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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-01-25
Says Soldiers Want Canteen

state of affairs. Capt. Hagood's re-
port is based upon large number of
reports secured by him from the DIFF,
ferent army posts.
The report also undertakes to show
why soldiers will not stay in the army,
some of the answers being based on
demands for restoration of the can
teen, less frequent change of station,
fewer court-martials, building gymna-
Sums and increased pay.
1t is shown that the only other great
nation maintaining an army of any
size by voluntary enlistment-Great
Britain-pays her soldiers more than
the United States, although the cost
of living is much less in the case of
the British soldier.
The report shows the changes that
have occurred in recent years in the
expense OF living at the army posts:
how the value of the allowances has
shrunken, how travelling expenses of
officers with families have increased
through abolition of passes and re.
duced rates of fare; how more fre,
quent changes of post involve heavy
household expenses, and Capt. Hagood
points out that unpreeedentedly 1t ia
now very difficult to obtain suitable
material to fill the numerous yacan.
cies at West Point.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-01-25
Opportunity for Airship Inventors

ance flight of two hours at an aver
age speed of 70 per cent. of the trial
requirements, and must maintain it's
equilibrium without change of posi-
ton by the aeronaut
One of the features of the specifica-
tons that will appeal particularly to
inventors of limited financial means is
that relative to the silk to be used in
the construction of the balloon. This
is one of the most expensive items in
the machine, and it is stated that the
material for the gas bag will be fur
nished by the government The sig
nal office has procured some samples
OF silk of great strength, pliability and
closeness of texture. It weighs 5,842
ounces per square yard and has a
minimum breaking strength of 625a
pounds per inch width. This mate
rial requires no varnish, but is to be
covered with an aluminium prepare
ton, which will not only make it gas
tight, but will, by rejecting the rays
of the sun, prevent a considerable loss
of hydrogen, such as occurs when an
ordinary balloon is suddenly exposed
to the increased temperature of the
sunlight upon emerging from cloud.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-01-25
NEW SYSTEM A GOOD ONE.
lnterlocking Switching Plant That
Can't Make Mistakes

One Of the largest railroad signal
and interlocking switching plants in
the world has been put into operation
by the Delaware, Lackawanna & West
ern railroad The new plant controls
all of the train movements at the new
Hoboken terminal of the LackaWanna,
and is the first plant of the track cir
cut interlocking type to be installed
in this country. There are 131 little
switches on every track that runs
into the main terminal The old way
of switching required at least 80 men
rangement four men can do the work
in less time, and so perfectly csn-
structed is the plant that, accord gg
to the engineers, it is almost imposs1-
bic to make a mistake. This system
of interlocking eliminates the old-fash-
Toned detector bars used with the old
er interlocking plants. In the inter-
locking cabin, where the system ope-
ated, there is a perfect model of tho
yard, showing every track controlled
by the apparatus and which indicates
at all times to the men in charge ex-
actly how the system is working. AS
soon as the automatic signals are In
stalled, the engineer, before he starts
his train, will get his signals, his
routing will be absolutely fixed and
the signal will indicate to him when
and where to move AS soon as the
engineer gets his train on the fixed
route the operator in the tower can
not possibly change that route or
change the switches under that train
until the train is clear of the route.
1t will be impossible for another train
to foul that train while it is on the
route fixed for it. Seventy-five miles
of insulated wire was used in connect.
ing the track circuits with the inter.
locking layout The system is known
as the electro-pneumatic, the power
used being compressed air, the move
ment of the switches being controlled
by piston operating in an air-cylin-
der. The operations in the air cylin-
ders are made by means of magnet,
electrically controlled, which opens up
an air valve, SO as to apply the air
in the cylinder in such fashion as to
move the switch. When the train is
made up in the terminal and is ready
to go out, the station master touches
a little electric button, which indi
Gates to the director in the operating
tower that the train is ready to go.
The director then fixes the routing
for that train, gives it the signal and
the train is off on its journey.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-01-25
Navy Yards Out of Work.

