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Saint Patrick.

Life: 1t is one OF history's sarcasm,
that Saint Patrick should have been
a Dago and u Scotchman. He was
Dago CRoman) by race. aud born in
Scotland. He was sold as a slave into
Ireland. where he converted the natives,
drove out the snakes. and became
Erin's patron saint. 1t Is commonly
supposed that since his day there have
been no snakes in Irish whiskey. At
any rate, he has been esteemed of good
Irishmen for fifteen hundred years. and
his name is honored wherever Irishmen
go.
He is much esteemed in these United
States. whittier lrishnen came in great
numbers in the century just closed. and
continue still to come. Fhey came in
the first place because. under the bene-
flcient rule OF their sister island. they
were brought to h a pitch of want that
they could not get enough to eat. 1t
is a curious fact that the more they
starved n the more hopeless their
restitution became. the more they null
tiplied. They had to get out of Ire
land or die. and dislikins to die unripe.
they came by the hundred thousand 10
America.
Only a generation ago they We're do
Ing the hardest and worst paid work
of this country, carrying hods. building
railroads. ditching, soldering. doing
generally the work of the able-bodied,
~uneducated man without money or
powerful friends. who started at the
bottom of the social ladder. But tina
is an old story n a past condition..
Now. II Saint Patrick came to New
York. whether he stopped at the Arch
bishops house or the Waldorf Hotel,
when the rich Irish came to call on him
their carriages and automobiles would
make a line from Thirty-fourth street
up to the top of Central Park. And
when the poorer ones came in a mighty
procession, they would be carrying BAN
ners Inscribed Welcome to Our
Island"
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A Subtle Hint.

Harper's Bazar: IT'S curious.
mighty curious" observed MIR. Slypurr,
as ne picked up his overcoat. how
some lucky fellows get II reputation
without half trying. Look at job. for
instance. as n synonym for patience."
Why. wasn't he tried to the limit
OF endurance?" cried the shocked Mrs.
Slypurr.
Not much" replied MI. Slypurr.
calmly. AT least there is no record OF
his having to struggle with a torn
sleeve lining in his overcoat all win-
.er,"
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Queer.

Philadelphia Public Ledger: Flana-
gan-'TiS quare summer weather We're
havin' Finnegan.
Finnegan-Aye! Shure the summer
amt begun yet. an here it is nearly
half over.
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A Readiusted Proverb

washington Star: $50 you never heard
the maxim make hay While the sun
shines?'"
NO" answered Colonel Stilwell; "ir
my part Of Kentucky they say Put min,
in the moon shine.'h
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In 1900 there were only twenty-th res
suicides In Berlin to every 100, 900 in
habitants; In 1903 the number Wa
thirty-ons.
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Johnny said a fond mother to he.
young hopeful the other day. after She
had returned home from calling on a
neighbor, some one. has taken Il big
piece Of frosted cake out of the pan-
try"
Johnny blushed guilty.
Oh. Johnny" she exclaimed, 81
didn't think 1t vas in you!"
1T amt all" whired the boy. Psi,
OF 1t il In sister Nellie"
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His Busy Career.

recorded that he made a complete failure
of the only Important command ever en-
trusted to him in the field. that of the
first division of infantry in the Crimean
war
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Among the guests Will be the highly sus-
ceptible crown prince of Germany. With
her father and sister travels the beautiful
and witty Princess Olga of Cumberland.
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The dukes face was one broad mile as
he turned to his staff. IT fancy that my
talk has ended the mutiny," he said. And
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-01-23
read as we lift them away one from an

read as we lift them away one from an
other.
In order to read, however, one NUT
know the alphabet of the subject; and
that has lately been learned, from the
pottery, the flints, the beads, which
show, each, the age to which they belong.
Excavation on site with long his
tory is mere destruction if each
stratum is not read and interpreted in
telligibly as it is opened; unfortunately,
this has never been done before on any
such site. On the earliest sacred site of
Abydos, the first capital Of Egypt, tenn
pies had been piled one on the ruins of
another until ten ages Of buildings stood
stacked together in about 20 feet depth
of ruins. Each temple had become part
" ruined after few centuries, and
then at last was pulled down, leaving
foot or two of the walls and founda-
tions; and a new temple of different
plan was then erected on the ground.
America is not old enough for this to be
done even once, but London stands on
mound of over 20 feet of ruins, from
which its past will be read a. we now
read that Of Egypt -.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-01-23

