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St. Tammany farmer., 1911-03-11
porch promptly at u o'clock On the

porch promptly at IL o'clock On the
day named. ready to set their trunk
out in the street 1t furnishes an in
structive commentary on the transit
toryness of human felicity to see the
ex-tenant slowly and sadly climb over
the fence and take hack for the
depot while his successor trips gayly
up the steps, puts his suitcase down
In the hall, kicks off his rubbers,
tosses his hat over on the piano and
tells the bowing attendant to order
him pork chops and hashed brown po-
tatoes for dinner As the former ten
ant drives off down the avenue he
can hear his successor trying the
piano and perhaps hears the dying
squawk Of the parrot as its neck is
wrung before it Is thrown cut the
back door.
Twenty-seven presidents have lived
In the White House. If some Of them
had not scratched their names on the
attic wall it would be difficult today
to recall who they were. One after
another they have been ushered into
the noble mansion with the joyful
acclaim Of their fellow countrymen.
only to make their lonely exit four
years later through the cellar door,
with no one to carry their grips to
the street car, and with no record OF
accomplishment to leave behind save
the faint marks of their feet on the
cabinet room table.
Yet it is not doubted that am
bilious Americans will continue to
try to reach the White House. AL
though the present lease does not ex-
pire for two years several governors
and senators have recently been OBJ
served examining the fence to see If
+he pickets have been creased since
the last time an attempt was made
to shin up them.
1t is customary to give four months
warning of the cancellation of a
White House lease, from November
to March, and until that time comes
it Is believed the prospective tenants
will not be able to obtain any def
mite assurance of favorable considera-
ton. In the meantime. however, they
probably will continue to prowl
around the place and pick out the
spot where they will have a geranium
bed if they get the chance.
St. Tammany farmer., 1911-03-11

ity of the crossing. The wind may
be blowing in an opposite direction to
that from whence the alarm proceeds
or the prospective victim may be so
deeply absorbed with his own
thoughts that the warning goes un-
needed, and his life pays the forfeit.
At unguarded crossings the driver
Of a team will hear the alarm, but,
believing he has time to cross, whip
up his horse, only to find that he has
made a fatal calculation. The blame
for accidents Of this kind is always
levelled at the railroad, and there
usually follows demand for the elm
ination of the death trap.
When train is approaching sta
ton or a junction with another road
both may be operated by the same
company, one long whistle is blown,
the duration being about four seconds.
This is supposed to give sufficient
warning to employees to look after
their safety and also to the thought
less passenger or trespasser to give
the oncoming locomotive wide
berth.
Eight short blasts from the locomo-
tive, with only half second between,
Is warning to the crew that there is
danger ahead. 1t may be that red
fuzee is seen burning up the track or
that some one has signaled to the en-
gineer to come to stop. He may
have seen the tail lights Of stalled
freight or bowlder lying across the
rails, the result of landslide.
The signal that makes every rail-
road man within hearing distance sit
up and take notice is one long blast
followed by three short ones. This is
the fire alarm, and every loyal rail-
roader who hears it will make haste
to reach the scene of trouble and lend
his aid in the work of saving life and
property. 1t is frequently the case
that the engineer of trains will dis
cover an incipient blaze along the
tracks or in freight yard and he i'm
mediately gives the whistle alarm.
There is a number of other steam
signals, but as they are Of interest
only to the men employed by the rail
roads reference to them Is omitted.
There is whistle signal. however,
that is given from the tower located
In the center of station yard, which
brings everything to dead standstill
within this area of complicated
trackage. Something has gone wrong
with the pneumatic mechanism that
works the signals and the switches,
or the wheels of a coach or loco
motive have slipped from the iron.
which necessitates the calling Of a
halt until an investigation can be
made.
This whistle is sounded about once
a month, and when it is heard there
is a general feeling of apprehension
among all the employees that some
direful has happened.
St. Tammany farmer., 1911-03-11
Sticks to Blazing ENGINE.

With the woodwork of the cab
ablaze and shower Of sparks stream
ing behind, Engineer Goodwin drove a
Boston and Maine locomotive with six
crowded passenger cars attached into
the Faulkner station, says a Maiden
(Mass.) dispatch. The passengers
had no inkling of trouble until they
heard the fire engines Firemen ex-
tinguished the blaze and the train
proceeded.
The engineer said that a broken
pipe had allowed water to fall into
the firebox, causing small explosion,
which threw hot Goals back into the
cab. Although burned about the face
and hands, the engineer stuck to his
post.
St. Tammany farmer., 1911-03-11
There You Have 1t.

