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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-10-25
Literature as a Trade.

To write successfully means to serve
a long and hard apprenticeship; II
means to do many things badly in or
der to learn to do few things well;
to read many authors, and good ones;
to live with words till one knows their
value, and it means, too, that one must
know something about the reality of
life, In short, writing is trade, just
like bookbinding or type-setting. 1t is
different, of course; it has a higher
side, we believe, but to think only of
the higher side, and ignore the trade
part of it, is to prepare ones self for a
great disappointment. Decidedly the
novice should not expect to earn PIN
money by setting down her day
dreams, when successful authors are
obliged to slog daytime and night
time in,order to learn the mechanics
Of the art.-Woman's Home Com
panion.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-10-25

after the marriage of Nicholas,
Princess Helena lived in the seclu-
sion Of her fathers palace in the
little capital of Montenegro. 1t was
not until two years after that she
gave her hand to Italy's present king
The empress of Russia is called
the most beautiful royal woman in
all the courts of the old world, but
her loneliness and splendid state have
brought her very little happiness.
Through no fault of her own she is
unloved by her people, and though
she has served them faithfully, they
are set against her as an English and
German alien. The fact that in q
land where women rulers are de.
tested she has given birth to four
daughters tells sadly against her.
The three principal parties of the
empire, the powerful clerical party,
the military party, at whose head is
Grand Duke Vladimir, and the fac
ton headed by the dowager czarina
are all bitterly against her, though
she has used every effort to win their
kindness. And yet the czarina is a
woman of the marked ability and lib.
eral culture that one would expect
of a granddaughter of Queen Vic.
toria; but she is sad, unhappy
woman, whose pomp and splendor
are bitter irony to her real lone
liness among those whose show of
friendliness masks deep-rooted dis.
like, not to say hatred.
Upon her right hand at the ban.
quet which followed the reception of
the royal guests there sat the won.
an who by some curious trick of fate
had missed the throne and the hus-
band hat brought nothing but sor.
row to Alix of Hesse. An express
sion of deep melancholy has long
since settled down upon the beauti-
full face of the empress, while all
visitors to Rome comment upon
Queen Helena's radiant beauty; it is
well known that she has found fan
more happiness with Victor Emman-
uel than usually falls to the lot of
q royal consort. Truly, it would ap-
pear that most royal lives have more
than their share of tragedy.-Detroit
Free Press.
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ROYAL RIVALS MEET.
Empress of Russia and Queen OF
Italy Renew Acquaintance After
Several Years.

I For the first time in many years
Helena of Montenegro, now queen of
Italy, and the empress of all the
Russias met at the state banquet
given by Emperor Nicholas to the
visiting sovereigns of Italy on the
evening of July IA. The last pre-
vious meeting was upon the occasion
of the marriage of the young en-
peror to Princess Alix of Hesse.
That King Victor Emmanuel should
commence his visits to the foreign
courts by going toTSt.y Petersburg is
probably owing to the fact that his
wife is sort of adopted daughter Of
the dowager czarina of Russia, under
whose maternal care and at whose
expense she was educated at the
Muscovite court. Moreover, it was
the car who furnished her with that
sine qua non of all royal brides, a
dowry, upon her marriage to the
prince of Naples. For Queen Helena
the visit must have been a sort of
compensation for the disappoint
ment and humiliation she was COM
PEELED to undergo when Alix of Hesse
took the place on the Muscoyite
throne she had been brought up to
regard as her own. Indeed, while a
young girl at St. Petersburg she was
regarded by court and the royal fam
lily alike as the future czarina. To
the now widowed empress she has al
ways been an object of peculiar af-
lection and solicitude on this &C
count, while the late car was i'm
mensely fond of his 'little Monte
negron savage" whom he treated
with The same elephantine playful
ness and kindness he bestowed upon
his own daughter Xenia. Helena and
Xenia were as devoted to each other
as sisters, and no one resents more
bitterly the "usurpation," as she
terms it, of the Hessian princess
than the imperious and high-spirited
daughter Of Alexander III.
When the moment came, however,
for Nicholas to fulfill the projects of
his parents, he raised such strenuous
objections that the cherished plan
of the car had to be given up. He
had paid a visit to his aunt at Co.
burg, and fallen under the fascina-
ton of her niece by marriage.
Princess Alix. For more than year
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-10-25
TREES THAT SAVE HOUSES.
Certain Kinds That Are Relieved to
Be Proof Against the Shafts
Of Jupiter.

