly before him. The country stands need of the
that every rghmnded intelligent citizen has within him give
CHRISTIAN MEN AND WOMEN SHOULD GET TOGETH-
AND SHOULD ORGANIZE FOR THE FURTHERING OF
iTEOUS GOVERNMENT In each community if there labored
Of workers bent the of just laws
eventually would become recognized In each
Immunity such company of workers needed and will be so long
there fight long the drink evil exists so long
noaty aus itself long the god of
Eearts
So long should take place the ranks
that stand for So long drunkenness reels your
hides behind saloon DOORS afford to be dead to
world So long the gambler plies his trade and corrps youth
the habit hard break the of neperance
be dead the world So long woman purity aaed
owardy be dead the world So long
affairs, YOU MUST AWAKE AND DO YOUR DUTY AS CIT
ZEN.
Pny younger writing the emperor concerning the early
christians described them people who hymns about Jesus and
pad That bad ideal There people that
singers hymns that neglect the and these
also fail as examples This is happy combnaton-TO SING
PAY TAXES. t. =
! :, ~
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-01-24

In the Conservatory-He is
something, darling, | want to tell you.
She-"On, then, let US get away from
the e.'-Baltimore American.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-01-24

At BROOKLYN boarding House.
Mrs. Odbird (sweetly)-Mr. Choosey,
will you pass the BUTTER?
Mr.. Choosev {empha tically-Y on bet your
is-if it's no better than usual-Judge.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-01-24

Three hundred and sixty pickpock-
cts are known by the japanese police
in Toxic. Two hundred of the thieves
do their pilfering il trains.-N. Y.
Sun.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-01-24
Transcript

Many of US might be happy if we did not
suffer from disorders of the liver. Then we
ought to use Dr. August koenig's Hamburg
Drops, which cure the disorders and bring
the whole system to healthy condition.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-01-24

Justice is the insurance we have on our
lives and property, and obedience IS the
premium we pay for it.-Penn.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-01-24

Ee only is a well-made man who has
good mination.-Emerson.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-01-24

Piso's Cure for Consumption is an infali
bic remedy for coughs and colds-N: w
Samuel, Ocean Grove, n. j., Feb. II, l9OO.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-01-24

Silence may be golden, but the golden
eagle talks.-Chicago Daily News.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-01-24
Christmas Holiday Excursion Rates, Via
Southern Railway.

Southern Railway will sell tickets between
all points on its lines and connections East
or the Mississippi and South of the Ohio and
Potomac Rivers except between points in
Florida. to the general public December
23rd, 24th, 18th. 30th and 3lst, 1902, and Jan
uarv lst, 1903, with final limit january Bird.
1903 at rate of one and one third fare for the
round trip. For further information, call
OF any ticket agent of the Southern Railway.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-01-24

London used during last year 4oo, 0,ool
gallons OF water a day.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-01-24

He who has no inclination to learn more
will be very apt to think that he knows
enoueh-PoWell
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-01-24

A clean youth makes clear old age
Rama Horn
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-01-24

Kindness is language the dumb can
speak and the deaf can hear and under
stand-BCvCe.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-01-24

A little inside information sometimes
flakes man content to stay outslde.-ln
dlanapolis News.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-01-24

We are none of us either as foolish or a.
smart as some people think We are.-lndian-
apolis News
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-01-24

Carpets can be colored on the floor with
Putnam Fadeless Dyes.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-01-24
JUNE
She Was Not superstitious.
- - -

During marriage ceremony at Northeast
Harbor, week ago, the long veil Of the
bride in some understandable way became
loosened, and fell. A superstitious bride
would have been horror-strcken at such
an occurrence-perhap. would have tainted,
perhaps postponed the event. Not 50 this
bride. She just stopped the proceedings
long enough to resdju.t the refractory
adornment, glanced smilinely at the groom,
and then, with he-procession-
look toward the minister, resumed her po-
sition at the altar. The reverend gentleman
proceeded, and it was noticed that Re gave
sn extra tug at the nuptial knot.-Kennebec
Journal
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-01-24

