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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-02-13
. LEMON HAS MANY USES.
1t In Good for the Stomach. the Throat,
the Hands, Finger Nails and
3 the Complexion.

The usefulness of the lemon begins in
the morning, even before you are out
of bed. The juice of half lemon
squeezed into glass Of water and drunk
unsweetened the first thing in the morn
ing is an excellent remedy for bilious
disorders.
If girls appreciated the lemons use
fulness as beautifier, they would all
ways have one at hand. The fingers or
finger nails may have stains that re-
fuse to yield to soap and water, in which
case little lemon juice will usually
prove successful. Before manicuring
the nails you should always soak them
for at least five minutes in basin of
water in which are few drops of lemon
juice. The skin which grows so Of
fensively around the nails is pushed
back by orange wood sticks first dipped
in lemon Juice; and as for the teeth, no
more effective cleanser or purer mouth
wash can be found than half dozen
drops of lemon juice in a wineglass of
water. -.-z s.s..
After washing the hands, lemon-juice
and water makes splendid bleach, but
one curious thing should be remembered
Lemon juice pure darkens the skin, SO
do not make the mistake of rubbing in
plain lemon-juice, instead Of diluting it
with water. 1455
Lemon juice and glycerine is good for
chapped hands If you have hoarse
voice in the morning, lemon-juice,
squeezed on to soft sugar till it is like
a strip, and few drops Of glycerine
added, relieves the hoarseness at once,
while cold on the chest, or consump-
ton itself, finds formidable enemy in
the following prescription:
Squeeze the juice of three lemons over
three whole eggs, she'll and all. In two
or three days time the shell will have
softened because of the effect of the
lemons acid on the lime composition of
the shell. Then add pint of rum and
q pound of pulverized brown sugar
candy. You can bottle this, and take
a spoonful every morning before ,ris-
ing. 1t is simply wonderful as q tonic.
Chicago American.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-02-13
SECRET HIDING PLACES.
Many in English Houses That Were
Used In Queen Elizabeth's
Time.


sages as romantic as any which have
constituted the stage scenery of f1c-
ton. In his book, Secret Chambers
and Hiding-Places," Mr.. Allan Fea
says that the persecution of the Cath
olics in Elizabeth's time was the cause
houses of Catholic families. A Cath
Ollie priest. Father Gerard, gives an
exciting account of the search for him
in Catholic house in 1894.
The searchers broke down the door,
and, forcing their way in, spread
through the house with great noise and
racket. Their first step was to lock
up the mistress of the house in her
own room with her two daughters, and
the Catholic servants they kept locked
up in divers places in the same part
of the house. oF
They then took to themselves the
whole house, which was of good size,
and made a thorough search in every
part, not forgetting even to look under
the tiles Of the roof. The darkest cor
ners they examined with the help of
candles. Finding nothing, they began
to break down certain places that they
suspected. They measured the walls
with long rods, so that if the measure
ments did not tally they might pierce
the part not accounted for. Then they
sounded the walls and all the floors to
find out and break any hollow places
there might be.
A servant betrayed the general loca-
ton of my hiding-place, but did not
know the way to it.. Then the search
began anew.
Finding nothing during the whole of
the third day, they proposed on the
morrow to strip of the wainscot of
the room. Meanwhile they set guards
in all the rooms about to watch all
night lest escape. tss-.-.
The way got into my hiding-place
was by taking up the floor Chat over
head in the chapeD under the fireplace.
The place was so constructed that
fire could not be lit in it without
damaging the house, although we made
a point of keeping wood there, as if it
we're meant for a fire.
The men on the night watch lit a
fire in this very CRATE, and began chat
ting close to it. Soon the bricks got
loose and nearly fell out of their places.
l thought they wert going there and
then to break open the place and enter,
but they made up their minds to put
off further examination till next day
The next morning they resumed the
search most carefully everywhere, ex-
cept in the top chamber, which served
as chapel, and in which the two
had made fire over my
head. God had blotted out of their
all remembrance of this thing.
The searchers, forgetting or not caring
abut this room, busted themselves in
the rooms below. They
stuck to their purpose of stripping off
all the wainscot till they came to the
very place where lay, and there they
lost heart and gave, up the search
They thought l had escaped somehow,
and so they went away at the end of the
four days, leaving the mistress and her
free.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-02-13

predominates, such lamp would add
to the effect and the original is consid-
erably more attractive than the picture
might imply. As q novelty In the lamp
line, the mission model calls for recog-
milton, and, as has been said, it is par
ticularly adapted to an apartment where
in the mission idea Is the ruling one in
furniture. brooklyn Eagle.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-02-13
Those Dear Girls.