Everyone likes to see homes sur
| rounded by trees. yet many people are
afraid that by doing so they invite
danger from lightning shocks. It will
| be, therefore, of general interest to
learn that trees with leaves that are
long-pointed or spear-shaped are light
| ming proof. This curious theory has
been set down as fact by Canadian.
John Hugh Ross. That it is disputed
does not detract from it's interest.
"Willow trees are never struck" he
states, with decision. "Willow and
other long-pointed leaves droop in fine
weather and to greater degree on the
approach of rain or electrical disturb
ance. Trees that are not upright in
growth, but spreading or dropping, are
seldom struck, but pines. oaks and
Lombardy poplars are. These are all
upright.
'Trees with thick. smooth upper
cuticule are struck often, without re-
gard to their height. Trees of this class
should not be planted near dwellings.
The coming of an electric storm may
often be detected by the dropping at
titude of certain plants and leaves;
they are one of natures many warn
ings of coming events Plants that I
have noticed to droop before rain or
electric disturbance are the wild OK
ais, Canada or wood violet, wild vines,
parsley, vetches and the dicentras.
When the wild vine leaves droop take
your umbrella with you. Poplars, not
the silver variety: willows. sumacs,
naples and the elm droop more or less.
The elm, often 60 or so feet high, is
rarely struck. Farmers leave it when.
clearing the ground. 1t is a thing of
beauty and offers shade to the cattle
and safety during storm. The farm
er does not understand why, but he
knows the elms are rarely struck with
lightning."
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-10-25
RAILWAYS OF EGYPT.
to Alexandria and Has Eight
Trains q Day.

Most of the railways in Egypt have
been built and are owned by the state,
and in the Railway Magazine Mr.. A.
Vale gives some description of them.
There is story told of the old Cairo
to Suez line, first opened in 1859, which
shows how easily it's conductors used
to take matters. On one occasion, the
engine of the mail train was found
short of water in the middle of the
run. Consequently it was uncoupled
and sent to the next water tank to have
the tender filled, while the train was
left alone on the road for an hour or
two! Irregularities like these and ac-
cidents frequently occurred, which
brought the line into discredit, and in
1868, one year before the opening of
the Suez canal, it was-at least tenn
porarily-abandone says Westmin-
ster Gazette.
The Alexandria line is now consid-
cred the crack line of Egypt. It is by
far the most frequented line in the
country as regards passenger as well
as goods traffic, and the only one hav-
ing double track from end to end.
There are no fewer than eight trains
daily each way between Cairo and
Alexandria, besides some local trains
between country stations. Of these
eight trains, four are fast ones, doing
the journey in three hours five min
utes, giving an average running speed
of A miles an hour. The railway sta
lions are small, the principal one at
Alexandria, place of 100000 inhab-
itants-having but two platforms, one
of which is very seldom used. a.
The railway from Ismailia to Port
Said is characterized by Mr.. Vale as
"a disgrace" The Suez Canal COM
pany, to whom it belongs, officially
call it a "steam tramway," which is a
more appropriate name for it. The
gauge of this toy railway-which was
only built as recently as 1s93-is but
Is centimetres 1.-TWO feet five inches).
The line has some 80 passenger coach
es, and eight locomotives miniature
tender engines, with four-coupled
wheels about four feet in diameter,
and leading pair of wheels, OF even
boyle, and the trains cover the so miles
from Ismailia to Port Said in about
three hours, the load being 60 to 70
tons, and the road perfectly level. En-
gines, carriages, rails, ETC., are all of
French make.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-10-25
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