one OF the results of the great naval
excursion around the Horn into tho
Pacific will be the stoppage of work in
the navy yards Of the Atlantic coast.
And this is pretty serious, says the
Boston Globe. Some $4,000 mechanics
were employed in getting the battle
ships into condition for their long
cruise. The estimate of the depart
ment is that at least half of these
$4,000 men have been discharged since
the fleet sailed. 1t is even doubtful
that the remaining half can be provid-
ed with work in tho tinhering and re-
pair of the few vessels left behind.
There are one cz two golfers building
which may require their services. or
the cut would BIZ still greater. I'm
questionably this is detrimental to the
organization of the mechanical force
or the navy yards. No manufacturing
establishment in ordinary running
could throw out half its trained force
or employees and look to get back an
equivalent force when business again
becomes urgent. But more unfortu-
nate still is the discharge of these
thousands of skilled workmen from
government employ at moment when
the shock to private industry, due to
the monetary disturbance, has led to
q serious curtailment of the number OF
employees.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-01-25
The De Almond Williams Clash

these long-range observers read with
absolute amazement the statement
that the Missourian is 63 years old.
To account for the act of the seeming
ly self-contained one in calling his
colleague a liar there are people to
declare that it was not De Almond
who used 'the shorter and ugl1er
word" it was Missouri. There is
something in this, doubtless.
David A De Almond is lawyer,
one of the best. so it is said, in the
congress. He was appointed one OF
the managers on the part Of the house
in the Impeachment proceedings
against Judge Swayne, of Florida.
Everything that De Almond says
apparently is measured but neverthe-
less there is no hating in his speech,
and what he says is we'll worth lis
tening to, and, what's more, it is lis
tened to. De Almond is the last man
in the house of representatives who
would be named as one likely to be
engaged in brawl, let alone to bring
on the brawl by a heated word out OF
his own mouth.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-01-25
"rhe Song Of the shirt y

The select committee of the Brit
ish house of commons, in taking
testimony recently in regard to the
control and regulation of the con-
dstions under which nome work is
carried on, heard the evidence of the
president of the Womens Trade
Union league.
She said that the difficulty in or.
ganizing home workers was due TO
the fact that they were too poor to
help themselves. This witness men,
toned the case of woman known
to her who could earn only rs cents
week by shirt making. She men
toned the case Of another shirtmaker
who received only 81 cents a dozen
iIor making shirts.
The witness produced blue cotton
Grjrts which were made for 49, cents
dozen. She said that without char
liable subsidies or poor law relief
the persons who accepted these low
wages could not exist.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-01-25
HAD NOT GUMPTION
GOOD REASON WHY RAILRoADER
WAS STILL BRAKEMAN.
incident Noted by Chicago Writer
Told the Whole story-No Ad-
vancement Possible for
Such a Man.

wondered why twas that young
man was brakeman on a passenger
| train, writes Hollis W. Field in the
Chicago Tribune.
1t was up in Wisconsin, and fol-
miles through the dust of the roadbed
and the storm of cinders from the
locomotive l had sat in the smoker
smoked and smoking-some.
Having no one to talk to, and-be,
cause of the dust and the cinders-un
able to have talked anyhow, l passed
the time wondering at that brakeman
He was handsome, well-built fellow
Is years old, Mat, attentive to the
calling of the numerous stations, quick
at alighting on the depot platforms
friendly with scores of station loun.
gers, and yet alert in passing ON the
conductors starting signal to the en-,
gineer.
Altogether it seemed an outrage that
such a young man should be passen-
ger brakeman on branch line, a job
that had no beginning and no end
worth the while. But not till we
reached the end of the line did I dis
cover why this young man was a pas
senger brakeman.
Long before we pulled into the ter
minal station the news agent had
stripped himself of his livery, emptied
his fruit baskets, packed his papers
and periodicals, busted and brushed
himself for the streets. In one of
the brackets at the far end of the car
two of the news agents small baskets,
empty, rested squarely and firmly
against the motion Of the trains, one
''nested" within the other.
The train still was bowling on when
the brakeman began to strip himself
of his official blue coat and vest and
visored cap. We were bowling still
when he stepped to the car bracket
for the purpose of depositing coat,
vest and cap in the same bracket
which contained the "nested'' baskets
First, the brakeman took out the
baskets, spread his coat neatly in the
bottom of the bracket, laid his vest
over it, topped the two with his cap,
and set the nestled baskets back on
top, but bottom side down. And the
baskets toppled to the floor, naturally.
He preserved his temper and set
them back-and down they came
again.
Something was wrong. He decided
is was the cap. He tucked the cap un-
der his coat, and set the packets back
upon the coat and vest. But before
he could get into his street vest,
down came the baskets.
He was mad, I think I think he
swore. He got into his coat before
he picked up the baskets, brushed him
self, looked into mirror-and then
did that which four grains of COM
mon sense would have prompted in the
beginning:
He took his clothes out of the brack-
ct and. set the "nested" fiat baskets
back into place. Then he spread his
coat in the bottom of the top basket,
laid his vest smoothly upon the coat,
and far over set his cap aslant from
it's visor, and everything was there to
stay until the cows came home.
Why he didn't do that in the be-
ginning is why he was a brakeman on
a jerkwater passenger train.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-01-25
Servant Girls for Australia.

