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New-York tribune., 1907-01-24
rREssED sTsTL CAR COMPANY. j..

PREFERRED pIVIDENp so: 81.
c1arterly dividend Of ONE AND THREB-
<,yARMERs PER CENT. fsssss wtu be paid the
ureferret stock this company February 2fths 1907
at the close OF business Feb
rcsrv oth. 1907 chsQues viii be mailed trom the
oros of company. The trsnsfsr books will close
az fh-ss T. ~ Febrlsry 9Th. ieof. sna reopen a. ten
e. ~ p o. JENKs. Treasurer
New-York tribune., 1907-01-24

AMERICAN SECURITIES ABROAD.
London. Jan. rs. p. m.-The market for Amer
lean securities was heavy. Final prices follow:
New-York tribune., 1907-01-24

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s2 nrosaway Esw York January 17th, 1907.
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New-York tribune., 1907-01-24

The following securities sold yesterday at
auction at the Exchange SalesrOom by Adrian II.
Muller & Son:
New-York tribune., 1907-01-24

THE CORN EXCHANGE BANK
New York, January 23rt. 1907.
rho Board DsFentors has this day declared div
6sTc of seven (Tese. payable February
1891 10 sockhoders OF record the closing OF the
lie transfer books wiz be elosed January Z4th 10
let. days inclusive.
=-EDERICK =. MARTIN. Cashier.
New-York tribune., 1907-01-24
CONSOLIDATED EXCHANGE SALES.

STOCKS.
New-York tribune., 1907-01-24

$3.50 Total sales
New-York tribune., 1907-01-24
NEW ORLEANS GREAT NORTHERN RAILROAD co.

Iirst Mortgage Per Cent. Gold Bonds.
Coupon 40 g. due February J. 1907. win be paid a.
FISK a RoBISsoS. IS Cedar ST., New York.
New-York tribune., 1907-01-24

s2s.7sT Total sales sOr tho day .Uniin.a.
New-York tribune., 1907-01-24

y. 400 TOtal sal,s
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1907-09-19
.KRlNG & PFEFFEREING
Opium, Morphine
and Whiskey

addlctions cured without particle of pain
or danger to patiant. We ask no pay until
the patient is cured and perfectly satisfied
Deposit fee in any bank in this city, to
patients credit, to be paid when cured and
perfectly satisfied. In case of failure to cure
we will bear all patients necessary expenses
while here, also pay patients railroad fare
both ways. Our place is located about three
miles from center of city, on street car line,
where one can be treated in absolute privacy
II desired win place you in correspondence
with many patients cured. Best references.
Write for particulars. Address. THH
MATTHEW'S HOME, No. 300 Day Avenue,
San Antonio, Texas.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1907-09-19
The Largest Lumber Yard In Texas

LUMBERMEN:
When in San Antonio Visit Us in Our New
Quarters---13O0 South Flores Street Opposite
Arkansas Pass Depot---TwO Car Lines.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-11-02
MUCH ABUSED SHARK.
$1,000 Reward for Proof That One
Ever Ate a Man.

The sharks of the oceans are the
most abused and most hated of all
creatures. There are more absurd
stories concerning their ferocity, more
ridiculous nonsense about the con-
tents of their bellies, than would fill q
large volume.
The late Herman Oelrichs once of.
fered $1,000 for an authentic case of
anyone being killed and eaten by a
man-eater''-and no one has yet been
able to get the money.
l have myself offered several times
to duplicate the reward, but met upon
each occasion with such showers of
authentic cases-none of which was
proved-that I gave the matter no
further consideration.
That q shark will not attack a man
in the water is manifestly too much to
say, for at certain seasons vast hordes
OF schools of these pests, or rather
scaVengers, will strike" at almost
anything that is dropped into the
sea.
These lttorals are fierce from hun
ger and small fish, which man
could easily pick up and whirl about
his head-a common way of killing
shark along the southern coast-WilI
strike sayagely, probably at man or
any other living body which offers
something in the way of food. So also
will the bonito, or one of the mack.
erel tribe.-T Technical World.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-11-02
Potomac FiIIinc lin.