I'm the German empire, exclusive o.
| Bavaria and Wurtemburg, there arr
| 3,3O3 long-distance telephone sta
| tions.
The women of Ainu, North japan, ad
mire bearded faces, and they tattoo
their own faces to make them seen
sprouting with whiskers.
The Lincoln cathedral occupied 90
years in building. An English contract
or has recently estimated that he
could reproduce it in a few years for
$5,0O0,OO0.
The post office at Turin, Italy, is in
tested with rats, which destroy let
tiers and packages. All efforts to ex-
terminate them have failed, and 1t
may be necessary to erect new build
ing.
Because the expectation of frogs
from Canada to the United States
has become big business, the Cana
dams are in a quandary. If frogs are
game, the close season must be fixed
by the provincial authorities; if they
are fish, by the Dominion.
In his new book, ''The Uganda Pro-
tectorate," Sir Harry Johnston de-
clares that travelling on the Uganda
railway is like a trip through vast
geological garden. Among the ami
mails to be seen from the car windows
are the elephant, rhinoceros, gazelle,
buffalo, zebra, ostrich, gnu, etc.
When eight members of the ultra
socialistic municipal council at Mar
seille were unseated recently for lille
gal practice the mayor and IL other
members resigned. The government
has since dissolved the council and ap-
pointed commissioners to superintend
the affairs of the town until an cleo
tion can be held. 's4 a Is
A unique instance of an English lad
taking part in the late war was men
toned at the prize distribution at Chel-
tenham college recently The princi-
pal said that one of their present schol-
ars, boy named Griffiths, not yet 10
years of age, had served in the war
and won a couple of medals.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-10-25
TOBACCO CHEWING DECLINES.
Sanitary Regulations Of City Health
Boards Arc Hurting the Trade
of T0bacc0nists.

II suppose this board of health ordi-
nance to stop splitting in street cars
and all public places is a good thing"
said New York tobacco dealer the
other day, according to the Sun, "but
I've made up my mind that it is not a
good thing for my particular business.
I don't sell nearly as much chewing
tobacco as did before the newspapers
began to talk about the splitting nuis-
ance and induced the health officials
to try to stop it.
''My sales of chewing tobacco had
been failing off for a long while be-
fore the ordinance was posted in the
street cars. That, I believe, was be-
cause the tobacco chewing habit was
getting less popular all the time.
Everybody knows it was steadily
growing out of favor among the bet.
ter classes, especially among young
men, but that doesn't account for the
regular slump in sales in the last wear.
The law has done that.
II don't know whether I've had any
compensation for smaller chewing to-
bacco sales or not. My cigar and
smoking tobacco trade has grown
right along. I've been trying to figure
out whether the decline OF tobacco
chewing has anything to do with it. or
whether it is just a natural increase.
but can't tell with any certainty.
Il am sure many of my customers
who have quit chewing are smoking
more than they did, but the increase
of trade in cigars and cigarettes
hasn't corresponded closely enough
with the loss Of chewing tobacco sales
to make me sure one is due to the
other"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-10-25
Metals Return to Earth.

After its life in the arts, NJ. Ditto
tells us, metal is gradually returned
to the earth-in most cases in its orig
inal form. Iron and tin are recon-
verified into oxides; copper into oxides
and sulphides; silver into sulphides,
and lead into sulphides and carbon
ates. Gold and platinum, usually
found pure, disappear through friction
and mechanical action. In the soil the
more or less altered metals are fur
Their changed by saline substances and
water, and are slowly washed into cav
tiles, to form metaliferous deposits
for the use of future centuries.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-10-25
PIONEER OF PLANTS.
The Skunk-Cnhbage Me1ts Ice and
Snow in Its Preparations for
the Spring.

