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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-04-22
FOOD COMBINATIONS.
There Are Scientific Reasons for
the Dietetic Habits Handed Down
from Generati ton to Generation.

There are many eating habits which,
though followed merely because they
have been customary from time i'm
memorial, really have scientific basis,
says the Dietetic Gazette. Such is the
eating of butter with bread, which by
itself, though rich in starch, has not
the fat which is dietetically necessary.
Similarly with rice buildings. the milk
is added to make up for the deficiency
of proteid in the rice. The scientific
justification for adding milk to tea is
however, of quite a different kind
Then there is chemical reason for
adding vinegar to salads. Raw vege-
tables are easily enough digested by
COWS and horses, but with difficulty
by the human stomach, because they
contain that hard, fibrous substance,
cellulose. But acids dissolve cellulose
to some extent, and vinegar is an acid.
That is why it is a good thing to take
vinegar or lemon juice with salad and
cabbage, and doubtless that is why il
tastes so well, for the palate is an
excellent judge of what is good for
the stomach. The justification for
adding oil is partly that there is prac.
tlcally no fat in the salad itself and
partly that it protects the lining OF
the stomach from the action of the
acid in vinegar.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-04-22
Size Of Families.

College professors in sociology find
fruitful field for discussion in the race
suicide question and household eco
nomics. Prof. Bailey, of Yale, who has
oeen collecting tie statistics, says that
the average college family" has three
and three-fifths children, while the
poor families whose statistics he COM
puted have a fraction less than four
cnlldren on an average. These stats.
ucs, says the New York World, do
not coincide with the census figures.
which make the size of the average
family nVe and small fraction. The
trouble with most college figures is
mat the data are not extensive, A
lew extraordinarily large families
would destroy the accuracy of the av-
erage. The advance in the standard
OF living diminishes the size of the
family. 1t is always the case that
families which put their children early
70 work and regard them as a means
OF adding to the family income are
larger than the families where the
girls 90 no gainful or professional
work and where the boys are kept at
school and college until they are of
age. Financial considerations and the
financial attitude of the parents toward
their children have more to do with
the size of families than any other
single factor.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-04-22

"OnE TLEAOAN1 In CANADA.
do in the matter would not presume
to advise this court as to it's duty.
am not marshal nor deputy marshal,
nor were the young men in my custody.
l may say, however that as an officer
of this court did go so far as to advise
them that it was their duty to be here
this morning, and they told me that they
would be here in time to hear the verdict
Of the jury. l had no authority to do
more, and knowing well the dignity
with which this court guards its preroga-
tives, | refused to give them any adj
vice; in fact, l may have laid myself
open to the charge of contempt when
suggested to them that they should be
locked up. AS your honor did not see
fit to have them taken into custody |
could do nothing about it, believing that
in its wisdom the court had reason for
what appeared to my feeble mind as an
unusual thing"
THE jury is discharged" said Judge
Blodgett, after moments reflection.
Then turning to the lawyer, he said:
Mr.. Linegar''
Your honor answered the advocate.
The men looked each other squarely
in the eyes for full minute.
THAT is ALL" finally said the judge
Chicago Record-Herald.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-04-22
Brains Not Monopolized.

One Of the many hopeful signs of the
times is the apparent decay of the breed
OF so-called great men-those mighty
personalities that in former times stood
out like solitary tree in vast prairie.
The reason for it, of course, is, says
the aturday Evening Post, the de-
structiOn of all those old-time monop-
otles Of brains which stunted all human
beings except a few who, by chance
rather than by superiority of fiber, grew
and developed. There are thousands,
literally thousands, of men now living
who, if they had lived a century or so
ago and had done work similar to that
which they are doing without any very
sonorous fanfare upon the trumpets OF
fame, would have been the talk of the
world and the main topic of history.
And how many of the so-called great
achievements of so-called great states
men, soldiers and thinkers of former
times would be impossible to-day, be-
cause those achievements depended
chiefly upon the ignorance and incapac-
fty of the overwhelming mass of the men
of their day! Truly, this is the age of
opportunity.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-04-22
HOUSE HERE AND THERE.
Timely Suggestions for That General
the Ever Watchful and Resource
full Housewife.

