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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-09-19

lily upon him, and he held hat which
was not new, but still respectable, of
black, soft felt, in his hand.
"Shall I show you some crepe?''
asked Katie, setting a square, green
box upon the counter between them.
II want just little" the customer
said, hesitatinly, "only enough to go
round this hat
Katie showed him several pieces of
crepe, but the man seemed hardly to
grasp her meaning as she rapidly I'M
folded the black stuff, and ratified of
the prices.
At last he said. appealingly, (Which
would you take if you was me?"
Katie at once settled that point,
and with a sigh of relief the man
paid for the scrap she had selected
for him. But when the neat parcel
was handed to him he at once undid
it and, laying his hat on the counter,
began laboriously to tie the crepe
about it's crown.
MAY I help your" said Katie, and
she took the hat from the strangers
unresisting hands. She found two or
three black pins in her own neat
bodice, ard in the twinkling of an eye
the band was fastened in such per-
feet and miraculous fashion as was
never placed hat band before, while
the young farmer looked on spell
bound. That he was farmer Katie
knew, for she had been brought up
on a farm herself, and she knew the
country look as well as any one liv-
ing. She liked it, too. Her happy
DAYS had all been before she saw the
city pavements.
II am obliged to you; it is great
fayor!" said the young man. his face
glowing with approval. and then he
became grave again, and his eyes
were very earnest rs he leaned
toward the young girl.
"It's for my mother" he almost
whispered, "and mother was so neat
and tidy. I feel as if she'd care"
II understand" said poor little
Katie, who had neither mother nor
father, and who lived with hard
listed, grudging aunt, earning her
bread in the swarming city. uncount-
ed among its thousands.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-09-19
N1cor1N IN TOBACCO.
The AlkalOid Plays an Important
Part In the Nutrition of
the Plant.

The significance of the presence of
nicotin in tobacco has recently been in
vestigated by an Italian botanist, G..
Albo, of the Palmero botanical gardens.
He finds that this alkaloid, instead of
being waste product, as has been sup
posed, is really food, having an i'm
portant part to play in the nutrition of
the plant. Says writer in the Revue
Scientifique:
m. Albo has already solved a similar
question in relation to the presence of
colchicin in the various species of COL
ch1cum. He has reached the conclusion
that colchicin Is by no means waste
substance, product of assassination,
but rather nitrogenized substance that
has, like other reserve food substances,
a part to play in the phenomena of nu-
triton and formation of the plant. This
alkalofd also is food; nicotin serves,
directly or Indirectly, to nourish the
plant, instead of being a residue or
waste product. Nicotin is not found in
the seeds of tobacco But we find there
q substance soluble in alcohol, which
gives with sulfuric acid. reac-
lions similar to those of solanin (the
poison of the deadly nightshade). Now
we know, through an old observation Of
Kletznisky, that we may obtain nicotin
by reducing solanin. This solanin of
the seed disappears during termination
and is employed to nourish the buds; it
has quite disappeared in the fully devel-
oped plants and is not found at all, while
nfcotin is present The total quantity
of this varies according to the condi-
lions Of the plant and its treatment. If,
for example, We cut off the tops Of
stalk Of tobacco to prevent Towering,
We see that the proportion Of nicotin in
creases considerably. 1t becomes almost
thrice as great as in normal conditions
during Towering. This is due, according
to the Italian experimenter, to the fact
that, normally, there is migration Of
nfcotin from the plant towards the
seeds, which nicotin Is there trans
formed into another substance, more
complex perhaps, and more effective as
a reserve-either solanin or some re-
lated substance. Thus we understand
the influence exerted by the destruction
Of the flowers; the nicotin that would
have been accumulated and transformed
in the seeds is now obliged to remain in
the plant and becomes there more
abundant"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-09-19
ON A FERN HUNT.
A Attractive Pastine fer Those
M Spepd the summer In the
Country.

