St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1919-08-16

sour.
II the cost of living keeps going
up it will only be a little while until
meat will be more valuable than
money. Instead of carrying money
around to buy things with we'll be
carrying meat. II we want to draw
a thousand dollars out of the bank
we will go down and draw out por-
terhouse steak. If we want a hun
dred dollars we will draw out pork
chop. / went down to the butcher
shop the other day and said to the
butcher, How much is beef worth a
pound?" He said, ''ten cents, but
we sell it for fifty" ] said, THAT
is dear meat" He said, mo it's
beef" bought fifty cents worth of
sausage. When started to eat
them I found that one end was saw
dust. l took them back to the
butcher and told him about it. He
said, "Well, at the present high cost
of living you can't expect US to make
both ends meet" l said to the
butcher, "how is venison?" He said
"$1 a pound" 1 said, II used to
buy ve,iison for 80 cents a pound"
He said, mo sir, venison has always
been deer meat" l said, Butcher,
have You got any brains?" He said,
eff had brains wouldn't be work
ing here"
Meat is going up SO high there is
very little going down at our house.
Hi diddle, dee diddle,
The cats in the fiddle,
The cow jumped over the moon;
The beef trust surely laughed
when it saw such graft,
And pork will be there soon.
l said to the groceryman, what are
eggs worth a dozen? He said, 81
down, and a dollar and a half a
month Until you get them paid for.
We used to get four rooms and a
bath for sixteen dollars. Now we get
three rooms and q bath for twenty.
II the p1ice of rooms keeps going up
it wont be very long before We wont
be able to get bath for fifty dollars.
A man working for four dollars
a day pays one dollar day for house
rent, two dollars day for groceries,
two dollars a day for clothes, and
twelve cents day for car fare. At
the end of a days hard work he is in
debt to himself for one dollar and
twelve cents.
In the good old times when our
wanted to get meal they
used to take gun and go out and
get it. Now, II poor man wants
to get Il good meal, he's got to take a
gun to get it.
This certainly is funny world.
The snow comes down In the winter,
the ice goes up in the summer.
Anyone answering this one will re-
ceive round trip ticket to the Gem
etery and back: A girl ten years old
man forty years old-tlfat
makes him four times as old as she
Is. After they have lived together
five years that makes him forty-five
and her fifteen, so that makes him
three times as old as she. When
they nave lived together twenty
years that makes him sixty and she
thirty, then he Is twice as old as
she. Now, what I am trying to find
out is, how long will they have to
live together in order to be the same
age?
We understand that certain party |
who lived in Madisonville for a long
time, has gone to New Orleans to
open up a fruit stand. Judging |
from the name, the party ought to
make a success.
The Lamp Shade sisters were out
to see the ball game last Sunday. !
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the local showers reducing the ex-
treme temperature which has been
so annoying for the past few days.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. r. Cowart have
returned from visit to relatives at
Lima, Miss.
Mr.. Carl Crawford has accepted
. position with the N. o. G. N.