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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-02-18
GRAMMAR IN RHYME.

Three little words you often see
Are Articles, a, an and the.
II.
A Nouns the name Of anything,
AS school or garden, hoop or swing.
Adjectives, the kind Of Noun,
As great, small. pretty, white or brown.
~.
Instead Of Nouns the Pronouns stand
Her head, his face, your arm, my hano.
v.
Verbs tell Of something to be done
To read, count, laugh, sing, dance or run.
VI
How things are done, the Adveros TELL
AS slowly quickly, Ill, or well.
Conjunctions join the words together
AS men and women, wind and weather.
VIII.
The Proposition stands before
A noun as in, or through. the door.
TX.
The Interjection shows surprise,
AS Oh! how pretty-Ah! how wise.
The whole are called Nine Parts o.
Speech,
Which reading. writing. speaking. teach
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-02-18
Rad ROUGH VOYAGE.
Sailors Had in Mind Tale of "The
Ancient Mariner"
saneful Spell That Fell Upon SAILING
Ship Rhine Was Attributed to
Killing of AIbatross That
Had Taken Refuge.

New York.-Coleridge's tale OF "The
Ancient Mariner" may now be re-
peated as the record in many re-
spects of the strange voyage OF the
Rhine, a British sailing ship, which
has reached this port from Trinidad.
laden with asphalt. For forty days
and forty nights the vessel struggled
against adverse winds, or, like the
craft in Coleridge's poem, hung in
CLASSY sea, "as idle as painted ship
upon painted ocean"
Followed for time, as men of the
crew believe, by as mysterious an In
1uence as that which held the ship
of 1.-THE Ancient Mariner" in thrall,
the Rhine fought its way through to
the end of a trip that ordinarily
would have occupied fourteen instead
of forty days.
To the killing of an albatross was
attributed the baneful spell that fell
upon the ship of 'The Ancient Ma
riner." The question for supersti-
tious minds is whether the spell that
bound the Rhine for a time was
brought about by West Indian sailor
who killed sea bird which had ia
ken refuge on board the ships deck.
Before the Rhine, which is full
rugged ship of 1880 tons, was day
out OF Port. au Spain, Trinidad, 1t
found itself in calm. Day after day
with only an occasional puff of wind
to bring hope of more favorable
weather, the Rhine crawled along be
meath burning sun.
The ship was a week and half or
Its way when a strange thing hap
pened, Captain Bergman and his firs'
mate, Harry Wolth, were on the quar-
ter deck, and the sailors were idline
about the deck forward when a huge
dog, gaunt with hunger, appeared OF
deck. Captain Bergman and his mate
are not superstitious, SO they had tht
animal cared for by the steward ant
then let him roam the deck at will.
It was not until the Rhine was vel
up the Atlantic coast that it ran int
heavy weather. On Sunday night, Nc
vember 10, hurricane rose. The frs
mate was caught in a heavy sea an
was thrown to the deck, where he la
stunned. No one saw him fall-n
one but Bob, the stowaay dog. He ra
bowling to the skipper, and by hi
actions led him to send the third of
J. Ger to see what was the mattel
Wolth was found and carried to hi
D cabin, where it was found that b
Q had dis1ocated his left knee and II
|. jured the leg generally. Wolth II
sisted on remaining on duty.
. The Rhine was forty miles east b
4 northeast of Cape Henry when 1t e
. countered the storm. It took the shi
It two weeks to fight its way to tn
., port, a distance of only a few hui
e bred miles.
d Captain Bergman in 1905 receive
y $1,000 and gold watch from insu
n ance companies for bringing the Ha
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-02-18

present high prices of many OF the
necessities of life to the scarcity OF
farm labor. In fact. every condition,
except weather, that does not meet
the approval of the tiller OF the SOIL
is being laid at the door OF the ex-
listing famine in "hired hands"
In half the corn fields near here
last fall there were women helping
the men to gather the crop. Iney
were women, for the most part, not
accustomed to such labor, but they
saw the necessity of getting the har-
vest completed before the snow fell.
And If they did not help. no one
would.
Last summer many women living
on farms near here left their duties
in the household to drive team and
helm the husband put the crop In.
Many of these women were college
graduates.
A few years ago farm laborers re-
| ceived from SIS to SIS month with
| the occasional loan Of horse on
which to ride to town. Today hands"
are hard to find at $50 a month with
| every Saturday off and a ride to town
! in the family motor car.
This condition is not peculiar to
Missouri alone. It sounds ridiculous,
but it is no laughing matter to the
farmer with crop to harvest.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-02-18

