St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1921-05-28

uel, and / just naturally go around
shedding light into the dark places,
and making everybody glad. At such
times the world seems an unqualified
success, and the fact that was born
into it does not cause me any remorse.
If some prominent citizen backed me
up against fence and asked me what
made me feel so gay, I couldn't give
him any helpful information. I don't
know, myself, what causes the chip
per feeling. I suppose it must be be-
cause my works are in good condition,
doing their digestive stunts at the old
stand.
"After a few days the glad feeling
| passes away, and instead Of being
Sunny Samuel I h6ome Mournful
Moses. I have all kinds of PRESENT.
ments of evil. / have firm convic-
| ton that the bottom is about to drop
out of everything, and that I'll be
mixed up with the wreckage. I take
a pessimistic view of everything, and
go grouching around until even the
cows are sick Of seeing me, and they
give me lift with their hind feet as
gentle hint that should come out
of my trance. @.~..@ u.s.
eff leading business man asked
me to explain my melancholy couldn't
do It. The world seems to be moving
along as though nothing had happened,
the same old sun is shining on the day
shift. and the scented zephyrs are
blowing through my whiskers as Of
old. -
soften man begins the da \ wrong,
through some accident or unpleasant
experience. Then he knows why he
has crouch, but that doesn't help
him to get rid of it. This morning
| I was lying in bed dreaming that l
was the only original white hope, and
that I was, making heroic effort to
bring the laurels back to the Cauca-
sian race. I was just administering
an uppercut that seemed destined to
bring home the bacon, when fell out
of bed and practically ruined my head
against the floor.
IT came downstairs in beastly hu-
NOR. and after breakfast I went over
and picked a quarrel with old Doc
little, so that he had to shin up tree
to escape violence and all because l
was feeling ornery. It wouldn't have
Iheen safe for any man to tell me that
in order to begin the day right all
man has to do is to begin 1t right.
"I have gone out from the house to
/ tn
time, feeling as blithesome and glad
| as dickeybird, and quite satisfied
that the day was going to be one
round of pleasure. Then a COW would
give me a poke in the ribs with one
of her celluloid horns, or push her big
Isplay foot into a trimming bucket OF
milk. and the Joyous stuff was all off.
and I'd be so sore all day that Aunt
Julia would hand me my meals with
pitchfork.
'The other morning ! got up feeling
| so mean that I was ashamed to LOOK
in the mirror l went downtown after
breakfast, in the mood to rob blind
organ grinder Of his few plugged
nickels. Then I went to the post of.
: fee and got a registered letter. A
man who had owed me 81 for five
years had an ingrowing conscience al
Hast, and sent the money to me. When
; IL left the post office everybody com
mented on my winning smile and sale
} was the little sunbeam Of the town.
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i 1920, by deed duly recorded.
G Terms of Sale-Cash, with beneF
= Of appraisement
n WALTER GALATAS,
Il m14-6t Sheriff
On motion duly second the foiloN
y ing ordinance was unanlmOusl
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