rhere are attractive possibilities In
a fern hunt, even for an amateur. In
New York state alone there are sasd TO-
be 81 varieties Ferns OF the ORDINARY
types are easily grown at home, II ahey
are properly cared for-that Is grown
in the right kind OF earth, Watereu at,
proper intervals and kept sheltered trom-
the sun, says the New York Tribune.
The Royal Osmunda ferns may be-
grown in beds and borders OF rich SOIL
on the northern side of the house, wnere
they are shielded from the sun. Delfcate
rock ferns will not grow in deep SOIL
and ferns which like rich, deep SOIL.
will not grow in rockeries where hney
have scant earth to hold their roots.
The greatest failures in the culture OF
plants come from an attempt to rake
the plant grow under conditions winch
are totally foreign to It. The ostrich
fern makes the most magnificent growth
If planted intelligently. Its great sterile
fronds sometimes reach . height of nve-
or six feet, though the average grewth.
of the plant is much shorter.
The Lygodium palmatum, or CLIMB
ing fern, has the honor of being the only
plant in America which has been, no.
ticed because OF its beauty by statute
law. It is sometimes called the Fart
ford fern, and its form will be Known
to anyone familiar with Hartford dfaw-
ing-rooms 40 years ago, where itsprdssecs
form was often used for wall deGora-'
tons, especially around pictures. BY
the Connecticut statutes Of 1875 II re-
ceived special protection. This Is one
of the most difficult ferns to grow and
seems to elude the vigilance OF prpfes-
sional nurserymen. s
Incidentally. ferns have little q no
reputation. The male fern" (Aspidium
f1lixmas) is the only exception. 1tswas
used by the ancients as vermifuges and
wasa secret remedy for tape-worm,.p ur-
chased by the king of France at the re-
quest Of some of the French meSlicaf
profession and published by his order
IN about the year TITS. The accounts OF
the efficacy of this treatment are too
to admit of any reasonable
doubt. The remedy is said to besstilI
used, but the disease dreaded by the
eighteenth century has almost dssap--
peared from civilization, and Is little
known among the physicians In practfce
IN the cities of to-day. Only in remote
districts where good beef cannot By OBJ
tanned is the taenia to be dreadeds
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-09-19
AND or JAN MAVEN.
But Another Man Gets the
" Credit For 1t. 81

One Of the newspapers, speaking res
Gently of the exploratory enterprise
on the island of Jan Mayen, north OF
Iceland, said that the island was
named after the man who discovered
it. This is a slight inaccuracy which
Is found in nearly every encyclopedia
in existence. The island of Jan Mayen
was discovered by Henry Hudson in
1907, four years before it was visited
by the Dutchmen whose name it
bears, says the New York Sun.
The bee in Henry Hudson's bonnet
was consuming passion to find a
short passage which might be utilized
by the maritime nations of northwest
Europe in their trade with the orient.
Everybody knows that he was cruelty
set adrift to perish in q small boat In
Hudson bay after he had found that
Hudson strait and the great bay to
which it. led him were not a part Of
the northwest passage to China and
India which he was seeking.
At an earlier date he had the idea
that he might find a short passage to
the orient by travelling right across the
northern apex of the earth to the
eastern countries on the other side of
the polar regions. So he skirted the
edge of the ice pack all the way be-
tween Greenland and Nova Zembla,
looking in vain for an opening in the
pack.
a III nn1 aly
Hudson proved that there was no
royal road across the pole to the
orient
He traced for many hundreds of
miles the southern edge of the great
frozen sea that covers the northern
top OF the world. He dissipated for
ever the erroneous notion, long held
by sailors, that sea ice could not form
far from land.
He Gid not get very near. the pole;
but he discovered the little island OF
Jan Mayen, with which his name
should have been associated. Hudson
gave to the island the name of Hud-
sons Touches; but when Jan Mayen
visited the island in his ship Esk he
made great deal more noise over the
exploit than Hudson had thought
worth while, and attracted SO much
attention that his name was given to
1t.
It was another case of Columbus and
Amerigo Vespucci. The original dis
coverer was not honored in the name
of the thing discovered NOT on1v docs
the island bear the name of the Dutch
man, but one of its extinct craters is
known as the Esk, from the name of
his vessel. Those who read Arctic
books, however, know that we have a
more satisfactory account of Hudsons
discovery of the island than of the.
visit of Jan Mayen.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-09-19
Grand old Cherrv Tr..

