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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-05-09

provide gentlemen escorts with the
very best of references, and speakin8
many languages to any lady in need
of an escort But, of course, the 9th
er thing would be 'horrid bad form,
she added as she looked at the book
from which she had been reading, en-
titled, THE Complete Manual OF be
havior for All Occasions. 4
you see, this is very properly
conducted business. We require the
very highest references from the men
who apply for the positions OF escorts
and from ladies who would like to De-
come chaperons.
"Why, we have one young gentle
man, an Englishman of very nne ram
ily. who can speak four languages ana
who has been. used to the very best OF
society. / could recommend him 70
any lady as an escort to most arlstc'
cratic places.
He knows how to dance and to
take a hand at bridge, and he mas
travelled all over the world and IS an
interesting conversationalist. He's
lust lovely" added Miss Schneider, en-
Enthusiastically.
"Then Mr.. Pearson W. Jackson, the
business manager of our bureau, is ele-
CANT too. He went to Yale college.
OF course. a lady doesn't have to call
her escort by his real name. Some
would like to have people think tneir
escort an old friend, for that would
look much more proper, and so sho
could call him Frank or Dick or any
sort of pet name, you know added
Miss Schneider, encouragingly.
Besides the escort end of the new
bureau chaperons of every age ana
for every occasion can be obtained. Ii
a young girl would like to go to q
summer resort, say, and wanted an
"aunt" or a "grandmothcr" to accom-"
pany her, and she was out OF either
she might write to the accommoda'
| ton bureau.
! A very quietly and properly attlreA
lady would "auntie up.
Girls who are In boarding school
and who come to New York for
week ends" with parents too busy
to take them to the matinee, will finG
a parent" to do duty for the after
noon at a dollar an hour.
"of course" Miss Schneider added.
of chaperons are required for out-of-
town trips, they will be charged for by
the day instead of by the hour.
"You understand, also" she con-
tinued, "that our gentlemen escorts
are all dressed for the occasion. Il
a man is required for dinner and
theater, he calls for the lady dressed
in evening clothes, gloves and hat
everything perfectly good form, you
know, and If the occasion is an after.
noon one, he wears tall hat and q
frock suit We aim at elegance in all
our appointments" Miss Schneider as
sured me.
ut only takes a little courage and
good books on manners" is the recipe
she gives to become good. up-to-date
chaperon in New York.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-05-09
Pich Fields UndeveIoped

rushed in the Potts creek T-alley OF
Virginia, just over the West Virginia
line, involving an outlay of 100000
in railroad construction, all of which
was financed before zhe present finan-
ciaI stress, apd of more than 100000
in mining iron ore, shipments Of
which to Virginia furnaces have al
ready begun. The Chesapeake & Ohio
railroad laS built into the field a line
rs miles g. the Norfolk G West
ern railway expects to finish an extern
sion into the field by July, and $500, 900
had been spent in the installation of
mammoth ore washers, steam shovels
and other machinery. The ore varies
in thickness from ten to twelve to
sixty feet and runs from Is to so
per cent. metallic iron Near to
the ore are the ricl eaking Goals
Of the Norfolk G Western and New
River fields, while in close proximity
are heavy seams of limestone.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-05-09
By John D. White

Many great fortunes of to-day had
their inception during some financial
disturbance Of the past.
The great firm of Tiffany & Co., New
York city, was launched in the trou-
blous times of 1871. Succeeding panics
never disturbed it's progress.
The Leland Stanford fortune owes
its beginning to the panic of 1857.
The panic of 1873 was precipitated
by the failure of the house of Jay
Cooke & Co., but the "dnancier of the
rebellion" refused to take the count.
We next find him rehabflitating his
fallen fortune during the financial
stress of 1893.
Jay Gould, after three attempts at
making his way in the world had
failed, began his railroad career and
his fortune in 1857. The financial de-
preston of 1873 was another ill wind
that blew him good and he further
AUGMENTED his wealth. These and
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-05-09
Hart Mckee Divorce
Like PAGE from Novel.

