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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-02-01

the Filipinos revolted. On all sides ii
is agreed that the church in the
islands should be brought up to the
American standard. Concerning the
handful of American priests who have
gone to the Philippines, heard only
praise, from Monsignor Agius down to
the civilian man of the street" There
is a great need for more.
Failing this, the church authorities
look with most hopefulness to the
present movement for the education
of young Filipinos to the priesthood
in the United States. Lack of suit.
able priests is the chief need of the
church in the islands. in order to
remedy conditions which cannot exist
in the light of the increasingly-circu-
lated newspapers, of widespread pop-
ular education, and of steadily grow.
ing American spirit. Next comes the
need for the rehabilitation of church
edif1ces, which are still in a ruinous
condition, as a result of the war. AID.
parently none of the money paid by
the American government to the friars
for their lands is being used for the
churches in the Islands.
Looking Out for the American,
A peculiar situation was created in
Manila by the advent of so manv
American men, mostly Protestants. In
behalf of these, churches have been
established in Manila by the Presbv.
terians, Protestant Episcopalians
Methodtsts and Disciples. All Of
these are centers of vigorous religious
influences. DR.. S. B. Rossiter, the
Presbyterian pastor, has won for him.
self an enviable place in the life of
Manila, and Bishop Brent, of the Epis-
copal church, is by all classes regard
ed as one of the great men of the
islands. The Methodist pastor is a
young man and newcomer, but the
church is a popular one. DR.. Homer
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-02-01
ALL HAD DRIVEWAYS
ONE THING THAT IMPRESSED
WASHINGTON VISITOR.
Arrangements That Allowed Carriages
OF Visitors to Drive Up to Door
ROLLER Skaters and Women
chauffeurs Plentiful,

TIL give you 20 guesses and will
wager that even then you won't hit
ON the thing that impressed me most
In Washington said the woman who
had just been on a visit to that town.
THE capitol?"
| mo"
THE library?"
"No."
The monument?
oh, you'll never guess. It was the
number of houses with carriageways
up to the door.
i never saw so many in any city
In this country. Some of the houses
hadn't more than ten feet of lawn be-
tween them and the sidewalk. That
made no difference. The drive took
a shallow dip into the yard, gSazed
the front steps and went out on the
other side
i developed a sort of mania for
counting the houses with drive
ways. l found them in the most I'm
expected places.
Some 25-foot front houses in a
solid block would have almost the en-
tire scrap of front yard bitten out by
the curve of the driveway. Where
the houses were on lots which occu-
pied narrow spaces between two
streets the driveway would run
straight through the house; go in on
one street and come out on the other.
Somehow nothing ever gave me
more vivid impression of the impor-
lance Of Washington functions than
these driveways did What if they
did slash right through the sidewalks?
The carriages to be accommodated
would carry ofhcialdom, and it had
the right of way there.
mo getting out at the curbstone
and walking to the door for it, even
if the way is carpeted beneath and
canopied above. Official carriages
want to drive smack up to the house.
And if they can drive into the house.
SO much the better.
Next to the driveways, so far as
my attention was concerned came the |
roller skaters. l suppose there are
about $4,000 children of skating age
In Washington. I should estimatet |
that at least 10000 of them are whiz-
zing around the streets mounted upon
two skates, while the balance of them,
more or less content with an equip
ment of one skate child, are doing a
sort of hop whizz, undismayed
by the frequent complications which
ensue.
"The asphalt streets are really a
temptation not easily resisted, and
after dark the roller skaters seem to
nave grown suddenly and mysteriously
taller. It was safe bet that big sis
Ter was renewing her youth by
surreptitious spin on little brothers
'ollers.
Next to the roller skaters came the
women who were running, autos. Not
10 much the big motor cars, though
some of them had women at the steer
ng gear. But there seemed to be
hundreds of electric runabouts clip
ling noiselessly along the smooth
streets, and certainly most of them
we're run by women.
Women? Why, half the time they
we're mere girls, who looked about old
'nough to be learning how to spell
rake. Whether they could spell it or
lot they could use it to perfection. I
vas told that although Washington
treets are, as say, fairly alive with
hese machines, wherein women not
My sit supreme but sit alone, there
re no accidents to their discredit."
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-02-01

