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oudAlho 1Ol DOllluS
purposes and stews. Because of the high
price of beef the butchers are having a
greater demand for pork than ever be-
fore, but the price of this is becoming al
most prohibitive Sirloin steaks bring
80 cents pound, veal outlets % cents,
roast beef rs cents, while but few
years ago IS cents would buy pound of
the best meat carried by the butchers.
Vegetables, like meats, have. scared
skyward until they are almost out OF
reach for the working classes. Potatoes
at $125 bushel are higher than at any
time since 1881. The same is true with
other vegetables and the staples in
northern grown fruits. Milk, butter and
lard have gone the same road other table
necessities have Travelled, and are being
dispensed with as far as possible by the
economical housewife.
Fuel is more expensive by more than
ten per cent. than it was three years ago;
rents are up about Is per cent, and in
many of the staple lines of dry goods,
clothing and shoes there is noticeable
rise in prices. For example, bleached
sheeting that sold for 16 cents yard in
1902 is now worth q cents yard. And
the end, it seems, is not yet.
WRIGHT A. PATTERSON
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relied, she broke the engagement and
as. november Breen shot her in front
OF Hull house.
ror the first time in the history of Illi-
nois woman lawyer, Mrs. Antoinette
FUNK, undertook the defense of a muir
osrer. That is one reason why the case
attracted such widespread attention. A
second reason was the peculiar defense
winch Mrs. Funk offered for her client,
tnat OF propfnquitive'' insanity, she
claiming that Breen was rational save
Wnen In the presence of the sweetheart
VINO had Tilted him, until after the shoot
ing, when he became permanently in
sane.
From the day of his arrest Breen
palyed the part Of the maniac to per-
lection, and while a portion of the ex-
pert testimony introduced by the state
10 prove that he was shamming insisted
that such was the case, others were not
SO confident, and some went so far as to
say they believed the prisoner really in
sane. In her plea to the jury Mrs. Funk
painted brilliant word picture Of the
agonies endured by the infatuated man
when his sweetheart broke their engage
ment. 1t was effective, and, together
with the actions of Breen in the court
room throughout the trial, carried the
jury BY storm, and they brought in
verdict of second degree murder, the
maximum penalty for which is Ia years
imprisonment.
The third sensation connected with
the trial came when Breen stood before
the bar to receive his sentence. He was
no longer the maniac he had been for
three months, but perfectly rational, and
confessed that he was shamming to save
his neck, in which he was successful.
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scoURGE OF THE AMAZON.
Dread Mosquitoes Render People
Along the Great River Miser-
able at All Times.

1t is not pleasure to live in the wild
regions along the banks of the Rivar
Amazon. The Indians of that region
all suffer martyrdom from the mos
quitoes. Nobody in even the worst
mosquito regions OF the United States
can imagine what the mosquitoes Of
the Amazon -egion are like. They
actually drive the Indians, hardened
as they are, from their villages at
times. The people drag their women
and children into woods and uplands
on such occasions, fleeing in headlong
terror, and they do not venture back
to their homes until daylight.
Smudges and other similar means
for fighting the pest are of no use in
the Amazon countr. when the mosqui-
toes sally forth for might Out"
They appear then in such hordes that
the masses force themselves through
smoke and even fire
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-04-09