Jeanette-Don't you think my new
hat is a perfect dream?
: Cordelia-It's more than dream,
dear; it's genuine NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
natl Enquirer.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-02-13
Natural Inauiry.

"Bess and Mabel have ceased to
speak as they pass by" said the girl
under the tailor-made hat
Indeed" exclaimed the girl in the
homegrown waist Whats the mans
name ?'-Chicago Daily News
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-02-13
Them N Has Gets.

London Truth declares that the duke
of Roxburghe is not fortune hunter,
as he already has property valued at
several million and an annual income
of $4,000. Them as has get2
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-02-13
THE MISSION LAMP.
Seems to Have Taken the En-
tire Country by Storm,

Mission furniture has become some
thing more than fad, and it's avail
ability for country and city home use
has been demonstrated by the many
articles modelled on mission lines that
have been brought out by the manufac-
turers during the past year or so, and
which have met with the approval of
those who seek for chairs, tables, cab
inets and the like that differ from con-
ventional productions. The mission
lamp is the latest manifestation of the
tendency for furniture of this sort, and
Is portrayed above. In den or hall
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-02-13
Brown Hairpins.

After many failures, brown hairpins
that will retain their color are now on
the market
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-02-13
A Disa.trous Experiment

The experiment of serving honey at
q Sunday school picnic was tried re-
Gently in Kansas. The bees in the
neighborhood learned of the affair and
the picnic disbanded suddenly.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-02-13
HAY Fever Accountcd Eor

Galoskey-A learned professor has
discovered that sneeze is the explosion
of an unnecessary idea
Petoskey-That makes it plain why
some people have hay fever.-Baltimore
American -
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-02-13
One-Cen1 Pieces.

Between July 1, 1902, and June /. 1903.
IS, 600, 900 cents were coined.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-02-13
Restful Busine...

Yeast-You say his business is such
that he could retire at any time if he
wished?
Crimsonbeak-Yes; he makes fold.
ing beds.-YOnkers Statesman
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-02-13
DR.. J. F. PIGOTI,

covinqton, La.
Residence in the Exterstein raised
cottage, two blocks west Of public
school building.
Offers mis- professional services to
the public.
Once 1t the City Drug Store. on
Columbia street.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-02-13

Aunt-For goodness sake!
Mother-No, because he was naugh.
ty.-Harvard Lampoon.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-02-13
LAW AND NorARlAL OFFICE.
JOS. B. LANCASTER

Will practice in the courts Of tnsl
Twenty-flfth and Twenty-sixth Judi
ciel Districts and the Supreme Court.
Special attention given to examin.
ing land titles. buying and selling.
lands. passing acts and deeds Of sale,
mortgages, donations, etc.
Room Mo- :, Frederick Building.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-02-13

WHY TOmmy'd Rather Stand,
Mother-I had to spank Tommy to-
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-09-02
News in Brief.

Minnesota farmers are taking hand
in the protection of game and fish.
James McIlraith has completed work
on twelve new bridges in. Polk county.
The state labor bureau will make an
exhaustive: inquiry into labor condi'
tionA }'1f5%z &=s,gts5..-J g.. .t,.,%r5lHg
Jacok hoffman, st. Paul balloonist,
drops into lake at Fergus Falls and
drownA x @'t" +'-.''~' ~ ,.f
The home rule charter was defeated
ct special election at Winona by $50
votes. l,,a, @.,.,4 g...., .,,-.,. .r...,......,
"A hanging wire on University ave-
nue., st. Paul, swept OF the upper
works Of DR.. Judd Goodrich's sutomo.
bile, including the steering apparatus,
and Dr.. Goodrich was left on tho runa
way machine, apparently with no way
OF guiding or stopping the machine
The body Of an unidentified man
about forty years of age was found in
the pesthouse, forty rods from the St
Gabriel's hospital, Little Falla 1ndics'
tons show that he died Of natural
causes two or three months ago.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-09-02
VASE WITHOUT AN OWNER.
It Was Presented to Gen. jackson
and Left by Him to a Now
Defunet Organization. ...
Columbia Is. CO. Special.

