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St. Tammany farmer., 1914-07-25

HERMAN SCHULTZ,
Pres dent.
e. 3. KENTZEL,
Secretary.
The following report was read:
Report Of Finance Committee.
Covington, La, July 20, 1914.
To the President and Members OF
the Police Jury:
Gentlemen: We, the undersigned,
your finance committee, beg to re-
port that We have examined the
treasurer's books and checked couch
ers and find same correct, and ap-
proved bill to the amount OF $6S2.S7
Respectfully,
GEO. F. BIERHORST,
]. B. HOWE,
mo. A. TODD,
1t was moved and seconded that
the above report be accepted.
Carried.
The following ordinance was adopt
ed:
Tax Ordinance.
Section 1. Be It enacted by the
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St. Tammany farmer., 1914-07-25

THIS act Of incorporation may be
modi6ed, changed or altered or said
St. Tammany farmer., 1914-07-25

other States of the Union, or else
where.
ARTICI n w
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-11-23

When feel like finding fault always begin with
myself and then never get any farther.-David
Grayson.
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The More Difficult Patriotism

Hundreds of Americans, pleasure touring abroad
when the war befell, mourn automobiles that were
seized by the foreign governments for military pur
poses.'' Few have yet been paid. Many may never
be.
All kinds of conveyances indeed, private property
OF every Sort at the tocsn stroke fell into the clutch
of public necessity the individual interest yielding to
the general. Governments which had bitterly fought
the doctrines of socialism suddenly led in their ruth
less application.
Not word of criticism has followed. The fact is
universally recognized that necessity compelled the
policy-our nation, at equal need, would not have
done otherwise.
But why should it take the presence of to
awaken mankind to the superiority of public inter
ests over private?
Is it only under the pressure of great peril that
humanity can be lifted to the heights?
Some of those very American tourists who bowed
cheerfuly to the seizure of their motor for pur
poses of war here at home oppose most strenuously
every suggestion that railroads ships should
be run by the government for the common good.
We need patriotism of peace even more than a
high level of devotion during war.
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PERTURBED

What is Owens worrying
about; his debts?"
"No, because he is unable to
contract new ones. st. Louis
Republic.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-11-23

In a newspaper office, where the workers are sup
posed to be up to date the boss asked the staff tell
him the name of the newest and most powerful Amer
lean battleship in commission.
There were four guesses, and none correct.
How many times in your life have you seen whole
regiment of regular soldiers?
For most of us the recruiting office begins and
ends what know, from personal observation of
Uncle Sam S army.
When Rep Gardner was telling congress in what
bad fix we'd be if attacked by great power fell
low member interrupted to ask if it wise to adj
vertise our unreadness openly. The worthy inter-
rupter evidently didn't know that every foreign war
office knows far about military affairs than
% out of every 100 Americans know
Our professional soldiers and sailors think it a
blooming shame that we common NUTS are SO unin-
terested in militarism.
Maybe it is.
But, at all events, we can still go long wa before
yell he in danger of getting mitarism the brain.
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The Wrong Kind Of a Juryman

The foreman of the jury that acquitted the negro
lad, Davis, yesterday, on the charge Of the murder
of grocer, is said to have told the newspaper men
that he never believed Davis other than guilty but
that he yielded to his fellow jurors and voted for
acquittal verdict "because he didn't want to hang
the jury In doing, this juror directly violated
the oath under which he accepted a member
of the jury. 1t is indeed discouraging commentary
on our system of jurisprudence that individual
should tamper with the scales of justice because as
he said, che was forced to give in.''
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small sums due in wages without cost to the
laborer.
"A carefully devised remedy to overcome this
most distressing situation has been embodied in
the bill that will be presented to the Fourteenth
legislative assembly next January for it's earnest
consideration
"It provides for the establishment Of small
debtors courts under the jurisdiction of the duly
elected county and municipal justices of the
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after they finally receive their earnings, they
are compelled to spend goodly portion Of them
as attorneys fees.
"This is condition that deserves the atten-
ton of the next legislature, for it can be safely
said that one of the most necessary and bene-
fetal pieces of legislation that could be enacted
in behalf of the wage earners of the state would
be law providing for the speedy collection Of
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-11-23

