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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1901-11-23
A LITTLE NONSENSE.

The clam has larger mouth in pro
portion to his size than man, yet th<
clam never talks about his neighbors
Chicago Daily News.
Brave Mother.--Kind Lady-"Ane
does your mamma let you go out alone
at night, my ittleman?" Little Man
"Yes'm; nav amt afeer'd t stay by
herself."-Ohio State journal.
A Georgia youngster who goes to
Sunday school has decided that the
reason you never see an angel with
q mustache is because they have such
q close shave to get there.-Atlanta
Constitution.
'tThis," said the Eminent Artist, sis
my famous study of the Cows in the
Clover" "But where is the clover?''
we asked, not seeing any of it in the
picture. "Oh, the COWS have eaten 1t,
you baltimore American.
"No, doctor, won't wear plain spec
&acles. If I am compelled to wear
glasses, I'll try goggles" 'But, my
dear sir, there is nothing fashionable
in goggles" "Oh, yes; people will
think run an automobile" -Philadel-
phia Record.
Harris-"If you knew he was lying,
why didn't you tell him 500" Buck
''What would have been the use? He
knew he was lying, fast enough, and
he would not have felt so pleasant to-
wards me if had let him know ]
knew it, too."-Boston Transcript.
The Struggle for Bread.-"Well,
that's the best I can do for you," said
the theatrical manager. you've been
idle so far this season; now will you
remain idle all the rest of the season
or take this small part?" "I'll take
it," said Lowe Comedy. "In this case
q snNl role is better than q whole
loaf.-Philadelphia Press.
Senior Partner-"The bookkeeper
looks better this morning" Junior
Partner-"Yes; he has found the mis-
take in his trial balance" Senior
'SWhere was it?" Junior-"Ha, ha!
He had added the year of our LORD at
the head of the column with the dol
lars" Senior-'sThat's all right; time
is money, you know.-Indianapelis
News.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1901-11-23
Printers' Blunders.

Printers are responsible fol
many charming mistakes, and some
of them admit the fact. Witness the
volume of sermons recently pub.
lished which contained the startling
admission: Printers have perse.
cuted me without a cause" OF
course, it should have been "princes:"
but no doubt the compcsitor was
satisfied, but don't complain. Par
sons are the especial butts for the
jokes of the merry typesetters. A
Methodist minister is reported to
have said: "Methodism is elastic. ex-
pensive and progressive" Was it
sheer wickedness that made the
printer substitute for q, altering
Expansive" to the more shocking
term? The bishop of St. Asaph, adj
dressing his old parishioners some
time ago at Carmarthen, referred to
his younger and rasher days." He
was naturally reported as having
spoken of his younger and masher
days." No wonder John McNeill said
that when he took up the daily pa
pers and read his reported utter
ances he always sighed: 'Verily, We
die daily!"-Chambers' Journal.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1901-11-23
GARDENING ON THE YUKON.
Report By Prof. GeorEeson to the
Agricultural Department IL De-
cidedly EncOuraging,

A report has been received at the
department of agriculture from Prof.
C. C. Georgeson, officer in charge of
the Alaska experimenting stations,
on the outlook for gardening and
agriculture in the cold interior re-
gion of Alaska along the Yukon. It's
general tone is decidedly encourag-
ing. Prof. Georgeson spent the sum-
mer in the interior and visited the
experiment station established year
ago at Rampant, which is just out
side the arctic circle, and such other
places as were selected for depart
ment experiments. In spite of an
unusually late season there were
ready by the middle of August new,
potatoes, cabbage, caulifiower, beets
and other vegetables, while lettuce,
radishes and turnips, grown in the
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1901-11-23
rays Of the sun in a lens-that is hold

rays Of the sun in lens-that is hold
a magnifying glass SO that the rays
pass through it before they fall on the
glass vessel. Then revolve in the light
between the lens and the vessel, disk
with an opening or slit in it, SO that the
light is alternately falling on the YES
sci and being shut out. Now listen, and
you will hear a noise when the light
passes through the slit, but there will
be silence when it is shut out. You
must place your ear close to the
glass holding the silk or other sub
stance.
Another experiment is to use prism
instead of an ordinary lens. This
makes rainbow, and as the rays pass
through the slit it is possible to tell
that some parts of the solar spectrum
las it is called-produce sound as
they fall ON the glass vessel while other
parts have NO effect.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1901-11-23