80 Columbia Is. CO. Special. -. =
The south. is discussing what DISPOSE
ton shall be made of the famous Jack
son vase, which is proving as trouble
some as it is precious. e. "'1'.''.
Originally the vase was presented by
the. women Of South Carolina to Mai.
Gen. Andrew Jackson, in 1915. He
later presented it to the Palmetto as
ISOLATION, comprising survivors of = q
regiment of the war of 1872, and stipu-
lated that the vase should be held in
trust to become the personal property
of the last survivor Of that regiment.
The Palmetto association turned the
vase over to the state with the inten-
ton that it should be restored to who
ever might outlive all his fellows among
the associations members. When at
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-09-02
Cow 1n,v,,,a,de. Pol,ce station.

I The proverbial bull that invaded the
china shop could not have created more
excitement than q runaway cow that
ran into Philadelphia police station
the other night and caused q panic
among dozen policemen who tried to
drive her out. The animal became sep
arsted from . herd and for two hours
It galloped through the streets, spread
Ing terror among pedestrians. Fleet
footed policemen gave chase and tore
ador.like tried to take the angry bovine
BY the horns. Four bluecoats who had
the temerity to wrestle with the COW
were tossed aside with contemptuous
ease. The policemen Of the station
heard the mad COW was coming their
way. They ran out to head it of. The
COW halted at the line Of bluecoats,
tnrned its head and leaped through the
swinging doors of the station house.
After lively scramble inside the cow
got wedged fast in hallway, where the
drover got . rope around It's neck and
I'D Il away. ''s' ~ VI sT.s-.' .'.-
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-09-02


his Inventions than for his special class
of work. Lord Kelvin is essentially .
scientist, while Edison has often point
ed out that he is a mere inventor. Kei-
WINS wonderful mathematical faculty
always has been his distinguishing
characteristic. He revels in high
mathematics, and il never really hap
py unless he is covering blackboard
with figures proving that the sun, moon
or stars weigh just so much, or that the
earth Is losing heat at the rate Of 50
much per year, as he has often said,
'below the apex of the Himalayas."
It was naturally expected that when
Lord Kelvin retired from Glasgow uni
versity, q few years ago, he would take
a prolonged rest, but, though he is now
in his seventy-ninth year, he has no idea
of retiring. His country home at
Netherall, where he now does most Of
his work, is practically an immense lab
oratory. It has every appliance, both in
ventilation and electricity, that this
country can provide, and it is here that
one of the master minds Of this age
works as hard to-day as he worked 20
years ago.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-09-02
,,. ARTHUR GARFIELD. " -
(Kentucky Boy Who Was Born with Q
Mania for Suicide.)

to repeat the effort. Three weeks later
he stole from the house and was missed
ten minutes later. He was found in
the same barn, but in another part,
dangling from q rafter. He had tied
his handkerchief and a halter together
and leaped from the top Of q stall. He
was fast strangling when rescued, and
for time his condition was serious.
He recovered and again protested peni-
tence. A month ago the youngster
leaped into the river three miles from
his home and was dragged out more
dead than alive. He fought flercely with
his rescuers, two farm hands. It was
after attempt No. 3 that negro man
was employed to be his constant COM
panion. ..r f.. g. '...@
II amt happy in the world" he told
his father after the third effort at sui
eide, "and I don't see why you are fore
ing me to lie in bed this way. I am
going to kill myself some time and you
shan't stop me. You watch me like I
was dog. I'm tired of you all. never
have any fun like other boys and I'm
going to Jump of the house, or cut my
throat, or do something" VI g.,
The child,s natural self is best shown
by his explanation Of his mania: II
just get crazy, guess. when get those
blues and I want to die. / know now
that it is sin, but everything is
changed when I get that feeling. get
nervous and don't love mamma or papa,
or any Of the family" -'>>' ff,S1saft -
+ Doctors believe the little fellow can
be restored to his natural self and have
urged the family to place him in SAM
tarium. but they have thus far refused.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-09-02
KENTUCKY BOY WHO ~ DETE1-
MINED 70 KILL HI1GSELI.
Although But Eight Years Of Age He
Has Made I Number Of Efforts
to Shums on This Nor
s,&.,'. til Coil. ~. 4. a
Louisville (Ky.) Special.

