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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1894-01-13
THE AUTUMN GIRL.
She Possesses . Pleasing and Distinct In
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She Possesses Pleasing and Distinct In
$685. idividaalIty.
Much has been written of the sum-
mer girl, and many line has been in
dited to the grace OF her winter sister,
but few there are who have taken up
their pen to sing the praises of the
autumn girl. and yet she is a creature
well worthy of all the commendation
that may be bestowed upon her.
To begin with, the summer outing
has caused her cheeks to assume rosy
flush and her eyes to sparkle with
vigorous health. She has not yet en-
tered upon the round Of social duties
that will leave her worn out and IA
tigued by spring, and in this between
season she is really at her best. Every
day one sees her on the street in dis
tinctively new gown that does not
have to be covered by a wrap,
and which fits her 1.-the form
to perfection. She is full Of
life and the exhilaration of
youth. The hot weather that made her
too lsnguid to care even for the glories
in the shops has passed away, and she
0uVCTS WIJA CWCO 1CSt luVO CVCTy~
thing that has been denied her during
the summer months. In.the park and
on the country roads she bowls along
in a stylish turnout, herself the trim
NEST feature Of it all.
Though we miss the summer girl,
with her huttering ribbons and filmy
laces, there is ample compensation to
be found in tho graceful figures Of the
women who have abandoned muslins
and who have mot yet put on furs.
In real life the autumn woman is the
one who has passed her teens and is
not yet well into the thirtieS She il
bright and worldwise, but still enough
Of the bygone sprinK clings to her to
make her enthusiastic and delightful
without any silly girlishness. In fact,
the autumn girl, wherever you meet
her, i one that appeals peculiarly to all
types Of humanity. and is in her own
way quite as attractive - her sisters Of
other seasons Chicago Tribune.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1894-01-13
HUNG OROuS.

-Toper-..What shall take. doctor,
to remove the -redness of my nose?"
Doctor-'.sTalke. nothing-for three
months -"-Hallo.
"A Social Dilemms.-.'I hear that
Tom De Lisle is engaged TO one of the
Harding twina" ''Yes, he. is" ITO
which oue?'' He doesn't know."-De-
troit Free Press
-Father-"Always = keep the COM
pany of those who are better than
yourself" Son-''But suppose that
kind Of company has the same end in
view. where am going to come out?''
N. Y. Press ;ssas Ts
.-''Moriarty. it's home you should be
going; ye're drunk s.Bedad. but
Dim mot. soir." '.Ye're dhrunk, Oh
say" 'Oi'm liar, then, Phelim
Reilly '.No; ye're jist dhrunk." '.Ye
wouldn't say that If Oh was sober" '.If
20 was sober we wouldn't deny it."
: -'.Isyour appetite capricious?' asked
the physician, who had been called in
to see Farmer MedderRrass- ''Thats
what it is, doctor. ''Some days eat
liver and bacon all right, an then again
it seems Is if nothin' would do but
corned beef an cabbage, or sour-krout
and sassigesL L"-Harper's Bazar
-'.Sell you nice alligator bag for
three idollars," said the gentlenanly
clerk to Uncle Isom, who WAS trying to
buy a valise. 'What on earth do
want with an alligator hsg?'' asked the
old man. II amt Qoin' to Floridy; I'm
goin' to Chicago Jour-
nal. -
-"I say, smother, didn't hear you
say last night you thought vegetables
had feelings?7 'Why. yes, my son. it
is very pleasant to believe So" ..All
right then, ron don't catch me rum
ming that old lawn-mower again. I'm
not going to hurt the feelings Of the
grass. Boston Transcript.
He Was : Born Grumbler.-Mrs.
YounRwife (entering her mothers
house with tears)-.'Mamma, mamma,
Tve-Tve-come home to stay. Il
can't-bear--to live AMY more with
Edward. He's too unreasonable.r Mrs.
Oldwife-''why, what has he done,
Bessie?" Mrs Youngwife-"He's 20
Inconsistent. Yesterday he was mad
because the rolls were not cooked
enoegh, and to-day he stosmsa because
they were burnt
-"Edrcation," said Uncle Joah, ..is
er mighty good thing. bat sometimes
it does more harm than good" There
10 NO doubt about that" 81 oncet
knowed Of \ case where education
come purity nigh drowndin' . rale nice
Young lady, he went on. 'sHow was
that?'' .'Why. she fell into the water
m bein' too high-toned too holler
help she yelled out 'assistance.' An
the blame fool hired hand the1 heard
her lost about Eve minutes maxim M
his mind whether ter pull her out or 70
home for dictionary."-waahinxtoa
Star.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1894-01-13
SHE SMOKED.
Two Minds with but . Single Thought
Were the tBelated Travellers.

