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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-10-31
Nearly a Million Patents.

Nearly one million patents have
been issued by the United States gov
eminent in the period between 1886
and 1908. In round numbers there
will have been issued by the 10th of
the present month just 100000 patents
of all descriptions.
Away back in the thirties, before
theJpatent Office was created, the issu.
ande of patent required the sigma.
lures of what was known as the pat.
ent commission, comprising the sec.
rotary of state, the secretary Of war
and the president.
The records in the early days were
very crude, and the statement was
made at the patent Office that the
first issuance of a patent of which
there is any record was January IS,
1886, to ]. Beverly Allen, for "im-
provement in box for packing tobac-
CO." This patent was number ITO.
Between January 1, 1886, and Janu.
airy 1, 1887, there were issued Ito
patents.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-10-31
Tulip Soup.

what makes this vegetable SCUM
taste so different" asked the young
husband.
"Only the 1eeks you sent home" re.
piled the bride. "You remember you
said you were going to order leeks."
81 didn't order any leeks," growled
the husband, but he finished his bowl
of soup rather than disappoint her.
That Afternoon he stopped at the
grocery store.
How did you come to send leeks up
to my house this morning?" he de.
manded. 81 didn't order them"
Great Scott! Did you eat them ?"
exclaimed the grocer.
"Sare, we ate them"
20, for lands sake. They were Mrs.
Jackson's tulip bulbs. She left them
on the counter and they got into your
basket by mistake. Detroit Free
Press.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-10-31
Hand Embroidery on Blouse.

Hand embroidery is not positively
necessary as a means of introducing
color in a blouse, although little
hand-Work of this sort is very desira-
bic. Very fine and dainty embroideries
OF batiste, with embroidered vines or
dot patterns in color, are to be had,
and can be introduced as trimming in
combination with a little valenciennes
or cluny lace in a blouse of sheer
white fabric. White null frills, seal
loped in color, are also good in the
finer machine-made embroideries.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-10-31
New Trotteur Suit

The latest examples of the about.
town trotteur are made of shining lib
erty satin, skirt thickly plated, but
nothing like so short as they are
worn by Americans-the parissenne
short skirt reaches to the heelv- It's
belt is placed very high, and its long
cutaway, smoking or redingote of the
same satin is unlined and falls heavily
by msans of clever weights. Such a
skirt is worn over very limp lingerie
petticoat. and shades of khaki that
verge on the orange are axtrenely
smart-Vogte.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-10-31
BUILDING Up National capitaI.

1t is the migratory American that is
swelling the population of the national
capital, just as it was the migratory
American that conquered the west,
that helped to people western Canada,
that is building the big canal down on
the isthmus, educating the Filipino,
supporting the bonifaces and the no
pility of Europe and trying to discover
the north pole.
1t is the migratory American that
does things and a great many of them
go to Washington to do them, because
here is the opportunity to do them.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-10-31
Let Fat Women Beware,

The fat woman will have to make
her own neck f1xings this winter, 50
there seems to be little that she can,
or at any rate, ought to wear in the
stocks and collars displayed. A wide
rutiie at the top of some of the lace
stocks makes a fat woman look like
pouter pigeon, but that will prob.
ably not deter her from following the
fashion. If she will wear a high
stock let her arrange the lace in
lengthwise bands and the effect will
be not quite so bad as it would be
otherwise.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-10-31

