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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-02-02
wHALEsoNE AT $3.50 A TON.
1t Might Pay Now to Look Up Those
Old Whalebone Ribbed Umbrellas.

81 see by the papers" said Mr..
Grillfinby, that the last quotation for
whalebone in England was 91,750, or,
say, about $3.50 ton, making whale
bone worth now somewhere in the
neighborhood of $3.50 pound-a
pretty costly commodity,
Il can remember the time when
whalebone was cheap, very cheap;
when we used to burn whale oil in
la nd use whalebone for umbrella
ri those old-time whalebone rib
be b.allas were not much like the
T steel ribbed close rollers.
they were of the bulgy out
&C giagham umbrellas that you
see now sometimes reproduced after q
fashion on the comic stage, but which
are now never actually used by any
body, though once they we're used by
everybody. umbrellas with whalebone
ribs. And what / was going to say
was this
People are out ali the time look
5ang through TIE conntry for old flrni-
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-02-02
Candidate Had No Use for Labor Of
Any Kind.

Some years ago when the late Alder
man Robert B. Bancroft, of Cambridge
had received the nomination, it was
thought by the representatives of the
laboring men to be duty they owed
to the trades unions to find out how
the candidate stood on the labor ques-
ton.
A committee was appointed and the
interviews took place with more or
less pleasing results. Mr.. Bancroft
received the committee with open
heart and open house. When all the
visitors felt at ease and cigars were
well alight, the spokesman outlined
the purpose of the call, and wished to
know where they would place him, for
or against.
We'll, gentlemen" said Mr.. Ban
croft, Il thank you for this opportunity
to express my views on this great
question. / have this to say: / don't
believe in labor at alive deserve a
good living without work"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-02-02
SAD YEAR FOR CUPID
WAS ONE JUST PAST
DOMESTIC JARS FREQUENT AND SEVERE
Matrimonial Wrecks Almost Beyond Counting Haze
StreDn the Shores of Life West Far Ahead of the
East in the Number of Divorces That Have
Bean Asked For and Granted.

Chicago.-Surely New Years day
must have been the saddest that Gu.
pid ever has spent. When the little
god balances his books for 1906 he
will be compelled to sit down and
weep, for the list of the matrimonial
WreGE3 OF the year shows an awful
nur15af of disasters. There have
beer nCugh domestic jars to shake
the G ntinent worse than the earth
Quefz shook San Francisco, if they all
had occurred at one instant. The
tears that have been shed would make
salty sea if they could be collected
IN the desert basin of Sahara.
Indeed, it has been a bad year for
Cupid. Divorces have been more
numerous than in any other twelve
months since marriage became an in
stitution. Princes, dukes, counts,
statesmen, magnates, and millionaires,
butchers, doctors, grocers, lawyers,
and laborers have come to grief in
their love affairs
In the good old days people married
and lived happily ever after" Now
the problem of the novel begins in
stead of ending at the altar People
get married and then get divorced.
Chicago still leads the world in di-
vorce population, and perhaps in the
facility with which divorce is grant
ed, due cause being shown. The hear
ing of testimony and the granting of
/ a decree in default cases in this city
takes only a few minutes, and the
average length of time consumed is
egtlsglted at ten minutes by people
who study divorce methods. That
is Wy the local courts are known as
divorce mills" They work with the
spec of a steam buzz saw as they go
through the knots of matrimony. Your
I lawyer files the papers, your case
4. Is called, and burr-r-r-you are di-
Vorced.
1t is the women who keep the buzz
saw working in the divorce mills in
Y Chicago. Four out of five suits are
brought by the wives. The men are
meaner than the women, perhaps;
or else the husbands are more willing
to tough it out without appeals to the
court.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-02-02
Worsted by an Owl.

