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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-01-23
FADs AND FANC1ES.
Odds and Ends of Feminine Finery
for the Winter Sea-

Pastel blue is new and fashion
able color.
One of the prettiest skirts in velvet
is shirred at the waist and finished
with a row of fringe at the hem A
skirt of this sort allows of an elab-
crate bodice.
Chiffon velvet is the elegant fabric
for dinner gowns. When the color is
shaded into three tones it is most
fashionable.
White cloth is one of the prettiest
fabrics for the reception gown, espe-
cially If it is relieved with embroidery
or insertions of some contrasting tint.
Lovely "sets' now come in the popu-
lar purple tints. A favorite one in
pinky violet tone comprises a hat, q
tie Of tulle, graceful collar of taffeta
and one of those huge new NUTS.
Mousquetaire gloves are coming in
once more-especially the shorter
lengths-which are worn with tailor
suits and which give such graceful
touch at the wrist.
Typography and Swedish woodwork,
initiated in papier mache, are other
novelties of the season. They come as
buckets, boxes of all shapes and wash
tubs.
Brocade silks are back in favor In
deed, Powered patterns are obtaining
even among the velvets
Leather is pressed into service for
plain in exterior finish, and are fire.
quently lined with expensive fur, but
the leather coat has not the vogue it
obtained in earlier seasons
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-01-23
Homemade Cider.

The making of cider in small guam
titles is rather difficult matter. The
apples should be allowed to mellow un-
der cover for about two weeks, then
they should be crushed and allowed to
stand until somewhat cleared Pour of
and strain well, then draw of into a
large cask and allow to stand; for win
ter use cider can be bottled.--Good
Housekeeping.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-01-23
A riVOIOuS
Martyr ~ ~
BY DONALD MILES.

Copyright 1909. by Daily Story Pub. Coz
@ TARTLING headlines in the Morn
y ing Call announced the return to the
states of Flo Webster, the vaudeville
favorite, from successful engagement
in the klodyke. Her fortune was vari-
ously estimated with prolific wealth of
adjectives. Scores of young actresses
read the graphic accounts of Webster's
success; how chamois bags of gold were
showered at her feet, as she sang and
danced to audiences of rough millionaire
miners on the rude stage in the cold
country They devoured accounts of her
picturesque life, and illustrated Sunday
specials, pictured her wonderful dog
teams, the fastest in the Klondyke, and
her sleds laden with costly furs.
One morning before these stories were
beginning to find themselves in editorial
waste baskets dubbed dead matter" a
weary-eyed woman stepped from han
som before the st. Mercia hospital, and
disappeared behind the forbidding black
doors. The frowsy maid within was
hidden to deliver a slip of cardboard,
OcdIluS Iuc Slluplc HAo
Webster" to Dr. ]. Wilbur Baltch. Baltch
was a young visiting surgeon, who spent
most of his time at the hospital, and
whose patients were chiefly imaginary.
The woman waited impatiently in the
stuffy Office, striding back and forth
across the room, stopping occasionally
before the doleful picture of a weeping
saint, or the grim features of a painted
martyr.
For all the simmer Of silks, the jing-
ling of chains and chatelaines, and the
sparkle of diamonds, she was not an i'm
posing figure. The beauty she had once
undoubtedly possessed had succumbed
to powder and paint peroxide and cham
payne; but there was an expression in
her face of indomitable courage and
strength, and hint of womanly POSSIBLE
tiles in her wide eyes.
She thought of her heralded success,
and smiled bitterly. The old happy days
before her adventurous journey were
constantly before her. She had gained
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-01-23
Was Relieved.

II have q very unpleasant duty to
perform" said the chief. 1.-THE man
agement desires to dispense with your
services"
The Office boy heaved deep sigh
of relief. "Gee!" he said, Il fought
for a minute youse was goin' to fire
mo "-Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-01-23
To Break Glass.

