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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-08-30
ENGLAND'S EARLY MARRIAGES
According to This Account They Are
Largely the Result of Sordid
Poverty.

A. Montefiore Brice, writing for the
London Daily Mail, says that in Lon
don there are $4,000 married persons
who are 20 years of age or under
The latest report shows that in the
metropolis there are ten wives aged
Is, % wives and widows aged Is, 1854
wives and widows of II years of age,
gu aged IS, 2,712 aged 10, and 6,672
wives and widows at 20 years. The
husbands are naturally fewer. Yet
there are ISL husbands from 16 to 10
years old, and 2,o22 just 20 years of
age.
Mr.. Brice says that the proportion
of these boy and girl marriages is in
variably greatest where the social
state is least advanced. 1.-The major
ity of such marriages are contracted
in absolute poverty. Not sovereign
no, nor half sovereign-has been
saved. The few 'sticks'-and sticks,
indeed, they are-are obtained on the
hire system-one shilling down. The
girl wife can neither cook nor sew,
to sweep and scrub she is averse as
well as unaccustomed. Reared in
some squalid, two-roomed home, she
has passed in the street the time she
could steal from school. So. too, with
the boy husband. The overcrowded
home, with its want of welcome,
throws him on the street. His life,
reacting on an unawakened mind,
makes his days deadly dull He
Graves for excitement-society-
change. As he grows from boyhood
to adolescence he needs companion.
And so, partly from natural sexual
selection and partly, as his age and
wages increase, because he associates
more with men, he seeks wife.
For his new estate he wants a cook
and washerwoman, and he marries
to find he has got neither the one
nor the other"
The latest census showed that
there were about 1000 husbands I'M
der age who were not living with
their wives. Mr.. Brice says that the
majority had deliberately separated.
distant work had taken some away;
poverty and crime had divorced 9th
ers. Among the inmates of London's
are husbands, wives,
widowers and widows of Is and 16
years of age! In London prisons l
find that out of total of $50 persons
under age, more than 200 are mar
ried. And out of 1884 under rs years
of age no fewer than 576 are mar
ried.
Taking the country at large, under
the latest census there we're in all
56,39s married pers ons under age to
be found in England and Wales. 1.-THE
police courts, the warehouses and the
prisons are eloquent of such early
says Mr.. Brice. ut
seems established beyond contro-
versy that they strew our social life
with wreckage. The philanthropists
and reformers rage violently against
them. The doctors speak ominously
of the new generation these child
will produce. All unite in
agreeing that they impair the eff
cheney of the nation
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-08-30

ing had lost its charms. This, in the
mans case, was decidedly the limit.
"Just predestination, suppose" at
last he found voice to say between
closed teeth. "That's all. That l
should come here and know you,
and -"
II don't like the way you wear your
eye glasses, nor the way you frown,
nor the way you cut your sentences
short. Why don't you reform?"
He looked at her as though she had
not spoken, saying in dull monotone:
II came here for a rest, and where
did the rest come in? Not only that.
I've prepared unrest Unreasonable for
myself this winter. Pleasant pros
poets, surely. But suppose it had to
be-every summer has its army of
fools"
He looked so absurdly glum that she
laughed right in his face.
He stared at her blankly for mo-
ment, but was clever enough to join
in her merriment.
"You should get furious at me when
/ laugh at you like that she said,
prettily, her white teeth showing in
the silvery light.
He was leaning far over, his face
quite close to hers, as he replied:
"That's it. I should; but / don't!
"That's where the fool part of it
comes in, you see.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-08-30
GROWING PAMPAS PLUMES.
One of the Most PIctureaque and
Profitable of California; Newer
Indu9triea

