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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-03-27
RATHER PAY THAN SERVE.
Citizen Soldiers Unique Idsa OF the
Duties of Sentry.

Australians still tell stories OF the
C. l.. VS., although the war is a far
memory. One, a member of the Stock
Exchange, was left one wet and miser-
able night to guard Wagonload OF
goods.
He shivered in the unsheltered place
for some hours pondering many things,
and then a bright thought struck him
just as the colonel came around on
his tour of inspection.
Colonel" he asked, "how much is
this wagon worth?'
"I don't know" was the answer.
much or little, we can't afford to lose
it."
well, but colonel" persisted the
amateur soldier, you might give me a
rough idea of the value"
about e2OO," said the Colonel
testify.
very WE'LL" was the answer. Il
will come down to the camp and give
you a check for the amount. Then I'll
turn in. 1 wouldn't catch my death OF
cold for twice that much
What the colonel said is not re-
corded-Melbourne Times.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-03-27
'o0pyflght, 1909, BY the Author, w. 8. Edson.1

Scripture Authority-Book of Ezra
especially chapter eight.
Ezra's Great Reform-The preat dia-
i,is i've mission which Ezra performed on
hr second visit TO Jerusalem was the
. Da,eeasklng up of the promiscuous marriages
VII NH the heather peoples about, and
s ~aiacn Were in direct violation of the Mo-
ic law, and threatened the very exist
$3.50 $50 OF the Jewish nation His first step
was 10 enforce separation from their
yves upon all who had made heather
marriages, in which number were inclu-
~ su many priests and Levites, as well as
olisr lsraelites, the list Of the chief Of
1eHaers being given in the last chapter
vi the book. All this was effected in lit
re more than six months after his arriv-
a. at Jerusalem, showing the energy and
ne intense earnestness of the man. With
slie detailed account of this important re-
tothi, Ezra's autobiography ends abrupt
~ and we hear nothing more of him till
40 years afterward, in the twentieth year
u Aftaxerxes, we find him again at
Jerusalem with Nehemiah, the Tirshatha.
AS Ezra is not mentioned after Nehemi-
ans departure for Babylon in the thirty
second year of Artaxerxes, and as every
tnlng fell into confusion during Nehemi-
an absence, it is not unlikely that Ezra
may have died or returned to Babylon
before that year.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-03-27
Lost Articles Department.

Bridget, who had administered the
culinary affairs of the Morse household
for many years, was sometimes torn
between her devotion to her mistress
and loyalty to the small son of the
house.
Bridget" said Mrs. Morse, in a
tone of wonder, after an inspection of
Me storeroom, where have those
splendid red apples gone that the man
brought yesterday-those four big
ones?"
well, now, ma'am," said poor Bird
get, 81 couldn't rightly say; but I'm
thinkin' if you was to find where my
loaf O. hot gingerbread is, likely thin
four red apples would be lynn right on
top Of it, an I'm hopin' his little STUN,
mick can stand the sthrain. Youths
Companion.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-03-27
THE STORY.

rARIB was face to face with the
u crisis of his life. AS he stood
ont there under the stars he did not
know which way to turn. He feared
tn 60 home and break the news, and
he knew he could not go back on the
pIedge which he had made that even
ing as he had stood before the altar
while the smoke of the sacrifice was
ascending to heaven.
TT seemed like dream, and yet he
knew it was all only too true. He had
never felt quite at ease since he had
taken to wife the daughter of the rich
Gentle merchant, and when Ezra the
scribe had pointed out Gods law, the
awfulness of his sin had swept over
him. He, priest and one of the lead
ers among the people, had violated the
law of Moses and the sanctity of Gods
service by his marriage to a heather
woman. and in the remorse of the mo-
ment there had been but one thought
and that was his sin against God.
Then Shechaniah, transgressor like
himself and the others of the law, had
stood up and said unto Ezra:
we have trespassed against our
God and have taken strange wives OF
the people of the land; yet there is
hone in Israel concerning this thing
Now. therefore, let us make a GOV.
enant with our God to put away all
the wives. and such as are born OF
them. according to the counsel of my
Lord and of those that tremble at the
commandment of our God; and let
It be done according to the law. Arise
for this matter belongeth unto thee;
we also win be with thee; be of good
courage and do it.
And then he had seen Ezra the
scribe arise. Never would ne forge'
tbe awful agony depicted in that face,
for the sin of the people seemed all
written there in its dreadful blackness,
The disheveled hair and the bare
places where Ezra in lis agony NAG
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-03-27
No Apology Due Him.

