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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-02-15
.o~eth,.x new i. Mechanics.

Great is the humor of woman-when
she doesn't mean it. Greatis the nerve
of woman-when she doesn't need it.
And great are the nerves of woman
when it so pleases her. This combina-
4ion is blamable for the following: A
very pretty girl sat in Long Island
railroad train en- route for Manhattan
Beach. Suddenly the whistle blew. 1t
IS perhaps not necessary to say that a
Long Island railroad whistle is more
efficacious than otherwise. 1t is tuned
10 the key Of w, and is operated with a
great diapason, giving out different
brand of yelping shrek than anything
known to nature. To repeat, the
whistle whistled. "Oooow," cried the
pretty girl. isn't that awful? /
should think the railroad company
would have these things oiled. It is an
outrage" Her companion had often
heard Of wetting whistles, but never
before of oiling them. Think it over
Brooklyn Times.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-02-15
A STUDY IN WATERS.
One Proud Spirited Fellow Who Al
ways Warns His Victim When
1t In Too Late.

To a philosophical observer the
walters of New York furnish an end
less field for study. So numerous are
the restaurants of this great city,
and so diverse their nationalities, that
it would seem as if nearly all styles
of walters in the world are here repre-
scented, says the Tribune. From the
respectful servility of the French
walters at Delmonico's or Sherry's
down to the positive turbulence of the
Irish-American walters who "sling
hash in the Bowery it is far cry
indeed; yet each style has its uses,
and the customers would complain it
they missed it.
There is waiter in Park Row who
affects neither the manners of Fifth
avenue nor the Bowery. His spirit is
too proud for servility; his physique
unsuited for truculency. He pursues
the middle course, of always trying
to make the customer feel responsible
for the faults of the service or the bill
of fare. Does he careiessly spill soup
upon the clothes of a patron of the
pace, will he apologize? Never. In
cheerful and forgiving voice he ex-
claims:
'Look out. sir!"
Does he utter the warning before
the coffee Stops over and descends be-
tween your collar and neck? Never.
But as it trickles down your spine, he
courteously cries:
''Look out, sir!" ..--..
Every outrage which he commits
upon the unoffending customer is fol-
lowed by this "Look out, sir!" and the
odd thing about it is that nobody slugs
him, but nearly all his victims are
made to feel in some unaccountable
way that if they had done their part
in Cooking out" the accident would
not have happened. One day, however,
this impudent waiter met a man who
would not suffer himself so easily to
be placed in the wrong. AS splash of
gravy fell upon his cuff, and the genial
"Look out, sir!" fell upon his ear, he
leaped up, and with whitening scorn
and in tones which reached the ear of
the boss at the far end of the ROOM
exclaimed:
'Why do you tell me to Look out.
STRIP You spilled the gravy on me
without any warning at all. Now you
tell me to look OUT Do you intend to
do it again?'
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-02-15
SUNDAY IN OLD VIRGINIA.
The Day Was a. Strictly and Generals
~ Observed NJ In New
England.

There is an idea prevalent that the
strict observance of the Sabbath was
almost wholly confined to the north.
Nothing could be more erroneous.
writes Thomas Nelson Page, in Scrib-
ner's. 1.-THE blue laws" of Connecticut,
surviving as proverb for hardness,
have impressed the popular mind and
fixed an idea which was, however. not
absolutely accurate. AS severe as those
enactments were, they were scarcely
more rigorous, whenever the observ-
ance of Sunday was concerned, than
those under which the colony of Viz
ginia was established and de-
veloped. Attendance on Divine serv-
ice was as strictly enforced,
and absence from all secular employ
ment as rigidly enjoined. 1t was a
church-going time. Religion en-
crossed the energies of the people.
Participation in worship was the law,
and whoever failed in it was law
breaker and was dealt with according
ly. Later on-that is. prior to the rev.
olution-came a certain laxness-the
reflex of the taut-strung bow-when
the fox-hunting, cock-ighting parsons
were indicted into the livings; but, as
the causes were temporary. the main
cause being the political appointment
by an absentee metropolitan, SO the
effect was not permanent.
1t was out of these conditions that
Hanover presbytery sprang, under the
influence of Patrick Henry's model the
eloquent "Parson Davies" later the
president of Princeton college. In
deed, while some of the English par
sons who have made the time noto-
rious were dicing, and drinking, and
fighting, the laity were standing
stanchly for the old customs. and were
making the saddling upon them of
such miscreants one of the charges
in their Indictment against the gov
eminent "at home" They withstood
innovation. They kept the faith. They
built churches which still stand to-day
as memorials of their piety and church
maDship.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-02-15
FOR FEMININE READERS.
Modish Fabrics for the Seasons
Dresses-Latest Styles in
Millinery.