Two Minds with but . Single Though
Were the Related Travellers.
Two of us left the train at 4 country
| junction to wait for the train on ths
other road. 1t was pouring rain. and
| the waiting room was only box abou,
ten feet square. The other passenger
was a woman about forty years of age,
fairly well dressed. and as disguised
with the situation as / was. We must
kill off two hours and half some way
and neither of us had a book or paper
1t rained pitchforks. and there was nc
stirring ont.
am an inveterate smoker. / had
not smoked for two hours previous to
| our arrival, but had not been cooped
up there ten minutes when felt that
l must smoke if l had to stand ont in
the rain to do it. Although not intro.
duced to each other, the woman and
exchanged opinions on the weather
and other things This helped
some. but at the end of half an
hour was halt dead for a smoke. !
had six real Havana cigars in my
pocket. and the thought of them made
4
began pacing the floor and wishing
that woman in Jericho, and she pres.
emily observed:
''Stranger. ar yc in an awful hurry
to git homer"
mo. didn't expect to get home be-
fore seven"
Got a heap o. bizncss on your
mind"
81 can't say that have.
''Mebbe you've bin toolsen sick?n
mo, I'm in perfect health
"You was actin so mighty narvous I
didn't know but sumthin' was wrong.
Look a-here, stranger, ar you one of
these over-pertickler men?'
"How do you mean?"
''Why, one o these men who turn up
their noses at the smell of terbacker?''
Great SCOTS. woman." shouted as
I turned on her, do you smoke a
pipe?'
..I-sOmetimes!' she stammered.
''And I'm jest dead fur few wkiffs
this very mint. and If you don't keer
Tll-."
.'And can't live ten minutes longer
il don't smoke" yelled as / grabbed
for cigar and match.
She produced a paper of tobacco
and clay pipe. borrowed my light.
and we sat there and puffcd and talked
and puffed and So thoroughly enjoyed
ourselves that she said as the traiD
came along:
I'm glad it happened to be you.
Lands a'massy, but il I'd bin cooped
mp with an over-pertickler man fnr
two hours and . half I'd Q bin SO nigh
a heap and kicked the bucket fur
rood!'-Detroit Free Press
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1894-01-13
GOOD IDEAS TRAVEL EAST.
4 Common Trick that Trndesmen Have S1
.Turnlng Them Into Money.

