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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-11-20
ILITTAUER ON ROOSEVELT
Ex-Conqressman of New York Tells,
Story Which Starts Politicians
to Thinking.

EX-Representatiye Lucius N. Lit
intimate friend of Theodore RoOse-
welt. but fell out with him later, went
70 the White House early in March
to bid him a formal good-by. They
talked for two hours, and in the
course of their conversation Mr.. Lit
tauer says the retiring president
spoke TO him in this wise;
Il have settled a few scores in my
time. BY extraordinary methods, /
elected Republican majority in the
house n the Sixtieth congress. Speak
er Cannon did not appreciate what |
had done for him. He would have
been president but for my opposition
10 him. That score is settled. | had
troubles with Representative Tawney
Of Minnesota chairman of apprOpria-
lions, but l think | have fixed him.
| have nominated and elected my sue
cessor. but | am not so sure but what
shall have yet to settle a score with
him"
This statement of Mr.. Littauer's is
being told around Washington and has
started the politicians to thinking. In
surgent Republicans are busy matur-
ing plans for trouble this winter, now
that the president has made it clear
he is going to train with the regulars
IN senate and house. They are "hol-
lering' terribly against Speaker Can
non, Senator Aldrich and other regu-
lar leaders, and piling fuel upon the
fractional fires.
All this uprOar which is promised
against the established leaders of the
party is to be utilized, as the prophe-
cles go, toward widening the breach.
1t may not be long before there will
be Roosevelt Republicans and Taft
Republicans, representing the two
wings of the party. Roosevelt may
not sanction it, but he will not be in a
position to forbid it, and much of the
Lossible mischief may have been done
before he gets to European capitals,
where he will first gather reliable in
formation of comprehensive charac-
ter about what has been happening in
the United States since his departure
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-11-20

shambled, hat in hand, to the man.
ayers desk.
Mr.. Owens looked over his glasses
any met the strangers deprecatory
eyes.
I'm sorry to trouble We, sir" the
man began.
But you're hungry, and can't get
work." Mr.. Owens finished, promptly.
He studied the unshaven face of the
mendicant a moment, then went on:
We'll, my man, I've been in the same
boat myself and / know how sea-sick
it makes a fellow feel. Here you are, -
and a quarter dropped into the grimy,
outstretched hand.
That's all right. Cut all that out, "
Mr.. Owen interrupted, motioning the
man off, and before the beggar was
half through with his speech of graft
other letter. The door had been
closed on the vagrant but a moment,
however, when Mr. Owen raised his
eyes and was vaguely conscious that
something which he had seen but a
moment before was missing. Sudden
ly he sprang from his chair, seized his
hat, and rushed precipitately from the
office.
Couldn't get work, Ell? Well, I'll
teach the hObO!" he muttered to him
self, but Wilkey's hearing was acute.
Mr.. Owens looked up and down the
thOrOughfare and soon singled out his
man in the moving thrOng, and the
pursuit began. Down the street the
philanthropist sped like hound that
has caught the scent.
A driver on a coal wagon stood up
and tried, from his elevated position,
to pick the man who was hunted. With
one accord men, women and children
stepped out of Owens path and
stopped at the side of the walk to fol
low him with their eyes. At the cor
ner he collided with a young man who
was SO daintily choosing his steps
across a damp place in the walk that
he failed to observe the runner.
Beg pardon" exclaimed Mr.. Owens,
as he threw his arm round the fellow
long enough to steady him.
I'm surprised you've the grace to
apologize" answered the indignant
dandy. Pardon, indeed"
Mr.. Owens stopped an instant to
shout over his shoulder: Pardon was
what said sir; but I'll be back in a
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-11-20
Presidents Office Is Round.