This Ming had been leader In the
Wipyon or the righteous army OF the
instruction in 1906, and before he
had been caught and condemned to
death he had killed many Of his couny
try's enemies. : The death sentence
had been committed to Punishment.
and 1t was only after the general am
nesty had been proclaimed upon the
complete overthrow of Korean indie
pendence that Ming had dared go back
to his country.
Ming is quoted as having pleaded
with the Japanese encouragement OF
Chosen, the Japanese name Of the
new province, to be allowed to join
the excursion in order that he might
see with his own eyes the civilization
and progress of the empire of which
Chosen has now become part"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-02-18
Mary Hartman to Dispose OF her
Large Herd Of Famous Ho'stesn
Cattle for New Venture.

Newberg, N. Y.-Sheep Will sup
nlant cattle on the Hartman estate
in Arden, according to a report circu-
lated here, when it became known
that Mrs. Charles Cary Rumsey, who'
since the death Of her father, Mr.
Edward H. Hartman, has managed
his estate, was going to sell the large
herd of Holstein cattle and discon-
tinue the dairy branch OF the Cove
valley Land Company. The milk pro-
duced by the dairy has been shipped
RI New York market every day.
Recently Mrs. Rumsey has gone TO
Kansas, and it is said she purchased
a large number Of sheep. The land
Of the Hartman estate is adapted to
sheep raising and it is believed that
Mrs. Rumsey intends raising sheep on
a large scale. Mrs. Rumsey believes
that she can make the estate pay q
larger dividend next year than It ever
paid before II her sheep RAISING
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-02-18
HONOR FOR AMERICAN FLAG
Pretty Custom Adopted at Certain
Private School for Boys Ap-
pIauded by Passersby.

When the American flag is flying In
the Fairgrounds Of a certain private
school for boys In New York city,
one notices that all the lads who ap-
proach it take off their hats. This
pretty custom, that sends thrill OF
silent applause through passersby,
grew out of the following incident:
During a general frolic one day
young and needless student threw
stone through the waving stars and
stripes. His companions started an
outburst of approving laughter, which
was suddenly hushed by the grave as
pect of the approaching principal
Pointing toward the ugly rent, IN an
awe-stricken voice he asked: who
has dishonored his country"
The culprit hung his head. Il am
willing to pay for the damage" he BE-
gan hurriedly, when he was interrupt
ed with: What price could repay an
insult to the American fag?
Its Just an old piece of bunting
the boy insisted.
The stern gravity u tne oiu pAineA
pals face increased. AN old piece OF
bunting when it is of red, of white
and of blue, star-spangled," said ne
reverently, becomes the spirit OF
American institutions. To insult thai
old bunting is to insult your country
Where there is no love of countr,
there is not a good citizen" AS the
principa, spoke he moved nearer thu
Flagstaff. Hats off," he ordered Sim
ultaneously every head was uncover
ed. "And now on your honor as goot
American citizens, let no one OF Till
company ever again approach tina
banner except in love and reverence
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-02-18

draw a series of pictures on one side.
The figures may be dancing girls OF
men, each with the feet and legs in
different positions Then join the
cardboard strip into circular band,
after cutting narrow Sits in 1t be-
tween the pictures. Take three cords
of equal length and fasten one END OF
each at equidistant points along the
top of the band, and, II you like. KNOT
the cords at the top, for convenience
though this is not necessary. To use
the toy turn the band around and
around until the cords are tightly
twisted as far as they will go. Then
hold it In front of the eyes and let
20 of the band. 1t will revolve rap
idly as the cords unwind, and AZ the
Sits dash past the various pictures
seen through them in rapid success
sion, will have tho appearance OF life
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-02-18