THE following needs no editorial comment It
speaks for itself. It is taken from a re-
cent report of State Labor Commissioner Ed
ward W. Olson
Thousands Of instances occur in this state
every year where laboring men, after having
honestly earned small sums of money are COM
PEELED to employ attorneys to sue their employ
ers for their wages, as result of which, even
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-11-23
GIVE THE NORTHUMBERLAND LAW TO GET HIS WAGES

peace throughout the state, where cases Of this
nature may be heard and adiudicated
'It is also recommended that the present law
pertaining to the issuance of time checks be SO
amended that the laborer will not be greatly in
convenienced in obtaining the payment of his
wages for it is often the case now that workmen
are compelled to walk long distances to have
their time checks redeemed in negotiable paper
or in cash.
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IN THE NEAR FUTURE

The woman presidential candi-
date had just concluded the key
note speech of her campaign.
Hoarse cheers from the multi
tude shook the rafters of the big
auditorium, and as to the poor old
welkin, 1t could ring no more. An
enthusiastic man, standing on a
chair in the rear, threw away his
hat and coat and slapped a glum-
looking neighbor on the back.
Some speech" he yelled.
"What?"
Fair" said the glum man,
"but not the kind mother used to
make. philadelphia Pub. Led
ger. .a
Hayden.Watson Co., artistic
floral work. 038 q st. Main 500.
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Even the Briton's commercial instinct ,

lie dormant IN war times, If the stories of
the army supplies contracts may be believed
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EXACT

On one occasion a census clerk,
In scanning one of the forms to
see IL 1t had been properly filed
up, noticed the figures 100 and
liz under the headings, age of
father, II living" and age OF
neither, IL living"
But your parents were never
so old. were they?" asked the
astonished clerk.
NO." was the reply. lint they
would hava heen IL livin'."
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POOLING THE ENEMY

Cen. Pau tells of a French nom
commissioned officer who was be-
ing examined on the subject of
tactics.
Give me an instance of stra-
tegy,' was the question.
The soldier though hard, then
replied:
when in battle you run out of
ammunition, and don't want the
enemy to know it, it is good stra-
tegy to keep on firing"
The citizen., 1914-01-09
Empty Cider Keas.

The year 1913 will go into history
as the season when the cider keg
which is to be found in the cellar of
every well regulated Vermont farm
house remained empty. The reason
for this almost unprecedented condi-
tion of things is the total failure of
the apple crop because of late spring
frosts followed by dry season. The
failure of the mills which usually make
cider to start their presses have
caused a retrun to primitive methods
in order to get small quantity of the
popular drink in some places, persons
having the hand presses of a genera
tion or two ago going about among
neighbors who happened to have a
few trees in a sufficiently sheltered po-
sition so that they were not affected
by the frost of growing at such high
altitude that the buds were not suffi-
ciently developed to be blighted by the
frosts of May.-Rutland News.
The citizen., 1914-01-09
Dawn of the New Day.

There is nothing more wonderful
than the noiseless way a new day is
slipped into place with each rising
sun, new day with it's attendants of
special duties and fresh outlooks, diff
ferent from all yesterdays, carrying
with it unexpected opportunities, full
fillments or losses. It's hours, wheth-
er flying or dragging, are unmarked
by ticking of clocks; there is nothing
in it's silence to give hint of what
the next hour holds, or to remind one
of the passage of time, or the brevity
of life. A day is slow, leisurely pro-
cession of events that, one by one,
salute our consciousness as they pass.
No one sees the figures as they greet
another. Each one is surrounded by
a silent world of his own, full of mys-
terry and wonder, created out Of the
invisible substance of yesterdays
From "a Kingdom of Two" by Helen
r. Albee.
The citizen., 1914-01-09
LIKE MOTHER USED TO MAKE
Young Wife Scored Heavily When
Hubby Came Forward With the
Stereotyped Comment.