Black dress fabrics of every known
weave are to be greatly favored for
the two seasons before us, and spe-
cial and attractive exhibit of stylish
and elegant black goods, made this
week, included silk warp fabrics as
soft as velvet and as fine as India silk,
mohairs and canvas weaves, wool eta
mines. English whipcords, cameIs-
hair serges, handsome French chew
lots and Henriettas, plain and fancy
brilliantines, drap d'ete, drap d'Atma,
Eoliennes, and gypsy cloths, repped
silk and repped woods in both fine and
heavy cords, new weaves in Carmellte
and doubie-faced cashmere, and some
handsome novelties with crepe
grounds, in dull black or with mer-
cerized surfaces. Most of these black
materials are represented in different
qualities and prices, and the English
mohairs, brilliantines and French dl-
agonals possess degree OF durabli-
ity that is unsurpassed by any black
fabrics save English serge, which, how
ever, is less dressy in effect than the
finer woven goods. Many other stand
ard black stuffs indicate an even great
err demand for elegant black fabrics
than was experienced just year ago
when this color largely prevailed, says
the New York Post.
From present appearances, the
styles in millinery will be quite as
varied, with as great q scope for per-
sonal choice, as they have been for
several seasons past. There are turn
up and turn-down models, for long,
short, round and slender faces, and
STYLES to wear above a pompadour
couture, and those which adjust them
selves gracefully above the new low
coiled and much-waved style of hair
dressing, the compact Dutch braid or
the classic Clytie arrangement. The
short-back sailor and shepherdess mod
els reappear, completed by very rich
and striking fall decorations. The
French toque is almost an exact re-
plea of the shape popular two years
ago. The English walking hat is an
attractive style this year, and will be
greatly favored, as it's shape is very
becoming to the majority of women
The brims of the new models are grace
full and artistic. The curling brilns
of felt hats are velvet-bound, and the
straight fiat styles are either draped
at the edge or faced entirely with vel
vet. Long plumes and short fluffy tips
are both employed upon one hat, the
longer ones gracefully disposed SO that
some Of them fall upon the hair.
Double-faced satin ribbon is much
used on smart styles for general wear,
and also black lace or tulle intermixed
with some remarkably effective au-
tumn flowers and foliage, including
velvet geranium and nasturtium bios
SONS in scarlet, bronze, brown and
gold. There are also used shaded roses
and wall-fowers, phlox blooms, sumac
buds, holly berries, gorgeous dahlias,
that look like velvet rosettes; lobelia.
saliva and gladioli blossoms in all the
glowing shades of red, silver gray
"dusty miller" golden-rod sprays
and single orchid, cabbage rose, and
hibiscus blooms, formed Of q mixture
of silk and velvet petals.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-02-15
MEANING OF THE HEADDREss.
The Zulu Woman Expresses Her Con-
ditfon In Life by the COnstruc-
ti0n of 1t.

It must not be overlooked that many
uncivilized people express age, posi-
ton and married or single state by the
way they dress their locks. After all,
when one comes to think of it, the
idea is just as practical as the wear
ing of a golden band on one finger.
The wedding ring is not always in
evidence here, for lady is ofttimes
gloved; and while some married men
wear the circlet in England and on
the continent, others do not; and,
again, many bachelors sport the very
ring that should only be used to pro-
claim the welded state. But the Zulu
woman is really more practical, for
first glance at her couture assures the
observer whether she is maid or wife,
says Cassel's Magazine.
The cone-shaped erection is the le-
Ultimate symbol of her state of wife
hood, and, indeed, cannot be legally
worn till the marriage rites are duly
completed. Save for this all-impor-
tant cone, the brides head is closely
shaved, an assegai being used to per-
form this delicate operation. A mar
riageable Kafir youth is also to be
recognized by the way he wears his
hair. 1t is shorn to leave ring around
the scalp, and then literally smeared
with ochre and fat. When all the hair
has been removed save the woolly por-
ton on the crown, which is trained in
a circular form and about four inches
= -
coal is firmly attached, and this serves
as convenient pocket for the young
man. He is proud of his token of man
hood, and thrusts into it much of thu
small miscellanea which an English
man slows away in his trouser peck
cts
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-02-15
Chine.e O0cialdom.

