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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-01-11
Where Real Problem LES.

A missionary in China writes: THE
real crux of the foreign missionary
problem lies not in the foreign but in
the home field. There is nothing here
to handicap or hold us back. Our OPP
portunity is limited only by the physi-
cal strength of the workers. We are
held back and handicapped by the in
difference of the churches at home
which fail to provide the men and
means to enable our work to con-
tinue its normal growth"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-01-11
NOT AN IMPOSING FIGURE.
Black Tights Of Hamlet Aecen4uatsd
Actors Thinness.


Richard Mansfield, said i theatre
cal manager, took the greatest pairs
to keep his figure perfect And indeed
he succeeded well In this. Such shane
~ legs and arms, such slim. snnf,le
waist, such broad back ana dean
chest never graced the American stare
before.
Mr.. Mansfield insisted On good Az.
ures. He would not permit his PLAYERS
TO get too fat or too thin. some be
made diet, some he made exercise
And, to show the figures inportance
ne used to tell them story abont
Henry Irving = story told By IRVINE
himself 80
irving. when he was young was
very skeleton. He once had j cbanca
IN the provinces to play Hamlet Tbe
salary was goodfor the provincea.
/ think Mr.. Mansfield said + 49, y
weekend II the actor goF ~ ~ yve 81
the 1rst night his fortune was roaS 4.
But, when Irving made it, a ~.
nights appearance III the black f,o Dl,.ss
OF the Danish prince, one galIerv s, 90
shouted across to another: ~
Is that him, Bili?'
No. Bill reared back .T,bon,,s
oniy the young felIer's clothes trI 81 +
shove him out later on. - :
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-01-11
Need of Workers.

Miss Carrie Barge, who has been
over portions of the west, writes: I'm
Oregon, Washington, Idaho and North
ern California are those who have
grown to be Of age, and yet never had
a chance to hear a sermon or to cross
the threshold of a Sunday school
Some have never heard of Jesus or
Heaven, or seen a Bible. learned of
these conditions from Christian school
teachers who had been in these re-
mote places"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-01-11

that, however in my experience find
it turns out much better when a
young couple starts in modestly with
an ambition to branch out later.
But there are some essentials in
a small house that must not be over
looked. don't care how small a
house is, you must have comfort with
it or it will prove disappointing.
Where you have no dining room the
kitchen must be large enough for
both. Twelve by thirteen and half
feet is not large kitchen for large
house, but it is large in proportion
to this house and it is supplied with
a good sink and good light, airy,
commodious pantry where food may
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-01-11
Nearly Halt Million Enrolled.

Il gain of $4,000 members was re-
ported by the Young Mems Christian
association last year, making the pres
ent total nearly half million. The
property value of the existing Y. M.
C. A. enterprise in North America is
s39. 100000.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-01-11
Indians Need Gospel.

The need Of more aggressive home
mission work is emphasized by the
statement that there are $4,000 In
dams in New Mexico and Arizona as
poor, ignorant and superstitious as can
be found in any foreign lane.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-01-11
The Lay Preacher In ENGLAND.

TIE LAY = ESe~IFS1 III H~11S01IEUa
One comparison drawn by Robert
PERKS, the British Wesleyan, who late
ly visited in this country, shows how
much more use England is making of
the lay preacher than is America. OF
27, 900 sermons preached every Sun
day in England by Wesleyan Method
lists, 10000 are preached by laymen.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-01-11
National Cult of China,

For over 20 centuries Confucianism
has been the national cult of China
Upon it's doctrines the principles of
the government are based.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-01-11
pracant and pranttca

The Bible should be read good
deal on Sunday and practiced a good
deal during the week.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-01-11
Over Million Enrolled.

In Presbyterian Sabbath schools the
officers, teachers and scholars number
1,207,626.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-01-11

Plan New Building for Winona.
An $4,000 building, to be erected
at Methodist headquarters, at Winona.
Ind, is being contemplated.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-01-11

money every month for rent ne has
no;d for . house Of his own and has
q property to take an interest In
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-01-11

Scripture Authority Kings i:
1858.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-01-02
Ducks Slide On Ice.