said the veteran ex-ch1ef. That is,
the swift pace, the desire to make as
good a show as ones neighbors, or
perhaps, a better one, causes the ma
jority of the home assertions. And
the greater number are not, as most
people believe, among the very poor
but rather the so-called middle class
of society"
among the many who look up from
the ranks of the third estate there are
few who suspect that the people OF
the middle class ever lack comforts
or even want for the necessaries OF
life. Yet it is a fact, that in the Dig
American cities there are hundreds
upon hundreds Of husbands who are
commonly supposed to be well to do
but who often scarcely know how OF
where the means of the family exis'
tent for the next month Will come
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-02-18

from. It is at such times that the
men forsake home, abandon wife ana
children, and fee away-to suicide OF
exile.
There is a generally accepted be-
lief that husbands desert wives Sole
ly because of domestic discord or be-
cause the love of the husband has
waned. It can be said in contradiction
of this that while assertions do often
result from such cause, the NUMBER
is insignificant compared with the de-
sertions impelled by inability OF the
husbands to support their families ID
the style they believe to be absolutely
imperative by reason Of their socla'
status.
Comparatively few men" Mr.. Des'
mond declared, deliberately desert
their wives with the intention OF
never being reunited; few plan to re-
main away forever. Most husbands
who fee from city homes recover tnelr
| mental equilibrium and wake to a
consciousness of their position when
thew bring up amid new surroundings
Then hope revives. Then courage re-
turns. They look around with vie"
tn eating a new start. They plan to
rebuild their fortunes. All this "itn
the ultimate object of returning to the
old home and loved ones or bringing
their families to them in new nome
But with many the castle IN SPAN
MANS go awry; things refuse to "ori
ont right. These hapless deserters-
domestic derelicts-move from ON
mace To another. Their habits 0
home life are broken. They becom'
living, tndisputable proof OF the on
adage that the way to DESTRUCTION
nayed with good intentions. me
continue to drift. Perhaps they D.
come sick and die-anyway, they SCI
dom come back they take the coun
and are out and in the great roll Q
humanity they are recorded as near
less wife deserters."
Mr., Desmond admitted, though tina
among the thousands OF married lhe
who fee from city homes there ar
quite a number who are prompted o
other motives than social and financls
failure. The "call of the wild, the
resistible "wanderlust" sometime
leads husbands to forget those WI
should be dearest to them and the
.. ruthlessly break the hottest ties
, yield to the nomadic spirit. Famil
ouarrels, illicit love affairs and IT
uuently chronic dire poverty caus
men to leave the family hearthston
, hut It is the killing social pace
, this century, Mr.. Desmond 1nslste
: which is chiefly the dominant fact'
In home desertion.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-02-18
FARM LABoRER VERY SCARCE
Missouri Farmers Buy Talking Ma
chine and Reflectors In Attempt
to Lure Him to Work.

Mexico, Mos the motion picture
machine in small towns responsible
for Turing boys and young men away
from the farm? VIII the photograph
and the post card reflector in the
farmhouse keep him there? Many
farmers in central Missouri would
saw ives" to both of those questions,
and many Of them are buying talking
machines and refiectors in order to
combat ''the lure of the motion pic
lures" and keep the boys-and the
hired men-on the farm.
Many of these men attribute the
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-02-18
IIncle Sam. Treasure Box.

Did you ever hear Of the treasures
Of the United States? Stored away
in one of the vaults of the United
States treasury are precious stones,
rare perfumes, jeweled swords ana
other articles Of historic ana intrinsic
value that have been collecting fof
wears. Among the most priced treas.
ures of the collection are bottle OF
GEMS and a vial filed with almost
priceless altar OF roses. Tradition
has it that the Jewels are also OF very
great value. They were presented to
president Martin Van Buren, by the
imanm Of Muscat In 1889. Many Of
the swords have gold hilts set Win
gems, and commemorate great m'is
tary events.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-02-18
a Remarkable Girl.

