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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-08-17

use Of Americans, and yet they are
small and simple dwellings.
Teaching the East to Hustle.
The schools are cooperative. Be it
| understood that there is no public
school system throughout Korea. Be-
fore the missionaries came, the higher
class boys were taught the Chinese
classics. The creation of the popular
taste for learning, as well as the pro-
duction of most of the literature in
the language of the plain people, may
be credited to the missionaries. It is
quite general for native churches to
maintain primary schools for secular
instruction. There are in this district
at least three higher academies and
the demand for education are by no
means met. 1t is probable that the
missionaries will soon have to forego
all direct teaching and become SUPER
intendents of instruction. The strate-
giGal importance to Christianity of
thus having controlling hand upon
the education of the nation is appar-
ent at glance.
In Pyeng Yang proper are three
noteworthy schools. One is the col.
lege, with 300 students, all of whom
are Christians and all of whom pass
stiff entrance examination. This is
taught by both Methodist and Presby-
terrain missionaries and by native
teachers. 1t is expected shortly to
grow into Christian college with a
thousand students. There is also a
girls high school with half hundred
students. I was much struck with
the industrial school attached to the
college, where some students work
their way through an education. Here
they have genuine blacksmith snop
machine shop and carpenter shop, all
of which are producing marketable
wares. The machine shop, for in
stance. is unable to supply the de-
mand for certain braiding machine
which it turns out. The industry and
the skill shown by the student work
men would seem to indicate unsus.
pecte& capabilities on the part of the
Korean. This establishment more
nearly resembled a bona fide work.
shop than any other industrial school
l recall
The manager of this Industrial
school is Rev. Graham Lee, who seems
to be practical mechanic. In addi-
ton to running the industrial school
he is the pastor of the largest church
In Korea, and has charge of 40 country
churches besides.
Like Story-5ook Missions.
This suggests the country work that
centers In Pyeng Yang, and one pecu-
liar phase of Korean missions. The
church here is self-supporting. New
churches spring up almost in night,
without ever having seen a missionary.
The Korean Christians are trained to
60 personal work. Everyone is ex-'
pected to be an evangelist Thus it |
comes to pass, that, by the telling Of |
the news from mouth to mouth, the |
number of believers spreads with |
greater rapidity than the missionary |
can follow. 1t seems literally true |
here that the missionary cannot keep |
up with the work, much less lead It. |
A few days ago DR.. Wells and DR.. |
Sharrocks went to VIII, a city north /
of here, which figured often in the war
En- route they looked in |
upon some country congregations. The
first night. in little village of about
1920 inhabitants, they found q prayer
meeting under way-the regular mid
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-08-17
The Sad Sea.

The thin, pale man in the large
bathing suit, standing knee-deep in the
water, sighed.
Why" we asked, "are you so sad ?"
!, Alas" he answered, "the sea is the
grave of my first wife,
Our lips curled supercilious1y.
But you married again." we muir
INJURED.
Yes" said he. "and my second wife
won't go near the water"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-08-17
Birds Lured hy MIrrnr.

Cock partridges are caught on
French shootings by means of trap
that sloses on the entrance of a
bird, the lure being mirror in which
It sees It's own reflection. which 1t Is
anxious to attack.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-08-17

An EngIishman claims to have
gone around the world in 40 days and
q few hours, and yet some persons
now living, even if they didn't fight
with Garibaldi, remember when Jules
Verne made up an S0-day story that
was supposed to be just inside the i'm.
possfble.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-08-17
A Peaceful Method,

why don: you state srour Ideas in
simple language that everybody can
comprehend"
Ny friend, answered the lecturer.
what is the uss OF Inviting argu-
menT? WaSitlngton Star.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-08-17

Smokers who have been longing to
break themselves of the tobacco habit
will rejoice to know that a French
doctor has invented a fluid called mic
otyl, one drop of which will cause a
man to have nausea at the mere
thought of tobacco.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-08-17

By a process of kite flying the
weather men of the country are go
ing to promulgate new rules for
weather forecasting. Representations
concerning the weather are usually
a little cup in the air. anyhow.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-08-17

They say that a Jap wrestler about
to come to this country weighs $50
pounds What target a japanese
army would make if its soldiers wera
All Of that style Of architecture.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-08-17
Does Not Always Paw.