Ezekiel Crawford, of Northport, L..
l., has a flock of Muscovy ducks
which quite accidentally have invent
ed n new game. They were in the
habit OF flying from the barn to the
duck pond upon Crawford's farm and
entering the water with a rebound
ing splash.
When winter arrived and the pond
was coated with smooth ice the ducks
flew from the barn as usual. Near
ing the surface of the pond they ex-
tended their feet and quit flying.
evidently expecting to splash into the
water. They did nothing of the kind.
Their feet slipped out from under
them and they sat down hard and
slid swiftly across the ice until they
bumped against the frozen shore.
"Quack, quack!" said the ducks,
and hurried back to the barn to try
1t again. The result was the same.
Again and again they are said to
have tried the stunt. Now 1t is said
they show signs of joy when, upon
retiring at night, they note evidences
of freezing before morning New
York Times.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-01-02
How The World Grows.

In a little more than 100 years,
according to government figures, the
population of the world has grown
from 640,0O0,000 to 1,600,000,00
an increase of $50 per cent. At the
end of so many hundreds of cen
turtles, in other words, there were in
the world in 1900 only 100000
of persons, and 100 years, from 1900
to 1906, to this number had been
added 6O,000,000.
The total commerce of the world
in 1900 was about one and a half
billions of dollars; in 1900 it was
more than twenty billions of dollars.
Other figures show that in wealth
and the growth of various industrial
agencies the increase has been far
swifter than that of population.
The overpopulation of the world
Is not present menace to the think
ers of today, but the thinkers of a
period when there were less than
half as many people in the world as
there are now seriously debated the
imminence OF the catastrophe that
the overcrowding Of the earth would
produce.-Boston Globe.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-01-02
For Masonic Cathedral.

Philadelphia Especially For the
purpose of selecting site on North
Broad Street, on which It has been
proposed to erect 1000, 900 Mason
ic Cathedral, meeting of tn Scottish
Rite Consistory, the highest order in
the Masonic fraternity, will shortly
I've held. The plan for the erection
of the edifice is necessary because the
apartments occupied by the consistory
in the Masonic Temple have grown
too small for the membership and
larger quarters must be provided.
A committee has been working on
the plan for months, but no word of
1t became public until Thursday.
Two sites will be presented to the
meeting for consideration-that on
which the old Muir Building now
stands, at Broad and Race Streets,
and the lot recently purchased by Os-
car Hammerstein, at Broad and Pop
lar Streets. OF the two 1t is under
stood that the former will be selected,
as 1t Is nearer to the center of the
city.
Money is no object, so far as the
enterprise is concerned, as the order
has at present $3.50, 900 in ready cash
in the treasury and each member
stands willing to give 800 at a
weeks notice.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-01-02
Colorado's New Industry.

There was a time when Colorado
was regarded as principally a mining
State, but that time has passed." said
A. e. De Ricquies, general manager
of live stock company. of Denver.
This winter, for instance, the State
will take care of 900, 200 sheep that
were raised ON the grazing lands OF
Wyoming, Montana. Idaho, Texas and
other States. This has become one OF
our great industries. the number OF
the sheep taken care of being about
the same as last year. The beet sugar
industry is large and the fodder from
the beets is fed to the sheep, also hay
and corn. Pens are built. and the
young lambs, taken from their moth
ers who reared them In other States,
put in these pens, fattened and then
in the spring killed for the best ho-
tells anri markets in the East
Washington Post.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-01-02
LOndOn's CannihaI Birds.

For years past hollow elm in
Kensington Gardens has been occu-
pied every winter by pair of brown
owls, which arrive and leave at about
the same time as the blackheaded
gulls. They feed on the London
sparrows, as is plainly shown by the
relics of the feast at the foot of the
tree, and doubtless they find It an
easier way of getting their living to
snatch up the incautious sparrow as
he sits at roost than to hunt every
winter In the open country for birds
concealed in the thicket and for field
mice, which in frosty weather are
generally safely asleep. Besides such
regular visitors as gulls, owls and
carton crows there are many other
birds which wander into London dur
ing spells of hard weather and van
ish again in the thaw.-London
Globe.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-01-02
Butterflies At A Ball.