The admonition, Cheer up. the
worst is yet to come" may not be
very comforting in certain cases, but
il suggests to the Buffalo Commercial
repetition of the story Of Aunt Jane
Smith. an old lady who, without any
intellectual equipment to boast of, was
exceedingly fond of moralizing over
the aspects in which life presents It.
self. She was calling on a neighbor
who was convalescing from severe
illness. WELL" said Aunt Jane, when
the usual condolences and congratula.
tions had been exchanged, "I'll tell
you what it is. When we don't feel
very good, then VIC think we are pret'
ty bad on; but. when we get worse
then we. wish we were az well as We
was had totf.s
St. Tammany farmer., 1911-03-11
Infinitely and the Inner Life.

Two things fill my spirit with ever
increasing wonder and awe, the often
er and the more steadfastly my
thoughts occupy themselves Herewith
the starry heavens above me and
the moral law within me. The first
begins from the place which I occupy
in the outer world of sense, and ex.
tends the connection in which l stand
to invisible space beyond the eye OF
man, with worlds on worlds. systems
on systems, to their periodical move
ments in endless time, their beginning
and continuance.
The second begins with my unseen
self, my personality, and places me in
a world which had true eternity, but
which is perceptible only to the un'
derstanding, and with which am con-
scious of being. not, as in the former
case, accidental, but in universal and
INDISPENSABLE connection. - From
Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason"
St. Tammany farmer., 1911-03-11
WHAT TO DO IN A WRECK
Veteran Railroad Traveller Gives Some
Advice That Is Well Worth Keep
Ing In Mind.

When the tumult began a passenger
stood up and shouted at the top OF MS
voice: What in h-'s the matter?" re-
peating the unanswered query sew
eral times. l knew what was the
matter, but had no leisure to explain,
and just dropped upon the floor ana
grasped the frame Of my seat and neio
on, taking the jolts as rigidly as pos
sible. Hat racks, hand baggage, seat
cushions, splintered head lining ana
miscellaneous articles began to ny
about, and l found the seat frame al
forded comfortable protection from
the missiles that damaged some ex-
posed limbs.
The tumult could not have lasted
half a minute, but it seemed long
time till the end came by the car
turning over with terrific jolt. AT
that instant the man who had shouted
SO vociferously: whats the matter!
was shot through the window like
a huge torpedo. Most of the people
who had been on the upper side came
down in heaps when the car turned
over. was on the lower side, and set.
tied softly upon the head lining when
the car came to rest, says writer in
Railway and Locomotive Engineering.
l had been in a similar accident
once before, and knew not only what
to do, but kept my attention upon
what the other passengers were doing.
Most of them stood up or sat with
out holding fast to the seats, so that
they were thrown about by the plung-
ing and jolting of the car. Then a
mass of human beings seemed to dSop
from the higher to the lower level
when the car went over. Many OF
them were badly bruised through be-
ing pitched about, pains that might
have been avoided had they dropped
upon the floor and clung to the seat
frames.
1t is difficult instrueting persons how
to do in case of the derailment Of a
train they are riding in, but sound ad-
vice is to drop upon the floor, prefer
ably in the aisle, or cling to the seat
frames. The impulse to stand up and
howl should be restrained.
St. Tammany farmer., 1911-03-11
Pokes Fun at Europeans

Senator Flint of California, who re-
fused that unusual thing, practically
unanimous reelection to the United
States senate, because he prefers the
climate of California to that of Wash.
ington and the practice of law to a
United States senatorship, spent last
summer in Europe. He pokes good
deal of fun at Europeans, and says
that they think that the American
idea of a joyous occasion is to be
shown through musty old cathedral.
Senator Flint does not think much of
their cathedrals which hs thinks a1a
dirty.
St. Tammany farmer., 1911-03-11
VE CZlRXUYG RI7XT -

in an armchair after d1nner with
book Is often so exhilarated by the
surroundings of a winter. place in
Switzerland that he IT, ready to take
hand in whatever is going.
At all the places mentioned in this
article there Is excellent skiing to be
found, but Adelboden, Zweisimmen
and Lenzerheide especially lend them
selves to this sport. Engelberg just
ly prides itself on its runs for tobos-
gans am bobsleighs. Skating is much
practiced at Caux, Chateau Dock, Les
Avants and St. Beatenberg, and at the
last named resort there is generally
strong contingent Of curriers', while at
Les Avants there is a good bob-run.
There are two places which must have
a short paragraph to themselves
St. Tammany farmer., 1911-03-11

ness of the spikes on the top. The
iron pickets are decorated every four
years with fragments of the clothing
Of some hardy American who has
tried to scale them. A broken gallus,
a piece of blue jeans or torn frag-
ment of hickory shirt iuttering from
the top of this fence is all the evi-
dence the experienced Washingtonian
needs to tell him that another presi-
dental election has passed into his
tory.
The White House is conveniently
located near the treasury. In the
early days this was very handy ar
rangement for the president, who
could step across the street Saturday
St. Tammany farmer., 1911-03-11
Mo ConnIaints, Please.

