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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-06-13
Big Weekly Pay Roll of Wage Farmers

500 were women and 90,167, or 27 per
cent, were children. The pay rolls of
the 123,307 establishments for one
week aggregated $33,185,791, and of
this amount the men received 500, 240,-
287, or 1871 per cent of the whole;
the women received $685., 481 or II
per cent, and the children $312,023, or
l per cent.
More than half of all the wage earn
ers included in the bulletin earned So
and over during the week. The earn
ings are classified for totals of states
and of industries, while rs industries
are shown in detail by states and ter
ritories and 25 states by leading In
dustries. Average earnings are also
computed for all the states and indus.
tries shown.
The figures show that in 1904 the
average wage Garner employed in man.
ufacturing received $1,000 per week.
The average man received $1116, the
average woman $6.1T and the average
child under Is years of age $3.46.
In the figures showing the average
wages by states Illinois is fifteenth
with $11.65. The highest is Montana
with $18.19 and the lowest is South
Carolina with S4.6S,
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-06-13

THE president is not only good
1 churchgoer himself, but deserves
the thanks of at least two Washington
preachers for his aid in boosting the
size Of their congregations.
With his prediction for having
everything reformed it is no more than
natural that his church also should
bear the magic label. It is Grace Re
formed, rather small, gray stone
building on Fifteenth street, not quite
mile from the White House.
Grace Reformed is not fashionable
church. The congregation is unas.
Stunning in appearance and would be
decidedly modest in size If it were
not for the president. He fills Ger
tainly two-thirds of the pews. So far
as audiences go the preacher may
have to look for lean years after
March 4, 1909.
While the president fills dozens OF
the pews by the mere fact of his ex
pected presence he occupies his own
seat in solitary grandeur. Once IL
while he goes with his wife and
family to st. Johns, but they dom,
seem inclined to reciprocate the at
tention. st. Johns rejoices in the
local title of "the church of state,
and always reserves a pew for the
president of the United States, though
1t had not been in demand for a good
many years when Mrs. Roosevelt be
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Overeatlnu.

When p7udently followed, the prac,
tice of fasting is most beneficial.
Many people really never feel the SEN
sation of natural hunger. All they
have is morbid craving for food,
which comes of habit rather than
from any actual need felt by the
stomach. Natural hunger, declares
the New York Weekly, stimulates the
palate, and is felt in the mouth as well
as in the internal organs. 1t makes
the plainest food seem delicious and,
when being satisfied, is source CT
such enjoyment as the average we'll
fed man rarely experiences, Some
suffer, it is true, from insufficient
food but not so many as those whose
ills arise from excessive eating, their
digestion being continually overtaxed
A habit of judicious fasting would dc
wonders for them The system would
recover its lost tone, and-in the case
of mental workers-the brain would
work with an ease and lightness that
would surprise them, for the brain is
one of the chief sufferers from the
practice Of overeating.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-06-13
HER HUSBAND
By MABEL HERBERT URNER
(Copyright.)

"Of course, dear, suit yourself about
1t. If you think you would like the
Hotel -- better, why, we will go
there. But imagine you will find
these large hotels very much the
same"
Yes, 1 suppose So" she answered
listlessly.
The waiter came up now, filled their
glasses and placed the menu before
him. He looked at it moment, then
handed it over to her.
Perhaps you had better order"
his voice was strained.
She flushed, deep, painful flush, as
she took the card and gave the order.
When the waiter had gone, she leaned
back, her eyes wandering over the bril-
liantly lighted cafe.
1t was becoming intolerable-this
thing between them, this conscious
ness that he knew-that for weeks he
had known. She felt now that from
the first, even before she had admitted
ii to herself, with the quick intuition
of his love he had knoWn-that she
was ashamed of him! Ashamed of his
awkwardness, his ignorance, his in
ability to act and dress and look like
the men around them!
No word had passed between them;
In no direct way had either of them
referred TO it, yet she knew it was
never quite out of thir minds.
1t began with their first week in
New York. She had chosen to live at
tho most quiet, the most exclusive
hotel in the city, place rarely in
gaded by the western millionaire; and
It had come like a blow-the contrast
between the men there and her hus.
| band.
She fought against the feeling that
was aroused in her; she told herself
Of his sterling worth and manliness;
ind yet she was constantly comparing
aim with these men of the world,
! .hese clubmen with their air of ease
ind nonchalance; with the way they
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-06-13