The 600 or more Japanese Ia the CITY
sustain a high average OF PERSONA a. -,
ity and financial solidity. Some elna..
portion of the number are engageo 40
domestic servants, chiefly by persons
who have travelled in the far east soine
students are working their way tnrousn
college by doing houseWork. Due =.
far the larger number are either expo -
in oriental good employed Dy the We
department stores, or are themselves
merchants upon substantial sc4le' -
either case they are educated nen'
speak English almost without an accent
and dress as other prosperous merchants
do. Excepting in the consular ONCE
do not know a Chinaman in New YORK
who speaks English as well as any one OF
500 Japanese do.
The exploit of the New York Japanese
in raising money for the cause OF Mp
pom against Muscovy has rather aston
ished some old New Workers who haven't
kept pace with new developments. Inc
personal character of the Japanese here
has not little to do with the great IA
vor in which their cause is held by most
New Workers. But do not suppose
most of our people even yet appreciate
to how great an extent these japanese
act as volunteer political agents Of their
home land. There is no country which
is more devotedly served by its citizens
abroad with valuable information than
is Japan. It is the policy of the govern
ment to encourage its people to scat
ter widely upon business bent, and it's
students to seek education in different
lands. 1t is recalled, for instance, that
Admiral Uriu, who won the first victory
Of the war, is graduate OF our naval
academy at Annapolis, his Japanese wife
a graduate of Vassar.
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And Now They Walk. ~ - So
years. The season
has been perfect, albeit cold, with an un-
usual profusion of clear, rainless days.
Within the past three weeks the spec
tacle has been seen of the most often adj
vertised society leaders walking brisk
ly about town as to leave no doubt that
this form of exercise has suddenly be-
come the mode. It does not take long
for such news to travel and for hundreds
to follow suit.
Cruel and unsympathetic men assert
that the vogue of walking is due to moth.
ing in the world but a desire to keep
down the ever-encfoaching fat. This
greatest enemy of beauty is more than
ever apparent among New York women
since they gave up golf, tennis and other
active pursuits for automobiling, which
stimulates the appetite without giving
the muscles any work.
For perhaps similar reason skatina
has been fashionable this winter There
have been more days of skating wealth.
er than. in the past three winters com.
bined. TIL. proper thing has been not tc
skate in tbs city, but to make up skatina
parties at the country places Of one ol
another "smart" family in turn. Their,
is no more beautiful skating pond in thu
country than those, for instance, sur
rounded by the wide acres of Mr.. W, K
Vanderbilt, Jr., on Long Island, or Of Mr.
Ogden Mills up the Hudson, Or upor
Dukes Farms" in New Jersey.
These things are something to make
us thankful for the cold winter. Mos
of all, it is fortunate that it did not com
year earlier, upon the heels Of til
great coal strike.
OWEN LANGDON
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insanity In yartou. state..

In the New England states there is
one insane person for every 359 OF
population: in New York and Penn.
sylvania, one to every 424; in Vir.
ginia, Maryland, Kentucky and Ten.
nessee, the ratio is one to 610; in
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Michigan,
the same; in the middle west, one to
$50; in the southern states, one to
935; and in the Rocky mountain divi.
sion one to 1858. The density of pop
ulation is greatest in New England.
and there insanity is most common,
and the relative number of insane de.
creases regularly with the increasing
sparseness OF, population in the sew.
eral divisions. There is one excep
ton. In the Pacific coast states
California, Oregon and Washington
the insanity rate almost reaches that
of New England.
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NOISY CLOCKS. ARE LIKED.
Those That Kept Good Time WOuldn'
Sell I'm Africa-Didn't Tick
Loud Enough.

A Birmingham clockmaker recently
found that a certain rival was doing
a large trade in cheap clocks sent out
to the wilds of Africa, says the New
York Herald. He obtained sample
clock and found that there was large
profit in their manufacture.
Investing a large sum of money
in making still better clock, he
shipped thousands Of them to the same
market. Strange to say, his sales were
very small, while his rival, turning out
a cheap and inaccurate timepiece, was
selling all he could make.
Finally he found the key to the mys-
terry. Savages like noise. The clocks
made by the original exporter had a
particularly loud and aggressive tick.
His imitator had made better clock,
and it was almost noiseless, and the
savages would have none of it.
The remedy was simple. The next
shipment of clocks to the Guinea coast
licked louder than anything ever heard
there, and all went well.
Another instance of the peculiar
knowledge required for the foreign
trade is that of firm which had a
large shipment of crackers returned to
it from the Turkish port whittier they
had been sent.
The reason was found to be that the
crackers were decorated with pictures
of animals, and no true Mohammedan
will buy the image OF living thing.
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uuents the place
save at such time. The reference read
ing room is filled with them from the
opening to the closing hours. They have
no choice of books, but are content with
anything that will inform them in any
way in regard to either nation.
The statement that they have nc
choice of books is not entirely true. Nine
out of ten applicants want works on ia
pan, and take books on Russia only as
secondary choice. This shows the pre-
ponderance of sympathy for the Mika-
dos empire in this city.
At the book stores and the book sec
tons of the department stores there is
rush for works along these lines, and
the display windows are filled with them.
The manager of one of the big book
stores told me few days ago that within
a week his house had sold some 1000
volumes relating to Russia or Japan,
and that the sale only stopped because
of the exhaustion of the supply. Books
that have been packed away in store
rooms for several years, and regarded as
Joss, have been brought out and dis
posed of at good price. In fact the
stores are practically denuded of works
on these lines, and while the Jap and
Russians are fighting for supremacy the
reading public of Chicago are acquiring
lot of information in regard to them.
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HANDY WITH TORPEDOES.
The Japanese Won the First Battle
from the Chin csc in 1894
with Them.