4 ~
Turning Them Into Money.
New ideas are difficult to sell, but
very easy to give away; in fact a 70
porter of the sun has discovered that
if they are good ideas other folks adopt
them without being asked, and in a
very annoying way sometimes. For in.
| stance. the reporter had invented a
scarf-pin and had his design executed
by a manufacturing jeweller. The
jeweller, when delivering the pin. re.
marked: THAT is very pretty. 1t Is a
design that will probably sell well.
We are thinking of making few thou.
sand for the trade"-thus destroying
the chief value of the ornament.
Not long afterward this same per-
son had the misfortune to break two
washbowls in one week by humping
them against the end Of the wash
stand in his summer home in the conn
try. He decided that it would be
cheaper and better 10 initiate the city
than of using a fixed bowl with a plug
in the bottom. In his mind he planned
mere frame Of hard, polished wool.
to be supported on plated metal bracls-
cts and to have big bowl sunk in tine
shelf with a plug in the bowl and a
slop jar underneath. When this idea
was explained to a member of a whole
sale firm in the plumbing trade he re-
marked: Il should not wonder II it
would be a good thing to make
lot of those stands Peo-
pie can't have running water in
the country, but that is the very next
thing to having it. l believe you have
hit ON very salable thing" He
seemed to pride himself ON being q
connoisseur of other folks ideas, for
he said that recently a man had come
along with an order for bathtub on
wheels, but he did not think that
would recommend itself to the trade
or the public. This man had no bath
room in his country house. and could
not spare room to make one of.
Therefore he hit on the plan of putting
q bathtub on wheels. and moving il
into the bedroom of whoever called
FOR bath. An ordinary iron porce-
lain-lined tub was what he wanted.
fitted with wheels with rubber tires.
BY putting hot and cold water faucet
in every room and an open-mouthed
waste-pipe in one of the bedrooms
all his bedrooms being on one floor
he expected to be as well of as if he
had bathroom.
When statues are made the custom is
for the sculptor toreproduce his design
in miniature in plaster of paris. and
copies of this are given to favored
friends. Always, in such cases, the re-
cipients are informed that only very
limited number of these statuettes has
been made. and that therein lies a great
part of their value. The favor is then
requested that if any ones statuette
breaks he will be very careful to intrust
It to none hut highly reputable re-
pairer, else the person to whom it is
taken will copy it and sell it to be
about the streets. The moral
of the situation is that since we can
not afford to patent every clever
thought and device we must deal only
with those Who will respect our help
Y. Sun.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1894-01-13
whs. 70 xss, se,,l.

when trouble is brewing, keep still.
When Islander is getting on its legs,
keep still. When your feelings an. hurt,
keep still. till you recover from your
excitement, ut any rate. Things look
differently through IN unagitsted eve.
In commotion once wrote . letter
and sent it. and wished had not. In
my latter years had another commo-
tion. and wrote = long letter; but life
had rubbed little sense into ma. and
I kept that letter in my pocket against
day when could look it over with
out agitation and without tears. 1
was glad l did Silence is the most
massive thing conceiva BILE sometimes" /"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1894-01-13

+, is said that San Marino, the dimin-
utive Italian republic, and the Oldest
government of its. kind in existence.
has the most severe criminal laws of
any civilized country known. Thieves
have the right hand chopped of, and
murderers are hurled over a precipice
into the deep gorge of Feri. As the re-
suit of this severity no murder was
chronicled fcr a long time. until some
years ago, when woman was convict
ed of having wantonly killed her young
daughter. Notwithstanding her prayers
for mercy, the sentence of the law was
strictly adhered to.-Pittsburgh Dis
match
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1894-01-13

Corn Mullins: One pint corn meal,
one pint aour, one tablespoonful sugar,
one teaspoon salt, three teaspoons of
baking powder. one tablespoon lard,
two eggs, one pint milk; sift together
corn meal. flonr, sugar. salt and pow
der; rub in cold lard. eggs beaten and
milk; mix into batter Of the consist
ence OF cup cake: muffin pans to b
cold and well-greased; then Ill two.
thirds. Pour in. hot muffin rin&s.
Bake in hot oven fifteen minutes.-De,
troit Free Press.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1894-01-13