Don't take a hammer or throw It
upon the ground, that is to say. if it
needs to be broken in any required
form. Preferably make small notch
by means of file on the edge of the
piece OF glass. Then heat thin rod
Of iron red hot, apply it to the notch
in the glass in any desired direction
or shape. A neat crack will mark the
course of the hot iron and there the
glass can be safely severed.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-01-23
DEATH TO THE CRAWFIsH.
Carbolic Acid Used to Destroy the
Creatures That Undermine
Mississippi Levees.

Carborlic acid is being used more ex-
tensively than ever before by the men
who are seeking to preserve the levees
from attack by that clawing and insid-
ious member, the crawfish, reports the
New Orleans Times-Democrat.
Crawf1sh are more numerous, too,
than ever before, at many points along
the river. Probably the extreme high
water of last spring had something to
do with making the members OF this
family more numerous. At any rate,
they are here in large numbers, and as
usual have been boring holes through the
levees at many places.
Under direction of the Orleans levee
board the slaughter of crawfish has been
progressing quietly at certain points
within the boards jurisdiction, and
similar work has been carried on by
other agencies. Down about jackson
Barracks, the Orleans board has within
the last few days used carbolic acid with
good results in an effort to extermlnate
the crawf1sh. The method of using car
bolic acid is simple, and the remedy is
an old one. Planters have been using
carbolic acid for many years, and OF
recent years the levee boards along the
river have used this method of extermi-
nation.
The acid is simply poured into the
holes which are burrowed by the craw-
fish, and escape becomes impossible.
They sicken and die under the influence
of the acid which pollutes the water.
Often it is impossible to reach the craw-
fish with the acid, for the reason that
they burrow into the embankment from
a point below the water level. 1t is only
possible to reach them when the open
ing is above the level of the water.
The quantity of acid used depends
upon the depth of the opening In the
levee's SIDE Crawfishes burrow irregu-
larly along the contour OF the levee. and
depth and distance are always matters
of uncertainty.
Recently there has been some talk
among levee experts of using carbollc
acid experimentally on the muskrats In
the lower parish, where these pests
luI1Vc Al 6IcdI al u1C6, nAu "ACAC SA0y
often undermine the levees. The musk
rat is really serious problem, and
almost any method of determination
would be welcomed. The destruction of
crawt1sh would to some extent minimize
the damage which muskrats do to the
levees, because it would make burrowing
more difficult. Crawfish holes frequent
ly make the way for the muskrat, and
they follow the holes from the riverside,
catch, kill and eat the crawfish, and
come out on the land side of the levee.
In this way they become great menace
to the integrity of the levees. How to
reach them with carbolic acid is ques-
ton which levee experts who have con-
sidered the question have not yet solved.
The indications are that they will take
the matter up at some early day, for the
purpose of seeing what they can do.
In the meantime the crawtlsh will con-
tinue to get carbolic acid in large and I'M
broken doses.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-01-23
BRAIN FAC PILLOW.
An Aromatic Affair That sweetiS
Luis the weary Owner to
Restful Slumber.

The brain flag pillow is made of silk.
or made TT satin. 1t matters not what
the outside may be. It is the interior
part that is important, says the Brook.
Ign Eagle.
The pillow when It is made, must
contain small slit in one side, slit
just large enough to admit ones hand.
Into this there can be bundled the con.
tents of rose jar.
The idea is to produce variety OF
scent. And, when all the odors OF
Araby and few extra ones have been
obtained, the whole must be stuffed
into the pillow.
1t is very good plan to add a few
feathers, or little down, for rose
leaves are not always soft enough and
sweet grasses have stiff hard stems A
little inner pillow of down, or few
handsful of down added to the leaves,
the balsam, the lavender, and all the
rest, will make the pillow light and
fluffy.
The pillow must be filed with every
sort of sweet thing, all nicely dried
and rolled with the hands. Rolling the
leaves and the grasses with the hands
tends to powder them and make them
softer and more easily packed.
The first breath of the pillow is that
CT herbs. It seems little like a pine
pillow. Late in the season, when all
the rest have begun to grow dim, one
gets the scent of the rose leaves. They
pervade everything upon which the
pillow lies, and even ones hair and
ones gown, if one has lain upon the
pillow, will smell like rose leaves
If one wants it to be real rose ono
can add drop of altar of rose and ten
drops of oil of rose geranium. Shake
it through the leaves before putting
them in the pillow, let dry on a little
to take of, the oily feeling, and then
one will have scented pillow that Is
scented pillow.
Such pillow is not for ordinary use.
It is not for show, but for headaches.
It is kept put away in the locker, or
high in the clothes press, where the
silk quilts lie.
When tired the owner Of the brain
flag pillow breathes it long and deeply
and sometimes she falls asleep.
The sleep may not be more than five
minutes long. just the forty winks OF
beauty sleep. But what are the re-
suits? Bright eyes, quick, good natured
brains, and such fund of strength
and spirits!
The influence of sweet scents upon
the spirits is thing that is discussed
by those who know all about it. The
mind, being invisible, can be affected
by invisible things, and is. therefore.
peculiarly susceptible to scents. This
is one method of reasoning.
However this may be. the brain fag
pillow is an excellent thing to have In
the house. And the woman who makes
one and keeps it handy will resolve
never again in all her life to be with
out this beautiful article of household
comfort and hygiene.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-01-23
She Succeeded.