The servant problem in England
does not appear to be any nearer So
luton. The British housewife lost
and the Australian mistress gained go
English. Scotch and Irish girls when
the steamship Miltiades sailed from
Tilbury recently with it's first con-
tingent of servants for New South
Wales, under the government-aided
emigration scheme. One of the con-
ditions was that the girls must be
actually engaged in domestic service.
and the service money asked for the
16.000-mile journey was SIS. AS a
guaranty of good faith. a deposit of
$40 with the government has been
made by each girl On their arrival
in Sydney they will be met by rep
resentatiye of the government, and
most of them will at once go into
places already found for them.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-01-25
BY ELLIS O'NEILLE
(Copyrig ht.) .

plates, and she conducted them to a
Hight of stairs and along a corridor.
Curious faces looked at them from
the little rooms on. each side. Egbert
and Fannie stopped at each to distrib,
ute flowers and Easter eggs.
In the hall near the consumptives'
room they passed a group of sallow,
wretched looking women, one of them
holding in her arms curly haired
child, She's nigh about gone" said
one; "she don't know the child
Doctor says she can't last long"
said another. Hear how she keeps
calling Jennie"
A feeble voice was indeed repeating
that name over and over-the voice
of wasted woman stretched on a low
bed.
Martha had never known that the
human frame could become so attenu-
ated and life remain.
Don't come in." she said, turning
quickly to Egbert and Fannie There,
go out in the yard and teach Cherry
an Easter hymn
The children obeyed and she en-
tered the sick-room alone. Never had
she so longed to comfort a fellow
creature. so felt herself SO powerless.
1t wrung her heart to hear that plead
ing, oft-repeated cry for Jennie"
Moved by sudden impulse, she
kneeled by the bed, took the thin hand
in hers. and whispered: Yes, yes,
what is it? What can do?"
The soft touch more than the whis-
per seemed to soothe the sufferer.
"Oh. Jennie" she said, have you
come at last? knew God would send
you, I prayed SO long"
Martha only replied by a gentle
pressure of the hand, and after q lit.
tie rest the woman went on:
1t was the water, dear; the cruel
food that took our home away. John
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-01-25
Honor to Whom Honor lie Due.

A brief but exceedingly impressive
memorial service was that which
stopped every wheel on every Chica.
go, Burlington & Quincy locomotive
and car for five minutes, during the
funeral Of Charles E. Perkins, a for
mer president of the road Precisely
at three o'clock all trains, no matter
where they were, came to a standstill,
and remained motionless until five
minutes past three. Work of every
Kind was also suspended in every Of
nee of the company. The man thus
honored, in way which he would
probably have appreciated more than
any other, was a rich man who had
worked his way up from the lowest
round of the ladder by means which
disarmed enemies and made friends,
and his honor was more to him than
his money. When bank in which he
was a shareholder and director was in
trouble-a trouble known to him, but
not to the depoistors-he came to the
rescue with his whole fortune. AL
though his legal liability was only
$4,000. he poured in a million, and
suffered heavy losses for the sake Of
saving small depositors, who, before
he died, never even knew what they
had been saved. Such a man, says
Youths Companion, deserves we'll of
his country. 1t is fitting that the
wheels should stop for a little space
when he goes out.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-01-25
Straight Railway Track.