President Taft's new private office
is practically ready for occupancy. 1t
is circular in shape, and as one of the
workmen put it, 1T will fit him nice
ly." The president will be surrounded
by law books. AS soon as he became
chief executive he had shelves built
along the walls of the office which Mr..
Roosevelt had just vacated, and on
these shelves went broWn-covered
books by the scores. Mr.. Taft believes
in having the constitutional authori-
ties within reach. There is vast diff
ference between the Taft and the
Roosevelt decorations" of the White
House office Mr.. Taft's law books
have been told about. Mr. Roosevelt
had picture of Abraham Lincoln on
the wall, an ak in one corner and a
Mauser rife in another. That was all.
The ak appeared in its corner unher-
aided by any advance notice. 1t ap-
peared suddenly, and visitors on the
day of it's coming wondered at it. One
had the courage to ask the colonel
what the AK was for. The answer was
a grin.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-11-20
WILL TEST WIRELESS
NAVY DEPARTMENT PLANS
GREAT TELEGRAPHIC FEATS.
Messages to Be Sent 5000 Miles Be-
tween Station in East and War
ships-High Tower on
Brant Rock.

The navy, says a report from Wash
| .ngtOn. is to conduct experiments in
| iOng-distance wireless telegraphy. I'M
pressed with the Importance of sys-
| tenn which will in cases of necessity
| transmit messages from some place on
| the Atlantic seab0ard for d distance
of 1900 miles, the matter was taken
| up in earnest almost year ago. The
desirability of such long-distance com
municatiOn, the officials say, is OBJ
viOus, for in times of war it would
| prove invaluable tot the government.
| BY it's means the navy department
will be able to control and direct readl-
ly from shore the movements of this
| feet. This, together with the propo-
| sition to install wireless apparatus on
! ships SO that they may be able to COM
municate with each other at a dis
| lance of 1000 miles, will put the gov
| crnment in the position where direc-
| tiOns given to one vessel quickly may
| be transmitted to another.
The experiments in communicating
| 5000 miles are to take place at Brant
| Rock, Mass, beginning probably late
| in December. Instruments construct
ed for this purpose have been installed
| in a tower over 400 feet high. Two
scout cruisers, the Salem and the
Birmingham, are to be utilized as re-
ceiving stations. Repairs to these
vessels now under way will be COM
pleted December 4, after which they
will leave the United States for trip
which will keep them within a radius
of 5000 miles of Brant Rock, the pres
ent program contemplating a cruise
from the Scottish coast downward to
the west African coast and also in the
American tropics. Meanwhile mes
sages will be sent to each of these YES
sells, both of which have been equip
ped with ten-kilowatt-power receiving
apparatus, capable, it is asserted, of
recording the long-distance communi-
cations. At the same time the YES
sells will exchange messages for the
purposes of testing the apparatus for
communication 1000 miles at sea.
Strict requirements were laid down
by the navy department in the speci-
fications inviting proposals for con-
structing the proposed high-powered
station as we'll as for the apparatus
aboard ships. The messages from
shore must not be interrupted by at
mospheric disturbances or intentional
or unintentional interference by neigh
boring stations. The messages also
must be transmitted with entire secre-
cy. The apparatus aboard the ships
must be capable of transmitting and
receiving messages at all times, in all
seasons and in all ATTITUDES for 1000
miles and to receive messages from
the high-poWered station for 5000
miles at all times.
Upon the result of these expert
ments will rest the question of the
erection by the navy Of a wireless
tower at Washington as contemplated
originally, that in Massachusetts be-
longing to private company.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-11-20
AS UNDERSTOOD IN BOSTON
Tho Traditional Episode OF Little
Miss Muffet" Brought into
Everyday Coenzanee.

A diminutive specimen OF juvenile
femininity yclept Miss Muttet hao
placed herself in a sitting posture
upon an article of household furniture
ordinarily termed an ottoman or mas
sock
Miniaturing to the qualification OF
her gustatory organs by ingurgltatlng
the coagulated portion of bovine lac
teal fluid mingled with the watery
serum of the same which remains
after the coagulated portion has been
segregated and withdrawn.
Happening to glance downward she
observed that specimen Of the genus
Aranea, class Arachnida, remarkable
for its ability to produce tilaments OF
extraordinary tenuity from its own in
terror, had taken a position upon the
ottoman or hassock in Immediate proX-
unity.
Which totally unexpected incident
aroused her apprehension to such an
extent that she Immediately, not to
say precipitately, arose from her sit
ting posture and departed from the To-
cality, leaving the intruder in undis-
puted possession of the apartment.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-11-20
FINE RECIPE FOR COLDS.

