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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-10-02
DAMAGE SUIT FILED
BY an 0kIahOman for Injuries in a
Frate anal Ledge.

BY an OklahOHan Tor Ing GHEeS An a
Frate anal ledge.
Shawnee, o. T, Oct. IA $4,000 dam
age suit was today filed in the district
court at Tecumseh by Highley s. Kleins-
fdt of Oklahoma City. and Blakeney &
Maben of this city. wherein Ed Kuhl is
plaintiff and the supreme and subordi-
nate lodges of the Select Knights and
Ladies of Shawnee are defendants.
This suit grows out Of an alleged in
Jury received by Mr.. Kuhl while being in
itiated into this order and from which
FOR the past two months he has been a
sufferer for the greater part of the time
and patient at an Oklahoma City hos
pital
The filing Of the suit is causing much
comment and win be watched with in
terest by the people Of the city, where
Mr. Kuhl is quite weH known and where
the benevolent order is very popular.
Mt. Clemens. the Mineral Bath City.
Is reached without change of cars only
by the Grand Trunk Railway System.
Time tables and beautiful descriptive
pamphlet win be mailed free o. applica-
ton To Geo. w Vaux. a. C. p. & T. y.
I35 Adams St, Chicago
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-07-05
A MENTAL FAMILY TREE.

We were talking in the schoolyard about
our family trees,
And Gertrude said hers could be traced to
Sir Horatio Freeze;
And RUFF said he'd descended from the
governor of a state;
And Louie mentioned ancestors OF ners
about as great,
While Reggie said his lineage embraced d
lord, he knew;
And Nell from her acknowledgements
obtained her blood so blue;
But neither of the little Smiths could say
a single word:
For them to boast their ancient name Of
course Would be absurd
Then teacher, smiling slightly. said that
she was much inclined
To think that there was SUCH q thing Al
blue blood of the mind;
That those who studied hard (and here she
beamed en- Tommy Smith)
Hal certainly descended from men OF force
and pith;
And those who loved to tend the sick and
serve the weak and frail
Were morally related to Florence Nightin-
gale.
QHere Jennie Smith blushed to the ears.)
And when she saw a youth
(How bright she smiled at JohnnySSmithD
who always told the truth .
At school, at home. or when he was al
work or having fun
She knew him for a relative Of General
Washington.
But Reggie doesn't like such talk; he says
1t seems to throw
So much responsibility upon yourself, you
know.
-Ethelwyn Wetherald, in Youths Com
nanfOn.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-07-05
MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS.

Many Beers in the British concentrar
ton camps are studying medicine.
Private McCulloch, of the Guards
reserves, an Irishman of 6 foot 10A.
is now the tallest man in the British
army.
To prevent indiscriminate manufac-
ture the design of the new regulation
British army felt hat has been regis
tered at the war office.
Four railway lines now connec.
Mexico with the United States. In
1850 there was only one railway in
Mexico, leading from the capital to
Baroness Burdett-C outts, o IS
years OF age, intends to look at King
edward Wis coronation procession
out OF the same windows from which
she looked on Queen victoria's g.
years ago.
One hundred thousand dollars is be-
ing spent in the construction Of a
tunnel for telephone wires between
minneapolis and st. Paul. The object
OF the tunnel is to protect i~nterurban
service from interruption by storms
md to increase the capacity for com.
n~un'catlon between tho cities.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-07-05
THE N
Little Creature from the Tropics
Which Climbs Its Tail just n
II WQuld Rope.

This funny little animal is known by
the name kinkajou. The picture is not
upside down, as would appear at first
sight, but the creature is performing
a very common feat of hanging from a
branch of a tree by its tail. When it
gets tired of its position, says the Lit
tie Chronicle, it doubles up, grasps its
tail and climbs the odd rope, sailor
fashion, hand over hand, to the branch.
While suspended the kinkajou seems
afraid that it's tail will 'come un.
hooked" so it keeps a tight grip on it
with its hind feet. Very beautiful the
animal in the picture looked, with the
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-07-05
BABY GIRL ATHLETE.
man Shows Unusual Physical
Development.