Philadelphia Especially Miss Mary
Astor Paul, daughter of James w.
Paul, Jr., of the Drexel firm, made
her debut at Horticultural Hall at a
ball that for grandeur, costliness and
general unusualness eclipsed the fam
Gus Ball of the Four Seasons" with
which four years ago Mr.. Paul intro
duced his elder daughter.
The flowers alone cost $35 900, and
for the occasion a brand-new rose,
cross between the American Beauty
and the Sofrano, which 1t took nine
years to develop, was rare feature.
The favors were costly.
At a certain hour 500 brilliant but
terfiies, gathered from Brazil, Peru
and even India, were let loose over
the guests. These butterflies fitted
everywhere, amid the cries of delight
from the guests, Costly silken and
painted butterflies formed one of the
features of the decorations.
All the Drexels were there, and in
fact everybody prominent in Phila-
delphia society. Col. Anthony j.
Drexel, his beautiful wife and his
daughter, Miss Marguerite, came over
from London for the ball. Mr.. and
Mrs. Reginald Vanderbilt had been
invited. but did not come. Just why
Is one of the mysteries of the affair
The ballroom at the hall was turn
ed into a replica of French garden,
copied from the Louis Seize period
Sixteen boxes, fashioned of plaster
paris, lined the room, having been
built specially for the occasion. A
great fountain had also been con-
structed In one end of the room. Es-
Inmates to the total cost of the ball
place 1t at 100000.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-01-02
Makes Novel Tool Ones.

William Baurichter, an eccentric
German of Columubs. Ind, who has
spent the greater part of his forty
five years of life at carving walking
sticks and experimenting in an effort
to build a perpetual motion machine
entirely Of wood, has Just completed
a tool chest. which he has been work.
ing on for the last year. In the chest
are more than one thousand pieces
of wood, and the wood is of forty diff
ferent kinds, each kind of which is a
native of Bartholomew County. He
has placed combination lock on tho
chest, which he says no ono in the
world except himself can open, and
he has offered $1,000 to any person
who will discover the combination
and thus open the chest after he has
once locked it.--Indianapolis News
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-01-02
A Silent Household.

James L. Williams, a hatmaker
and his wife have occupied the same
house, taken their meals at the same
table together and been in each 9TH
er's company almost continually for
five years without speaking a word
to each other.
Five years ago they quarreled and
Williams made VOW that he would
never again speak to his wife. He
has kept it religiously, and so COM
pletely was their affection for each
other severed in the quarrel that the
wife has not once begged for a word
from her husband. Their eldest
daughter, Alice, nineteen years old,
took sides with her mother, and dur
ing the five years she had never ad-
dressed her father, although she is
member of the household.
The couple have two young chill
dren and have carried on what COM
munication was necessary through
these. Even this means was used
only in cases of extreme necessity
New York World.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-01-02
FREE LIBRARY SITE.

Norristown Especially The first
step towards a permanent home for
the Free Library of Royersford has
been taken by the library paying
$1,000 to S. B. Latshaw for q lot
1873 by 166 feet at Fourth Avenue and
Washington Streets, that borough.
In the deed of conveyance from
Mr.. Latshaw to the Royersford
school district, which was recorded
Tuesday, there is some fine senti-
ment contained in the instrument
which is not usually found in the
bare matter of fact papers in the
Recorders Office.
The deed recites that the Free Lii
brary Association, having in mind the
erection of a suitable building for
libfary purposes at future date.
had advised the purchase of a suit
able lot, when the authorities of the
school district, having recognized the
propriety of such action and wishing
to stimulate interest in the perma-
nent establishment and maintenance
of such a library, both as to books
and building as will be a help to the
schools and a credit to the commun-
ity.
The Royersford Free Library is
considered one of the most progress
sive small town affairs OF its kind in
the State. 1t supplies an abundance
of sound literature and pays the rent
of cheeful well-lighted rooms without
any direct cost to its patrons and sup
porters. It's chief source of susie
nance consists of a series of lectures
given every Winter, and as these are
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-01-02
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Black Hand In Court.

