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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-03
IN HIS SECOND BoYHooD
Aged Man on Street Car Was Alb.
sorbed In Reading "Jack Spot,
the Young Highway Robber."

He was very old and he scrambled
into the 'Spay-as-you-enter" car with
difficulty. Once safely inside, he
seated himself in the corner of the
car and began to read.
The car bumped itself along Wal
nut street, past Broad, past Ritten-
house square. Not once did the old
man look up. He was absolutely
buried in his book, to which he gave
the absorbed attention of the scholar.
At Fifty-fourth and Spruce streets
the old man cast a startled glance
out Of the window, got up, and hob
bled to the front of the car. On the
way he dropped his book, and several
passengers had chance to see the
title before it was picked up and
given back to its owner.
The volume which has so absorbed
the octogenarian was ''Jack Spot,
the Young Highway Robber; or, the
Desperate Of Devils Gulch." Phil
adelphia Times.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-03
CHILDREN LEARNING TO ACT
Educational Playhouse In New York
for Benefit Of Unframed Work
ing Girls and Boys.

Down deep on the East side, New
York, there is little theater that
isn't theater at all. 1t is an educa-
tional playhouse where shine theatre
cal stars just as bright as the ones
along Broadway-the dream Of all
play people, says the New Idea Won
ans Magazine.
These stars during the daytime go
to school or work behind typewriting
machines, or add up long columns of
figures, or watch mangling machines
in the laundries all the day long. Only
at night do they come out and twin
kle merri1y to tighten weary hearts.
Until the educational theater was
organized, six years ago, the only
amusement accessible to the poorest
Of the East side were the nickelode-
ons, the penny arcades, the tenth
class moving picture shows of the
Bowery, Houston and Grand streets.
How to get the boys and youths, the
girls and young working women to
sidestep the insidious Bowery show;
to have instead an evening Of pure,
clean enjoyment-that was the ques-
titon
After many weighty considerations
it was at last decided to present a
real play by wholly unframed work
ing boys and girls. Then the educa-
tional theater was organized.
When cast Is to be selected the
dramatic director let's it be known
and applicants flock in. Sometimes
as many as 500 apply for place in a
play that requires 80 members.
The admission to the performance
is ten cents. This does not begin to
defray the expenses, but that's not
the idea-it's educational, and not
commercial. That's the reason it's a
playhouse, and not theater.
The boy, or much more, the girl,
who reaches that well-known period
in life's journey finds himself or her
self richer In experience, and yet, to
all intents and purposes, absolutely
ignorant of the real seductiveness, the
real dangers and pitfalls of the COM
mercial stage.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-03
Mustaches Compulsory.

Mustaches have been made compul-
sorry in the Austrian army, or, rather,
an old ordinance has been revived Dy
a rescript from the war ministry, it
is said, on the personal wish of EN-
peror Francis Joseph. The original
compulsory mustache order dates
from before 1S4s, and its author was
General Count Cyulai, the successor
of the famous Radetzky in the war
with the Italian states, who himself
possessed an immense flowing mus
tach and who wanted every man in
the army to grow one, too. The new
order at the same time upholdB the
exclusive privilege enjoyed by the
Windischgratz regiment Of dragons.
which distinguished itself in the bat
tie of Kolin, where Frederick the
Great was defeated in 1857, in memory
of which they were allowed to shave.
Since then there has not been mus
tache in the regiment.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-03
Rainy-Day Games.

Lots of fun can be had with a pea
nut tournament. Have four people
at each table, and in the center Of
each table have a large bowl of pea
nuts and a pair of tongs, such as come
in candy boxes. Each person must try
to remove the peanuts one at a time
without stirring the other nuts. At
the end of 20 minutes bell is rung
and the one having removed the
largest number of peanuts is awarded
a simple little prize.
Another simple but amusing pastime
Is to have ring hung from the chan
delier at a convenient distance from
the floor. Each child must walk d.
rectly up to the ring and, without hes
itating, try to run pencil through it.
This sounds easy, but If you try It
yourself you will be surprised how diff
ficult it really is.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-03
Flying Fly Increases weiaht.