Sometimes the fruit on q single tree
is worth more than two or three acres of
wheat There is tree in northern Del
aware, 70 to so years old, that has pro-
duced an average of $50 worth of fruit
annually for nearly 20 years. One year
the cherries sold for $50. Six years ago
this old patriarch bore 81 peach bas-
kets Of delicious fruit. or about LOO
pounds. And all Of this fruit has been
a free gift from nature, as the old tree
has stood in dooryard all these years
unattended and uncared for except in
cherry time
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-09-19
a Wedidne Innov.tio..

English wedding customs and fash
ions are considered very smart on
this side of the water. but not many
Of them have been carried into prac-
tice. At the recent wedding of Lady
Juliet Lowther, the daughter of Lady
de Gray. to Mr.. Plum, the brides
mother, gorgeously gowned, reached
the church nearly an hour before the
time set for the nuptials. She stood
in the front part Of the nave and
greeted and received her friends ~
they came In.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-09-19
To Have Colonial Gardens.

To Have Colonial Gardens.
An old-fashioned garden is generally
a most attractive one; the very words
have a fascination, moving the fancy to
conjure up most interesting personages
and scenes. Just at present the phrase
has had new meaning, since the white
house grounds are to be the scene of
such a revival. Work has commenced
on two colonial gardens in the south
grounds, which when completed in the
fall will resemble the gardens at Mount
Vernon, whose prim box-hedge borders
and old-time flowers and shrubs are
famous the world over.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-09-19
Poverty in Denmark.

Denmark makes clear distinction be-
tween the tnriftless and the respectable
poor The former are treated like Eng
lish paupers. The latter never cross
workhouse threshold. II destitute, they
receive a pension ranging from H3 to
Ell year; or, If too feeble to look
after themselves, they are placed in an
old-age home.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-09-19
conf Reat IN There

A japanese gentleman who has been
aecturing at the University of Chicago
says his country could give us many
valuable pointers on marriage. This
may be true, says the Chicago Record
Herald, but we guess Japan can't tell US
anything about the divorce business.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-09-19
EFFECT OF GOOD CLOTHES.
whenea Woman II Well sDrehs@d IL
~ owes Her Self-Possession ana
Self-Respect.

Some one arises to remark that self
possession, and not SELF consciousness,
in woman, is the result of good dress
ing.
: This il Just a. true as the reverse. 1t
all depends on the woman. There
would seem to be no question that 1t is
every womaA's duty to dress just aswell
as she can, and, despite the numerous
shafts launched at the vanity of the
sex. the women who exceed th0r duty
In this respect are probably not more
numerous than those who neglect 1t.
BY dressing well we do not mean esabo-
rately nor extensively. nor conspicu-
ously. The little word .'well' conveys
far more than many-syllabled adjec-
tives. It implies appropriately. with
good taste and good effect.
Every mothers heart has at sometime
ached for. some awkward slip Of & girl
rendered ten times more awkward by
ill-fitting gowns made out of ill-cKosen
material. Put the same girl into Aress
which becomes her, and a marvellous
transformation will be seen in garbage
and demeanor. The same is true OF her
elders. No woman can be graceful. no
woman can do justice to her convarsa-
tional powers and other accomplish
ments, when painfully aware thai tho
hue of her dress is fatal to her COMPLEX
ion, and that it's cut caricatures hesr fig-
ure. The consciousness Of looking her
best undoubtedly has much to do with
her mower tn charm
And 50 we come hack to the opinion
that it is every woman's duty to GOOSE
her attire herself discreetly and with
care. The busy physician. the distract
ed business woman and the worried
housekeeper, the preoccupied littersteur,
all of these should set aside small; por-
ton of precious time for the plannEng of
dress Simplicity may be strictly adj ered
to. and will. indeed be found the nest eff
fective.s but IL theigarment under: con-
sideration is only morning WRAPPER or
negligee it should possess the merits
Of being becoming in color and style and
OF. being we'll fitting. Dress invaolves
self-respect as much as moneS in
wolves character. .t
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-09-19
Apple Shortc.Le.
Competition.

why don't you get some detectives
IKE those we read about in novels?"
MY dear sir" replied the police off,
cial, our department could not; pos
sibly offer them the inducements; that
literature holds out" = Washington
Star.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-09-19
WIN ne See. nj a. I.o.i...