In all California there are few more
beautiful sights than a pampas or
chard at picking time, though the
grass is seldom seen in its perfection
because to preserve the plumes they
must be picked before they are ripe.
But the grass itself is a picturesque
crop, and the plumes, picked and
spread out to dry in the sun, leave the
fields looking Is if covered with snow,
says the New York Sun.
The industry has grown rapidly since
it was first introduced from South
|, America in the early Cos. The plumes
now form one of the standard crops OF
the state and one of the most profit
able of its products.
The finest attain length of about Sc
inches and command price of some
thing like 5000 a thousand when the
demand is good. The plumes have no
especial value except as ornaments.
but for this purpose there is steady
call for them both in this country and
abroad.
The plume orchards are planted with
roots frequently obtained direct from
La Plata. Santa Barbara county is the
region in this country most famous for
their growth.
The plants grow to suN enormous
size and are so exhausting to earth
that they are planted third further
apart than fruit trees. The pampas
plume farmer usually sets them in
hills, each hill containing five or six
plants, though to the casual observer
there seems to be only one enormous
tuft of grass.
The best results are obtained from
plants between 4 and years old, so
at the end of the fifth year the stock
is weeded out. In the first year only
few plumes are seen, but in the second
each hill may be counted on to pro-
duce between 50 and 200, and after
that each hill has fine crop, 10 or 20
feet high and from ~ to Is feet across.
In the warm weather the hills are
irrigated once month, and toward
September the crop is ready for gath
ering. As soon as the tops of the
plumes appear they are gathered by
Mexican laborers; women strip off the
sheaves, and children lay them down
to dry and bleach in the sun. A day
or so sufices to dry the plumes and
then they are Grated and are ready for
shipment.
California now produces 100000
p1umes a year and skilled hands en-
p1oyed in the picking easily make
$1.5O day. The pampas orchards
range from the large ones of 5000 or
more hills, producing quarter of a
million plumes year, to smaller ones
raising only few, and their products
60 all over this country and Europe.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-08-30
AWARDING BRITISH HoNoRs.
The System Explained by an English
Writer with FacetiOus Sug-
xestiOn for Its Improvement.

If all who hope to be made peers,
baronets or knights at the coronation
obtain the distinction that they covet
the number of those in the enjoy
ment of titles will be legion. During
the reign of the late queen the man
ner in which the birthday honors
were distributed was as follows: The
head of each department handed to
| the prime minister list OF men in
his department who, he thought,
should obtain a ribbon. If the list
was too long the prime minister cut
it down. Those who were thought
worthy of titles were selected by the
prime minister himself. In the main
these consisted of men who had SUBJ
scribed largely to the party funds.
The general list was then submitted
to the queen. If there was anything
against any particular person, she
generally found it out from her en-
tourage, and his name was crossed
out. 1t, however, frequently hap
pence, that she considered the list too
long, when she reduced it by the
simple expedient of drawing a line at
some point in it, when those below
the line got nothing.
No enc in her day could be certain
that they would get his title for his
money, says writer in London
Truth. And this was just as well,
for it somewhat kept down the num-
Der of those whose sole merit was
that they subscribed to the funds of
the party to which they belonged.
see no reason why titles should not
be sold. For instance, I would OBJ
tain all the money that the corona
ton may cost by selling titles to
those willing to buy them. The num-
Der would be SO large that after all
the expenses of the coronation had
been paid there would remain enough
tary expenditure that is now to be
provided for by taxing the bread of
the poor. 1t would be far better that
there should be a few hundred more
wealthy plutocrats with a prefix to
their names than that poor women
and children should have their star
walton allowance of bread reduced.
A good deal of money, too, might be
raised by giving existing peers q
higher title than they at present
bear. To us humble individuals a
lord is lord, but to lords it would
seem that the difference between .
marquis and an earl and baron is q
matter of supreme Importance. An
other promising mode of raising the
wind would be to sell titles to wealthy
widows and spinsters.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-08-30
HIS OPINION OF BROWNING.
Sister Led Him Into Strange
Fields.