Claude Grahame White, the Eng
lish aviator, at the New York Horse
Show, was praising American hotels.
They are stupendoua." he said.
There's nothing like them abroad
And as rule their service is as in
comparable as thier size and their
magnificence.
Sometimes, though-not often, but
sometimes-the American hotel guest
is treated more like boy in board
ing-school than a paying visitor in
hotel. Thus friend Of mine went to
the desk in his hotel the other day to
lodge complaint.
ga complaint. eh?' said the clerk.
We'll, ! guess you'll have to see the
boss about that. That's him there
my friend turned to the boss who
stood at his elbow smoking cigar.
"'Are you the proprietor of this ho-
tel?' he began.
"The proprietor took his cigar from
his mouth, looked my friend up and
down, and drawled:
"@Well, thought l was till you
came.'"
St. Tammany farmer., 1911-03-11
Stopped Train to Recover Poodle.


Mrs Richard Buckles of Taylorville,
ILL.,, caused passenger train on the
Bluff line to be stopped between Al
ton and st. Louis while she got off to
search for a pet French poodle dog
which she had intrusted to the bag
gage man and which escaped through
the open car door.
Mrs. Buckles was going to McClus-
ky, ILL.,, TO visit and had put the dog
in the baggage car While the bag
gage man had the door open the dog
leaped out and the baggage man went
back to notify Mrs. Buckles of the
loss
Mrs. Buckles insisted that the con-
ductor stop the train while she got
off. She found the poodle, only
slightly injured. She then drove to
Alton, where she waited for another
train.-St Louis Globe e-Democrat.
St. Tammany farmer., 1911-03-11

morning and draw his pay before the
other hired hands could beat him to
it from the capitol mile away. The
first conner got cash, while the late
ones had to take orders on the gro
cery store. A hundred years ago one
Of the sights of Washington was to
witness the race down Pennsylvania
avenue between the vice-president
and speaker when the whistle blew
at noon on Saturday.
All that is changed now. 1t has
been many years since the president
has had to stand on the front steps in
the cold and argue with the man
sent to turn off the water, and one
almost never sees the first lady of
the land scurrying out the back door
and cross lots just before dinner
time to borrow cup of sugar from
the nearest farmhouse. Visitors at
the White House nov. -ook in vain
for the nails in the walls of the East
room where the wives Of early pres
idents hung their clotheslines. The
only things that are b. lg up in the
East room now are the applications
for postmasterships, which frequently
remain suspended until the applicant
die: at an advanced age.
The advantages of living in the
White House are many. The rooms
are large and sunny, the furnace does
not act up and it has been years
since any trouble was experienced
with the kitchen sink Persons who
have lived in the White House rarely
care to live anywhere else. They
want to die there. 10 hav> to move
out to make way for strange fam
St. Tammany farmer., 1911-03-11
Remarkable RECOGNITION

Louis Brownlow of Washington was
travelling in Europe, and arrived at
Berlin. There he went to a recep-
ton where the American colony was
plentifully represented.
Going up to handsome woman in
the crowd, Brownlow said: "I want to
meet you, because your family and
mine were very intimate. You're a
daughter of General Sherman. l could
tell 1t by the resemblance of your
head to the head of the Sherman
statue in Washington"
He was right. She was Mrs. A, M.
Thackera, wife of the American CON.
sui general at Berlin, and a daughter
of Sherman. She explained that her
head had been used as the model for
the head of the statue.
St. Tammany farmer., 1911-03-11

exactlng tastes
consider the most
desirable resi-
dence in the coun-
try, is surrounded
by an iron fence,
which is not so
easy to climb
over as it looks
to be. Many Of
the ablest climb
ers have been
painfully deceived
as to it's height
and the sharp
St. Tammany farmer., 1911-03-11
Immune fn RaciIli

The director of water examination
to the London metropolitan water
board states, in his sixth report, that
during his tests he drank half a pint
of Thames water, containing 218,00O,-
900 typhoid bacilli, without any evil
effect
St. Tammany farmer., 1911-03-11
Mixed Peroration.

