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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-05-11
HIGH PLAY IN WASHINGTON.
Heavy Gambling a Part of Social Life
of the City.

Probably in no other city in America
does this nightly card playing take on
so much of the atmosphere of the
Riviera as in Washington There are
many foreigners there, and they play
the game with that picturesque fever
ishness which is typical of their nature
and training. The great majority of
foreign attaches are not equipped
financially for the exactions of the
game, but their position compels them
to accept every invitation.
Their argument-while attacked by
many as one showing lack of mora;
courage-is quite satisfactory to them.
They say they were not sent to this
country to play the part of scholarly
recluse. They must be in evidence at
all smart functions. What would be
thought of them, they ask, if they
sternly refused to play bridge for
money when the world they move in.
and the world they represent, consid"
ers it the right thing to do?
Their ministers play! Members of
the cabinet play! They scarcely feel
like directing to themselves and to
their legations the ridicule and criti
cism which would follow the guest who
slips away between dinner and bridge
So they play. If they lose on their
small incomes it becomes necessary
for them to recoup, and the only way
to do this is to go to more bridge
parties.
Washington is prominently a city
OF the leisure classes, and the almost
continuous social season there raises
bridge to it's most glittering height
Broadway Magazine.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-05-11

Statistics from the great education.
al institutions of the country are sig
nificant as indicating the extent to
which America is enlightening the
world in this way. There Is hardly q
university or college which does not
number among it's students some from
other countries, and in several In
stances the number of foreigners is
notable, says Troy Times. Columbia,
for instance, reports that it has $50
men representing 80 countries other
than the United States. Canada con.
tributes 81, while Japan is good Sec
ond, with a. China, Persia, far-off
New Zealand and other remote dis.
tricts figure in the exhibit, which also
includes young men from every one
of the leading countries of Europe,
the West Indies and Central and
South America And there are other
institutions with similar showing.
American education is leavening the
worlds intelligence
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-05-11

Honey bees are generally credited
with instructive skill in making the
cells of the comb hexagonal in shape,
but it is probable that this construc,
ton is merely the ordinary result OF
mechanical laws. Solitary bees al
ways make circular cells, and the
bees in a hive no doubt make them
circular also, but mechanical press
ure forces them into a hexagonal
form. A well-known naturalist, in
speaking of the matter, says that all
cylinders made of soft, pliable sub
stances become hexagonal under such
circumstances.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-05-11
HENS KNEW THEIR BUSINESS.
Never Would They Lay Anything but
the Freshest of Eggs.

There is a German dairyman and
farmer, whose place is not far from
Philadelphia, who greatly plumes him
self upon the absolute superiority of
his products above all others in the
vicinity.
On one occasion he personally ap-
piled to a Germantown housekeeper
for transfer of her custom to him
self. II hears dot you hat lot of
drouble with got dairyman Of yours"
he said. "Yust you gif me your gus
tom and der will be no drouble."
Are your eggs always fresh?" ask"
ed the woman.
FRESH" repeated the German, in
an indignant tone. Let me dell you,
madam, dot my hens meier, meier lay
anything but fresh eggs!"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-05-11
APPENDICITIS.
Not at All Necessary to Operate In
Many Cases.

Automobiles and Appendicitis scare
some people before they are hit,
Appendicitis is often caused by too
much starch in the bowels. Starch is
hard to digest and clogs up the diges.
tive machinery-also tends to form
cakes in the cecum. (Thats the blind
pouch at entrance to the appendix
A N. H. girl had appendicitis, but
lived on milk for awhile then Grape.
Nuts and got well without an opera
ton.
She says: Five years ago while at
schs1ol, / suffered terribly with consti-
patton and Indigestion" too much
starch, white bread, potatoes, ETC..
which she did not digest.)
Soon after left school had an at
tack Of appendicitis and for thirteen
weeks lived on milk and water. When
! recovered enough to eat solid food
there was nothing that would agree
with me, until a friend recommended
Grape-NUts.
When I began to eat Grape-Nuts I
weighed SO lbs, but soon grew to lis
lbs. The distress after eating left me
entirely and now am like new per-
son."
"a little Grape-Nuts dissolved in hot
water or milk would nave been much
better for this case than milk alone,
for the starchy part of the wheat and
barley is changed into form OF di-
.sestable sugar in making Grape-Nuts)
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. Read the little. book
The Road to Well7iIle," in pkgs.
There's a Reason
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-05-11
cosmonoIitan Gatherina.