The filling up of the channel of the
Potomac above the new bridges has
been very rapid in the past two years,
the depth having been reduced from
about % feet to less than IS feet, and
in the tidal basin, it is stated, the de-
posts OF sediment have caused an
even more rapid decrease in the depth
of the water.
A few years ago the smaller tugs
were able to get into the tidal basin
and cruise about without danger of go.
ing aground, and on several occasions
the harbor police beat Vigilant, in
breaking UP the ice on the basin.
traversed it from end to end. At that
time there was about six feet OF water
in the basin at the lowest tides. and
six or seven feet could be found at
the inlet where the basin and river
connect. Recent measurements, it is
stated, found less than three feet in
the center of the basin, and it is so
shoal at the entrance that but few
OF the tugs employed on the river can
pass through it without sticking in
the mud.
Inc rlVermen are at a loss for the
cause of the rapid filling of the basin
and channels in the vicinity of this
city. Some ascribe it to the fact that
the sand and gravel diggers, several
OF which were constantly at work
above the Long Bridge until within
the past three years, do not now keep
a good depth Of water close to shore
and thus give a place where much of
the sediment may settle.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-11-02
QUALITIES oF WIZ ANp H9MoR.
Alike, Yet in Many Ways Fundament-
ally Different.

Wit and humor are such elemental
fundamental things that it has always
been found difficult to analyze them,
says a writer in The Atlantic. Upon
some points. however, those who have
essayed this puzzling task agree, for
they all hold that wit is an intel.
lectual, humor an emotional, quality;
that wit is perception of resem.
blance, and humor a perception OF
contrast, Of discrepancy, of incongru-
ity. The ineongruity is that which
arises between the ideal and the fact,
between theory and practice, between
promise and performance; and per-
haps it might be added that 1t is all
ways or almost always a. moral in
congruity. In the case both Of wit
and humor there is also pIeasnrable
surprise, gentle shock, which ac-
companies our perception of the hith-
erto unsupported resemblance or in
congruity. A New England farmer
was once describing in the pres
ence of a very humane person the
great age and debility Of horse that
he formerly owned and used. You
ought to have killed him." interrupt
ed the humane person indignantly.
We'll" drawIed the farmer I'VE did
~aIuaactu
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-11-02
New Fairbanks Hostess.

"The prettiest woman in America, +"
said Burne-Jones of Mrs. Warren G.
Fairbanks, nee Edith Cassidy of Pitts.
burg, and now wife of Warren G.
Fairbanks, the vice presidents oldest
son.
Mrs. Fairbanks, Jr., ran down from
the Fairbanks country place in Massa-
chusetts to New York one day recent
~, looking bewitching in gown of
tailored white cloth, made with the
long coat styles she affects. She ex-
planned her presence thus:
you see, dear mother (meauing
Mrs. Fairbanks, wife of the vice pres
ident) is still too i'll to assume the
social duties of her position next fall,
and as Mrs. Timmons, her daughter,
is temporarily unable to substitute for
her charming mother, it is up to me-
to be chatelaine for the next winter.
So I am bolstering up my gowns by
having some fetching new ones made
here by my favorite modesto"
Mrs. Fairbanks, accompanied by her
small daughter, who already shows
promise of her mothers beauty, has
been spending the summer on the
Fairbanks farm in Massachusetts. At
fable and lovable in disposition, it is
anticipated that she will make a de-
lightful hostess of the Fairbanks
menage in Washington,
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-11-02
Women in Government service.

The retiring director of the mint
in Washington has recommended that
his private secretary, Miss Henrietta
n. Kelly. be kept in the same place
and her salary increased from 81 500
to $4,000 year. There are but few
women who hold executive offices un.
der the government. Among them are
Miss Anna r. Roe, chief of the mum.
bering division, and Miss Annie E.
Beale, chief OF the examining division
in the bureau of engraving and print.
ing. Both these women have been in
the service for many years, have re-
ceived their promotions on their mer-
its and receive the full salary of their
offices, $1,000 year.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-11-02
BABY WASTED TO SKELETON.
In Tornents with Terrible Sores on
Face and 5ody-Tore at Flesh
Cured by Cuticura.

