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HER LETTER TO HIM.

HER LETTER TO HIM.
New York City, Jan. ~.
Dear Bill: I think it is perfectly
horrid of you to write to me like
that You might know your little
cousin better than to think she would
allow anybody to become nuisance"
il she didn't want them to. And I
don't see what right you have to inter-
fere in my arrangements, and I'm very
glad l haven't got brother If they
are so stuffy and disagreeable, and as
far as going to tea at peoples rooms
are concerned, why, Mollie used to be-
fore she was engaged. she often told
me what fun she had at Harvard, SO sure
ly if she did-well, shall write and &C.
cept Mr.. Grantham's invitation to-mor-
row. Your affectionate cousin,
MADGE.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1906-04-14

The great white plague. which year
- carries on the children, the aged,
tha Aover Of manhood and woman
hood Il directly communicable, as we
Iii know, from sick to well. by the
.r,m,r-,aden dry dust Of streets. cars,
on,caa or rooms. II all who suf1er
,~om the trouble would recognize this
foot and be careful Of this matter OF
.,ne,crtoratton, in few years the dan
.er ~ the disease would be mintmized
almost to extinction.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1906-04-14
Fitting Fashions.

On my way to the village the other
evening / met married friend rum
ming homeward at top speed with .
curious-icoking parcel, which he car
ried very gingerly.
"Halloa, Jim!" / said. why this
hurry?"
He did not stop, but shouted q he
ran:
II New hat for the wife, viii. Rum
ming home before it's out Of the fash
ion.''
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1906-04-14
Imposing technical Names.

TIP Of the Tongue of the New York
Press tells Of the terro1s often in
spfred BY the imposing technical
names Of very common diseases: One
Of the newly rich women, who had her
name often In certain Journal ad.
dicted to hitting at heads for filthy
lucre. recently visited an old gentle
man, q former friend of her husband,
who was laid up In bed with grip.
This aged Midas had. indeed, grub
staked her husband when the latter
went to Idaho to mine for compe-
tency. what is the trouble with you.
dear Mr.. :" she asked at his bed.
side. what can I do for your
Nothing, absolutely nothing" he re-
piled. my trouble can be ended only
by death. It is called :.macrobiosis.
AOh, horrors!" she exclaimed. lis II
so bad as that?" In tears she depart.
ed. and learned from her family doc.
tor that night that 'macrobiosis'' sim:
ply meant long life." Many an edu'
Gated person. unfamiliar, of course
with medical terms, has been frighten-
ed into an early grave by . physician's
pedantic use Of Latin derivatives.
once heard a doctor tell foolish WON
an who thought her last hour had
come that she was victim Of INA
croelossia." The only chance she had
he said, depended upon absolute 81
lence for at least month. She KEEP
her mouth shut obediently and go
well, but was shocked to learn thai
..macroglossia'' meant nothing more
than q great development Of thu
tongue, the physician using the tern
In 1gurative sense.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1906-04-14
Agriculture in Ireland.

lreland's department Of agriculture
appropriates sum Of money to each
county annually for poultry improve
ment. There are now employed 80
women instructors in poultry keeping.
Meetings are held for the instruction
OF poultry keepers and the department
mas special centers for distributing
eggs Of the best breed.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1906-04-14
The President and His Friends.

HERE have been
m a ny S tori e 8
about the presi-
dent falling out
with a number Of
his old friends on
the rate question.
There has been
some pretty plain
talk on the part
of the president
and on the part of
his friends with
whom he differs
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1906-04-14

Tha california man who claims that
=. has devised q process by which he
car crow gold like potatoes seems to
he wasting time in making long expla-
!. cations All he has to do is to grow
Ton q two, and everybody will believe
him IS EEG
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1906-04-14

The editor Of q Manhattan funny
paper has been robbed. The thieves
~ ~ word that they did It for a joke.
MT ma the joke cost the editor $1.00u.
!. thinks he could have bought several
,,.tter ones for the money.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1906-04-14
"oF COURSE IT'S ALL RIGHT"