Among the scores Of visitors to the
capitol in Washington one day it hap
pened that curious group fell to-
gether. Three of them were stalWart
Sioux Indians, their faces stolid and
expressionless as statues. Near by
was charming little Japanese girl in
all the glory of a bright co1ored silk
kimono, her feet resting in sandals,
with head bare and her artistical1y
coiffured raven locks set off with one
large pink and one large red carnation.
Immediately behind the diminutiye
oriental was a wel1-dressed and won
derfully black negro, who smiled good.
naturally as he observed the odd effect
of the gathering.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-05-11
custom strlet n lapan.

Society is very strict In Japan about
the little matters of hairdressing, and
woe betide the woman who would
neglect to abide by the prevailing
custom. Not alone in the better
classes, but among the poorer people
as well, the eligible young woman,
the widow who wishes to marry
again, and the widow who doesn't,
may always be distinguished by the
way in which they dress their hair
Modern Society.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-05-11
"cure" is Centuries Old,

A prominent member of the Italian
chamber of deputies has taken leaf
out of the book of his illustrious con-
frere, Marcus Tullius Cicero, by bath
ing in the mud of lake Aguan, as Cice.
70 did 1000 years ago, in order to get
rid of the govt. The mud of the stand
ing waters in the district west of
Naples was famous from early times
for the relief of anthritis. The luxu-
rious high livers of the imperial DAYS
knew. their efficacy. and no doubt, did
their "cure" there in much the same
fashion as their modern representa-.
tive does.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-05-11
METHoDIsm IN EARLY OHIO.
Lorenzo Dew, Peter Cartwright and
Other Famous Circuit Riders.

Few romances, says the Youth 5
Companion, can equal that OF early
Ohio Methodism No part OF the
United States found a more fruitful
field or yielded a greater harvest.
In 1915 John Stewart, a free mulat'
to living in Marietta, addicted TO
drunkenness, and on the way to the
river to drown himself, heard the
voice of circuit rider, stopped at
the church door to listen, and Went
home with an awakened conscience.
He soon volunteered to go among the
Indian tribes and tell his story. wan
dering northward, he came to wy
andotte village on the Sandusky river.
He could read and sing, and ne soon
had the whole tribe under his lnnu-
ence. He died at the age OF 81,
mourned and honored, the first Amer
lean missionary of the Methodist
Episcopal church.
One Of Stewards converts was Be
tween-the-Legs, a Wyandotte chlef.
He was born at Lower Sandusky, now
Fremont, O., took the American side
in the war of 1912, and accompanied
Harrison in his invasion of Canada.
Bishop McCabe's uncle, DR.. L. D.
McCabe, a notable Ohio Methodist,
was named after that famous circuit
rider, Lorenzo Dow. Dow was cele-
5rated for his eccentricities OF dress
and speech as well as for his zeal.
He wore no buttons on his coat, but
tied the garment around his waist
with rope. He would make appoint
ments to preach months in advance,
and so implicit was the faith Of his
promises that on the appointed days
great crowds would gather from miles
around. One instance is recorded
where Dow preached thus punctually
to the minute on an appointment:
made five years previous.
Of Peter Cartwright, an Ohio "son
of thunder" licensed to preach at
the age of II, it is said that his cir
cults were like lines of battle. One
quarterly meeting was held in the
woods. A mob led by two champions
with loaded whips invaded it. Cart
wright seized one after the other of
the principal rioters, threw them
down, and, aided by friends, secured
80 persons, whom he marched off to
an empty tent, had them guarded over
night, and brought all to justice.
His sermon that day was from the
text: "The gates of hell shall not
prevail"
Cartwright during his 65 years of
preaching received 10000 members
into the church.
The camp meeting originated and
attained it's highest development in
Ohio. Under Bishop McKendree such
was the eagerness of the people to at
tend that the roads were literally
crowded with those pressing their
way to the groves. Entire neighbor
hoods were forsaken for a season by
their inhabitants. A bishops salary
at that time was from 500 to $50
year and travelling expenses. From
this pittance he had to buy his clothes
and provide for his family.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-05-11
Autocratic Joe Cannon.