Any druggist can supply these in
gradients or will get them from MS
wholesale house.
Mix half pint of good whiskey, two
ounces of glycerine; half ounce OF
Concentrated pine compound. Shake
the bottle we'll each time and use IN
doses of a teaspoonful to tablespoon
full four times a day" This prescrlp-
ton is said to work wonders.
The Concentrated pine is speclal
pine product and comes only IN nan
ounce bottles, each enclosed in an ar
tight case. but be sure 1t is laDeleu
Concentrated"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-11-20

That Panama earthquake was only
a little one. 1t caused some appre-
hension, but apparently did no dam
age. The canal at Panama was I'M
dertaken in the full knowledge that
the region Is in the earthquake belt,
but also with the conviction that less
danger is to be unprecedented there
than would have threatened had the
United States adhered to the Near
aqua route, for the Nicaragua route
is much longer, and the longer the
route the greater the liability to in
fury of the canal by earthquakes.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-11-20

1t was raw, bleak morning in the
late autumn, but Mr.. Owens, the west
ern manager of the New Haven Male
able Company, scorned the comfort of
closed car. Fresh air" was hobby
Of his, and pedestrianism was an
other. He imposed the walk between
his home and office, a distance of
His bOOkkeeper, a slender, pale-faced
youth, was just in the act Of re-
ferring to the thermometer as Mr..
Owens entered the office.
What? Cold as usual, Wilkey
Not steam enough On?" laughed the
manager, shedding his overcoat and
throwing it carelessly over the railing
in front Of his desk. "Wilkey, tell you
what it is-if you'd walk down of a
morning, you'd get up some steam of
your own
Mr.. Owens was man past the
prime of life. His accent marked him
as down easterner," but his manner
led one to believe he had lived long
in the west. He was tall, broad shout
dered, simple, energetic, whole souled
and, above all, sympathetic. He treat,
ed the members of his office force with
cordial familiarity. He usually ad.
dressed Charley, the Office boy, as my
SON.
He had only just begun to attack
the batch of letters on his desk when
the office door opened and admitted
a gaunt, shabby individual, who looked
furtively around the room and quick
ly satisfied himself that Mr.. Owens
was the promising one to dccost, he
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-11-20
First Continental Railroad

California built her drst railroad
line in 1856 aud was as eager to
reach the Atlantic as the eastern
states were to get to the Pacific
There was a universe! clamor for a
transcontinental railroad that should
unite the east and west, although not
such a long stretch of years before
the man who had proposed such a gil
gantic undertaking would have stood
an excellent chance of being clapped
into an asylum as dangerous luna
tic.
1t was on July 1, 1862, while the
whole nation was plunged in civil war
and all it's industries in a state of
paralysis, that congress incorporated
the Union Pacific railroad. The
building of this line toward the Pa
citic was looked upon then as one of
the greatest undertakings the modern
world had witnessed.
Seven years later, when the Union
Pacific formed a junction with the
Central Pacific li2o near Ogden, Utah,
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-11-20
Bad Fruit for Pies.

The United States, through United
States Attorney Baker, has brought
suit in the district supreme court and
condemned some 40 or SO cases OF
spoiled fruit. There were seven cases
Of California raisins, several cases of
evaporated apples, a lot of wormy
peanuts and a number of other ar.
ticles of food, which were to go into
the making up of pies and cakes for
those who have money enough to pay
for them. 1t is stated ii the bill of
complaint that these fruits. and things
were absolutely rotten.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-11-20

table. / will never be without this
medicine in the house" Mrs. SAM'L
LEE, 1923 Fourth ST., Louisville, Ky.
Another Operation Avoided.
Adrian, CAT suffered untold
misery from female troubles, and my
doctor said an operation was my only
chance, and I dreaded it almost as
much as death. Lydia e. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound completely cured
me without an operation. LENA V.
HENRY, r. F. D. 5.
Thirty years of unparalleled sue
cess confirms the power Of Lydia e.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to
cure female diseases. The great vol
ume of unsolicited testimony constant
" pouring in proves conclusiyely that
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound is remarkable remedy for those
distressing feminine ills from which
80 many women suffer.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-11-20
The Genealogical Question.

