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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-11-05
CAN DRINK TROUBLE.
That's One Way to Get It

Although they won't admit it many
people who suffer from sick headaches
and other ais get them straight from
the coffee they drink and It Is easily
proved If they're not afraid to leave It
to test as in the case Of lady In
Connellsville.
Il had been q sufferer from sick
headaches for twenty-five years and
anyone who has ever had q bad sick
headache knows what suffered.
Sometimes three days in the week /
would have to remain in bed, at other
times l couldn't lie down the pain
would be SO great MY life was q tor
ture and II l went away from home
Tor day always came back more
dead than alive.
"One day ! was telling woman my
troubles and she told me she knew
that 1t was probably coffee caused it.
She said she had been cured by stop
ping coffee and using Postum Food
Coffee and urged me to try this food
drink.
That's how I came to send out and
get some Postum and from that time
I've never been without it tor It suits
my taste and has entirely cured all
Of my old troubles. All / did was to
leave off the coffee and tea and drink
we'll made Postum In its place. This
change has done me more good than
everything else put together.
Our house was like drug store for
MY husband bought everything he
heard of to help me without doing
any good but when ! began on the
Postum my headaches ceased and the
other troubles quickly disappeared.
have a friend who had an experience
Just like mine and Postum cured her
just as 1t did me.
Postum not only cured the head
aches but my general health has been
improved and I am much stronger
than before. I now senjc9 delicious
Postum more than ever did coffee"
Name given by Postum o.. Battle
Greek. Mich.
There's a reason" an1 it,s worth
finding cut
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navy in 1841. It was found in a remote
corner of lumber room Of the naval
academy few days ago, and has been
sent to the department. 1t was received
by Secretary Morton and other depart
ment officials. who expressed great
pleasure at it's recovery. and as soon
as 1t has been cleaned and vanished
it will take its place in the collection
now on the walls Of the secretary's Of
fees.
The department never had a picture
of Secretary Badger, who was dis
tinguished North Carolinian. Some
years ago a history of North Carolina
was written, and diligent search was
made for portrait OF Secretary Badger
for use in the volume, but none cou,s
be found. The portrait just discovered
is superior to most of the pictures the
department has of former secretaries
1t Is framed In excellent taste, but It
lacks both date and the name of the
artist. Beneath the picture is plate
which bears the following information
concerning his career:
"H0n. George E. Badger. Born,
Newbern. N. c., ITS. Died, Raleigh,
N. c., 1866. Major in war of 1872 Judge
Of superior court. Secretary of navy
from 1s4l United States senator 1916
to 1854
Mr.. Badger was apparently about so
years old when this portrait was paint
ed, and he was remarkably fine look
ing man. He is represented seated in
a chair, and is pictured as q round
faced man with rudy cheeks, small
dark moustach and large dark eyes.
with a kindly expression. His Fair
is dark, rather long and brushed back
from his forehead. He is rep
wearing high-pointed coli
lar with wide open front. and his coat
is the long-skirted. traditional black
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-11-05
From Society to Solitude.

From the thronged thoroughfares of
London, England, to the forests of On
tario. No greater contrast can be
imagined, and yet it is not fiction, but
fact.
It was on Sunday morning of the
past summer that was following In
the footsteps Of guide as he picked
his way over blazed trail when dis
covered some smoke rising through
the trees some little distance in front
Of us. A few steps further on and We
broke into clearing made by an OLD
lumber camp. From one of the rude
log shaclls the smoke was coming, ana
sitting in the door, his head in his
hands, his eyes wandering yacantly
into the forest, was man. He did
not see Us until the guide spoke, and
then he rose and advanced to meet us
with smile that was the very essence
of welcome.
I sat for some time with him, and
be told me something of himself in an-
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-11-05

