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St. Tammany farmer., 1906-10-06

its lofty perch. Every spring 1t blos-
SONS, and later comes the fruit, to the
delight of the bird colonies Of the
neighborhood. They have come to re-
gard it as their especial tree, growing
for their benefit alone, and certainly
no human being wants the cherries
badly enough to scale the chimney for
them.
The chimney is a little weather
beaten at the top, the cap stones bro
ken away and many of the bricks
knocked out by the ravages of the
weather. Little by little the wind has
brought grains of sand and soil there,
and filled in all these little inches and
holes, until a small aerial garden is
fourishing all around the rim. Grass
and flowers are growing there in sew
eral varieties, and can readily be dis
tinguished with field glasses. But the
most remarkable thing about this
lofty garden is the cherry tree. It is
probable that some bird is responsible
for it, dropping cherry stone there
while eating the fruit on the top OF the
chimney. The stone lodged in one OF
the dirt filed inches, where it sprout-
ed. It Is puzzle, however, how the
roots of the tree have found room to
spread so as to allow it to grow to
height of ten feet.
St. Tammany farmer., 1906-10-06
DOG RESCUED FROM A WOLF

was so interested in Its combat with
the dog that it evidently did not take
account of the fact the dog had a
faithful ally in the person of its mas
ter.
The Bennett boy saw that the wolf
was getting the better OF the bargain.
and seizing club hammered the AMI
NAL with all his strength. The wolf
hung on with great tenacity, however,
and it was only alters severe beating
that it let go. After the experience
which the animal had when 1t came in
contact with the club it was consider
ably cowed, and made OF to the woods
as fast as its legs would carry it. It
made no attempt whatever to attack
young Bennett The dog was thorough
ly exhausted and covered with blood,
but it was not cowed, and little later
in the afternoon raised great rumpus
around a ,,ile of rocks in the field near
where the fight had taken place.
An investigation disclosed VOLTS
lair IN the rock pile and eleven young
wolves. The game fight which the
wolf put up was then explained. The
dog had discovered the volts den,
St. Tammany farmer., 1906-10-06
WILLIAM M, SINCERELY.
NEWSPAPER PUBLISHER.

William M. Singerly, proprietor of
the Philadelphia Record, president of
the Chestnut Street National bank
and the Chestnut Street Trust com.
pany, died under circumstances which
pointed unmistakably to death self-
inflicted. Cyanide of potassium Is be-
lieved to have been the agent, but so
far as the records Of the coroner's Of
flee go, that cause is not ascribed.
notwithstanding this Official yelling
no one in Philadelphia familiar with the
wild and reckless peculation in which
Singerly was involved, and which re-
suited in the failure of the banks in
which he was interested, believes that
he died a natural death.
Singerly was peculiar combination.
He was born in Philadelphia In 1882.
His father was a pioneer In street
car transportation and made fortune.
In his young manhood William M.
Singerly developed a liking for conviv-
iality, which resulted In his income
being cut of, and he was put to work
as a car conductor at small salary.
This enforced employment brought
about reformation after he had pass
ed his thirty-fifth year. He then dis
St. Tammany farmer., 1906-10-06
Desperate Fight on Prairie In Which
Canine Was Beaten.

To have his dog attacked in broad
daylight IN an open field by wolf
and to witness one of the hardest
fashts he ever saw was the experience
81 the 19-year-old son of William Ben
nett. who lives east of Elsmore. The
dog was nearly killed and the wolf
was beaten away only after repeated
assaults with club in the hands OF
the sturdy farmer boy, says the lola
Register.
The story as told to Sheriff Richard
son while he was in Elsmore by MT.
Bennett. The boy was plowing yester-
day and the dog. which is a shepherd
Of fair size. as playing about the field.
suddenly the boys attention was at
/ fracted from behind by the barking Of
me dog. and he turned to see the ami
nj flghting full TIT with a large gray
volf. The fight was fast and furious
IN the animals went round and
| round. finally working their way clear
u under the plor handles. The wolf
St. Tammany farmer., 1906-10-06
Miss iJJMfeAklbn0kdI