Maiden, Mass, a suburb of Boston.
boasts of having a phenomenon in
little Gladys Martyr, who is a mar
vel of strength. She is the daughter
of Rev. and Mrs. Sedgwick Martyr,
and is only two years and ten months
old Her father is the new pastor of
the First Unitarian church.
In the opinion of experts she is the
strongest and most scientifically
trained athletic baby that ever lived.
The child is perfectly developed, and
her strength is due mostly to the
way in which she a brought up.
When only a few days old Mr.. Martyr
began to try tests upon her and has
continued them daily, making them
most severe as she grew older. DR..
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-07-05
The Monkey n. L.aborer.

One Of the English astronomers, Mr..
]. ]. Atkinson, who visited Sumatra
to observe the total solar eclipse last
May, made the acquaintance Of an old
Malay, living on a little island near
the Sumatran coast, who owned a
large monkey which he had trained
to work for him In gathering cocoa
nuts. The monkeys business was to
climb the gigantic cocoanut palms and
throw down the nuts; which he did,"
says Mr.. Atkinson, in the most art
istic manner, by screwing the nuts OF
with his powerful arms while he hung
By his legs seventy to q hundred feet
from the ground"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-07-05
OWLS CATCH FISH.
Collection Found In the Nest OF "A'
Of the Horned Variety In the
New York Mountains.

"Naturalists have long questioned
the TACT insisted on by woodsmen
and rural anglers that the horne
owl catches fish," said O. w. Cowles,
of Sullivan county. "As long as !
can remember l have heard WOODS
men declare that the horned owl was
not only among the wild creatures
that make prey of fish, but that !.
was one of the most destructive OF
those enemies of fish. I have always
taken their word for it against the
declarations of the book naturallsts
that it could not be true, although l
never had any evidence of its ruth
beyond their word until a few days
ago.
Zone of my men working in the
woods near the headwaters or the
Beaverkill last week discovered q
horned owl in a dead tree, and saw
that it's nest was in the tree. Inc
man climbed the tree to the nest'
the owl, futtering away to another
tree. where it sat after the half
blinded, dazed n of it's kind IN
daylight, blinking at the INVADER OF
it's home.
1.-THE nest had been at one time a
crows nest. Owls make no nests OF
their own, but appropriate any old
nest they come across. In this nest
were two young owls, nearly full
1edged.
"What interested my man more
than the nest and the owlets in 1t
was the other contents of the nest,
which, besides three mice, a rabbit,
a rat and a grouse. were an eel. one
brook sucker and three trout, one OF
the latter a brown trout ten inches
long. All of these were plainly OF
the providing of the night before, for
none of them had as yet been
| touched.
"My man brought the two young
7 owls and the fish home to show to
doubling Thomases that the horned
owl does catch fish. If it does not,
what or who caught the fish that
| were in this ones nest?
"That owl will not catch any more
fish, however. The man who found
its nest went back with his gun, and
the owl is now in the hands of a tax
idermist, for it was a splendid speci.
men, and the bird is, fortunately,
| rare in the woods.
"As to the manner of the horned
owls fishing, old woodsmen say that
it watches at night along the creek
shores, and grabs the fish from the
water with one of its grappling-hook
talons. George Dodge, an observing
~lumberman and fisherman, says he
saw N of these owls, just at dusk
n day, fishing in that way on the
Willowemoc creek. and it caught a
trout while he was watching TN.
Y. Sun.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-07-05

fated cottage. The man had such a
shaking fit at the gate that he FUN.
bled some time before he found the
latch, all the while pleading and in
sisting he could not go in the house.
eff I undertake to help you," l
said in my sternest manner, 1--WE be-
gin right here. I am going to see
just how things are before we get
to the police court. I want this story
right and straight"
Entering the house, all was pitch
dark; the light from the oil lamp
had long ago fickered out, but I
struck a match and lighted the
greasy wick. Meanwhile the man
leaned trembling against the door of
the hall.
The dim light fell upon the parlor
floor. No mans body was there. A
large mirror was shattered into a
thousand fragments, over carpet and
furniture. The confessed murderer,
with stumbling steps, slowly tot
tered forward at my smiling signal.
One dazed look into the room and he
fell at my feet in a swoon
Gradually the realization of the
facts came to him-that his wife
must have purchased the mirror in
his absence and had it placed to
command the entrance to the room.
what she want with that looking
glass? She never have nobody here
to see it. That thing cost $500. I
don't get but $40 a month"
"Oh, no." I said, "the glass is
thin; it may not have cost nor than
$50" f.. .
well, she amt got no more look
ing glass. and I amt got no dead
man, nuther."
I found he was coming around all
right, so 1 proposed that he should
go to bed and have a good nights
rest and 90 about his business the
next day, after his grewsome vaca-
ton.
'Mr. Winn, you have been very
good to me. No other man would
have done for me what you have
done. 1 will see you safe to your
Office. I am no coward, me-"
mo, thank you; I shall go to my
rooms on st. Charles street. Good
night."-New Orleans Times-Demo.
crat.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-07-05
Measuring . Plowman's work.