| Lovers nf outdoor life have only
good words for that strong-scented
denizen of swamps, the skunk. cab
bage. This plant, hardy, brave, I'M
daunted in any weather, breaks the
ice about it even in January, and the
careful observer may find it at that
unpropitious season already making
its preparations for the spring. The
author of '"The Brook Book" says:
Zone cold day in early February
was proving along the underbrush
near my fayorite cabbage patch, when
became aware that some one else
was also crunching about in the snow
there. This person, dressed like my
self in short skirt and heavy boots,
| was intent on some odd business which
| I could not at first determine. She
was bending down, thrusting her hand
into the snow, and I could see that
she held some small cleaning instru-
1nent. It proved to be thermometer.
"'Good morning!' said I. AS she re-
tu1 ned my greeting. she thrust the
thermometer down into an opening
in the snow.
"sMay I look?' asked, suiting the
action to the word.
''The opening in the snow had not
been made by her hand. as I supposed
1t was rounded smoothly, and down at
the bottom I could see the top of a
skunk-ca bbage hood.
'How came the air-holes there?
What did the thermometer mean? I
looked inquiringly at my new friend.
She showed me that some of the open
ings were small, and others as much
as eight inches across. In no case
was the hood of the plant on a level
with the surface of the ground. In the
larger ones the cavity was widest at
the bottom, the snow walls forming an
arch over the top.
"While we were talking the Their
mometer had been registering the
temperature of one Of the plants. She
gently drew it forth and read its rec
ord. This she jotted down in her note
book against the Gate. She then let
me look at her notes.
"We found that the temperature of
the plant was. in many cases. consid-
erably above that of the atmosphere.
The largest difference between the
two was four degrees. Centigrade, or
seven and one-fifth degrees, Fahren-
heit.s
"'1 thought when I first noticed
those holes said she, that the skunk
cabbages must be at work generating
enough heat to melt the snow around
them. Now I am sure of it. I have
visited this place every day for week,
and my record shows that the plant
not only keeps from freezing itself,
but is able to melt out brea thing
hole besides.'"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-10-25
PRINCESS OF WALES.
English People Are Glad That Thei
Future Queen Is So Much
Part of Them,

When Victoria Mary seats herself
in the gilded chair and receives the
golden crown upon her head the in.
sigma will fall upon one of the most
interesting personages of modern
history.
The world is SO accustomed to the
thought of old Queen Victoria, with
her ways and her wisdom, and to
Queen Alexandra, with her bearing
and her beauty, that the younger
woman has heretofore escaped atten-
ton. .tiF
Yet none deserves it more than
she, says the Chicago Chronicle.
Her characteristics are more pro-
nounced, her personality more capti-
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THE HAUT-PARLEUR.
II IL q Loud-TalkinE Telephone, In
vented in France, Which Does
Wonderful Things.

A loud-talking telephone, which has
been invented recently in France, is
entertainingly described in Every
body's Magazine. 1t means, briefly,
that a man can sit at his ease in his
armchair and talk to another man at
distance, as though he were right there
in the armchair opposite.
Neither party to the conversation
need disturb himself to go to the tele-
phone, and when communication is
open between two points it is not even
necessary to ring up. You have only to
speak out, and ask if your man is there.
Or, perhaps, you are in the midst OF
discussion with some people in your
office, when new voice rises above the
many voices in the room, begs pardon
for interrupting. but desires to know
if the bill of lading for that last car
has come to hand yet. You recognize
a customer over in Brooklyn, and the
curious part of it is, he is over in Brook
lvn at the moment he breaks in upon
your Office confab. Probably he wish
es to ask you something privately.
Then he has merely to say so. You
shove button of the switchboard on
YOUR desk, and the loud-talking tele-
phone is changed back into an ordin-
ary, discreet, whispering affair. To
hear what your customer is saying
now, you have to put your ear to the
receiver.
At first glance the haut-parleur may
not seem good for much outside of an
amusing novelty. A message by tele-
phone certainly cannot be worth the
sending if it does not deserve the small
trouble of lifting receiver to the ear.
There are many instances, however,
in which it is invaluable. In the case
of a ship, for instance, particularly
during a storm or battle, the man at
the wheel has vital word of command
for the man at the engines. He can
not go to the telephone. But it the
boat is fitted up with haut-parleurs,
then the pilot merely speaks out his
command, the engineer hears him
above the din of the storm and machin-
ery. and answers from wherever he
happens to be at the moment. Equally
important would be the uses of this
telephone in shops, factories, mines,
etc.
A photographic attachment takes
down the conversation at both ends,
making an enduring record OF any
business agreement entered into over
the telephone.
With the ordinary telephone one can
her concert or other performance,
but the receiver must be held to the
ear, so that separate apparatus is
necessary for each person. But one
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-10-25
Aluminium for Paper.

It is stated that experiments with
aluminium as a substitute for paper
are now under way in France. It is
now possible to roll aluminium into
sheets ur-thousandths of an inch
in thickness, in which form it weighs
less than paper. By the adoption OF
suitable machinery these sheets can
be made even thinner and can be used
for book and writing paper. The
metal will not oxidize, is practically
fire and water proof, and is indie
structible by worms.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-10-25

er; fence flooring to be used for
sheathing; building paper between
siding and sheathing.
American glass throughout, except
ing in front door.
The studding are 2x4 inches, 16 inch
on centers; joist 2xs, 16 inches on"cen-
tiers; roof rafters, 2x4 inches, 20 inches
on centers.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-10-25
ART IN ARCHITECTURE
Designed and Written Especially
for This Paper.