More than likely you speak the same
words yourself, and no doubt you 1eel
far from well. The cause may be easily
traced to some arrangement OF the fe-
male organs which manifests itself In
depression Of spirits. reluctance to go
anywhere or do anything. backache,
bearing down pains, fatulency, nerv-
BUSINESS. sleeplessness, or other te-;
male weakness.
These symptoms are but warnings
that there is danger ahead, and unless
needed a life of suffering or Q serious
operation is the inevitable result.
The never failing remedy forall these
symptoms is Lydia E. Pinkham's Veg
etable Compound.
Miss Kate Mcdonald of Woodbridge,
N. J., writes:
Dear Mrs. Pinkham:
!" Restored health has meant 80 much to mo
that cannot help from telling about 1t tor
the sake of other suffering women.
with female trouble and irregularities,
which made me a physical wreck. and no one
thought would recover, but Lydia =. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound has entirely
cured me, and made me we'll and strcng, and
feel it my duty to tell other suffering women
what splendid medicine it Is.
For twenty-five years Mrs. Pinkham,
daughter -in-law of Lydia E. Pinkham,
has under her direction. and since her
decease. been advising sick women free
Of charge. Her advice is free and
always helpful. Address, Lynn, Mass.
St. Tammany farmer., 1906-10-06
JOHN FIELD, MERCHANT,
LOST MIND WITH MONEY.

John Field, once postmaster Of Phil
adelphia, member Of the old whole
sale dry goods house Of Young, Smyth,
Field & Co., shot and killed himself in
Fairmount park while insane. He
came from Ireland when he was IA
years old and began as errand boy in
the house which he subsequently con-
trolled. The firm did an immense busi-
ness and in addition to branches in
Baltimore, Cincinnati, Indianapolis
and San Francisco, carried on q bank
ing business In Saxony.
It never was definite known how
Mr.. Field impaired his fortune, but the
general belief was that 1t was due to
speculation in realty, which he knew
nothing about. This 80 affected his
mind that he developed . suicidal
mania.
St. Tammany farmer., 1906-10-06
FRANK K. NIPPLE AND
JOHN s. HOPKINS.

The circumstances surrounding the
self-destruction of Frank X. Nipple
and Of John s. Hopkins, cashier OF the
Peoples bank, who killed himself in
March, 1898, are strikingly similar.
Both men occupied positions of trust,
were prominent in church work, had
rigid code Of morals for the govern
nent of their employees, and were
strict observers Of the Biblical injunc.
ton to remember the Sabbath day to
keep It holy. Neither would ride in a
public conveyance on Sunday unless
the exigency we're imperative. Nei.
ther would countenance the use of
liquor or tobacco in any form. Hop
kins maintained this attitude to the
day he destroyed himself, although he
was associated with the most corrupt
cabal Of politicians in Pennsylvania.
The Peoples bank was Mat Quay's
bank. It was while he was in control
that he wrote the famous letter to a
henchman that he would shake the
plum tree"
The difference between Nipple and
Hopkins was In the amount CT their
stealings. The cashier of the Quay
St. Tammany farmer., 1906-10-06
FRANKLIN 3. GoWEN,
RAILROAD PRESIDENT.

Unfortunate speculation without the
defalcation feature brought about the
self-inflicted death of Franklin B.
Gowen, president of the Philadelphia
& Reading railroad, and one of the
most brilliant and successful lawyers
in the Keystone state. He shot him.
self in December, 1889, but as the
deed was committed in Washington
and not in Philadelphia, the circum-
stances became known within "a
hours. The belief was general that
he had been murdered by agents Of
the Mollie Maguires, in revenge for
the active part he took in slppressing
that band of thugs.
The fact that Gowen had taken his
own life was established the next day,
and then began an investigation as to
the possible cause. The moral charac-
ter of the great lawyer was above re-
proach. His life had been singularly
clean, and his reputation never had
been tarnished by even as much as the
breath of scandal. He died without
having made a will and when an ap-
praisal Of his estate was made 1t was
found that he had left but $450,000 in
personal and real property of an estate
which in his lifetime was estimated to
be worth between $2,000,00O and 3d.
100000. He had been induced to in
vest in southern lands, where it is be-
lieved he suffered great losses. The
full particulars never were revealed,
but there was no other reason to as
cribe than despondent desperation
brought on by invest ments which i'm
paired a considerable fortune.
St. Tammany farmer., 1906-10-06
Largest Tomato Plants.

