St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-03-20

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some one say that the girl who played
Topsy in the show had got mad and
quit, and that the manager was in
quiring if there was anyone in the
town who could take the part until ne
could get another girl from the city.
1t was a case of seek no farther
right then and there. Eliza Alice
struck for the job and got it.
When the show wagons left that
night Eliza Alice's trunk was In one
of them, and she was on the payroll
at SO per week The people did not
get through talking about her sensa-
tional departure for at least month,
and then from time to time her moth
er would drop an occasional hint OF
her great success on the stage.
Nearly two years had passed when
Sim Nipple returned from a trip to
Chicago and brought paper with
glowing account of the great success
of a new comic opera. An entire
page was given to describing the tai
ent and beauty of the star of the
opera, Miss Eliza Alys, and in the
many photographs old friends land
enemies) had no troublein distinguish
ing the features of Eliza Alice, though
she was evidently a graduate OF some
beauty parlor, and had gained by the
course of sprouts she had undergone.
Samantha Ann was the bright par
ticular star at a church festival that
was pulled off just after Eliza Alice
from the ruffles of her skirt. She not
only played the organ, sang solo and
helped wait on the tables, but she did
most of the elbow work in scrubbing
out the church after the big event.
The young preacher was completely
captivated with this display of her all
around ability, and fearing something
might occur to switch him off again,
he Immediately began negotiations
and before Samantha Ann could rea
lie it she found herself duly author
lied by law to half-sole the seat OF the
minister's trousers. 1t was all done
so quickly that the church trustees
suggested they live with Pa and Ma
Smith awhile, and having thus side
tracked the parsonage talk promptly
forgot it.
In the course of a year Pa Smith
was grandpa, and the next year he
was another. The minister made a
dignified howl for an increase in sal
airy, but the church people could not
see why they should be taxed any
more for salvation because his family
kept growing.
Samantha Ann might have been il
her early twenties but the bloom was
gone from her cheeks, there was E
stoop to her shoulders, and she looked
more like a woman in her late for
ties.
Still, with all her drudgery and toll
she often thanked heaven that no one
had ever talked about her as they
had about Eliza Alice, and she wa:
glad she could walk along the stree
with head high in the air, knowing
that no one was going to say some
thing mean after her BACK was turned
Samantha Ann was thus we'll satisfied
with her condition in life until the
town decided to hold a chatauqua one
year, and deputation Of leading citi
I zens was sent to Chicago to get Eliza
Alice to sing at the doings in the park
She agreed to come, but she stuns
them for $3.50 for three stingy songs
While she was in town she was en-
tertained by the local magnate's wife
and the people who used to play foot
ball with her reputation every TIM
there was the slightest opportunit.
quarreled with each other in the effor
to heap her with attentions, even thu
preacher giving evidence by his &C
lions that he had forgotten that sh
had thrown him to play Topsy.
Samantha Ann had never beel
known to make a display of temper
but when she saw Eliza Alice so high
ly honored by the Hammer club sh
went home with a well-defned upwar
tilt to her nose. When she got Their
she took one long look at her fade
face in the mirror and then smashe
the reflector with the rolling pir
When the rest of the folks came hom
they found her rubbing some colo
into her cheeks with piece of chan
OILS, paying no heed to the baby, whic
was lying on the floor and yelling Xix
a small boy with too many green ar
, pies in his midst.
Having fixed her face to suit, real
, ranged her hair in the latest style
added a bow of ribbon at her necl
and otherwise rejuvenated her appear
ance, she went out on the front porcI
There they found her half an hour af
erward talking to a good-looking tray
cling man. Her father asked her hoV
she got acquainted with him, and sh
,, told him it was none Of his bushes!
!, Where Apple Brandy Is Made.
Apple brandy" said T. J. Batmar
''is one of the most peculiar of drinks
1t is made in but few sections of thi
country, and Meade caunty, Kentuck,
produces az much usually as an
other section, with the possible excel
l ton of California. Most of the brand
Il for this locality came from there thi
year, but the apples had to be shippe
Il from New York. The production !
about one gallon to each three bushel
of apples.
1T may strike you as strange ths