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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-07-29
Prof Is OF the Packere.


There has been great deal Of dis.
appointment because the Garfield re.
port shows that the profits OF the
packing industry only amount to
about two per cent. of the volume OF
business transacted. There is no
doubt. however, that the report is cor
rect
The census reports compiled by the
government in 1900, before the agita-
ton regarding the "beef trust" began,
throw considerable light on this Ques-
ton. 1t appears from the census that
the packing industry is conducted on
a smaller margin Of gross profit than
any other industry in America. The
gross margin of profit of ST. -four and
grist mills in Illinois, in the census
year, was nearly seven per cent. on the
volume Of business. The gross margin
Of ffty-one wholesale slaughtering and
meat packing establishments in Illi-
nois was only shout one-third as large,
or little more than two per cent. on
the volume of business.
The millers have not been accused
of being in trust" and combina-
lions would seem impossible in a BUSH
ness where there are several thousand
mills in the United States competing
actively for the flour trade, but it ap-
pears that the gross profits Of the mill.
ers are larger than the gross profits of
the packers. 1t may turn out that the
agitation regarding the packing indus
try will show the same result as the
devil found in shearing the pig: "Au
squeal and no wool"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-07-29
HEALTHIEsT OCCUPATIONS
Statistics Show That Farmers and
Gardeners Have the Lowest
Mortality.

| One would imagine coal mining to b
| little short of deadly occupation :
| what with the coal-dust-laden air, til
cramped position and the damp AM
confinement generally ever threatening
consumption, rheumatism and other dis
eases; yet the death rate annually il
barely nine per 900, states Stray Stories
Flour is surely not dangerous all
admixture, for bakers have mortality
a shade more respectable than this
even.
Plumbers and painters die at the ratl
of II per 1000.
The publican's life is less secure one
at IS.
Work necessitating spasmodic rushes
is singularly unhealthy-a fact probably
accounting for the large mortality
among shopkeepers. 1t is still more sig
nificant as regards hotel servants and
walters, who die at the rate of % per
1000.
To come now to the healthiest occu.
patton we find that farm servants are
exceptionally long lived, only seven
out of every 1000 succumbing yearly,
but, low as that proportion is, it is well
beaten by gardeners, with surprisingly
low death rate of Ave per 1000.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-07-29

school. He had accidentally severed a
artery in his left leg with a knit
while working in putting up tent Of
the river bank, II miles from St. Pau
where the two boys had gone to eam]
for few days.
Taylor would have bled to death bn
for the assistance and endurance %
his young companion, who first tied
handkerchief about his friends leg, BIZ
finding that alone did not suffice t,
check the flow of blood he got sinai
stick and twisted the handkercnle
until the blood ceased to flow freely.
Taylor had been weakened by III.
loss of blood and tainted severa
times. The two boys realized they
must get to place where medical as.
sistance could be obtained, and as the
nearest house was two or three miles
distant from the river they decided te
paddle to Fort Smelling.
!. 1t was eight o'clock in the evening
when Taylor severed the artery in his
leg and it was not long afterward thai
the two were coming down the riveI
toward st. Paul as speedily as the
athletic young Bohn could make the
canoe travel. Throughout the whole
journey Taylor was lying at the bot
tom of the canoe, occasionally attempt
ing to assist the paddler, but always
finding himself too weak.
For four hours the young hero pad.
died as rapidly as he could, while his
companion was steadily growing weak.
er from the loss of blood. When they
arrived at Fort Smelling Taylor was al
most unconscious and Bonn ran to the
fort and got assistance. The hospital
were soon itelephoned and
The injured young man was taken te
he Cobb hospital.
His condition was pronounced serl
JUS. but he is declared out of danger.
When Taylor received the injury he
vas cutting a tent pole with his knife
rhe knife slipped from the wood anofI
severed an artery in his leg.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-07-29
JUDGING BY APPEARANCES
Not in Every Instance a Sure Index
of Character, as It Is Here
illustrated.