The largest tomato plants in the
world are found in California, says
What to Eat. One grower has three
plants which have reached q length
Of 80 feet.
In three months from the time the
seeds we're planted they had climbed
to the top of 20-foot trellis. When
they reached this remarkable height
they grew backward until they at
tanned length of 80 feet.
They have no special care or cult
vation and have had no protection
from the weather; yet in spite of
every disadvantage they kept on grow
ing and fruiting in the most aston
ishing fashion.
The trunks are one and half inch
es in diameter, the foliage thick and
.uxuriant. Enormous quantities Of to-
matoes have been picked from these
three plants and the fruit is OF un-
usual size, possessing fine flavor.
St. Tammany farmer., 1906-10-06
Gold Surgical instruments.


A steel hypodermic needle is never
inserted without leaving a permanent
blue speck in the skin of the patient,
probably because Of the, perhaps, very
small quantity Of impurity-rust or
otherwise it contains. The
gold needle invariably leaves no mark
whatever, says Leslie's Weekly. Ap-
preciating these facts, efforts in which
surgeons particularly have been inter-
ested, have been made for years to
contrive process for hardening gold
so that it could be used for the blades
of the instruments Of surgery of all
kinds.
This is Just what DR.. Vaughn has ac-
complished after Is years of experi-
menting ard research. His method
consists of the employment Of heat
and chemicals; but the tempering
process does not make an alloy Of the
St. Tammany farmer., 1906-10-06
Electric Lift In Stockholm.

readily understood, the passengers en-
ter the car of the lift from the lift
station, and are at once taken up per-
pendicularly to the height of the emf
nence to be gained. Along a light
bridge the car then travels to the
higher parts Of the town, where the
hill ascended without, as it were, any
climbing, the passengers alight.
Stockholm, the principal streets Of
which are built on rising ground, has
one Of. these giant lifts in operation.
CasselTs Saturday Journal.
St. Tammany farmer., 1906-10-06
CONGRESSMAN ADAMS.
HIMSELF ONLY VICTIM.

Robert Adams, Jr., familiarly known
as "Bertie" Adams, former minister to
Brazil, prominent as one of the orig
inal explorers of the Yellowstone re-
gion and member of congress from the
Second district Of Pennsylvania, COM
mitted suicide by shooting in his
apartments in the Metropolitan club,
Washington, on the 1st day of last
June. Wildcat speculation was d.
rectly responsible. He died absolute
ly penniless, having dissipated for
tune of 100000. He left note ad-
dressed to Speaker Cannon, in which
he said that as his personal obliga-
tions exceeded his resources he was
obliged to abandon the responsible
position he held in the house of rep
resentatives. The congressman lost
St. Tammany farmer., 1906-10-06

precious metal. Pure gold tempered
by this process remains pure; but the
surgical instruments which DR.. Vaughn
is now manufacturing, and which are
beginning to be used extensively in
hospitals and by practicing physicians
and surgeons, are Of IA karat fineness,
these being as efficient, but not as
costly as instruments Of the purest
grade of the metal. @
Aside from its use IN surger7, which
is the feature of this new invention
which appeals first, the perfection Of
DR.. Vaughn's process Is of worldwide
Importance in many branches.
St. Tammany farmer., 1906-10-06

money promptly and the dealer re-
ported as before Choate said: Now
take the friend who saw you deposit
the last hundred and demand your
money"
When confronted by the witness
and asked for the money which he
had seen him take, the landlord was
very indignant and insisted that he
had returned It; but the dealer stout
ly denied this When the landlord dis
covered who had the case he reluct-
antly gave up the second hundred.
St. Tammany farmer., 1906-10-06
USE GIANT ELECTRIC LIFT.
Science Does Away with Necessity fol
Climbing Steep Hills.

Facility of 1ocomotion is a watch
word Of the times, and what with
electric trains and tramways and other
motor vehicles, engineers are seeing
to 1t that we get about as easily as
possible. Hills, Of course, are a chief
obstacle in the way of mechanical
traction of all kinds.
For cities and towns that are wholly
or In part built upon high hills the
giant electric lift, which we depict, is
now being made use Of. AS will be
St. Tammany farmer., 1906-10-06
BENJAMIN n. GASklLL,
BROKER, THIEF, FORGER.