A mating, with a few bright rugs
which may be lifted and shaken read
lily or cleaned after accidents" should
cover the floor of child's room.
Spots may be removed from
bingham by being wet with milk and
covered with common salt. Leave for
an hour or so, and rinse out in sew
eral waters.
If silver knife is used to peel ap-
pies, the hands will not be blackened
as when a steel knife is used. The
acid of the fruit acts on the iron in
the latter case, but does not affect the
silver
A handful of salt, thrown into tepid
water with which straw mating is
wiped up, will make it look extra fresh
and clean.
To measure tea or table spoonfuls
dip the spoon in the ingredient, fill,
lift and level with knife, not putting
it down, but drawing the sharp edge
across the surface so that it scrapes
the edges of the spoon. Divide with
knife lengthwise for one-half spoonful,
divide the halves crosswise for quar-
tiers and the quarters crosswise for
eighths
Flour, powdered and confectioners'
sugar and soda should be sifted before
measuring. Mustard and baking pow.
der should be stirred to tighten them,
as from standing in boxes they settle.
Jumps should be removed from salt.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-04-22

| Inc judge was proud of his eXactness
| and when some veteran of the bar errec
in matters of procedure he was prone
| to visit upon the head of the offender
| the walls of judicial wrath. History
| records but one instance in which the
| judge was worsted in an attempt to dis
| cipline an advocate conducting case
before him. the man who turned the
tables upon the court being the late
David T. Linegar, of Cairo. Linega1
VAS one of the triumvirate in Illinois
politics OF quarter of a century ago
known as the big three" His COM
panions in the combination which prac-
tically controlled all things legislative
In the general assembly linegar was
member of the house for years until
1859 were Senator Thomas c. Merritt,
Of Saline, known throughout the COM
monwealth because of his wit and an
impediment in speech, and Jim" Har-
rington, of Kane And these men assist
ed in adding to the gayety of nations in
the days when Elijah n Haines was
acquiring fame as speaker of the house
had an extensive and lucrative practice,
much of it in the federal courts, and as
a result passed considerable time in
Chicago where he made his headuuar-
tiers at the old Gault house, on the West
side.
Late in the '7O's Linegar was retained
to defend two young men who had been
arrested by secret service operatives.
who charged them with passing coun-
terfeit money. The case against them
was strong, but the parents of the
youngsters, people of excellent reputa-
ton, succeeded in exacting Linegars
promise to undertake the defense. The
federal grand jury returned an indict-
ment, the boys were admitted to bail,
and in due time the case was called for
trial before Judge Blodgett and jury.
Never did Linegar fight a case as he
fought this one. Awaiting himself of
every technicality, contestin6 every
step, he had had many a battle with the
judge before the taking Of testimony be-
gan, and on several occasions pushed
Judge Blodgett to the limit of temper,
the court more than once warning the
lawyer that he was approaching danger
ously close to punishment for contempt.
Linegars final address to the jury con-
tanned SO much innuendo and was such a
savage attack on court and prosecutor
that the judge was in fine rage when
the time had come to charge the jury. !
AS the jurors retired Judge Blodgett |
to instruct the marshal to take |
the defendants into custody, and that |
evening the two young men called en-
Linegar at his hotel to ask his opinion as
% the outcome.
1T looks pretty bad to me- he said,
and fear that the verdict of the jury
will be against you.'
What are we to do?' inquired his
clients.
How does it come that you are not in
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-04-22