The other day two well dressed lovers,
evidently a newly married couple
boarded a Mineral Wells train at Wealth
erford, and amused the other passengers
with their cooling. After awhile the fair
young bride leaned back in her cltair and
fell asleep. Her companion took advan-
tage in her lull of affectionate demon
stration and went into the smoker to en-
Joy a cigar While he was gone long,
lean, lank grizzly specimen of humanity
came in and sat down in the vacant chair
beside the sleeping beauty. Presently the
young woman, half asleep, turned and
laid her head lovingly on the shoulder
Of the stranger, her plump arm around
his neck. The green, gawl1y stranger was
surprised at this unexpected familiarity,
but made no desperate effort to escape.
He merely looked around at the con-
vulsed passengers and grinned. Then the
hilarity awoke the woman; she opened
her blue eyes, and saw her mistake.
With flushed cheeks she stammered an
apology. You needn't 'pologize to me-
drawled the stranger; II didn't kerr.
Mineral Wells (Tex.) Index.
BYRON WILLIAMS.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-03-27
THE MEASURE OF TIME.
Day Spent with God Worth a Thou.
sand Years of AinIess Life.

Zone day is with the Lord as a
thousand years, and thousand years
as one day" 1t is not because he does
not care for time, but because he
knows that millenniums are made up
of days, and that days expand in their
results as time flows on. They mingle
with millenniums.
We throw a day away and think
nothing about it. It is only a day, and
we are rich in time. Gods days have
no end, but he treasures and uses each
day as if it were a thousand years.
What would happen to us if he left
us alone for one day?
He treasures each Of our days. One
day spent we'll by even the poorest of
us is much with him. 1t is much
with him, for he only knows how much
it really means for us. He knows
that, after all, there is not SO much
difference with US between one day
and a thousand years. One days work
may leave it's mark upon a life-may
start it out upon a course that God
only can forecast through eternity.
1t would be easy to show that in a
day life may be blighted, but it may
be as profitable to remember that in
one day life may be redeemed. In
one day Matthew the publican left
1.-THE seat of customs" and became a
disciple. In one day Saul of Tarsus
ceased to be a prosecutor and was
called to be an apostle. If one day
in Gods house is better than another.
it is the first day, the day in which
the wanderer first realizes that he
has entered within the circle, and that
he is conscious of Gods love. 1t is
worth a thousand years of aimless
life.
While God does not neglect the lit
tie things, even the greatest are not
too great for him. If one day is with
him as a thousand years, thousand
wears are as one day. He does not
grow weary or impatient. He knows
how precious time is, but he inhabits
eternity. With untiring patience he
waits. 1t is because he changes moi
that we are not consumed.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-03-27
Might Look, for Recovery.

The following was told Of the pa.
tient of a well-knoWn New York ply
stefan:
The patient, an elderly gentleman,
became quite i'll while the doctor was
absent upon vacation, the indisposi-
ton being the result of too frequent
potations A female nurse was at once
engaged to care for him in his hotel.
A lady, residing in the same hotel,
became aware of his illness, and in
terested herself to the extent Of one
morning inquiring concerning his con.
dition of the chambermaid.
"shure, ma'am," replied Maggie
"an' I think he do be getting along
very well. The nurse was sittin' on
his lap this mornin'!"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-03-27
Thanks to the BURGLAR.