different idea about such things and
these estimates usually are not in.
cluded in the general contract.
Ehe hall downstairs is even smaller
than the hall upstairs, but 1t forms an
easy passageway between the front
and the back of the house, and it also
opens into the cellar way We have
wide. easy stair into the cellar, which
saves tracking in lot of dirt when
you walk through the back hall di
rectly into the cellar with load OF
garden truck without being obliged ia
go through the kitchen or some othei
room. The planning of such little la
bor-savers often marks the difference
between good plan and a poor one.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-02-01

avoid arousing antagonisms and sec
tartan bitterness.
The second is that the old church
organization has it's hands full with
the Aglipay schism, which claims not
only more than 100000 adherents,
but also a large part of the church
property in the islands. This ques-
ton is now being fought out in the
cousts. In the meantime, the two
wings of Catholicism are manifesting
no little bitterness toward each other.
Archbishop Agius, the Apostolic dele
gate, could not find terms with which
to characterize Aglipay, when l
preached the matter to him.
And from what / could ascertain I
suspect that he is pretty nearly cor
rect in regarding Aglipay as a selfish
schemer, an opportunist, and poll
tician. Aglipay, who rose to power
on the tide of opposition to the friars,
merely represents the idea Of revolt
against old and evil conditions. He
seems to stand for nothing-or rather
for anything and everything-in q
theological way; in one district he
professes himself as steadfastly de-
voted to all the historic teachings and
practices OF Rome; in another, he ID
practically q Protestant, attacking
church rites and distributing Bibles.
So bitter is the strife between the
Roman Catholics and the Aglipayans
that neither pays much attention to
the Professionals, who go unmolested
on their way, adding great numbers
to the Protestant churches. Many re-
cruits, / am told, come to the mis-
sionaries from the Aglipayan fold,
having discovered the unsatisfactory
condition of the latter. Not few Of
fhe earliest adherents of the Pro-
testant missionaries became such
from political motives; anything to
show rebellion against the Spanish
friars. Many of these early fell away,
but some have become intelligent
workers in the Protestant churches.
Good Words for the Filipino.
a further word should be written
concerning the Roman Catholic church
IN the islands, before passing on to
the distinctively missionary propa-
canda. 1t Is to be borne in mind that
the superiority of the Filipino to the
Asiatic-and he undoubtedly is SUI
perior to japanese, Chinese. Malay or
Tndian-is due to the civilizing infu-
ence Of the Roman Catholic church
THAT the United States has been able
"a do more for the islands politically
IN less than fen years than Great
britain has done for India in hun
dred years. must largely be credited
~ the church that brought the FIJI.
ipinos out of savagery.
with the abuses that crept into the
church III the islands this article Ii
not concerned; but it must be pointed
out that II was not against the Ameri-
can type OF Roman Catholicism that
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-02-01
Great Waste Water canal-

One of the most wonderful under.
ground waterways in the world, which
was constructed at the latter end OF
the eighteenth century by the dukes
OF Bridgewater. is now being used for
the conveyance OF waste water from
the earl Of Ellesmere's collieries. at
Waikden. near Manchester. Thia
canal. which is entirely underground
with It's arms and functions. coyeFs
over 40 miles.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-02-01
For children's Amusen,e,t

Children, as rule, tire much soon,
er of their toys than they do of their
playthings which they make them.
selves out Of any oddments which
may be at hand at the moment. II q
child possesses sufficient Imagination,
lump of modelling clay, a piece Of
punched cardboard, and a wool-threa6.
ed needle will take number Of new
forms which will satisfactorily oc.
cupy lengthy afternoons.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-02-01
Eternal Feminine.