Hiram Heller, Of WilIiamsport, Pa,
was badly lacerated in battle with
great horned owl which he wounded
while cunning near Fairfield Center.
He shot at the owl as it flew by him,
but only broke its wing. Not wishing
to disfgure the bird, Heller attempted
to kill it with club. The wounded
owl, which measured nearly four feet
from tip to tip, pounced upon him, and
before he was able to free himself he
was badly wounded.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-02-02

in age from Is to 40; some of them
were negresses, but the majority were
Circassians.
The latter are supposed to be the
most beautiful of all Turkish women,
on which account the slaves of the
sultan are always selected from
among them; but in this instance l
looked in vain for any trace of good
looks, and, indeed. could hardly help
smiling at the comic effect they pro-
duced, dressed up to the mines in the
latest Paris fashions, executed by To-
cal dressmakers.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-02-02
GOLD NUGGET A BEAUTY.
Alaskan Mine Has Probably the
Largest Ever Found.

1t is not an uncommon thing to see
men who have enough greenbacks to
choke an elephant, but it's not often
that one meets man with a gold mug
get large enough to make even horse
sick If he had to try to eat it without
having it run through quartz mill.
There is man in Los Angeles, Cal,
however, who has the nugget, and he
is the Klondike king. Clarence Berry.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-02-02

who has come from Alaska on visit
to his brother. The nugget might be
likened to a mans hand with the
palm turned upward, for it is over six
inches long, almost four inches wide,
is an inch thick at the thickest part,
and weighs" $3.50.
There are few men who can dig
such chunks of gold out of their own
mines, but Clarence Berry is one OF
these lucky miners. He is one of
the pioneers of the gold mines of
Alaska. and having been one of the
first men to get to the various rich
diggings, his energy and persever.
ance have been rewarded with large
amount of gold. How much no one
knows but he, and he won't tell.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-02-02
Prunes Now a Necessity.

Prior to 1885 the prunes consumed
in this country came almost entirely
from France and the Danublan prov,
inces. The consumption was small and
the fruit was considered delicacy.
Nov more than 100,o00.O0o pounds OF
driec prunes are eaten yearly In the
United States, and, needless to say,
the product is no longer regarded as q
luxury.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-02-02
IN A MODERN HAREM.
circassian Slaves Now Wear Copies
of Paris Fashions.

Less picturesque than the descrip-
ton in Pierre Lofts 'Disenchanted"
was my reception in the harem of Bos-
ma Hanum, the wife of a close rela.
tive of the throne, says writer in
the Boston Globe.
was assisted out of my carriage
by gaunt eunuch in a black frock
coat and red fez, who gave me the
shivers as he clutched my arm with
his sable paw.
Inside the hall | was met by a
crowd OF female slaves, who helped
me to remove my wraps. They varied
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-02-02

ture, quaint old colonial, and that
sort of stuff Why couldn't we hunt
up those umbrellas-there must be
millions of them lying around In
country garrets-why couldn't we look
up those old whalebone ribbed ging-
ham umbrellas. for the whalebone
there is in them? Don't you think
there may be an idea here for max
ing money.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-02-02

or desertion and tells the story to the
court in a business-like way The
uniformed stranger, strolling into
the courtroom, easily might think the
dispute was over a grocery bill or
ruined gown, rather than a ruined
life. The law says she may have
divorce, and she proposes to get it.
That is all. If her husband has a
good position or bit of property, she
asks for alimony. The struggle for
some form of maintenance sometimes
becomes strenuous, showing that the
woman regrets the loss of the man
who has been her support rather more
than the loss of the man who has
been her husband.
All this is like a comic opera, but 1t
makes Cupid weep. He has been tell
ing the world for thousands Of years
that marriage is sacred institution,
and now he first discovers that it is
a joke.
The proportion of divorces to mar
riages in New York is one in four.
In Chicago it is one in nine; in San
Francisco it is one in four. The
further west you go the more fire.
Quent are divorces. The decree sepa-
ration has hitched it's wagon to the
star of empire. Kansas City, Los An
geles, and Seattle are as bad as San
Francisco in each of these cities there
being one divorce to every four mar
riages. The statistics for Sioux Falls
are kept locked up in reporter proof
vault.
The most notable case Of the year,
perhaps, was the international tragedy
of the Castellanes. For years the
world had witnessed the extrava-
gances and indiscretions of Count
Boni and wondered how much longer
the poor countess would endure them
for the sake of her children. Ameri-
can sympathy, almost without excep-
ton, has been with Anna Gould, for
however much Jay Gould, the rail
road magnate, may have been dis
trusted, his daughters always were
popular. Count Castellane was RI
diculous joke to people who took life
lightly and an exaggerated villain to
those who took it seriously.
Troubles of Heiresses and Titles.
Whan the countess finally left her
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-02-02