My little son, when about year
and half old began to have sores
come out on his face. They began to
come on his arms, then on other parts
of his body, and then one came on his
chest, worse than the others. At the
end of about a year and half of suf-
fering he grew SO bad / had to tie his
hands in cloths at night to keep him
from scratching the sores and tearing
the flesh. He got to be a mere skele-
ton and was hardly able to walk. I
sent to the drug store and got cake
OF Cuticura Soap and box of Cuticura
Ointment, and at the end of about two
months the sores were all well. He
has never had any sores of any kind
since, and only for the Cuticura Rem
edies my precious child would have
died from these terrible sores. used
only one cake of Soap and about three
boxes of Ointment Mrs. Egbeft Shell.
don, R. p. D. No. /, WoodvilIe, Conn,
April %. 1906"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-11-02
THE KISS TN JAPAN.
One Western idea That Is Popular
with Eastern Maidenss

She was a japanese college student,
little and thin, but very graceful in
her Paris gown.
sThe kiss" she said, blushing faint
", was unknown in Japan so years
ago. Now, among the aristocracy. it
is becoming quite renowned.
"Yet it comes as a great shock at
first. It is SO different, you know,
from anything in a Japanese girls ex-
perience. have known maidens who
tainted at first kiss that was per-
haps too warmly rendered. Yet those
very maids became afterward ardent
advocates of the new western en-
brace.
Frankly, I like the kiss myself. It's
stimulus, and the feeling, as OF red
satin, when mouth touches mouth
with warm, soft shock-yes, frank
~, like the kiss, and / find it ex-
tremely difficult to deny an eager
young man so innocent and SO delight
lightful an embrace.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-11-02
SEEK TO WIN SOLDIERS.
Russian Girls Risk Life for the Cause
of Liberty.

when the university opened last
autumn started to work again
among the soldiers" said the young
woman. "As you know, the revolu-
tionists are at present working very
hard to win over the army, and one
Of the means is to talk freedom di-
rectly to the soldiers. For this girls
have been found to be more effective
than men; the young peasant soldiers
are more willing to listen to girls,
and are far reader to protect them
from arrest So all over Russia hun
dreds and hundreds of girls are now
nightly meeting with groups of sol
diers, in working mems homes and in
barracks. To go into barracks and
talk revolution to the soldiers, hard
ly anything is so dangerous-for the
girl caught is tried by court-martial
and in day or two is executed
From Leroy SCOTS Interview with a
Russian Woman, in Everybody's.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-11-02

to him, and her words came with diff
ticulty, did you ever-ever think o.
asking me to be your wife until my
aunt suggested it to you?"
| No"
She staggered as il he had struck
her; then her figure became rigid.
And acting upon her advice, and
no doubt, thinking that I would make
a good housekeeper, you asked me tc
marry you. / hope" Felix Garde had
not known that his wife's soft, blue
eyes could fash like polished steel
that / have filled the position salts
| factorily!"
With quick stride he came toward
| her and took hold of her arms firmly.
What you have heard is true" he
said quietly. "but it is only part of the
truth. Hester. will you listen while |
tell you the rest?"
Her breast was heaving. so that she
could not speak, and Felix Garde went
on:
ut is a fact that never thought of
marrying again until something your
aunt said put it into my head. 1t is
also true that, though your name was
not mentioned between US, my
thoughts flew at once to you with a
sweet thrill which | did not at tho
time understand. During our short
engagement ] struggled against the
Joy which you were bringing into my
life, from morbid feeling that 1 was
being untrue to Madeline. If you had
known her, Hester. and knew how
0childishly jealous she was OF every
look or word of mine that was not
given to her. you would understand
this better. Since you have been my
wife," he stopped and drew deep
breath. ut has been impossible to
struggle against the divine sweetness
of your companionship Hester, / must
tell you'll must" he flung himself on
his knees beside her, as il throwing
off some restraint, and his arms drew
her close, s'ny wife, ! did not think
such happiness could exist outside Of
heaven. did not dream that life could
hold such great content as has been
mine since You married me!''
Her head had dropped forward until
it rested against him, and her tears,
falling softly, wetted the little lace
frills, which seemed to nestle against
her. There was a wonderful light in
her eyes when she raised them, and
her husband. with perfect understand.
ing, bent forward and kissed her very
tenderly.
Presently she rose and leaned
against him with little loving move.
ment
After all she said with a low,
happy laugh, we might never have
been married had it not been for the
help OF Aunt Janet"
I'VE would" he cried radiant1y
though perhaps not quite so soon.
Anyway. have had several added
months of happiness through the helm
Of Aunt Jane. God bless her!''
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-11-02
A Crying Abuse.