Men say that women's friendships
are not as staunch and true and last.
ing as mems because woman is so
ready to believe all that she hears
against her best friend, while man
will only judge his friend by what he
is to him, not by what the world says
of him. Is this true? II so, 1t will re.
main so just as long as average charm.
ers see in man nothing but possible
husbands, escorts and gift-giyers.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-02-01

project to build a hundred thonean,
dollar Young Mems Christian aseocia
tlon building, with lodgings for HIM
urea men, was made civic matter
and pushed through enthusiastically
Inc Y. NJ. c. A, by the way, was the
llrSt Protestant agency at work in the
ISLANDS, and its splendid service fo:
the soldiers, now supplemented by
work for civilians, has continued tc
this day, winning warmest praise in
all quarters.
Churches Get Together.
Inc nrst outstanding fact concern.
ing the dlstinctiVely missionary work
OF the islands by the Protestant
churches is the plan of cooperation
which was lately adopted. Profiting
by the experience of other mission
| helds, the denominations early got
together to apportion the territory. so
that duplication and conflict might he
avoided. In order also to present a
united front for Professionalism, a com.
mon name, Evangelical churches, !"
was adopted, in place of the varied
and confusing UNCONVENTIONAL appel.
lations
in the division of the islands among
the denominations. the Methodists
have the greater part of Luzon, north
OF Manila, and the Presbyterians the
southern portion of the same island as
well as four other islands. The Dis.
clples of Christ also have four sta
tons in the most northerly part of
Luzon. Since 1900 the Baptists have
occupied Negros, northern and south
ern Panay and the Island of Romblon.
with II missionaries and II native
congregations. Congregationalists are
located on the Island of Mindanao.
where they work in close cooperation
with the Presbyterians The Episco-
palians have work for the pagan
Igorrotes, and also for the Chinese.
Methodists likewise have a mission
among the Chinese. The United
Brethren are strongly established
about San Fernando. Spiritualists and
Christian Scientists have work in
Manila.
The total Protestant membership of
the islands, reported to the Evangeli.
cal Union last year, was $4,000, ex-
elusive of 10000 probationers record.
ed in the Methodist church. The last
named body is witnessing an extraor.
binary growth; with only nine
Americans engaged in the Filipino
work-it now reports, according to
Rev. M. A. RAIDER, presiding elder, no
less than $4,000 members, including
A curious fact about it's
and those of the other |
is that two-thirds of them
are men, and of this number three
quarters are young men. There are
500 licensed native workers in the |
Methodist church, only few of whom |
receive any financial assistance This |
of independence and
runs through all the |
Protestant missions. The great bulk
If their churches throughout the
stands Ahas been built by the natives
themselves.
Educational and eleemosynary EFF.
'ort on the part of the missions in
sludes the Presbyterian hospitals at
loilo and Demaguete and the Silliman
Industrial Institute for Boys at the
after place, the Protestant Episcopal
and Settlement House in
Manila, the Methodist hospital and
the Jaro Industrial school of
he Baptists with about 500 students.
md various training schools for ma.
i've workers and periodical religious
publications maintained by the dis.
erent denominations.
Copyright, by Joseph 3. Bowlesl
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-02-01

advantage that you can get from an
open fire Every house as large as
this should have a crate and every
crate should be in use all the time
whenever there is the slightest pos
sible excuse for it. because nothing
else is so cheerful about the house
except a sweet tempered woman. A
crate fire is sort of connecting link
between the animate and the mani
mate furnishings.
One feature that every woman will
appreciate is the large storage closet
of the bathroom for holding extra
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-02-01

bedding and other kinds of household
linen,
Although this is roomy house II
is not expensive to bnild. Tt is es.
timated that from s1.40O TO $500 liz
sufficient in most localities for build.
ing the house and finishing it com.
plete, with the exception of plumbing
and heating apparatus. 1t is intended,
of course, that the house shall be we'll
heated aud supplied with hot and cold
water, but almost every owner he's a
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-02-01
Better Tkan Druos.

Weeping Relative (of very sick
statesman)-Doctor, is there no hope?
Experienced Physician-Only one.
We must induce the newspaper to
put his obituary in type.-rJ. Y.
Weekly.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-02-01
His Yearnlnu.