"OF COURSE IT'S ALL RIGHT.
don't know how to start. Ths
fact is, I've come to the conclu-
zion that there is only one girl In
the world that I want to go about
with always, and not to beat about the
bush, that's you, dear. You must
think me q fool. especially after
what 1 told you sometime ago, but l
can't help 1t, and it seems to me now
as II it could only have been you al
along, after all.
Is it awfully conceited Of me to
think that you do care little for me
in return? must know ct once. IL
It all right? Yours ever,
= - BILL
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1906-04-14

MOTHER young
man has come to
the front in the
public service and
seems to have en-.
tered the path al
ready trodden by
several young men
which has led to
high achievement
and success. John
B. Edwards, Sec
ra$o~v - onown
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1906-04-14

The mysterious thing about it is that
4, .nite of all these wholesale advlter-
-,,ons ii food supplies the average
,.reth of h..man life continues to in-
4ease.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1906-04-14
oyanaa Admired scotchmer.

oyama Admired scotchmen.
Field Marshal Oyama released a
Scottish war correspondent because he
was Of the nation which had produced.
ID his opinion, the two greatest men
10 she world" namely. Sir Walter
Scott .ed Or. Westwater. Dr.. West
water Is . Manckurian missionary.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1906-04-14

HIS LETTER TO HER.
New Haven, Conn, Saturday Evening.
Ny Dear Madge: Have just got
back. What q ripping day 1t has
been! / am writing tonight because
there's something must tell you, and
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1906-04-14
The silver Dollar

. IS a remaTKaOle
fact that in the
year 1905 not a
single silver dollar
was coined by the
United s t a t e .
mint. This is the
first time such q
thing has happen
ed since 1889.
There was not
even a single pat
tern piece Of this
den q m ina Ito n
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1906-04-14
MADGE.
I.ohsters in England.

In British seaports the price Of lob
sters fiuciuates widely and quickly.
Il has changed ten cents q pound from
one day to the next In Liverpool
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1906-04-14
- - :
The true educatlona

The true educational
value Of physical train.
ing is that It is a train
ing for life. The de-.
partment Of plays and
games holds a high
place in this connection,
for in no other form OF
physical exercise can
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1906-04-14
WASHINGTON LETTER | ]
rrLLMAN IN CHARGE OF RAIL
WAY RATE LEGISLATION.
BECOME VERY PROMINENT
Senator Knox Popular with Both Par,
ties-Senator Bailey Fine Consti-
tutional Lawyer-This Young
Mans Administration.
SHIN TON

l S II l N u lON.-
Senator Tillman,
of Sou.h Carolina,
has had unaxrect-
ed honors thrust
upon him. He has
been put in charge
of the railroad
rate bill in the
senate and occu-
pies the anama-
lous position of
managing an adj
ministration meas
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1906-04-14
: likes Young Men.

LlA0 40 - O0
mans administers.
tion. Theodore
Roosevelt believes
In young men and
where all things
are equal he Sc :
lects men under 40
for responsible
work. He has con-
fdence in the en-
ergy and optimism
of youth and J.. soma !
OF his most int1-
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1906-04-14
HER LETTER TO HIM.

Billy: OF course it's all right! oh,
and I had hoped you would never
know! Will expect you down next
Saturday.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1906-04-14
BILL
HER LETTER TO HIM.

New YORK, N. I :, Jan. -.
Dear Billy: Father will be pleased
to see you at lunch here on Saturday
at one o'clock. Your ahectfonate
cousin,
MADGE.
p. S.-Mind you are punctual. The
matinee at Days starts at two.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1906-04-14

would get fresh" and become a nui'
sance. You take it from me. re-
main, your affectionate cousin,
DIR L.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1906-04-14