The Hart Mckee divorce involves
more persons and recalls a romance of
coquetry and fitting unequaled outside
the pages of novels.
Hart Mckee belongs to the circle of
New -Pittsburg millionaires who
have kept the world at large guessing
during the past decade. He divorced
his first wife, according to society's
vigorous rumors, in order to marry the
wife of Lawrence c. Phipps, another
member Of the Pittsburg millionair !.
coterie. But, even while Mrs. PhipLs
was securing her divorce, he met beau
tiful Cornelia Baxter Tevis, widow of
Hugh Tevis, one of CALIFORNIA; rich
est young men. And, meeting her, he
forgot his fealty to the woman who,
it was said, was securing divorce for
his sake. He and Mrs. Tevis were
married and the Phipps family was
suddenly and inexplicably reconciled
and reunited in marriage.
On her side, Mrs. Tevis-McKee
brought another tale of fitting and CO.
quetry, having broken her engage
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-05-09

ments, but lacking In what maKea
woman truly beautiidl-a soul For a
time she queened it over her hus.
bands newly acquired social life The
first wife was forgotten. Then sud-
denly the latter appeared upon the
scene, but different woman. She
had spent the intervening years
abroad, where she had studied under
able masters and had been gowned by
the subtlest of modistes and millin-
ers. She had become an accomplished
charming, perfectly poised woman.
And before her lovely personality the
mere physical charms of the second
| wife faded. The first wife became
social queen in her disloyal hus-
| bands own set. The second wife be-
came social outcast. But this time
the woman held out no reckoning
hand of welcome. The man held his
head high, but he had to make way
| for the woman he had deserted Who
shall not say that her regal figure was
more than a Nemcsis-an avenger-
that separated him from his second
W4I0 1thS oil dASS4 c1ASQ WILL q
sword?
And who can truly picture the mis-
cry of the second wife, the woman who
had come between?
To-day the gossips Of Broadway
whisper Of even sadder case. Oc-
casionally in one of the cafes near
Forty-second street, or standing in
the doorway of a theatrical agents
office, you will see the trembling, pal
sled figure of a man who once sent
Broadway into gales Of merriment. To
day the laughter has faded from his
eyes, and in it's place there Is haunt
ed look.
Ten years ago this comedian, with
his wife, was playing on the Bowery.
Then vaudeville came into vogue, and
they moved from the Bowery into the
continuous houses. Here the little
wife's dancing went very we'll She
was a good foil for her comedian hus-
bands merry antics and quips. But
by and by he stepped from the continu-
Gus to the smart Broadway reviews
and he was ashamed of the little
woman who had helped to carve this
new niche for him. He did not feed
her ground glass nor poisoned candy,
as they do in plays, but he stabbed her
loyal heart with words more deadly
than the keenest-pointed stiletto. And
the little woman did the rest-with
poison.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-05-09
{ Famine Far Distant Panics Bring Good Fortune
Farmer Gets Best Germs Possible
from His Representative.

Washington.-The bureau of plant
industry has just issued pamphlet
treating the subject of the germina-
ton of vegetable seeds, which was
prepared by Edgar Brown and Willard
L. Gross, in which the integrity of
government or congressional seed"
is maintained.
For the purpose of comparing seed
sent out by the department on the or
ders of congressman with seed pur-
chased in the open market and known
to the trade as commission" seeds,
several hundred packets of the latter
seed were purchased in the states Of
Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts, Ken
lucky, Wisconsin, North Dakota, Kan
sas and Colorado and the termination
closely watched.
In all cases the average germina-
ton of the commission" seeds tested
was lower than those sent out in the
congressional seed distribution.
The officials of the department ba-
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-05-09

not what it had been pictured; pow
er more potent and vital was exerting
its influence over these romantic, scan
dal-defying couples. The world could
not see this power, but erring hus-
bands saw it and felt it and could
find no avenue of escape from it. 1t
was their Nemesis-the ghostly, silent,
reckoning, never-sleeping figure Of the
first wife's love.
Before Jared K. Cook, rector Of st.
Georges parish, Hampstead, L. l.,
eloped with poor, foolish, 17-year-old
F1oretta Whaley he said to the girls
grandmother: Il swore when | first
discovered how overwhelming was my
alteration for her that l would never
let her get away from me. I dreamed
of her, and soon 1 realized that she
was the woman for whom had always
been pining. 1 promised myself that
/ would make her II wife some time,
and my determine a cannot be
shaken"
To-day. in some secluded corner OF
this continent or across the sea, Jared
Cook and Floretta Whaley are waiting
for the law to take its course and set
the man free; and in Hartford beau
tiful woman with prematurely white
hair and eyes from which the joy Of
living has faded, is waiting-for what?
For the law to set her free from the
man who was untrue to his vows, and
who thereby brought disgrace on her
household and wrecked her life? Per.
haps. But it is more likely that,
being a woman, loving, steadfast
woman, she is waiting, with arms out,
stretched, for the return Of the lover
and husband of her youth. And that
silent, heart-wringing message may
reach across oceans and continents
and find repentant man.
And who but Floretta Whaley will
pay the terrible price OF his fall and
repentance?
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-05-09

