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them to pretty stable fee if not
as large one as they have gained
Since Hannah Callahan became an
heiress clergyman in her neigh
borhood has been looking after her
to see that no one takes advantage
of her. The precaution is necessary,
for the old Irish woman, who hasn't
yet decided to leave the dirty little
room in which she has lived for so
long, is being harried by people who
have suddenly discovered themselves
to be relatives" of hers, disinter-
este1 souls who would be willing to
assist her to invest her money as
well as gallant suitors who love her
for herself alone. John Sullivan, the
builder of the fortune which Cor
cora1 and Hannah Callaghan have in
herited, was born in the same Cork
slum in which the old rag and bone
picker has lived SO long. He became
a sailor and finally was shipwrecked
on the coast of the state of Wash
ington. He built himself cabin and
afterward a second one, which he
rented to man who happened along.
Finally he had whole village of
shanties which he owned, but just
as it was beginning to bring him
in little something in the way of
rent the whole settlement burned
down.
Sullivan still owned the land, how
ever, and he rebuilt upon it and
eventually, as one of the founders of
Seattle, grew rich.--Chicago Chron-
ic1o
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TIE WORLDS MARBLES.
The Cheapest as Well as the Most Eek
pensive Varieties Are Made
In Germany.

Nearly all the agate marbles that
wear holes in the pockets of all school
boys on earth are made in Thuringia,
Germany. On winter days the poor
people who live in the village gather
together small square stones, place
them in molds something like big cot.
fee mills and grind them till they are
round. The marbles made in this way
are the common china, painted china,
glazed china and imitation agates.
Imitation agates are made from white
stone, and are painted to represent
the pride of the marble players heart
the real agate. The agate painted
china marbles are of plain white
stone, with lines crossing each other
at right angles painted upon them.
Glass alleys are blown by glass blow
ers in the town of Lanscha, Germany.
The expert workmen take piece of
plain glass and another bit of red
glass, heat them red hot, blow them
together, give them twist, and there
is pretty alley, with the red and
white threads Of glass twisted inside
in the form of a letter S. Large twist
ed glass alleys with the figure of a
dog or sheep inside are made for very
small boys and girls to play with.
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TUMBLED INTO FORTUNE.
Old Irish Woman RaEplcker Becomes
I'm Heiress by the Death Of
Cousin.

1t is doubtful if fortune ever tum-
bied into the lap of a person less like
ly TO ase it to advantage than the $780,
600 which the United States supreme
court recently awarded to 65-year-old
Hannah Callaghan, of Cork, as her
share in the estate Of her cousin. John
Sullivan, who died in Seattle, Wash.
From the accompanying picture of
Hannah Callaghan you can form a
pretty accurate idea of what sort of
a person she is. Wrinkled, haggard,
with a narrow, pointed nose, thin lips,
bitter tongue and an aggressive dis
position, the woman who has just in
hers ed 100000 earned her living I'M
til few days ago as a ragpicker. For
years she has made her home in
Aqualid little room in narrow
alley appropriately named Crone's
lane. il Cork's. worst slum. She
and once earned as much as S.
week. Then she got to be a scrub
woman and made less, and of late
years she has collected bones, sold
fruit and generally lived from hand to
mouth. She has been somewhat par
tial to gin. When the news reached
Hannah Callaghan the other day that
she lad inherited half Of John Sulli-
vans fortune-Edward Corcoran,
poor Dublin artisan got the other half
the old woman was so bewildered
that she could hardly realize what it
meant to her. She heard that her
cousin had died intestate, but had
thought so little Of her own chances
of getting share OF his estate that
when American lawyers came to her
several months ago and offered to
push her claim she made no trouble
over signing an agreement that they
should take half of any sum they
succeeded in getting awarded to her.
This does not mean, however, that
the odd woman was feeced by her
American attorneys. For six months
they have worked like beavers to
get her inheritance, and the endless
trouble they took and the ingenuity
they manifested certainly entitle
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EQUAL TO TIE OCCASION.
A Invifation I'm Busiu ess Form That
Met with an Acceptance
in Kind.