The rotunda is not being used for z
railroad round house and never Will
be. but railroad is now running
across across the historic plaza In front
of the capitol, and brings to mind Tom
Hannum's suggestion. Right across the
wide expanse OF asphalt where the big
throngs and military pomp Of inaugu-
ration days are seen every four years,
there is now laid a narrow gauge road.
on which the shieking locomotive and
rafting cars are daily seen and heard.
This road runs right past the tree
where President Thomas Jefferson tied
his horse on Inauguration day a CEN
fury ago. and originated the term "Jef-
fersonian simplicity"
There Is 10 protest, however, against
this road as it is simply factor In ma
tional progress and the development Of
the national capital. 1t serves the
humble purpose of conveying the dirt
now being excavated from the site Of
the new Office building which is to be
erected for the use of the house of rep
resentatives. This ground is needed In
filling up about the site OF the
new union railroad station which
is to be the finest in the world.
and in keeping with the national
buildings in Washington. AS soon
as the foundation has been exca-
waited for the new office building, OF
course this little narrow gauge railroad
will be removed. but just now it Is a
strange spectacle, and one that gives
the average tourist slight jar when
he is taking in the beauty Of the big
capitol and surrounding grounds
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swer to my query % to how he liked
the life in the forest.
Necessity is the mother of many
virtues he said. land just now neces-
sity is the mother of patience with me.
l call London, England, home. Petit
coat Lane was my favorite Sunday
strolling place for years. was think
life there. You can realize the con-
trast between that lite and this, and
when you do you can also realize the
patience, or at least the necessity, that
keeps me here. l have been here for a
little more than six months. During
that time you and your guide are the
first people who have passed this
door. During that time l have been
out OF these woods on visit to my
family, living on small clearing 20
miles northwest of here, just four
times. In that six months | have not
seen dozen people, including my fam
lily. And all this within year of the
time when Petticoat Lane was my IA
vorite strolling place. If it were not
for the fact that my family needs the
wages l earn here as a Waterman for
this practically abandoned camp /
would have been in an insane asylum
weeks ago. But necessity keeps me
sane, and keeps me here with nothing
more exciting to Go than count the
ducks that fly over my head, or follow
the deer runways that lead TO no.
where"
The solitude Of the woods always
appealed to me, but l could realize
that there might be too much of it,
and that it might last too long"
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becoming ldClOT i'll English puOAAC
life
Their ambition to become figures in
politics has soured both these men.
Astor ran for congress in close New
York district against Roswell p. Flower.
Money flowed like water; the heelers
still talk of it lovingly. Aston had the
most money, but the democrats had the
most votes, and Flower won. AstOr was
placated, as supposed, by the gift of the
Italian ministry, and in Rome distin-
guished himself by throwing coins to
beggars and by prodigal entertainments.
That was as far as he got in states
manship. Disappointed, he went to Eng
land and became subject of the queen,
but neither title nor Office nor public
honor has come his way, In Rome even
the beggars remember him less well
than the eccentric Judge Stallp, who
blew his nose on red bandana and lived
In furnished lodgings, but whose deep
learning brought him as ambassador the
friendship as well as the respect of the
king
Van Allen Is Astor's cousin by mar
rage. He was never much of a figure
in society until his marriage with Emily
Astor, daughter of William, uncle of the
present W. w. Aston. Since then his
palatial house in Newport and his Eng
lish homes have been much talked of.
while his old saying that America is no
place for gentleman to live and rear
a family is revived as often as he re-
visits the country. In the end the para
graphers will drive him away.
Mr.. Van Allen was once anxious to
serve the country he now cares so little
to inhabit- But to the intimation that
he might become an ambassador the
administration turned cold shoulder.
The Aston experiment was fresh in mind.
Besides, Mr.. Aston really had some abil-
ity. In England Mr.. Van Allen became
somewhat discussed when he offered to
equip and command hospital corps for
the Beer war. The government was
willing to accept his financial assistance,
but it preferred to manage its own hos
pital service.
Mr.. Astor's daughter is about to marry
an Englishman. Mr.. Van Aliens son and
one daughter married Americans and
are apparently contented members of
exclusive society His remaining
daughter shows no sign of unusual An
glomania
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-11-05
Lumbering.

