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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-05-28
THE LABOR PROBLEM
BISHOP SPALDING CONSIDERS
STRIKES DEMORALIZING.
Thinks That Workingmen Are Never
the Same After Having Been
in q Walkout-Man Is In
jured Morally.
Washington ID. c. Special.

Washington d. CO. Special.
Members OF the house committee on
labor listened to speech from Bishop
Spalding, of Peoria, the other day in
favor of the bill fathered by Volney w.
Foster. providing for commission to
arbitrate labor difficulties. Bishop
Spalding said that the passage of the
bill would reduce existing evils and
would pave the way for Industrial
peace" and paraphrased Sherman in
saying that strikes are hell.
Answering questions by Acting
Chairman Vreeland, Bishop Spalding
said it was not his opinion that the
proposed tribunal would never be
called upon to determine the question
OF what is legitimate profit on the
investment Of capital. Its province
would be to settle disputes as to hours.
treatment and pay of employees. A fair
wage, he said, was determined in the
soft coal mines of the west by the con-
dition in the mines and the cost of liv-
ing. Where business did not permit
a living wage according to the Ameri-
can standard of living that business
should cease, declared the bishop.
Il would say" he continued, "as
Sherman said of war, that the strike
is hell" Men who went out on a strike,
he added, went back injured morally,
and not the same men. The children
Of strikers had been taught to taunt the
children of other workmen. The con-
dition between capital and labor was
not improving, he said, although he be-
lieved the anthracite strike commits
sion had accomplished good results.
He referred to the present labor
troubles in Colorado, San Francisco
and Chicago. These conditions were
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-05-28
A RUDE RUSSIAN OFFICER
Thought He Could Ride Rough-shod
Over American Soldiers, But
Failed.

Capt. Charles H. Martin, of the Four.
teenth infantry, relates the following
says the Chicago Daily News. "On the
return march from Picking, and while
approaching Hohsiwoo, the column OF
the Fourteenth United States infantry
one evening was overtaken by Rus
sian officer of high rank in his three
horse blackboard, driven by his order
ly. At the time the rear battalion oil
the regiment, temporarily commanded
by myself, was entering a defile, Dor
dered on each side by low, swampy
ground, the road just being wide
enough to accommodate the column.
suddenly heard a loud shout: Watch
out, captain! Watch out!' but, before
could even turn my head, found my
horse on his knees, with the Russians
horses on top Of us. After extricating
ourselves, 1 found that the Russian,
seeing the narrow road before him, and
not proposing to be delayed by our
column, had deliberately plunged into
us, regardless Of consequences.
1.-THE temporary check which he had
received by my being in the way seemed
to infuriate the officer, and with violent
gesticulations he ordered his orderly to
drive on. Two enlisted men nearest
US held his horses heads. This was too
much. Taking the lines from his now
helpless. bewildered driver, he forced
his horses forward. but before he had
completely gotten them away from the
men holding them I had ordered four
more men to aseist in stopping him, and
to keep him where he was until the
rear of the column had passed. In
spite of such a show Of force, he per.
sisted in violently urging his horses
forward, and was only stopped by being
knocked to the ground by the butt OF
a gun, and having the horses unhitched
from the conveyance. AS he rose from
the ground he started to draw his re-
volver, when instantly several rifles
were drawn on him.
This seemed to bring him to a re-
alizing sense of his impotency, and,
putting up his revolver, he ran forward
with tears in his eyes, and called in
French to the captain of the company
then passing: I am an officer-an Of
ficer! Look at my frightful condition
and the humiliation which has been
heaped upon me! Can you give me
justice?' He received this consoling
answer: That's all right, old man:
there's only room on this road for one
of US, and we got here first.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-05-28