A student once asked the French
alienist Esquirol if there were any sure
tests by which to tell the sane from the
insane. please dine with rae to-mor-
row at six O'clock" was the answer Of
the savant. The student accepted the
Invitation, relates the Chicago Daily
News and found two other guests pres
ent, one of whom was elegantly dressed
and apparently highly educated, while
the other was rather uncouth, noisy and
extremely conceited.
After dinner the pupil rose to take
leave. AS he shook hands with his
teacher the latter remarked: zone of
the two gentlemen you have Just met is
insane Can you tell me which," "The
problem is very simple was the stu
dents reply. THE quiet, we1l-dressed
gentleman is certainly distinguished in
some lines, but the other is as certainly
lunatlc and ought at once to be locked
up
You are wrong, my dear friend. re-
piled Esquirol. That quiet. we'll
dressed man who talks so ra sionally has
for years labored under the delusion that
he is God the Father, whereas the other
man, whose exuberance and self-con-
ceit have surprised you. Is Honore dy
Balzac.'
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-07-29
REMEMBERING.

Say, do you remember the long ago,
Or do you at last forget
The meadows where winds of the South
land blew,
And perfumed nights dew-wet
Are purple and soft and coaxing, too,
AS mantle Of fairy weave,
And the whispering trees the moon shines
through
Where the night birds sit and grieve?
l remember it all; the wide spread oak
with its branches stretched afar;
re look In your eyes, the words you spoke
Ihe sky and the single star
4hat hung a-cicse to tie crescent moon
As 1t sailed through purple. space;
remember the night birds plaintive
Groom,
The look on your upturned face.
The city afar en- silhouette.
The blooms beneath your feet,
Inc crlcket's song seems sounding yet:
Inc Jasmine's perfume sweet
comes floating to me adown the wind
But yet-but yeti am old!
There are years. wide years, betwixt me
And you and the age of gold,
The age ofsoi5, wien the blood was E[
A surging resislless tide!
And The feet impatient IT, scale the heights
mat the years held all untried!
An. We'll, we dream as an old dog hunts
In his sleep; but youth is fed!
ihough tbs sweet to remember the old, old
ways,
And joys of days long dead.
j. M. Lewis, in Houston Post.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-07-29

submission. De vry then struck the
big fellow . half dozen times on the
head with black jack and the battle
was won. The two lifted the big form
into the den.
/ 1t was then found that the larger
python had swallowed the two ring
tails that had occupied the cage that
lay on the floor. A bulge in his body
two feet back from his head told the
story of the little monkeys fate They
had been destroyed before Mr.. Vehle
reached the store. The 10 Java spar
rows killed were destroyed when the
big python knocked their cage to the
floor
These snakes eat only once year"
Mr.. Vehle said afterwards. "They
heard the birds in the store during the
night, and l suppose they got suddenly
hungry and started out after NEAL"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-07-29
Trade-Mark Law.

In an article in the Business World
of recent issue, James Law Steuart,
New York lawyer. shows the mis-
chievous results of the substitution of
initiative articles of merchandise for
the genuine. In the long run he dem
onstrates that dealers undoubtedly
lose by selling the limitations. The new
trademark law is intended to stop the
piracy in commodities which has long
been practiced by irresponsible imi-
tators. 1t will no doubt help, but the
vigilance Of the propfietors of goods
protected by trademarks will still be
necessary. In carrying out a fraud on
legitimate trademark, Mr.. Steuart
says the printer or the lithograp her
often unwittingly takes part by dupli-
eating labels and circulars. 1t is well
for the printer to be careful, for he is
. liable under the law as well as the
man that is directly involved in the
infringement. Indeed, under the laws
of some states, he is made criminaIly
responsible for such acts. In referring
to the manner Of getting the imita-
ton goods palmed off on the consum-
ers, Mr.. Steuart says: THE, retailer
should stand for what is right and
realize that he can in the long run
make more from the sale of standard
brands than he can by larger profits
in but temporary sale of the spurious
article The argument of the infringer
to the retailer is that he can make
more money because he gets the spu-
rious goods at less price and sells |
them at the standard price, which the |
original goods command. He loses |
sight of the fact that the proprietor OF |
the original goods is always making q
market for his product Ey advertise
ment, while the infringer does not ad-
vertise, but on the contrary, Injuries
the trade by supplying an inferior ar
ticle. If the retailers could be brought
to realize the truth of this doctrine
there would be less substitution"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-07-29
Public Trade Schools.