walked and stood and lounged about,
tne way they wore their clothes-the
countless things that made up their
bearing.
It was an infinite relief when the
dinner was over.
In their own room, still with avert
ed eyes, she drew chair to the light
and picked up a magazine. But her
glance remained fixed on one short
paragraph.
He made no pretense of reading,
but stood at the window looking down
at the street below. For long time
he stood there. Then he entered his
own room, closing the door after him.
The light burned in his room until
long after midnight. In her own
darkened room she tried in vain to
Sleep Tossing restlessly, her thoughts
went back over the IA months of their
marriage.
The first year had been spent on his
Montana ranch, and then some min
| ing interests had called him to New
York, for only few days, as he
| thought But the days had heightened
into weeks, and still he was detained.
With marvelously quick adapta-
| bility she had acquired the style and
air of the New York women
But with him it had been different,
| perhaps because he had never felt the
need to be anything but himself, and
| he hoI SrrD
and Indifferent to think of it. But
gradually he had come to feel her un-
spoken criticisms and his self-con-
seriousness became infinitely worse
than his previous careless Indifference.
Now he was constantly trying to
please her, and only succeeded in be-
ing more consciously awkward than
| ever.
AS she lay there in the dark, watch.
| ing the light from his room, there
came to her a great longing to blot
out these two months in New York.
They had been so happy in that year
on his ranch. She had gloried in his
strength and manhood; his very crude.
ness and simplicity she had loved
then.
Tears of contrition and tenderness
came to her eyes. She would go in
to him now, creep into his arms and
tell him that she loved him; that moth
ing else mattered.
She slipped out of bed, threw q
loose robe around her and knocked
softly at his door. He was still dressed
| lying on the couch, shading his eyes
from the light. He had heard neither
| her knock nor her quiet entrance
For full moment she stood there be
fore he saw her Then he rose quick
ly.
"Why, Elizabeth, thought you were
asleep"
Mol" She started toward him
| but he made no movement to meet
her; his face reflected none of the
tenderness that she felt was in heI
own. And in that second she realized
what the past two months had done
the extent Of the alienation it had
brought
Thought perhaps you had sons
of those bromide tablets; my head has
been aching
"Why, yes, I think l have some
He got them for her. rs that all? Ii
there anything else can do?"
She shook her head. mo, this viii
probably put me to sleep
In her own room again, she crept
into bed with miserable sense Of
| failure and vague feeling of dread
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-06-13

Observation-Disclosures Cannon
w was II years old the other day,
but being a presidential candidate, he
was not aware of the fact until the
anniversary was half over and then
reminders came thick and fast, and
brought tears of emotion from him.
The first hint was contained in tele-
gram from constituent in Danville,
ILL.,, who is the family Bible expert for
that part of the country.
What day of the month is this, Bus
bey?" he asked Of his secretary.
Here is fellow who has the nerve
to say have turned another mile
stone
A calendar was consulted, and
Uncle Joe" acknowledged that the
boys back home had one on him. In
a few minutes Mr.. Busbey was called
out to the corridor and notified that
about the biggest floral piece ever
seen in the capitol would arrive at
four o'clock, and that there would be
big doings in the speakers room.
Uncle Joe" was kept in ignorance
of the arrangements, and when, at the
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-06-13
Their Universities.