The man of 40 had somehow been
drawn into the afternoon tea-that
is, not literally, you know, but his
sister had enticed him within the gath
ering of the now superior sex because
really, he was forgetting how to talk
to women, and positively he was los
ing his polish. Why, before he real
lied it he wouldn't know how to come
into room or leave one or how to sit
down or what to do with his hands
and feet, says the Kansas City Star.
So the man fell prey to the fear
full prophecy, and, after his sister had
told him the color of the cravat he
must wear and how dreadful it would
be if he wore laced shoes instead of
buttoned ones, and what girls he must
make himself agreeable to-why, then
he set about renewing his youth with
some approach to fortitude. There
was one thing that the man prided
himself on, and that was his adapta-
bility.
So, once within the feminine pre-
cincts. he plucked up his courage and
y :.
from the latest novel. which he had
not read, to the newest conception of
Nirvana, as to which he was trife
hazy.
Fate assigned him temporarily to a
"bud." With a mighty effort he was
trying to recall the sisterly Ollendorf
for this occasion. but was much re-
lieved to find that he was merely ex-
pected to look pleasant and answer
questions. His sister had forgotten to
tell him what she was afterward
careful to impress upon him, that
only one man in a hundred in society
has anything to say for himself and
that he needn't mind appearing stupid.
Perhaps it was his expanse of fore
head-due as much to premature bald
ness, he would have told you, is to
the outcropping of luminous intel
lect. At any rate, the young person
CHANGED to remark: "You know your
Browning, of course said the young
person, earnestly. She was evidntly
fresh from Smith or Bryn Mawr, and
she was certainly very pretty. Can
you blame him?
"Oh, no mere man Of action" he
said, lying with an ease which aston
ished him, "can afford to ignore the
poets-Browning least of all. What
a good thing is life-the mere living!'"
He detained this impressively, hav-
ing but recently read it on the title
page of Roosevelt's Ranch Life"
Then lie tried to say something about
basketball.
But the young person was too alert.
"How perfectly splendid" she said.
"And SO apt. You would so enjoy
what Prof. Griggs says about the per-
fected relations of Pompilia to Capon-
sacchi. Don't you just dote on The
Ring and the Book?'"
"There are poems of Browning's
with which 1 am more familiar" adj
mitted the man, with some hesitation,
"and particularly rejoice in anything
which expresses action. By the way,
have you noticed that ping-pong has
been taken up in PARISH"
This seemed to him a clever side
step, but the young person only said:
what particular poems by Browning
do you like best? Are you not inter-
ested in his fundamental conception of
human life as an endless process of
growth? Are you musician enough to
trace the harmony of the imagery and
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-08-30
Verbatim.

Miss Pechis = Gracious! Della.
there comes that tiresome Mr.. De
Trop. I'm not at home, but if that,
box of candy he's got l hope he'll
leave it.
Della lat the door)-she's not at
home, sor, but if thot's candy he hov
she hopes yell lave it.-Philadelphia
Press.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-08-30

metrical structure of 'Abt Vogler' with
the message of the poet?"
"Music?" said the man. rising might
lily to the occasion. "Yes, l think l
like the musical poems best" Memory
seemed to rush in to save him. After
a quarter of a century the school
readers rose before him. Eyes, I can
never forget the haunting music of
The Pied Piper of Hamelin.'"
And then he could almost have
sworn that the gifted young person
said "Rats!" under her breath. Yet,
being in polite society, he only be-
came vaguely aware that his sister
was right, and that he:had forgotten
what to do with his hands. Or was
it his feet?
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-08-30

have brought home to the people OF
the country, as was never brought
home before, the terrible power which
can be exercised by those white men
who are dreaded even while they are
despised.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-08-30
A TRAGEDY.

Advocate Printer-What's the mat
ter now?
Ditto Editor-Why, in my story I de-
scribed the heroine as an "artful miss"
and the typesetter set it up lawful
mess" Lampoou.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-08-30

Almost quarter of the women Of
Germany earn their living by their
own labor, mostly in farm work.-N.
Sun.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-08-30

It is said that frequent sun baths
ara the best-known hair tonics for
womau's hair.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1902-02-07
CLERKS WISE SUGGESTION.

CLERK - WISE SOdOE0I lON.
II have lately been much troubled
with dyspepsia, belching and sour
stomach" writes M. s.. Mead, lead
ing pharmacist of Attelboro, Mass
II could eat hardly anything with
out suffering several hours. My
clerk suggested I try Kodol Dyspep-
STA Cure which l did with most hap
py results. I have had no more
trouble and when one can go to eat
ing naince pie, cheese candy and
nuts after such a time, their digest
ion must be pretty good. I endorse
Kodol Dyspepsia Cure heartily. "You
don t have to diet. Eat all the good
food you, want but don't overload the.
stomach. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure di-
gest your food i, :.
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5WglILMofF,T