matter of separation has been set
tied, but the count still is clamoring
for money-millions of ito pay his
debts. Perhaps in the final disposi-
ton of the case he will receive an
allowance even greater than the ali
mony of Mrs. o. H. P. Belmont, who
draws $25O,0OO a year from her former
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-02-02
Weddings Ear Retmeen-

The first bride for A years Is a
record, isn't it? 1t happened in West
Bridgewater, near Boston, recently
when the first church wedding in the
Unitarian church since 1852 took
plaza.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-02-02

81 am angry with Dick" said the
pretty girl, with a myriad of bushes,
'and 1 only give you that kiss through
revenge"
ct reminded me of revenge" laugh
ed the lucky young man.
I'm what way?"
"Well, you know, revenge is
sweet. Chicago Daily News.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-02-02

Sweet potatoes are principally used
in the Azores to make alcohol, the
yield being ten to II per cent. The
present price is about Is cents (Unit'
ed States currency per liter Glossy
uuarts).
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-02-02

vorce lawyer says that there is no.
ticeable air of festivity in the court
room when cases are being heard
The average woman who appeals to
the courts for release manifests no
sense of sorrow or humiliation. 1t
is a business proposition with her.
She sues her husband for his cruelty
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-02-02

public, but it was a great shock to
Cupid who insists that all matters
pertaining to love be taken seriously.
Four Times as Many Separations.
Among the more famous Chicago
cases of the year might be mentioned
that of Clarence Eddy, the organist.
This was musical romance, in which
the first discord was struck after near
ly 80 years of married life. The Ear
tistic temperament" Of the great Or
ganist is mentioned in connection
with the domestic unhappiness. Cupid
has had trouble from time immemorial
with the artistic temperament. The
separation of the Eddys occurred in
Paris, and Mr.. Eddy first brought suit
in Chicago, but afterward dismissed
his case and secured the divorce in
South Dakota last summer.
The list of the years domestic trag-
edies might be continued almost end
lessly. 1t is no wonder that Cupid
weeps. Efforts are being made by di-
vorce congresses and reformers to
cure the evil by a national divorce
law. It is claimed that if the road
to separation were made more diff
cult to travel there would be fewer
divorces and perhaps less unhappi-
ness.
In recent years, while the popu1a-
ton was increasing 80 per cent, the
number of divorces has risen 300 per
cent. The disproportion is increas-
ing rapidly. If it keeps on for another
generation there will be a divorce for
every marriage.
Meantime detected Cupid ponders
the case He knows how to make
people fall in love and marry, but he
can find no way in which they may
be happy though married. He doubts
much if legislation against divorce
would compel them to continue to
love one another.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-02-02