The business of life allows no spare
time any more. One cannot get rich
nowadays in Office hours, nor become
great, nor keep Geographically in
formed, nor do his share of talking
and listening. Everybody but the
plumber and paper hanger works over
time. How the earth keeps up a nee
essary amount of whirling in the old
24-hour limit is more than we can
understand. But she can: keep up
the pace much longer. She must have
an extra hour. And how to snatch it
from the tail-end of eternity is the
burning genealogical question.-DaI.
las Lore Sharp, il The Atlantic.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-11-20

A recruit in New York who openly
cursed the army and the American
nag and who asserted he had entered
the United States service merely for
money and graft, was court-marttaled
and sent to prison for several years.
The country has no more use for trail
tors in these days than in the times
of Benedict Arnold, and such an Of
tense is severely punished because it
strikes at the very root of our nation
nj life
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-11-20

The national game Of baseball is
constantly achieving new triumphs. A
match was played in Berlin recently
for the benefit of the American wo-
mans club, and was dtgnitied by some
unusual features. The mines were
headed respectively by Count Won
Bernstorff, the German ambassador
to the United States, and Capt Heath
of the British embassy, while the re-
manning players were chosen from the
United States embassy and from the
American colony in the German cap
ital.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-11-20

An expert in the difficult art of ex.
terminating mosquitoes claims at last
to have found an easy way. As their
breeding places are in swampy lands
or in stagnant water and the season
for their breeding is in April and
May. permanganate Of potash scat
tered over these places will be an ef-
fective destroyer. He claims that
two applications will do the work. 1t
is a little late for the present sea
son, but there ought to be a demand
for the mosquito eXterminator in New
Jersey next spring.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-11-20

There is an impression among many
people that Americans are not a law
abiding nation. But we observe that
whenever the 18th of September
comes along straw hats are removed
from the urban population as if by
magic. 1t makes little difference
whether the weather is hot or not.
says the New York Post. The 18th of
September may be hotter than the
18th of August, but public Opinion.
which is the basis of morality and of
law, ordains that on this particular
day the straw hat must go.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-11-20

The highest court in the state Of
Maine has sustained as constitutional
the Bar Harbor ordinance prohibiting
the use of the streets of that seaside
resort by automobiles. So far as the
constitution Of the state of Maine fs
concerned, the Bar Harbor decision
gives the authorities full power to
make automobiles mindful of the
rights of the public
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-11-20

American torpedo boats and torpe-
do-boat destroyers are showing a ca.
pacity for speed that is not likely to
be excelled anywhere. The torpedo
boat destroyer Flusser recently made
something like 80 knots an hour, and
now another new craft, the Reid, re-
ports having made 34.54S knots. These
little hornets of the sea" show they
can fly swiftly as well as sting sharply.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-11-20

The head of a woman's college in
Massachusetts holds the theory that a
woman's beauty should be developed
before her brains. 1t is a sensible re-
version to old principles to begin any
building by a sound foundation to
make the edifice all the stronger at
the ton.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-11-20
Mhv He E6uaht II.

Conductor-Say! aren't you, old
enough to know that you can't ride
on child's ticket?
Silas Filkins-Sure I be. But only
yistiddy Samanthy sed l wuz glttln' t
be childish-like, an so l thought
mebbe y'd let me ride half-tare.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-11-20

o. the imported bathtubs of Chilli
duHzas 1908 Germany supplied Is per
cent, England 80 per cent, and the
United States only Is per cent. 1t
would seem that by little trade dill
gence the cleanliness Of our South
American brethren might be brought
nearer to our own prosperity.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-11-20
Unusual Luck.
TWO Items,

IT suppose with all this modern
prison philanthropy, abolishing stripes
and convict uniforms generally, they
will soon introduce dress suits for the
well-behaved prisoners in our penal
Institutions"
well, you know, they already give
convicts watches and chains"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-11-20
NOT so BAD.

