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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-08-18

| Unlined skirts Of mohair, taffeta silk
and lightweight cloths to wear with
blouse vaists are the thing for Vprp
weather the New York Sun.
Very stylish gowns are made Of The
oldfashioned pongee SILK, trimmed
with handsome embroidery matching it
in co.or.
Cameo buckles and buttons are re-
vived again with great effect on some of
the new gowns made by the smartest
dressmakers.
Anew edition Of the polonaise, which
in shape-is very much like a cape worn
as an apron. has appeared in Paris.
The rounded ends finish a little below
the waist at the back and in some in
stances il is covered with tucks..
The latest thing in handkerchiefs is
a very tiny square of cobweblike lawn
edged with lace. The absence of a
pocket in gowns is the incentive for this
change in size. which makes it possible
to wear the handkerchief inside of
the glove.
Suede gloves in the rare tint of old
lace are the novelty OF the moment.
Fichus In Marie Antoinette and a
la pompadour are very much in favor
and quite the hall mark of smartness
On the latest thin gowns. The drap-
ing can be arranged to suit the figure,
and in any case it gives the broad ef-
feet across the shoulders so becoming
to slender women. The finest cream
tinted batiste hand-embroidered makes
the very prettiest fichus.
Lingerie skirts and blouse waists
made of fine white lawn with innumer-
able tucks aud many rows of valenci-
ennes insertion are one of the special
features of thin gowns, and are ex-
tremely chic worn with a cloth of gold
bolero covered with lace.
Serpentine insertions cut out of all
over lace and finished on the edge
with either black or white silk cord
are used TO trim crepe de chine and
yelling gowns.
Trim your dimity gowns with hemmed
frillings of white point d'esprit accor-
dion plated.
Crepe de chine II popular material
for wedding gowns.
The variety in sleeves is progressing
in all the ways possible to the over
and the undersleeve, and in some of
the thin white gowns the uppersleeve.
which fits quite closely above the el
bows is cut long and full enough to
drape up in dropping puff at the el-
bow, is caught up on the inside OF the
arm with bow, and falls over a c.ose-
fitting undersleeve of lace.
Mohair is the favorite material for
bathing suits in black. blue and gray
trimmed with a band of white mohair
striped with braid. The collars are
wide, revers shape in front, pointing
down at either side of the braid
trimmed vest and the bands in the skirt
are cut in inverted scallops on the up
per edge. There is the same full waist
with belt. and the puffed sleeves of
the last season.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-08-18
THE BUSY FAIRIES

Mhen little children lie asleep
The fairies leave the sky,
And through the windows slyly Green
ana touch each sleepy eye,
And on the little beds they sit.
And round the curly heads they fit
TIL rosy mornings nigh.
When all the story telling's done
The fairies come to stay
and watch beside each little one EE
TIL Dawn wakes up the day;
Where stlvery beams of moonligh,
stream kt 8a
In happy dreams fair castles Slear
while fairies watch away
And when the sky above is bll
And when the sun is high,
what do the little fairies do?-
They make our money fly!
The dollars that were hard to earn
They pile up In the yard to burn,
Or waste them on the sly.
They make new gowns too old to use
And little trousers tear;
1hex touch the toes of little shoes
And psestOss holes are there-
They win away BY spelling things
The money that much toiling brings
But leave us love to sharer'
~S. +. Kiser. in Chicago Tmes-Herald.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-08-18
trolley Express In Ceanecsie.f

The very latest bit Of news in tie
trolley car world is that these cars are
TO be used in parts Of Connecticut for
the expressing of merchandise from
point to point. All that regular exc
press companies now do for their pa
irons this new scheme will undertake.
and il will attempt even more-it will
do shopping for all the countryside in
the populous and wicked cities. get.
ting orders in tine morning and deliver.
ing at night or on the next return trip.
Chicago Chronicle.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-08-18
Not won..'s Work.

-.Eather.--Where is your mother,
Johnny?
Johnny-She's ont in the back yard
whiting.
"Are you sure she is whittling?~
"Yes. sir; she's trying to sharpen
! lead pencil"-Bloomine.on Pan
:aSraph.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-08-18
LUz0N SALT MAKERS.
Natives Of Our New Islands Have
Their Own Salt Ponds for
Every Family.