The up-to-date farmer can estimate
quite closely what amount of work his
men do in a day. and the way in which
he does it is very ingenious. Assum-
ing that a good plowman will walk
about eighteen miles q day, he pro-
ceeds to determine how much land
will be gone over in that walk. The
factor in the case Is the width of the
pillow. Cutting q seyen-inch furrow,
full days work will mean the blowing
Of an acre and a quarter; an eight
inch furrow will mean an acre and q
half: an e~leveninch furrow, two acres,
and q f1fteen-inch furrow, two and
threeQuarter acres. Thus the farmer
knows how many men he needs before
beginning the work, and also what
each man should accomplish every
dav.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-07-05

Martyr himself was an 1nvand
through childhood. Afterward by q
scientific course he became one OF
the champion amateur athletes in
this country. Her father holds the
single-arm record of the world for
lifting, and holds the record to-day
of this country for heavy lifting, do.
ing many tasks which. it is said, even
Sandow does not attempt. He can
lift 1854 pounds dead weight from
the floor. During the years that he
studied at Columbia college he held
the amateur record for short-dis-
lance running.
His little girl has inherited in many
respects the strength of her father,
and delights in doing feats which
many athletes are unable to perform.
One of her feats is to lie PROSTATE on
the floor and allow her father who
weighs l76 pounds, to stand upon her
chest. She can stand upon her head
for an indefinite time, and is a won
derful contortionist. With her head
on the edge of n chair and heels on
another she lies inert between them
and holds a 3o-pound weight upon her
stomach. Her own weight is only "a
pounds. She can hang for almost an
indefinite time by the toes or fingers.
These are only a few of the feats
of strength of this two-and-a-half-
year-old girl baby. Many children of
the same age are just learning to
walk.
In addition to this Gladys speaks
three languages we'll enough to make
her ordinary wants known in any OF
them. She sings and reads music.
In an article on "Woman's Physical
Development" DR. Martyr gives the
summary of the rules laid
down in training his baby:
/. Absolutely regular hours for
eating and sleeping.
2. After weaving, to the present
time, her food consisted only of such
things as are of nutritive. value. But
there is no other discrimination, the
child eating what she wishes within
this wide range of selection.
3. No hot, facilitating baths; but
every morning a bath at the tempera-
ture of the body, and every evening q
cool bath.
4. From day of birth a series of ex-
e~rcises have been gone through with.
of course very gently and in a most
incipient way. At first the mere sug-
gestion of the exercise was used in
creasing day by day, until at four
months the child knew her move
ments, and what was required of her
To-day she puts as much vim and en-
ergy in her exercises and strength
tests as an adult.
DR.. Martyr sums up the results OF
his training as follows: ID
/. The child has had an
hours sickness. She knows nothing
Of the many supposedly necessary in
fantile and childhood ailments.
2. In face and form she is perfect.
3. Her fine muscular development
speaks for itself.
Hanging suspended from a bar and
extending the legs at right angles
from the body is a ver test for any
athlete. It illustrates the strength
Of ordinarily unused muscles Of the
ptomach.-N. Y. World. L
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-07-05