S1S~Se>~s' .
N A strange mania for self-destruc-
ton possesses Arthur Garfield. "a
eight-year- Kentucky boy. Three
times he has stolen from his home IN
Mayfield, KY, and endeavored to kill
himself improvised rope being
twice employed and leap into the
river resorted to in the third in
stance and yet he lives to relate
the details. And, indeed, the youngster
has no objection to telling just how
ut certain times an uncomfortable
wish to end his life takes pos
session of him and how at such times
the earth seems SO cloudy and distaste-
full to him that he runs in frenzy to
kill himself.
That he has failed on all three occa-
sions is due partly to his youth and con-
sequent inability to plan so a. to in
sure success and partly to the watchful-
ness of his family. For three months
the members OF his family watched in
turns to prevent his accomplishing his
purpose and, their efforts failing. they
have now employed a companions ne
kTO udu-WuO T0uud4uo WILL lA0 wy
at all times and forcibly controls him
when he loses his mental equilibrium.
Arthur Garfield sane and the same boy
in delirium, for such his attacks seem
to be, are quite different. When him
self, the little fellow tells in a very
lucid, connected way how he is seized
with the desire to kill himself and
actually grieves about the sin he has
committed. While In the grasp Of the
respondent mood he pleads to be al
lowed to complete his effort at self
destruction, and means about the hard
ships he endures and of the happiness
that death would bring.
The New York World says that Ken
lucky doctors have taken much interest
in the case and have concluded that
the youngster Is >constitutionally weak.
Over three months ago, having previ-
ously been subject to ''blue spells" the
youngster was found hanging to rope,
made from his shirt-sleeves, in q barn
on his fathers place. He was cut down
unhurt. From that time he was kept
under watch, though he promised never
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-09-02
A Queer Case.

The deputy sheriffs at the St. Louis
county Jail have in prospect the novel
experience Of, ejecting prisoner whose
term has expired, simply because he
will not go of his own accord. His
name is John Mattson, and he has just
completed a 6o-day sentence for smash
ing windows at Ely. When told he
was free, Mattson nodded but did not
90, and when again reminded that he
was no longer prisoner he still pre-
tended to not understand. It is said
that Mattson has $1,000 in the bank,
and the sheriff says he will charge him
for his board if he does not get out
pretty soon.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-09-02

Tendon ag9 spsetlils
" Lord Kelvin works harder than any
other Englishman on earth. In this
respect he resembles Edison. In fact.
there are many similartties between tho
two great inventors. They might both
be called human dynamos. Edison does
himself much injustice when he an
nounces that he only works at things
because he expects to make money from
them. He has said this time and again:
but few have believed him. Lord Kelvin
works, - he has said, because there's
nothing elss to do" s~ z
The title of British Edison has been
conferred upon Lord Kelvin more for
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-09-02


to Commodore Perry.)
the Lew-Chew islands, q dependency
of the Japanese empire. Commodore
Perry was at that time commander in
chief of the United States squadron in
the Asiatic seas and minister plenipo-
Tertiary, charged with the duty of
opening intercourse between Japan
and the United States. After his
DEATH, in 1858, Mrs. Perry presented it
to the Naval academy, in fuldllment Of
his wish.
The bell is covered with an inscrip-
ton In Japanese, which was recently
translated by young Japanese who
was at one time student at the
Naval academy. The inscription reads
as follows:
I'm the eighth year Of Riraku and
Konoye Tara of the reign of the king
of Lew-Chew, Kei-shi-yo-hi-ho-o Of
fered a prayer of benevolence for the
people and afterward ordered a large
bell to be founded. He did this as an
act Of thanksgiving, and presented it
" Lu0 LCuuplc VI OcAoCA 6aAJAS ~ IAA0
kingdom, in order that the king might
reign prosperously and live long, and
that the people of the three worlds.
Heaven, Earth and Hades, might be
saved from Internal doctrines, and
therefore it was that he instructed
Sho-ko-ku .An-sai to frame this in
scription: This beautiful bell has
been founded and hung in the tower
of the temple. It will awaken dreams
Of superstition. II one will bear in
mind to act rightly and truly, and the
lords and ministers will do justice in a
body, the barbarians will never come
to invade. The sound of the bell will
convey the virtue Tuski, and will echo
like the song Of Tsniray, and the
benevolence of the Lord will continue
forever like these echoes"
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-09-02

uVHNT1D ron TIL Dn1IDyIYo or
CHRONIC OFFICE DEHKERS.
NsW.York Special.