open air, had been in use some
weeks. Flower seed furnished last
year had bloomed in large variety
of ANIMALS. Rye, seeded the previous
fall ut Rampant, had wintered per-
fectly and was fully ripe in July.
Spring-seeded barley had ripened
about the middle of August. The
prospect for oats and wheat to ma
ture was most favorable. On the
lower Yukon extensive areas of ex-
cellent land were found, where there
was an abundant and often luxuriant
growth of grasses over six feet in
height. Abundant moisture and long
summer days account for the sur
prising vegetable growth in that Sec
ton of the far north.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1901-11-23

mean the dime novels Of years back,
which were within the reach of all the
boys. These novels used to circulate
in neighborhood till they had been
read by every boy and had fallen to
pieces through handling. They fired
the ambition of the youngsters, set
them to practicing shooting and rid
ing, and sent many of them to the
west in search of adventures. Some
soon returned to their homes, others
became bad men and were killed in
time. but the great mass of them, too
proud to return home, created the Wig
orous, wideawake population of our
western states.
Il have talked to hundreds of our
western pioneers about the causes
which brought them west, and a ma
jority of them admit that dime novels
had more to do with it than anything
else"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1901-11-23
OLDEST DOLL IN AMERICA.
Georgia." Owned by Mrs. Lincoln, Of
Chelsea, Massachusetts,,H Has Ex.
listed in Three Centuries.

The oldest doll, as far as known. in
any part of this country, is Georgia. -
the property of Mrs. Alice L. Lincoln,
of Chelsea, Mass.
Georgia" being over hundred
years old, can well boast of having
''ived" in three centuries. Four gen.
erations of children have petted and
beaten her by turns, and, although
her smiling countenance bears many
mark of "the whips and scorns Of
time," and her shapely brown head,
with an occasional ugly dent, would
seem to indicate that the skull might
easily stand little trepanning, never
theless this children's idol Of bygone
days is in remarkable state of pres
ervation.
Georgia" was originally south.
ern lassie" and was raised in Mil.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1901-11-23
RETROSPECTIVE

oh, those were jolly days,
When you and were boys.
And sought in devious ways
"A lads mischievous joys:
wnen down the rain-pipe sheer
with many rips we slid
Eut hold! No lad should hear
What Dad in boyhood did.
And yet, I can't forget
~. me tricks that we once played,
Inc FRANKS we should forget.
Inc times we disobeyed: u.
HOW to the swimming-pool
IN secret we would fly
But hush! No boy in school
should think his Daddy sly,
can't remember half
Inc things We used to do.
But recall the calf
We painted red and blue.
The gun we stole in fear
And ruined with our fun
but stay! The boy may hear
The things that Dad has done,
For memory I give thanks,
And can most frankly say
ihat those were merry pranks
10 laugh about to-day;
1t really rather cheers
10 talk Of sport we've had
30 long as Tommy hears
No facts about his Dad,
-Elliott Flower. in Lippincott'R
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1901-11-23
GARFIELD STILLED TUMULT,
A Citisen OF Nile. Rec.u. . TnriIl,..
Incident In New York CITY the
Day Lincoln Died.

Perhaps few persons who on Septem.
Der 10 repeated the words: God reigns
and the government at Washington
still lives" are familiar with the cir
cumstances under which they were ut
tered. Mr.. H. M. Dean, venerable
citizen Of Niles, Mich, remembers the
time and place distinctly, says the De-
troit Free Press. Mr.. Dean says:
THE eloquent words of Gen. James
A. Garfield, so often quoted by speakers
and in newspaper editorials during the
past sad-weeks, have stirred the hearts
of many, while few Of this generation
know anything of the exciting occa-
sion which called them forth. They
were uttered in New York city on the
morning of April Is, 1865.
"The tidings of the shooting of Pres
ident Lincoln, bulletined before the
office OF every prominent newspaper
in the city, had drawn together citi.
zens OF, every grade and complexion
until the streets were massed with an
excited, angry, fearful throng, so that
it was well-nigh impossible for We.
hicle to pass. Alterations were FIRE.
quent. Men suspected of harborinp
disloyal sentiments were hustled by
the crowd and forced to hide them
selves for safety. Gallows were car
ried through the streets with ropes
dangling from the cross beams and
labeled For traitors Strong men
trembled lest some overt act or un.
guarded utterance should precipitate
riot. Particularly was this the case
when the telegraph flashed the terri.
bic words: Mr.. Lincoln is dead,
At this moment, when the ten.e
excitement had increased to the *.
treme danger point, a stranger not vet
81 years of age, but Of commanding
presence and full and far-reachine
voice, sprang upon box standing near
one OF the bulletins IN Newspaper row.
and, raising his arm to comm. nd Il.
lence. said. in slow, measured voice
Clouds and darkness are round 3 nnt
him. righteousness and Judgment
are the habitation Of his throne. Pres.
ldent Lincoln is dSad, but God reign.
and the government at Washington
still lives 2 -
AS by magic all angry words
ceased and the crowd melted awav into
silence and tears.
Ihls man was James A. Garfield.
who 16 years later was struck down
by the bullet Of an assassin and WAS
mourned by the whole nation as our
second martyr.
AND now, 20 years later, our hearts
are breaking over the passing away Of
.ne dearly beloved President McKin-
ley' mourned by the whole world as our
third, and, please God, our last, mar.
tyr" 80 > -Aat
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1901-11-23