The first battle of the Chinese-Japan-
csc war was fought July "a, 1894, in the
harbor of Asan, on the west coast of
Corea, south of Chemulpo, the scene OF
he destruction recently Of two Russian
warsnips by a Japanese fleet. In the
battle of Asan the japanese sunk an
English transport, Kow Shihg, with
l 200 Chinese soldiers on board. There
had been no declaration Of war, says the
Chicago Daily News.
The japanese commanders recognized
the English flag and requested that the
English commanders leave the vessel.
The Chinese officers forbade them doing
so under penalty of death. The Japan
ese sent officers to the ship and repeated
the demand and then began firing.
Capt. Galsworthy and his officers leaped
overheard to swim to the Japanese
cruiser. The Chinese treacherOusly fired
upon the Englishmen. The Japanese
opened with their broadside battery and
machine guns. The missiles swept the
decks of the transport. The Japanese
then fired two torpedoes, both of which
struck and exploded. The transports
PROV rose, it's stern went down and al
most Immediately the vessel sank.
The Chinese fought the guns Until the
vessel went dov-l The shots were
aimed too high t. amage the Japanese.
Some were fired directly at the strug-
Cling Chinese soldiers in the water,
the gunners saying that they would al!
die together The boats of the trans
port, in which scores of soldiers and Of
fcers were trying to escape, were sunk
by the Japanese. The Kow Shing was
conveyed by the Chi Yuen and the Koot-
su Both vessels engaged the japanese.
The fight continued more than an hour,
when the Chi Yuen raised the white flag.
The japanese boat ceased firing and APP
preached Suddenly the Chi Yuen dis
charged torpedoes and began to fight
again. The torpedoes did no damage.
The fight ragged more holly than before,
until the Chi Yuen turned and ran. The
japanese cruiser chased the Chinese, but
failed to capture her. The Kootsu tried
to escape, but ran aground and was cap
tured
On the same day the Japanese cruiser
Yoshino fought the Chinese Chin Yuen
and consort So Keang at sea. The
Chinese were disabled, but fought stub
bornly and would have captured the
Japanese vessel had not relief appeared.
The Chih Yuen was able to escape to
Waiheiwei. The So Keang was cap
tured.
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rendezvous at the
Battery, W b e r e
bellies and beaux
of the old Dutch
regime displayed
their graces and
paid their court.
The Battery is
the landing place
for the government
military post on
Governors island,
where Maj. Gen.
Corbin is now in
stalled in command
of the division OF
the Atlantic.
Gen. Corbin Is
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-04-09