| AOlc uCdlly IAdA
any other in the city answers the Lon.
don idea of such an institution. It's new
| house on Fifth avenue supplies me with
an occasional practical joke on visitors
from my old home in the country. 1t il
| three stories high, has three windows
on Fifth avenue on each floor and twice
as many on the side street.
How wide do you suppose it is?"
casually ask the visitor, after naming
it.
"Oh-three windows, three stories
perhaps 80 feet" he replies. 1t is really
Is feet wide, $50 feet deep on the side
street and enarly 100 feet high. The
three stories in front are divided into
nine behind, where are coy rooms for
resident members and for the servants
who live on the premises. 1t is as big
as 80 small two-story houses in Brook.
lyn; but it doesn't look it. The average
Union club member does nothing for a
living. He proposes his son for MEM
bership as soon as he is born. Under
this system the waiting list is long. Yet
the membership and other fees are not
so high as those of the Metropolitan.
commonly called the Millionaire's club,
farther up the avenue.
The University club is about the same
size, but looks bigger because there is no
such attempt at a calm exterior There
are more and smaller windows, and the
number of stories is apparent. It's men,
c hJ1f
scholarship being q rough test The
Union League club, founded by Frederic
Law Olmstead, head of the sanitary COM
mission during the war, take rank
among social organizations, though it
has not altogether lost its political pur-
poses. The Calumet, Lotos, Century, AL
dine, Players, have social and literary
or artistic lines. The Grolier club, men,
bershiped by lovers of rare books, is
type of a hundred special organizations.
It's rooms are very beautiful, but do not
supply home comforts" Even the En-
gineers' club has beautiful house, built
by Carnegie. The st. Nicholas has To-
cal habitation as we'll as a name; it's
annual banquets are the finest in New
York, and it is type OF a hundred lesser
organizations, including gatherings
from half the counties of the state and
from as many colleges, which meet only
for an annual banquet. At the banquet
of the st. Lawrence club this year $50
persons of both sexes were present Such
a rush of the country people as it has
taken to fill New York!
In the Amen Corner New York has an
similar to the Washington
Gridiron and the Philadelphia Glover
club. The first Amen Corner" was the
sofa in the corridor of the Fifth Avenue
hotel, where Senator Plat received the
condolences of his leaders of a Sunday
night. Started as a joke by Eddie"
Riggs, the New York Suns political re-
porter. it has proved too good to die. |
For two years now it's meetings have
been of almost national scope in the
number and quality of the guests.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-04-22
MOURNED WIFE AS DEAD.
Husband Locates Supposed Victim Of
Iroquois Theater Fire in De-
troit Hospital.

Detroit, Mich.-Johnson Richards, of
Macomb street, has found his wife.
whom he believed victim of the 1ro-
uuois theater fire in Chicago on Deem
Der 80, 1908, in Grace hospital, this city.
Richards and his wife were married
in Chicago, but had quarreled and sep
arated. He came to Detroit and she re-
NAMED in Chicago. Her name appeared
in the list of victims of the Iroquois
horror, and in spite of their previous
estrangement he mourned her death.
A few weeks ago young woman who
had known Mr. and Mrs. Richards in
Chicago called him up on the telephone.
go to Grace hospital" was all she
said.
Richards. bewildered by the strange
message, hurried to the hospital, and
found the wife. She had been i'll for
many weeks, but now is recovering.
Richards and his wife have been
reconciled He declines to reveal the
mystery of her whereabouts for the last
year.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-04-22
Worlds Oldest Legislator.

A number of congratulatory messages
have already been received by Hon. Da-
vid Wark, LII. D., of Fredericton. N. B..
a member of the Canadian senate and the
Oldest legislator in the world, who has
celebrated his one hundred and first
birthday anniversary The senator is
enjoying good health, but has not yet
attended the present session of the SEN
ate. He expects to go to Ottawa, how
ever, before the close of the session. Sen
ator Wark was born in Londonderry. Ire
land, and came to this country when
boy. He entered the New Brunswick
legislature in 1912 and was appointed to
the Canadian senate in 1867 In politics
he is liberal, and in religion Presby-
terian.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-04-22