To-day Canada is virtually master
of the lumber situation of the Ameri-
can continent. The mills of the United
States are turning to her forests for
their supply of logs. Especially is this
true of the mills on the great lakes,
where water transportation is possible.
In these northern Ontario forests, stu
ated on the water shed that drains in
to Georgia bay, millions of feet of tim
Der are each year finding their way in
TO Bay City and other Michigan points,
where they are cut into lumber for use
in the states.
This demand, together with the
eyer-growing demand in Canada, is
filling the forests with lumbermen. In
a section so covered by lakes and
swift running streams as this is, lum.
bering operations are simplified to a
minimum. The Moon, the Muskosh,
the Magnetawan and the French riv-
ers have become log highways.
Through them are driven each year
millions of feet of pine, spruce and
hemlock to the mills of Michigan. and
of such places as Penetang. Meaford
and Midland, in Ontario. The hum
dreds of creeks through these forests
are damned for logging purposes.
Sluiceways may be found in the little
channels between the hundreds of
lakes. and every evidence points to the
rapid destruction of the forests.
Each year as l journey into and
through the forests find new EVIL
dences of the lumbermen's encroach-
ments. At first he confined his opera
lions to the shores of the creeks and
rivers and lakes, but has gradually
worked backward from these until the
ak of the chopper may be heard on
every hill. !.
Canada's wealth of forests will last
for many years, but not that portion
of it which lies just at the back door
of Toronto. Wild though it is as yet.
it has seen the beginning of the end,
and should reciprocity treaty with
the Dominion take the duty of If
lumber it would but hasten the de-
structiOn.
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are afioat; but it isn't the size or the
four Pinch guns or the 1000 tons OF
armor of the Connecticut that interest
New York The metropolis is more
concerned with the sporty" feature of
the launching.
The Connecticut is built by employees
working directly for the government:
sister ship in Newport News is being
built upon contract; and every man il
the government employ. as well as a
large section of the union labor forces,
IS anxious that the Connecticut shall
turn out not only quickly built but well.
The Brooklyn yard was hampered by tn
necessity of putting in special plant
before beginning. But the men have
won out
A political battle cry in Brooklyn used
to be: Zone more dash and the navy
yard is ours!" In the days when we
had no navy and didn't know it, or care
a cent. job in the yard was permit to
loaf. That has not been the case for ten
years. And now-any man seen loafing
on the Connecticut would be kicked out
by his own mates. It's enough to make
a man who used to visit the yard and see
the wooden tubs, begun and never fin
ished, rotting away in innocuous desue-
tude-it's enough to make him open his
eyes to see the red-hot rivets flying on
the Connecticut's mighty hull.
For shin of such size it is . record to
be proud of to have the craft ready for
launching one year after her keel was
laid. There is still work to do in equip
ment, but it will go forward with q
will.
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0S matter OF fact Sucn sue
cesses never last. / except the
pugilist-actor. There is an honest
curiosity to see him. But how long did
Roland MoIineaux' play last? Florence
of man about town was investigated
by the law. was invited to the stage, but
the call was not loud. once saw Hos
mer, the oarsman, "act" for five min
utes. The audience guyed him. Mrs
Langtry, Mrs. Potter. Mrs. Bloodgood,
Miss De Wolf could never have sue
ceeded in holding attention merely by
the fact that they had been in society,
but for the fact that they can act intelli
gently.
An odd case of the use of notoriety
was that of young man in New York
without dollar and without job. He
had good clothes and presence. be-
came his banker to the extent of So He
went to manager, stated his case, and
called to attention the fact that he bore
the same name as the chief actor in a
tremendous news sensations then fresh.
The manager gave him turn" bill
ing him as the cousin of the person
in question. For week he gave clever
recitations to big audiences. Then he
drew his salary, paid back my $40 and,
having got job in the meantime, was
''lost to the stage"
Clara Ward came from Detroit, and
was the possessor of much beauty. Like
SO many others. she does not too often
change her Photographic negatives,
which still present her as young girl.
l happened to be abroad when certain
pictures of her that caused even uncen-
serious Paris to shake its head were ex-
hibited for a much-discussed day. Her
to prince was a mistake
Princes are not desirab BILE life comrades
However. the elopement of the princess
with common gypsy fiddler coarse,
ignorant and not over clean, threw all
the sympathy with the husband, and
there it has remained through varying
series of sensations.
Stories of 4O-weel!s' engagement at
81 900 week are floating about town. I
have never known season when press
agents of dramatic enterprises worked
harder for their money.
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N GREAT DISTRESS
uonrrrNG SPELLS LONG RESISTED
EVERY EFFORT TO CHECK.
Mrs.. BROOKE Became So Weak she 1nAaAs
Sha Would Have Died But EoT
Dr. VILLA ms Pink P1tle.