The dark lantern flashed through
the fiat. Then came the CLEAN of a
revolver.
Hands up!" Kissed the head of the
family. You're burglar"
yves" gasped the intruder, as he
faced the cold steel.
what have you stolen?"
Your wife's pug dog"
Him. Er-if that's all you may
sneak out quietly"
"And your motherin-law's parrot"
you don't say. Well, here is some
loose change"
"And your daughters photograph
Good! Here's some more loose
change"
"Also your sons punching bag
what! Great Scot, man, come out
to the library and I'll open a special
bottle. "-Tit-Bits
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-03-27
BABY HORRIBLY BURNED
BY Boiling Grease-skin All Came Off
One Side of Face and Head
Thought Her Disflsured for Life.
Used Cuticura: No Scar Left.

"My baby was sitting beside the
fender and we we're preparing the
breakfast when the frying-pan full OF
boiling grease was upset and it went all
over one side of her face and head.
Some one wiped the scald with a
towel, pulling the entire skin off. We
took her to a doctor. He tended her
a week and gave me some stuff to put
on. But it all festered and thought
the baby was disfigured for life. I
used about three boxes of Cuticura
Ointment and it was wonderful how
it healed. In about five weeks it was
better and there wasn't mark to tell
where the scald had been. Her skin
is just like velvet. Mrs. Hare. 1,
Henry ST., South Shields, Durham,
England, March %, 1905"
Potter Drug Chem. Corp, Sole Props, Boston.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-03-27
sERMoNETTE.

In order that we may under
stand the seriousness of the con- ,
ditions which had arisen at Je-
rusalem we must remember that
the marriage of the Jews to the
Gentiles was strictly forbidden
by the Mosaic law (Deut. 7:2, 81,
and that only the lower classes
were guilty in this matter, but
the practice was shared in by
many of the priests and the Le-
vites, as well as leading men
of the city. This great irregu-
larlty would inevitably bring
many evils in its train; it would
encourage and increase idoIatry,
as well as break down the bar
riers of distinction which, for
important purposes, God had
raised between the IsraeIites and
all other people. Ezra foresaw
these dangerous consequences;
but was overwhelmed with a
sense OF the difficulty of correct
ing the evil, when matrimonial
alliances had been formed, fam
lilies reared, affections engaged,
and important interests estah-
Iished.
And the first thing that Ezra
did in the face of that awful sin
and great difficulty was to pray.
He prayed at the time Of the
evening sacrifice when the peo-
pie would be gathered together
for worship, and he prayed so in
the Spirit that God moved on
the hearts of the people, and
some of the more penitent
of the leaders, realizing that there
was but one course to pursue in.
dealing with evil, suggested that
they put away the Gentle wives.
That is the only sure, safe way
to deal with any sin. 1t may be
like cutting the heart in two; it
may mean giving up all that life
seems to hold dear, but If it is
the thing that is standing be-
tween the soul and God it is the
thinq which much be cut out.
Desperate diseases require des-
perate remedies, and while in
this case 1t seemed like a repu-
diation of solemn obligations,
still 1t must be remembered that
Gods law came first, and that
no human obligation could pos
slbly come before the obligation
to God. This was peculiarly so
with the Jewish nation, for upon
the keeping Of the nation pure
depended the coming of Christ
himself. Personal purity not
only involves the present but flu
ture generations.
The incident before us sug-
uests two New Testament ad-
n1onitions: "Re ye not unequaily
yoked together with unbeIievers;
for what fellowship hath right
eousness with unrighteousness2"
and this: Wherefore come out
from among them, and be ye sep
arate, saith the Lord, and touch
not the unclean thing; and |
will receive you"
~ ~ ~ ~ NJ ~ Il ASL II Ii N
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-03-27
Good Way to Look at Task.

Big things are only little things put
together. 1t is encouraging to think
Of this when confronted by big task.
Remember that it is only a group of
little talks, any one of which you can
easily do. 1t is ignorance of this fact
that makes some men afraid to try
Warren.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-03-27
@ o o
Ran Weed.