(Leading Member Of the New Panama
Canal Commission)
Walker in q corridor of the Corcoran
building in Washington and asked
pertly:
Can you tell me where will find
Walker?"
YES" Admiral Walker replied.
Gust come with me-"
The dapper young fellow followed Adj
miral Walker into his Office. The adj
miral took seat behind his desk and in
vited the young man to sit down.
''Well, what can l do for your" Adj
miral Walker asked of the young man.
who began to sQuirm uneasily in his
chair.
81 am Walker" the admiral contin.
ued. "John G. Walker is my full name.
but you might call me Jack for short"
Unable to summon up enough voice to
apologize, the young fellow rushed out
OF the Office without saying word
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-05-28

had chummed, but this fashionable
young woman, whose goings and COM
ings were of such import, was not even
distantly related to that little hoyden-
Polly, and, as plain American citi-
zen, he was silent, not knowing the
language that the new Polly spoke.
"Hello!" she called again into the
silence.
With a flash and f1utter of feminine
founces she was over.
That's still barbed wire" Pear
son called.
"Oh!" she clarionetted. "a barbed
wire?" She sped across the space that
interviewed to drop on his top step in
GREATNESS scorn. Was it that?" she
demanded. 1--WE been home a whole
day."
no." said Pearson, calmly, Il don't
mean to come. You've SO many dan
cling about you that I'll never be
missed. And, anyway, Polly, l hear
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-05-28
A Peculiar Case.

Bridgeport, Ala, April 25th.--A re;
markable case and one which has puzzled
It is the case Of a lady who evidently
came very nearly having paralysis. Her
name is Mrs. Martha Glasscock, and she
tells the following interesting story.
Il was afflicted with a tingling sensation
in my flesh and burning in the soles Of
my feet and at times I would be chilly
and my feet and legs would feel as il
they had gone to sleep. l suffered in
this way for over six years. was very
much run down, and did not seem able
until commenced treatment of new
remedy called Dodd's Kidney Pills.
I'm a short time every symptom OF my
old trouble was gone and l was feeling
better and stronger than I had for years.
I gained ten pounds in weight in three
months. I can eat heartily and ! don't
look like the same person: feel that I
owe my life to Dodd's Kidney Pills..
wish l could tell every sick woman what
they have done for me"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-05-28
aood One Necessary.

One Of the English weekly papers tells
Q good "caddie" story. a dhlst ing q
one who has only to come and see IN order
to conquer.
whats the length of this hole!
.Two hundred yards, sir.
claw, 1 see. just a drive and putt"
He addressed the ball, swung, and drove
- NO. said the caddie, moo for the
deli O. putin. Y. Tribune.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-05-28
CHARACTERISTICS.
The Barriers Of Glass and Caste Have
Been Leveled to the Ut
termost.

The statistical returns of moneys de-
volving by inheritance show a total for
France nearly 30 times as great as those
for England, Austria or Germany
writes DR.. Emil Reich, in the Contem-
porary Review. It is not uncommon in
England to receive money by legacy:
in Hungary the legacy has become SO
fabulous as to be the stock subject for
gibes; but in France the acquisition of
riches by bequest is SO common as to
be almost the rule. There is q hint
Of the great wealth Of France in the
peasant dowries up from $1,000 to $10,-
600 which are by no means uncommon.
Enter the principal cafe of some de-
partmental capital and watch those two
men playing billiards who appear to be
on footing of perfect familiarity. You
would hardly guess, for there is certain
~ no distinction of attire, that the one
is living on his income Of $4,000 a
year and the other is still struggling
chemist. The barriers of class and
caste have been leveled to the utter
most in France. ~. ~ I'd" g
People who have only seen England
and America can with difficulty realize
how thoroughly the Frenchwoman per-
vades every detail of family life. Moth
ing is done without her consent and
counsel. In business she has her say,
and many of the great commercial
houses trace their descent in the femi-
nine line. 1t is the Frenchwoman who
rules from the counting-room, who
keeps the books. who sees the travellers.
Those who would wish for tangible
concrete proof of the Frenchwoman's
supreme Importance should remember
one striking feature of French cities
the frequency with which on shop
signs the names of husband and wife
are coupled together and the common
occurrence of widows names In the
same way. -.
The peacefulness of France is but
surface deep, and she only waits an oc-
easion to avenge the disgrace of the
war of 1870. She has obeyed the behest
of Gambetta: Speak Of it never:
think of it always"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-05-28
Colorado Radium.

William ]. Hammer, the Edison ex-
pert, after examining the first hundred
pounds of pitchblende from Gilpin couu-
ty, COL, said it was SO far ahead OF the
material the CURES had been getting
from Bohemia, and there was SO much
Of It in sight, that all demands of SCI
ence for radium would soon be supplied
in this country at far lower rate than
at present
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-05-28
The One Thing.