Dcer-"They tell me Fred has been play
ing the races Knickleby-"He thought
he was; but it turned out that the fellows
at the races were working Fred.
Transcript.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-01-24
Che Christian Citizen
By REV. G. CAMPBELL MORGAN.
n Northfe1d Extension

Whatever of Christian energy man may pos
sess, the world still stands in need Of To the man
that says Il take no interest in civic life, l am
dead to the world" my reply is: IF you dead
to the world, then you would better be buried"
We want no dead-to- the-world Christians We
want rea live, earnest, active believers in and fol-
lowers of the principles of Christianity Those old
Puritans, who saved England and made you, carried
their religion into their daily lives and they estab
lshed on a firm foundation the state that to-day
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-01-24

Stops the Cough
and works off the cold. Laxative Bronze
Quirine Tablets. Price IS cents.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-01-24

Life is made up of events and occurrences.
Chicago Daily News.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-07-10

water two feet nearer to the boat.
In other words, he must aim two feet
under the fish, and if his aim be cor
rect, he win land his quarry.
The depth at which a fish can he
sr5ared depends upon the weight Of
the spear largely, but six feet is the
limit. The casting spear is made
generally so that the steel head will
come off when it is fastened to the
fish or has gone clear through as Of
ten happens, There is a stout string
tied to it and the other part OF the
string is held in the spearer's left
hand, The ~disengaged pole floats on
the water.
There would not be much fun in
spearing redhorse if a man could
make hits three times in five, but he
can not center his target oftener than
once in five, and the inexperienced
hand may cast and cast all day and
never touch a scale except by acct.
dent. 1t is the uncertainty that lends
il charm-that and the chance OF
falling overheard, which is good.
The taking of redhorse is merely a
matter of craftsmanship, and the OBJ.
ject of it is to see whether or not a
man can keep his footing, throw a
spear hard and straight and still keep
his footing, The redhorse is not very
good to eat, being honey and of q
coarse flesh that tastes, as Thoreau
said of the club, like brown paper
boiled"
There are thousands of them,
though, and a man may get good ex-
ercise casting and retrieving his
spear for ten hours at a stretch. He
will likely get many more baths than
he expected, as we'll as fewer fish,
New York Sun.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-07-10
Spearing Redhorse How it IS Done

Many bright northern rivers con-
tain thousands of the queen FISH
known far and near as the redhorse.
1t is easy to see where the red part
of the name comes from. as the fish
has carmine fins and tinges of scar
let along the sides, but why the horse,
nobody knows.
The redhorse is of no good to the
angler. 1t is willing enough TO eat,
but nature has placed its mouth under
it's head. 1t is a small mouth for SO
large a fish, and it gets its food by
suction, just as the buffalo and other
fresh water members of the sucker
family get theirs. The redhorse could
be taken by fishing, but is not worth
the trouble. To men with the spear,
though, the redhorse furnishes con
siderable sport.
1t is a fish that will weight from
two to eight pounds and goes in
schools, liking deep water. 1t is not
Buy VI d bOuty dttShdiu6 " iN'lS tAS'
is going on above it while it is brows.
ing on the bottom and it offers a
good mark. 1t is hunted in daylight
and by torchlight. The torch hunt
ing is the easier.
The spear used is two-pronged and
each prong has a barb. To it is fas
tened a long pole, sometimes de
signed for thrusting, sometimes fol
casting like a ~javelin.
The thrusting method is inartistic
but the surer. The man simply jab:
at his fish and if he hits it, hoists II
out. In throwing or casting he mus
have a quick eye, be a good judge Of
distance and depth of water and have
a strong arm. He needs, in fact, al
much strength as a harpoon thrower
and more accuracy.
There is nothing so deceptive al
clear water. If there is a redhorse tive
yards in advance of the boat and ap
parently a yard deep. it is certain tina
the fish is at least FIVE feet unde
and the man must aim to strike tn
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-07-10
Molasses Used as Food for Horses
MILWAUKEE, MAN HAS MADE FORTUNE MIXING IT WITH GRAIN