The lips seldom speak what the heart
feels. When they are eloquent, they
do not truly interpret the heart, for
the heart that feels the most is like
man trying to testify over the grave
of his dearest friend His utterance is
choked and his reason halts.
4 & (
The happiest man is the one who
can easiest disregard the errors of 9th
ers. The most miserable people arc
those whose hearts are always bleed
ing for the faults of their fellows.
4 Z Z
We are all threads in the warp OF
time Ill the weaving loom of eter-
nifty our threads. arc snapped one by
one, but the great fabric runs on for.
ever.
4 4 4
Planting flowers for pleasure will
not buy the flower seed, but it will
knock the stuff1ng out of dyspepsia.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-03-27
The Most Likely Place.

money doesn't grow on bushes"
declared the purveyor of bromides.
That's right" assented the other
half of the sketch. mot even in the
gold fields. kansas City Journal.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-03-27

Pneumonia and Consumption are al
ways preceded by an ordinary cold. Ham
Inns Wizard Oil rubbed into the chest
draws out the inflammation, breaks up
the cold and prevents all serious trouble.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-03-27
ARTFuL BEeoAR.

Miss Charity-If were to give you
a quarter, what would you say?
Wandering JIM should tell every
gent that you were the prettiest lady
in all this town.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-03-27
Fork il. Ru!lock's Stomach,

A steel fork, about seven inches
long and rather sharply pointed, has
been found in the stomach of bul.
lock killed at Longport, Ensland.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-03-27
For Colds and Grinn-capudine.

The best remedy for Gripp and Colds is
Hicks Capudine. Relieves the aching and
feverishness Cures the cold-Headaches
also It's Liquid-Effects immediately-10,
rs and SOC at Drug Stores.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-03-27

For Red, Weak, Weary, Watery Eyes.
Compounded by Experienced Physicians.
Conforms to the Pure Food and Drugs
Law. Murine Doesn't Smart. Soothes Eye
Pain. Try Murine for Your Eyes.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-03-27

The great secret of happiness is to
study to accommodate our own minds
to things external rather than accom-
modate things external to ourselves
Dugald Stewart.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-03-27
In Her Own Terms.

Miss A-What is a rectangle?
'12-A rectangle, madam, is large
round space hemmed in by four
straight lines.-Wisconsin Sphinx.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-03-27

Depew's After Dinner Pills cures all
liver ills. days treatment for 10 cents.
Mailed to any address. H. E. Walker
Drug Co., Corinth, Miss.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-03-27
Only One of Man

That's queerly cut dinner jacket
you have on"
"This is not dinner jacket, it's a
meal sack"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-03-27

Though crowned by the goddess
of fame and success
And housed in q castle of mar.
BILE and tile,
The heart of a man, ever true
to it's youth,
Is running away to a cot by
the stile.
The treasure and trove that he
wins by his skill
Are tawdry and mean in the
light of a day
When, barefoot and tanned,
with patch on his seat,
He plundered the wood where
the stream wound away!
All, fame, thou art only a bau-
BILE at best,
And riches are merely the ear
marks of care
The heart is not duped by the
glitter of gems
Or prizes that pail when
there's snow in the hair
From cobbles and filth of the
Appian Way
The thoughts of man Scurry
off by trail
That leads through an Eden of
gladness and joy
To home and a cottage en-
sconced in the vale!
Ho! Bring all the laurel and
fashion the bay!
P1nT1y nF win
homage and dover!
Parade, all We chariots, gilded .,
and fine
And master your strength for
a contest of power!
Strut now through the streets
that are crowded with men
And fall in defeat when the
heart turns away
And longs for the humble,
matched dwelling of youth
That stands on the bank where
the rivulets play!
The breezes swing low with the
scent of the grape,
The creek babbles on in a ca
dence" divine,
And over the emerald green of
the trees
The sun spills it's rays in a
simmer of wine!
Where bittersweet twines and
the violets bloom
The heart of a man flies away
after joy
To realms that are imaged and
pedestalled high
The Paradise land of the home
of a boy!
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-03-27

Throat Trouble may follow Cough, or
Hoarseness. Browns Bronchial Troches''
give relief. 25 cents box. Samples free.
John I. Brown & Son, Boston, Mass.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-03-27
She Named 1t.

She (casually)-What do you think
is the best fruit of courtshir?
He (tenderly)-Thed date.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-03-27

A sacred burden is the life ye bear.
Look on it, lift it, bear it solemnly.
Stand up and walk beneath it stead
fastly.-Kemble
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-03-27

When we are made witness of the
power of evil, then it is time to set
about measuring our own strength
Royston.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-03-27
BROOKLYN, NJ. Y.