Oxford, having lost the boat race,
RECEIVERS the premiership, which 1t is
permissible to regard as an equal or
even a greater distinction. The list
OF Oxford prime ministers, to which
the name of Mr.. AsQuith is now
added, already includes the names of
Pelham, Chatham, North, SheIburne.
Addington, Granville, the duke of
Portland, the earl of Liverpool, Can.
ming, Peel, the earl of Derby, Glad
stone, Rosebery and the marquis of
Salisbury. The Cambridge list is a
little shorter, and perhaps a little less
distinguished. Among the names
which figure on 1t we find those of Sir
Robert Walpole, the duke Of Newcas.
tie, Rockingham, Pitt, Spencer, Per.
ceval, Earl Grey, Melbourne, Palmer
stone, the earl Of Aberdeen, Mr.. Bal
four and Sir Henry Campbell Banner
man; Edinburgh is represented by
Lord John Russell, and the other uni
versities are not represented at all
The two nonuniversity premiers are
not the least illustrious. They are
Benjamin Disraeli and the duke OF
Wellington.-Westmin (Eng.) Ca
zette.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-06-13
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
Who Owns the Waterwavs2


One OF the most intricate problems
involved, and one which must be
cleared before we have gone far with
the management of water power. is
that of the ownership of running wa
ter--a matter to which both congress
and the supreme court have given
considerable time with very incon-
elusive results. Under old conditions,
Wnen ths erection Of a dam was the
whole apparatus of power develop
ment, the man who owned the dam
site was considered by that possession
20 own the power in the water during
the time 1t was passing his land.
When water power was the only DOW
er, and larger development was neces-
sary, this dam owner was given the
rlgnt to take for flowage the lands of
MS immediate neighbors, for a fair
price. But now that we have passed
Tar beyond that stage, to time when
the Improvement Of a river begins at
the fountain from which it springs
and IN the forests which cover the
slopes of the surrounding hills, we
can no longer follow this old proce-
dure The work which is done at
head waters actually creates a power,
declares j. L. Mathews in the Atlantic,
since it enlarges and steadies the
now; and that power is possible of
utilization over and over again, for
every foot of fall from the fountain to
the sea. The supreme court has often
held that the government has but a
navigation right in streams, and that
the states themselves own the water,
and the landowners the use for pow
er. But old usage must give way to
new needs, and new body of law de-
scribing and establishing the owner
ship and the extent of the several
rights in a river in one of the urgent
needs Of the new movement.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-06-13
FARMING IN
THE SOUTH
The Master of Life.

The Master of Life.
I am the plough,
Master of life,
Where my sharp coulter leads
Ceases Sterility;
And, by my largesses
Gladdened and satisfied,
Follow the peoples!
I, in the glimmering dawn,
FurroWing circlewise-
Leaving wide gaps where Death
Swung his black gates anon
Traced the foundations where
Rose the proud battlements,
Bastions and walls round
The City Of Life!
To me for charity
Come the worn mendicants,
Footing it painfully
Out from the darkness
Into the silence
Here are my aims for you
Poured forth abundantly-
Yours while the earth knows
Summer and winter,
Seed time and harvest
Eat and be glad!
Egypt and Nineveh,
Rome and Assyria
Were but NY pensioners:
/ am the permanent,
Still stand my kingdoms
Still wave the cornfields-
Seeming but slave. indeed,
Master of Life am L
I am the plough!
w. G. Hole, in London Spectacle
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-06-13

Most Americans get more for their
money than any other people Of any
other age. In a recent lecture, a teach
er of economics told more than halt
the story when she said: "The thing
that has increased is not the cost OF
living, but the scale of living. The
change is not in the pricc at which ex
istence can be maintained, but in PEG
pies ideas as to what are necessaries
of life"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-06-13

1t is the duty Of every woman to
look as pretty as she can. Nature in
dictates that by her gift of beauty to
the sex. Those who happen to be not
beautiful of face, can become as at
tractive as any by lovliness Of habit
and character. The most attractive
lady the writer knows, is really rather
ugly of face, owing to irregularities of
feature, but she is always the center
of attraction in anY assembly.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-06-13

Think of farmer in debt, no home,
not thirty days from starvation, ex.
cept as his merchant tides him over
think of such a farmer trying to cor
ner cotton against the man who has a
corner on the money it takes to buy
the cotton. And there's no way to break
that money corner without going into
Congressional and White House pol
itics.-Abilene (Tex.) Farmers Jour.
nal
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-06-13