A flying fly in an empty dinner pail
increases the weight, even though it
does not touch the pail, according to
the novel discovery reported at Frank.
fort by Boeninger, a German engi.
neer. An empty cylinder having a
cover at top and bottom was suspend.
ed from the pan of a balance. When a
fly was placed on the wall inside the
weight was CORRESPONDENCE increased.
but when the fly left the side of the
cylinder, flying into the interior, the
balance was not affected. There was
no change when either the top lid or
the bottom one was removed, the fy's
weight being still recorded, although
it was flying inside. When both were
removed, however, the balance was
disturbed, and only the weight OF the
cylinder was recorded. With the up.
per lid on and the lower one off, the
flying fly near the top Of the cylinder
was weighed exactly as If suspended
from the lid.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-03
MANY TERMS OF ENDEARMENT
italian Linguist Searching for Woolng
Language Of All Races-china-
man Says "No Ugi MI"

A noted Italian linguist, Professor
DOzza CT Genoa, has started highly
original work, which is the subject of
considerable comment by the comic
weeklies of Europe and is expected to
be read with interest by linguists. 1t
is to be volume containing all the
people of the world. savage and civil
lied.
The Partisan LIE Rire remarks:
How POLITICALLY the old expression
"Je Annie vous'-I love you-sounds
In the language of the young Green
lander, according to the professors
dictionary of love. Take full breath
and then whisper Unifgraeerndlaina-
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The Chinaman simply says mo ugi
nj" One tribe of Indians express
their feelings with Main sym kapisar
KARIN A tribe in Africa is sparing
of words, the lover sticking his tongue
out and remarking Aha" The Arab
declares himself with one word
"Nehabbeck," while the Turk whis-
pers, "Sidi seveiorum.' The Armen-
ian plainly says, "Se SIREN es hez. J"
In South America is a tribe of In
dams that do not waste words on
their beloved. Having made his choice
the swain grabs the object Of his af-
lection by the nose and pulls her
along with him.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-03
PRoPELLERs FOR AIR CRAFT
English Engineers Now Are Turning
Their Attention to Designing These
and Solving Their Problems.

English engineers interested In
the aeroplane are turning their at
tention sharply from the motor to
the propeller Of these air craft.
Heretofore the builder has been be-
tween the two fires of cutting the
weight of the motors to the limit
and on the other hand forcing them
to run at breaking speed in order to
drive the ship. The average motor,
turning the propeller screw, wastes
80 to 40 per cent. of its power on
the propeller. That is, the propeller
fails to make use of the power that
is delivered to it by this wide mar
gin.
In the building of propellers al
most every possible pattern has been
evolved and tested. But test is not
test. for the reason that certain
propeller on one machine operated
by an Identical motor varies widely
in results. At Lanark field trials
recently two machines had identical
motors and identical propellers, but
one of these propellers making 300
fewer revolutions minute, drove. its
machine ahead of its competitor.
The suspected trouble in the pro-
peller is that differences in the poll
ish, grain and physical molecular
formations may allow the one piece
of timber a closer Ffbite" on the at
mosphere through which the aero
plane is driven. In speed the range
of revolutions is from $50 to LOO
minute for propellers, the Wright
models taking the lower speed.
Three to seven strips of wood enter
into single propeller blade, glued
into a whole under pressure. Who
will discover first, after the TECH
nically accurate builder Of a pro-
peller has done his best to make two
of like power, why it is that one
may be excellent and the other fiat
failure.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-03
INCOMES OF BRITISH FIRMS.

There are 20 merchants or manu-
facturers in the United Kingdom
each of whom draws from business
an income in excess of $250,O0O, so
it appears from the report of the
commissioners Of internal revenue.
The figures do not include persons
whose profits come from land and
from investments, and therefore
there is no way of telling the in
comes of the great bankers, brokers,
spectators, stock owners and pro
moters, and landed proprietors
There are 79 firms with an income
over $250,ooo year; and there are
2S4 individuals and 1921 firms with
incomes ranging between $4,000
and $250,OOO, and 581 persons and
1,615 firms with income of from
$25, 900 to $4,000.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-03
RovaI Poets Of Great Britain.