Patience hear she has quite repu-
tation as an amateur cook.
Patrice-Oh, yes.
"And that her husband was famous
eater before he married her."
Yes; and she married him to reform
him."-YOnkers Statesman.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-01-23
French Beefsteak.

Place in roasting tin piece of best
rump steak; dredge with flour, pepper
and salt, almost cover with water,
roast for 20 minutes; then cover with
sliced onions, pepper, salt, roast 30
minutes; cover with sliced tomatoes,
roast 20 minutes; then sprinkle over
with grated cheese. roast again for ten
minutes. Serve on hot dish, and IL
baked every ten minutes previous to
the sprinkling of the cheese it will be
very tender and delicious-Philadel
phia Ledger.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-01-23
Up-to-Date schoI.r.

The student in the geography class,
says the Washington Post. who de-
clared that Panama was bounded on
the east and west by warships and on
the north and south by marines is not
combining his studies to textbooks
that were published day before yes
terday.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-01-23
Travelling Men.

Commercial agents who travel in the
British Isles are exempt from all taxes
and special trade licenses or conces-
sions, except in case of those commodi-
ties for the sale of which special public
license is requisite. In the latter case
foreign agents are subject to the regular
trade regulations governing the sale OF
excise commodities
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-01-23
Turkish Physician. Wise.

The sultan has cancer of the stom-
ach and can't live more than two or
three years. A German doctor made
the discovery, says the Chicago Rec
orG-Herald. probably because the
Turkish physicians were afraid of
getting themselves beheaded if they
told the old man about it.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-01-23
Strategy.

There comes our car. Let's go over
to the corner"
Don't walk so fast II the motorman
sees we are not in hurry he is more
likely to stop for us.''-Kansas citv
Journal.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-01-23
Fairly Convincing.

"If it was so dark" said the magis-
trate, how could you tell that the
man was a negro?"
II could tell,' replied the old far
mer. "by the way he hung round the
chicken house.'-Chicago Post.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-01-23
A Vindieatlon.

Red compilations are all the rage in
New York, Prof Starr, remarks the
Chicago News, who pointed out that
we were gradually growing into In
dams, doubtless feels vjndicated.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-01-23
Glxcerln for yvinae,x..

People who are troubled with the
frost on the windows of cold room may
keep them t, ansparent by rubbing them
with glycerin. This will prevent Z
heavy frost forming OF them.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-01-23
'H0zv to Get Good Roads
By HON. A. c.. LATIMER,


HAVE surplus in the United States treasury and yet
the farmers in the rural districts get good roads, The
who have money in the cities do object to being
taxed for road improvement 1t is the farmer living
the country who has been protesting.
A few days ago met man with whom was reared,
and said Let talk about this road question little bit
have scheme" Now, of the worst roads
is in that county. He said "You politicians always
have schemes; don't hear it, said Listen
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-01-23
DR.. J. F. PIGOTT,
covineton, Ia.

covington, Ia.
Residence in the Exterstein raised
cottage, two blocks west Of public
school building.
Offers mis- professional services 70
the public.
once at the City Drug Store, on
Columbia street
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-01-23
Exempt.