Aquarium, gazing in as he spoke at the
tank of the green morays, which were
twisting and comforting and tying
themselves up into knots, in manner
that would have made the India rubber
man want to quit the business entirely
says the New York Sun.
Seven feet long, the biggest of the
three here, and five and six feet, respec-
lively, the other two, the big green mo-
rays always attract the visitors, even
when they are quiescent; but when. as
at feeding time, they begin to squirm,
then SO many people gather around the
tank that those at the back can get only
occasional glimpses OF the giant eel con-
tortionists as they rise high in the
tank, to be seen then over the heads Of
the people in front.
They are doing we'll, the green morays,
oil of them feeding well, and they are
probably as comfortable here. in their
spacious tank at the Aquarium, as they
could be anywhere away from the coral
caverns they we're accustomed to fire.
uuent, in the waters of the isles Of Der.
muda. They are certainly great attrac.
ton.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-01-23

simple. Half dozen threads of flo
are employed for the satin stitch which
is ingeniously adapted to the render
ing of leaves and flowers, while the
stalks and finer details are worked out
in one or two strands One advantage
of this work is that no frame is re-
CURED while the patterns may be car
ried out in washing silk upon linen in
tended for table covers, dresser scarfs
and any of the many accessories OF this
sort for table and boudoir.
An exceedingly effective example OF
this work is the table cover of which
corner is here illustrated. Its grace
full ribbon-tied festoons Of diminutive
blossoms, in tones of rose, soft, faint
blues and yellows with here and there
q touch of purple or orange, are charm
ingly blended with the green's of the
foliage. BY a clever arrangement OF
stitches, the characteristics Of the flow
or forms are indicated, especially In
the roses, in which, touched in with
three shades of rose color, the satin
stitches are worked horizontally and
overlapping one another here and there
indicate the little crumplings of the
folded petals. A couple Of stitches are
all that is necessary to indicate each of
the delicate green leaves in the sprays
Of foliage. 1t is this that constitutes
one of the charms of the work that.
while by no means difficult to carry out,
1t affords so much opportunity for light
ness and variety of touch. Edged with
French lace, such a cover is especially
adapted for the five o'clock tea table
with its equipment of glistening silver
and dainty china. Another design that
may be successfully carried out on fine
white linen shows pink roses sncased
within an empire frame of laurel leaves
and small purple berries. Brooklyn
Eagle.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-01-23
WING SHOTS AT SEA.
Novel Sport of Shooting Flying Fish
Need for Retriever That
Can Swim.

One morning the yacht Linda steamed
out of the Bay of Avalon with two or
three friends and myself sitting on the
upper deck, about eight feet from the
water, each armed with shotgun, says
a writer in Outing. The Linda was
headed up the coast and was presently
running at fair speed, and in a short
time into the flying fishes, which rose at
or near the bow and went skimming
away in graceful lines. The first flyer
went to the left, and was cleverly
dropped by one of my companions, who
killed another with his left barrel. The
third fish fell to me. 1t rose 20 feet ahead
with vigorous trembling of the body,
produced by the screw-like motion, and
dashed away three feet above the sur
face. AS it swerved to the right fired.
dropping 1t; as it fell the splash startled
another fish from the water, which came
straight toward the boat, rising slightly
on the stiff wind. did not fire, as the
fish was too near, and it passed over the
boat into the preserves of my compan-
ion, who dropped 1t when so feet away.
There was something essentially novel
In this sport The fish appeared as
though by magic, shooting out of the
water with little or no splash, often ap-
parently sailing along foot above the
surface, which 1t so resembled that It
was as difficult to drop them as it would
be the woodcock darting over cover that
it perfectly resembled. There was one
essential lacking in this novel sport-a
retriever. Many of the fish sank before
the small boat could be cast of to secure
Thorn
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-01-23
JEs. OVER voNDER.