BY far the most famous and the
best of our royal poets was James I.
of Scotland. While prisoner In
Windsor Castle he composed his al
legory, 'The Kings Quhair." It owed
its origin to James love for Lady
James Beaufort, beautiful young lady
nearly allied to the royal family, and
of whom he became enamored by
seeing her from the window of his
room as she walked In the garden.
She afterward became his queen.
Queen Elizabeth wrote poems In
prison. The unfortunate Lady Jane
Grey and her equally unfortunate
cousin, Mary Queen of Scots both
solaced their hours of captivity. de-
stined to end on the scaffold. by
learned studies.-T. P.'s Weekly.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-03
sTEvENsoN's PROTEST.

Robert Louis Stevenson: We make
a travesty Of the simplest process Of
thought when We put it into words ;
for the words are all colored and
foresworn, apply inaccurately, and
bring with them, from former uses,
ideas of praise and blame that have
nothing to do with the question in
hand. So we must always see to it
nearly, that we judge by the realities
Of life and not by the partial terms
that represent them in mans speech ;
and at times of choice, we must leave
words upon one side, and act upon
those brute convictions, unexpressed
or perhaps inexpressible, which
cannot be flourished in an argument,
but which are truly the sum and
fruit of our experience.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-03
whv He Prefers II.

Every now and then a true story Of
the little boy in Sunday school hap
pens to go the rounds. Here Is one:
Robert is the son Of Chestnut Hill
lawyer He went to Sunday school for
the first time, and in the course Of
class instruction the teacher asked
him where he wished to go when he
died.
Il want to go to HE'LL said the boy
blinking his eyes. II know ali about
heaven-they're too stir and stuck up
for me up there, and, anyway. from
what mother says, the devil seems to
be better acquainted with little boys
and girls than the angels are, and /
do so hate to have to behave my
bestest. "-Philadelph Times.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-03
BREAKING UP HOUSE
THAT is WHAT EARL PERCYS
MOVING AMOUNTED TO.
NobIeman OF Sixteenth Century han
Only One Set of Furniture TOR
All the places of Residence
Which He Occupied.

Most of the Percy estates were SO
close together in the north, commerce
was already so far developed. ana
the earl himself was so often absent
on business of state, that his house
hold was generally able to avoid any
more serious displacement than the
periodical migrations from WressiA 70
Leckinfield and back, distance OF
some twenty miles. These dittlngss
however. turned everything upside
down for day or two. For the earl,
like smaller men, had only one set
of movables for all his residences;
and, as surviving documents TESTIFY
he needed far greater train for these
periodical journeys than for the con-
tingent of 523 men at whose head ne
served in the French campaign IN
1913. Only the heaviest articles were
permanent fixtures; all else must be
transported-beds. chairs, tables,
kitchen utensils, hangings for doors
and walls. and even glass. easements
for the windows. This book throws
vivid light on such phrases as tine
breaking up of my lords house.. or
Ibis lordship set up his house again.
Sometimes there was partlaI
breakup without an actual move.
when my lord kept his secret house.
Diminishing the majority OF his serV-
ants to live on board wages In the
village, and retiring to a corner OF
his own castle for some such ap-
proach to the simple life as his mod
ern descendant might enjoy In q High
land shooting box. The general mi
grations, when they came, followed
strict routine; each man had MS
specified share Of horse and venicie
for himself and his belongings.
A single paragraph will show not
only how carefully everything was or
ganized beforehand, but also (Wnas
may be more unfamiliar to some read.
ers) the very primitive sleeping ar
rangements which were common in
the middle ages. item, 1t is ordained
at every removal that the dean, sub
dean, priests, gentlemen and children
Of my lords chapel, with the yeoman
and groom Of the vestry, shall nave
appointed them two carriages at
every removal; viz, one for their
beds; viz, for priests 8 beds after
to a bed; for 10 gentlemen of the
chapel beds after to bed, and
for children 2 beds after to bed,
. and bed for the yeoman and groom.
Out of all the officers on these occa-
sions, high and low, six only had
bed to themselves, and not one OF
the eight migratory priests was
among these privileged few. We find
even the sixth earl addressing his
relative, Thomas Arundel, as bed
fellow; for they had been servants
together In Wolsey's stately house
hold.-Harper's Magazine.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-03
GAME WITH GOOD EXERCISE
"Do as l. Do" Calls for Working OF
Both Arms and Legs-Head
Counts for Fifth.