A Baltimore woman, the belle of her
ret, was much surprised not long ago, says
the New York Times, to receive an invl-
tation of which the following is the SUBJ
stance:
Mr.. Blank presents his compliments to
Miss Dash, and requests the pleasure. of
her company at the theater Thursday
evening next.
AVA ting and hoping for an early and
"Blank & Co"
The writer of this remarkable effusion
is young business man who Is a partner
in large furniture concern. He attends
to a large proportion of the correspon-
dence of the firm, and, of course, signs the
firms name thereto. So absorbed was he
in business that he concluded his invita-
ton with the sterotyped sentence above,
and, to cap the climax, signed the firms
name to it. The-fair recipient, however,
appreciated the situation, and the young
man was thunderstruck to receive a let
ter addressed to him personally, but con-
taing the following reply to his invitation:
"Messrs. Blank & Co.: Your favor Of
recent date to hand and contents noted.
In reply will say we accept the PROPOSE
ton therein made and hold the goods or
dered subject to VI. further instructions.
Very respectfully, Miss Dash & Co."
Explanations and apologies followed,
and the invitation was duly accepted, but
the matter was too good to be kept
secret, and for some time after life was
the meaningless query: "How's busi-
ness?" sufficed to drive him frantic
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-12-27
WE ARE THE BUILDERS.
Why Each One Of U should Erect
His Spiritual Mansion According
to Gods Plans.

mo one can make us present of
Heaven" says a thoughtful writer.
Yet there are many whose, only ex-
pectation of it is as gift, read made,
and handed over complete without eff
fort or price.
A heaven into which we have put
nothing cannot be heaven for us. We
must send our own treasures, loves,
and thoughts, forward into it; we
must have learned it's language, ac
CURED it's spirit, and gained some
homestead rights there, if it is to be
really a home. The most beautiful
house on earth can be made iato
home only by the life that goes on
within it. However perfect the
structure may be, it is the character
of the family taking possession of it
that determines whether or not it
shall be home. And the same is true
of the heavenly mansions of which we
sing-they will be to us what we carry
into them. We must build and fur
nish our heaven by what we do and are
day by day while the earth life lasts.
If we put nothing into it here, it will
hold! nothing for us there.-Well-
spring.
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AN ELOQUENT TRAMP.
Oratorical Flight Of q Vagrant
Which Was q Reflection of His
Former Self

Look at bunch of them just
brought in from the city lodging
house, says a writer on 1.-The New
York Police Court" in Century. The
rules of that institution permit its
patrons to enjoy its hospitality I'M
molested for three nights within a
reasonable period OF time. The guest
who comes back the fourth time is not
refused accommodation, but next
morning he is made prisoner and
taken to court as a vagrant. Glance
along the ragged line. Every one is
leaning indolently against the railing,
as if too tired to stand on his feet
A listless, shiftless lot they are, with
vacant, inexpensive features that
correspond we'll with the negative
character of their offense. Impotence
is written all over them: in their I'M
steady, rowing eyes; in the warped
contours Of their heads; in their Ian
guild, graceless poses.
Listen to their speech-stumbling
suffering, or glib, but always mean
dering and empty of fact or real mean
ing. If not checked, they will waste
half-hours promising to tell the whole
truth and nothing else, and may they
be stricken dead on the spot if they
don't. Now and then you catch a
Election, or an echo as it were, of their
former state of existence, when they,
too, had dreams and ambitions. l re-
call grotesque figure, clad in the ruin
of frock coat, with faded rose
coquettishly stuck in his buttonhole.
Strengthening himself up with touch
of all but forgotten gracefulness, he
addressed the magistrate thus:
''Your most illustrious and distin-
guished Honor, to my inexpressible
disgrace l have to admit an infringe
ment on the wise rules established
to insure the peace, order and prosper
ity of this city of Manhattan; but be-
lieve me, your most learned Honor,
that said offense was venial one, in
asmuch as l was enticed into it by the
weakness of my flesh and by no Volt
1ion or intent of my higher self. l
comprehend the extent and gravity of
my trespass and confess my culpab bill
ity-culpa mea, as the old Romans
said-but 1 solicit your gracious for
bearance on the ground that this is my
first transgression of the kind
''Nothin' but a chronic bum,' was
the policeman's unfeeling response to
the magistrates questioning glance,
and the orator had to share the igno-
minious fate of his lesseloquent breth-
rem. That fate, when shaped by the
magistrate, generally takes the form
of commitment to the workhouse
for periods varying from 80 days to six
months.
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Goose Decided the Suit,