Speaker Cannon all but declared
himself official timekeeper of the house
one day. The clock recorded the sixth
hour and Mr. Williams called the at
tention of the chair to the order adopt
ed earlier in the day calling for recess
at that time. Uncle Joe" said snap
PLY: "My watch says three minutes
to six and it's the best watch in town. -
rs it the official timepiece of this
house?" asked Mr.. Williams ut ought
to be-" said the speaker, bringing
down his gavel. After moments con-
sideration he added: THAT clock is
three minutes wrong. The house will
take a recess until eight o'clock to-
night"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-05-11

In England interest has been
shown of late by the army and navy
authorities in new method of pre-
serving flour by means of compress
sion. With hydraulic pressure ap-
paratus the flour is squeezed into the
form of bricks, and experiments are
repqrted to have shown that the pres
sure destroys all forms of larvaI life,
thus preserving the -four from the
ravages of insects, while it is equally
secure from mold Three hundred
pounds of compressed flour occupy
the same space as 100 pounds Of flour
in the ordinary state.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-05-11
peIlahts Of Rhodesian Lie.

Mr.. Trollip's farm, near TT. Gibbs
has been visited by two rhinoceroses
lately They are very truculent in
their behavior and are doing heavy
damage to his crops, besides being q
source of danger to all on the farm
Mrs. Trollfp was also surprised nv >
crocodile when fishing on the farm
The reptile plunged into the water
from the opposite bank, and made
straight toward her.-Rhodesia Ter,
aid. 11e'
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-05-11
Altogether International.

Mrs. Roosevelt will, with her own
hands, fashion silk American flag to
be presented to the naval academy at
Annapolis for the draping of a small
bronze bust of Admiral Lord Nelson,
the gift of King Edward to that insti-
tuition. Queen Alex andra of Great
Britain will provide British colors for
the same purpose, the presentation of
which viii be made by Mrs. james
Bryce. wife of the British ambassador.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-05-11
Little Ones PRAYER.

Mary always gets little piece of
candy every day to keep her from be-
Ing naughty. One day she was
naughty, and she did not get her
candy. That night when she was GO
ing to bed she said her prayers as fol-
lows: Our Father, who art in heaven,
please give me my daily candy
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-05-11
Has Historic Elaa.

Eben Appleton, of New York city,
has in possession the "star-spangled
banner" which few over Fort Nc
Henry and which inspired Francis
Scott Key to the composition of his
national ode. It is his intention at his
death to leave the flag to either one of
the national museums at Washington
or the Massachusetts Historical mu.
scum at Boston.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-05-11
What Does 1t Matter.

Helen's lips are drifting dust,
Hector is but pulseless clay;
Nero sizzles on, we trust,
With no chance to get away.
Cleopatra fiirts no more,
Antony may now be mud;
On the toys that Caesar wore
There is not a splotch of blood.
Romeo and Dante care
Little how the world is run.
Nor do I, since she is fair,
Thinking I'm the only one.
Chicago Record-Herald.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-05-11

dered and passages of the secretions
too frequent. On the advice of my
husband 1 began using Doan's Kidney
Pills. Since using two boxes my trou-
Bile has not reappeared. This is won
derful, after suffering two years"
Sold by all dealers. so cents a box.
Foster-Milburn Co.. Buffalo. N. Y.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-05-11

The English woman suffrage bill
has been talked to death in the house
of commons. Some of the members
have a hard time when they return
home trying to prove to their wives
that it was not mean way of getting
even.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-05-11