on you for the present. Please send a
dress pattern Several other gifts were
mentioned as being acceptable), and if
charges, for i haSe made a VOW 1 viii
never pay any express charges, as can't
see what am getting in the package"
Another woman desired "a piano
and some sheet music" as her daugh-
ter had great talents"
A pastor wished $1,000 for his
church for the reason that you are a
cich lady and will never miss it."
The request for money is, of course,
common one addressed to people of
prominence Or those blessed with
great riches.
Many people are convinced that
each member of a presidents family
is drawing a large salary from the
government, or that all Of them have
a pneumatic tube running to the treas
ury department and upon punching. Q
button large quantities of Uncle Sans
gold finds its way to the punchee.
The requests for autographs are al
most unlimited and should a president
undertake to make the supply equal
to the demand but a small portion of
each day could be devoted to pubic
business.
Then the craZy-quilt artist-and ner
name is legion-wants at least one
silk piece as a souvenir, and if the sig
nature of the president or some mem
Der of his family is placed upon it, so
much the better.
One frequently overhears remarks
on the appearance or characteristics
of some member of the family and it
is well with you when you can smile.
Many friend has enjoyed with me
the following incident, the remarks
having been addressed to the chill.
dren's nurse:
Which is Baby McKee?"
This is Benjamin"
(Which is Mrs. Harrison's little
girl?"
This is Marthena."
FHumph, I can't see that they look
any different from any other chill
dren."
On another occasion, when the same
line of questioning was being pursued,
and the nurse had made an elaborate
apology to excuse the children's ap-
pearance, as they had been playing in
the dirt and were not dressed for in
spection: ''Humph, it wouldn't make
any difference what you put on them.
They are very plain, homely looking
children anyway"
When this speech was reported to
me, l gave my dear homely babies a
hug and laughed heartily, because !
knew they were beauties and that it
was poor, misguided individual who
was probably persuaded in her mind
that only Democratic babies were
pretty.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-02-02

The mirror in which we may get a
rather fair notion of ourselves is pub
lie position, although the image re-
flected is not always exactly accurate
or true to nature.
With the newspapers on one side
saying that Mrs. E. is beautiful in
face and divine in form, with superb
qualities of heart and mind, and the
opposition saying she is plain little
woman who dresses atrociously and
uses bad English, she may find herself
in the position of one of Mother
Gooses characters. You will remem-
Der the little old woman who fell
asleep and had her petticoats cut off
up to her knees and upon awaking
and not exactly recognizing herself
exclaimed, Can this be II
But it is right here that sense of
the ridiculous comes to the rescue;
for if you are broad-minded and have
a clear conscience you will be able to
smile as broadly as the opposition
over descriptions and you do give
vent to your merriment; for often the
thrusts are so unkind that you might
be tempted to cry. But what would
be the use, since it would only make
the plain face palmer and the bad
English would certainly be made
worse if you could give free vent to
your feelings?
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-02-02

There certainly is no lack of free
discussion and criticism in the news
papers of the day on parties, politics
and persons, and the man who enters
the political arena must take that
life as he does his wife, "for better,
for worse, for richer. for poorer, in
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-02-02
WANTED ONE LONG HOLIDAY

The committee reported, he was
elected, Endorsed by every working
man.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-02-02
Air of Festivity in Courtroom.

While Cupid weeps at the sight of
a divorce court, that Is more than the
complainant does. One Chicago di-
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-02-02
ro cURE a CoLD IN oNE DAY
Alcohol From Sweet Potatoes.

Take LAXATIVE BRoMo oulnire Tablets. Drug
gists refund money II IL falls TO cure. e. w
GROVES signature is on each box. 25e,
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-02-02

preached first startled and amazed
me, then captivated me-" But within
few days she discovered, she says,
that the young man did not love her.
The case was a nine days joke to the
public, but it was a great shock to
Cupid, who insists that all matters
pertaining to love be taken seriously.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-02-02
Trials of
a Presidents
Daughter
Copyright, 1906, by Joseph B. Bowles.)