FIR all those children who are fond
of a little exercise no better game
than this can be chosen. When the
chairs are placed in order round the
room, the first player commences by
saying: my master bids you do as
do" at the same time working away
with the right hand as If hammerfng
at his knees. The second player then
asks: What does he bid me do?"
The second player, working in the
same manner, must turn to his left
handed neighbor and carry on the
same conversation, and SO on until
every one is working away with the
right hand.
The second time of going round the
order Is to work with two, then both
hands must work; then with three,
when both hands and one leg must
work: then with four, when both
hands and both legs must work; last
ly, with five, when both legs, both
arms and the head must be kept 60
ing. Should any of the players fail in
keeping in constant motion forfeit
may be claimed.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-03
INTERESTING FIND.

Much interest is being taken in
antiquarian circles in gold collar
Of ancient design found in fssure
between the rocks, where farmer
was quarrying at Lisanover, county
Cavan, Ireland. The collar is Of
pure gold, nearly crescent shaped,
and weighs four ounces. It is ar
tistically fashioned, with ornamental
,traceries, and hooked at the points,
evidently for the purpose of attach
ing chain, with which it was fast
ened round the neck. The lucky
farmer has been offered large sums
for his interesting find.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-03

of a small motor-driven exhauster,
housed within the machine
The antiseptic solution absorbs car.
bon monoxide, carbon dioxide, sui.
phurated hydrogen and other poison.
Gus gases, and also retains all dust
particles and bacteria that may be in
the air drawn through it. The solu.
ton is prepared by dissolving special
ly prepared powders in water, and is
said to give off oxygen in such guam.
titles as to thoroughly revitalize the
air of large room, hall, railroad
coach and cher like place in a very
short time.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-03
Didn't Deliver Them.

A young man called at the Office of
a Justice of the peace and with some
hesitation made known his business.
which was to be married. The rustic
replied that he thought he could per
form the service and asked If the
Young man had his license.
YES, sir" the youth replied.
well, where is the young lady?"
shes at her fathers"
well, bring her here"
shed rather be married at home,
squire"
And you expect me to go there and
marry you?"
Eyes, sir, If you please
young man." said the justice, this
Office of mine is like department
store. We sell matches here, but we
don't deliver them at the house.
Youths Companion
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-03
Wrltino Tricks,

Can you write your name with your
left hand? 1t is good thing to know
how, in case you ever hurt your right
hand.
Can you write looking-glass let
ter? That always ap1uses children, so
II you have friend who is i'll send
her a looking-glass letter to cheer her
up. Practice by writing on piece Of
paper held in front of a mirror, and
soon you will find it is quite easy to
do looking-glass writing. Looking
glass writing is done backwards, so
that It looks all right when it is held
to the mirror Also see If you can
write your name backwards-that is,
begin at the last stroke and go back
to the f1rst-and as a last trick try to
write your name upside down. That
Is not at all easy, but copy your sig
nature upside down and you will be
able to do it quite well after little
practice.
After you can DO all these things
learn to write good clear hand in
the proper way. like sensible person.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-03
Mercury vapor Lamps.

A curious German use of mercury
vapor lamps is to supply ultra violet
rays for making sulphuric acid. Sui
phurous acid gas mixed with air is in
troduced into lead-lined tower
sprayed with fine Jets Of water, and
the ultraviolet radiation in the tower
entirely converts the sulphurous into
sulphuric acid. The acid solution Is
made stronger by using it instead of
water to spray successive towers.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-03
RESTRAINING THE SEA.