Deen attached to
the national library in one capacity or
another, but for the greater part of
the time as its head; for 46 wears.
having been appointed to a place in
the library by President Lincoln in
1861.
He will be missed by a good many
Inherent classes of people, but chiefly
| by the legislators. More than a gen
grafton of representatives in congress,
and particularly the new fellows. were
In the habit of leaning upon the
DFusque-mannered, book-absorbed
Spotford. Yet during all the period,
nearly half a century, which the IL
brarian spent in Washington, nobody
ever succeeded in finding out what his
politics were
1t is doubtful il he leaned toward
any party. He was student and a
keen critic of the game, but he never
dipped into it to the extent of reveal
ing even a symptom of partisanship.
The difficulties underlying such neu-
trality may better be understood when
it is stated that Republicans and Dem
ocrats alike in congress lent ear to his
wisdom when they found themselves
In tight pfnches. He never gave IN
solicited advice, but when he was an
preached by a man DESTROYS of profit
ing by his experience and counsel he
never considered the party end of the
proposition, but told what he thought
OF the situation in straight from the
shoulder, take it or leave it. manner
that could admit of no doubt as to his
meaning.
Nor did it make the slightest differ
ence to him whether his advice was
followed or not. Probably Spofford
did not know. in one case out of a.
hundred, whether or no his counsel
mad been adopted. He was that I'M
usual combination, book submerged
man who was yet always in close
touch with the doings of the world.
but he considered the affair at an end
when a public man asked him what
he thought of a certain situation in
politics, got the answer and went his
way.
He was well beloved for his sound
sense and his humor and a certain
qua1ntness of temperament and dispo-
sition by line of public men extend
ing from Thad Stevens to Theodore
Roosevelt. He was considered one of
the most learned men in the world.
He was the court of last resort in
Washington as to knotty points of
parliamentary procedure. He wrote
standard book on that subject, and
it was no unusual thing for speakers
Of the house like Blaine and Keller
and Crisp and Henderson and Can
non to ask Spofford to help them to
unraVel knotty parliamentary kinks
that came up.
Perhaps he will be remembered
longer for his. amazing memory than
for any other reason. He could not
as was said of Macaulay, remember
the happenings on the day when he
was born, nor did he perform such
Macaulay feats as committing the
whole of Milton or Homer or the
Bible to memory. Nevertheless, it
was said of Spofford by scholars both
in this country and Of Europe that
probably he possessed the most phe-
nomenal memory of any man that
ever lived
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-10-31

Here is pretty bodice suitable to
be copied in wolfe or any thin mate
rial; it is made on tight-ftting lin
ing of sateen, which is fastened at
the back, the trimming of filet guipure
Of the color of the material is bound
each side with silk; strip of finely
tucked silk is carried from the waist
back and front over the shoulders.
The pulled sleeves are gathered into a
band Of silk-bound guipure.
Materials required: 2 yards 46
inches wide, 1 yard silk, 3k yards
trimming, IL yards sateen.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-10-31
The Lamp Shade Hat.

A new hat which has just arrived
from Paris is called the lamp shade.
It is immense. 1t has a huge brim
that slopes down over the head at al
most the angle of lamp shade.
At the top of the crown is an i'm
mense friI Of lace or plated tulle.
The other new hat to make it's ap-
pearance is called the Botticelli. 1t is
not necessary to explain where this
got it's name. The only question is,
will it be a success?
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-10-31
New pIqnItary at the capitaI.

The Guatemalan minister attended
a reception in Washington recently.
AS he was leaving he said to the
negro who called the carriages: Call
the carriage of the Guatemalan min
ister-you understand; the Guate-
malan minister yes, sir, under
stand perfectly, sir" he replied, and
then shouted at the top of his lungs:
"The carriage for the watermelon
minister"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-10-31
Plated TuIIe.

For mid-season wear, and later on
for theater and restaurant wear, is
the huge toque of plated tuIe.
Large as it is. it is only half as large
as the great sailor hat. 1t has a mob
crown, which is rather low, as mob
crowns go, and has a tiny brim laid in
small box-plaits, the crown wrapped
about with black or colored satin.
For other trimming there is added a
single black gauze rose, with a center
of gilt beads or rhinestones.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-10-31
CITY of Oniunn Users

In Herman there is fearful amount
of opium eating and smoking. It is a
common saying there that every
fourth man out of three" is an opium
smoker, and it is certainly very diff
cult to find man who is not a slave
to this awful habit. The women, too,
resort to it very much, chiefly as a
means of Kidding themselves of an OBJ
noxious fellow wife, or of ending their
own unhappy lives.-Wide World Mag.
aZiue
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-10-31
Handkerchief Picture Frame.

A neat little frame for picture is
made with handkerchief. It is first
stifly laundeEed. All points are d.
rected toward the center and ironed.
The four points are then turned back,
just reaching the edge. They are
pressed and held in place with baby
ribbon rosettes. This leaves a small
square for the picture. Hang it dia-
mond shape on the wall.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-10-31
na AnnInnized.

Henry. aged three, was left alone
with his three-months-old brother. his
mother, hearing the baby cry, TO
turned to find out what had happenea.
"Oh," said Henry. i choked hiri
little, but asked him to 'scuse me.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-10-31
a Maruelnus EYe Remedy.