gu ny Tic SAASo6o
American during
the first week or SO
of the war between
Russia and Japan
is a paragraph by
H e n ry Barrett
Chamberlain in the
current number Of
q 7 h e v tie r. "
Chamberlain repre-
scented one of the
Chicago papers III
Cuban waters dur
ing the war with
Spain, and his
duties kept him in
touch with the
blockading fleet at
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u,s If a newspaper experience he had
u,b;1e there that he writes. give the
story as he tells It:
.snuring the pammer of SO was try
ing to earn my living as tug boat re.
norter on the blockade line in front OF
Santiago de Cuba. was doing the best
cnu1d and thought that was as active
90 the other fellows, but one day re-
ceiyed a copy of Hearst's Kew York
journal dated in May and telling in de-
ta;l@ II The battle of Santiago. | had not
heard of the battle and was wondering
how ii had been pulled off without my
knowledge. inquired of Commodore
schley. but lie wss unable to give me the
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On the Battery. the first command
ing officer Governors island has had in
long time who has made any social
stir in the city. His marriage two years
ago to Miss Patten, of Philadelphia,
who, to considerable wealth unites high
social standing in that city, explains the
change.
Gen. Corbin is man of mountainous
physique, huge and commanding in stat
ure, ready of wit and Astounding in BUSH
ness ability. His war record has not
greatly endeared him to the old soldiers
of the fighting type about Washington,
and he came at times perilously near
snubbing in exclusive military circles in
the capital. But anyone who imagines
that without much OF q military record
q man can rise to be major general in the
army without ability makes great mis-
take. Corbin has made himself invalu
abe to successive commanders because
of his executive ability. He is keen and
coldly intellectual, never shrinks from
making enemies when necessary, and
knows how to obey orders. The depart
mint of which he is the head stretches
from Maine to Porto Rico and includes
many smaller posts.
For years New York enjoyed the rather
odd social factor of a Col. Hamilton, a
member of the famous family of Alex
ander Hamilton, in command of Fort
Hamilton, named after his illustrious
kinsman. Col. Hamilton is now retired.
The newspapers have been having a
good deal of fun with Gen. Corbin be-
cause of his advertising for tug" of a
peculiarly luxurious variety, with which
to visit the army posts about the bay.
The specifications OF mahogany trim,
fine staterooms and the like read suspi-
cicusly like the description of a fine
steam yacht. If such a craft is secured
and carried upon the government rolls
as a tug" it will not be the first yacht
to be supplied to government officials
under a different name. President
Roosevelt had the courage and the good
sense to call the Sylph, in which last
summer he>rode about the waters near
Oyster Bay, yacht, which she is, though
a small one.
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AAS&kA ~ VI 144Ox 9 oCk~
dom than they are.
NJ + S. Katherine
Duer Mackay has
Just published a
novel which braves
criticism as if it's
author were not the
owner of the finest
country house in
America and the
wife of a many
times millionaire.
Mrs. Mackay is
no novice in let
tiers. With her sis
ter, some years
ago, before her
marriage. she pub
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other "OutlanderS
in the Inflated raid of DR.. willie"
Jameson, Lord Willoughby and other
hair-brained young men, and was shut
up in johannesburg prison.
The American government got busy
to save Mr.. Hammond's life. In the end,
as we all know, no one of the prisoners
was executed, but for time their pros
pect was decidedly stormy. It was at
this time that Mr.. Hammond made what
would have been called 800 years ago
a VOW that if he ever got out OF that
scrape alive he would make thank-of-
fering to Yale college. And he did not,
as some have done in like cases, forget
all about it, though he has required some
years to complete the gift.
Mr. Hammond was very close friend
Of the son of Secretary Hay, who went
for a brief period as United States con-
sui general to the Boer republic, and who
was afterward killed by regrettable
accident at Yale.
Why do they say that American men
never marry English women? An ex-
ception is the case of the handsome and
gallant Gen. Thomas L. James, brave
soldier in the war and postmaster gen
eral under President Garfield, who has
Just welded beautiful English girl 81
less than half his years. Gen. James1s
the president of the Lincoln national
bank of this city. The bride is daugh-
ter of an alderman of stratford-on-Ayon.
who is also proprietor Of the famous
Red Horse hotel at Stratford, where
Shakespeare in his day often caroused
with other wild young blades, and
where Washington Irving and other
Americans of fame have from the be-
ginning Of all travel put up"
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The Chicago pub
lie library contains
several hundred
volumes of descrip-
tive and historical
works of Russia
and Japan. They
are all in use, and
have b e e n since
t b e first S b o t
of the war was
fired. The craving
for information re-
garding the COM
batants has led
many a person to
the library building
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gift OF 100000 to
Yale college.
No one can have
forgotten that Mr..
Hammond. is the
distinguished min
ing engineer who
stands at the head
of his profession in
South Africa. It
may be forgotten
by some, however,
that Mr.. Hammond
was once a prison
er under death SEN
t e n c e. He was
taken by the Beers
under suspicion OF
completely W i t h
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No Relief.