Everybody his own salt maker, so
the Ilocanoes and Pangasinans of
northern Luzon believe, and they fol-
low out the theory in practice. for
nearly every family living on the
coast of the great Lingayen gulf man
ufactures salt for home consumption.
and sells the surplus to the villages of
the interior, says Harper's Weekly.
In one settlement near Dagupan the
occupation reaches the dignity of an
industry, and an entire village is en-
gagged in crystalliing the salt out of
the earth. The process is the exceed
ingly simple one of scraping the salt
soaked land of the low coast with a
wooden harrow, and allowing the sun
to evaporate the moisture until the
ground takes on condition of dry
powder. This almost impalpable dust
is scraped up in baskets, and packed
into narrow bamboo splint-woven
trough, some six feet long, plastered
with clay. Water is then poured upon
the dry salt earth by the jarful, and
teaches through. passing out by a
small tube at the bottom. The clear
water with salt in solution is then
boiled down until it crystallizes in an
iron kettle built in the top of clay
oven. as seen in the foreground of the
picture.
In the south, among the Tagalogs Of
cavite province. the process varies
somewhat. Every family living on the
coast has its own salt ponds, which,
skirted by beautiful bamboo clumps
and great mango trees, make very pic
turesque artificial lakes. These ponds
are shallow basins, sometimes more
than an acre in extent, walled in with
low mud dixie, and provided with an
entrance sluice. through which the
tidal waters may overflow the ground
and be penned in. Over the entire sur
face of these flats are raised circular
,eds, ten to twelve feet in height. The
salt water of the ocean is allowed to
.ome in till 1t reaches just to the tops
If these circular beds, soaking them
through and through. The sun does
The rest of the work by rapidly evap-
orating the moisture from them, and
the salt appears as white efliores-
.ence at the surface. to be carefully
scraped on by the owner. In this way
hey become practically self-feeding
salt machines of an exceedingly novel
character. though the output of salt
per diem from each bed is very small.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-08-18
H., Fever Union Of HeI,sola.A.

The hay fever season is now begin
ming in Germany. In Nofsh Germany
it lasts from May q to June 3. in
South Germany from May 20 to May
o5. To counteract the mistakes of
those physicians who usually send their
patients to the mountains or out into
the country, an association has been
formed after the pattern of the Amer
lean Hay Fever association, which has,
after careful consideration. selected the
island of Heligoland as the most suit
able resort for hay fever patients. The
society styles itself "The Hay Fever
Union of Heligoland.' and has its head
quarters in Hanover. All possible in.
formation concerning the ailmen: is
gathered and advice and other assist
ance to applicants is given free OF
charge. The union is rapidly spread.
ing over all parts of the empire. par
ticularly in the northern and easterA
sections. where grass and grain grow
in abundance.-Chicago Record.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-08-18
FIGHT WITH A WOLF.
Desperate Struggle Of an Illinois
Hunter with . FeFocioas
Brute Near Town.

A "hand-to-hand fight" with q fero-
cious gray wolf only 30 miles from the
city of st. Louis, and Is miles from
the Missouri river, IN the state of Illi-
nois, seems an unlikely occurrence;
but it is seriously reported in the st.
Louis Globe-Democrat and other jour-
nails of the region.
1t appears that in February and
March last four or five full-grown
mountain wolves had been ranging in
the woods and swamps in the neigh
borhood of Waterloo and Red Bud, ILL.,.
and their depredations finally became
SO great that the authorities Of Mon.
roe county offered a reward Of ten
dollars for every wolf skin brought in.
One afternoon in early March Jacob
Eckert, of Red Bud, was hunting in
the woods near Saxtown, when he saw
an animal some distance away il. the
underbrush which looked like q dog
He had heard of the presence Of wolves
in the neighborhood, however. and
crept around the side of a hill. keep
ing the creature in view until he was
certain that it was not a dog, what
ever else il might be. He had never
seen a wolf
When he had approached within
about so yards of the animal, he took
aim and fired. The wolf leaped into
the air and howled, but when E.kert
rushed out into the open, supposing
he had killed the animal, he was
astonished to see it rushing directly
at him. 1t came with such swiftness
and unexpectedness that Eckert did
not manage to reload his rife before
the wolf was upon him, with distended
jaws and glaring eyes.
Eckert clubbed his rifle, and as the
wolf came within reach, struck mt 1t.
The wolf lodged back, evaded the
blow, and before the man could swing
the weapon . second time, leaped
straight at his throat. But Eckert
was fortunate enough to get the bar
rel of the gun, held in both hands, in
such position across his breast and
beneath his chin that the VOLTS jaws
could not get grip on his throat.
The animal now bit savagelya 1T the
mans body wherever it could find
chance for its teeth. Eckert wore
heavy c.othing, and for the most part
the wolf s Dites did not penetrate to
the skin. His hands and face were
lacerated by the animals claws, but
escaped the teeth. He finally succeed
ed in throwing the animal from him,
and before it could spring ON him
again he struck it heavy blow on the
head with the butt of lis gun, which
stunned it.
This gave Eckert an opportunity to
slip a cartridge into his gum Then he
quickly shot the wolf through the
head, thus ending the fight Eckert
took the skin to Waterloo, where it
was identified as undoubtedly that Of
wolf, and the prize Of ten dollars was
paid him.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-08-18
Unitel States.