Fweddy-Aw-by the way, what is
this brain fag heah SO much about?
Old Understanding you'll never
have, young man.-Chicago Tribune.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-01-23
n.ror. cookfns Game.

The wild flavor can be removed from
rabbits and water fowl by soaking
them over night in sweet milk
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-01-23
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
DIR. G. de MONSABERT

DIR. G. de MONSABERT
Having permanently established him-
self in Covington, offers his profess
sional services to the public.
He will be at his Office daily from
10 a. m. to p. m.
Office on Boston street near the
Courthouse. Phone 103.
Residence on Jackson avenue near
sew Glen cottage. Phone 125.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-06-25
INFIDEL SYMPATHY.

Affection and public calamity always set the
human mind in motion, and the expressions of
opinion from religious, secular and inhdel
standpoint of view are so divergent the opin'
ions of quack doctors on materia medica, the
cures for consumption. Natural causes are sell
dom studied whilst Providence is held responsible
if public calamity befalls wicked city and
equally so for not intervening when the little in
nocent ones as were those sacrificed
last week in New York. When Martinique
swallowed up in lake of fire it attributed to
Providence because of the wickedness of that city
By those who hold Providence responsible for such
casualties no account is taken of natural causes
which regular and uuerring those that
regulate the rising and setting sun. Science dem
onstrates that Martinique doomed, be its in
habitants good or wicked. The Iroquois disaster
In Chicago would be avoided by supplementing a
little "if," e if the law had been complied with
and rigidly observed. If the burning Socum con-
tanned solely cargo of lewd and wicked persons,
religious zcalots would attribute the catastrophe to
Providence it was, the passengers were limo
cent children God-fearing and loving parents who
did their duties to God and man. Because it hap
lpcned blasphemer who calls belief i'll God "a
fraud" writes in this sacrilegious manner to an
eastern journal us this then, an instance of the
goodness and loving kindness of God--the most
cruel and malignant idol, that was ever, and is nov
worshipped" The writer's darkened and perverted
intellect calls God in whom he has no belief to
an account Poor consolation for the devout sur
wing members who may have lost father a child,
a brother or sister How inconsistent, mahg-
nant and hateful unbelief is. The entire communi-
cation shows the writer has no faith, and he ar
raigns the faith of those pious Christians and in
.nocent little ones whose lives were sacrificed, be-
cause God in whom they placed their confidence
and trust. and in whose existence he has no faith
did not intervene. We would naturally suppose
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-06-25
GRAND GATHERING OF KNIGHTS.

What will probably be the greatest and most
enthusiastic assemblage of the Catholic laity ever
held in the fair city of Ogden will be the gathering
of the knights of Columbus Sunday.
a large number of Knights from Boise Poca-
teo and Salt Lake City will be present to witness
the comforting Of the First and Second degrees on
a class of forty-fve candidates by the First and
Second Degree Teams of Ogden Council and the
exemplifcation of the Major Degree by the Worthy
Territorial Deputy Supreme Knight, George ]. Glib
son, assisted by the Third Degree Team of Salt
Lake Council.
The excursion is being conducted under the able
management of the genial Deputy Grand Knight
of Salt Lake Council, Edward T. Stolzenberger.
Just one year ago this month the Salt Lake
Degree Teams instituted Ogden Council and con-
ferred the three degrees on a class of thirty-fve
Today Ogden Council can proudly boast of being
the banner council of Utah and Idaho with MEM
bership of over one hundred and twenty-five.
This will be the third time within the year that
the Salt Lake Degree Teams have visited Ogden
and conferred the degrees on from forty-fve to
fifty candidates, and they have always returned
filed with enthusiasm and brotherly love.
Sunday will mark the dawn of new era for
the Catholics of Utah and Idaho when the brothers
of Boise, Pocatello, Ogden and Salt Lake Councils
gather round the festal board and with hearts filed
with brotherly love viii renew the pledges of fra
ternal charity given in the ritual at the time of the
institution of the several councils
Membership in the order of the knights of CO.
lumbus initiates for higher citizenship and moro
practical Catholicity Long life and prosperity
is a wish that can be reasonably extended to the
order by the clergy and laity of all nationalites
as well as by all who have the future welfare of
the state only at heart
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-06-25
NEW SUPERIOR GENERAL.