Sweetes' flowers seem t grow
les over yonder;
Coolest breezes pear t blow
Jes' over yonder.
Grass seems greener over there
Than it is most anywhere;
seems like no place could compare
With jes' over yonder.
F4shin's tn best We ever struck
les over yonder;
Amt no SIGH thin ez fsherman's luck
les over yonder.
T2ipres, trout all seem t lie
Head up stream with wary eye.
les, a-achin' fer tn ny.
Right over yonder
Hills seem purifier in tn fall
les over yonder;
ri. Bob whites are sure Z call
Fm jes' over yonder.
II you're tied down home, YUM.
can't help feelin kin o glum
~ think tn bigges' grouse'll drum
les over yonder.
Nothin' ever goes askew
les over yonder;
rhat.s tn way it looks t you
les over yonder.
But when you git there you II see
srhat you've been fooled nightly.
Eor suthin' better still therein be
les, over yonder
4 Nelson Killgore. in Lippincotts Maya
cine
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-01-23
SPIRITS OF THE DROWNED.
How the Chinese Appease the Name
of the Departed-CustOm OF
TaOist Religion.

Shanghai residents seeking cool
breezes on the river recently could not
fail to notice the number of Chinese
boats flying gayly colored lanterns and
scattering burning paper on the water
Not only paper, but wonderfully con-
structed oiled paper lamps of various
colors, which were dropped from the
boats to float on the water. sometimes
trails of IL or IL red, blue and green
lamps bobbing up and down on the
muddy waters of the Wrangpoo, says
the Shanghai Mercury.
Inquiry of even the meanest natives
ELECTED the reply that joss pidgin was
being done to keep the drowned men
quiet. This Is in reality very ancient
custom developed under the Taoist re-
ligion, which teaches that the spirits
of the drowned fit miserably over and
under the water until such time al
cash is paid to the gods to release them
from their purgatory. Failing this re-
lease, the drowned spirit lays in wal:
to catch boatmen sitting by the waters
edge at dark and pull them into the
water to take their places. when they
themselves escape.
Hence, clinging to the old superstf-
ton, everywhere for the past us days
of the seventh moon the Chinese as
semble in bands and go down the
rivers in their boats, beating gongs
and burning paper money. Products
of modern life are curiously blended
with the old ideas. as we see every
where in China, and in this festival
steam launches are often to be seer
towing a string of boats with colored
lanterns waving to and fro. One pro.
cession of boats carrying over 100 Ian
terms and scattering others in theiI
wake was preceded by the music OF S
cornet, a strange anomaly indeed.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-01-23
DAINTY NEEDLE WORE.
~French China Il the EuphOnious
Name Given to the Latest Fancy
i'm Embroidery.

New suggestions for embroidery or
aGoptions of old ideas that pass mus
ter as novelties are always welcomed
by the woman skilled with her needle.
particularly if she be OF an artistic bent
of mind, and French china work new
ard charming manifestation Of needle
skill is likely, therefore, to find many
admirers. 1t is comparatively easy OF
execution, and is as dainty as a bit Of
Sevres porcelain, this dominant charac-
teristic of delicacy accounting for the
name that has been bestowed upon this
latest development in needle painting.
The same patterns are used and there Is
the same idea of raised effect as IN eight
eenth century ribbon work, but the end
is achieved through the medium OF en-
broidery silk and stitchery, pure and
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-01-23
PARAsoL FOR DEFENSE.
London Women of the Upper Tendon
Are Learning Protection
Against Rumians.