In regard to graft, it is a popular
saying among those who have not a
keen sense of official honor, that it
mas always existed. This is put forth
az an excuse, but does not lessen the
enormity title, and should fail to
entitle those who have been engaged
in It TO any sympathy or freedom
from condemnation. Sin has existed
since the beginning of mankind, but
we do not condone it on that account.
We punish when possible it's commit.
tiers. The public conscience has been
hardened by contemplation of the
number of people in high places who
have boldly INDUCED in graft with
that fearlessness Of consequences
which distinguished the late Bill
Tweed of brazen memory. 1t is time.
declares the Boston Budget that this
abuse, to call it by no worse name,
should be regarded less lightly. When
it is we shall have more honesty in
Che administration OF public offices,
and more strict observance of both
divine and human law.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-11-02
WiIElnu Hands.

There is a good story going the
rounds in Pittsburg of a young man,
formerly a stock.broker, who dropped
many thousands in speculation during
the early spring.
One night, shortly after going to
bed, the Pittsburger was awakened by
strange signs. At his first motion to
jump up he was greeted by a hoarse
voice. IF you stir, you're a dead
mani" it said. I'm looking for mon
ey."
In that case" pleasantly answered
the erstwhile Spectator, kindly al
low me to arise and strike light. I
shall deem it a. favor to be permitted
to assist in the search. "-Harper's
Weekly.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-11-02
a DOG COMMITS SUICIDE.
Foriorn Cur Leaps from Eighth Story
of Building.

In q fit of melancholia, billie
Scroggs," little waif, homeless and q
Wanderer, committed suicide by jump
ing of the ledge on the eighth story
just under the coping of the Evening
Star building. Billie acted strangely
all day. He did not run around with
his characteristic abandon, making
friends with the newsboys, and this
excited comment.
UnobserVet he climbed the stairs
IN the newspaper building. It was
pleasant to sit high above the mad
ding, rushing crowd below, far above
the reach of old shoes, tin cans and
nrecrackers. But, alone and undis-
turbed by curse or kick, his melan-
cholla grew, and with face upturned
toward the new moon, hanging clear
above the post Office tower, he howled
ptteously. Finding no solace, he paced
up and down, and his agitation grew
when in an agonized moment he saw
little Jimmy in the street below, and
leaped.
pedestrians passing the corner
stopped suddenly as his little body hit
the pavement with thud.
Two young ladies of romantic dis
position who were passing at the time
were deeply affected by the scene, and
were all a-futter, one of them excla;m.
ing: Il wonder was it live or just
fits"
The little body hurting through the
AIR narrowly missed several persons,
end the suicide created something of
sensation. A great crowd congregat-
ed and curses in life were turned to
sympathetic, kindly words in death,
as Billie" breathed his last.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-11-02
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
A Diamond Mine

AFTER many false reports, it is now
pretty generally admitted that a dia.
nond mine has been discovered in
me United States. Diamonds have
Oeen found in the past, it is true. in
anoiana' Michigan, Ohio, Virginia and
wisconsin, to say nothing of trough
diamonds" in every community; but
upon investigation 1t has turned ont
Lhat the precious stones have been
carried from the far north by a slow.
moving glacier and left at the point
where the ice melted. A 24-carat dia-
nond of this description was found in
virginia in 1856. The new mine in
AXE county, Arkansas, discovered
ABOUT year ago, is in a body of ig-
neous rock similar to the rock of the
n1mberley mines In South Africa
This volcanic rock fills a dixie he
tween two walls Of harder rock. It is
exposed over an area of a hundred
acres. Since the first stone was
picked up in the summer of last wear
more than hundred and thirty dia.
monds have been found. The largest
weighs six and one-half carats. How
me diamonds got into Pike county is
unknown. Biologists say that there
are two possible explanations. One is
fhat the carbon, already crystallized.
was forced up from the interior of the
earth along with the molten rock. and
was ineased in it when the rock
cooled. The other explanation is that
Ehe carbon, subjected to great heat
ana tremendous pressure, has crystal.
Al1ed IN the place where the diamonds
are now found. In other parts of the
world there are placer diamond depos.
ats which are explained as due to the
same causes as placer gold mines.
The richest diamond mines now
known are In South Africa. They
produce So per cent. of the stones sold
every year. The diamond fields that
we're noted until the African mines
were opened II 1857 are in Borneo,
IN India and In Brazil. What the
Arkansas field will produce when
properly worked no one can tell. says
Xouth's Companion, but its discovery
mas added another to the varied re.
sources of this wonderful country.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-11-02
CORRECTING his ceooranbv.