First and second floor plastered, two
coat work.
Interior woodwork Georgia pine,
oil finish.
First floor and second floor nine feet
high, basement seven feet high.
Exterior painting three coat work.
First and second floors double, having
felt paper between them.
Composition carving in frieze on
tower.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-10-25
Failed to Scare Him,

His Medical Adviser-You wont last
long at this rate, young man. You are
burning the candle at both ends.
Gayboy-Very well, doctor. When
the candle is burnt out I'll light the
gas.-Chicago Tribune.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-10-25
Acomine Promotion

"And what" asked the cannibal
ehieftain in his kindest tones, "what
was your business before you were
captured by my men?"
Il was a newspaper man." answered
the captive.
'An editor?"
mo; merely sub-editor."
"Cheer up, young man! Shortly aft
er my chef has finished his perusal of
the cookbook you will be editor-in-
chief"
Laughing heartily at his bon-mot,
the cannibal chief wanted to know if
the captive had funny-bone.-Judg
His View of 1t.
Deacon Jones-About all women go
to church for is to show their new
clothes.
Mrs. Jones-Well, they don't make q
cloak of religion, anyway.
''Of course not. It's too plain and
inexpensive. Chicago Daily News.
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Dye,ux L. an Ancient Art.

The art of dyeing was invented by
the Tyrians about 1900 B. C. In Eng
land the art of dyeing was unknown
until 1910. DR.. Holman, distinguished
German chemist, was the first to dis.
cover and use aniline dyes.
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a Word About oi1cloth.,

Oilcloths should never be washed in
hot soapsuds; they should, first be
washed clean with cold water, then
wiped dry with cloth wet in milk.
The same treatment applies to stone
or slate hearth.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-10-25

single haut-parleur enables an entire
gathering to listen at the same time.
The voice is heard clearly, without any
of that hazy snuffiing SO common to
telephones and monographs.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-10-25
Fa. in the Future.

"Why don't you work?" demanded
the severe lady.
Because, ma/am," replied Weary
Wattles, my job isn't ready yet"
"Your job," she sneered.
Eyes, ma'am," he answered. eve
the promise of job on the Isthmian
canal" Life.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-10-25

Don't let the little ones suffer from
eczema or other torturing skin diseases. No
need for it. Doan's Ointment cures. Can't
harm the most delicate skin. At any drug
store IN cents '-'l' go
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-10-25
IN Chances for Him.

she-Do you believe marriage is a
lottery?
He-Yes; and what is more, I'm not
taking any chances--Yonkers States
man.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-10-25

Nodd-'I think that doctor of ours will
give us something to stop the baby crying
now" Todd-"Why?" Nodd-"l'm 60
Tit-Bits
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Whtspered,

'*Say, old man, what's summer
grip"
"a summer girl is rack to stretch
shirt waists on; inside is a receptacle
for lobster salad and ice cream, while
outside is an attachment for diamond
rings."-Life.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-10-25
| Css&2
This seven-room house, built

This seven-room house, built
upon concrete foundation, can
be erected for 1000 The size
upon the ground is 20 feet front by
30 feet depth. The tower feature
makes the reception-room and alcove
very pleasant rooms.
The sizes of the rooms are as fol-
lows: Parlor, 12x14 feet; sitting
room, 12x14 feet; kitchen, 9x11 feet;
reception-room, sxs feet; chamber,
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-10-25

Piso's Cure for Consumption is an infalli.
BE remedy for coughs and s9lds s. a. w
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-10-25

One on the Old Man Honesty, my SON"
said the old millionaire congressman, ais
the best policy" well, perhaps it is, dad"
strikes me you have done pretty well, new
ertheless.' Chicago Daily News.
Two million Americans suffer the tortur-
Ing pangs OF dyspepsia. No need to: Burdock
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-10-25

That man is worthless who knows how
to receive favor, but not how to return
oue-Plautus