Nervous Lady-Don't your expert
ments brighten you terribly, profess
sor? I hear that your assistant met
with horrible death by falling four
thousand feet from an aeroplane.
Bold Aviator-Oh, that report was
greatly exaggerated.
Nervous Lady-Exaggerate How?
Bold Aviator-It wasn't much more
than two thousand five hundred feet
that he fell.
Unusual Luck.
$50 you've rented that haunted
house which was on your hands SO
Iong?"
Yes; rented it to an actor"
Did he find out it's reputation"
That's the very thing that decided
him to take the house.
Rather surprising!"
He said it would be such comfort
for him to get inside of house
where the ghost walked every night"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-11-20

, the first railroad acros this or any
other continent on the globe was com.
pleted. 1t was the cause of national
rejoicing and was signalized by the
driving of golden spike at the end
of the last rail that joined the east to
the west
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-11-20
HeartIess Parent AGAIN.

Beautiful Girl - Gardener, don't
make flower bed there. It will
spoil our Croquet ground"
Gardener-Can't help it, miss.
Them's my orders. Your father says
he is going to have this garden de-
voted to horticulture, not husbandry
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-11-20

talnly done me .
world of good and
I cannot praise it
enough. ] suffered
fromirregularities,
dizziness, nervous
ness, and a severe
female trOub lie.
LydiaE.P inkham's
Vegetable Com
pound has restored
me to pc rfe ct
health and kept me
from the operating
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-11-20
British Inn Name.

The inn known as the Same YetT
at Prestwich, England, has curious
history, which Mr.. lakewood re.
lates: The house originally bore the
Seven Stars but many years ago it
became necessary to have its faded
sign repainted. When the painter
asked the landlord what he was tc
put On the board he received the
answer, The same yet And the
man took him at his word
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-11-20
Mistaken Identity.

81 always did enjoy that scene in
which Hamlet comes out and solilo'
quizes," said Mr.. Cumrox.
MY DEAR" replied his wife, you
are confused again. You have gotten
Hamlet mixed up with that vaudeville
person who comes out and throws his
vOipo" -
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-11-20

The Japanese have added a course
of courtship to the curriculum of the
girls schools in Japan. They might
as well establish an institution of in
struction teaching ducks how to swim.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-11-20

Americans invented the steamship
the telegraph, the telephone, the cleo
trio light and the reaper. Then an
American spoiled it all by inventing
the monograph.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-11-20

The arrest and tining Of Chicago
chauffeur for letting the engine of his
car run" for an hour while he waited
for a patron calls attention to a noise
nuisance with which the authorities
have been slow to deal.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-11-20

with food prices still soaring, the
housekeeper now has problems tc
solve of just as great Importance as
those statesmen are called on to
wrestle with.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-11-20

No hurry about that smoked glass
Halley's comet will not be visible to
the naked eye till next spring. Query
Can an eye clothed in sooty glass be
called "naked?"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-11-20

Terrific and fatal storms on land
and sea prove that man has not yet
made complete conquest of the forces
Of nature.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-11-20

The GLACIERS in New York have or,
ganfzed union. But that is one
which will probably be easy to
break up.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-11-20

When aeronauts come down to
earth they find that the laws have not
changed since they scared aloft.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-11-20

The latest arctic explorer is to use
trained polar bears This is a great
idea. He can come back and use the
team in polite vaudeville.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-11-20

thanksgiving isn't SO far ahead but
you can smell mince pie and cram
perry sauce coming down the pike.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-11-20

Thanks are due to Columbus foT
discovering US.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-11-20

FROM AN
OPERATION
ByLydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound

Louisville, "Lydia E. Pink
HAMS Vegetable COMPOUND has ceI-
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-11-20
How Can You?

Oh. woman. if we dressed like you
Squeezed in a corset we would stew!
But you where pavementS scorch and
steam
Look cooler than plate of cream.