Assistant Secretary Of the Treasury.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-19

the local management, the price being from eight
hundred to thousand dollars net. One of the
most hilarious performances given by the
company for of these certainties at little
city in Ohio. Having agreed to pay nine hundred
the repertoire offered him, the manager got into
fearful wrath upon learning that neither Marie
Stone myself in the cast. He threatened
litigation and reputation, until 1 suggested a
compromise
We are not in the cast as arranged for by Mr.
Balte, said L. but are here to show a spirit of
accommodation. Marie and l will go on ali right,
and If there are any other principals cast whom
you want, you have only to mention it,
The manager assuaged and the suggested
program was carried out. Other principals went on
in the chorus but Marie Stone and the writer de-
manded Emelight and stage centers. We inter-
polated with vengeance, Marie countering on Il
Dreamt l Dwelt in Marble Halls " with 81 Cottage
by the Sea-, and the writer following THE Heart
Bowed Down" with an applauded rendition of
The Cork Leg
At first the audience amazed; but the story
of the managers objections becoming public, every
one soon entered into the spirit of the affair so that
between the acts the choral octet warbled some of
their prettiest selections; Marie Stone sang the
difficult Il Am Ttania" aria from "Mignon'
while delivered mono1ogue in which | recounted
my program to please the house management and
made the manager ridiculous that, it is said
he resigned and left town.
Marie Stone fond of the dime museum and
its freaks and vaudeville entertainers. She said if
Continued page IS
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all the principals of the company (then the
Boston Ideals and rehearsing in Boston for the
of SS6S7) for the sufferers from the Charles
ton earthquake 1t was novel in that every penny
taken at the box office went into the fund Eugene
Tompkins gave the Boston Theater The orchestra
volunteered free service; ushers, stage hands, bill
posters printers, refused to talk terms the
basis Of "We1l do the work but won't take dime. -
Even the gasrnan and icernan joined in the furore
and refused to make charges. Clement Bainbridge
then barytone, bought toupee for the great
occasion. 1t mstit from every point of view
but he meant well, he said. At the same benefit a
tenor started Let Me Like Soldier Fall from
Mariana" so far above the key that he had to
quit and begin again. Hutch " Clark sang my
Queen to his accompaniment, when Marie
Stone suggested that jew's-harp would give
better results. The performance netted nearly
twenty-seven hundred dollars, though the highest
price for ticket dollar, while for the family
circle and gallery only twenty-five cents asked
Because of its large size and the heavy expenses
incurred in salaries scenery, royalties, and general
output the Bostonians played in few one even
two-night cities. One week was the usual stand
when en- route, while the larger cities often paid
well for fortnight OR even longer The company
carried its orchestra of fifteen to seventeen in
struments, augmentng the number in large towns
from the local players, and on the average the
treasurer had pay railroad fares for eighty This
meant special Pullmans coaches, and baggage cars,
panes found it more convenient to the singers
by special trainc.
During the trips between towns the players
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SUNDAY MAGAZINE FOR AUGUST 10. 1906