many others have turned to profit
those times considered calamitous to
natures Of less stern stuff.
Then, too, the Few alignment Of en-
ployes in office. store or shop, follow
ing the business stagnation, will give
the man who was able to retain his
place a good chance for an advance
ment. The man who lost his position
during the temporary retrenchment
may be bettered in the long run by
being shaken loose from a job in
which he was liable to become fossil
ized. Necessity will give him cour-
age, and incentive to look for some
thing else, both of which he probably
had lacked before.
During these days opportunity will
tarry at many doors that never have
known that magic presence before.
Many man for the first time will see
success with its Midas touch turn al
his efforts into gold
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-05-09

employ twice as much help as others.
Took up the business because /
liked it. had always been fond of
sewing. My grandmother taught me
how. She had come out west when 1t
was new country and had been COM
PEELED to make all the clothes for her
family. She said she always hated to
make the girls things, but she just
felt in clover when her husband and
sons had to be fitted out l inherited
it from her, for when my father died
and had to go out to work it came
as natural to me to make mems
clothes as 1t does for duck to take
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-05-09
Success Made Actor TurM
from His Life Partner

The scandal was hushed up, the
comedian went on his triumphant
way; beautiful women of the stage
angled for him, and one of them won
him. He was successful and gossip
dared not rear its head too high. Then
suddenly it was discovered that he
could not remember his lines. He for
got his cues. His dancing was I'M
certain, his antics were unfunny. FL
nally his engagements were Cancelled.
"Paresis," said the doctors.
But there are men and women OF
the old days who know him best who
say that it is not any real physical all
ment, but a reckoning figure, the fig
ure of the deserted, heart-broken wife,
whose spirit cannot rest in a sui
cide's grave.
And who can describe the misery of
the second wife watching his living
deathG
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-05-09
NEW CHAPERON BUREAU ESTAB-
LISHED IN NEW YORK.
"Grandmothers" or "Aunts" Will Be
Supplied as Needs May Require
Men Provided for Any
Occasion.

New York.-1f you need grand
mother, an aunt or a male escort, they
can all be supplied while you wait.
That's the very newest bureau to be
established in New York.
An enterprising young woman, Miss
Anna Schneider, has opened such an
ONCE on Broadway, entitled the New
York Accommodation Bureau. She
says that oftimes one Is in need of a
grandmotherly chaperon, one whom a
girl can call Granny" and who will
answer to it; or she may want an
AUNT" to chaperon her to a college
dance which might hold until entirely
too late for grandma If that girl
lives in Greater New York and her
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-05-09
Horse Thief Was Too Polite.

Parson Richardson's within half IN
hour"
The man then went to Rev. J. w.
Richardson's house and arranged to be
married at three o'clock in the after
noon. He did not give lis name, but
told Mr.. Richardson his bride-to-be
lived in the country, and that he would
drive out for her.
The hostler met him a: Mr. Richard.
sons, was treated to cigars and a
small tip, and dismissed. The stranger
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-05-09

Intersstln some 100000 tons Of th saq
contalnl nst ii the begiaRin 1s t ~ Man
developmssnRs Record By Prof Charles 9ns1a s N,
ufac 5a q Oklahoma. H lev de state. of
the coal a.. n principal one extends 1 lIne
which tng from the . Arkansas Of rs
near Fort NJ southwest and I, e mo eon
niles 70 .c cr Estimates a,, o. tn oo tons tons
tent lans acre Or .a tot total to q IFe ao
1,zo re-. ,slS y he method Of mining ~
ployed. ,,s ! dozen more veins q
There ab5icEnesses in !, di1Is asael pa and
u tae sts coyln fiss has an area OF mofe
~, ,s,s % 900 acres work ia being
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-05-09
Turkexs on . Rampaae.