The "Sin Wan Pao" complains that
the higher and lower ranks of Chinese
officialdom have little intercourse and
hence are not mutually helpful. But
Chang Chih-tung and Tuan Fang, of
Hupeh, have devised an excellent plan
to overcome this difficulty. Formerly
all subordinates consumed much time
in calling upon their superiors at their
yamens each LIST and 18th of each
month. In Wuchang they have now
arranged one central meeting place
for subordinates and, superiors, with
six fixed days month for general
assemblage of officials. This plan
somewhat resembles the western par.
lament, for the officials come toge ther
and discuss public business. Japan has
had the same idea, and her officials
come together regularly at one meet.
ing place for mutual counsel and help.
Shanghai Mercury.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-02-15
LIFE IS LOVE.

Life is love, and time is giving
Voice to Eden's whispered song,
And the choral lips of living
Laugh in music loud and long.
Wrong are they who bind life's story
10 some sad, funeral strain;
Life came singing out Of glory,
Shall go singing back again.
What although the voice of signing
undertones the sweetest bars
OF that anthem life is trying
To lift up beyond the stars
IT'S that undertone of sadness,
Throbbing through the lips of care.
Which uplifts life's song of gladness
III 1t holds an angels prayer.
Nature writes her notes in flowers,
Making hymnals without words,
Which In joys hymeneal hours
Are translated by the birds;
And life lifts these ever higher,
Reaching for the heart of love,
Thrilling. trilling like Tyre
Chorded to song above;
Then, full-thgoated, lift from under
Bass and tenor till they roll
On resounding waves of thunder
Upward from the human soul.
Life is love ana love immortal
Riseth singing from the sod.
Flyeth singing through the portal
OF the harmonies of God.
Boston Transcript.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-02-15
ANCIENT TURF TR1cKERy.
War Caused by . stratagem Re-
sorted to by Arabians to
Win q Horse Race.

A recent traveller in eastern Arabs
has revived little OF the ancient his.
tory of that part Of the world, trac-
ing back for many centuries the cause
of bitter feeling between two tribes
that were at war for 40 years, their
relations being somewhat strained.
The explorer found, says the Chi
cago Inter Ocean, that in 562 A. D.
the sheikh of one of the tribes made q
foray on another tribe and as a ran
som for the booty and captives taken
he demanded and received famous
horse named Dahis. The extraor-
binary fieetness of Dahis was the boast
of his new owner, and it was not long
before a match was made to race him
against Fezara mare belonging &c
another tribe, and also noted for her
feetness. The wager was for 100 cam
els, and the length Of the course was
about ten miles.
AS the day fixed for the race APP
preached the horses were kept without
water, the plan being that the horse
which first plunged its nose into the
water trough ten miles from the start
ing point should be declared the win
ner. The racers were to run riderless.
and to make them gallop their best
maddening thirst was to take the place
of whip and spur.
The superior strength Of Dahis toiI
over the yielding sandy plain, and he
was well ahead of his rival, the mare
which, though very feet, had less stay
ing power. The horse would undoubt-
eddy have won the race if it had not
been for a trick perpetrated by the
tribe to which the mare belonged
They had concealed man in hollow
on the track over which the animals
were racing, with orders to check
Dahis and throw him off his course.
The trick succeeded, and the mare was
first at the watering trough.
The dishonest stratagem by which
Dahis was defeated came to the knowl-
edge Of his owner. After vain efforts
to adjust the difficulty, the two tribes
resorted to war, and the feud has con-
tinued in mild form to the present
day. The war lasted for 40 years, and
the unpleasantness has been handed
down from generation to generation
though long periods sometimes elapse
in which there are no active hosti.ities.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-02-15
The Decline of
Domesticity
By SADIE MERRITT,
Paria CoeFesnondent.
Paris Correspondent.