ledgeville, Ga, "befo' de wah." She
was given to Mrs. Lincoln's mother
in exchange for ring, by Miss
Weekes. an old schoolmate.
The 1atter's mother had previously
paraded the doll in the doll carriage of
her times, and perhaps if Georgia could
only use the artificial tongue with
which she is provided her previous
family history might prove her right
full eligibility to the Society of Coloni-
al Danes. FF
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1901-11-23
II Silence Lasts
Too Long ***
BY WILLIAM Mcleod RA1NE.
aHttSt ~ & 4 & & & az & & 4 & 4 &
Copyright 10, By Authors syndicats)

+ HAD been three years since Rob.
ert Bramleigh had flung away
from Vonda Riebhardt in a pet be-
cause she had danced a schot-
tische with Harry Prior that ne
had thought belonged to MIN.
They were both young and both
proud, SO that somehow the ex-
pected reconciliation had never taken
place. The Spanish war had broken
out and Bramleigh had enlisted at
once. He had called on Vonda just
before he had left for the Philippines,
but his time of coming had been un-
fortunate in that he CHANGED upon q
roomful of visitors and found him
self unable to make his adieux in pri-
vate.
For three years Vonda had waited
to hear from him, but the expected
letter had never come, and now she
must make up her mind whether she
would marry Harry Prior or not. She
had never cared for him in the way
she had cared for Robert Bramleigh,
but then she liked and respected him
thoroughly. He was a good fellow,
well to do, and she knew her family
were eager for the match. It was
unlikely that she would ever find
man more worthy, and there were
financial reasons why she ought not
to burden her father any longer than
she could help.
Besides, Rob Bramleigh had never
told her in so many words that he
loved her. She had known it, to be
sure, but that belonged to her dead
past, the romance of her life that
had faded to wistful memory. Why
had he never written? Why had he
delayed to speak SO long? Oh, if he
cared for her, why had he been cruel!
She remembered the words of poem
she had once read and liked:
20, words of love thar are unspoken,
You do us grievous wrong,
For hearts grow weary, yea, and broken,
II silence lasts too long,"
Her heart had been weary with three
years of waiting, and-must waiting
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1901-11-23
Honesty Necessary,

Brains and great executive ability
are potent factors in mans success
but without the frmest and most thor.
oughly grounded principles Of cardinal
honesty they are factors which can.
not make for success. It is the com
bination of great ability and sterling
integrity that places men in control OF
large interests and keeps them there.
Ladies' Home Journal.
Just So
Ida-I am little suspicious about
his genealogical tree.
May-Ah. then, his tree is ittla
shady.-Chicsgo Daily News.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1901-11-23
IT WASN'T HER DAY.
To Daily with or BE Impressed with
Any Flirtatious Willie
Boy.