A bill will be presented to the
coming Minnesota legislature asking
for an appropriation of $1,000 year
for the further education of Mabel
Cannon, sixteen years of age, who has
been unable to speak, hear or see
since her birth.
Miss Cannon has been in the Fart
bault school only three years, yet she
writes on the typewriter with skill.
has a vocabulary of 5000 words and
recently wrote an essay OF 5,Ooo
words. She makes her own clothes
threading her own needles and II
skilled in fancy work.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-02-18
.,.;,e.t Association Formed.

Greeley, Col.-Several hundred az
r,cu,turists from all sections OF the
state meeting here have formed the
colorado Agricultural Antipest associ-
alton the purpose of which is to fur
thor efforts to exterminate crop de-
stroying insects. Particular attention
was maid to the grasshopper, which in
the last three years has caused loss to
s.rr,ar. estimated in the millions.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-02-18
He Had No Others.

After Fred had put on his shoes IN
the morning he complained OF them
hurting his feet. His mother looked
at his shoes and said:
'Why, Fred, you have them on the
wrong feet"
Fred began to cry.
..Well, mother, they're the only feet
rive got" he said
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-02-18

ward into the Delaware breakWater
under fury masts after all his spars
had been carried away except the
foretopmost.
Mrs. Bergman, the shippers wife,
also has won recognition for heroism
at sea. She has an official letter OF
thanks from congress for aiding IN
the saving of life. She lives aboard
the Rhine. The Rhine is steel ship,
257 feet long and thirty-eight feet
beam.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-02-18
Fish Tie Up Plant.

Chicago.-Thousands of fresh wa.
ter herring pouring into the hydraulic
power intake of the rail mill of the
Gary steel plant caused a tieup for
some time the other day. Just what
loss the company sustained Is not
known. Foreign workmen took the
fish home for supper. Several months
ago a rat was electrocuted in the
power house and the current was
shut of for several hours, thereby
rendering 5000 men idle.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-02-18
LATEST MOVING PICTURE TOY
Circular Band Revolves Swiftly AZ
Twisted String Unwinds-How
1t Is Made.

AN ingenious moving-picture toy
that can be made by any boy with ar"
tistic skill at home, has been designed
by an Illinois man and Is shown in
the illustration. Of course, being pat
ented. it cannot be made for sale.
Take a strip of cardboard about four
inches wide and three feet long and
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-02-18
Bonuses for Offspring.

Paris.-The Municipal Couneh Vi
Tu1le. in the department OF the cor
reze, has decided to grant a bonus U.s.. ~
all employees who have two or more
ch,,dren. Municipal employees Win
two children will be granted Donus
eoual to 10 per cent Of their salary
those having three children 10 per
cent; those with four children ~ pei
cont and so on.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-02-18
WOMAN ON A JUNKET

The party was headed by the junior
Prince o Ii, the eldest son OF the last
shadow emperor of Korea, and the
Countess vi Chyong, one OF the ladies'
of the old court, set the fashion for
her more shrinking sisters by an
nouncing herself as one of the party.
The expedition set out from Seoul on
October "a, so as to be present in To
kyo when the celebration Of the birth
day of the emperor Of japan should oc-
cur, early In November.
For nearly all of the women IN the
party railroad journey and the cross
ing of the seas in steamship was
new and somewhat terrifying adven-
ture. The high caste women OF Korea
have hitherto been subjected to Sc
clusion even more rigorous than the
women of China. They never ven
tured in the streets in the daytime un-
less behind the closed curtains OF q
palanquin, and to make their appear
ance in any public place was consider
ed thing so unseemly as to merit os'
! tracism, even divorce.
But according to the statements
made by several Of the women in the
imperial junket and set forth glowing
ly in the Japanese press, the worit
beyond the women's quarter OF a nous'
in Seoul was very marvellous. why
the Korean ladies even heard 1t SAT-
| in Tokyo that away off beyond the rln
| of the eastern ocean men with wing
flew above the earth. That, OF course
j was d Japanese joke.
The Tokyo papers did not neglect 7
say that among the party was MIN
Chhong-sik, reformed bandit" A Da1
dit in Korea, according to Japanese VI
darstanding, is man who resents tn
invasion of his country by taking III
old muzzle-loading tiger gun, return
to the mountains and sniping japan
csc whenever the opportunity oner'
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-02-18
Daeuerreotype Valuable.