| srr. Rrook. Became So Weak Sho ThAAks
| She Would Have Died But For
| Dr. Wil1iams' Pink Pilis.
Mrs. Sarah L. Brooks, OF No. 40 LIN
coin Park, Chicago, illinois, gives the
following account Of ner cure from dis
tressing spells Of vomiting:
"Tor Eve years off and on was
treated in vain by different doctors Tor
relief from a stomach trouble winch
showed itself in frequent aud trying
spells OF vomiting. Part OF the time
was able to work and again I would be
confined to bed for three or four days in
succession.
"My stomach was at times SO delicate
that it would not retain even PLAIN water.
The spells would sometimes occur at IN
tervals Of half an hour, and would leave
me so weak that would be compelled
to lie down between them. / would
have several of them during the night
following a day Of such attacks. Finally
I became SO weakened that had to give
up working altogether. I weighed only
ninety-four pounds.
"Last January read about DR.. VIII
liams' Pink Pills for Pale People in one
Of the Chicago daily papers and bought
. box and began to use them. After
had used half box found that could
keep on my stomach the food / ai3. I
was encouraged by this and kept on
using the pills for four months. At the
end Of that time the vomiting spells had
ceased altogether and my weight went
up to 142 pounds and is still growing.
81 think surely would have died il
It had not been for DR.. Williams Pink
Pills for sometimes vomited clear
blood, and for three or four days at q
time I coult: not eat bite Of anything.
One doctor said lad chronic infiamma-
tion of the stomach, and another said
my difficulty was a cancer, but mono OF
their medicines did me any good at all.
Finally concluded that did not have
blood enough to digest my food and
began the treatment that has cured me.
! can eat anything now, and have
strength for all kinds of work. / always
keep DR.. Williams Pink Pills on hand.
and recommend them to my friends
because know they cured me-"
DR.. Williams Pink Pills agree with the
most delicate stolnachs and strengthen
the digestive organs until they do their
work perfectly. They are sold by all
druggists.
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The Pleasure Seekers.
u"Eo s~r-~

I have said that the wealth of this
northern land was in it's forests; its
poverty in its rocks. 1t has still an
other source of wealth which hav
neglected to mention-its lakes and
rivers. They make of this territory
the pleasure ground of the people not
only of Ontario but of the eastern and
central states as well.
Hundreds OF thousands of pleasure
seeking tourists are crossing the bor-
der line each year and journeying into
the Lake Simcoe country, the Muskoka
lakes country, the Lake of Bays c0un-
try, the Magnetawan river country, the
French river country and the Georgian
bay country. Take the little steamer
at Penetang and sail northward
through the 10000 islands, and over
one-half of the hundreds OF summer
homes to be seen one will find the
Stars and Stripes floating. The same
is true of the Muskoka lakes and the
Lake of Bays. OF the dozen or more
big summer outing clubs whose houses
line the banks OF the Magnetewan riy-
er practically all are composed of peo-
pie from the states.
The American pleasure seeker has
become the pioneer in this country.
The Canadians have been satisfied To
remain along the lines Of the railway
or boats, but the American has
searched for new fields, and in doing
SO has driven his canoe into the
smaller lakes and up the little streams
The shores anu islands OF Six Mile
lake, of Blackstone lake, of Crane lake,
of Kah-pee-kog Ike, are being pur-
chased by people from the states as
places for summer outings. 4
And yet there is room. Great as the
influx of tourists and lumbermen have
been during the past few years, the
wilderness seems scarcely to have
been touched when one considers it as
whole. This Canadian paradise is
destined in time to become the play
ground of many more thousands Of
Americans, and to all who come Cana
da is bidding q hearty welcome.
WRIGHT A. PATTERSON.
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Times ForeIock Gone.