change this but that the tendency IN that tha
has been growing for the last quarter century has been
steadily advancing To-day the American woman thinks less
home husband less of her family than she did when
I left my home land few years
The mannish replaced the womany of but
years ago. and with the coming OF the mannsh there
developed freedom from home duties and home
thought for the husband the the daughter than there
was days There society Scandals though they
less attention because unhappy
rages divorces.
And why?
Because because the family
has apart father mother and daughter have
found new interests outside of the family circle.
argues i'll for the future OF the nation that this should be
nation alone of but of
amlies-amlies bound together by the old sacred ties
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-02-15

never wore this regalia over khaki
uniform.
Mr.. Cooper was offered large sums
by officers anxious to purchase this
regalia as remembrance of Aguin-
aldo, but declined, considering it the
more valuable from the fact that only
one other such suit of regalia owned
by Aguinaldo is known. According to
a current army rumor, that suit was
presented to the insurgent leader by
Maj. Gen. E. S. Otis, and is now in
Washington.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-02-15

too, I do believe" added the soulless
old woman, who believed in so few
things.
AS he sat in the corner of the car.
rage he pulled at his mustache and
looked out of the window.
She had him in the throng after q
little, leading him here and there, and
publicly making much of the hand
some young nephew who was going to
marry to please her. Presently he saw
her heading for a group of evening
suits gathered around glimmer OF
white.
''Miss Montluzin, let me present.
He did not hear the rest of it. The
group had melted away-even his aust
was gone-and still he stood looking t
her. There was no pink in her face
now. -O.
"People will notice us-don't look
So" she murmured. "You think it
wasn't fair? But how is girl-a rich
girl-to know when a man really loves
ner?"
He tried to speak, but only made an
inarticulate sound in his throat.
81 have come back to town-to wait
for my farmer" she went on, steadily.
IF he came-and were a genuine ma n,
I think should know him. Shall we
go to the supper-room?"
MAY take you to my aunt?" he
asked, with the voice of one on the
rack; and excuse myself to her? l
Il am not well. l think I will go
home.'
And then, being woman
She paused she was about to take
his offered arm, and looked down at
her jeweled fan.
"Perhaps-perhaps you might call
tomorrow" she said, timidly.
And they went to the supper-room.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-02-15
Oyst4e Pie.

Take deep dish, color it with puff
paste, lay an extra layer around the
edge of the dish, put in the oven and
bake nicely. When done fill the pie
with oysters; season with butter, salt
and pepper, sprinkle little -four over
them and cover with q thin crust OF
pun paste. Bake quickly; when the
top crust is done. the oysters should be.
Cincinnati Enquiries.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-02-15
Human Faculty,

II specks," said Uncle Eben, "dat
de gift O. prophecy wouldn' do us much
good if we had it. A man knows he's
gwinter' git sick if he eats too much
dinner. But he goes an does it,
Washington Post.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-02-15
The wom.. ana Her wr.p.


Once upon a time Boreas and Dame
Fashion were talking about their re-
spective powers, when woman passed
by wearing long sealskin wrap.
''See me make her take it off" said
Boreas. He blew and he blew and he
blew; and the harder he blew, the
tighter the woman drew the wrap to
her.
Dame Fashion smiled, and when he
desisted she stepped up to the woman
with confidential air.
''Your wraps very much out of style,
my DEAR" she said.
Immediately the woman took it OF.
Moral.The breath of fashion IL
more powerful than the north wind
N. Y Herald.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-02-15
A Blessinr In Disguise.

81 like this house very WELL" OBJ
served the prospective purchaser, "but
the view from this side is simply hide
Gus. One can see nothing from these
windows but those great, smoky iron
works. # they were only somewhere
else
my dear sir" enthusiastically re-
piled the agent, "those iron works are
Blessing. There is a black fertilizer
factory just beyond them, and they
hide the thing from this house COM
pletely.'-Puck.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-02-15
Balef.l Ixnerance.