For the eighteenth time the mouse
of commons has passed to a second
reading bill to legalize the marriage
of man with his deceased wifes sis.
ter, and it is said that there are now
good prospects for its final passage.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-05-11

The National Cooperative declares
that there would be more Rockefel-
lers in the world if the young men
would devote as much time to money
making as they do to love-making."
Perhaps; but is anybody clamoring
for any more Rockefellers?
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-05-11

Former President Loubet of France
complains that the people of that
country have forgotten him. It is
evident that he finds it impossible to
get any OF the magazines to publish
his articles on fishing.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-05-11

ago, dropSy SET ln'
and my left side was
SO swollen the doctor
said he would have to
tap out the water.
There was constant
pain and a gurgling
sensation around my
heart, and l could not
raise my arm above
my head. The kid
ney action was dis0r-
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-05-11
Gun Is Quicker,

II see the Bowie knife has been
abandoned down in Texas"
Eyes. I always maintained thai
those things were too slow."-Mil
waukee Sentinel.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-05-11
Wanted ParticlIIars

''WiIl you share my lot?" he asked
IF it is a corner one in the bust
ness district" she replied, "T viii be
very glad to."-Chicago Record Her
aid.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-05-11
4 MISSOURI WOMAN
Tells 8 story Of Awful Suffering and
Wonderful Relief.

Mrs. ). D. Johnson, of COB West
Hickman ST., Columbia, Mo-, says:
''Following an operation two years
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-11-02
BANKS ARE OPEN.

SAN FRANCISCO November 1.-The financial situation
very quiet banks with the exception of the
rended California Safe Deposit Companys Bank which,
is will make early resumption.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-11-02
THE PUBLIC GETS
THE RENTS FROM
THE KAPAA LANDS
The Makee Sugar Company Holds Over Only
for the Purpose of Harvesting the
Growing Cane.

ernment was not that the Makee Su-
gar Company should continue as lessee
of the whole of the lands at the old
terms and have the right to collect
rents of sublessees, in amount many
times the amount of the rent paid the
government. The Makee Company pro-
fessed to understand that the under
standing was a continuance of the old
lease in all its terms.
Col. Spalding arrived from San Fran
cisco yesterday morning by the Ala
media. He hiked up to the Capitol
early and was there before 10
clock. The proposition that he
couldn't pocket the rentals from the
rice, pasture, and taro lands, as in the
days before the lease expired, seemed
a surprise to him. The question was
fought out in conference between Col
Spalding and George III. Fairchild on
the one side, and Governor Frear and
Secretary Mott Smith on the other,
pretty nearly all day. But in the end
Col. Spalding paid the alf-yearly rent
due and accepted the receipt the gov
ernment rendered him. That receipt
restricted his rights to the right to
harvest the growing cane on the land,
but nothing else.
The rents accruing for other portions
of the land will be collected from the
tenants by the government, and prob
ably at the rates which they were pay
ing before the thirty years lease ex-
pired.
paa lands include large acreages of
rice and taro lands, and pasturage and
mountain lands, and ON the fats near
the sea the whole village of Kapaa is
situated, and house-lot rents have been
collected. The rentals from all these
lands will now come to the government
direct, from the tenants occupying the
land.
The matter OF final disposition Of
tHO NdPod ~
has developed itself, is now assuming
shape and may be soon in situations
where it win be finally settled. Mr..
Harvey of the Survey Department re-
Gently returned from there after sew
eral weeks in surveys in which he Sc
cured data from which he is now conn.,
pleting map that will show in detail
the Typographical conditions there. A
few other surveys are still to be made
in order to secure all the data that is
desired in order to comprehensively de-
termine the best method of dealing with
the problem. The desire is to arrange
matters so that the whole water sup
ply for that part of the island of Kah-
al can be handled in it's entirety and
definite conditions be attached to tine
supply and cost of water, its quantity
and delivery, foy al land dependent or
this supply of water.
There is every reason to believe that
the Kapaa land matter is reaching a
definite and salts *ctory solution.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-11-02
TAANSMISSISSIPP|
AND PEARL HARbOR