When e. p. Mueller, the nan who
has made the discovery that molasses
mixed with their daily food is the
proper thing for horses, was a boy, he
lived on a farm in Wheeling, % miles
out from Chicago. Mrs. Mueller, his
mother, was left a widow when her
son was extremely young, with q large
dairy farm on her hands. The boy
took charge of the. business, and like
many other boys with large RESPONSE
bilities thrust upon them in the ten
der age, he began to experiment. He
made the discovery first fiat brewers
grain vas an excellent food for mich
COWS, and he began making regular
trips to Chicago after that kind of
Iced. The result of his discovery soon
became apparent in the added re-
ceipts from the sale of milk.
Mr.. Mueller remained on the dairy
farm until he was % years of age,
when, with speculation in his eye, he
went to Arlington Heights, a short
distance from his native town, and
embarked in the grain and feed bust
ness. He began to contract with the
Chicago brewers for their stocks of
wet grain and sold it to the dairymen
in the n~eighborhood, the article as a
food recommending itself. Five years
later he went to Chicago, opened an
office and started up in the business on
a large scale, and was the first to ship
the brewers wet grain to all parts OF
the country as a food for cattle.
The business grew upon his hands
and he soon found himself in posses.
sion of contracts to take the wet
grain of nearly all the brewerIes in
Chicago. He then extended his bust
ness to Milwaukee, and at the present
time has the contract for taking the
stocks of wet grain from four of the
largest breweries in this city, amount
Ing to between $50 and 400 tons a day
This byproduct of the brewery J..
composed of malt and rice which ha.
been put through the brewing process
He at first was content to handle it il
brewery, but with the large quantitie:
which he vas compelled 10 handle IN
der his contracts, and the fact that tht
demand for it fell off during the spring
and summer season, when the cattl,
are out in the pasture. necessitatet
the preservation of the material il
stock until the market for it revive,
in the autumn, when the grass wa.
scarce. To accomplish this end,
large drying plant was erected in thi
city, in which 300 IONS of the we
grain is put through the drying pre-
cess daily.
This food has proved popular, and i
being shipped not only to all part
of the United States, but to Germany
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-07-10

Grafton is coming ana the neg
70 and the white man will be
two a~ntagonistic forces, holding in
common no sunny past-one remem
bering that his father was a master,
the other that his father was a slave.
When that time comes, and it is al
most at hand, there will be a serious
trouble growing out of a second read
justment. The Anglo-Saxon race can
not live on a perfect equality with any
other race; it must rule; it demands
complete obedience. And the negro
will resent this demand, more and
more as the old family ties are weak
ened. He has e that his support at
the North vas merely a political senti-
ment, and must know that 1t will not
sustain him in his efforts against CAPT
tai, for capital, in the eye of capital, is
always just, and labor. while unfortu-
nate. is always wrong. And when the
negro realizes this, remembering all
his other wrongs, he will become des-
perate. That is the situation. But
is there no way to avert this coming
strife? I'm here to say that there is.
AS communicates of the Catholic
Church the negroes will not listen to
the labor agitator. He will listen to
the church, which will advise peace
and submission to proper authority"
The priest had not gone far into his
discourse before the Major began to
walk up and down the porch in front
of him, nodding at him each time as he
passed. And when the clergyman ceas-
ed to speak, the Major, hating and
facing him, thus replied: There may
be some truth, sir, in what you have
said-there is some little truth in the
widest Of speculation-but I should
like to ask you why is not a Protestant
negro in a Protestant country as safe
as a Catholic negro in a Protestant
country? You tell me that your relig-