The largest tree in Oregon was felled
recently to be sent as a curiosity to the
worlds fair. It is the Aberdeen spruce,
and stood nearly 300 feet high, 40 around
and 11S feet from the ground to the
first limb. Its age is calculated at 440
years, being good-sized tree when Co
lumbus discovered the land that was
afterward called America. 49,
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-09-19
War Dogs.

The war messenger dogs of the Ger
man army have hitherto been recruited
from the ranks of sporting dogs. But
a change is to be made. The retrievers
were not always sure letter-carriers, be-
ing often diverted from their mission by
game met en- route. They will be re-
placed by Scotch shepherd dogs, which
have more endurance and are more con-
scientious.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-09-19
London,a CrimfnaI..

It is often said that there are 70 900
known criminals in London The
whole records Of Scotland yard do not
contain In all SO many Names, and
many Of these have been dead tos
years.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-09-19
How Did Il Ger rh.-.,

A medical examiner in Connecticut
reported the cause Of death In one
case as bullet in the Chest and the
state board OF health has been Unable
70 learn whether it was accidental
honlicidal. or suicidal
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-09-19
THE MINISTER'S DIVIDENDS.
nfversary Brought Something
More Appreciate.

It was queer couple, says preach
er in a Massachusetts town, relates
Youths Companion, that drove up to
the parsonage door. She was tall and
angular, a typical "old maid;" he was
short, fat and Jolly, with sort OF
David Harum look about his eyes. He
had snug farm, well kept and paid
for; and she was known as neat, In
dustrious woman, who had brought up
family of children left orphans by
the death of her sister.
Sard Cooper assisted the woman
from the wagon as handily as he could
with his stiff arm and sitter knee.
She waited while he hitched his horse,
and together they entered the parson-
age.
Reckon you can guess what we're
here for, parson," he said. my sister
Jane, who has kept house for me nigh
on to 80 years, died last winter, and
it's been lonesome for me and the
cows and pigs since. Miss Jones,
here, has lowered them chickens Of
her sisters until they've got from I'M
der her wing and gone to town. Now
faint far cross-lots from my farm to
hers, and we concluded that she can
run my house, and can run her farm,
and it would be better for both farm
and house. So we thought we'd just
drive over and get you to hitch us up
for a span. I'm going to be good to
her, and provide everything Necessary,
and she's going to be good to me, and
take care O. me. So whenever you're
ready, go ahead, only make it short"
The ceremony passed without spe-
cial incident. After Sard had admin
istered a sounding smack on Nancy's
cheek, he turned to me and said: wal,
parson, what do owe ye?"
well" / said, you can give me
whatever you choose" and l added,
with a smile: 'Give me what you think
she is worth to YOU"
In an instant his Yankee love for
trade came to the front, and, fishing
an old-fashioned copper cent out of his
pocket, he said: 'Parson, reckon
won't be stuck very bad II give you
that to begin with. II find she's worth
more, why, you'll hear from me again"
He had the best of me; there was
nothing more to be said l made the
entry of the wedding in my private
record, and wrote against it: Fee, one
cent
A year from that day Cooper drove
into the yard with cord of fine hick-
DRY wood.
you remember what told We when
I gave we that cent? The woman's
doing well, SO thought I'd give ye a
dividend"
The following anniversary he drove
into the barn with ton of hay, and
said: Mother dividend, parson. The
wife is all right
Every anniversary of the wedding
during my pastorate another dividend
found its way to the parsonage. So
in the end my one cent became my
biggest fee.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-09-19

that
yearns be made ghthearted and but WAC
doesn't difference between shaft of huor and srngle
To humanity within these limits the humorist must minister and
having learned that merry heart doeh good like dose of medicine
and that there nothing heau than good laugh he must set
conscienious devotedy When he considers
and eaaed invalid good than
pound beef and that other hoowceked sufferer read
through article able shed his plaster and take
hope the hmost mission becomes both serious and lofty When
the humori say realizes that he writing literature and shall
the market the ceaseess competitor of the bounding
weresover and that his word nut
for adult infant than fried egg onion he look
his mission life with feeling other than that of
sponb And the funny therefore, cannot mistake his province
clearly defined praiseworty His field coextensve with
of the predgd breakfast food the ea and the shoulder
To the who be bothered with insomnia ringing the
ears peevise dandru the shoulder frecess mnbranous
the and who mentally equipped the point
of joke without calling somebody from the help him find
the funny whether he be huors comedian English
lecturer ndeavoring to tell dialect perfect
When the horist bring moentary from
sad heart the wrinkle of m saddened of
who chronic expression of the face that gloomy
that of the worried who alone great city and has
discovered that he has ntrusted his val with fictitious
feels that he has labored altogether in vain
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-09-19
Hor.e 1n.urance /. Bav.ri,