Pittsburg.-By producing in court q
daguerreotype taken nearly forty years
ago Michael Logan proved that he WAS
the husband of Annie Graham Logan
and entitled to her estate.
The old-fashioned picture showed
woman dressed In the height of fash
ion for that period.
The woman during the latter years
of her life had not lived with her hus-
band and was found dead In a howell.
She had $500 in bank and this was
awarded to her husband.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-02-18
An Intelligent Dog.

owner straps on her back q blanket
with pockets on the side. Without
word. she starts off and covers the
round trip Of four miles in a very
short time. On the side of her blanket
ia printed, Don't Bother Me-" She
has been making these trips for i've
wears
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-02-18
"orD Nutmeg.

Notwithstandin' the fact that there
60 a time fur everything. they's a lot
NV people in the world who never
have time fur anything.-Judge-
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-02-18
DOG ACTS AS MAIL CARRIER
California Animal Makes Trip TO Pos1
office Every Day-"Dont Bother
Me" on Blanket.

A California farmer who lives two
miles from the postoff1ce, sends dog
for the mail every day. She Is hall
collie and half st. Bernard. Her
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-02-18
Merely a Front,

"Bifr looks prosperous today"
"Oh, don't Judge him by his vest.
happen to know it's borrowed
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-02-18

? YORK-Wlam A. from Montana anu
Clark are residence at Fifth avenue n
completed alter
of extraordinary palace cost Mr. CLARK more
coliest resi-
furnishing have required the expenaue
himself
freak ever erected IN tue
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-02-18

KR HY do husbands flee from
NV the family hearthstone?
What motives impel the
wholesale desertion OF
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-01-30
ASPHALT PLANT
MAKES BIG SAVING
Total Profit To City in Seven Years
of Municipal Operation Is
$174,S66.

A net saving to the city OF Sl1i,'
SCG1S through the operation OF its
own asphalt plant for seven years, Is
shown in report just prepared py
Clarence A. Proctor. city asphalt o.
pert, under whose superintendent
the plant was installed and has been
operated. The figures cover all run
mag expenses and allow for 10 per
cent depreciation on the plant each
year, and the profit Is based on The
expense per square yard for asphalt
actually laid, as compared with the
average prices for the five years pre-
ce ling the establishment OF the plant.
The original cost OF the plant. in
Guiding buildings. equipment and lab
oratory. was So,
rhe average cost per square yard
for various kinds of work, with the
city plant. has been Resurfacing.
Sill; raving and repaving. $l.oi:
patching, S.0313. Under the contract
system, the prices were: Resurfacing.
sl.23; repaving and paving, $3.50;
patching, Sll2.
Last years work amounted to 262.-
96i square yards, at net saving,
based on the above figures OF SAL,
5l56S
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-01-30
WAYNE LEGISLATORS ARE
GUESTS OF SUFFRAGISTS
Entertained at Dinner BY Local
Branch Of College Equal Suf-
fraqe League.

For the purpose OF propagating the
cause OF equal suffrage and establish
ing a more thorough understanding
of the subject. as ii is being agitated
by Detroit women, the Detroit branch
of the College Equal Suffrage league
gave a luncheon, Saturday noon. in
the Elliott-Taylor-Wool Co.'S
cafe, at which the members OF the
Wayne delegation In the Michigan
Legislature were special guests OF
honor.
Upwards OF 100 men and women,
prominent in professional and busi-
ness life, attended the luncheon. AMI
seemed to be deeply interested and
to thoroughly enjoy the speeches
made by the ladies' and the represent.
atives The tables were decorated IN
spring flowers OF yellow tint, from
the midst OF which gay little yellow
pennants with the words, Votes for
Women" fioated proudly.
The members Of the Wayne delega-
ton are said to be especially favor
able to equal suffrage, but frankly
acknowledged that they would be glad
to have more light upon the subject