Il hope" said the young orarur.
that my speeches make people yearn
for better things" They do" an.
swered the relentless critic. They
make me yearn TO be at home. asleep"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-02-01

There will always be something
new tolsay about women as long as
0ne is left among US.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-11-22

But 1 do get messages from her"
says he.
Messages" says Chandler Through
whom"
Uncle Lyman squirms a little uneasy
in his chair. as if he didn't want to give
up; but at last he puts his hand up to
his mouth and whispers. Pickett"
OH says Chandler, like he'd seen
light.
soon after that we leaves the old
judge and rings up Pickett To show US
our rooms. And, say, I takes another
close look at this gent who had the
Marconi company skinned TO death on
the wireless business. He's Iookin' sour
and glum, and he don't have word to
say as he pilots US up to a couple of
adjoinin' rooms. No sooner had he pad
died off downstairs than Chandler
comes in, anxious and puzzled.
What do you make of il. professor"
says he.
The spook story?" says I. why. it
looks to me like the old gent has got
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-11-22

tell me all the thoughts that trouble
you while you are little boy, l can't
help you to grow into the honest,
strong-hearted man 1 should like you
to be-"
But 1 do. father" he said, .reproach-
fully, and the dark eyes he raised to
mine were grieved and wounded; you
know / do. When the bad part of me
makes me do things you don't want me
to, you know always tell you so you
can punish me. L don't hide the
naughty things from you
sighed. How was | to make him
understand the spiritual side of perfect
confidence? How could l induce him
to let me into that sanctuary where he
had retreated and barred me out?
It's not the things YOU tell me-the
wrong things you cOnfess-that hurt me
most Those we can straighten out,
because we both know and understand.
It's the things you don't tell me that
leave me feeling so helpless. That's
where you need a mother. The spiritual
part of you that you'd give 10 mother
hood you shut out from me, and leave
me just the fatherhOOd that can only
grasp the actualities of life, not any of
its finer feeling and intuitions."
l had forgotten that he was still
child until his puzzled eyes compelled
me- I caught him TO my heart
There 1 laughed. what does any
thing matter except that 1 love you and
you love me?"
Here at last was something he could
understand. He drew down my face
and kissed it on the day-old stubbIe.
The act was eloquent. 1 took the kiss
as a sign of forgiveness and surrender.
and said blithely:
You'll go with me to see her to-
night. won't you? She asked me to
bring you after l told you the secret.
know you are too much your fathers
son not to love her when you know
her.
Was it fancy. or did he draw awav
slightly-ever so slightIy-from my cir
cling arms? 1t looked quickly into his
grave little face and read it truer than
he knew.
If you'll excuse me- father I won't
go tonight. I'm not feelin' very
well. But I'll go some other time
honest and truly I WILL" he added
hastily as he saw my hurt look
Very WE'LL ] said. with an affect
ed and dignified indifference that be-
lied the pain and disappointment.
Whenever you feel well enough IL
be glad to have you go. But as she is
expecting you, viii YOU send a mes
sage? Gentlemen always send some
word of excuse when they disappoini
a lady
I glanced furtively at the serious lit
tie face &C .he serious little person or
the log besi-c men. and wondered if he
had any idea how far ] was trying
him in my effort TO understand and
draw him back where we walked side
by side in open and perfect confidence.
Continued on Page g.
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THE LAND OF LET'S PRETEND.