In spite of the apparently mathe.
NAUTICAL straight lines which many OF
the western railways appear to follow
on the map, it has been stated that
the record in this respect will be beat.
en- by the new national transconti-
mental railway, otherwise known as
the Grand Trunk Pacific, 70 miles of
which will, be constructed without a
curve. Five years ago, however, a
length of II miles of perfectly straight
railway track was constructed on the
extension of the Rhodesia railways
from Bulawayo in the direction of the
Victoria falls. So far, therefore, as
the length of straight line is con-
cerned, the record is held by the por.
ton of the Rhodesia railways above
referred to.-London Times.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-01-25

About 100 miles Of the street rail-
ways, or tramways, of London ara
owned and operated by the London
county council. 1t is surprising to
learn from the official balance sheet
that the surplus remaining, over oper-
ating expenses, interest on the debt,
and other ordinary charges, amounted
to less than $4,000 during the year
ended in March last Treating the
county council as corporation seek
ing dividend on the operation of its
lines, there would have been only one.
seventh Of one per cent. for the share
holders. Considering the large profits
of the street railway business in this
country, and the facts that London is
the largest city in the world, and that
the tramways carried more than $780,
100000 passenger during the year req
ported. the result is not promising as
a business proposition.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-01-25
Prayed So Long,"

| had to work so hard after that, and
You know he was never strong, and"
She broke off with gasp, and Mar
tina whispered again: Yes, yes,
| think | know. Don't talk about ii
| now
But the child. DEAR the woman
| pleaded. 1T was for the chiId's sake
l prayed you would come. Keep the
child, Jennie, and make it like your.
self. I'll ask no more in the last day
She grew quiet after that
Then the woman with the child in
her arms came and stood in the door.
The little one had cried itself to
sleep.
Martha took the child in her arms,
laid the curly head on her shoulder,
and sat down so near the mothers bed
that she could touch the wasted hand.
Sitting thus, she watched the hour
away, and saw the look of pain change
into one of perfect peace.
A sense of nearness to her risen
Lord, such as she had never known,
thrilled her soul.
She felt that she stood in "Jennie's'
place to the orphaned child. Who
Jennie was she might never know,
but what she was had been revealed
in the dying mothers words: Make
the child like yourself; I'll ask no
more in the last day"
Great changes have come with the
years since then. Martha is the mis-.
tress of a metropolitan home, the cen.
ter of brilliant circle of appre-
ciative friends; but the unchanged
purpose is always with her, prompt
ing her to words and deeds of Christ
like love.
The curly-haired child is graceful
girl, on the brink of womanhood
Sometimes when Martha looks into
her cloudless eyes. and listens to her
joyous laughter. she thinks of the
watling poor.house child: and then
she seems to hear the Saviour's
words: 'Inasmuch as We have done
= unto the least of these. ye have
done it unto me-"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-01-25
Why Gambler Was Turned Down

and came to the conclusion that man
who could ask for millions as another
man might ask for hundreds would be
too easy mark for the beguiling ones
of the agricultural department.
Mr.. Cannon therefore refused to
give Mr.. Gambler the place on the ag-
ricultural committee and gave him ter
ritories instead. In refusing the agri-
cultural committee berth to the Missis-
sippian the speaker made the only re-
fusal exception to the rule of granting
requests for committee places made
on behalf of the Democrats by John
Sharp Williams. Gambler alone was
singled out for denial, and to-day he
refuses to ne comforted.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-01-25
IL REcRUITING
II STATION

it is so difficult to induce men to enter
the army and navy.
The publication makes volume of
100 printed pages, profusely illus
trated. The illustrations convey in
the most graphic manner an idea of
the slender proportions to which Uncle
Sans regular army is now reduced in
point of numbers. A full page frontis-
piece depicts a company of infantry
starting from Fort Niagara on 81
day practice march, with nine men in
the ranks, although the authorized
strength was IS men, and some of the
other pictures show an even worse
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-01-25