A wealthy young Baltimore physi-
clan was awakened one stormy night
lately by a man who declared the doc
tors services were wanted three miles
out in the country. Just before the
doctor called up the stable for his
horse the visitor asked him what the
charge would be. Three dollars was
the reply. When the house containing
the supposed patient was reached the
man alighted first and, handing the
doctor three dollars, remarked: That
will be all, doctor. couldn't get
hackman to do it for less than S..
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-04-22

staid gentlemen gravely give testimony
of the remarkable powers of this medi-
UNI she not infrequently has been looked
upon as the shining example of honest
! spiritualism.
| And now again there Is rally to her
defense; again the public is called upon
to weigh evidence regarding her mani
festations-we are not quite sure of the
technical terms of this profession. A
Brooklyn gentleman whose name is by
no means an obscure one, in behalf of
Mrs. Pepper recently sent challenge
to an ex-medium whose declarations
that he could equal the lady if he wanted
to, called forth the dare" With these
words, the gentleman from Brooklyn
bids the bold declarer make good: ''W.
S. Davis announces that he is an ex-
medium, and that if given a chance he
will duplicate through fake methods all
that Mrs. Pepper does, and then will ex-
plain the process. This, if sincere. is a
move in the right direction. CDR Funk
belongs to the Society for Psychical Re-
search, and is avowed to the pursuit of
TRUTH.
GAS to Davis challenge, l will agree
to pay all the expenses for the hall in
which he may give such a public demon.
stration, on the single condition that he
practically will duplicate the tests made
last Saturday evening in the presence of
committee, say of seven, who shall de-
termine the arrangements and pass
judgment of success or failure of the
tests. Three of this committee will be
selected by Davis and three by Judge
Daley, if he be willing, and these six
to agree upon seventh"
We cannot truthfully say a waiting
world watches. So many, many things
happen nowadays.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-04-22


The only thing in clubdom of like pleas
antness is the roof garden of the New
York Yacht club, with its pergolalike ef-
feet of overshadowing vines.
There are several clubs that admit
men and women to equal membership,
of which the Fine Arts club is at the
moment the best known, owing to the
constant stream of visitors who have
gone to its pretty rooms on Thirty
fourth street to see the alleged Prax-
iteles Aphrodite, about whose genuine
ness there has been such a war of the
critics. This club is very modest, with
a cheap restaurant for members-.in a
word, great convenience for men and
women of simple tastes
That the membership of this club is
large is not to be wondered at, for
there are thousands who appreciate
the refining influences which it offers.
This membership is recruited to a
large extent from that element in New
York's population which comes from
the smaller towns, and especially
those of the central states. Young
men and women who come to New
York to study or to engage in literary
or art lines take naturally to the Fine
Arts club.
The Women's University club, a very
conservative and wisely managed or
ganization with limited membership
chosen along scholastic lines, is likely
to build a clubhouse within a year. For
economic reasons, if it does SO, it will
erect building of eight stories, of which
the lower five may be rented for business
purposes or for casual meetings of wom-
ems organizations. Probably the ma
jority of the members are teachers in
public and private schools.
The Brooklyn Womans club, one Of
the largest in the country, and the old
est except Sorosis in this vicinity. has
q number of very wealthy women mem
bers, and could have had it's own club
house long ago, at cost much cheaper
han in Manhattan, owing to the lower
price of land, but it has always held that
It was more conservative policy not
to challenge scoffing by making it's meet
ing place conspicuous.
The venture of New York club as a |
householder is pretty safe. Even if the
original organization does go to pieces,
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-04-22
THE SIMPLE LIFE.
Ways That Are Pleasant and Paths
That Are Peace.