When the United States shall come
as 1t will in few years, to have 1OO,-
ooo,O0O of inhabitants, with a CORE
spending expansion of development,
there is going to occur constantly
increasing scarcity of skilled workmen
II the control of labor by the unions
snould continue. The rules of the
unions in regard to apprentices virtu-
ally cut off any sufficient supply of
workmen who know their trades. A
writer in Casters Magazine, publ
cation devoted to technical matters,
calls attention to the approaching con-
oltlons. He notes that the introduce
ton of minute division of labor, the
extreme specialization of the classes of
labor, and the growth of the large shop
as contrasted with the small general
snop have greatly reduced the opportu-
mites for acquiring the thorough
knowledge Of a trade. Up to recent
times the skilled workers employed in
American industrial establishments
nave Deen drawn as rule from two
sources-the small shop and the immi-
grafton from Europe. But the small
shop is now rapidly disappearing, while
the character Of our immigration is
quite as rapidly changing SO that
skilled workers can no longer be sup
Piled in such numbers from England,
Germany and Sweden. The writer men
toned sees no other remedy for the
situation which is to. occur in Amer
lea except in training schools man.
tanned by the states. 1t is going to
come to pass that not only will schol-
astic education as at present be fur.
nished to each individual at the pub
lie cost, but there will be public schools
for the training, SO that skilled work.
ers can no longer be by one, all private
duties will be shifted from the individ.
uals to the public, and such system
once started may go on indefinitely.
The present trend of political and So
cial evolution is peculiar in the ex.
IRENE.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-07-29
THE LORDS KINGDOM.

The Sabbath school children of Phil
adelphia propose to raise. $4,000 t.
help forward Christian work amonf
the Italians Of that city.
During the last year more than 1
million copies of the Scriptures were
sold in China by the British and For
eign Bible society. This was exclusive
OF $4,000 copies in the shape of free
grants, mainly to Chinese students
This record far exceeds all previous
records of the society's circulation In
the Chinese empire.
Gospel wagons, Gospel cars, Gospel
tents, Gospel bicycles and now Gospel
automobiles are used by missionaries
In preaching tours. Two pastors In
Paris have recently travelled many
miles in an automobile, from which
they have preached to the large num-
Der of country people assembled in
market places and at fairs, and dis
tributed leaflets and tracts among
them
The Jewish community In France
figures in the Budget of Worship for
1905 for the following amounts One
hundred and thirty-three thousand
five hundred and thirty france, contri-
buttons to salaries of, religious func-
tionaries; 1880 francs, subyention to
the Jewish seminary. In addition,
$1,000 francs are allowed towards the
maintenance of Protestant and Jewish
religious edifices.
New York is the largest single mis-
sion field in the world to-day. 1t is
estimated that only one-third of it's
population, both Protestant and Ro-
man Catholic, is under Christian indu-
ence. The foreign descent population
In New York is larger than the whole
of Chicago's population, and they read
36 daily newspapers in foreign tongues.
Congregationalism carries on religious
services in IA languages.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-07-29