Before the war Of 1912 . frigate Of
the United States navy had an extended
reputation rs the Old Wagon because
of her slow-going sailing qualities The
proper name of the Old Wagon was
the United States, and she was
launched at Philadelphia in 1927. Her
sailing qualities were subsequently, "a
much improved that she was able ia
chase, overtAke and capture the Brit.
ish frigate Macedonian, which aAs
brought into port ~ prize IN 1s11s-
Detroit Free Presa
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-08-18

The Fiancee-It is annoying that
George and should have so many mis-
understandings.
Mamma-Yes; he does not seem to
understand that you will have your
own way.-Puck.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-08-18
lfa Pail.


Barber-Does de razzer pull. boss7
Victim-Yess but one of the spiral
springs in the chair seems to be screwed
so deep into my back that don't think
the razor can drag me out on the hoor.
Judge.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-08-18
UNDER FIRE.


"Whee-e-e: Bang! and 12-poun,
shrapnel bursts 200 yards high in tn,
air and far short of our massed men
but evidently coming toward US. Thel
another and still another il still break
Ing into ball of white smoke, which
elowly drifts away in the breeze. says
Harper's Weekly. That's French's ar.
tillery overshooting the kopje,' some
one exclaims. "Yes. that's French's,'
everybody agrees. ..He's behind them.
and we've got them surrounded
"What the deuce!" and a thousand
men bend low in the saddle as shell
roars past, close overhead, and ex.
piodes with q terrific report in the
ground beyond. throwing the brown
earth high in the air. Again the Garth
howls and a second contact shell GOV.
ers the pompoms with clods of earth
and dust.
The shrapnel are bursting in one.
two, three order, all very short now.
but 1000 yards this side Of the kop.
s'Ow is it theah doin' such bloody bad
shootin'?" a Tommy exclaims, as he
wistfully gazes into the air. I'm beast.
ly sure it's them bloody Beers what's
doin' the game"
Whee-e-e! Roar! Bang! and an
other solid shell bursts into fragments
ten feet from the rear edge of the great
square of horsemen. Again they re-
tire, now satisfied that the Beers have
opened a masked battery. 1t is impos-
sible to locate il.
1t is solid shell bursting ON impact
coming one after another slowly, tear
ing up the ground. now in front, now
behind the column, but always in q
line with il. The Beers have habit, II
Is said, Of using their artillery at long
er ranges than are intended, by giving
the muzzle extra elevation; hence they
:annot use Shrapnel. as the fuses are
cut too long for exploding in the air.
The cavalry retire few hundred
yards at . time, until they are finally
beneath the next roll in the yeldt and
out of sight.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-08-18
Mines That Darn for Years.

A number of good-sized mines are
now on fire in the United States, and
hare been for years. The Vulcan mine,
on the Green river, opposite Newcastle,
In Colorado, has been ON fire since the
great explosion several years ago,
when about 80 persons lost their lives.
All efforts to >quench it have proved
fruitless. In Butte there is b mine
which has been adre since 1854. II has
been treated with carbonic acid gas
generated on . large scale, qnicklime
and acids, and all the sitting device.
that genius and experience could de.
wise, but SO far without effect. In Penn.
syivania there are several steadil,
burning mines, and in one place where
the outlet of natural gas is very grea:
the spectacle it affords is of surprising
interest. For miles around . great
tower of fire may be seen, day an6
night, and the dense black smoke which
1t gives on settles upon the surround
ing country. How . mine gets afire
is easily explained. even though the
greatest precautions are taken to pre-
vent it. Coal seams exude . gas, vary
ing in quantity according to the pres
sure and the quality Of the deposit.
which gas, when mixed with air in GER
tain proportions, is about as explosive
q Runpowder.-N. Y. Post.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-08-18
Corn Pone.