amused themselves as a fl niv would. Tom Clark
comfortably sitting beside m adoring sentmentalist
would sing Tom Moores Irish melodies until he
moved his enraptured listener to tears. Macdonald
and the writer and wives were always ready
for a session of the great American game. Then
as dusk came on somebody, moved by thoughts
of the old home would start song, which would be
taken up by after another, until half the COM
pany would be in the ensemble. In the male chorus
octet that had a remarkable repertoire of
songs, sad and merry, roundelays, Negro melodies,
radrigals and many such Eugene Fields "A
Little Peach in an Orchard Grew. How the lads
could sing The public will forget that octet.
At Christmas time everyone in the company, from
newest chorus girl to the prma with three-hgured
salary, exchanged presents. Whenever feasible
there tree. One season, the first after Miss
Obers retirement, Christmas spent in C1eve-
land and the store value of the gifts exchanged
among the principals was fully fifteen thousand
dollars.
Naturally, in the days prior to syndicates and
circuit theaters, there now and then broken
week in the company's season One of these hap
pened to be in March, 1888, the time of the big
blizzard" in New York and vicinity. This was be-
tween fortnight in Philadelphia and run in
Boston, and included dates at Allentown Reading,
Easton and Trenton. Every engagement was kept,
and the houses were large, although the snow
for " Martha until ten-thirty o'clock While
waiting the principals gave PREDATORY concert in
travelling garb, and then sung the four acts of the
opera afterwarG-
Oftentimes single performance was sold out to
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dinners represented, at the. prevailing price which
was paying-when paid just five dollars and half
or little upward of one-fourth of my weekly salary
4 From thct fatal moment my course was downward
and ere long had become dnnergrafter-noti in the
most violent form in the beginning; but, like strong
drink, the habit grows on one. began to figure on
my dinner invitations part of my income studied
for the part. gathered gossip to retail at the
tables of my friends. took lessons in elocution,
and recited pieces for their dedication. l even
sang little.
But did not neglect my business and my salary
continued to increase, until receiving eighteen
hundred dollars year, which seemed to me to be
about the fruition of mans fondest hopes. 1t
more than my father made his farm, and didn't
have to blister in the hot hay fields nor freeze in the
cold gray dawn feeding stock. My salary all
right but | hated to give it up for such common
things as food and lodging The lodging
fixed charge; but the food-ah! as dinnergrafter
1 could overcome that and I did, I gradually
raised my average from three and half dinners
week to five, and then to five and half.
But Iesorted to none except legitimate means.
/ thank Heaven that do not belong to the lower
order of dinnergraftersthos polyps of polite
ness misshapen and invertebrate, who drop in just
at the dinner hour.
No, no! l am not of those. I study the art of
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dining the science of culinary things. suggest new
dishes, and offer to make them myself. I take
lady to free picture show from four SIX and get
her home at the proper hour to dine walk another
in the park and beoan the lonely lot of the bachelor
at his Robinson Crusoe repast while all is so gay
and bright around her happy board. These and
other harmless subterfuges-many of them on the
to an end; but they are all respectable and such as
are, hope, not unbecoming gentleman. despise
the vu gar methods of the common and low and
would rather pay for my dinners than secure them
by such despicable measures
The indulgence of my propensities as dinner
CRATER IS not confined exclusively to the homes of
my friends. By no means; for in so large a city
there are many who have homes. They are
bachelors usually, or couples with no children
to handicap them make them afraid to ask
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r AM dinnergrafter At first blush the unnitiated
might conclude that was related to the dinner
saurian dnnertherian families of the Mesozoic
period but this is not the fact. dinnergrafter
quite different order of animal and belongs wholly
to the Neogastronomic age, which is any day this
week that happen to receive intimation from
some gentleman or lady friend that either of them
would be pleased to furnish me with dinner free
of cost-to
Our family is large one, of both sexes; but my
confession shall deal only with myself. If any of
them wish to confess, they may do SO; but do not
intend to betray the family secrets. 1 have right
to say what please concerning myself, but l have
right to throw shadow of suspicion upon others.
Nor shall l. They may graft many dinners as
they-but let drop the subject.
The dinnersaurians and the dinnertheriums
born that way; but the dnnergrafter is not He
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my condition improved, which it will always do
if properly attended to- found my salary increased
from ten dollars week to twelve dollars, and took
larger room outside, paying only four dollars "a
week for my meals.
Two or three families whom had known pleas
antly at table in the boarding house, in the
of the year rented flats up town and went to
housekeeping They asked me at different times
to up and dine with them. l did so with
pleasure.
One sorely feels the need of home surroundings
occasionally. At these flats l met other people,
and my manners were agreeable that they
invited to their homes to dinner on various oc-
casionS.
During all this period of transition so to speak,
] paying four dollars week for my board
whether ate it not. But gave that discrepancy
no heed. My food was costing me four dollars a
week, no matter where got it, and / thought that
reasonable enough. AS yet was gueless of graft
Possibly, might never have become otherwise, but
in the course of business my employer sent out
of the city on short trips of two three days My
board remained at the same. price, the landlady
averring soemnly that she could make no reduction
for less time than seven days Then it that
rebeed against this unjust oppression of the weak
and began to take my meals "by the piece The
expense was somewhat increased; but not
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powers of organization, he could effect merger of
bored couples which would declare daily dinner
dividend in his favor. And it would be no refec-
ton upon the couples, either. They may be bored
general principles, but they so fond of each
other that they want witness of their bliss. For
the wise and wary bachelors, I can only say that
they ought to get married and live like human
beings
This confession period of seven years
full years they have been, may say, not counting
the first two or three before my system was per-
fected-and l see before only an era of plenty at
small outlay to myself, with a constant improve
ment in the as l advance socially and get in
closer touch with the wealth and refinement of the
metropolis
I shall go on, 1 trust hopefully and happily
to the end, which may be the grave or it may
be the attractive home of some exemplary lady
of such means will enable her to support a
husband in the style to which he has been accus-
toned.
NoTE THE EDITOR: The manuscript containing this
confession seized by the landlad the exercise of her
inalienable right of eminent domain and therefore
impossible for prove by the original that merely
the scoveer and transcriber of this document
However you have that the copy
1t made before the pie in which it found had
disappeared. w. L.
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By William J. hampton