In the absence of the Information
editor, who was away on his vaca-
ton, this question was referred to
the manager of the country eircula-
ton department: Who wrote How
Big Was Alexander, Par" Il don't
know he said, "but whoever did it
was away off in geography. There's
an Alexander in Illinois, one in Iowa,
one in Kansas, others in Maine. New
York, North Carolina, South Caro-
lima. Texas, West Virginia and Wy.
oming. but if there's an Alexander
in PENNSYLVANIA, by George, it isn't
in the postofice directory
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-11-02

The expert alienists are rapidly
adding TO the list Of mental ailments
and increasing the plain citizens won
der. During certain late murder
trial we heard much about brain
storms. mental explosions and the
like, and the learned gentlemen who
dealt in these terms would have us
believe that such things were recon
ciIable with rational state of mind.
And here we have an expert testify
ing in q case involving belief in spirit
4ialism that a person might have
sane deluslon." TO many who are
not alienists sane delusion" is term
about as consistent as "a sick well
man"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-11-02
Virtues of Buttsrmilk.

Ordinary sour puttermilk is a better
tonic, is a better food than was ever
bottled or boxed up by the chemist or
doctor. Bnttermilk is a very hearty
food. Two glasses a day is enough for
any one. This should be drunk with
meals, or else should not be taken
within two hours Of a meal. Time
should be given for it to thoroughly
digest, and to drink another glass be-
fore the first one is digested is only
to stir UP difficulty with the digestive
organs. Really, the best way to drink
buttermilk is With the meals, though
It may be drunk between meals as a
sort Of easily digested lunch.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-11-02
conslderate Bridegroom.

A Belleyille girl and young man,
both of whom had steady jobs, were
married the other day. The day after
they were married the girl said to her
fond husband:
"Oh, George! now that we are mar
ried, there is only one thing regret,
and that is that have to give up my
fine position
The fond young husband stroked the
silken tresses Of the young wifey's
hair and soothingIy replied:
Nov, darling, don't worry. You
needn't give up your position. I'll
give up mine. Judge.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-11-02

1t seems that our state department
at Washington has not only provided
for examinations OF aspirants for
consular appointments, in order to
ascertain their fitness for the service,
but 1t is likewise furnishing compe.
tent talent for teaching what may be
requisite 10 pass the examinations.
Thus, Secretary Root has lately
granted permission to the chief of the
bureau Of trade relations of the state
department to accept position on
the faculty Of one Of the colleges.
where he will be a regular lecturer on
the consular service. This will help
all round It is subject that calls
for special talent.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-11-02
Not ] Hlt as an Improvlser.

Did you ever hear anybody imprp-
yise?" he asked.
NO." said she, and he sat down to
the piano and improvised for about an
hour and a half At the end of that
time he turned around, his face full
of expression, and said to her:
What do you think OF it,"
Lovely" she exclaimed. "Beauti.
full! I never heard anything like it!,'
But this is what she said to the hall
boy when he was gone:
IF that long. Iank lunatfc who i'm.
provises asks for me again, you ten
him am out"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-11-02

spells. For ten years l could not do
Homework, and for two years did not
get out of the house The Kidney Sc
cretions were irregular, and doctors
were not helping me- Doan's Kidney
Pills brought me quick relief, and
finally cured me. They saved my life.'
Sold by all dealers. so cents a box
FosterMillburn Co., Buffalo, ". r.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-11-02
Find Relics Of Old RaeA

Prof. Harlan L Smith, of the Aneri.
can Museum Of Natural History, who
with party Of assistants from the
faculty Of the University of Michigan
went to Wyoming to explore the great
fossil valleys, found evidences OF the
existence of several large villages
whose inhabitants anteaate the Arneri-
can Indian, possibly by many cen
Euries. Many ancient burial mounds
were unearthed.