Mrs. Ann Mcdonald, of Pittston,
Pa, accused Butcher Max Connors of
stealing a goose belonging to her.
The latter denied the charge and said
he had purchased it from a farmer.
1t was a question of veracity be-
tween the two, and Alderman LOTUS
decided to let the goose make the de-
cision. Accordingly, Constable Jo-
seph White was told to take the bird
to the vicinity of Mrs. McDonald's
home. If the goose recognized the
place and entered the property It
was her goose. AS soon as released
the goose turned from Mrs. Melon
AIDS door and flew up the street in
the direction of Connors' store. He
got the decision.
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passions can be traced to our mean.
have invented for successful selfish
ness mean no more in reality than
the base ones which we contempt
uously bestow ON the selfshness
which fails
ut is often held that it is better
to have trouble in ones youth than
in ones middle age; the fresh heart,
it is thought, is stronger to bear
grief. But this is not the case. \
fresh heart is also an immature one;
1T is tender, impressionable, unsea-
soned, altogether too delicate for
hard blows. No sorrow is so bitter,
because it is so little expected, or SO
unmitigated, because it is so little
understood, as the sorrow in a young
mind. The world at once seems
squalid, Providence unjust and when
the sense of suffering injustice begins
to dominate soul at it's first flight
the wings grow heavy, the way looks
dark with unknown terrors and the
ultimate goal is considered as some
probable mockery, cruel and DESC
late"
''In New York I encountered fab
ulous kindness, unbelievable wealth
and display which is called modern,
because it is repetition of the Re-
Nuisance without the inspiration,
the taste, the genius of that period.
Great riches have led at all times
to precisely the same sortaof extrav-
agance. The word modern is ride
ulous. New York is old Venice with
out St. Mark. miss the scenery and
the saint-nothing else.
81 am very thorough said La
Belle Valentine. I guess take after
mamma. She not only chose tho
text and hymns for her own funeral,
but also selected what the mourners
should have after returning from the
cemetery. I remember she ordered
something hot, because it was in the
late autumn and she didn't want any
one to catch a chill.
"When I want the brutal rhetoric
of common sense listen to ladies OF
blameless virtue
81 will ask him his opinion of Ma
poleon and Bismarck-there is nc
quicker way of fixing a mans intel
lectual pitch
II want to ask every woman who is
mean to me and thinks herself win
ming it all along the line: Tell me
this-does your husband know you
as we'll as the devil knows you?
Would he love you just the same if
he did? Answer me that.''
zone hears that religion once was
able to invest even hypocrisy with
kind of grandeur. Hypocrisy, how
ever, is slowly dying out, and the
candor of modern souls would be
sublime if the souls themselves were
not for the greater part squalid."
"These practical, hard headed
Americans are greatly attracted al
ways by the feminine soul and mind.
They like to know what women
think, how they feel; they are in.
spired by their ideas; but in England,
if you speak of woman's soul to
man, he supposes you must be either
mad or affected. In fact, the soul
is thing which never discuss with
an Englishman."
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-12-27
How to BE Truly Charming.

The art of being charming must have
it's rise in the soul, but can be largely
cultivated and greatly aided by atten-
ton to small things; the kind word at
the right moment, withheld express
sions of sympathy at the proper time,
and tact and patience in all things.
Self-control is an admira BILE weapon,
and she who uses it will always be the
woman who rules in broad domain
She proves her strength, and in the
hour of trial she bears up not only
for herself. but; for all around her,
writes a correspondent of the Boston
Post. So the charming woman may
or may not read Maeterlinck and Bal.
FAC, but she must be bright and spon.
taneous. A sulky nature seldom proves
responsive, and creates an atmosphere
to be Stunned rather than courted.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-12-27
MAKING A WHIPBOW.
Grand Weapon with Which
to Try His skill.