There was worried look on the gro
GERS face as he rushed hatless down
the street and ran up the steps of
Acacia Villa.
Tim sorry to say there's been a
slight mistake, Mrs. Grumble," he
painted. "You ordered two pounds of
oatmeal yesterday, and by mistake my
apprentice put up some sawdust that
our grapes came packed I'M"
"Oh!" replied the lady. "Then
reckon my 'usban' must ave got
through about arf a pound O. the wood
for breakfus'."
"Y-you don't mean to say that he
ate it?" gasped the man in the apron.
Course e did, was the reply.
The lady leaned back on the door
post and for three minutes indulged in
q laugh that brought all her neighbors
to the scene.
'Wal, mats right-down funny" she
observed with a laugh.
Funny" queried the grocer.
"Yus, funny! Ere we've been mar
ried 13 year come lst of April, and
Charles as never paid me a compli.
ment till this mornin' at breakfus'
when blest if e didn't pass is plate
for another go O. that sawdust, an told
me it reminded i'm O. the porridge is
mother used to make" ."-Tit-Bits.
The citizen., 1914-01-09
Differing on Grammar.

In Indianapolis tablet is to be
placed on a branch library building in
honor Of it's donor. The proposed in
scription contains this sentences: "All
praise to the man who serves his fell
lowmen." Then it was suggested that
the "who" ought to be that, and so a
controversy arose as to which word
was truly grammatical in that connec-
ton. They referred it to two author
tiles, and they disagreed, one saying
who and the other that. Then they
referred it to the Literary Digest for
an expert opinion, and the decision
came in favor of that, on the ground
that the sentence referred to the
donor personally, whereas if the word
who referred to mankind in general
it would be right to use who. There
is still doubt in our mind as to the
reason for the decision, since that is
not as strong as the decision ITSELF
Columbus Journal.
The citizen., 1914-01-09
Emiaratlon From Scotland.

The tide of emigration continues un-
abated Thousands every week con-
tinue to leave London, Liverpool and
Glasgow for Canada and Australia.
There is every indication that the year
1918 will beat every record in the re-
cent history of emigration. and that
before the end of the year 100000 will
have left these shores. And what is
even more ominous than the quantity
of the emigration is its quality. 1t is
the young men, the enterprising and
the energetic that are leaving. 1t is
the old men, the women and children
that are left behind. Some of the most
beautiful districts of Scotland are be-
ing depleted. Whole cities, like the
old country town of Jedburgh, are left
desolate, and houses are crumbling
even in the main streets.-London Ev-
eryman.
The citizen., 1914-01-09
important Court Decision.


A decision that will be of assistance
to executors in settling estates COM
prising a large amount OF securities,
was handed down the court OF ap-
peals of New York in the case of Luke
v. Lockwood VS.. U. S. Steel corpora
ton. The court held that foreign
corporation having an office in this
state for the transfer and registry of
its corporate stock may be compelled
to make such transfer at its New
York Office on demand of the local
executor of a testator who was resi-
dent in a foreign country at the time
of his death, and the stock was In
the possession of the executor
The court ruled that the doctrine
that the situs Of personal property
owned by a decedent is deemed to
be either at his domicile or at the
domicile of the corporation does not
stand in the way of such transfer,
since the maintenance Of transfer Of
flee here makes this state its domicile
to that extent.
The citizen., 1914-01-09
SMOKE COST IS IN MILLIONS
Figures Show WastefuIness Which Is
Characteristic of the Amer
lean Nation.

Experts figure that Pittsburgh's
yearly SCOT emissions would make a
pile 100 feet in diameter and 600 feet
high, or larger than the Washington
monument. The money waste and
damage are estimated at $12,000,000
yearly
Sample tests made some time ago
in Chicago of the cost of the smoke
nuisance in that city showed that the
smudge bill exceeded the tax bill,
which was about $40,0O0,0O0 year,
and the cost of smoke in other cities
is fully as great in proportion to the
size of the city
This includes only the injury to
property. Doctors will tell you that
is the least damage. They will point
out how the smoke gets into the
throat and lungs and injuries the
health, causing chronic ailments
which diminish the happiness and
shorten the life of those who are not
responsible for the smoke evil.
The old saying is, Much smoke,
much business we need the
business. But the progressive engi-
neer of today will tell you that most
smoke can be avoided. 1t indicates
incomplete combustion, which means
waste of coal, extra expense in labor
and equipment, damage to property,
sickness and loss of life.-Power.
The citizen., 1914-01-09
W0NDROUS CHARM IN WOODS
Traveller Writes of Peculiar charac.
ter of Romance Noted in Ire
lands "Forests."