HOTTIE ImBWFWMCS II n0V0HIA. 49,
Governmental insurance Of horses in
Bavaria is eminently satisfactory, as
shown by the first annual report OF the
royal chamber Of insurance. The gov
eminent has conducted the business of
insuring cattle against fire and hail for
MANY years.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-09-19
Deceived.

''She seems to have no confidence in
her husband"
mo; she says she caught him telling
the truth the other day.-N. Y. Sun.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-09-19
For Wall Cracks.

Stop cracks In wall with plastic at
paris, but mix the plaster with vinegar,
not with water, for vinegar prevents its
setting too quickly and makes it easy
of manipulation.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-09-19
yi.itor. ~ gt.~...

The number Of visitors to Niagara
Falls averages three-fourths of a mill
lion year. In the year Of the Buffalo
exposition there were 5000, 600.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-09-19
REMEDY FOR HAY-FEvER.
Antitoxin Found in Pollen OF Certain
Grasses Used with Bene-
fetal Eject.

Sufferers from hay fever will now be
rejoicing, no doubt, that their special
malady, which has hitherto made them
look forward with something like dread
to the approach Of early summer, is at
this moment the subject of extensive
experimental research at the hands OF
Prof. Dunbar, of Hamburg, and that 80
far as his investigations go, Judging
from Sir Felix Semon's report in the
British Medical Journal, there seems to
be a reasonable likelihood that In the
near future medical men will be In 4
position to treat the complaint on a
basis of rational pathology and thera-
peutics, says the Hospital.
Up to the present time the only sure
way OF obtaining relief from the affec-
ton has been to run away from it and
to abide the summer in some place
where the baleful pollen is not, course
obviously impossible for the many.
Now, however,, according to Prof
Dunbar, the toxin has been discovered.
He has isolated from the pollen of GER
tain grasses toxic substance which,
when applied in very dilute solution to
the eyes or nostrils Of individuals who
are subject to hay fever, produces with
in few minutes the characteristic local
symptoms of the complaint.
The toxin solution has no effect upon
one who IL not a sufferer from hay
fever.
By injecting the pollen Of various
grasses into the circulation of certain
animals-rabbits, goats and horses
Prof. Dunbar has succeeded, he believes,
in producing an active antitoxin. which,
when applied to the eyes and nostrils of
hay fever patients in whom the local
symptoms have been produced artificial
ly by the previous employment of the
toxin, Immediately quells the subjective
symptoms, and in few minutes causes
the objective signs to subside.
Grasses appear to be the chief Offend
ers In causing the affection, for Prof.
Dunbar has failed to discover the toxin
in the pollen OF roses and many other
flowers
The toxin was obtained In sufI1cient
quantity for experimental purposes by
extracting the crushed pollen Of maize
with saline solutions at the body tenn
perature for about six hours, and by
precipitating the toxin from the solu-
ton with alcohol. The antitoxin was
obtained by injecting the toxin into
horses.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-09-19
How It Happened.

Bleeker-Yes, poor Jones lost control
Of his auto
Baxter-Heavens! How did it hap
pen?
why, he foolishly taught his wife
how to run fudge.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-09-19
Knows yer LittIe

The fellow who knows it all setden
las sense enough to know thing or
kWo.-Philadelphia Press.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-09-19
True to Modern Lie,

True to Modern Life,
Theatrical Manager-You claim that
your play is unusually true to life. In
what way?
Playwright-A week is supposed to
elapse between each act, and there's q
new cook in every scene.-Judge.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-09-19
Lonr-Delayed Memori.l.

After lapse of 66 years a memo
rial has just been placed over the
grave of the late Cardinal Manning's
wife, in Lavington churcnyard, Sus-
sex, England She died before her
husband joined the Catholic church,
Albany Argus.