First Tramp After ALL. it pays to
oe polite, pardner.
Second Tramp-Not always. The
other- day was actin deaf and dumb
Ehen a man gave me sixpence. /
says: '"ThaRk you sir" and he had
ne arrested.-TitBits.-
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-08-17
EIunkYism Rebuked.

An amusing story is told of how
Princess Ludwig of Bavaria recently
administered fine rebuke to fiunky-
ism at Bremerhayen railway station.
A servant in royal livery applied for
the reservation of a compartment for
his mistress, but when the train ar
rived it was found that all the first
class compartments were filed save
one, in which sat a plainly dressed
old lady. The obsequious station
masteF attempted to make the passen-
ger give up her seat so that royalty
might travel alone, but the Old lady
objected. Il see no reason why she
should come in here with me-" she
said. Il certainly shall not give up
my place for any one" The station.
masters angry voice brought Prin.
cess Ludwig of Bavaria to the car
riage door and after inquiring as to
the cause Of the excitement she ex-
claimed, DO not be Sc ridiculous!
There is room in there for five pee
pie. / do not care for six seats"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-08-17
Queer WAYS 81 Men.

Many man who permits his boy to
fool with cannon flrecrackcrs would
not for moment think oE allowing
him to play with . mad dos.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-08-17
How. II Hammered.

Green-I was the victim Of lynch.
ing party in Arizona once.
Brown--You don't say?
Green-Faet. I married the widow
of man who was strung up for horse
stealing. Chicago Daily News.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1907-01-23
CORN ROOT LOUISE.

Time spent in killing insect pests
must usually be set down as so much
time lost from the constructive work
Of improving the tilth of the soil, and
attending to the other needs of the
crops. Occasionally, however, an
improved system of cultivation gets
rid of our insect enemies at the same
time. This is conspicuously the case
in the method recently proposed by
Professor Forbes, of Illinois,, for de-
stroying the corn root louse.
The pest works havoc to both
sweet and field corn. The small
brown ant attends the louise and is
responsible for carrying it about the
field. Professor Forbes found that
by using a disk harrow one to three
times early in the spring, before the
corn is planted, from eighty to nine
ty-five per cent of the ants and corn
root lice are destroyed, and no fur
ther treatment is required during
the season. The peculiar virtues of
this remedy are that it is simple, eff
fective and good for the corn, since
the soil is thereby put in better
state OF cultivation.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1907-01-23

Beltings with ribbon embroidery
flowers are among the new accessor-
ies.
Wooden buttons inset with steel
are upon some of the imported street
frocks.
For very dressy functions the large
square stole is the thing over hand
some gowns.
There is nothing new in hats. They
are less mad, perhaps, than a few
weeks ago.
Fancy furs are, as a matter of
course, purchased according to the
taste of the wearer.
The bolero consisting largely of
horizontal tucks is a becoming style
for the slender figure.
Can you imagine richer combina-
ton than dull, dark red roses and
black grapes on a pale pink hat.
Coats are of all orders. So diver
sified are the styles that it is impos-
sible to reduce them to classifica-
ton.
A line of hand embroidery running
around the edge of an otherwise
plain handkerchief gives it an un-
mistakably mice" look.
Soft bengaline silk is one of the
fashionable materials for children's S
coats, as are also velvet and the less
expensive corduroy and velveteen.
Moleskin makes the best imitation
seal. Dyed, the stiff hairs removed,
and treated as good furrier knows
how, it is a splendid counterfeit.
Buttons are one of the most inn
portant furnishes of the day; but
tons of every kind and sort known
in the category of the button-maker.
Some remarkably beautiful trim
mings for mourning gowns are in the
form of bands and motifs of crepe
heavily embroidered by hand in
black.
The plain finish that is decidedly
becoming to many girls appears on
some of the guimpe waists in a band
of velvet around the neck edge of the
blouse.
Not content with the dashing ef-
feet of quills on the upper side of the
hats, some milliners tilt the hats ex-
cessively and arrange multitude of
bows and a quill or two beneath the
brim.
Walking skirts are made to clear
the ground by two good inches. This
is not a happy fashion for the real
winter trotteuse, for the skirt gets
as much mud from the back OF one's
shoes ss though It were longer.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1907-01-23
SWEET SIXTEEN,