Pittsburg (SpeciaD Five more
alleged members of the Black Hand
were sent to the workhouse after
testimony was given that assasslns
could be hired for IS and $40. OF
the prisoners. three--Paulo, Nicola
and Natalie Alampa - are brothers.
the others are Guiseppi Pazlimonal
and Domonic Barre.
Domonic Sapone, across whose face
is long cash, testified that II was
Inflicted by Paulo Alampa because he
did not accede to demands of the
Black Hand and produce money. He
insisted that he was dragged from his
bed one night, carried to a dense
woods and there initiated into the So
ciety against his will. He said that
he was compelled to put up $40 on
this occasion, and that he was so
scared he does not remember what
occurred. He Is only Is years old.
Barre admitted that assassins could
be hired for So and $40, and that
he gave Paulo Alampa IS to kill
Sapone.
The trouble occurred in a railroad
camp in Ohio, and as the men were
picked up here as suspicious persons,
no further action can be taken
against them here. The men sent to
the workhouse came here to spend
Christmas. and Sapone informed the
police they were here. They make
their headquarters In this city, conse-
quently the police decided to send
the INTO prison. Nicola Alampa at
first was let off with fine. but he
made sign to some person in the
courtroom and Magistrate Brady at
once added a prison term of 60 days
to his sentence. The others all were
sent up for so days.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-01-02
LANDLORD rs SHOT.

Pottsville Especially A shocking
Christmas tragedy occurred at DON
aldson when, after q trifiing quarrel
over a Christmas dinner, Stanislaus
Coteash, boarding boss, lay dead
under his own table and a double
barreled gun with which he tried to
shoot one OF his boarders. lay under
him.
The trouble began when Frank
Cashmere, aged 21 years. complained
that no turkeys had been provided
for dinner. After hot words Coteash
rushed to the side of the room
where his loaded double-barreled gun
was hanging and fired at close range
at Cashmere. The heavy discharges
shook the little home but the shot
missed the intended victim.
In frenzy of fear Cashmere rush
ed upstairs annd getting his own gun
he shot from the head OF the stairs
and killed Coteash, who was about to
come up after him. Cashmere i'm
mediately gave himself up and is now
In iail here
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-01-02
The SOUTH HAS JUST FINISHED ONE OF THE GREATEST
CHANNEIrMAKING UNDERTAKINGS Tn HISTORY
New Jees Ready For Big ShlpsLower Mississippi Gets
rses One Of Worlds Deepest Harbors.

New Orleans, La.-One of the
greatest channel making undertak-
inge In the history of American river
improvement will be brought nearly
to completion when the jettles at the
mouth of the Southwest Pass of the
Mississippi River are finished. These
jetties, after some dredging between
them is completed. will give the
South one OF the deepest harbors In
the world by openings to the access
of the largest steamships afloat the
100 and 200 foot depths of the lower
Mississippi River.
The harbor thus made accessible
has navigable water connection with
at least dozen States bordering the
Mississippi and its tributaries-the
Ohio, the Missouri. the Arkansas and
the Red rivers. About s6,000,000 is
being spent on this improvement by
the United States Government, which
has the work In charge.
The new 1etties were begun four
years ago. They are on larger
scale and more substantial than the
famous jetties at the Mississippi's
South Pass, an outlet which for more
than thirty years has been the rivers
commercial entrance. They are near
and the other about four miles long,
lying more than half mile apart
and built In the shoal water at the
juncture of the Pass with the Gulf
OF Mexico. Their purpose is to con-
fine and thus accelerate the rivers
current across a mud bar about three
miles broad, so as to produce q chan
mel at least 1000 feet wide, with a
minimum depth of thirty-five feet.
The swift current which they have
produced. aided by dredging, even
before their completion, has caused
a tremendous scour and has already
made fifty to eighty-five feet of water
In some places, where at the begin
ming of the work the depth was only
a little over q mans head. To make
the unborn contract depth there is
still In several spots about ten feet
of mud to be removed. 1t is expect
ed that the high water due within q
few weeks Will sweep the remaining
mud deposits out to sea by the be-
ginning of next summer.
Probably few walls ever have been
constructed under greater difficult
ties than were these jetties. They
are made of willow, scantling, stone
and concrete. Although in some
places they are not six feet deep,
and although their greatest depth is
barely fifteen feet. they have cost
$2,700,000. Every material entering
into their construction has been
brought from distances of one hum.
dred to five hundred miles.
The jetties have no foundation,
but rely for stability upon their ex-
tremely broad bases. being from 100
to $50 feet wide at the bottom. In
contrast to this great width of base,
the concrete Gaping which forms
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-01-02
THIS ADVANCED WESTERN SCHOOL
HAS A CLASS IN WOONG
Pupis--Some of The hat Be Taught.