Those who know what intense pans
come with some diseases OF the eye
can hardly believe MitcheiFs hys
Salve is able to do all that is clalIned
for it, but a trial soon conyinces pne
of the extraordinary curative powers
of this little remedy Sold all Oyer
the United States. Price Zoe.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-10-31
Fancy BFoadcIotbs

Chiffon broadcloth appears in all the
new colorings and of lightness and
softness even surprising that achieved
by the manufacturers last year. Fancy
broadcioths in one-tone colorings and
woven satin or chevron stripes are
numerous.-American Register, Lon
don.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-10-31
THEIR MENTOR LOST
LEGISLATORS WILL MISS AIMS.
WORTH r. sPoFFoRD.
Head of National Library, Recently
Deceased, Credited with Most
Phenomenal Memory of Any
Man That Ever Lived.

A man who will
be missed is Aims
worth r. Spofford,
librarian of con-
gress between
the years of 1854
and 1897, and
from 1897 until
his death in New
Hampshire t h e
other day, Chief
Assistant Libra
rian Of congress.
All told, he had
hee0 attached tn
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-10-31
Advlca fror, = vise s.ylan,

After getting the best of a man. n
one deal steer clear OF him, pr he
will begin to sit up and take ncFce. -
Exchange.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-10-31

At the time he casts his first pts q
man is too young to realize TINT ne
doesn't know 1t all.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-10-31

Hicks capudine Cures Headashes
Whether from colds. heat, ston1schg or
nervous troubles. No Acetanihd d dan
gerous drugs It's liquid and acts Enfae=
diately. Trial bottle 10c. Regular 4c and
soc at all druggists.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-10-31
TO pRrYE oUT MALARIA .

AND BUIkAO
Take the Old Standard GROVES IASAltsissiis 49,
chilli. TONIC. You know what you are taHlnlg
The Formula il plainly printed ON every Do5Lie
showing tits simply Ouinfne and Iron TN mAteless
form and the most efeetual form. hos 82ow1
people and children. Soc.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-10-31
Ancient Cosmetic.

In Queen Anne's time the court
beauties employed a popular remedy
for making the shoulders and arms
white and fiabby skin firm. This con-
sisted of the whites of four eggs with
grain or two of alum, the whole beat
en- quite thick This mixture is then
spread on the skin over night, care
fully covered with old pieces of linen
and removed in the morning with
warm water and soap.
AS Distinguished from White Mans.
Uncle Tom, the village plasterer,
was making some repairs on his hen.
house. Dis" he haW-hawed, lis de
lllud mans bird den'
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-10-31
At ATLANTIC CITY.

sflas-I jes' tell yer Mandy. tnis
ride makes me feel 80 years younger
Mandy-Yer don't say!
silas-Yep; it's jes' about thet lef
back when l wuz handled the same
way,
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1908-11-28
Seven Years of Proof.

81 have had seven years of
proof that DR.. Kings New Dis
covery is the best medicine to
take for coughs and colds and
for every diseased condition of
throat, chest or lungs" says W.
V. Henry, of Panama, Mo. The
world has had thirty-eight years
Of proof that DR.. Kings New Dis
covery is the best remedy for
coughs and colds, la grippe, asth-
ma, hay fever, bronchitis, hemo.
rrhage Of the lungs, and the early
stages Of consumption. Its timely
use always prevents the develop
ment of pneumonia. Sold under
guarantee at all druggists. SOC
and $1.00. Trial bottle free.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1908-11-28
Judges Of Election
for Dec. z Are Named

The city board Of education In ses.
sion yesterday named the following
persons to serve as judges Of the elec-
tion to be held December 2:
First Ward-Richard Henstrom, He.
Der Carlisle and Helmdr Peterson.
Second Ward-Albert Beirdneau, c.
@. Cressal and Orson p. Thatcher.
Third Ward-Louis Bodrero, Samuel
McKinnin and J. w. Crawford.
Fourth Ward-John p. Johnson, Eli
Bell and Edward Hansen.
Fifth Ward-C. J. Larsen, Elias
Nielsen and James McNiel.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1908-11-28
Wedding Bells.