This graceful and powerful weapon
is like an ordinary longbow, with the
exception that the bowstring is made
fast to only one end. after the manner
of the whiplash; where the whiplasE
terminates in a snapper the bow
string ends in hard, round knot
The arrow is made like any other ar.
row, either with a blunt end or point
ed spearpoint. In one side of the ar
row a notch is cut; the bowstring be.
ing slipped into this notch, the knot
at the end of the string prevents the
arrow from slipping off until thrown
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-12-27
CLIMBING THE HILL.

Happy go-Lucky and Faint-of-Heart
Set of on a journey with Only-Try;
And each was ready to do his part,
While the sunny hours went merrily by.
But when the shadows were growing long,
And the crickets chirping their even-song,
Up rose like barrier steep ard strong
A rocky hillside nigh.
Said Happy go-Lucky: Suppose we wait,
And somebody passing may give US a
rice?"
I'VE shall break our necks if We climb so
latev
Poor Faint-of-Heart in panic cried.
But Only-Try, with a resolute eye,
Looked up at the hill and the sunset sky.
There is plenty Of time said Only-Try.
AND the moon is full, beside
So Only-Try, without stay or stop.
Went clambering up over rock and root,
TIL he stood at last on the hills green top,
In beautiful clearing, with flowers and
fruit.
But the other two are waiting still.
For nobody lives, or ever will.
That can reach the top of the smallest hill
BY sitting Gown at the foot!
Blanche 7. Heath, in Youths Companion.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-12-27
SUFFERING PENCILS.
singular Eject on Writing of Tongue
1mpedfme of Persons
Thus Afflicted

The Chicago agent looked around
the New York Office with an air Of
lively curiosity. "Made few changes
here, haven't you?" he asked, relates
the New York Times.
The New York manager nodded.
''Fired the old stenographer, that's
ALL he said.
Fired him, Ell? What for?' said
the Chicago man.
because he suffered" was the re-
ply.
The Chicago man was clearly puz-
zled. Cant, for the life of me, see
how suffering could affect mans
stenographic ability
Neither could see it in the begin
ming" said the manager, "but l soon
found out. l took quite fancy to
that young chap the minute he came
in here to apply for situation. He
was smart as whip, and although he
couldn't speak six words without fall
ing all over himself I took it for
granted that the connection between
his tongue and his pencil was too
slight to affect his writing, and l
hired him on the spot.
Before I knew him I should have
ridiculed as Theoretically prepos-
ferrous the bare suggestion that there
could be such thing as suffering
stenographer. Now l know that he
is not only a remote possibility but a
very tangible fact. Stammering
seemed to be that poor chaps only
fault. He knew shorthand and the
typewriting machine from A to z, and
could rattle off some kinds of words
SO fast that it made you fairly sea-
sick to watch him, but there were GER
tain words that tangled up his pencil
as we'll as his tongue and thus knocked
him clean out of the race.
Really, it was the strangest exam
pie of sympathetic mental and phys
ical nervousness that I ever came
across. did what could to help him,
but nothing could keep that young
mans pencil from hating and stag
gering most reprehensibly whenever
he came to word that he found par
ticularly difficult to speak.
Il have spoken of his case since to
several commercial teachers, and /
learn that it is by no means exception
al. 1t is true, of course, that the num-
Der .of stenographers who stutter is
so small as to make it difficult to get
reliable information on the, subject.
but it seems to be fact that the per-
son with stammering tongue is pref
ty sure to have stammering fingers
when writing shorthand"
The Chicago man shook his head in
credulously. "Well, SIR" he said, chat
certainly does beat me. l never heard
of any suffering stenographers out
west :"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-12-27
Where Are All the Birds:

To see all our birds in their winter
homes we should have to travel from
the middle states down to the Argen-
tine Republic. We could see a great
many, though, by making a midwin-
ter trip to the gulf states. In Flor
ida, for instance, we should find
enormous focks of robins whirling
through the trees and alighting here
and there to feed upon the berries
of the china-tree and holly. Many
birds we should find only along the
coast, and many others we should
have to search for in the silent cy-
press swamps of Louisiana and Mis-
sissippi.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-12-27
AFTER-DINNER GAME.
1t Is Called 'Who's Who" and Affords
Lots Of Fun to Players and
Spectators.