Rising Sun, Md.-Enraged at his
red handkerchief, two large turkey
gobblers attacked r. B. Marshall
while he was walking near the home
of George Nesbitt, owner of the birds.
and it required the combined efforts of
both Marshall and Nesbitt to drive the
turkeys off.
The birds beat Marshall's legs with
their wings, bruising him severely. He
yelled Justify and Nesbitt ran to his
aid. Using light sticks as clubs they
managed, after sharp fight, to rout
the angry gobblers.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-05-09
MAKES SHOTS NolsELEss.
Worcester Man Invents Firearnn At.
tachment Different from Maxim's,

Worcester, Mass.-Oiiver A. Smith
of 2 Sumner street has invented an
apparatus for making noiseless the
discharge of all kinds of firearms. Ii
is wholly different from that invented
recently by Hiram Percy Maxim.
Smiths invention can be carried about
in vest pocket and attached at
moments notice.
Smith regards 1t as a remarkable
coincidence that at the time his ia.
vention was being perfected the same
idea was being worked out secretly BY
Maxim hundreds Of miles away.
Smith does not allow close scrutinY
CT his attachment, but from demon
stration it seems to be kind OF cap
with narrow bar across tie top. that
fastens on to the end of The barrel
or muzzle, adding an inch Or mere I'd
its length. The outlet is the exact
bore Of the shot, but projecting Id.
ward the bore increases slightly.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-05-09
Tipped the HostIer Who Brought Rig
to Go After bride"

Stamford, Gonna horse thief with
a new game got away from here with
a $500 horse and a rubber-tired run.
about belonging to Emmett L. Weed, a
livery stable man.
I'm going to be married." the
stranger said to the hostler who wait.
ed on him, land l want your best
horse and runabout. Call for me at
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-05-09

to water. We lived in the country
then and had to go around sewing
by the day. At the end Of six years /
had worked up such tailoring trade
in that community that hadn't any
time to give to making women's and
girls clothes. One Of my patrons
moved to Chicago and the next spring
wrote me to come on and do my regu-
lar two weeks work for her husband
and sons. She said she had been all
over the city with her boys and hadn't
found a place where she could get as
good-looking suits for the same money
that it cost her when made them"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-05-09

ment to young lawyer, Gerald
Hughes, on the very eve Of her mar
riage, to wed her first husband. To-
day these two, man and woman of
many moods and uncontrolled whims,
are ready to part once more, and So
ciety, struggling its shoulders, in
quires, callously: will he 20 back
to the first Mrs. Mckee or to Mrs.
Phipps?" For even the ca1loused. So
called society circles of this money
mad age seem to have faith that the
man will go back to the love that he
believes is most tolerant to his faults,
most loyal to himself.
George Gordon Massey of Dover,
Del, petted son and man of luxurious
tastes and goodly paternal allowance,
married girl Of slightly less social
standing. She bore with his short
comings and made him welcome when
ever he wandered home from his life
of artificial gayety.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-05-09
Uncle Sam Sends Good Seed.

lieve that this destroys the claim Of
the critics that government seeds are
Of lower quality and designed more
for the purpose Of aiding politicians
than the supplying of good seed to
the farmers Of the country.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-05-09
Had Many Before.

Lawyer-Here are your divorce ps-
pers, madam. advise you to take
good care of them.
Charming Soubrette-Why, certain
ly, Mr.. Lessen. | shall put them in
my safety deposit box, where all the
others are.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-05-09

did not return and the police were
notified that the horse and runabout
had disappeared, too. They have spent
description of the stranger and the
horse and runabout to the police of
reighboring towns
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-05-09
Divorced Wife Who Became
Queen in Social Circles

WUNET III SUVTaI WWOINo
Far back in one of the Rocky noun
tain states the ghost of such a tragedy
and it's representatives. "A man who
had found enormous wealth in the
gold-ribbed mountains divorced the
wife who had followed him over the
packtrail and cooked for his miners.
His second wife was woman of
magnificent physical beauty, some So
cial standing and a few accomplish
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-05-09
Left Home for Woman
He Fancied He Loved