John w. Gates, formerly Of Chicago.
now Of New York, ID noted among his,
associates q Z prince Of story tellers.
The public ut large knows him as =
successful Spectator, . plunger in nm
digested securities and the owner Of
q number Of race horses. A year or
two ago It was reported that he had
won 100000 in the Chicago Derby. A
few months later he lost an even
larger sum on the eastern tracks. .As
q poker player Gates has few equals
Usually he is a winner. but when be
loses he does SO with good grace and
without harboring resentment When
Gates was q factor in Illinois Affairs
he was the head Of q ,coterie OF poker
playing politicians, the magnitude OF
whose stakes was town talk In Chi
cago.l "@-'t - 's@ - g. :" q '''&
Since taking up his residence in New
York Gates has taken up yachting as
pastime, and takes great delight in en-
tertaining his friends on his floating
palace. One moonlight night not long
ago he was cruising of the Atlantic
COdSl WILL d QdALy VI A4A0AVSs 1 A0 SOA0
versation turned to politics, off1ce-seek-
ers and kindred subjects, and Mr.. Gates
said: 49,
1.-THE fable of tho kings jackass was
written for offlce-seekers. President
Hayes used to tell it frequently.
1T seems that there was certain
king who had for his main assistant.
or grand vizier, a philosophic sooth-
sayer., There were in that kingdom
many sorts of chancellors, treasurers,
privy councillors, etc., but the philo-
sophie soothsayer's was the highest and
most lucrative post Of all.
Zone morning the king summoned the
philosophic soothsayer to him.
"'Hafiz,' he said, 1T IL our purpose
to-day to hunt the stag; provided that
there will be no storm. The sky, how
ever, has a gray look, and the wind is
damp. Will it rain, Hafiz?'
Nay, sire,' returned the philosophic
soothsayer, with q confident air.
'Thereupon the kings eye bright
ened. He gathered his retinue about
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-09-02

him, and amid the blare Of hunting
horns and the baying of 'staghounds he
set forth. >,''">~r~~''' ..~.a.~s'.soa'.,~es -~ @
"As this splendid company neared
the forest, peasant, leading gray
jackass, came toward them.
40, king said the peasant, uncover
ing his head, 1t is not wise to hunt to-
day. Storm clouds are gathering. The
rain is near at hand
"But the king smiled incredulously
and kept on. He had confidence In
Haflz. .-. ...,,,--.- , ,.~.. s.,.. ,.,,y..,
IAN hour, later, though, he found
cause to regret his confidence, for all
Of q sudden the storm burst furiously
upon him, and amid thunder and light
ming, and q deluge Of rain, he raced
back to the palace, drenched to the
skin. ssi - + .H<l,2 - e. 80
Immediately he sent for the philo-
sophie soothsayer.
:Haflz,' he said, you told me it
would not rain, and 10, am half
drowned. A peasant, wiser than you,
said it would rain. Him. therefore, I
appoint to be your successor, and you,
Haflz, may go.',.,.t,,' 49, j-%r
'swift runners found the peasant.
they told him of his good fortune, they
draped,on his shoulders robe Of cloth
Of gold, they led him into the presence
Of the king.
Here, after a brief Interchange Of
compliments, the king said:
Tell me, my new soothsayer, how
Won knew that it would rain?' Its
ct knew, sire, from my tackass'
ears the other answered. Whenever
my jackass pricks his ears up, I know
that a storm is to be expected
''The king Immediately discharged
the peasant and appointed the jackass
to his ONCE. And here"
Mr.. Gates pafted up his cigar and
smiled E4r,s f5g:g9sf,y5 ..5s...-
..And here,' he resumed, "the king
made q great mistake" s5sl r-..sat
aHow so?" asked young man.
ssBecause, since that time" said Mr..
Gates. ''every jackass wants an ONCE"
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-09-02
Chased by: = Big Rather.

When Morris W. Odell, who is staying
u >his summer homeSat Lower Bank,
near Egg Harbor City, n. ia. went to his
hoathouse he heard . kissing in the grass
Near him. He stepped toward the spot
and large rattlesnake sprang at him.
Odali ran for his life, followed for aidis-
lance by the RATHER. With the help OF
friends. armed with clubs. Odell found
and killed the snake near the place where
he last had seen 1t. It was - feet long
and had II rattles and three buttons. 1t
Uas the largest rattlesnake killed In the
district In years. sE aS5 .IAt.z G~gBs )