To make corn pone, put one pint OF
meal into a bowl; pour over sufficient
boiling water just to moisten it; IT
must not be wet. Cover, and when
cool. add q tablespoonful of shorten
ing, melted, and two eggs lightly beat
en-. Add pint of thick sour milk to
which you have added teaspoonful OF
soda dissolved In two tahlespoonfuls
of water and mix thoroughly. Turn
into q shallow pan and bake in 2 mod
erately quick oven for half an hour.
Ladies' Homo Journal.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-08-18
EXERCISE VERSUS MEDICINE.
Too Many People Hasten to the Doc
tor When They Are Slightly
Ailing. -

The majority of people have an idea
that when they are run down a bottle
or two of medicine will at once build
them up again, and they forthwith
pay visit to the family physician.
They are sure that general debility
and lassitude are caused by insult
cient nourishment, whereas, in 90
cases out of 100, they are caused by
lack of exercise. In many instances
the doctor agrees with his patient
that she requires tonic and gives it;
if he did not, bus said: You require
no medicine, just exercise" it would
indeed seem that the money paid to
the doctor was pnjustly paid, and if
he continued to advocate exercise in
place of medicine many of his pa
tients would leave him for a more
sympathetic physician, or rather one
who understood that most women
would rather take medicine, when
they think they need it. than not. So
the tonic is given to many persons. a
very few of whom it helps. vast
number of whom it poisons, says the
American Queen.
A convalescent person, or a person
whose natural demand for food is alb
sent through disease, requires tonic
treatment; so do consumptives and
hysterical subjects; and there are
tonics which win increase the appe-
tite and stimulate the organs of di-
gestion.
To the person who is not in one or
the other of the above classes, but
whose appetite is poor, whose food is
eaten without relish, who is languid
and tired and oppressed, there is a
natural tonic treatment: it will over
come each and all of the distresses
and invigorate and strengthen-it is
exercise, and this may De indulged in
by everyone whether she is healthy or
i'll.
The majority Of people overeat. and
it is quite possible to create an appe-
tite which is not readily satisfied. If
we eat more than is absolutely neces-
sary to maintain the health and
strength of the body we give our Or
gans an excess Of work. with the re-
suit that the organs wear out before
their time.
The tonic medicine treatment is one
Of the chief agents which. enabling
the body to assimilate more food than
it requires, tends to shorten life.
Highly seasoned food is another, and
alcoholic beverages a third. These.
all of them. should be avoided, and
especially should they be avoided dur
ing that portion Of the year when ex-
ercise (walking, rowing. cycling) is, or
should be, pleasure.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-08-18
BAR THE MONGO0sE.
cIOus Little AnlMal BE Kept Out
Of This Country.