The Paulist Fathers have selected a successor
to Father Deshon, late Superior General of the
order. Rev. George NJ. Searle, now superior,
joined the Catholic church in 1852. He is a near
relative of President Eliot of Harvard College,
from which institution he graduated in 1857. For
two years after his graduation he served as an as
sstant at the Dudley Astronomical Observatory at
Albany, N. Y, very appropriate position to fill,
as the young graduate direct descendant of
the Dudleys who served as colonial governors of
Massachusetts from 1884 to 1870 and again from
1916 to 1850. The son Joseph Dudley filled the
same position from 1902 to Ills. After two years
of faithful service at the Dudley Astronomical
Observatory, he worked with the coast survey, and
was soon appointed professor of astronomy and
mathematics at the U. S. naval academy at An
napolis. This Office he filed with great distinction
till 1864. During his leisure hours professor he
studied the claims of Catholic belief. and becom-
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-06-25

The boil weevel, that has wrought such destruc-
ton in cotton plantations, will, if Dame Rumor
ybe trusted, soon meet his Waterloo In Gua-
tamala ant has been discovered that IS the
deadly foe of the Texas bug that has destroyed for
tunes. After importing sufficient number OF
these new warriors and that victory is complete
the Texas ranger should tun his flute and sing:
They've struck the bug that Stays the bug
that fays the bug that sticks US;
They've jailed the germ that guides the germ
That taught the germ to fix US.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-06-25

The Republican convention. in session in
Chicago, has erected its platform The plsuls
are carefully lead, and it remains for the stand
ard bearers, in case of success at the November
election, to spike these planks firmly to their mro-
ings. The Cuban plank might be extended to tho
Philippine islands. As yet the condition Of their r-
habitant5 is better than that of the negroes boz
fore the Civil liberty is our motto. The plank
capital and labor is good one, but it should b,
securely nailed. The nomination Of Theodore
Roosevelt, to succeed himself was unanimous. &c.
too, was the nomination of Charles ". Fairbanks
for the vice presidential chair
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-06-25

The postofhce department has taken up the
cudgels of against patent mendicine vendors.
For those who make fat living on the ills and
woes of humanity there can be no sympathy. Per-
sons who are i'll, or imagine they are indisposed
need guardians. Uncle Sam now volunteers TO be-
come their guardian by denying the use of the
mails to those all-cure takers. A denial of the
use of the mails to all such frauds is the only pro-
lection for apparent or real sickly persons who
want to make drug store of their stomach.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-06-25
OFFICIAL ENDORSEMENT.

Editor Intermountain Catholic:
My Dear Sir-Replying to your faver asking my
approval The Intermounain Catholic since It's es
tabshment this diocese. will state that coTslue
the founding Of Catholic paper Salt Lake not the
least Of the many blessings bestowed by ProVluencs
the Church here during the past two years us
birth occurred at opportlme time Its zeal IN prop
sgatng Catholic truth has had since its Inception
my hearty though silent approval. l Believe WIN
Our Holy Father that good Catholic journal is a
perpetual mission in parish, and that it Will serve
question box, at all times. for anxious lnqulrerS
In my visitations shall hope to ind The lntermoun-
tain Catholic I'm the home of every Catholic family
Its mission is to espouse truth justice and morahty'
and all devoted priests will find it an able co-epera
tor in their missionary work. 1t is wish that all
my priests and the laity entrusted to my chargS
should encourage your noble effort and that OF the
generous founder of The Intermountan Catholic
Yours sincerely, /. SCANLAN.
Bishop of Salt Lake.
Salt Lake City. Oct ?. 1900