One Of the most remarkable char.
acteristics Of Sir Joshua Reynolds
was the rapidity with which he
worked. Sir Thomas Lawrence, his
rival, was very slow. Over his por-
trait Of Lady Marlborough and her
child he took an unconscionable time
Promise after promise was made, and
1T last Lord Marlborough insisted on
fulfillment
WELL" said Lawrence, III Lady
Mexborough will kindly bring the
baby once more. will really finish"
well, Sir Thomas" answered his
patron, my wife will be happy to
give you another sitting whenever
you like. but the baby's now In the
Guards "-Exchange.
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senate Mr. Pugh's
voice was celebrated 1t would not be
controlled. When he tried to carry on
conversation with a neighboring SEN
ator in low tone the disturbance was
such that the presiding officer would
have to rap for order and suspend bust
ness until the Alabamian's whisper had
subsidized. When he INDUCED in ordi-
nary conversation in the cloakroom the
doors leading into the senate chamber
had to be closed or the proceedings
would be halted.
Mr.. Pugh made the mistake of his
life when he told Edmund w. Pettus,
of Alabama, that the latter was too old
to hold the position OF United States
district judge in his state. This &C.
Cured during Mr.. Cleveland's last ad-
ministration, when Senators Morgan
and Pugh had the distribution of pat
ronage in Alabama Mr. Pugh's term
to strengthen himself with his party
In order to secure reelection. The
district judgeship was one of the plums
at his disposal, and it was position
desired by Mr.. Pettus, who had served
on the bench before the war Mr.. Pet
tus came to Washington and asked
Senator Pugh to recommend him to the
president for the appointment.
why. Pettus. you are too old for
that position" answered Senator Pugh,
who was anxious to fix his fences with
younger material in Alabama.
II may be too old for United States
judgeshtp, but -" and here the old
lawyer giared over his spectacles at the
senator, chewing tobacco vigorously,
as he concluded with an emphatic-"I
am not too old to be United States SEN
ator"
Pettus went to his hotel. packed his
carpet sack, returned by the next train
to Alabama and began a canvass for
the United States senatorship, which
ended in his being nominated for that
place at popular election. and being
elected by the unanimous vote Of his
party in the state legislature He is
four years younger than Pugh.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-11-05

completes the coll
lection Of por-
traits of secrs.
taries of the navy
down to the pres
ent time, with the
exception Of that
of Secretary Whit
ney, which is now
being painted for
t b e department.
This portrait. just
discovered, is that
of George E. Bad
ger, who became
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-11-05

L uOIudS HeFTdu,
| a t e Colombian
charge-de = affaires
at Washington, to
Colombia came too
late. There was a
b | u n d er some-
where, as the prop
osition to place a
warship at the dis
posal of DR.. Her.
rams family to
carry his body in
state to the repub-
lie he represented
Arl L n@-,.<J
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-11-05

d lew weeks ago
there passed away
the last remaining
member of the
confederate senate.
There are still liv-
ing five ex-mem-
bers of the confed-
crate congress, and
one member of
President Davis
cabinet. The last
vestiges of that
government that
fought for life so
strenuously for
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-11-05

Kane, who was Sunday school super
intendent Of correct personal habits,
ruled the place with rod of iron. Its
vote was padded to illegal proportions
an: cast by him as by one man. His
power once decided the election Of a
president of the United States. His JAIL
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-11-05
"The Rubber-Necks. ;"

Il New York has
b e e n laughing
about the legal en-
tanglements of the
Seeing New York"
coaches.
The rival COM
panies that run
huge automobiles
for out-of-town
people to ride upon
past the principal
sights of the city
have been coming
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-11-05

)R the hunofeQtf
time it is reported
that Mr.. Jimmy"
Van Allen is to be-
come an English
man by naturaliZa-
ton. 1t is likely
to be true. though
Mr.. Van Allen has
before his eyes the
dread example of
Mr.. William Wal
dorf Astor, who be-
came an English
subject without
in English public
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-11-05
Little But Good

The brain of Taguchi, the japanese
anatomist. weighed 1920 grams, and it
stands thirtieth in the lis. of brain
weights of men distinguished in the
professions, arts and sciences.-London
Globe.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-11-05

tOsW a s n l n g ton
for a Pittsburg
paper. His train
ing on this paper
had filled him with
deep resentment
against corpora
tons and particu-
larly soulless rail-
way corporations.
N o t h / ng good
could be said of
any Of these COM
panies, and Tom
concluded he would
find a field in
Washington for