Emil seidel, the mayor of Mil
waukee, said in recent after-dinner
speech:
"Some people hold that alcohol is
to blane for the poverty and wretch
edness We see around us. That is
like the view as one I heard put
forth by a newsboy the other day.
GAS I waited on corner for a
car, bootblack said to newsboy:
"FBill, bow is it the sea don't
run over when all the rivers runs
into it?'
"eWhy, ye chump,' Bill answered,
don't We know the sea is full Of
sponges p"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-03

point, Is run through the cork with
the forks, and one-half inch of the
needle end allowed to project through
the lower end The point of the needle
should then be placed on the pin head.
The forks will balance, and If given a
slight push they will appear to dance.
Different angles of the forks will pro-
duce various feats of balancing.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-03
Treatment Of Skin Troubles.

Liquid air and carbon dioxide have
been successfully employed In the
treatment of various skin troubles.
such as moles. pimples, superficial
cancer and tuberculosis Assesses.
The temperature Of the carbon is the
same as that of snow, and that Of the
LIQUID Is much lower, but the carbon
seems to answer all purposes just as
satisfactory as the other. The method
of treatment is as follows: Cotton
wool, wound tightly on the end Of a
rod, is dipped into the double-walled
glass flask of liquid air and then
pressed lightly on the affected part OF
the skin. The skin freezes and be-
comes infamed. and In from 10 to 20
days the morbid growth sloughs of.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-03
Spelling THE BABY.

Margaret Sutton Briscoe, writing
in Good Housekeeping, says there
are signs Of rebellion on the part of
the mothers, that they are going
back to the old-fashion of cuddling
babies, and, despite the horror of the
nurses, they even think of rocking
him to sleep. Mothers are beginning
to fear that, under the cold, system
attic nursery system the affections
are being neglected, and these they
feel to be almost as important as the
habits of the baby.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-03
Story for Children,

When you think you are consigning
a bore, or any one who irritates you
beyond endurance, to hot spot by
telling him to go to blazes," it ap-
pears that you are mistaken, and that,
instead of being rudely abusive, you
are in fact merely blandly polite The
explanation is that once, in some far.
away time, there was a good bishop
named Blaize, who was always ready
to dispense wise ard sound advice to
all applicants. H nee it grew custom
airy to say: @Gc to Blaize's."
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-03
BALANCING FEAT WITH FORKS
May Be Placed to Perform Rath-
er Odd Tricks.

Several common table forks can be
made to balance on a pin head In this
way; Procure an empty bottle and in
sert cork in the neck. Stick pin
In the center of this cork so that the
end will be about one and one-half
inch above the top. Obtain second
cork about one inch in diameter by
,ne and three-fourth inches long. The
forks are then stuck into the latter
cork at equal distances apart, each
having the same angle from the cork.
long needle, with a good. sharp
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-03
spide r Bites.

The question whether the bite Of q
kpider can have serious effects on the
human system having been again
raised. the French scientific journal,
La Nature, replies, through physi-
clan, that spider bites are not danger
ous. Nevertheless, the doctor says
that in some rare cases the bite of a
spider may produce sufficient infiam-
NATION to require local treatment. the
best plan is to wash the bitten place
with pure water, and, IL practicable,
amply a little antiseptic lotion. In the
wsst majority of cases the bite even
bf large spider causes nothing more
Than a slight local irritation.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-03
Produce Pure Radiun.

Nine. Curie and M. Debierne have
nresented joint resolution to the
FRENCH Academy of Sciences announc-
ing that they have succeeded in pro-
dnc,ng a pure radium. This metallic
rad,um which has been secured by iso.
lation Of foreign matter Is brilliant
white turning black on exposure to
tbe light. It viii not set fire to pa
Iner. decemposes water rapidly. and
adhercs to iron
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-03
Place for the Wolf.

New Workers are not really the ex-
travagant and ostentatious lot they're
made out" said Charles M. Schwab In
a recent interview. Why"
Here Mr. Schwab smiled.
"Why, even in Fifth avenue there
is many a family that will have the
wolf at the door this winter, only, for
the sake of appearances. they'll coax
him round to the back"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-03
Device to Teach Swimming.

by the outward stroke of the left arm
draws the right leg through the prop
er swimming movement, and the
movement Of the right arm applies the
same action to the left leg. The elias
tic cable underneath the frame re-
stores the limbs of the pupil to their
initial position after each movement.
Means are provided to prevent down
ward stroke of the arms and to limit
the downward stroke of the legs