Governor Frear will go as the repre-
sentative of the Chamber Of Commerce
to attend the Transmississippi Con-
grc SO at Muskogee, Oklahoma, Novem-
b 1892. The Chamber of Commerce
Ia, received assurance that a resoIu-
ton favoring the appropriations for
the Improvement of Pearl Harbor will
be presented at this congress, and
Governor Frear will make a speech in
favor OF il. There is every reason to
believe that it will pass and this will
give to it the weight of the endorse
ment OF the great central region of the
United States.
The Transmississippi Commercial
Congress maintains a committee at
Washington during the sessions OF
Congress to urge the measures that
have received its approval, and it has
been instrumental in securing the
passage of many measures
Governor Frear will sail by the Ala
media next Wednesday and will stop of
at Muskogee on his way across the
continent.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-11-02
JUDGE WHITLEY WILL
PASS THROUGH HERE

Judge Wilfey, against whom Lorrin
Andrews has his knife barred and who
has been the cause of a ruction in the
American colony at Shanghai, will
PASS through Honolulu within thirty
days on his way to Washington on
leave. So reports W. Porter Boyd
who passed through here on the Persia
on his way to Washington from Shang-
mai. where ne mas been in the Amer
isan Consular Service as acting-consul.
The questions In dispute between VIII
fey and the members of the American
bar at Shanghai. Mr.. Boyd would not
discuss, but it is quite possible that
Lorr!n Andrews trip to the CapitaI
has something to DO with Judge Will
fey's haste in following MIN.
Mr. Boyd himself is on his way to
Washington for promotion, but where
his next post of duty is to be he does
not know. For three months of this
year and five months last year he was
acting-consul at Shanghai. and 1t IS
probable that he will be sent some
where in China. Mrs. Boyd and chill
dren are already on the Coast, where
Mr.. Boyd will join them.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-11-02
PERSIA MAIL CLERKS
REFUSE MANY LETTERS

There was a good deal of conster-
nation on the departure of the Persia
yesterday morning on the part of many
people who came to the steamer after
the close of mails at the postoffice to
get belated letters for the Coast
aboard. Many letters were refused,
and there was much disappointment in
some cases. The letters refused were
|ea9t such asswere not in government
stamped envelopes, or which, if they
were in government-stampe en-
velopes, also bore additional stamps.
For the first time probably since the
organization of the Territory, when
the United States postal regulations
went into effect, the rule in this re-
gard was strictly enforced. That was
the cause of the CONSERVATION and
disappointment.
Many people thought that the vessel
was acting in capricious and arbi-
trary way and was denying the public
rights. But the fact is that the ves-
sci was acting entirely within the reg
utdtlU1IS anu WAS 1IOl SIItS lliClAi
as strictly as it might have done. The
fact that this is the first time they
have been enforced in their general
scope at all is probably the reason why
people thought some advantage was
being taken of them.
The postal law in regard to the mat
ter IS that common carriers running on
a regular mail route may receive and
carry mail outside that delivered to it
by the postoffice only when 1t is In
government-stamped envelopes, fully
prepaid, sealed so that the opening OF
the envelope will destroy the envelope.
fully directed and with the date writ
ten or stamped on the envelope.
The vessel is not required to receive
or carry such mail but may do it If 1t
sees fit, under the conditions OF the
Law. as described above. Thus the Ves-
sci is not obliged to receive such mail
from the public if it Goes not want to,
h7,4 can do it as an accommodation to
tiie public.
The regulation in regard TO full pre-
payment was not enforced yesterday
as it might have been, but all letters
in government-stamp envelopes with
no additional stamps on them were
accepted.
No reason for tn2s enforcing the
regulations was given. 1t was not be-
cause of any request from the postot-
fee 1t is supposed to be measure
on the part of the steamship people to
reduce the amount of this mail. which
has been growing larger and larger
especially since the San Francisco
earthquake, and both to and from San
Francisco.