For some reason there has been q
great increase of late in what London
folk call "hooliganism." The riotous
street demonstrations on ''Mafeking
night" and in celebration of the close
of the Boer war, taught the stream of
toughs who poured out from White
chapel into the West end that the re-
nowned London bobby" could not be
everywhere at once, and that with
ratio of 20 hooligans to one bobby
quite a bit of lawbreaking might be
done in more safety than had been sup
posed.
Since then a number of solitary way
farers have been attacked and robbed,
and two or three have been murdered
all of which was most disconcerttng to
the independent English woman, who
has taken to going on bicycle rides into
the country by herself, and to walking
about the city streets in the daytime
without the chaperone who was con-
sidered SO necessary few years ago.
Lady Jeune had her purse wrenched
from her recently by hooligan in the
fashionable Kensington district of Lon
don, and Lady Mary Sackville was
robbed of her bag and chatelaine not
long ago by a rough who struck her
and decamped. Many other attacks OF
the sort have been made on less famous
folk.
In consequence of this state of affairs
it occurred to a young French woman,
the wife of the famous French swords
man, Pierre Vigny, to undertake the in
struction of Englishwomen in the art Of
self-defense with a parasol or walking
stick, according to system devised by
her gallant husband who has devoted
years to its perfection. It may best be
described as a mixture of the various
different methods of self-defense, prac-
ticed in England, France, Germany and
Japan Many of the passes. thrusts and
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-01-23
The College Yell Ha. 1t. Use.


1t is doubtful whether the army Of
any country on earth could fight its
hardest were there no flags to symbol
ize their cause, no drums and bugles to
speak for it again and again. Just SO
the students of college are held to-
gether. says the New Orleans Times
Democrat, are reminded of their duty
to the institution of their character OF
students, by the fluttering OF the stream
ers, blue, crimson, orange and black.
olive and blue, whichever the case may
be; the footing of the horns and tho
stentorian recitation-swelled by tho
throat of each of them-of that peculiar
ly unliterary and unmusical compost
ton, the college yell.
Spoke Too Well.
She-I don't like that Mr.. Singer
he speaks SO disrespectfully of women.
Last night he said that Mabel was
quite fast girl.
He-Why, the brute! Mabel Is the
most modest girl ever saw!
She-Indeed! see you don't know
Mabel very well.-Kansas City Jour-
nal.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-01-23
LOBSTER AND EAGLE.
Strange Encounter I'm Which the
Proud Bird Came On Sec
Ond Best.

AS an excuse for dragging lobster
story in can at least claim that much
of the contention between the French
and the English over the French shore
difficulty in Newfoundland hinges upon
the point as to whether or not lobster
is fish, since the French fishermen
claim the right to build lobster fac
tories on the treaty coast in virtue OF
the clause of the treaty authorizing
them to erect buildings for drying their
fish.
The fisherman in this case was one
of the white-headed eagles popularity
known in Newfoundland as grip. The
story is told by Col. Haggard, with
whom l visited Newfoundland a few
years ago in search of salmon, says
writer in Forest and Stream. John
Stroud, one of our guides, and l" says
the colonel, were sitting on the rocks
by the seashore watching the grip soar
ing around in circles, when suddenly
we saw him dash into pool of water
close by us on the beach and reappear
holding an enormous lobster In his tai
ons. He was an old lobster, with
huge claw, white with barnacles, shin
ing white in the sunlight. Only for a
second, though. The ripples ON the
recently disturbed pool had not yet
died away, the large drops OF water had
not ceased to fall upon its surface from
the soaring eagles feathers and the
captive lobster alike, when the latter
suddenly awoke to the seriousness OF
the situation, and to think with that
apparently helpless creature was 10
act, for he was lobster OF action. up
came the great white barnacled claw
and seized the eagle around the neck.
The grip had got the grip now with q
vengeance. There was furious tiut-
tering and beating of his wings, mel
ancholy squawk from his choking
throat and then, tumbling and rolling
head over heels in the air in a con-
fused mass, down came eagle and lop-
ster again splash into the pool We
rushed forward, thinking that we
could, perhaps, in some way, secure
both combatants, as the splash1ng OF
the conflict continued in the shallow
water. But we had hardly time to pick
up a rock apiece to heave at the eagle,
before the lobster, feeling himself at
home again, let go his hold. Now. with
his neck all torn and devoid Of feath-
ers. away flew the bedraggled eagle to
a neighboring cliff, while, still brand
ishing his enormous claw in defiance,
the lobster remained smiling at the
bottom of the pool But the grip Will
doubtless tell you, if you meet him.
that the lobster fishing In Newfound-
land is very poor at present, and that
he is going to give it up, as the game
is hardly worth the candle
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-01-23
Al q Starter.