ing the courtship of Miles Standish,
Romeo and Juliet" and other stand
ard works of fiction. Pupils will be
expected to learn:
How to take heart by storm or by
siege.
How to detect the advent of the
grand passion.
How to behave il parental objec-
ton is manifested.
How to pay a compliment
How to encourage bashful suitor
or corner an elusive girl.
How to allay unfounded jealousy.
How to propose.
How to ask papa.
The etiquette Of the engagement
ring.
Department during engagement.
Girls will learn how to promise to
be a sister. The years course will
take the students all the way from
the first sweet sting of love to the
altar.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-01-02
A Distinction.

A journalist at dinner was talk
ing to William Dean Howells about
literary fame.
But, after ALL, said Mr.. Howelia
with his gentle smile, literary fam{
is not so highly regarded by tho
people, II is7 / remember when I
was in San Reno some years ago
seeing In a French newspaper n
notice that bears upon this question.
1T was notice inserted by rat
trap maker of Lyons, and II said:
ITO Whom II May Concern-M.
Pierre Lott, OF Lyons. inventor of the
automatic rat-trap, begs to state that
he is not the same person, and that
he has nothing in common with one
Pierre. Lott, writer. Washing
ton Star.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-01-02

the top of the jetties, and which IL
the work receiving its finishing
touches this week, Is only a few feet
| wide. The Gaping is a sea wall
| four and one-half feet high and is
the only portion of the jetties not
submerged. The wall weighs between
two and three tons to each linear
foot.
The submerged structure support
ing this mass of concrete is made
almost entirely of willow poles and
brush. With the aid of frame works
of scantling the willows we're formed
into so-called mattresses-broad, fat
structures resembling bed mattresses
In form--each about two feet thick,
200 feet long and varying in width
from thirty-five to $50 feet. The
mattresses were sunk one above the
other, with the widest at the bottom
and those above uniformly diminish
ing In width as they approached the
surface. The topmost mattresses
were uniformly thirty-five feet wide,
and on level with the surface of the
water. Heavy broken stone was
spread evenly over the mattresses to
sink them, SO that layer of stone
rests between each of these willow
structures. The greatest number of
supperimposed mattresses is five.
The Mississippi has done some in
teresting work In addition to scour-
ing out q channel, for it has made
the mattresses practically indestruc-
tible to any normal agency of nature
in this region by burying them under
hundreds of tons of mud. These de-
posits follow closely the contour OF
the jetties, In conjunction with which
they form new banks of the river.
The only change likely to occur In
the jetties is their gradual sinking,
until In time the concrete Gaping
entirely disappears. This sinking
already has occurred to the jetties
at South Pass.
In the course of many years a new
bar may form by silt deposits in the
Gulf In the now deep water beyond
the mouth Of the jetties, and then the
remedy will be the extension of the
| jetties a short distance further. The
rate OF bar extension during nearly
seventy-five years preceding the
starting Of the Jetties was between
/ $50 and ESQ feet annually, and the
deposits responsible for this advance
were made when conditions, now
greatly changed. favored such accre-
tions.
Part of the $6.000.000 allotted to
making the channel is being spent in
safeguards several miles above the
jetties to prevent any increase In the
| flow of other large outlets from the
main river to the Gulf. This is being
accomplished byplacing stone covered
mattress stills on the river bottom
across the entrances to those outlets.
Several small bayous leading from
Southwest Pass to the Gulf will be
entirely closed up.