Returning to these woods, am
struck once more by, the peculiar
character of their romance, says a
writer in Scribner's Magazine 1t is
so different from that of a German
forest, where the imagination is lured
and lost in the depth of thickets and
baffied by the endless lines of serried
trunks, brooded over by the canopy
of dark, high blush fir boughs, inter-
woven solid
The poetry of these Irish woods
and not merely from resemblance
they certainly bear to the Pinetas Of
ltaly-is southern, or perhaps Celtic
passed through southern imagination,
alluring, fascinating, but not quite to
be taken seriously.
Enchantment without end and end
less adventures; in and out, in their
filtered green light among the big
twisted many bushes under the oaks,
and the high grasses and meadow
sweet, and into their open spaces,
marshy and flowered with pale lilac
seabius, where the sunset sky is wide,
and there is the gibbet for wicked
hawks, and where not merely wild
duck rustic up, but great heraldic
heron; where at dusk it becomes rath-
er frightening among the immense
pale oak trunks.
A wayward in-and-out romance, as
in the pages of a book, that one in
dulges in because one chooses mot un-
der the terrifying necessity of the
German and Alpine forests), in these
Irish woods and alongside this brown,
clear river, which under the great
oak boughs has tortoise.shell fiickers
and transparencies. On it and into the
very deepest forest heart, l imagine
boats steered by enchantresses, like
those that carried Sir Guyon or Ri
naldo, passing up or down like the
broken off narratives of the poets.
The citizen., 1914-01-09
SEES MARKS OF DEGENERAcY
In the Opinion of Sir Gilbert Parker,
the Modern Race of Man Is Los
ing Its Senses.
,g question Of Sir giy

The astonisb ,g question Of Sir ca
bert Parker, aHpr senses growiB
less keen-in fAe14 45egeneratipg ha !
aroused great interest. Sir Ssa. !, =
thinks our life may have been made
so mechanically easy that some of
our senses are losing their vitanty
and usefulness.
Motoring might be instanced by
some as evidence that the acuteness
of seeing and hearing is on the in
crease" said Sir Gilbert recently.
The chauffeur's marvellous quick
ness of eye, by which he observes
danger, and by a hairbreadth, es-
capes it by skilled precision, might
be pointed to, but / regard that as
kind of specialization, eAna..sionaliy
narrow and confined to a limited area.
TOO often the chauffeur Is like
horse in blinders-he can only see one
way down q narrow lane Many acci-
dents are due to limited and made
quate observation. l know a chauf-
feur who can see very well ahead OF
him, but if he wants to see to the
right or left he has to turn his head
to right or left Every one knows that
the trained and educated eye can see
to the right and left without turning
the head"
The citizen., 1914-01-09
RAT DESERVES NO MERCY
Has Been Estimated That Its Presence
Costs This Country Sum of $167,r
100000 Year.

According to bulletin issued by the
Ohio state board of health, there are
more rats in the United States than
there are people. The Incorporated
Society for the Destruction of Vermin
estimates that there is at least one
rat for every man, woman and child
in the British Isles. Similar estimates
have been made for Germany, France
and Denmark.
The annual cost of each rat to the
country has been computed at $1.S0 in
Great Britain, $1.20 in Denmark and 81
in France. AS specimens of the dep
relations of rats, DR.. Lantz, in Pub
lie Health Bulletin No. 80, cites the
following:
An Iowa farmer, writing to an agri-
cultural journal, reported that rats had
destroyed in one winter about 500
bushels of corn Of total of 1000
bushels stored in cribs. Another farm
er reported that rats had robbed him
Of an entire summers Matching of 300
or 400 chicks, and still another one at
tributed his loss in grain and poultry
for one season due to rats as sufficient
to pay his taxes for three years."
The upkeep of a rat in this country
is about half cent a day. Estimating
one rat to each person, $167, 900, 900 are
lost annually by the depredations of
this pest.
Rats begin to bear young when three
months old. They will litter about
six times year and bear from to IL
at litter. This remarkable fecundity,
together with the fact that they are
nocturnal in their habits and live in
hidden holes, accounts for the large
rat population and emphasizes the diff.
ficulty of destruction on a wholesale
scale.
The citizen., 1914-01-09
SORE THROAT NEEDS CARE
At the First Feeling of Discomfort,
Well-known Effective Remedies
Should Be Employed.