Benjamin H. Gaskill was one of the
most noted exemplars of fraudulent
finance, who cheated his friends and
then killed himself to avoid facing
them. He was thief and forger,
but this discovery was not made until
after his death. In his lifetime Gaskill
enjoyed the respect and esteem Of
his business associates. His reputa-
ton for probity was of the best, and
his credit was gilt-edged. After his
suicide diary was found among his
effects in which he spoke of himself
as Jekyll and Hyde. He wrote that
he could not make himself understood
to sordid minds and that his aspira-
tions were too high for the ordinary
mortal to grasp.
St. Tammany farmer., 1906-10-06
JAMES v. p. TURNER,
RUINED aY BUYING LAND.

James V. P. Turner, registrar Of
vital statistics of Philadelphia and q
lawyer Of note, shot himself in the
stomach in Fairmount park in April,
1902. He was a member Of the So
ciety of the War of 1912 and of the
Sons of the Revolution. Mr.. Turner
had been induced to invest in lands
in the west, which he believed to be
mineral-bearing, but which turned out
to he worthless. He became despond-
ent and chose to kill himself rather
than begin life over again at ~.
St. Tammany farmer., 1906-10-06
Table Talk,

What Is the difference between a
portrait painter and dull scholar o.
asked the thin boarder.
Have to give it up replied the
fat boarder, trying to fish safety-pin
out of the stew.
"One makes study Of faces, while
the other makes faces at study" And
then the table groaned. -Yonkers
Statesman.
St. Tammany farmer., 1906-10-06
Proalressina.

Tom-How are you getting on with
Miss Slippery?
Dick-Great!
Tom-See much of her?
Dick-No, but I've got her mother
and her father and her little brother
down pat, and now I'm cultivating the
dog. After that, getting her consent
ought to be cinch! Detroit Free
Press.
St. Tammany farmer., 1906-10-06
Soon Told.

.'Why is a wildcat bank so called?'
asked the doctor.
Because" said the professor, ''it
usually has a short tale.''
St. Tammany farmer., 1906-10-06

John H. Price, superintendent Of
the Gold Reef mines, at Philipsburg,
Mont, has just finished shedding his
skin. It is a peculiar piece OF ma
lures work, the cause OF which the
medical profession has SO far been
unable to explain.
St. Tammany farmer., 1906-10-06
JOSIAH r. ADAMS, VICTIM
OF POLITICAL ATTACK,


Josiah R. Adams. a prominent club
man and lawyer and a noted figure
in the most exclusive set of Philadel-
phia's fashionable world, killed him
self In a hotel in Philadelphia, six
years ago. Adams was man Of rare
culture. He took liking for the ex-
citement of political life, and affiliated
himself with the Quay machine. He
was nominated for Judge of the supe-
rior court. A bitter attack was made
upon him by local newspaper. He
was accused OF having conspired with
another man to defraud the public by
get-rich-quick scheme, in which 1t
was alleged that hundreds Of persons
were induced to invest to their sor-
row.
Adams made a weak denial to the
charge, and withdrew from the ticket.
He never recovered from the blow.
On the day he shot himself he kissed
his wife affectionately, left her, and in
five minutes was dying from q bullet
wound in the head.
St. Tammany farmer., 1906-10-06
Carving out the Comparison.

do you take me for an ostrich ~
cried the fussy husband who has just
found a cherry stone in the pie.
NO" replied the fearless young
wife, can ostrich can hide his head.
You can't hide yours because your
ears are too long
St. Tammany farmer., 1906-10-06
CHERRY TREE ON CHIMNEY.
Remarkable Freak Of Nature in Mas.
sachusetts Town.

One of the freaks of nature in In.
dian Orchard, Mass, is a cherry tree
growing on top of an S0-foot chimney.
It is thriving tree, standing ten feet
above the cap Of the chimney, and 1t
has grown rapidly despite fierce winds
which have bent 1t almost double on
St. Tammany farmer., 1906-10-06
TWO SHARP TRICKS
CONFIDENCE MAN BEATEN At
HIS OWN GAME.
Simple Scheme Evolved in the Keen
Brain Of Rufus choate Result
ed In Cattle Dealer Recov-
ering His Money.