Mrs. Livermore, describing her last
meeting with Lucy Stone. about fort
night before her death. says she spoke
of the work she had done, ind then
sadly added: And now have dropped
out" But Immediately she revealed
her perfect fearlessness of death. II
have always believed it is better further
on" she said; and when Mrs. Liver
more took her hand before she went
away she said: 1--WE shall shake hands
again some time, somewhere. We shall
know each other and be comrades
still"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1894-01-13
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Prof. Henry Drummond, the Glas.
cow teacher, says the universities in
the United States are something the
country has reason to be proud Of, and
their chairs of philosophy are, as .
rule, worthy the admiration of Europe.
edward Picard. celebrated Bel
gian advocate. announces publicly his
intention, in conformity with his DEM
ocratic views. to abandon luxury and
live henceforth rs simply as does Count
TOlstOi. Brussels society has been
stirred up by the announcement.
AN interesting fact in connection
with the life Of Maria Mitchell. of be-
loved memory, is that she was never
able to overcome her fear and dread
of lightning. The heavens were to her
MS an open book. yet this of their mar
vels was always awful and mysterious
to her.
PROF. David p. Todd, of Amherst
college. .has'alreadyb begun making prep
arations for an expedition to Japan
with other scientists in 1896 to view
the total eclipse of the sun scheduled
for August of that year. The party
will be large one and the instru-
ms1ts numerous and Of the most i'm.
proved kinds.
Mrs. Arthur Davis, of Washington,
has received permission to take up the
graduate course at the Johns Hopkins
university with the view of taking the
degree of Phi. d. She will be the sec
ond woman to enjoy this privilege, the
doctors degree having been conferred
last June upon Miss Flora Bascom, the
daughter, of cx-President Bascom of
the university of Wisconsin
The late Lucy Stone was the eighth
of nine ch ildren, and the night before
her birth her mother MIXED eight
cows. When she learned. the child's
sex she sald: ''Oh, dear, I am sorry
it's girl-s woman's life is SO hardr'
Lucy. even when vet child, became
indignant atthe injustice done to wom-
en- by the world and resolved with in.
fantile spirit to remedy the matter
when she grew mp
Prof Koch, the Berlin bacteriolo-
gist, who recently secured a divorce
from his wife and married m actress,
has told his friends that il they want
his society in future they must receive
also his wife. Berlin has made no out
spoken objection, but in the little
Hartz mountain village of Clausthal,
where Prof. Koch w>s born, the women
have torn down the tablet which had
for years marked his birthplace.
MIR. H. II. Rogers has presented to
the Millicent library, in Fairhaven,
Mass, a collection of autograph letters
written by seventeen Of the presidents
of the United States. They are all sin
gle-page documents. and are framed
separately in oak. each with q steel
engraved portrait of the writer Mr..
Rogers promises to add autograph let
ters from all the presidents IS fast rs he
can obtain good single-psge specimens.
An amusing story of Schumann il
told by veteran Vienna critic The
composer once accompanied his wife.
who was even then celebrated pianist.
to the palace. when she went to play
before the king of Holland, and was
gratified by the mOnarch's compii-
ments of her performance. The COM
poser was somewhat surprised. how
ever. when the king turned to him and
courteously inquired: 'Are you also
musical?" 4E ffsZsst
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1894-01-13

"A Berlin correspondent says that il
is generally believed in Germany that
the emperor's real object in making ad-
vances to Prince Bismarck is 10 induce
the ex-chancellor to give up number
of letters which he wrote to him during
the illness Of Emperor Frederick. The
present emperor then treated Prince
Bismarck with unbounded confidence,
and it is supposed that he was indis-
Greet in some of his communications tc
the chancellor.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1894-01-13
woald Try the 4. h.

Young Widow-I wish you'd tell me
where ! can get a good investment for
sixty thousand dollars that came in last
week.
Lawyer-Stocks, bonds. mortgages,
or eligible bachelor?
Young Widow-I don't want to in
vest this money again, and you know
what stocks, bonds and mortgages
mcan.-Judge.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1894-01-13

.'How old would you take me to be,
Mr.. Griffin?" she lisped, looking unut-
tcrabie things.
Don't know, I'm sure" responded
Griffin. tugging nervously at his mus
tache.
'I'm awfully old, assure you," she
went on. 'fve seen twenty-three SUM
mers." .s
"Then you ought to wear glasses. {"
responded Griffin earnestly.
What. Glasses at Gwenty-three.
Oh, MIR. Griffin
Yes; your eyesight must be bad"
I'm sure / don't know WHY YOU
should think so." she pouted.
WELL" said Griffin slowly and look
ing for safe exit meanwhile. I'm
afraid about twenty summers have
gone by without your noticing them" !"
brakes Magazine. s,s..
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1894-01-13