Thanksgiving marriage licenses Is.
sued from the county clerks Office are
as follows:
Samuel Hansen and Annie jenkins,
Preston.
David H. Hawkes. and Rose Glib
bons, Preston.
John II. Peterson, Hyde Park; Amy
Fallows, Hyrum.
John E. Hill, Logan: Ivy II. Blood,
Kaysville.
James f. Peterson, Hyrum; Hannah
Spence, Wellsville.
Jasper G. Knowles, Logan; Alton
Brown, Iowa.
Otto J. Jensen, Brigham; Virginia
Rassm ussen, Wellsville.
Edward Norman Evans, Bingham
canyon; Mary Dorthea Knuppel,
Smithfeld.
VIM. d. Gilbert and Loretta Hall,
Fairview, IoahO.
Albert Terry, Teton, Idaho: Jane
Weeks, Sunnydell, Idaho.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1908-11-28

cities and provinces along the Ionic
coast, and who was 90 rich that the
name "Cr9sus" had come to be a
synonym for wealth. CrGsusilad fore.
seen some such move on the young
Perslans part and had formed an ALI
ance with the two strong nations,
Egypt and Babylonia.
But Cyrus gave Cresus no time to
await the arrival Of his allies. He At.
tackled the Lydian army. Then after
driving It back ne followed and
crushed II, taking Sardis, the capital,
subdulng the entire land and making
Cresus prisoner.
Having annexed Lydia, Cyrus turned
his attention to Babylonia. His armies
overran the country, and he at last
cooped up Prince Belshazzar in the
city Of Babylon itself. Babylon was
the strongest, as we'll as the most
beautiful, city on earth.
Belshazzar, sure Of Its impregnability,
enjoyed life behind the huge walls and
gave scant thought to the besiegers.
Yet, after two years of patient wait.
Ing, Cyrus won his way into the city
BY night 1888 B. c. while Belshazzar
was feasting, and put the garrison to
the sword.
One by one he subdued the Greek
cities on the Ionic coast, who fercely
resented his rule; annexed by conquest
other Oriental Kingdoms, and he
placed Egypt also In position OF
practical subsection.
Thus, before he reached middle age
the former shepherd boy found him.
self Emperor OF the continent of Asia,
from the Hellespont to India. In
other words. he was master Of nearly
all the world that was then civilized.
Rome was but semi. barbarian city;
Greece not yet In its prime. The rest
Of Europe was little better than
savage. The Orient was the most i'm.
portant part Of the globe. And Cyrus
had conquered nearly all the Orient.
But India remained unsubdued. 1t
was an immense country, powerful
and progressive. Lon 1t had appealed
to Cyrus cupidity He had won de.
tached frontier provinces of 1t. Now
he planned to strike at the very heart
Of the rich territory. As a preliminary
campaign he marched against the wild
Scythians and their Queen, Tonyris.
Here, for The first time Ia his life, the
world. conqueror was beaten. Beaten
bv woman, too, which In those days
was the acme Of disgrace.
Cyrus fought In person on the dis.
astrous field and was slain. Yet the
victories ne had won were distined to
live after him. Chief of these was the
founding Of the Persian Empire; an
empire that swayed the rest Of the
nations as an invincible mistress, un-
til, like Media, its own prosperity
later caused It's weakness and fell.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1908-11-28
News Items From U. 4. c.
Continued From Page l
sent out later in circulars.

sent out later in circulars.
The college debaters are beginning
thus early to prepare for the March
debate with the Brigham Young Uni.
versity. The subject Of the debate is
As follows: Resolved, that the FEEDER.
81 government should levy q proper.
tional income tax, provided that only
q federal income tax shall be advocat-
ed and that the coustitutionality of
the question shall not be discussed.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1908-11-28
HEROES OF HISTORY
Reading For Boys and
Girls
By ALBERT PAYsON TERHUNE.