paying for what didn't get, and was satisfied with
my independence
My salary having grown to twenty dollars a week,
my expenses responded to the spirit of progress
and went up correspondingly. Ny zone of acquaint-
ance had also widened not inconsderably, and 1
numbered among my friends several families of
wealth and refinement, besides those who still lived
in flats. l received as many four invitations
a week to dine out having become very chic in my
style, and my repartee and airy persfage being
about eleven invitations month, and one evening
in spirit of that avarice which coors ones
life in great city, l began calculate that eleven
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any landlord to take them in.
The bachelors, as a rule, are
wary, and they are filling no
more stomachs than will return
a fair dividend on the invest
ment; but the couples are easy
marks. They get so tired of
each other, you know, that
they will gladly put up the
price of a table d'h6te with
wine to relieve the monotony.
| love to go to such dinners
not SO much for the food and
the wine, as for the pleasure
it gives me to gladden. the
weary on their way. / some
times think that if calculating
dinnergrafter-which am not,
| hope-carefu11y exercised his
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acquires the habit. l cannot
tell when l became fully con-
scious that l was dinnergrafter,
so gradually had it thrown it's
influence about me.
l recall that in the beginning
that is, when l first came
from my simple home in the
country, where the dinnergraf-
ter is unknown, and became
part of the vast human whir1-
pool of the metropolis lived
in boarding house. My chilly
hall room and my meals, which
were also chilly at times, cost
me seven dollars a week, and |
got twenty-one meals a week
in that house, because l was a
stranger in a strange land. AS
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1906-07-27
NJ. E. Church Notes.

Next Sunday is the last in Ju.
ly. Why not have a full attend
ance upon the Sunday.school
and morning preaching service
We will have no evening preach
ing service. having called il in
favor of the series of meetings
at the Presbyterian church,
which we hope and pray may re-
suit in great good.
Sunday evening at 7 o'clock
there will be joint meeting in
our church of the B. Y. P. U.
and the E. L. Subject: "The
Missionary Outlook. j. W.
Agee of the B, Y. P. U, will lead
and we hope all members of these
two societies will be present, on
time, and help to make this
the success ait ought to
be. All the young people of the
community are cordially invited.
There will be some special music.
Let US be prompt and all come.
0. H. P.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1906-07-27
Swallowed Poison.


The IA. months. old son of Mr..
Mrs. Chas. Taylor of two miles
west of town got hold of and
swallowed some morphine poison
Tuesday. The little fellow went
to sleep and could not be awak .
ened. Dr.. I. Knott was. called
and all treatment seemed to be
of no avail.
Bad cases need heroic treat.
ment and only after whipping
the baby with a keen switch for
10 minutes or more could they
wake him. At last reports the
boy was getting along nicely {.
The doctor refused to submit to
the same treatment by.ssother
members of the family.