Peddler-Is the lady of the house
in?
Mr. Newlywed-Yes; bnt there isn't
. thing in the world we want.
..Ail right. sir. Ill call again when
the honeymoon is over.r-Truth..
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1894-01-13
4 GOOD EXCUSE FOR ONCE


a
Therefore He Found One.
Lias blackburn was. in his day, one
of the most successful and notorious
moonshiners of southwestern Virginia.
Still, 'Lias was by no means an unprin-
cipled man. His contempt for the rev
enue laws was complemented by = re-
gard for a code of morals, peculiarly
his own, that gave him no little worry,
for it particularly inveighed against
unreasonable inebriety. 'I.ias never
was drunk without cause, and "any
other rcasoncwhy being no reason for
drink to his logical mind he was
often sober for five consecut , days.
After one of these periods of absti-
nencc 'Lias found occasion to smugRle
ten-gallon ''kaig" into Tennessee
'Lias had quasi-conviction that IN
spite of his generous gauging Of the
barrel, q shortage might be noticed
when he delivered the goods. and the
suspicion weighed on his mind moro
than the .'kaig" on his shoulder. When
he reached the part of the mountain
trail called High Knob. the greatest
elevation thereabo bouts. he felt so worn
out by worry and fatigue that he de-
cided to rest awhile. The beauty Of
the night brought comfort to 'Lias'
soul, and the softness of the turf to his
bare feet. He threw down the ''lsaig,"
stretched himself on the grass, and
shut his eyes for ''fo'ty winks''
Around High Knob there is only one
thing thicker sthan .huckleberries and
moonshiners, it is rattlesnakes. Con.
sequently 'Lias. wakened by a sharp
pain in his right great toe, was not at
all surprised to see an immense rattler
wriggling away. 'Lias sat up. A great
contented smile spread over his face.
He drew the ''kaie" tribe nearer, put
ont his left foot and shook it at the re-
treating snake. Ff&.SE. t--....,.
''Chaw away, old man." said 'Lias.
"Is just as well prepared TO- you as
though you'd given me six months no.
tice. .'-Harper's Magazine.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1894-01-13

Her Adorer-''May l marry youl
daughter?" Her Father (dejectedly)-
II don't know Ask the cook. she runs
this horse. Bean Monde.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-12-29
Intemperance and POsterfty.
n the Rfchn,Onl Ti,nQa

FROM the klchnlOnd Times.
The superintendent Of hospital for chill
dren at Berne, Switzerland. has found by
careful observation that only As Der cent
of those whose parents used intoxicatin
liquors habitually had good constitutions
while 81 per cent Of the children of tenn
perate parents had sound bodies. or the
children of inebriates only 6 per cent were
healthy. This is startling and should be
sufficient to make 1.-The jolly good fellows"
call a halt. Just imagine visiting your
sins upon the third and fourth genera
TONS"
The drinker Is not only running himself
but he is paving the way Of disease for his
posterity 1t Is absolutely criminal and
the laws are not stringent enough SO far
as regards the drunkard.
The writer is not by any means a pro-
hibi,ionist. but he is heart and soul for
temperance and anything that will wash
away this foul blot in society has his
hearty good will. Some words Of Beecher
are very appropriate here: 1T seems hard
that when a man does wrong his children
should be put under an almost Irresistible
inclination to do wrong; 1t seems hard
that when a man drinks spirituous liquors
his children and children's children should
find themselves urged by burning thirst,
which they can hardly withstand. toward
indulgence in intoxicating drinks; it seems
hard that diseases should be transmitted,
and that because a man has violated the
laws of health his children should be sick
ly and short-lived-these things look hard
so long as We look at them only on one
side; but what a power Of restraint econ
omy has when every man feels, I stand not
for myself alone, but for the whole line
of my posterity. to the third and fourth
generations
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-12-29
What Stevenson Earned.
From the Cincinnati Tribune,

From the Cincinnati Tribune.
The death Of Robert Louis Stevenson will
revive the discussion about the compensa-
ton for literary work. Mr.. Stevenson, It
seems. found literature exceedingly profit
able. The demand for his books was large.
and he seems to have made good terms
with his publishers He received for his
Samoan letters $4,000 for the serial rights
for 1.-The Ebb Tide" $S0OO. and for each of
his other novels published since he went to
Samoa about the same sum- This includes,
We are Informed. only what he has received
In the United States. and not the profits
from his stories after they were published
In book form. 1t Is estimated that he has
made since he went to Samoa about 800
600. He IS said to have earned with his pen
more than any other writer of English nc
ton in the same length of time. with the
possible exception Of Mrs. Humphrey Ward.