tBOheniaI-)
Over the hill from BabyviIle.
And just around the bend,
We came one day to the town of Play,
In the Land OF Let's Pretend
x
You were a queen in crown of green
That we made OF daisy stems,
With blossoms. too. entwined ali through.
For they were the royal gems.
Imperial pride was caught beside
Your scorn when you'd condescend
To swing In state on the backyard gate,
In the land OF Let's Pretend.
Full many a mile in regal style
We rode your kingdom DER.
While a dog and cart played well the
part
OF the royal coach-and-f four.
And no one dared or even cared
Their sovereign 10 offend
So never Il word Of doubt was heard
In the land of Let's Pretend.
At wars alarm your call to arms
Changed broomsticks into steeds.
And valiant hordes with wooden swords
Rushed on TO mighty deeds;
Rushed on to close with the kingdom
And the Kingdoms flag defend.
Just word from YOU made all this true
In the land Of Let's Pretend.
Whenever you willed our cups were filled
And fabulous feasts were spread.
And a niche in the wall was a splendid
2 Where we danced with stately tread;
And many heart. with your mystic art,
You'd break-and. broken, mend
For you'd princes. too, who courted you
In the land of Let's Pretend.
With marvellous ease you conjured seas
From little. lettering stream
And wonderful ships were floating chips
Adrift in your realm of dreams.
An old gray stone was a glittering throne
THAT I've seen you oft ascend
Proclaiming good cheer to every ear
In the land of Let's Pretend.
In after years. DER the Sea of Tears
We sailed from the port Of Then.
And we beached our scow on the shore of
Now
In a world of women and men.
And here alas. no paseants pass,
No fairr serfs attend;
Your reign is O'er-you rule no more
In the land OF Let's Pretend
All. what would we give. could we but live
Again in that glad empire.
Where a wish, "A thought, like a genie
brought
Straiehtway the hearts desire;
Yet we never knew, as We journeyed
through.
That all those joys must end.
When you and I said a gay goodbye
In the land OF Let's Pretend
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-11-22

his belfry full of bats. or else there's
a Mrs. Pepper loose around here some
where Say, does this Pickett person
have kind of a private snap in this
rancho"
According to Chandler. he did. He
just about had the run of the establish
ment, handlin all the household funds,
and trdnsactin' most of Uncle Lyman's
private business.
And if the Judge should quit and
move back to town, it would spoil his
graft, eh?" says I.
That was it. Chandler had suSpicioned
something of the kind all along. but
didn't see his way clear to block the
game
Then there may be spooks. after
all" says l. Lets slip out and take a
look over the ground. Maybe they leave
some trail
So we sheds our shoes and sneaks OUT
cautious Ours was the first two rooms
at the head of the stairs. Further along
was Uncle Lyman's, and runnin' right
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-11-22
A STRENUOUS CAMPAIGN.
Minute Details DivuIsed by De.
feated Candidate in Georgia.
(Exchange.)

C.D
The law that requires all candidates
Tor state, county and city Offices to file
Dill of their expenditures during the
campaign Immediately after election is
III force in Georgia now, and the candi-
dates who won and lost in the recent
Georgia primaries are now filing the
bills that show what it cost them tn ne
elected or defeated One of the defeat
ed candidates for county Office in that
state has just filed this bill:
Lost four months and thirty-three
days canvassing; 1919 hours thinking
about the election; five acres of cotton:
twenty-three acres of corn: a whole
sweet potato crop; four sheep: five
shoats and one beef given to a barbe-
cue; two front teeth and a considerable
quantity OF hair in personal skirmish;
gave ninety-seven plugs of tobacco, sew
en- Sunday school books, two pairs of
suspenders, four calico dresses, seven
dolls and thirteen baby rattlers.
Told 2,SS9 lies; shook hands 2S.475
times; talked enough to have made i'm
print 1000 large volume size of patent
office reports: kissed 126 babies. kindled
fourteen kitchen fires; cut three cords
OF wood; pulled 474 bundles of fodder:
picked ia pounds of cotton helped pull
seven loads of corn; dug fourteen bush
els of potatoes; tOted tWenty-seven
buckets of water; put up seven stoves,
was dog-bit four times: watch broken
by baby, cost IS TO have repaired.
Loaned out three barrels of flour, fifty
bushels of meal, $50 pounds of bacon.
thirty-seven pounds of butter, twelve
dozen eggs, three umbrellas, thirteen
lead pencils, one Bible dictionary, one
NOW blade, two hoes, one overcoat, five
boxes paper collars, none of which have
been returned.
Called my opponent a perambulating
liar-doctor's bill SO. Had five argu-
ments with my wife-result: One flow
er vase smashed. one broom handle bro
ken, one dish of hash knocked off the
table, one shirt bosom ruined, two hand
fuls of whiskers pulled out, 10 cents
worth Of sticking plaster bought. be-
sides spending S1.76S.