(Mrs. Mary Harrison Mckee, daughter
of President Harrison, was very prom
inent in official society during her father s
term as the nations chief executive. She
tells here with frankness and humor some
of the peculiar experiences which she had
while a resident Of the White House)
How good it is to laugh! How de-
lightful either for man or woman to
be blessed with keen sense of the
ridiculous!
Some are not thus favored and are
continuously sad and careworn, which
is a misfortune to be truly mourned
over. A school for the cultivation Of
the humorous faculty might be help
full to future generations.
The assertion is made that women
lack a sense of humor, but the actor
Coquelin has publicly denied the ac-
cusation and says sit is SANDER that
has lived by repetition" With true
French gallantry he remarks that it
is only another example of woman's
unseIfshness that she has been will
ing to let us think that we men have
monopoly, as they say in America,
on humor."
So much has been written on wit,
humor and fun, and so many examples
from every direction have come down
to US that We cannot give the palm
for so charming a characteristic to
any one time or country or sex.
An actor or actress who nightly
faces a large audience has an oppor-
funity for iudging of these qualities in
the human race. So has the man or
woman who is called upon to occupy
any conspicuous position where he CT
she is brought in close contact with
numbers of men and women, whose
field for observation is a broad one
and whose perceptions are keen.
Well might such a one exclaim with
the poet: a.
och, wad some power the gfftie gle US
To see ourseTs as ithers see US!
1t wad frae monte a blunder free US
And foolish notion
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-02-02

Man cannot be altogether cleared
from injustice in dealing with beasts
as he now does.-Heraclitus.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-02-02

l am only a woman who had part
in one administration and who had to
go through four years shining in re-
flected glory, but that school filled
with the lessons that go to make up
human existence joys, sorrows, trials
and amusing OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, as a
whole, most helpful,
In the pursuit of knowledge or a
spirit of curiosity such questions as
these come to one daily through the
mail: Whether you approve of dan
cling, whether you drink wine, what
you think of the latest novel, how
much time you give to your toilet,
what is your favorite color, whether
you believe in women voting, whether
you dress your children in white, etc.
How would you like to see the indi-
vidual who could send the following
communication on a postal card:
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-02-02

When the countess finally left her
husband, people on both sides of the
Atlantic said it served him right The
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-02-14
WARRANT IS OUT
Chief of Police Rawlings Gone 10 New York 10 Look Up the
 Missing Banker
QUIET AT BANK TO-DAY

New Britain, Feb 14.-Chief of Pc lice William J. Rawlings left for New York to-day on an early train, with a warrant for the arrest of Will liam r. Walker the missing treasurer of the Savings bank of New Britain, who is accused of being responsible for shortage of S565 900 of the banks securities. The warrant was drawn by Prosecuting Attorney Charles H. Mitchell and in it Walker is charged with appropriating two bonds, valued at $1,OO0 each. No formal application was made by the banks representatives for the war rant on his own account Things were quiet at the bank to-day, the exact reverse of the conditions existing dur ing the first three days of the week during the run on the bank. It was stated again this morning that the amount of Walkers peculatiOns would remain at S565,OOO as far as the bank is concerned, this figure be- ing the result of the completed ex- animation of the banks affairs.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-02-14
Biz Explosion in the Buildinqs of the OH Trust at Bayonne
 This Morning
HEARD IN NEW YORK
Explosion Was Caused By | Fire Which Reached Tank Contalning Thousands of Gallons q 0l
 Before IL Was Phi Ont.

New York, Feb 14.-Fire ssarteo at Bayonne. N. J.. among the build ings of the Standard oil company soon after g o'clock. It was fought by the company's employees without the assistance of the city fire de- partment. The flames spread to one of the huge oil tanks containing thousands of gallons. The explosion was heard in the downtown section of New York. five miles distant. and the shock near by the works was severe. The exploding tanks stood among dozens of others and 1t waS feared that more explosions would follow.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-02-14
Atwaler of Meriden Says Ii is Time 10 Investigate Doings
 of the Bank Commissioners
KElDAL MAY RESIGN
He Was the Subject of Much Discuss. ion al HariiOrd--Fox Before inc Judicairy in Favor of His
 Publication oi Politics

Hartford, Feb 14.-Senator At- water of Meriden to-day introduced a resolution providing for general investigation of the office of bank commissioners of the state with all their power and instructions to re- port back to the general assembly with any suggestions of legislation which is needed. Senator Atwater explained that under the present law the governor has no power to order such an inquiry. His resolution. he said, was based on the situation in New Britain. The resolution was tabled without date.