Then suddenly there came into his
life, beautiful, dashing young wom-
an, Evelyn Raue, wife of DR.. G. S.
Raue, of Philadelphia. The two de-
cided that they could not live apart
and they proceeded to elope, settling
in Cody, Wyo. There they faced the
stern realities of life. The paternal
allowance ceased. The young man
knew nothing of the gentle art of
earning livelihood. The woman in
the case was game. She tried to find
a solution of their problem-a bare
liying-but the man recalled the pa
tient wife, the well-kept home, the
welcome that never failed, the placid
corner to which he could always turn
when he wearied of his gayer compan-
the object of his sudden and inexplic-
able grand passion and returned to his
first love.
Is it hard to picture the hopeless
ness Of the second woman deserted?
Then there was the famous Acer do
nestle reunion. Frank Adams Acer
married beautiful Miss Addie Estelle
Tilt in April, 1897. Two children were
born to them and all was apparently
happy until the green-eyed monster
invaded their perfectly appointed
home. Mrs. Acer proved her right to
a divorce on statutory grounds, but
the name Of the correspondent was
kept secret. Two years passed, stormy
years, during which the husband-fa-
Their longed for wife, home and babies.
And finally he won them all back. Mr..
and Mrs. Acer were remarked on
November 8, 1904. and are happy.
But what of the third party, "the
woman in the case?" After all, is she
not the greater sufferer-for she has
not public nor private sympathy?
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-05-09

Money talks, but it is not heard in
heaven, save when it speaks through
lips which it has stirred to grateful
loYe.-Chicago Tribune.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-05-09

New York. - Floretta Whaley, de-
serted by her clergyman-lover Jared K.
COOK, Is wreck, was flashed over the
wires one beautiful August morning.
Floretta Whaley, deserted by her
clsrgyman-lover, a wreck" was the
legend printed, in foot-high letters on
Park rows bulletin boards.
Men and women hurrying to and
from the bridge paused an instant,
shrugged their shoulders and muir
INJURED: well, what else would you
expect from such an elopement?"
Mrs. Hart Mckee sues for di.
voree," whispered the cables under
the sea.
Mrs. Hart Mckee sues for divorce, "
echoed thousands of newspaper head
lines all over America.
ARd again the world shrugged its
shAAlders and murmured: well, what
w. you expect when their marriage
bANA,p up homer"
e2ter the Whaley news was denied,
and relatives of the girl declared that
nothing had been heard from her. She
wes dead to them. The day of forgive
ness was past.
The Hart Mckee announcement
was not denied.
The two stories stand in public opin-
ion for dishonor and unhappiness-
end why?
Because public opinion, that most
volatile ana restless of ba~ometers, has
shifted its viewpoint once more.
Time was when an elopement held
every element of romance, and the
world applauded, writes Anna Steese
richardson In the New York World
Those were the days when young PEG
nle oftentimes unnecessarily stole
away with Dan Cupid, when an un
reasonable, parent could be made to
DEE tight BY no other means. Then
followed the period when, at rare In
teryals, young woman ran away
,7;th a married man, or, more rarely
still Young man, like feudal baron
u tbe olden days, stole away the wife
of his neighD0r. ~ "
cases startled the community IN Whlcn
thew occurred, but scandal gradually
s 49, before the excuse: 1T is q case
of tbe grand passion. She was tne
= - ~ conan in the world for him ano
!, VIZ = wrong for two unloving persons &c
live together"
And Now Is shown the
nther side of the story.
ror ) time this sophistry swayee
..sl,c opinion. Then domestic ms
paDno not always written but stu wei
snav divorce court annals I.ai ana news news
Aa osy headlines told 9 different STORY pr,
se grand passion died, even as o ent
III, ~ Il youth sometimes fades: o rs
love s,vorce led to another HusD DaiYa the Re
a e1,xOed to their first wives s WINE IN,
turns an Who had lured them from rom sn zen
,anthstones we're left to race 'a a'
heaT Ts Nth It's Struggling shoulders Al
nest they might. IA woke ND to {
Os and then the world 1apd S0 passion rn wa,
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-05-09

Temperance is the noslest gift eg
God Euripides.