She was demure-looking, distinctly
pretty, and dressed with the utmost
simplicity and taste, and she was tax
| ing solitary ride the other afternoon
on an almost deserted suburban troll
| ley car, in fact, entirely deserted
except for the presence in one OF the
rear seats of beauteous young male
with cigarette and $1.4S Panama
This lovely person found the back Of
the demure-looking girls head so At
tractive that he moved up to her seat
and proceeded to bestow languishine
glances upon her, says the Washington
Post.
However, she looked straight ahead
or kept her vision fixed sidewise upon
the mystical forest. She didn't appear
to know that the young trousered
thing was anywhere around at all.
He nudged closer along the seat. She
nudged to the end without looking
anywhere in his direction. He kept on
a-nudging. Finally he pulled out
pretty little 36-cent card case, ex.
tracted an ornately-printed card
therefrom, and TREMENDOUSLY extended
it to her, at the same time beginning:
"Pawden me, Mis-er-I didn't quite
catch your name-but don't you think
the Afternoon is lovely, and"
She turned merry, beaming smiling
face upon him, and then she remarked
unto him with great amiability:
'Bud, have been next to the fact
for some time past that there was
something or other on this seat, but
I didn't know what it was. don't
know positively yet, but maybe it's
you. Say, if you want to show your
collection of tin-tags, why didn't you
say so before? Not tin? Then you
want to play jacks, hey? Well, we
can't, you know-the cars going too
fast. Anyhow, I'm tired. Far be IL
from me to knock, but I fear that
you've made me tired. wish you'd
go away back and sit down. Iwouldnt
say right out loud that you constitute
the one wart on the landscape, but it'a
me for bunch of thinks, at that, Ber-
tie, and this is my busy day. Now.
don't you look at me in that sassy way,
or I'll sure give you smack right ON
the back of the hand. I'll bet the price
of a glass ofpop that If your NAV was
aware of the fact that you were mix.
ing up in this wicked hirtatious way
she'd make you do up your own col
lars and cuffs for two weeks as pun
ishment. wish you'd get of and pick
me some clover blossoms. The car !.
doesn't need to wait. You CAN
just then, however, the car pulled
up alongside one of the minor stations,
and the fascinating young male per-
son slid of.
The demure-looking young woman
continued on the car until it reacheA
the roadhouse, when she debarked and
was met by three other members Of
The left-hand row of the Innocent
Maidens company, which was doing lite .
stunt at one of the local theaters the
other week.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1901-11-23
INFLUENCE OF DIME NOVELS.
They Have Been an Important Fac
tor In the Building Up Of the
Great West.

"The old-fashioned Indian stories
produced the settlement of our great
west,' said a man wearing broad
brimmed hat and big diamond, as he
sat talking to group of friends in .
Kansas City hotel.
II don't mean Cooper's stories," he
continued; "they were too tedious.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1901-11-23
WHERE CHANCE IS RULER.
Pa1atial Gambling Resort Which
Thrives in Open Fashion In the
City Of Mexico

The City of Mexico has for decades
been the paradise of the gambler
There all forms of gambling have been
conducted openly and with the sane
ton of the government and the local
police. Recently it has been announced
that this vice is to be suppressed. or
more strictly regulated, but as yet the
edict has not gone into effect. An at
tempt in the same direction was made
some years ago. But gambling is as
much part and parcel of the Mexican's
nature as of the heather Chinee. The
measure proved intensely unpopular,
being vigorously opposed not only by
the professional sporting element, but
by many of the most influential and
wealthy subjects of the republic, and
finally the government climbed
down."
Determined, however, not to be al
together outdone, the authorities con-
ceived the idea of imposing a heavy
tax upon gambling and law was
passed requiring every gambling re-
sort to pay the enormous daily license
of $3.50, says the Chicago Chronicle.
On the day this measure became law
the gambling establishments through
out the country closed their doors, all
save one. Senior Martel presented him
self at the tax-gatherer's Office with
the amount of the license in his hand
and demanded the privilege of keep
ing open his house. The license was
granted by the dumfounded officials
and long before nightfa,l it was noised
all over the city that Martel's estab-
lishment on the Gala de Gante was
continuing business as usual. That
night the place was literally thronged
by the wealthiest "sports" in the city,
and Senior Marteps profits ran into
four figures.
:. Next day other houses took their
licenses, but Marters bold venture
made his establishment far and away
the most popular among the gambling
fraternity. His success continued, and
he opened other establishments, for
each of which he pays the enormous
tax of something like 100000 year.
When it became evident to the au-
thorities that Martel had ''come to
stay and taking into consideration
the immense revenues they were re-
!ceiving from his enterprise, a govern
ment official was appointed to preside
over each of his business places, this
fact greatly enhancing Martel's pres
tige.
The average daily expenses of the
great ''financier's'' establishments
amount to the incredible sum of S.
600. That in the Gale de Gante Is
sumptuously furnished and those
guests who can afford the luxury Of
gambling here enjoy the choicest Gig
ars and wines that money can pur-
chase. "free gratis" IA
Felipe Martel is a devout churchmaz
and recently built church which cost
him over & 10000 in the suburban vi
lage of San Ange.. where he lives. His
residence is, needless to say, most |
'a.atial structure and (strange trade
mark of the gamester's profession)
contains 40 windows, representing the
number of cards in the Mexican pack.
Dealing in Futures,
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1901-11-23
UnwlSe.