D'Auber-Did Crittick say anything
to you about my latest painting?
Knox-Yes. BY the way, you must
have had it nicely framed before you
showed 1t, didn't you?
Eyes; why?"
"He said he noticed one artistic fea-
ture about 1t. "-Philadelphia Press.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-05-28

three players only are concerned in
the scene that brings the applause,
why, naturally, the other members Of
the company would have no part in the
response"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-05-28
Policemen's Training College.

There is policemen's college in ST.
Petersburg to train applicants for the
force. There is museum combined
with the school where the pupils make
themselves familiar with the tools of
criminals-jemmies, crills, chisels and
contrivances for robbing collection
boxes. The Russian passport system is
studied in detail. The duties Of the
dvorniks, sort Of assistant police, are
taught. They keep watch on the resi-
dences, report on the habits of the ten
ants and their visitors, examine the pa
pers of newcomers, and direct them to
report themselves at the police station.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-05-28
. Schools for Fishermen,

There are now in Belgium four
schools for the instruction of fisher
men. The pupils are taught how to
read weather charts. how to make the
best use Of currents. what the bottom
of the sea is like, how to make their
own nets, how to manage boat in a
storm, how to use the latest inventions
in the line Of fishing apparatus, etc.
There are about $50 pupils now in these
schools.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-05-28
This Minnfe

This minute is the crown and corolla
Of the past. the bulb and bud of tho
future.-Chicago Tribune.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-05-28
ADMIRAL WALKERS JOKE.
Naval Veteran Rebukes Brusque
Young Man in Effective, Yet
Humorous Manner,
Washington I'd. CO. specia,

"dsHlHStUH ID. C.1 Special.
Rear Admiral John G. Walker devotes
more time to canal matters than to fash
ion plates and could hardly be called
spick and span in the civilian clothes
he wears at his work A stranger would
be tar more likely to take Admiral
Walker for countryman than a retired
naval officer. His long whiskers are Of
the type SO popular with rural dramas,
and his rolling walk might well be taken
for the movement acquired by following
q pillow.
A bruSOue vOunp man in soa rch NJ III
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-05-28

Germans In United States.
The German population of the world is
about 100000, and of this number TO-
$4,000 are in the United States.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-05-28
How to Keep House.

With all the Injuries and pleasures Of
this life, its big enjoyments and its smaller
comforts, there is an offset or antithesis
which we have to contend with in the
form Of aches and pains. In some way
Of them in some form at some time.
TriAing as some of them may be, the
risk is that they will grow to something
greater and rack the system with con-
slant torture. There is nothing, there.
fore, of this kind that we have right to
trife with. Taken in time, the worst
forms of aches and pains are easily sub.
dued and cured by the free use Of St.
Jacobs Oil. No well regulated household
ought to be without bottle of this great
remedy for pain. It is the specific virtue
of penetration in St. Jacobs Oil that
carries it right to the pain spot and
effects prompt cure even in the most
painful cases Of Rheumatism, Neuralgia,
Sciatica, Lumbago. You want it also in
the house at all times for hurts, cuts
and wounds, and the house that always
has it keeps up sort Of insurance against
pain.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-05-28

A Pennsylvania farmer has had his wife
arrested for cruelty because she insisted
on grinding out "Hiawatha" on q phono.
graph. There are limits beyond which it
Il unsafe to 90 even in torturing an
aariculturist.- Kochester Union.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-05-28

'When you borrowed that 100 marks
from me you said you needed it for. =
short time" Exactly, and l only had it
a short time-I spent it all that day!"-
Fliegende Blaetter.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-05-28

Tc-day.-"Has Mrs. Upperten many chill
aren?" "Yes-she has one."-Puck
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1904-10-08
CHURCH AND SCHOOL NOTES.