some one spoken? The room was
quiet even as they had found it hall
an hour ago. How had it happened
Two hours before Ferguson came up
from the depot. While waiting for q
car raan came by whom he instinc-
lively marked for thief. The man
stopped, perhaps to wait for a car, but
he watched Ferguson. Ferguson met
his eyes frankly, and then he felt that
he was wrong. Those were not a
thief's eyes. The man had a clean
cut, well-formed face and a mighty
chest. His clothes were neat. not of
the best material, but neat, all save
the hat, crush hat, drawn down low
in front. 1t was the hat that led Fer
guson to think the man a thief. It
was not honestly worn.
The man suddenly walked straight
up to Ferguson and spoke. 1t was .
hearty voice and straightforward. The
story was old. Hungry, tired. no
money. You could hear as much =
hundred times ally night, but not in
that language-well chosen, grammat-
ical, polite. There were marks of good
breeding in it.
Ferguson remembered his own COM
ing to Chicago and how near he had
been to this same condition. He had
made SO cents stretch over three DAYS
This was plausible story that the
man had told OF his recent coming ia
the city and his fruitless search for
in the fire insurance bust
ness. which was the vocation he best
knew.
He took the man into a restaurant
and fed him. He knew of work that
he could do and would try h1n at it.
A man who can operate 5 typewriter
1t the rate of 100 words a minute
would likely prove valuable in his
office.
There was spare couch In Fergu-
sons room, and he could easily accom-
nodate the man over night. Their
ak had revealed numerous favorable
signs. The man had been at Kentucky
Military Institute. and one OF Fergu-1
'on's chums had likewise been trained
here. Thence came the discovery of
Common acquaintance /
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| lney went out on the car TO Eergu
sons place and went in talking earn
estly of the strike and Of labor prob
lens generally. The man had no sym.
pathy. for the "scab,' and Ferguson
had less for the union teamsters
They were absorbed and earnest.
Ferguson began at once making
preparations for the night, talking
meanwhile. He sat with shoe in his
hand and his guest was standing be-
fore him.
The change was like fash, and
like a flash Ferguson's fist had struck
out fierce blow below the belt, as
this man suddenly dropped his voice
and reached for Ferguson's watch.
| The big. deep chest of the man went
shut like 5urs. balloon and he fell
! over, quite unconscious. Ferguson
caught him as he fell and in an instant
! was crowding him out through the
open window. The body dropped heav-
lily and never stirred.
Every thief has a soul'
Ferguson had no superstitions about
Immortality. What Prof. Munsterberg
has to say on that subject quite e1-
pressed his own views, but the words
rang insistently as he looked once
more on that helpless thing below,
Fear he never felt for moment.
What the world would say he little
cared. Whatever it was that troubled
him was purely personal-his own at
fair
He sat long into the morning facing
that-his own affair. After all, were
they so different? Was he, the good
hearted benefactor of men and believer
in thieves souls. so very different from
the thief out there? Were they not
both thoughtless followers of impulses
that needed only to be reviewed in the
mind to stay them from action? To
think afterward-even the philanthro-
pist must know the pain of that some
times. What was the right of it then
if this was all wrong?
There was some one stirring below.
Voices came drifting in through the
open window. A growing grayness
and the sounds of awakening traffic
told that the night was far spent. The
day was coming, and with it new fac
tors in this awful problem of life and
death. Was it death that |
he had brought to this other one, this |
other who had come into his own life |
unasked, unknown? And he. Fergu-
son, who had willed him only good
had he sent him out into the great |
silence, the silence more terrible than |
that of night or of infinite space?
Ferguson did not move. He lay on
the couch and tried to sleep. Slowly
be began to see the possibilities that
might grow out of this adventure.
Night he not be held responsible for
crime? He began to see the thing
grow big. 1t was moro than personal
affair. He saw how it touched his
friends, his family, and it came over
lin how it reached out and touched
Ill society. One has a deal more food
or thought if he will not think until
lfterward.
He was reused early An off; Ger had
ONE to learn what had happened.
they had found Smith Wilkins, a no.
orious criminal, lying unconscious in
he court below Ferguson's window.
The man had been hunted for weeks.
here were dark deeds to his credit.
lie had studied and improved himself
While in Joliet. He was clever beyond
nost men.
He was dead-Chicago Record Her.
Id.
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the narrowing breakdown of that poor
fellow whose contrition had led to a
confession of a weakness beyond cure,
and who was next day back at his old
trade-even that experience had been
OF value to the wreck of creature
toward whom he had been tender.
A thief has SOUL The words
went ringing through his ears now as
he stood there at his window and
watched the moon struggling out from
the clouds over the lake.
"A thief has a SOUL The words
clamored He tried not to hear them.
He tried to tell himself the story just
as it had happened.
"A thief has soul" The words
would be heard, in act-Ferguson
drew back from the window. Had
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-07-29

(
John Baker Shaw and wife, we'll
to-do couple of South Connellsville, Pa,
were quietly passing the fortieth ami
versary OF their wedding few days
ago when without any warning their
Ii married sons and daughters, %
grandchildren, II great-grandchildren
and lot of neighbors drove up and
took. possession Of the place. The old
folks had been feeling rather hurt that
no notice seemed to be taken Of the
day. The visitors brought materials
for a bountiful dinner, at the conclu-
sion of which A. J. Shaw, grand
nephew, drove up with Miss Sarah
Buskiner and clergyman and was
married. Altogether it was the most
notable celebration seen in that Sec
ton for many q day.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-07-29