One of the evils Of the landlord and
ten2nt system is the exhaustion of
soils. Suffering must come from this.
Who travels over some old States
and sees whole counties deserted sees
what must come to us, unless we pre-
serve soils and fertility. The owner
Of a home can make it richer each
year. Tenants can not afford to do
so. Landlords can not. - Farm and
Ranch
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-06-13
President Roosevelt a Good Churchgoer

came lady Of the White House.
Whether he goes to his own church
or not, no one but Theodore Roosevelt,
unless it is some fiend or guest &C.
companying him, which rarely hap.
pens, is ever seated in the presidents
pew at Grace Reformed. Two secret
service men always accompany him.
but do not sit with him.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-06-13

SCUBA libre" has long been q war
CRY and watchword A new kind of
scuba Iibre" is reported by Gov. Ma
COON. who declares, after careful in
yestigation, that the island has not a
single case of yellow fever. That is
n better kird of free Cuba" than even
its lberators dreamed of
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-06-13
1t Never Quits.

"Cheer up," he urged. Wen come
out all right yet"
'It is all very well to be cheerful, %
his wife bitterly replied, when there
is anything to be cheerful about, but
in our case there doesn't seem to be
any hope. You lost your own fortune,
to begin with, and now they have
taken from you what money I in.
herited."
Il know; but why give up? Learn a
lesson from the peach crop"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-06-13

Be sure that you get all the docu-
ments that your state is issuing from
it's agricultural bureau. # You do not
know how to get them, write to your
Secretary Of Agriculture and ask him
to have your name put on the mailing
lists for all that is of interest to the
farmer,
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-06-13

Don't let anything hinder you from
attending the meetings of the local
Union, because the local Is the really
important place for the lay member.
If the local is managed right it. will
have its influence or avery person
in it. and, through this influence, on
all in it's neighborGood.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-06-13

The greatest heat is never found on
the equator, but some ten degrees to
the north, while more severe cold has
been registered in northern Siberia
than has been found near the Pole,
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-06-13

King Manuel of Portugal has an
nounced his intention personally to
make good the value of court jewels
belonging to the state which were
sold by his father. Presumably he
will saw wood to earn the money.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-06-13

Congress likes to use ordinary eau
ton. 1t doesn't want to put millions
into floating steel just to have the air.
ship come along and gayly wigwag to
fhe ironclad that 1t is back number.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-06-13

Clerical paper wants Mexico to go
to war with Uncle Sam, figuring that
Colombia and Japan would jump in
and help. Really, 1t ought to let
Venezuela in on this: Looks like a
positive snub to expect Castro to pre-
serve neutrality.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-06-13
One at Dickens, Truths-

Throughout life our worst weak
nesses and meannesses are usually
committed for the sake of the people
whom we most despise.-C Charles Dick.
ems
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-06-13

WTHEN the bureau Of the census
w took the census of manufactures
in 1905 it also undertook the task Of
classifying the weekly earnings of the
employees in all kinds of manufacture
ing establishments. Questions as to
the actual earnings of all employees
were asked of each manufacturer in
the country and the surprising num-
Der of 123,307 establishments replied.
This number of establishments is 629
per cent. of all enumerated in the
census and they employ more than
one-half of all the wage earners en-
gagged in the factory industries in the
country.
In a bulletin just issued by the GEN.
sus bureau, containing compilations of
these statistics it is shown that of the
3,297,819 wage earners covered by the
investigation, 2.619.O53 were men; $685.,
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-06-13

1t takes a long time for some people
to get it through their heads that
mines are frequently promoted not
for the purpose OF digging ore but q
selling stock
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-06-13

Il would be much easier for some
men to practice what they preach u
they would do less preaching.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-06-13

There is a woman's prison in Rou.
mania that has only women officials
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-06-13

The farmers wife is working
partner on the farm; she ought to
have her full share Of the profits,
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1908-12-17

Wns he, the 'tSatdn
= S17ldcrson" that
Uas, getting his
deserts.
sowed, after all? "
Sanderson" that wa
serts?
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1908-12-17