SAAehAN
M Mn. PeterHons niece with her
two children from Spencer
South Dakota are visiting
Mr.. and Mrs. Petersons this week.
s. A. Wheeler of Reading took
the train north from Wilmont Mon
day took UP real estate matters j.
Stevens County. ~ #
: : The infant son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Anton, Koch died last Saturday in
torment of remains St. Killian took
place Tuesday. Nh
Frank McCabe of Reading was
doing business in Wilmont Tueday.
Hayes and Reilly will ship 6 cars
of fat stock for Chicago Saturday.
The stock will be in charge Of Tom
Hayes and Jack Carey one or two
cars of stock was shipped earlier IN
the week Willnont is one of the best
stock shipping stations in the
country. I'M
The supper for the purpose Of
finishing the debt on the Presby:
terrain church last Friday night was
u complete success. A neat sum Of
something over 81, being realized.
The debt is n ow practically wiped
out and the society feels we'll pleas
ed to know that the church is entire
ly free from debt. - \;
Mrs. Gust Kalkbrenner our dray
man has sold out his Wilmont in
terests it is said to to Carroll Co.
Iowa parties for consideration OF
100000. 4
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1902-02-07

f. l.. Schwartz reports a better
business for January this year than
for the same month last year and
two years ago.
Wrinkles are smoothed away by
its healing touch. Brain tired and
depressed people will find a cure in
Rocky Mountain Tea. 35cts. City
Pharmacy.
S. Kindlund reports a good sale at
Francs last Monday considering the
weather the sale amounted to
$1041. 10 the clerk was short one
cent on the sale.
Cut this ct and take it to City
Pharmacy and get a free sample of
Chamberlain Stomach and Liver
Tablets, the best physic. They aslo
cure disorders of the stomach
biliousness and headache.
The ladies Of the Presbyterian
church will give their monthly tea
! in the church parlors Wednesday
afternoon Feb. 18th from 2:30 to
$50 o clock. All are most cordially
invited.
A lot Of new copy right books at
City Pharmacy. -.
Frank Saxon will look after the
engine of the Worthington Mill
company during Andrew Nystrom's
sickness. He and AL johnson will
change off as to night and day SER
vice.
A petition to the legislature, is
being circulated, praying that action
on the new tax law be deferred un-
til the people are more enlightened,
and constitutional amedments SUBJ
mitted to the voters.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1902-02-07
TEiEsIJREWAY TO CALIFORNIA.

THEsIJRE WAY TO CALIFORNIA.
You can go to California and
through TOURIST car, which leaves
Cedar Rapids every Tuesday at $40
p. M, via B: G. R. en-. Ry. Our
rates arc as low as via any other
route and the service first class il
every respect. II ~
Hyou are thinking o. making the
trip, 40 not fail TO secure your
berthsiahead through any agent Of
this company. J.. -. ~. ~: ,sj....
r.. Jno. G.. Farmer,
@s5 s;f.>2ss A. G.: P. & T. A.
,js'ss 5B g. R: &, n. Ry.
Arp. 30 Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
- =
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1902-02-07
HICKS WEATHER.