sound of other voices could be heart
the deeper and harsher cries of pail
Of balloons.
While Vehle fought with the smaller
snake the other did not attack him
but continued swirling and squirming
about the room, knocking cages down
and seeking to break into them. 1t was
| little after midnight when Vehle sue
ceeded in getting the smaller snake
Into the den and clasping the cover
down.
The big python, still at liberty, had
by this time ceased it's efforts to get
at the birds and monkeys and lay
quietly on the floor. Presently Cy De
Vry arrived, and the two attempted to
lift the big rec.ila into tie den. Then
the real battle Commenced.
The big python weighs ITO pounds.
To lift the dead weight, even, if he
complacently lay still, would be no
easy task, but the instant De Vry
grasped him, like flash, the snake
wound his form in two coils around
Vehle's body, and De Vry, seeing the
danger, grasped the snakes head in
both hands and ran around Vehle
twice, unwinding the coil before the
snake could get sufficient purchase to
crush Vehle.
De Vry and Vehle, each seeking to
get hold ct the cold, Shiny form, fought
desperately for nearly three-quarters of
an hour, the monkeys, the parrots,
canaries, love birds, rabbits and other
animals net once stopping their COM
motion and cries.
The confusion only added to the diff
iculty Nearly exhausted, the two men
were about to give up the struggle and
summon more help when Vehle told
De VTy he could club the snake into
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-07-29

In New York paper appears an
advertisement for attendants at a state
iunatic asylum who can play baseball.
Ordinary attendants get $22 month
and board, but those who prove pro-
acient shortstops ana outfelders may
receive $50 month extra. With ath-
letics playing an Important part even
in lunatic asylums the educated man
of the future may have to be able to
dig up grounder, buck the center or
throw the discus before his entrance
viii be welcome on general principles
BY the insane.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-07-29
RACE WITH DEATH
IN CANVAS CANOE.
Minnesota High School Boy Saves
Comrade Who Had Severed an
Artery in His Leg.

st. Paul, Minn.-George Bohn, 10
years old, student at the mechanic
arts high school, is the 16-year-oId
hero of thrilling race with death
which took place on the Minnesota
river in canvas canoe by night. After
padding II miles in the middle of the
night with his companion, Mathey
Taylor, in dying condition at ais
side, the young hero at last reached
Fort Smelling, where he received as
sistance and had his companion re.
moved to the Cobb hospital at Merriam
park.
Taylor is 20 years old and is also
student at the mechanic arts high
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-07-29
BEATEN AT HIS OWN GAME
Gambler Who Bet on Sure Things
Only Meets with a Cinch
That Fails.

There was sure-thing gambler
down in Mississippi named Gamble
good name, by the way" said John
Sharp Williams, according to the Re
hoboth Sunday Herald. HE never
made a bet unless he was sure he
would win. He was out at a county
fair, staying at hotel One morning
q man who was in the sporting line
himself got up early and looked out of
the window. He saw Gamble carefully
measuring with tapeline the hitch
ing post in front Of the hotel He
knew something was up. and when
Gamble went out to the fair he went
out and measured the hitching post
himself. Then he took sledge ham,
mer and drove the post into the ground
an inch and half.
That night, after supper, while
they were all sitting onthe hotel porch
Gamble craftily led the conversation
around to the difficulty of judging dis
tances and heights.
Now. he said, there's that hitch
ing post out yonder. I'll bet a hundred
| can come nearer it's height than any
body here
How high would you reckon it is :?
said the sledge-hammer artist, who,
after lot of conversation, had put up
the hundred with Gamble
Oh said CAM Bile, I'n take it at
80 inches.
ooh, no. replied the other man,
you are wrong. I'll bet it is less than
49,
"They measured, and it was 281z.
Gamble hasn't smiled since that day."
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-07-29
LASTING RELIEF

My nightly rest was broken, owing
to irregular action of the kidneys. /
was suffering intensely from severe
pains in the small of my back and
through the kidneys and annoyed by
painful passages Of abnormal secre-
lions. No amount of doctoring relieved
this condition. I took Doan's Kidney
Pills and experienced quick and lasting
relief, Doan's Kidney Pills will prove
blessing to all sufferers from kidney
disorders, who will give them a fair
trial"
Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. y,
proprietors. For sale by all druggists,
price SO cents per box.