The fiat of the nation has gone fortl
against the mongoose. Before congress.
adjourned bill was passed by botf
houses prohibiting its importation
The pugnacious little animal is hence
forth to be placed in the same category
as the Chinese, says the New York Her.
aid.
The mongoose il a native of India
1t is death on rats and snakes. For the
destruction it works among these pests
it is highly priced. But when it clears
out the rats and snakes it betakes it.
self to birds and eggs and any sort Of
small game it can get hold of. That
is why the department of agriculture
classifies il as a noxious animal
Weighed in the balance. away from its
native land, its vices are found to out
weigh its virtues. and therefore it is
to be kept out of Uncle Sans broad
domains.
Thus far very few specimens of the
mongoose have been introduced into
this country. The edict of exclusion is
based mainly on the experience of ia
maica. That island once suffered from
plague of rats, which were particu-
larly destructive in the cane fields.
They were held responsible for an an
nual loss of something like $500, 900. In
February, 1872, nine individuals of the
mongoose, four males and five females,
were introduced from India.
They increased with remarkable ra-
pidity and soon spread all over the is
land, even to the tops of the highest
mountains. They proved inveterate rat
destroyers. A decade after their intro
duction it was estimated that they were
thus saving the sugar planters $225, 900
per annum. And the mongoose was
blessed.
Still the mongoose increased, and its
murderous habits became more and
and more apparent as the rats dimin-
ished. 1t destroyed young pigs, kids,
lambs, puppies. kittens, poultry. game
birds which nested on or near the
ground. eggs. ground lizards, frogs,
turtles eggs and land crabs. 1t was al
SO known to eat ripe bananas, pine
apples. young corn, pears. sweet po-
tatoes, cocoanuts and other fruits.
Toward the close of the second decade
the mongoose came to be regarded as
the worst pest ever introduced into the
island-'xorse than the rats which il
destroyed. Then the mongoose was Of
ficially mathematical.
Hawaii, where the mongoose was in.
troduced in 1881, underwent a some
what similar experience. and in 1889 q
law was passed forbidding the intro
duction, breeding or keeping of the
mongoose on the island.
All of which goes to show that the
mongoose is good animal to let alone
where nature has placed it.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-08-18

A correspondent of the London
Academy suggests the following
classification of memoiys, made neces-
sary by the growing tendency tc blab
and betray, to pad and innate: Biog-
fraphies, auto5iographies and ought
aot-to-be-ographies.-N. Y. Sun.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-08-18
Not That Gsaa.

Brown- understand you told Wells
hat / am . first-class idiot
Jones-Nothing Of the kind, sir. ]
lidn't say you were 1rst-class.-Tif-
Rita y,
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-08-18

you're all the world to me!" lie
whispered.
This. so far as We know. is the only
basis for the curious saying that al
the world loves lover.-Detroit Jour
nal
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-08-18
. FASHIONS FANcUS. y
Latest Ideas in Costumes and Their
Belonglngs for the Warn

Unlined skirts Of mohair, taffeta silk
and lightweight cloths to wear with
blouse vaists are the thing for Vprp
weather,-ssys the New fork Ssn. I
Very stylish gowns are made Of The
old-fashioned pongec SILK, trimmed
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-12-21
The Bows Statement.

OMAHA, Neb., Dec. 2O.-When young
Edward Cudahy arose this morning. he
was questioned concerning the circum-
stances Of his disappearance and told
the following:
He said that he was In front OF Gen.
GOWNS house. just across the street
from his home, on his way back from
the Rustin residence, Tuesday evening,
when two men approached him. One
of them stepped up to him and said:
I'VE are sherlffs from Sarpy county,
and arrest you as Eddie MCGEE. who
escaped from the reform school,"
The lad protested that he was not the
mythical Eddie McGcc, but his cuptors
said that he would have to be identi-
fed, They placed him In a buggy and
drove to Thirty-sixth street and thence
south to Leavenworth street. AS they
approached Leavenworth street, mo-
Tor car passed them. The lad recog-
nized the conductor and said to his cap
tors:
There is a man who knows me; he
can identify me-"
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-12-21

i32 cars, two OF contract grade. Sea-
board clearances were $4,000 bushels,
or 10000 more than the aggregate OF
western receipts. December sold be-
tween dlAo and 40jkc, and closed nc
lower Mt 40Hc; January ranged be-
tween S7iSc and 36&c, closing Nc down
Mt 3Gac. May sold between 36%c and
36c, and closed &c depressed Mt 3GAc.
Oats were dull. May sold between
235S m2$&c and 23Rc and closed shade
down Mt 23&c;. receipts were $40 cars.
Provisions were quiet. The market
opened higher. and advanced moderate
ly on fewer hogs than had been ex-
pectcd, better prices ut the yards and n
good cash demand, easing OF late on
profit thlsing by local interests. Janu-
airy pork sold between $l2 g25 and Sl2 37il
and closed shade lower at $12 rs: jan
uary lard between Sc 90 and SC S7ls,
closing unchanged at SO S71lts. and jan
unry ribs between 50 IS and 50 500
G 321t. with the close a shade higher ut
Sc 3OGG SEX. SO
Estimated receipts tomorrow:
Wheat, 140 cara. corn, $50 cars; oats,
1856 cars; hogs. $4,000 head.
The leading futures rangcc AS fol,owa.