The chief procurator of Russia, in a
report to the car on the state of Rus
sian religion, states that there are &C.,
$50 churches in the empire During the
last year 1888 new places of worship were
consecrated.
There Is no organized community Of
Jews anywhere in Japan, excepting at
Nagasaki. The synagogue there was
built by a Japanese woman, who had
married a Jew When he died she
built the synagogue in his memory.
A joint pastoral will be issued short
ly by the Roman Catholic bishop of Eng
land, dealing with church music. The
pastoral will prohibit entirely certain
masses belonging to what may be called
the operate school. and will deprecate
strongly further employment of worn-
en- singers in church choirs.
Mrs. Agnes Knox Black, wife Of Prof
e. Carlton Black, of Cambridge, Mass, has
been appointed to the Boston university
faculty, and is the first woman who has
ever held position in the faculty OF
that institution. She will be at the
head Of the department of elocution and
oratory. She took postgraduate
course in Philadelphia along elocution"
airy lines.
Plus x. is introducing many econo'
mics in the church administration. IL
comes largely from his ideas based on
his personal experience when he was
cardinal. At that time, in Venice
he lived on 5000 month, and had free
use Of house and gondola. He now
proposes to reduce the incomes OF all
the cardinals in Rome, allowing them by
way Of compensation free residence in
papal palaces. The cardinals do not
take kindly to the suggestion.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1904-10-08
5|@?5!Mz;ss.Esys ss
M'esss:::S@T6IAD
BUYING MILK FOR CHEESE.
Payment on the Basis Of Fat It Con-
tains Is Fair for All Parties
Concerned.

Cheese factories are rapidly changing
in many parts of the country to the
method of purchasing their milk by the
Babcock test. paying for 1t according to
the amount of fat It contains. This is as
1t should be. The old idea that the
amount of fat in the milk had nothing
to do with the amount OF cheese 1t would
make Is entirely erroneous; and besides,
1t tends to develop poor conditions TO.
both cheese factory and patrons. When
patrons come to realize that the amount
of cheese made is dependent upon the
amount of fat in the milk, those who are
producing good milk will demand that
their milk be paid for on fat basis.
otherwise the man with the poor milk
will receive part of the returns that
should come to them.
Prof E. III. Harrington says that for
every pound of butter-fat contained in
100 pounds of milk 28 pounds Of cheese
can be made. Thus, milk with three per
cent, fat in it would make cheese that
would weigh 7.8 pounds, while II the
butter-fat amounted to four pounds in
100 pounds of milk, that is, was what We
call four per cent. milk, the amount OF
cheese made would be 1914 pounds. Prof.
Harrington is an expert in these matters
and his figures are probably as accurate
as can be obtained. They demonstrate
very forcibly the advisability of buying
by the test even for cheese making.
Moreover, the quality of the cheese Is
influenced by the quantity of fat in the
milk as the greater the per cent. of fat
in the milk the richer the cheese. Pay
ment for the milk on the fat basis will
cause an effort to breed for a richer
quality of milk, and this will react upon
the average quality of cheese from that
factory, enabling it to bring a better
price on the market and in the end will
result in higher prices for the milk.
Like many other farm operations, in
studying the effect of given action, we
must look beyond the immediate effect
II we would realize the full possibilities
Prairie Farmer.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1904-10-08
POINT TO BE CONSIDERED.
will the Farmers Accept Aid Of City
Friends Of Good Roads or Treat
Them as MeddlersP

Among those interested in road i'm
provement the farmers, OF course,
stand first The character and condi-
ton OF the roads are of vital interest
to them every day in the year. The
farmers until recently have been COM
PEELED to struggle with the road prob
lem without much help or encourage
ment from any other class. Now, how
ever, some strong elements OF the city
population are rallying to their sup
port. Among these may be named the
manufacturers of road building ma
chinery, the makers and users OF pl-
cycles and automobiles and men OF the
cities who have money invested In the
country. These people are entering
into the work for road improvement
with even more enthusiasm and zeal
than the farmers.
Just now the farmers who want bet
ter roads are brought face to face with
most important question:: VIII ne
accept the assistance OF these city
allies? Will he welcome the aid OF the
machinery man, the capitalist, the BIZ
cyclist and the automobilist? Or Will
he treat them as schemers who are
trying to NEEDLE with his affairs?
The answer to these questions ought
to depend on what these city friends
of good roads are proposing to do. II
they propose to have the country roads
improved in order to Increase their
business, and enhance their pleasures,
wholly at the expense of the farmer,
then he should spurn the profered
alliance. II, on the contrary, they are
proposing, through state and national
taxation, to lift large part of the
burden off the farmer and place 1t on
the taxpayers of the cities, he ought
to bid them welcome and extend the
glad hand
This is live question for the farm
er to consider and answer. Already
the opponents Of state and nationaal
aid are at work trying to sow seeds OF
suspicion in the minds of the farmers,
and they will do their best to prevent
any cooperation between the country
and city friends of good roads.
AS a matter of fact, state and ma
tional aid offer the only hope of gen.
eral road improvement, and such aid
can never be secured If the city people
array themselves against 1t. Unless
the farmers are wholly blind to their
own interests they will welcome aid
from any and every source. and will
make every effort to secure the power
full aid of the state and federal gov
ernments.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1904-10-08
CAN DRINK TROUBLE.
That's One Way to Get It.