Address the Garfield Tea Co. as above
when writing for free samples of Garfield
Tea, the true remedy for constipation.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-03-27

Fortunate is the woman who remem-
bers that frowns beget more wrinkles
than smiles.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-03-27

No life can be pure in its purpose
and strong in its strife, and all life
not be purer and stronger thereby.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-03-27

Mrs, windows Soothing Syrup.
For children teethfng softens the gurus, reduces In
sllays pain. cures wind collie Csc bottle
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-03-27

Suspect the meaning and regard not
speeches.-Socrates.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-03-27

A long argument usually begins
from a short statement
4 L <
To promise, to the honest man,
means to do.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-03-27

Tt Cures While You Walk
Aliens Foot-Ease for and bunons, hot, sWe1Cy
callous aching feet. Csc all Druggists.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-03-27

A man who needs advice ID apt to
get the kind he doesn't want.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-03-27

PILES CURED IN TO IL DAYS
PAZO OINTMENT is guaranteed to cure any case
nf itching, Blind Bleeding Protruding Piles in
ito II days or money refunded. 800.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-03-27

Things past may be repented but
not recalled.-Livy.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-03-27

Dentist wonder does he really
want that tooth pulled, or is he schem-
ing for breakfast?
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-03-27

TROUBLES OF JUNGLE DENTIST.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-03-27

ONLY ONE "BROMO OUTNINE."
That is LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE. Look for
the signature of Il. w. GROVE. Used the World
over to Cure a Cold in One Day. Csc.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-03-27

An unbridled tongue is the worst of
diseases Euripides
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-03-27

The most certain sign Of wisdom IL
a continual cheerfulness.-Mon taigue.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-03-27

Ss % 81 RG s: III
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-06-29
REV. SNEED Is APPOINTED.

l. Made Chairman of the Education
al Commission of Texas Synod.
Rev Glen Sneed of Oak Cliff has
been appointed by the synod of Tex
as. Presbyterian Church, U. S. A, as
chairman of the educational commits
sion of the Dallas Presbytery. The
Dallas Presbytery comprises fifteen
counties.
Mr.. Sneed expects to inagurate in
the presbytery a campaign whose
purpose will be to raise, along With
the other presbyteries of Texas,
$4,000 endowment for Trinity
University at WaXahachie. He will
probably visit every church of his
denomination III the presoytery, and
expects to assign a number of educa-
tors to pulpits of these churches,
that the educational need may be
properly presented.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-06-29
Storm in SweIterinq New York
Reaches Proportions Of
CIoudburst.
It KILLS AND DESTROYS
Ore Man Struck Dead by Lightning
Bolt and Number Of Others
Are Iniured-Many
ProStrahons.

New York. June 29.-The second
of a series of cooling thunderstorms
which were promised to heat-oppres-
sed New Workers by the United
States forecasters, broke with the
violence of a cloudburst late yester-
day afternoon. The downpour and
the accompanying electric display
lasted only fifteen minutes. but in
that time it was responsible for the
death of one man and the injury of
several.
At the polo grounds the game be-
tween New York and Brooklyn was
about to be called when the storm
broke As the J, 600 fans ran for
shelter a flash of lightning struck
the flagpole in center field. smash
ing the upper portion OF the staff
iato spliuters and tearing down the
pcunant flag which the Giants won
in 1905. When the rain ceased the
diamond was lake and the game
was postponed.
In Brooklyn John Freeman tried
to put out a fire which had been
started by lightning in a pile of rub
bish around an iron telephone pole.
Freeman threw a pail of water on
the fire and fell back dead, killed by
the electricity which had Travelled
back to him on the water from the
pole.
There was a sudden drop in tenn
perature with the approach of the
wind and rain and the weather man
gave assurances that the heat wave
had passed.
The mercury yesterday climbed up
arc and S6 degrees, although the hui
midity was high and two deaths
were added to the long list of heat
victims There also were score o,
more OF prOstrations.