It is the simple life that gives length
OF days, serenity of mind and body
and tranquility of soul.
Simple hopes and ambitions, bound
ed by the desire to do good to ones
neighbors, simple pleasures, habits,
food and drink.
Men die long before their time be.
cause they try to crowd too much into
their experiences-they climb too high
and fall too hard. A wise woman
writes of the good that simple diet
has done her:
Il have been using Grape Nuts for
about six months. began rather
sparingly, until acquired such lik-
Ing for it that for the last three
months have depended upon it al.
most entirely for my diet, eating moth.
Ing else whatever, but Grape-Nuts for
breakfast and supper, and l believe
could eat it for dinner with fruit and
be satisfied without other food, and
feel much better and have more
strength to do my homework.
When / began the use Of Grape
Nuts was thin and weak, my muscles
were SO soft that I was not able to do
any work. weighed only 1O8 pounds.
Nothing that / ate did me any good.
l was going down hill rapidly, was
nervous and miserable, with no ambi-
ton for anything. My condition i'm
proved rapidly after began to eat
Grape Nuts food. It made me feel like
q new woman; my muscles got solid.
my figure rounded out, my weight in
creased to 126 pounds in few weeks.
my nerves grew steady and my mind
better and clearer. My friends tell
me they haven't seen me look so well
Tor years.
I consider Grape-Nuts the best food
On the market, and shall never go
back to meats and white bread again"
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich.
There's reason.
Look in each pkg. for the little
book, "The Road to MELVILLE"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-04-22
Return of Pendant Earrings.

netU1A OF 1euuauL Earrings.
Cluster settings for earrings such as
emeralds surrounded by pearls, or by
diamonds, are at present the correct
thing among stage women and others
who like pronounced effects. These ear
rings are all made up in the same forms
as the jewelled buttons now in vogue on
velvet frocks.
Pendant earrings in old-fashioned sil-
yer and gold with added settings of gems
are being displayed in some of the ORR
entail shops, while antique shops offer
their quaintest in earrings. If the rage
for costumes of certain periods should
continue jewelers. predict that the pen
dant earrings. much bejeweled, may re-
turn.-From the jewelers. Circular
Weekly.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-04-22
he custody of the MARSHALL" aerea

the custody of the marshall" asked
Linegar.
His clients replied that no attempt
had been made to arrest them and that
they had walked out of the courtroom
without molestation.
"Well,' said Linegar with a smile, ut
looks to me as if Judge Blodgett over.
looked something for once in his life.
You ought to be in custody, and fail
to understand why you are at liberty.
Your bail expired when the jury retired,
and it was the duty OF the court to have
you locked up"
"Well?" Intercepted one of the boys
well" returned the lawyer, you see
the chances are about ten to one that the
jury r:'l find you guilty. That means
that you %ill have to serve some time il
the penitentiary. don't think that you
will be very comfortable there, and if
were given my choice as between states
prison and Canada, I'd prefer Canada.
OF course, you will understand thai this
is merely personal impression. I'm
not advising you boys. You ought to be
in custody so that you may be produced
in court in the morning When the jury
finds you guilty it will then be the duty
OF the marshal to take you to some pen.-
tertiary which will be designated by the
judge. 1t will not be as pleasant as Ca1:-
ada but l guess that it can't be helped. y
Il think that we will be going" said
the young men.
"Oh, say. boys" said Linegar, as be
walked to the door with his clients. you
must not forget that the jury will To
turn its verdict in the morning and thai
your duty is to be in court. You ought
to be in custody now. Promise me that
you will be in court in the morning."
We will be in court, all right, they
answered as they started down the
street.
When the jurors filed into court the
next morning, with verdict of guilty,
Judge Blodgett looked over the room.
and, not seeing the defendants, called
the marshal and asked him to produce
them.
Il haven't the prisoners, your honor"
he answered.
You haven't?" roared the judge.
well, who has? Where are they?"
Il don't know, your honor They were
on bail and were never ordered into my
custody"
Mr.. Linegar.' shouted the judge,
where are your cliants?"
Aren't they here?" inquired the law.
yer, innocently.
why, of course, they are not here"
said the judge. You can see that for
yourself. Where are they? What have
you done with them? This court will
not be trified with. wish an immediate
May it please the court" said Line
gar, soberly, but with twinkling eyes,
y do not know where the boys are
saw them last night and they told me |
that they were not in custody l in
ormed them that they ought to be locked |
up. l was surprised to see them at lib
erty, but there was nothing for me to |