Although they won't admit 1t many
people who suffer from sick headaches
and other ails get them straight from
the coffee they drink and 1t is easily
proved IL they're not afraid to leave 1t
to test as in the case Of a lady In
Connellsville.
II had been sufferer from sick
headaches for twenty-five years and
anyone who has ever had bad sick
headache knows what suffered.
Sometimes three days in the week l
would have to remain in bed, at other
times couldn't lie down the pain
would be so great. My life was tor
ture and If went away from homo
for day / always came back more
dead than alive.
"One day was telling woman my
troubles and she told me she knew
that 1t was probably coffee caused It.
She said she had been cured by stop
ping coffee and using Postum Food
Coffee and urged me to try this food
drink.
That's how came to send out and
get some Postum and from that time
I've never been without 1t for 1t suits
my taste and has entirely cured all
OF my old troubles. All did was to
leave of the coffee and tea and drink
well made Postum In its place. This
change has done me more good than
everything else put together.
Our house was like drug store for
my husband bought everything he
heard of to help me without doing
any good but when I began ON the
Postum my headaches ceased and the
other troubles quickly disappeared. 1
have a friend who had an experience
Just like mine and Postum cured her
Just as It did me.
~Postum not only cured the head
aches but my general heslth has been
improved and / am much stronger
than before. now enjoy delicious
Postum more than ever did coffee"
Name given by Postum Co.. Battle
Greek. Mich.
There's q reason" and It's worth
1lpding out
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1904-10-08
Opportunities for Dairymen.

Last year England imported $4,000
tons of butter. The United States ex-
ported about 1000 TONS These facts
leave fair inference that England
offers an open market for more than
so times as much butter as we are in
the habit of exporting. England's pur-
chases of this article from foreign
countries and from her colonies
amount to about $100,000,000 a year.
Our export sales Of 1t approximate
$1,5O0,000. England purchased last
year about 10000 tons Of cheese. Our
total exports were in the vicinity of
5000 tons, worth about $2,250, 900.
Canada, whom we are prone to regard
as an economic inferior, exported ten
times as much as we did. This leaves
a fair inference that there is, in Eng
land alone possible market for some
$40,OOO.OO0 worth Of cheese every year.
IN. Y. Sun.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1904-10-08
THE KEGS WERE LIGHTER.
DR.. Lorimer's Easy Explanation Of
an Apparently Difficult Per
Torrance.

Rev. George G. Lorimer, whose death at
AK was recently reported, was the main
impetus that carried on the building OF
Boston's magnificent fremont Temple, and
DR.. Lorimer's wit, sincerity and imagina-
tive sympathy made him a great favorite
with the students of Harvard during his
residence in Boston.
At Cambridge, one day, according to a
current story, an undergraduate asked the
opinion of DIR. Lorimer on drinking-mod
crate drinking.
~ am opposed to it, the clergyman said.
ut is perilous. 1t frequently leads to
drunkenness. In fact, most drunkards were
moderate drinkers first"
Naturally malt liquors and wines,
though, are Strengthening, aren't they?'
the student asked.
DIR. Lorimer smiled ##
Beer" he said, sis very Strengthening
/ have known young men to have sent To
their rooms large kegs of beer that they
could not bulge at first, and day or two
later they would be able to lift these kegs
with ease"