The preacher had been eloquent in
his remarks concerning the young girl
over whose remains the funeral sery-
ices were being held. Tears were in
the eyes of all present. Even the
speakers voice trembled with the
force of his emotion. He concluded
his sermon with this outburst: Can
any one doubt that this fair, fragile
flower has been transplanted to the
dollhouse of the Lord?"
St. Tammany farmer., 1911-03-11
Determined on Suicide

George Eccles, who was under sen.
tence Of three years penal seryitude
and five years detention at Winston
Green jail. Birmingham, England,
hanged himself In his cell with a rome
which he made from yarn secreted
during the manufacture of mail haga
St. Tammany farmer., 1911-03-11
Proper and Common Nouns

What is. the difference" said the
teacher. between a proper noun and
common noun?" The answer was
not devoid of logic, but rather unex.
pected.' "A proper noun is a noun
used properly. and a common noun Ia
noun used commonly."-Judge
St. Tammany farmer., 1911-03-11

Arosa and Holsters. Arosa claims the
best bobsleigh run in Switzerland, and
some of the chief races for "bobs"
tEke ''placsatAere. Holsters was the
first place where tobogganing was
practiced as sport and toda.. its run
is hardly less famous than the Cres.
ia. If rather less difficult, it is GER
tainly longer.
St. Tammany farmer., 1911-03-11

of single-purchase gearing from a
vertical shaft, passing up through the
center of the crane table. Power for
this shaft is provided by a two-cylin-
der hosting engine, carried astride
the boiler Immediately in front of the
crane. The two-cylinder vertical sh-
ing engine is placed between the cab
front and the crane table.
The feature of the outfit Is the sue.
St. Tammany farmer., 1911-03-11

pedestrians and
teams Of its COM
ing by two long
and two short ex-
plosions from its
steam dome. This
warning is not al
ways heard by
those in the vicin-
ity of the crossing.
Tho uind nav
St. Tammany farmer., 1911-03-11
DESIGNED FOR sHUNT WORK
Locomotive With an Eight-Ton Shunt-
ing Crane Is Being Built by
British Firm.

A locomotive designed for shunting
work and provided with an eight-ton
lifting and sluing crane crane is be-
ing built by British firm. The crane
St. Tammany farmer., 1911-03-11
Comfortinq Him,

Il say, a man of the same name as
mine has just been run in for fraud
by credit. Beastly awkward, you
know" Don't alarm yourself, my
dear fellow. Every One knows you
can't get money on credit at ALL"
St. Tammany farmer., 1911-03-11
Causes MANY Deaths.

Trespassing on the Pennsylvania
railroad systems property has caused
the deaths Of 1896 persons, approx
mately two a day, since January l,
1900. In the same time 1888 persons
have been injured.
St. Tammany farmer., 1911-03-11
Elsht-Ton Crane or shuntlns Locomotive

cessful provision Of sufficient stability
to raise a weight of eight tons at a
radius Of only Is it., while preserving
the essential characteristics, such az
the closing coupled wheels, of shunt
ing engine-Popular Mechanics.
St. Tammany farmer., 1911-03-11

Gross Earnings of Railroads.
The gross earnings of the railroads
of this country for 1908 Of $2,448,835,-
900 were nearly double those of 1898.
St. Tammany farmer., 1911-03-11

is carried on a table erected over the
boiler, Immediately in front of the
frebox, and is arranged to swing
clear Of all mountings. A winding
barrel, supported between the sides
OF the crane jib. Is driven by means
St. Tammany farmer., 1911-03-11
SIGNALS WELL KNOWN
WHISTLES PLAIN As A, B, c TO
THE TRAiNMEN.
One Especially That Will Bring Them
From Their Beds Miles Away
Most Important and Dread
ed of Them All.

When train is approaching a
grade crossing the locomotive warns
St. Tammany farmer., 1911-03-11
SEEING THE CAPITAL.
SOME SIGHTS IN WASHINGTON
HUMoRoUSLY PORTRAYED.
The White House Considered by
Statesmen Of Exaetinq Tastes as
Most Desirable Residence
In the Country.