By ALBERT PAYsoN TERHUNE.
A ten-year.old boy--supposed son Of
Median shepherd--stood 10 the pres
ence Of Astyages, king of the Modes.
The lad was accused Of trying to make
his fellow schoolboys obey him as king
and Of causing the flogging Of noble.
mans son who had disobeyed him.
Such actions were not common to
peasant children, nor did the boy him.
self look like a shepherd. Astyages,
after the custom Of the day, put the
supposed father to torture In order to
clear up the mystery.
The herdsman confessed thai the
hoy was not really his son, but had
been brought to him 10 infancy by
Harpagus, one OF Astyages' chief coun.
sellors. Harpagus had hidden him lay
the baby among the rocks Of q noun.
tam for wild beasts to eat. This he
had not done, but had placed there q
dead child of his own and had brought
up the changeling as his.
Harpagus was then sent for. Ten
years earlier Astyages had been
warned Ia q dream that the newborn
son Of his daughter would one day
wrest the kingdom Of Media from him.
So he had hidden Harpagus put the
child to death. Harpagus now &C.
knowledged that he had instead given
the baby to the herdsman.
The chain of evidence was complete.
Astyages recognized the shepard boy
~ his grandson and only heir, Cyrus
Cyrus parents were at that time liv.
ing In Persia, = hardy little principal
tty subservient to Media. Thither,
latter Furnishing Harpagus by putting
the latter's son to death In peculiar.
horrible wsy) Astyages sent his newly
discovered grandson.
In Persia. Cyrus grew to manhood
among the brave simple people Of thst
young country. Media was the great.
est nation on earth, but like most too
prosperous kingdoms, was growing
weak and effeminate through It's own
greatness. Harpagus, reveuge;ul Of
his own wrongs at the hands OF Lsty-
ages, melted Cyrus TO raise q Persian
army against Media.
Cyrus did 50. Harpagus, who was
In command Of the Median forces,
went over to the enemy, aud Cyrus
won an overwhelming victory 1859 b.
O. capturing the aged Astyages and
annexing Media to Persia, combining
the two into one vast empire, with
himself as Its sovereign. He spared
his grandfather's life, but forced the
Inundated old man to walt on him as
a servant for the rest of his days.
Now that he swsyed the empire Of
the Modes and Persians and had raised
Persia from mere petty dependency
to a world power, Cyrus was still far
from content. He had tasted success.
The fever OF conquest wa upon him.
III Media had been SO easy to conquer,
why not the rest Of the woIld2
His nearest powerful neighbOr was
King Cresus OF Lydia, who ruled a
mighty country that included the pro-
tectorate Of a group Of Greek Stree"
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-04
EDWARDS
FOUND DEAD
IN BED
Retired Manufactures Had
Been Apparently Well.
Cause, Heart Rupture.

Charles Edwards, a retired manu-
facturer. who was found dead in bed
at his home, 1876 Elm : -eet, yesterday
morning, was rs years old. lie was IN
good health during his long life, and
made no complaint until a week ago,
when he complained of "tightness" in
his breast after running a block to
catch a--trolley car. But he was at a
watchnight meeting in the New York
Avenue Reformed Church on New
Years eve, and New Years night went
to an entertainment given in the Fifth
Baptist Church by the children of the
Children's Temple, of which his only
son, Charles w. Edwards. is leader.
At 9:45 o'clock Thursday night he said
good night to his only daughter,
Miss Eliza Edwards, and went up TO
his room.
Yesterday she raped at the door Of
his room to wake him, and getting no
reply opened the door and found him
dead on the bed.
county, Physician Daniel Elliott said
death was caused by the effects of a
rupture of a valve of the heart when
he ran after the trolley car.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m.
Monday in the Union Street M. IL.
Church, of which he was an old mem
Der and at one time on the offlcial
board. The pastor, the Rev. Heddlng
B. Leach, will officiate, assisted by the
Rev. j.. A. Owens, of Hackettstown;
the Rev. DR.. Daniel H. Martin, pastor,
of the Clinton Avenue Reformed
Church, and probably the Rev. Dr..
William II. Morgan, pastor OF central
M. =. Church. Interment will be made
in the Clinton Cemetery at Irvington.
Charles Edwards was born in Worces-
ter, England, and came to he United
States 60 years ago.. He learned the
woodworking trade at the old Coe hub
and wheel factory, and after being a
journeyman worked in the old James
hub and wheel factory in Summit
street. During the Civil Wal he started
in business for himself in Church street.
now Halsey street, and later moved to
what is now Broad street station OF the
Newark and New York railroad.
When the building he leased there
was being torn down, to make way for
the railroad station, Mr.. Edwards
leased a building in Commercial street,
near the big malt house. After a great
fire in the street in the late seventies.
when his and other plants were de-
stroyed. he retired from active business.
He was a member of the Newark
Praying Band, which went to all parts
of New Jersey to help Methodist coun-
try churches. The late Samuel Crane,
father of County Counsel Elvin w.
Crane, was treasurer of the band, and
George Oughletree, who lives in Rose
vile, was a memebr of the band.
Mr.. Edwards, whose wife dice seven
years ago, is survived by n son and
n daughter, two grandchildren and
three great grandchildren.