and he come one step nearer me. He
look so angry and SO fiery that I knew
he would harm me if he come any
closer, so 1 put my hand to my pocket.
You know, Mr.. VIM, out here by the
swanps, where there's no houses and
no police, a mar has to have a pistol
handy when he goes around out here,
especially after dark. Well, I put my
hand to that pistol pocket, and that
awful looking big man, SO much bigger
than me, went to his pistol, too. AS l
pointed at him I see he was quick, too,
and his pistol was pointed right at me.
So I ired-quick-and fred first, for
he fell, struck right in the head-be-
fore he had a chance to fire. I know I
killed him dead, he fell SO sudden. And
the noise just shook everything, he was
such a big man, so much bigger than
me-"
1 poured out a stiff drink for the
wretched man and babe him pull him
selftogethera and finish the recital with
out delay.
what did you do then? Did you
touch him to see if he was really dead?"
"Touch him!" he almost shrieked;
"touch that big man? No; Irun out of
that house and shut the door behind
me; and I never stopped running till I
got to the swamp. l bin there ever
since, hiding in the weeds all day, and
nights l creep out-that night and last
night and again to-night-to see if your
lamp is burning. Isain't been on that
other side of Canalatreet."
do you tell me you left a dead
man in your house two days and
three nights. Why, you must be
crazy"
"INhat must I do; what must I
do?" he walled. "Nobody knows
about it; I didn't see anybody I know
on the way out here from the boat;
nobody knows I got home"
He was laundering about, catch
ing at such straws, with apparently
no reason in him.
where's your bag?"
II leave it in the house."
"Your bag in the house and a dead
man on the foor?"
I was beginning to lose patience
with the frenzied coward.
There's only one thing to do; I
will go to the nearest police court
with you, and help you out of your
scrape the best 1 can"
He was SO startled and alarmed at
such a proposition that 1 tried to re-
assure him, by explaining to his
dazed brain, he had the right to pro-
tect his property and to defend him
self; that he could not have had any
response to a call for aid, the police
patrol did not extend to that remote
part of the city; that there was
really nothing for him to do but
| shoot the man who threatened him,
and hat he was lucky to have got
in the first shot. If we found the
mans body on the floor and the piss
toll at his side, that would be vindi-
cation before the law.
$50 put on your hat and be a man.
and I will see you through"
I pocketed my pistol, and we
started out. It was now long past
midnight, and the deserted street,
with it's grim tragedy across the
way, seemed grewsome enough. Ex-
cept for the light of an expiring
moon, we might have had difficulty
in avoiding the mudholes and pitfalls
| of an unpaved street and broken
sidewalks.
1 led the way across Canal street
and it's neutral ground to the ILL
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-07-05

ing back TO his coat, found that the
porter had picker up the grip from
the floor and put it on the seat; that,
incidentally, he had r~earranged the
coat on the hook-and taken the two
dimes.
The passenger said nothing. Next
morning, in leaving the train, however,
he allowed the porter to dust him elab-
orately, crease his hat, and take his
grip out to the station platform. Then,
holding out a coin to the ready palm,
he said, grimly:
"Ah, here's that other nickel,
George"
And Georges eyes ought to be bulg-
ing yet. .
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-07-05
SENDING MONEY BY MAIL.

r. does not follow that because t"o
A. more articles for the same Use are
so,d To the public at the same price
thew are both of equal value; one may
have decided advantages owe Inc
other. making it much cheaper.
Notwithstanding the rates 10 tho
,,h1ic for the various kinds OF money
ordara are the same, the Express
Money Order. by reason OF Its greater
advantages. is cheaper, and those Ia
miliar with the Express Money order
system use it in preference.
Postofice Orders require written ap-
~plication giving amount OF ORDER
name and location Of payee, and name
Of purchaser. Some people do not
write legibly, hence orders are not al
ways correctly drawn by postmaster,
causing delay in payment and annoy
ance to payee. They are not payable
unon presentation unless postmaster
has received advice Of issue. Such adj
vices are often delayed, may have been
sent to wrong p~ostofice, put into
wrong mail or not forwarded prompt
w. thus causing Inconvenience to
loss of time and possible loss
in other ways. They are payable only
Mt the particular Office upon which
drawn; therefore the system Is not
convenient to payees and is too linn
tied in its availability. They must not
bear more than one Endorsement;
hence impracticable for use as ex-
change beyond q single Endorsement.
II not presented within n year they
are invalid, and to obtain duplicate,
application must be made to depart
ment at Washington.
Express Money Orders require no
written application and cases where
incorrectly drawn and payment de-
layed are practically unknown. They
are payable Immediately upon pre-
sentation; no advice to wait for. They
are payable everywhere, at any Office
whether in one city or another makes
no difference. Merchants know this;
therefore do not hesitate to cash them
lOT any OuS tN0y AAV"s
banker, grocer, druggist. baker. any
express company-in fact. any
will gladly give their full face value.
because they are practically better
than gold, for II lost money will be
refunded. They may pass through
any number Of hands and still be ne
gotiable. With an Express Order the
holder can pay his rent, the landlord
his grocery bill, the grocer his taxes.
and so on may a single order be used
to pay a dozen bills without affecting
its validity. They are better than cur
rency, because safer to USE. and are
cheaper because unlimited for use as
exchange. They are always good. as
there is no limit as to time of pay
ment. They are free from red tape
restrictions. and. without question.
are the cheapest and most convenient
method Of renting money by mail.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-07-05
No Fear Of Beef Trust.