The White House, in Washington,
which large number of statesmen Of
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-09
SUPREME COURT
OF United States Will Con-
vene at Washington To-day.
Long List Of Important Cases
Will Demand lis Attention.
Court VIII Remain In Session Until
The Last Of May.

washington, Oct. S.-The supreme
court of the United States will convene
tomorrow at noon after a four months
recess. 1t will remain III session ,nt,l
the last Of next May and win consider
as many of the 500 cases now piled UP
on the docket as time will permit. An
estimate has 1t that the court win dis
pose of about 400 cases during the
term, but that about 200 additional
cases will be docketed before next
June.
All the members of the court have
arrived in the city, with the exception
of Associate Justice Day. The illness
of Mrs. Day has detained him ut their
home in Canton Ohio.
Unlike most sessions In the past.
members of the court returned from
their vacations to meet duties other
than the routine work OF their Offices.
Chief Justice White and Associate Jus
tees I.urton and Van De Vanter are TO
complete their work. If possible, at an
early date, OF revising the equity rules
of federal courts throughout the Unit
ed States. At their suggestion the
circuit judges appointed committees to
recommend amendments to the rules,
which generally are regarded as hav-
ing outliTed their usefulness. These
recommendations will be considered by
the committee of the court, headed by
the chief justice and final draft of
new rules prepared for PRONUNCIATION
by the tribunal. During the summer
Justice Lurton spent some time 10
England learning directly the impress
sions of the English jurists who re-
Gently prepared new equity rules for
the courts of their country.
On account of the abolishment on
Jan. /, 1913, of all circuit courts of the
United States leaving only the district
courts, the court of appeals and the
supreme court, it will be necessary -
revise the rules governing procedure
in the supreme court. 1t is believed
that the court VIII ,aetz0a,y rev.se tl.e
rules so as to meet the adjustment OF
the circuit courts, but it will modern
ize them in many ways.
Justice Hughes will have in addition
to his court work the completion of his
report on charges for mail service, He
is chairman OF the commission which
has been investigating the subject.
particularly with reference to the rates
toRrsecond class matter. The report OF
the commission Is expected to be sent
to Congress when it convenes in De-
,cember.
A long list of important cases will
DEMAND the attention of the court dur
ing the first month of its session. Three
cases involved alleged violation of the
Sherman antitrust laws These are
the suits against the principal anthra-
cite coal carrying railroads and coal
owning companies: against the rail-
roads operating the bridges over the
Mississippi at ST Louis and against
James A. Patten and other prominent
business men, who are charged with
obtaining corner on the cotton mar
ket. The so-called Elevator cases Will
test the power of the Interstate Com
merce Commission
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-09
BRYAN CHALLENGES.
A Little Tardy and Comes Back With
Commonplace Affair.

Lincoln. Neb, Oct. Tin an editorial
appearing IN the Commoner this week.
Mr.. Bryan challenged President Taft TO
make public the written and verbal rec
concentrations on which he appointed
Justice White to the position of chief JUS
tice over Justice Harlan, and the recon-
incubation written and verbal on which
he appointed the justices whom he has
placed on the supreme bench.
The editorial says in part: cat Cherry
vale Kan. the President repeated the
challenge he issued at Detroit to Mr.. Bry
an TO produce an example of restraint of
trade that would not come within the
scope of the supreme court decisions ia
the Standard OIL and Tobacco Trust
cases. He spoke of the criticism as
glib 1t would be a reflection on the
Presidents intelligence to assume that
he expects his remarks on the trust ques-
ton to be taken seriously.
"He knows that Mr.. Bryan has only
reiterated the criticisms contained In the
dissenting opinion of Justice Harlan and
in the report of the Senate judiciary COM
mttee filed by Senator Nelson three years
ago.
Justice Harlan and Senator Nelson
pointed out that the amendment written
into the law by the supreme court prac-
ticaly nullifies the criminal clause OF the
antitrust law. Relying on the authori-
ties cited by Justice Harlan and Senator
Nelson, Mr. Bryan has asserted. and as
serts again, that it will be found practi-
eally impossible to convict a trust mag
nate in a criminal court
docs the President believe criminal
conviction possible? If so why does he
hesitate to prosecute the officials of the
STANDARD oil and Tobacco Companies?
Mr. Bryan challenges him to make
public the written and verbal reeommen-
dations upon which he appointed Justice
White to the position of chief justice
over Justice Harlan and the recommends
lions. written and verbal. on which he
appointed the justices whom he has placed
on the supreme bench. Did he know how
they stood on the trust question or was IL
purely accidental that all of his. ap-
pointees took the trust side of the aues-
tion?"