An excellent illustration of the old
adage, familiarity breeds contempt, is
found in the tendency of most people
to pay little or no attention to that
very common complaint, sore throat.
AS matter of fact, neglect of a sore
throat is aot only extremely unwise,
but may have fatal results. Director
Neff, of the department of health and
charities, points out in his weekly bull
letin the dangerous consequences that
may and very often do follow such
neglect.
Among the deadly diseases of which
sore throat is one of the early symp-
toms are diphtheria, scarlet fever, and
septic sore throats." The mortality
from diphtheria has been greatly re-
duced since the discovery of antitoxin,
but if the application is delayed the
likelihood OF cure is materially re-
duced. Doctor Neff points out that
there has not been single death at
the Philadelphia hospital for eontag-
ious diseases where diphtheria anti
toxin was administered on the first day
of the disease, whereas the ratio of
mortality steadily increased as admin
istration was delayed, until it rose to
nine per cent. where the remedy was
not applied until the fifth day.
A mere glance at the mortality stat
istics of diphtheria, scarlet fever and
septic sore throat shows the import.
ance of swift precaution. The sound
advice of Doctor Neff is that every
person with a sore throat should have
it examined at once by a physician.
Such a simple precaution may stop in
time any one of these dread diseases
and may save your life or your child's
life. 1t is also extremely important to
bear in mind that most sore throats
are contagious, wherefore contact
with those thus afflicted should be
avoided.
The citizen., 1914-01-09
SAVING LIVES OF INFANTS
Humanitarian Movement One - -.
Most Successful Of Pr.ssr. w
Day Endeavor.

Among all tie humanitarian u,ova.
ments of the tfRe, there Is perbans
none which has Aeen more free sror,
the spectacular and the sensat,ons,
than that for the reduction Of infant
mortality. 1t has been steadily prose.
cuted, quietly and fStiently thoue,l
with vigor and enthusiasm, both..S
governmental authoritieS and h
vate agencies. When th Nee has
anything wild or noisy IN cor
with the matter, it has cor
all-round world-reformers
tongues the mere fact that tad
such thing as infant mortahf]
sufficient to set wagging, and whcz
think nothing of saying that there
has been an appalling increase ID an
evil that exists, when they haven't
taken the slightest trouble to find out
whether it has increased or dimin-
ished
The workers go about the matter
very differently. They fight infant
er nor because it is less thsh It wasp
so years ago, but because they know
that by the taking of proper measures
the lives of thousands of infants can
be saved. But they unquestionably
do find great stimulus, as we'll as
great satisfaction, in such figures as
those presented by DR.. L. Emmett
Holt of New York, president of the
American Association for the Study
and Prevention of Infant Mortality,
at the annual meeting of the asso-
citation in Washington the other day.
"In 1890, in New York city," he said,
"the death-rate was 2S.S per cent. Of
infants; in 1908 it was 1873 per cent;
in 1912 only a little more than 10
per cent"
This means that in New York city
alone, for every infant that now dies
three would have died under the con-
ditions of quarter of century ago
that 10000 or 10000 little ones are
saved to their parents every year in
this city through the improvements
that have taken place-New York
Evening Post
The citizen., 1914-01-09
Dual Personality.

There was a certain small boy,
native of the country about the city Of
Strassburg, where Count zeppelin't
airships are always flying for anybody
to see. He went to Berlin to visit his
uncle, who undertook to amuse MIN
by showing him pictures in an Illus
trated paper. ;,
"And who is that?" said the small
bov placing sticky finger upon the
portrait of an elderly gentleman
"That." replied the uncle, "is Zeppe-
lin"
TITS funny about Zeppelin" was the
child's answer; sometimes he looks
like big yellow sausage, and then the
first thing you know he has cap ana
a white mustache. New York Eve
ming Post.