Mistress-You have broken another
plate, Margaret?
Maid-I have, mum; but that's all the
good it will do me- You'll get another,
of course; so I'll have just as many dishes
to wash as ever. Boston Transcript.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-04-09
GOSSIP OF CHICAGO
-e Of TIMELY INTEREST
FROM TIE LAKE CITY.
~ The CRIMINAL COURTS
- vod Case That Has Attracted At
'ens'on-some Effects Of the East
ern War-Increased Cost
Of Living.
nlcago.-Of the odd cases that come
anu 80 10 the criminal courts of this citv

none OF recent
years has attracted
m 0 r e attention
than the trial of
Nathan Breen for
the murder OF Irene
Bonner.
Breen was a
sweatshop clothing
manufacturer. He
became infatuated
W | t h a pretty
Jewess of the Ghet-
to district, but aft
err they had become
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at the present time.
Practically all
the necessities OF
life show an in
crease within the
last t e n years.
Meats of all kinds
a r e practically
double what they
were ten years ago.
The better quail
tiles Of steaks and
rib roasts have al
most entirely dis
appeared from the
tables Of the work
ing elements to be
replaced by' flank
cuts, pot roasts,
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what He Took.

Judge-You were present when the
assault took place?
Witness-Yes, your honor.
''And did you take cognizance of the
bartender OF the placer"
II don't know what they called It,
but / took what the rest did. lyon
kers Herald.
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The Japs in New York.
Remarkable is the contrast between
the Chinese and japanese residents OF

New York.
There are ten Of
the former for one
OF the latter, but
the japanese, few
as they are, count
e a lily for ten
times as much in
the financial life OF
the city.
T b e re are
wealthy Chinese
merchants and res
taurateurs in New
York, plenty of
them, but the typ
ical Chinaman Is
noan with
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here was the
grayest question of their guilt. Great as
Ia. the expense connected with the con-
yiction of q known murderer when he
wishes to make defense, it is but small
by comparison with the expense incurred
by the state where conviction must De Sc
cured through circumstantial evidence.
IN such cases the attorneys for the de-
tense can tangle the skefn OF evidence
offered by the state as fast, as rule,
as the attorney for the state can unravel
il The Cronin case of 1890 is an EVIL
dence OF this, and it cost the state $so,ooo
before a conviction could be secured:
Another case is that of the sausage
maker. Luetgert, tried for the murder OF
his vile. The police department, ana
the states attorney had but llttle more
than theories to work on, and though the
nuhlic generally believed in the guilt OF
the accused, 1t was not proven TO the sat
isfac1ion of jury of u men until a1tef
the expenditure Of an enormous sum ny
the state.
The long-drawn out trials OF such cnar-
.cters as the car-barn murderers Is tou
regretted because of its eject upon the
community. The continued printing OF
their exploits excites an element OF
vicinrsnes IS among the youth OF the city
+bat will help to fill the court dockets for
years to come. 5
rhe War and Yellow Journalism.
Apropos OF the many startilng stores
of terrible battles on land and sea print
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-04-09
A Good Average.

Cobwigger-Are you satisfied with
the birthday presents your friends sent
you?
Mrs. Cobwigger-Perfectly, my dear.
Of the "a different articles received,
three are just what I wanted. Town
Topics.
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Thought 1t Quite Likely,

Harold, DEAR" purred his young wife,
"are you sure you will never grow tired
of me?"
Perhaps / may, pet" said Harold
caressing her brown hair. But there's
my club, you know &c Chicago Tribune
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the mOSL 6xIraOTQ1-
nary winter that
society has spent
in some years.
The trouble be-
gan in Steel Com
mon, Asphalt and
a lot Of other
things of more or
less value, in back
ing which society
fortunes were hard
chit. /" One result
of this was that
people have stayed
in New York all
winter who haven't
done such a thing
before in q dozen
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the trial Of the car
b q n murderers.
The conviction of
these self-confessed
Williams has cost
the state several
thousand dollars.
I t is scarcely
probable that any
one of the IL men
who composed the
jury secured after
a month Of effort
ever doubted the
guilt OF any one OF
the trio, but the
S a M e expensive
process SIS S were
necessary as though
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Latest Thing out.

ssHave you seen Mrs. Casey's new
HAITI"
Sure, have; but it looks like an
old style one to me-
well, it's not; she got it at a this
years rummage sale. "-Yonkers
Statesman.