Her hair was of a beautiful old
gold tint, her eyes a heavenly blue,
her face perfect oval and her com.
plexion dream of pink-and-white
loveliness.
She was of the age at which timid
girlhood passes swiftly yet almost
imperceptibly into glorious woman
hood.
Standing with reluctant feet
Where the brook and river meet
she gave promise of a wondrous fu-
ture as the undisputed wearer of a
crown of beauty and the recipient Of
the homage which the world willing
ly pays to natures own queens.
In the company of two women fur
ther along in years-probably a
mother and grandmother-she en-
tered the car on the elevated rail-
way and sat down with them on one
of the side seats.
Tastefully gowned, modest in bear
ing and graceful in every motion,
she attracted instant attention, but
appeared unconscious of the scrutiny
of those about her. She sat in ST.
lence, listening to the conversation
of her companions, but taking no
part in it.
Suddenly one of them turned and
addressed remark to her:
Mildred, what was it you were
telling me about Harry Fladger just
before we started downtown"
With heightened color she smiled
and opened her beautiful lips.
Jaw, forgit it, maw!" she said,
Chicago Tribune.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1907-01-23
FAR EASTERN NOTES.

The tin output of the Federated
Malay States is decreasing.
Public works decided upon at Vlad-
ivostok, Siberia, will cost $4,000, 900
gold.
The British Government has ap-
pointed commercial agent at Vladi-
vostok.
Osaka's waterworks were extended
five years ago to supply 100000 peo-
pie. The population is now more
than 100000.
Formosa's foreign trade amounts
to nearly s25,000,000 gold yearly,
and is increasing at the rate of ten
per cent. year.
The first ice factory on the west
coast of India has Just been estab-
lished at Calicut, India, by young
Parsee merchant.
Australia has a record wheat har-
vest this year. 1t will be 81,000,000
bushels, against 5S,000,000 last year,
an increase of 23,000,00O.
Space at the japanese managed
commercial exhibition at Mukden,
10 W AulSllCdu
manufacturers and exporters.
The Federated Malay States and
Johore, Burma, are exporting whole
wheat and importing wheat from Cal
ifornia, Oregon and Washington.
Vladivostok is not acquainted with
American tobacco, says Consul
Greene, who advises that samples and
price lists be sent by mail, via Japan.
A Japanese shoe manufacturing
concern has secured a contract for
shoes for the British army in India.
1t is one of the largest shoe contracts
ever placed.
India exported s3O,72S,O00 worth
of hides and skins in 1905. The
United States took forty-three per
cent in value Of the entire export,
chiefly skins.
Australia's exports of frozen meats
to England are one-fourth larger this
year, reaching 100000 pounds.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1907-01-23
LABOR WORLD.
Stuarts.