Little Willie-Paw, where is tn 18TH
mus NV Panama?
Father-Th' Isthmus Of Panama?
Willie, do you mean to tell me that
you have been studying grammar two
years and you don't know where the
Isthmus of Panama is? If you aims
able to conjugate the Isthmus of Pam
anna for me by tomorrow night. Ill
make you 60 to bed at six o'clock.
Ohio State journal.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-02-15

From the Automobilist's View.
First Chauffeur-Have any bad luck
during your trip yesterday?
Second Chauffeur-Oh, l ran over a
man. but l don't think l hurt the ma
chine any.-Ohio State Journal.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-02-15

A man is ever ready to condone an
other mans failings, his excuse being:
what is folly in man is crime in
woman" Cincinnati Commercial
Tribune.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-02-15

At the time of that visit
what is it, do you suppose, that
impressed me most?
1t was the gradual lessening
of the family ties; the decline OF
domesticity.
Not that | had been away
so long as to see a marked
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-02-15

II can't see that your summer in the
woods has benefited you SO much, "
said his aunt, sharply, as they were
driven together to the first social event
of the season. "You have less color
than ever, and no appetite; and have
asked you three questions without get.
ting the shadow of an answer"
He started, and pulled himself to.
gether, and tried to listen.
"She'll be there tonight, Jack" he
heard her saying, exultingly. "She
came back from Europe day or two
ago; and if you play your cards right
you'll have rich wife-and good one,
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-02-15

just how he was placed. This is way
country girls have, and it throws an
awkward element into love making.
If they would only see for themselves
but no! Everything must be ex-
planned to them.
cts an awful thing to be poor end
ambitious" he went on, nervously. II
cannot afford luxuries, little one. I've
got to marry money. That wealthy
aunt l have told you of-she will not
leave me cent unless marry to suit
her. She has selected a young lady she
would like me to marry-Miss Mont
luzin-and all can do is to go and meet
this young lady and-try to love her.
If you knew what desert my life will
be! If it were only you, little Rose!
Don't you care for me the least little
bit ~
He had risen, and tried to take her
hand; and there was the look on his
face so few women know how to resist.
She did not see the look, nor the hand
reaching toward hers; and so it
CHANGED that both were ineffective.
She had turned aside little, and was
very pale and very sad-his heart beat
more quickly at sight 1T.
''Don't I love you the least little
bit?" she repeated, thoughtfully
''Why do you ask that, I wonder? Why
should that matter to you?"
"Because-oh, little girl, because !
must go away tomorrow" he cried,
leaning forward in his eagerness to see
if she were touched. But she still
turned away; and there was a great
sadness in the face whose dropping
eyes told their own story.
"Then you will go your way, and /
NINE" she said, in the low, quiet tones
that were so near to her. "After awhile
my farmer will come along. Doesn't
it make you little sad to think how
hard my hands will grow with all the
butter making will be old and
bent and shabby-looking in little
while, as the others are?'
"Great heavens, Rose!" he cried out
hoarsely, starting toward her with his
arms held out, his face ashen; but be.
fore he reached her she was gone. A
little distance away she paused and
looked back over her shoulder.
'Good-by," she said. ''It has been a
pleasant summer-and I have learned
oh, how much have learned!"
After long while he lifted his face
from his arm.
at was good she went-then,"
he muttered, with dry lips. IF she had
stayed another moment II would
have been a fool"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-02-15

away from my native country, America for several
but old land long deferred visit recently
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-09-09
BIG TEST OF
FIGHTING STRENGTH

NEWPORT, r. L, Aug. 30.-The army
of defense n the attacking squadron
under Admiral Higginson spent the
first "a hours of the period of prepara-
ton in Strengthening their forces. The
Massachusetts, heavy artillery came
from Boston today. part going to Fort
Rodman, at New Bedford, and six bat
teries coming here as additional re-en-
forcements to Fort Adams and Fort
Greble. The army also received in ad-
dition to the Rhode Island Signal Corps
of 20 men.
The forts in this vicinity are now
practically IN a war footing and the
men behind the guns mortars, search
lights and at the various signal sta
tons >are ready for war, imaginary
though it be. The principal event in
this city today was the arrival of the
Massachusetts troops. The heavy ar
, tillery came first, followed by the naval
militia. The artillery on reaching here
was at once split into companies and
sent by tugs to the three forts at the
entrance of Narragansett Bay. The
naval brigade found the gunboats May.