An American who spent some time
in Honduras prospecting says 1t Is the
most charming country he ever saw
and the people the LATEST. In all his
travels he never saw a pillow; all they
do Is to make a little hole in the
ground with a stick, drop seed into it
and nature does the rest. Well, who
in the thunder wouldn't take 1t easy
and be lazy If he lived in a country
like that? As a rule. people hustle
only when they have tex.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-07-05
NOTHING LEFT TO DIE.

NOTHING LEFT TO DIE.
Old Bill Jones-a Hoos1er man
was built on the Hoosier plan
Blood, flesh and brains
To give him pains
He had.
HIS stomach ached sore from his birth,
1aas lungs would wheeze all they were
His heart was slow,
And then would 20
Like mad.
Bin Jones saw a doctor man
One who worked on modern plan
Who hawed and hummed,
And pinched and thumbed
His nose.
Then he got out his knives and saws
And carved on Jones without a pause.
your stomach's Quit"
AT last his shout
Arose.
For two weeks Jones was stomachless.
And then he told of great distress.
His heart, he said,
Was just like lead,
Or worse.
He sought the doctor man again,
Who got his knives and saws-and then
Bits heart came next,
Although it vexed
5 His purse.
And after that Bilrs lungs felt bad
another Zee the doctor had.
Jones' chest was bare
OF all but air
Unbreathed.
The doctor next went searching for
More things in Bits interior.
All natures aids
Left, ere his blades
Were sheathed.
He took Bilrs brain-and thoughts, I guess
And also made him liverless-
Removed his spleen
The whole machin-
E-ry.
And now Bill Jones-the Hoosier nan
is built on an immortal plan.
There's nothing left
There's nothing
To die.
Josh Wink, in Baltimore American.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-07-05
The Man Of
the Pen
By REV. WILLIAM RAIDER,
Pastor Third Congregational Church.
San Francisco.

Around him surge the tides of influence.
Journalism has the advantage over all other professions because
of a peculiar influence. Wendell Phillips made two remarks which
indicate this. He once said that the New York penny newspapers
governed the administration at Washington. Addressing a roaring
mob on one occasion he paused long enough to say to the reporters:
"You may howl if you will, but through these pencils | speak to
forty millions of people" and the following morning the millions read
his words.
NAPOLEON Bonaparte said he feared four newspapers more than
100000 soldiers.
NEWSPAPERS MAKE N UNMAKEM MEN. They made
Henry Ward Beecher and DR.. Talmage and put Chauncey Depew in
the American senate.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-07-05
Banana Bread.

Banana bread is now on sale in some
places. It is made Of bananas cried
and ground down into -four, and is
considered twenty-five times as nutri-
tive as ordinary white bread made Of
wheat.-Cleyelaud Plain Dealer.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-07-05

The man with the INK horn is
influential. He occupies a posi-
ton of more influence than the
teacher, the doctor, the actor, the
lawyer and even the minister.
When he takes his place in the
editorial chair HE IS ABLE TO
PLACE HIS FINGER ON THE,
PULSE OF THE WORLD. He
!. .a~.x laas4 az .:1:.a.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-07-05

II beheld a man clothed with linen, who had an ink horn by his
who reported matter. Ezekiel, tx, II.