I The later night was very still, and
he moon, lifting like paper lantern
,ver the aspen tops. silvered all the
landscape. In its placid radiance the
white house doomed in Il ghostly paiior
The windows of one side, were blank,
out behind the library shade the
oulbous lamp Still drowsed like a mon
ster glowworm. From the shadowy
side of the building stretched 4 narrow
L. its front covered by a rose trellis
whose pale blossoms in the soft night
lir mingled their delicate fragrance
with that Of the jasmine,
Save for the one bright pane there
seemed now no life or movement in
he house But outside in the moon
fight lurching. shabbily clothed fig
Ire moved. making his uncertain way
with the deliberation of composed in
ebriety. The sash of the window was
.aised q few inches, and he nodded
:agely at the yellow shade.
Cay old silver top" he hiccoughed.
see you in the morning!"
he capsized against an althea bush
and shook his head with owlish gravi-
y as he disentanSled himself. Then he
staggered serenely to the rose trellis
and, choosing its angle with an assur-
ance that betrayed ancient practice.
climbed to the upper window. shot its
bolt With q knife and let himself in.
He painstakingly closed both windows
and inner blinds before he turned on
IN electric light.
In the room in which he now stood
he had stored his boyish treasures and
Shirked his maturer tasks. It should
have had deeper human associations,
too. for once. before the house had
been enlarged to its present proper
ions, that chamber had been his moth
er's. The Marechal Mel rose that clam
bered to the window sill had been
planted by her hand. In that room he
had been born. And in it had occurred
that sharp corrosive quarrel with his
father Oh the night he had flung him
self from the house vowing never to
return.
AS Hugh Stires stood looking about
him it seemed for an instant to his
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1908-12-17

presentment Through what adven-
lures had he passed? Now that he had
come home. forgiving and forgiven,
would he stay? He had been in his
room when she entered it with the
roses-must have guessed. if he had
not already known, that she was blind.
Would he guess that she had cared for
that room, had placed fresh flowers
there often and often?
Since she had come to the house in
the aspens Jessica had found the
imagined figure Of Hugh a dominant
presence in a horizon ightened with
throng Of new Impressions The
direful catastrophe of her blindness
it had been the sudden result Of an
accident-had fallen like a thunderbolt
upon nature elastic and joyous It
had brought her face to face with
revelation Of mental agony, made her
feel herself the hapless martyr OF
that curt thing called chance. She had
always lived largely in books and
pictures, and her world was still full
OF ideals and Of brave adventures
Gratitude had made her love the mo-
rose old invalid with his Grabbed tenn
pers, and the wandering son, choosing
for pride's sake a resourceless battle
with the world-the very mystery of
his whereabouts-had taken strong
hold of her Imagination. Of the quar-
rel which had preceded Hugh's depar-
ture she had made her own version
That ho Shor1d hav co1oo hao IN
very night when the disinheritance
she had dreaded had been so nearly
consummated, seemed now to have an
especial and an appealing significance.
Presently she rose, slipped on the
red kimono, and, taking a key from
the pocket Of her gown, stole from the
room. She assembled a stairway and
unlocked the door of wide, bare at
tic where the moonlight poured
through a skylight in the roof upon an
unfinished statue. In this statue she
had begun to fashion, in the imagined
figure Of Hugh, her conception of the
prodigal son-not the battered and
husk filed wayfarer Of the parable,
but figure Of character and pathos,
erring through youthful pride and
spirit The unfinished clay no eyes
had seen, for those walls bounded her
especial domain.
When Hugh went shamefacedly up
the stair from the library the artificial
glow that had tingled to his finger tips
had faded. The poise of mind, the
gertrude of all the faculties of eye
and hand that his icy bath had given
him, were yielding. The penalties he
had dislodged We're returning re-en-
forced He was rapidly becoming
drunk.
He CROPPED his way to his room, turn
ed out the light, threw himself fully
dressed upon the bed and slept the
deep sleep of deferred intoxication.