To prepare for the game get an old
sheet, and in it cut four pairs of holes
Of the size and shape Of human eyes,
and at varying heights from the floor,
to suit the stature of different persons.
Hang the sheet in the doorway be-
tween two rooms, the wider the door
the better, then, having divided the
company into two parties, send one
party into the room behind the sheet,
the other party remaining in the first
room. Lower the lights in this room
and have lighted candle ready.
The players in the room behind the
sheet now choose four of their num-
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-12-27

Der to look through the holes, and
when they are in position, each person
in the first room takes the candle, and,
with only its light to aid him, ex-
amines the four pairs of eyes that are
looking at him through the holes and
guesses to whom they belong.
When all the players behind the
sheet have had their eyes thus ex-
amined the parties change rooms and
proceed as at first. A prize may be Of
fered for the nearest correct guesses,
in which case a tally-sheet should be
kept by some one named for that pur-
pose.-Prairie Farmer.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-12-27
SOME STRONG EPIGRAMs
Taken from Mrs. Craigie's Lates,
Book, Entitled "Lovc and the
Soul Hunters"

The title Of John Oliver Hobbies
new novel is explained by quotation
from verses 1920 of the thirteenth
chapter of Ezekiel, warning such as
hunt the souls Of my people" that
the Lord will look after the safety
OF those souls, land they shall be no
more in your hands to be hunted"
The. book is full of epigrams, sorae
OF which may here be quoted:
Il begin to suspect that 1 see the
world as it is and that it is in every
respect ignominious. Our greatest
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-12-27
M.b Not n Brain Food.

Some people think that to eat an
enormous quantity of fish will give
them an enormous quantity Of brains.
but. according to a medical paper, this
is a great mistake. The jewellers by
the seattle Eskimo and the fisher
men Of Labrador-have not shown any
preponderance of brains. And because
stale fish shine with phosphorescent
l;oht in the dark we must not think it
PARTICULARLY rich in phosphorus. AS
: matter of fact there is more water
+ban phosphorus in fish.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-12-27
The Storage of Pumpkins.

Most cellars are too damp fol
pumpkins and squashes. They keer
better in a garnet or any place where
they can be kept dry and at tenn
perature just above freezing. If they
must be kept in the cellar, place
them on shelf where they will not
touch each other. Here they can
be easily watched, and when one be.
gins to decay it can be used OF
thrown out.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-12-27
nainfv Lunchenn Salad

A delightful salad is made of diced
pineapple and celery, mingled in
equal parts. Dress the mixture iber.
ally with mayonnaise, to which
whipped cream has been added,
Sprinkle over the salad slices OF
salted almonds aad pecans.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-12-27
Queer.
uHe's a queer cuss.'

..yes: lust now he was saying that
nothing was certain in this world put
the uncertainty of things; and you
couldn't bank on that. "-Detroit Free
Press
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-12-27
Tea Sold in Pill Form.

Pills formed of tea are sold in some
of the groca.ies. About IA of them
weigh an ounce, and each pill makes
generous cup of tea.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-12-27

You can do your dyeing in half an hour
with Putnam Fadeless Dyes.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-12-27
The st. Paul Calendar For 1908,

SIX sheets l0xl5 inches, Of beautiful re-
productions, in colors, Of pastel draw
agd W maed ~
ty-fve (25) cents-coin or stamps. Ad-
dress F.. A. Miller, General Passenger
Agent, Chicago.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-12-27

Piso's Cure for Consumption is an infalli.
bic medicine for coughs and colds:-N. wv.
Samuel, Ocean Grove, N. j., Feb. II, 1900.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-12-27

Men are valued by others in about the
inverse ratio of their own valuation
Rams Horn
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-12-27

Contentment with the divine will is the
tunes.-Sir W. Temple.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-12-27

Builds up the system; puts pure, rich
blood in the veins; makes men and wom-
en- strong and healthy. Burdock Blood
Bitters. At any drug store.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-12-27

The race is not always for the. swift,
nor the money for the man who has a
straight tip.-Judge.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-12-27

Fleeing from responsibility is good
deal like hiding from reward.-Coopera-
ton.