President Hadley OF Yale says the
young man who wants to prepare for
politics should begin with journalism or
law. Still, remarks the Denver News,
a brief course in q seven-day-in-the-
week kind Of religion might not be Z
bad starter.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-01-23
Man. Made b. Gen. Lee.

Government maps made in 1887, 1888
and 1889 by Gen. Robert E. Lee, then
q captain Of United States engineers,
we're shown during the trial Of eject
ment suits brought by the st. Louis
board of education, in the circuit court.
at st. Louis, to determine ownership
rights to land lying along the Missis-
sippi river. ----------'---- -
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-01-23
TEN LAYERS OF HISTORY.
On One Sacred Site in Egypt Temples
Had Been Piled ON Ruins Of
Other Temples.

For the first time the whole history Of
one of the great national sites of Egypt
has been opened before us; dating from
the beginning of the kingdom, and end
ing with almost the last of the native
kings-from Mena, about 400 B. c., to
Nekht-korheb, $40 B. c., says Harper's
Magazine. History is here laid out for
us in strata, from which the past can be
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-01-23
Proper Use Of the Corset.

The use of the corset is to transmit
the pressure of the skirt bands to the
hips and the ribs, and SO to protect
from their pressure the organs In the
region of the waist The conclusion Is
that SO long as skirt bands are fas-
tened round the waist corsets should
be worn. They should be sitter than
usually made If they are effectively to
protect the soft middle portion OF the
body from the pressure OF the waist
baud. The front should be quite
straight, and the waist measurement
should be at least as large as the wear
er's waist, measured over single soft
earment.-Chicago Post.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-01-23
.,..,.r should He Barred.

IN the beauty contest at New York
omen are to judge of the physical
sharms of the male contestants says the
chicago Record-Herald. Let US hope
that Kissing Of the judges may be barred.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-01-23
Charcoal Eph.

Dey am er whole lot oh people in do
worl dat in dey 'ligion am jess lake de
babby eatin' bread an 'lasses-dey got
er heap mo- on de outside dan on de In
side.-Ba.timore News.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-01-23
How to Clean Lace Curtains.

A professional cleaner says that the
best method of cleansing lace curtains
at home is to make suds Of warm wa
rter. white CASTLE soap and little borax.
II the curtains are very dirty. scrub
them gently with soft scrubbing brush.
Lace curtains should never be rubbed
between the hands. This stretches the
mesh and is very likely to tear holes in
it. When quite clean, rinse in clear wa
ter to which little borax has been add
ed, squeeze between the hands, but do
not wiring. and dry in sheet.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-01-23
Filling for Sofa Pillows.

Fillfng for SOfa PflIOws.
Cattails dried and Pulled apart into
down are said to make a capital filling
for sofa pillows. This cattail down
does not absorb dampness, Eeither does
Il ever grow morldy.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-01-23
Details Not Yet Arranged.

Details Not Yet Arranged.
"0race is greatly worried. She can't
decide where to go on her bridal tour.
.When is she to be married.?
."The date hasn't been fixed yet"
'sWhom Is she going to wed?s
"That's another detail that Is yet to DO
arranged. But she has her trousseau all
ready."-Modern Society.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-01-23
spiteful Thing.

Miss Angles-While was shopping
to-day happened to stop In front OF one
OF those convex mirrors at Bargen'A
It was laughable; it made my figure
look so ridiculous.
Miss Speitz-Are you sure 1t wasn't
Just an ordinary mirror, dear?-Ttt-
Bits.