The trade union membership of
Austria is said to be 205,651.
Tacoma (Wash.) longshoremen
have made demand for the closed
shop.
A Building Material Teamsters'
| Union was organized recently in San
Jose, Cal.
The Coppersmiths' Union in New
York City reports that it's helpers are
being organized.
At meeting recently held In Grass
Valley the Nevada County Labor
Council was organized.
The San Francisco Labor Council
has proposed a law to prevent con-
vict-made goods entering California.
Carpenters Union, No. 22, of San
FRANCISCO, the largest union of the
craft In the world, has 1926 members
on its roll.
Two big express companies, the
Adams and the American, have made
increases affecting a large percentage
Of their employees.
1t is estimated that it may cost the
Western trunk lines in the neighbor-
hood of S25,000,000 yearly to meet
the demands of the wage-earners.
President Roosevelt was active in
bringing about conference in which
the strike of the Southern Pacific fire.
men is left to referendum vote.
Labor organizations Of San Fran
cisco have erected building of their
own, which will house majority of
the unions of the city. The building
cost S10,500.
Strike benefits were paid to the
amount of 143,069.5S and death
benefits of s29,375 by the Interna-
tional Association of Machinists in
the past fiscal year.
The telegraph operator responsible
for the railroad wreck near Volland,
Kan, in which forty-nine lives we're
lost, was eighteen years old and had
the work of an experienced railroad
man to do.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1907-01-23
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Charming white picture hats are
trimmed with white grapes, frosted
over with gold or silver dust, while
crab-apples and black cherries are
still to be seen, and in many in
stances these are combined with
roses or other flowers. Curious an
omalies, such as black cherries with
velvet chrysanthemums, are by no
means considered too great an out
rage upon nature, while the same
liberties have been taken in the case
of the frequent combination of large
tulips with double asters.
Blue beaver or velvet hats,
trimmed with mole-colored tulle and
wings to match, are among the most
attractive and becoming novelties,
while ivory-white felt hats, adorned
with cinnamon-colored tulle and
feathers, represent another scheme
which has been adopted enthusiastic
cally by young and old alike. Two
distinct shades of tulle are, besides,
often employed to trim the same hat,
as in the case of p large picture
model of gray panne, which was
swathed with elephant-gray and rose
colored tulle, the immense feather
likewise employed for its adornment
being carried out in the same two
tones.-Philadelphia Record.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1907-01-23
SHREWD FARM GIRL.

The most enterprising farm girl in
South Dakota is Mary Mauska, the
thirteen-year-old daughter of well
known farmer living near Wheeler.
The girl renders material aid to her
father in carrying on his farm work.
Her father is busy with his fall work
and to save him time the girl each
day but Sunday hauls load of wheat
to market at Platte, the nearest rail-
road point to the farm. The girl
is shrewd for one so young and trans
acts all the business of seeing that
the purchaser of the grain does not
cheat her on weights and gives her
proper credit for the amount Of grain
delivered.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1907-01-23
AN INEXPENSIVE HoTBED.

Enough plants can be started in
one small hotbed to stock good
sized garden with vegetables and
flowers.
There are three types of hotbed
that are within the means of the or
dinary amateur gardener.
The first is the temporary bed, in
which the manure is spread on the
top of the ground to the required
depth and a portable frame placed
over 1t.
The second differs only in having
shallow pit dug to hold the manure.
The third type is permanent bed,
the frame being made two and half
feet higher and built directly in a
pit of that depth. In bed of this
kind the bottom should be tile
drained, and it is a good plan to
cover it also with layer of cobble-
stones or planks. The outside should
be well banked up with manure,
earth or coal ashes.
The last type can be used not only
as hotbed in the early spring, but
also when the manure and earth are
cleaned out it can be used in the
fact as storage place for plants that
are not quite hardy, such as tea
roses, or for bulbs that are to be
forced for winter bloom.
OF the three forms above men,
toned the first is the easiest and
cheapest to make. and therefore the
one best suited to most beginners
Garden Magazine.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1907-01-23
FEMININE NEWS NOTES.
Life In Washington is not attrac
i've to Mrs. Efihu Root.