When Rufus Choate was practicine
law in Boston, before he had gained
national reputation, he showed his
keenness in numerous small cases,
one instance of which will illustrate
his genius.
A cattle dealer coming to Brighton
to attend the regular weekly cattle
sale on the following day, having sew
eral hundred dollars in currency with
which he intended to buy stock, gave
500 of this sum to the landlord of Q
road house at which he stopped, to
put In the safe for him over night.
The next morning when he called for
in an intoxicated condition the pre-
vious night he had asked for the
money, and it had been given to
him.
The countryman was dumfounded,
for he was not heavy drinker, and
for the night; but, protest as he
would, the landlord stuck to his story,
and showed the empty cash box as
evidence.
In the emergency some one advised
the dealer. to consult Choate. He
went to Choate's Office and explained
the case.
As soon as he had concluded,
Choate said: Take a friend along
as a witness, and see the landlord,
and tell him you are satisfied that you
got the money, and get him to take
another hundred for safe keeping, and
then come back here"
The dealer did as he was told, and
the landlord accepted the other hun
dred. When he had reported. Choate
said: Nov, go back alone and ask for
the last deposit when no one is pres
ent." The landlord handed over the
St. Tammany farmer., 1906-10-06

routed out the wolf and the animal,
for the purpose of protecting its young,
had made the hard and determined
fight which wild animals know how to
make under such circumstances.
St. Tammany farmer., 1906-10-06
Men and Money,

Some OF us, says a Georgia phil
osopher, ARE just rich enough To %
miserable. and others Just pocr enough
to be resigned. Atlanta Constitu-
lion.
St. Tammany farmer., 1906-10-06
Cause For Alarm

Bostonian-Tm somewhat trouble,
about my fiye-year-old son.
Chicagoan-symptoms Of tile meas.
les?
Bostonian oh. no; but he contenf,.
that Bernard Shaw IS a greater wslter
than Ibsen.- Puck. IS -
St. Tammany farmer., 1906-10-06

Philadelphia.-Wildcat speculation
followed or preceded either by defal
cation or betrayal of trust, has beer
responsible for startling number o1
Ruicides in Philadelphia among mer
OF affairs and prominence in the SO
cial world.
Beginning with the sensational fail
ure OF the Keystone National bank
In 1891, which ruined men whose rep
utations were as untarnished as that
OF the president of the Real Estate
Trust company, and which resulted in
jail for two Of them, Philadelphia has
had an amazing series Of financial
scandals and bank wrecks. Bank de
posftors have lost millions, but the
largest inroads of the wildcat flnan,
ciers were made in asphalt and in
Consolidated Lake Superior. In these
two companies the public, largely in
Philadelphia, dropped upward Of $780,.
100000.
In nearly every suicide caused by
wildcat finance. attempts have been
made to suppress the facts, az
IN the case Of the president of the
Real Estate Trust company, whose
suicide was known to the members of
his family, the coroner and the coron-
er's physician for six days, and was
even suppressed by Philadelphia pa
pers. So determined were these two
oncials to prevent the news from be-
coming public that the physician filed
. false certificate of the actual cause
Of death, ascribing 1t to cerebral hem
orhage, but omitting to state that the
hemorrhage was due to a bullet fired
into the brain with suicidal intent.
St. Tammany farmer., 1906-10-06
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St. Tammany farmer., 1906-10-06

money at cards, but the greater part
of his wealth went in land invest
ments and In loans on worthless Sc
curities. He sent good money after
bad in the hope of recovery.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-06-26
WOULD HAVE TQWED
THE YACHT PALOMA
CAPT. SEABURY SAID THAT THE
KOREA DID NOT SIGHT VESSEL
Is EXPECTED THIS WEEK.

sight the Paloma?" CALCULATED Cap
tain Seabury of the Korea this morn
ing. mo, indeed we didn't. If we had
l would have towed her in. We saw
nothing of the yacht"
Naturally the first question asked
Captain Seabury when the Korea ar
rived this morning from San Francisco
was whether he had sighted anything
of the local boat. 1t was thought that
perhaps the yacht might have been seen
in the vicinity Of these islands, but in
order to have been she would have had
to make much better time than she
showed the early part of the race.
She is not expected here much before
Thursday and some even think she will
not be here much before July 4th. Mate
Mexican Of the Lurline says he looks
for the Paloma about Thursday or
Friday. He predicted yesterday morn
ing that the Anemone would come
along during the afternoon and his sur
mise proved to be correct.