February promises to come in dur
ing the existence of reactionary.
storm conditions. From Saturday
the list, to about Monday the 3rd,s
fluctuating barometric readings will
pass over the country, attended. in
many parts by cloudiness, rain and
snow. Sharp change to colder may
be looked for behind these reaction-
aly' storms, spreading from west: to
east, causing marked fall of tenn.
pe1'ature even into the south, before.
the Vulcan storm period central on,
the 9TH begins to make itself felt.
Squalls and gust of rain and snow
are apt to be numerous and active
at the Moon g apogee on and about
the first d y Of February. III. s.
From about the 9Th to the 10th
falls regular and decided STORM
period. On the eighth near the CEN
ter of this period, the Moon is in
conjunction with Sun and Earth, or
at it's ''New," while less than two
days after, it is on the celestial
equator, From about the 9TH to the
10th may be expected an unseasona-
BILE rise of temperature, the barome-
ter will fall too low and threatening
indications and storms of marked
energy will organize in western ex-
,tremes and take up their march east
ward across the country. During
a period Of three days, including the
9Th and 10th no one need be sur
prised to see warm wave for the
season, attended by lightning and
thunder, with heavy rains to the
southwark, turning to snow and
blizzards along the north side of the
country. Another high barometer,
northwesterly gales and cold wave
will follow closely behind these
storms, and spread progressively
eastward over the country from
about the 10th to the 18th. Watch
reports of weather conditions closely
at this period, see what the ''gov-
eminent" tells you, what press dis
patches Say, and what actually tran
spires at your own door.
About the 18th to 18th, it will re-
act to renewed storm conditions
that is, the barometer will fall,
winds will shift to easterly and
southerly, the temperature will rise,
cloudiness will increase, and rain
and snow squalls will break out in
various parts, m owing eastward.
These perturbations will be followed
in turn by change to colder, north
westerly winds and high barometer.
February as a rule is characterized
by very unstable weather conditions;
the etom periods are not obliterated,
but spurts of rain and snow are liza
BILE to develop at almost any time.
The equinoctial battle between Bore
as and the advancing tropical in
fluences is on, and the conditions
are ripe for sporadic rain and snow
at any time. But the general and
marked storms Of the month will
fall in the regular and reactionary
storm periods. See if they don't.
The last half Of February is fully
under the perturbing pressure of
Earth 8 equinox. indicated, by, the
white brace, marked EARTH in the
storm diagram. Not only this. but
4 Venus disturbance is also coinci-
- r. s1.e -: >*t2s
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STOPS THE COUGH AND WORKS
OFF THE COLD. z;

Laxative Promo Quinine Tablets
cure cold in one day. No Cure,
no Pay. Price Is cents.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1902-02-07
Don't fail to cali Oh
the new firm at \ the
Lewis Dept. Store.

Us 4 5000 worth crockery at 20 per
cent and 80 per cent off for next
thirty days. Murdoch and Hoover:
frs. Frank Crandall. of Omaha
MI arrived here Thursday afternoon for
81 visit with friends and relativses. .
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1902-02-07
F.. L. Nance.
LOCAL NEWS

Bring in your keys. DieckhoH
Bros.
Font forget the Cut in crockery
.SAt Murdock and Hoover's.
ssESsS, j M. Shanahan unloaded a car of
B seeders and drills, Wednesday.
j. j.. Shafer of Dell Rapids s. D.
visiting his brother in law, VIM.
( uyse this week.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1902-10-07
MANY PERSONS INJURED.
Severe Storm in the Death Valley o
California.

Los Angeles. CAL Oct. 7-Advices
from Bailarat, IN 70 county, the point
from which Death valley expeditions
are outtitted, tell of a terrific wind
and rain storm that swept over the
Panamint range several days ago, do
ing great damage to property and in
juring many persons.
Porter Bros house, the leading ho-
tel in Ballaret, was wrecked. -Four
persons who were in the diningroom
were hurled about. The iron roof of
Porter Bros store opposite the hotel
was torn off and blown several hun
dred yards. A small store which ad-
Joined was demolished. The Ballaret
hotel suffered extensive damages, one
side being blown out and the funiture
of many rooms hurled into the streets
and broken. A saloon nearby was
turned completely around. Many resi-
dences were blown to the ground
Eight persons besides those in the
Porter Bros hotel received injuries
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1902-10-07
PRESIDENT I SEEKING Il. PLAN.
President Roosevelt Seeking Plan for
the Resumption Of Coal Mining
In the East.
Former Head Of the Locomotive Fire.
man Has Long Conference
With the President.
Latter Urges that Miners Return to
Work and Promise that Congress
Will Investigate.

Washington, Oct. COMMISSIONS
General Of immigration Sargent had a
long conference with the president re-
garding the coal strike Commissions
er Sergent. from his long connection
with labor organizations, is fully ir-
formed on the question and it is un-
derstood that he will work along the
lines Of the plan that is now being
considered for bringing the strike to
an end. AS stated in these dispatches
this plan is to have the miners return
to work with pledge from the presi-
dent that he will appeal to congress to
examine into the Justice of their com
plants and remedy them SO far as
lies in the power of the legislative
branch Of the government; also that
it be suggested to Governor Stone Of
Pennsylvania that he cause the Penn
sylyania legislature to make similar
inquiry.
Mr.. Sargent left Washington dur
ing the afternoon. 1T is believed here
that he will meet President Mitchell
in Philadelphia and lay before him
the presidents hopes that the miners
may see their way clear to end the
strike L