How foolishly some American news.
papers jump at conclusions was we'll
shown by the war scare" created by
the mikado's proclamation to the jap
anese in the Hawaiian Islands. Be-
cause he urged them, in the event Of
an emergency" to hold themselves
ready to serve their country, it was
at once concluded that the "emer-
gency" was coming war with this
country. 1t developed, however, that
the proclamation is one which has
been issuel annually, in the same
words, for score of years, on the
emperor's birthday, to all japanese
resident abroad, and is as peEfunctory
as the ordinary Thanksgiving procla-
maQdnA in America The Japanese
have a"keeR sense of humor; they
must find a good many unattended oc-
casions for smile.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-01-25
schene to Prevent Fires.

In RAILROAD operation great loss is
caused by wooden bridges being de-
stroyed by fire, and in nearly an cases
the blaze is caused by the live Goals
dropping from ashpans of the locomo,
tives. In order to prevent this the
Northern Pacific Railroad company
now covers the woodwork of all
bridges with sheets of galvanized iron,
riveted in place In this manner all
portions of the woodwork exposed to
such danger are entirely covered.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-01-25

ern state. In the last congress Eze
kiel Samuel made speech in favor OF
bill appropriating a large sum OF
money for the improvement Of the
Tombigbee river. Mr. Gambler came
within an ace Of making the Tombig
bee as famous, temporarily at least
as Private John Allen, fellow Missis.
sippian, made the town Tupelo.
There were prose and song in equal
measure in the Mississippian's plea
for the Tombigbee. He wanted a
huge sum of money, but prose and
song failed of their purpose, notwith.
standing the fact that the house had
a light and an agreeable time of it for
several hours while the loyal Missis.
sippfan held forth in his pleadings.
Now as for Mr.. Gamblers right to
growl at Speaker Cannon. The Re-
publican chieftain wants to keep Down
the appropriations this winter. For
some reason or Other he has an idea
that the agricultural department is
likely to have some special pleaders
for money before the committee on az
riculture. Representative Gambler was
a member of this committee in the
last congress, and he wanted to be a
member Of it in this congress. Mr..
Cannon, however, remembered the
plea for the millions for the improve
nent of the Tombigbee river that the
Mississippian had made last year
with a perfect face and perfect faith.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-01-25
First Excursion Train.

No. II st. James street, Nottingham
which has just had a narrow escape
from destruction by fire, possesses
unusual interest, for it was there that
the Nottingham Mechanics institution
passed its early days, an institution to
which belongs the distinction of hav.
ing organized the first railway excur.
sion ever run. This was on July 20,
1910, to Leicester and back, and so
great success was achieved that on
August "a a larger excursion was
Eun.-London Standard.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-01-25
Freaks of Clocks

Clocks sometimes stop running for
no apparent reason. During an cleo
trio storm it is not uncommon for
them to stop abruptly, only to resume
their regular functions with as much
accuracy as ever after a certain in
terval of time. This interval may be
only for few moments or it may be
for Jears.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-01-25

WASHINGTON
If there ever lived
a man whose ap-
pearance W oul i
suggest that the
blood had become
tame and ready to
wait on the judg-
ment that man is
David A. De Ar
mond, representa-
tive in congress
from Missouri, yet
it was the self-con-
tanned, apparently
absolutely jmpas-
siye David D. Ar
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-01-25
Cigars is inches Long.

One Of the principal cigar manu-.
factories of Havana has lately been
making some enormous cigars which
measure IS inches long and six inches
in circumference. They are not very
heavy, as they weigh only about four
ounces. but they cost five dollars
apiece in Havana and 5000 q hundred
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-01-25
Rallasted with cold

A section of the Canadian North
ern railroad running northwest from
Sudbury and crossing the Vernil
lion river, is unique in that it is bal
lasted with gold. Every yard of the
gravel used for ballast has been found
to contain from SO cents worth to a
dollars worth of the precious metal
in the shape of fine dust, and a syn.
dictate is installing machinery for its
installation.