Lady Artist-Since we have been
married, I have been trying to cultivate
my husbands taste to love the beauti-
full and ignore the unattractive.
Her Dear Friend-Do you think
you're wise?-London Sketch.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1901-11-23

have no end? Or ought she not
rather to pick up the broken threads
of her life and weave them into a
new strand? She sat hesitating be-
twixt will and will not, her maiden
heart making last stand for her
first love.
The girl made charming picture
in her white summer dress, with the
dashes Of color about her waist and
neck. She was fair, with fine oval
outline of cheek and chin, the tint
Of the wild rose blooming in her face.
1.-the activity and grace spoke in every
movement of the free body, and the
young man coming triskly up the
walk was not slow to appreciate 1t.
His eyes fed eagerly and hungrily on
her, and a chill foreboding of inn
pending failure clutched at his heart.
His manner might be blithe, but his
heart whispered that the girl was
not for him; a reckless young sol
der in the Philippines held it in the
hollow Of his hand to crush or make
glad.
The girl came forward rather shy
" to offer him hand of welcome.
He took the little hand in his large,
brown one, and held it for moment,
while he looked up from lower step
into the sweet face with the gray
brown eyes that met his for an in
slant. The dye mounted to her cheek
:, she disengaged her hand and led
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1901-11-23
Dealing in Futures.

II hope" said the young man who
was spending few days at the sea-
shore, shat our engagement will not
prove mere summer subterfuge.''
Il hope your hope comes OUT . re-
Joined the fair maid at his side, abut
one can never tell what effect frost
will have on such things" Chicago
Daily News.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1901-11-23

Poets Versus Verse Writers.
foets are born, but verse writer's
srow OF their own accord.-Chicago
Daily News.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1901-11-23
NOISY SUNBEAMS.
They May BE Heard by Anyone ~ .
Very Simple Home Ex-
pertinent.

Fill q glass vessel with lamp black,
colored silk or worsted. Focus the
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The Newtown bee., 1901-11-08
WEST REDDING.
MISS CARNEY-MRB BENNETT

MISS CAhN BEN NETT.
Sunday afternoon was the scene of
a very brilliant wedding at the home
of Mr. and Mrs Bryan Carney of West
Redding when their oldest daughter,
Miss Annie, became the wife of
Charles Bennett, one of Redding's
most popular young men. The hour
for the ceremony was O'Clock and
while Mendelsshon's wedding march
was being played by William Bennett,
brother of the groom, the bridal party
entered the parlor and took their
places under an arch composed of
autumn leaves. The bride was given
away by her father. Miss Carney is a
very decided blonde and was hand
somely attired in gown of lavender
and carried large bouquet of chrysan-
themums. The happy couple left at
the close Of the ceremony, amid a
shower of rice and good wishes, for an
extended trip through the state, re-
turning to Weston, where they will
make their future home. Miss Carney
recently graduated from the State
Normal school, where she won very
high hOnOrS.
f. A. Ryder is building a large addi-
ton to his barn.
Mr. and Mrs John Curtis had new
daughter arrive at their home, Octo-
Der s.
James Whitehead, who lives on
John Carson's place, has number Of
tons Of good hay for sale.
Seth Ryder moved, this week, from
Little York to D. B. Beardsley's place
near the depot.
The Newtown bee., 1901-11-08
THE CHILOREN'S FRIEND.

You'll have Il cold this winter. May
be you have one now. Your children
will suffer too. For coughs. Group
bronchitis, grip and other winter com
plants One Minute Cough Cure never
fails. Acts promptly. 1t is very pleas
anttO thetaSte and perfectly harmless.
G. b. George, Winchester Ky, writes:
"Our little girl was attacked with
Group late one night and was SO hOarSc
she could hardly speak. We gave her
d few doses of One Minute Cough
Cure. 1t relieved her Immediately
and she went to sleep. When she
awoke next morning she had no signs
of hOarseness or Group" r. III. Beers &
Co., Newtown;S. G. Bull & Co., Sandy
Hook; A. B. Brakeman, Botsford: b.
Hawley s. Co., Stepney; The e. G.
Platt Co.. Hawleyville: w. N.pHurd,
Long Hill.