Life In Washington is not attrac-
i've to Mrs. Efihu Root.
Copper is now dear enough to
make wedding presents of.
Mrs. Phoebe Hearst will settle in
Paris for the next two years.
st. Petersburg is to have a free
university for women next autumn.
Mrs. Fish is thriving on diet of
| onions and fruit, in which she has
| Immense faith
Mrs. Russell Sage intimated that
her first charities would be distrib-
uted in New York.
A series of mass meetings to ad-
vance the principles of Socialism was
begun in New York City, led by Mrs.
]. G. Phelps Stokes.
Mrs. Charlotte P. Gilman told the
Equal Suffrage League that storks
and ostIichs are homogeneous and
far more moral than human beings.
Lady Yarmouth, Harry Thaw's sis
ter, is living in England In almost
nun-like seclusion, and her friends
are grieved at her appearance of i'll
health.
The beautiful Princess Nathalie of
Montenegro, the young wife of Prince
Mirko, is skilful and intrepid
sportswoman and lover of the OPEN
air life.
Varvara Smolianoff, who drives a
cab in Moscow, is the only woman
licensed driver in Russia. Her faith
er, cabman, lost his life in trying
to save that Of police sergeant, and
the authorities thereupon trans
ferred his license to his daughter, in
whose cab many ladies like to ride.
The Queen-mother, Marie Cristina
of Spain, was forty-eight the other
day. She is a granddaughter of Ma
poleon's antagonist, the Archduke
Charles, whose wife was a descen-
dant of George H.; and she is a half
sister of the Princess Ludwig of Ba-
varia, heiress of the line of the
Stuarts.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1907-01-23
NEwsY GLEANINGs.
The advance in copper metal con-

The advance in copper metal con.
tinues.
The street railway companies owe
New York City $23,875,293.79.
Marquette College, at Milwaukee
will receive $4,000 from graduate'
In Missouri
Many Chippewa Indians at the
sofa are starving.
The National Phi Delta Kappa will
contest in the courts orders forbid.
ding it in any school.
The United States now ranks third
in the value of manufactures enter.
ing international commerce.
General Jose Miguel Gomez de.
clared himself strongly opposed tc
an American protectorate for Cuba.
The proposed convention of Chris.
tian Endeavor Societies in India will
be unique among religious pilgrim
ages.
The Modern Language Association
of America, in session at Yale, IN
dorsed the campaign of the simplif1ed
spelling board.
4 good sized bee farm is under way
at South Manchester, Conn. The
stock is expected to include $50 hives
when complete.
Secretary Taft recommends an ap-
preparation of $4,000 to pay for
liquors destroyed by troops at the
San Francisco fire.
The London Motor Omnibus Com
pany reports gross revenue OF
100000 a year, and has paid a ten
per cent. dividend.
In his annual report General Muir
ray, chief of artillery, complained
that the coast and field artillery are
both deplorably unpNpared.
The annual convention of the Ma
tional Trades Association, composed
of manufacturers Of the principal
cities of the country, will be held in
Boston, beginning March 20.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1907-01-23
GARDEN CHAIR.

The drawing herewith shown rep
resents a handy homemade chair
and is intended to be left outside
in the yard whenever one wishes to
sit down for few minutes rest.
Take a board of inch stuff twelve
inches wide and fifty inches long,
saw off piece thirteen inches long
from one end and nail 1t on to the
long piece sixteen inches from the
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1907-01-23

bottom for seat. The long piece
should be at a slight angle, and
the short piece horizontal Take two
pieces of burning strips thirty inches
long and nail on the sides for legs.
This chair will last ten years and will
cost twenty cents or less. Do not
paint it or else it will often be found
too wet to use or too hot for COM
fort.-F. G. Herman, Leonia, N. j.,
in The Epitomist.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1907-01-23
DON'T NEGLECT APPEARANCES

Life for woman must always be
more or less a question of appear
ance. No woman is so good or so
beautiful or so intellectual that she
can afford to be dowdy.
No woman has the least right to
render herself unattractive, particu-
larly to those with whom she is most
closely associated.
No woman can afford to fret or
worry and nag if she wants to retain
her beauty and power to please.
The spirit of compromise in mar
ried life saves many an unhappy
moment.
Nothing is unimportant in a wom-
ans life from her nails and hands to
her mind and character.-NewY York
Telegram.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1907-01-23
DRAINAGE FOR WINDOW PLANTS

Window plants that appear yellow,
or do not have healthful appear
ance, are over-matured or affected
with insects. The pots should be ex-
amined in order to discover If the
drainage is perfect. 1t is not neces-
sary to have the earth wet, but SIM
ply moist, and to allow the earth to
dry some will do no harm. The dust
in the rooms will settle on the leaves
of the plants, which makes 1t neces-
sary to give each plant a thorough
washing once a week.