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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-09-11
One Belongs to Rich Parent,
Other to Woman of Small
Means.
Wealthy Mother Insists infant Brought
to Her Is Not Her Child-Nurses,
Who Caused TaneIe, Are
Frightened.

Denver, Col-Two very new babies
happened to make their entrance into
this vale of tears at exactly the same
moment of the same day at st. Lukes
hospital. Such dear little babies never
were before as those who happened all
of a sudden as the chief figure in a
drama whose end may be ever
wrapped in doubt.
They were the plumpest, roundest,
reddest, wrinkledest, big-lunged ba-
bies that nurses or physicians ever
saw, and though one baby was born to
the purple, which means money IN
magnificent heaps, the other came to
share humber lot, yet their HABITS
and motions are Identical.
Being born in a civilized country,
the first decent thing for baby to do
was to be sWaddled. simultaneously,
therefore, out of two rooms came
the nurses bearing infants toward the
dressing room.
Isn't he cute?" asked one nurse,
not given to emotions or excess
of praise.
Yes, and isn't he?" asked the other,
rolling back a corner of white fan
mel from what seemed to be-a bundle
of the same material in red.
Just then uprose a clamor. Care
fully the brand-new citizens were laid
in cradles while the nurses rushed to
meet an emergency.
Having met it. back they came, en-
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-09-11

grounds Is large room in the corner
OF one wing of the building, on the
first floor, which is so arranged that
the large windows swing apart and
form a broad veranda in summer,
while in winter they are closed and
with a crate fire burning within will
be used as living room.
On the roof of the building Is a
tower, from which point a most beau
tiful view of the country surrounding
for miles is afforded. An elevator runs
from the tower to the ground floor.
A beautiful design in Indiana lime
stone is the decoration which forms
an arch over the principal entrance to
the building. Out of the face of this
great block is cut a beautiful design
OF the chase. In the middle is the
large head of deer, five feet across,
with bold showing of antlers, the
top extending beyond the confines OF
the general design. Beneath is a game
bag inclosed in netting and beside it
a bow. On either side of the head
crouch two life-sized figures of hounds.
At each end of the design is horn
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-09-11
DEcoYs FOR SIGHTSEEING
Pretty Girls Smiles Attract Atten-
tion Of Young Men and Business
Quickly ReviVes.

Washington.-When you come 10
Washington and a pretty girl smiles
at you from one Of the sightseeing
cars don't get pulled up with pride.
That is what she is there for, but
most young men don't find it out until
they have given up their dollar, mount
ed the "Rubberneck Coach" and tried
to carry on the Irritation.
1t is a result of the increasing num-
Der of sightseeing cars and the
growing competition. One enterprising
"spieler" found that his descriptions
of historical and contemporaneous
Washington failed to draw the patron
age.
One day he gave free ride to
couple of friends-attractive young
women they Were-and was panied
to observe that before the car got I'M
der way half a dozen young fellows,
evidently visitors, had come aboard
and were endeavoring to pick up an
acouaintance. The "spieler" was
about to declare battle when the stu
alton struck him in another light.
Every day since the young women
mount the car as it waits for pas
sengers and cast alluring glances at
passers-by. After the susceptible ones
get aboard they find the smiles still
working, but not for them.
Considering that it is the dull sea
son. business is remarkably good.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-09-11
Health Commissioner and Assistant
Lead in Effort to Find Germ
Causing Disease.

Chicago.-Danger of the spread Of
goat fever, disease recently discov-
cred in America, through the use of
goat milk is to be investigated by DR..
w. A. Evans, city health commission
er, and DR.. Karl Konrad Koessler of
Rush Medical college.
Reports from Salt Lake City that a
mysterious fever had appeared there
and that the Utah doctors were in
pursuit of an unknown germ under
suspicion of causing the epidemic were
brought to the attention Of the two
doctors.
When informed that the germ was
supposed to be spread by goats, DR..
Koessler said: 1.-THE disease is un-
doubtedly Malta fever. 1t is trans
mitted by contact with goats, whose
milk in ten per cent. Of cases con-
tains a pure culture of the fever
microbe, known as micrococus nell
teasis."
81 will look into goat fever in Chi
cago," said DR.. Evans. "If we find
goats are spreading disease. wen tree
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-09-11

predominates, though there is an &C.
casional touch of red and brown.
On the third floor are some of the
men servants rooms, and in the base
ment also apartments have been set
aside for the male help. The women
servants occupy quarters in one wing
of the second floor, where also are the
housekeeper's apartments. Every serv-
ant has a private room. There are
separate wash bowls in the bath
rooms and each servant is allotted
one, with personal towels, combs.
brushes, etc.
Just off the kitchen, on the first
floor, are the servants dining rooms.
and like the kitchen are completely
white tile. The servants use a tun-
mel which runs through the basement
of the whole house, and none of them
comes in contact with the family. A
servant might work in the Hartman
house for lifetime and yet never see
a member of the family.
In the basement are the heating an
paratus, several large boilers furnish
ing hot water heat, the refrigerator
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-09-11
HOT SHIRTS AND COLD BEANS
What Happened in the Family of
Mr.. Pussy Dresser When the
Fire Came.

Mr.. Pussy Dresser made it a point
of pride that he never had less than
hundred shirts in his wardrobe and
every one of them with his monogram
embroidered on the sleeve. Mrs.
Dresser would no more have dared to
disarrange those drawers full of
shirts than Bluebeard's hundredth
wife would have dared to unlock the
secret door.
Mrs. Dresser was being driven up
from the station in the dogcart one
afternoon when upon rounding a turn
in the hedge she saw that her home
was afire. From a window in the Sec
ond story came rain of shirts, and
the figure of her husband violently
propelling them over the sill was al
most heroic.
Mrs. Dresser lost her patience al
most as quickly as she found her
senses.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-09-11
NEW BABIES MIXED

tering the dressing-room together.
Which baby is which," was the
question shot from frightened eyes.
Mine was in the right-hand crib"
insisted the nurse with brown eyes
and set jaw. Pm perfectly sure"
mo, indeed, that was mine. re-
member as thought it had been this
minute, you putting yours down
there"
Neither was certain and both were
frightened over the mix, and the
toilet of the strangers was completed
in silence.
One mother-the woman of plenty
her pillow and laces, angelic greeting
to her son when he was laid warm and
sweet and bawlingly Indifferent in her
arms.
One penetrating look she gave
sonny, then:
This is not my baby" she cried.
Where is he? What have you done
with my baby?"
In the other room the other moth
er, her soft hair falling in two braids
over the shoulders of her plain gown,
Rugged close to her side the infant
she had gone into the valley Of the
shadow" to bring forth.
Isn't he sweet?" whispered the
woman, land he's all mine. 1t doesn't
seem real that he's mine"
SIS he hers ." That's the nueStiOn
that the frightened nurses are asking.
That's the question that one prom
inent physician insists is "piff1e.'
It's a question that the Lady of
Plenty broods over and insists on be-
ing answered right. For her maternal
instinct has failed to blaze by con-
tact with the infant placed in her
arms, because she insists that her
baby had a mark
The other mother is content in her
possession and refuses to relinquish.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-09-11

into what is known as the service
court. The tracks enter tunnel about
200 feet from the house and run I'M
der the front terrace so that the cars
cannot be seen from the lawns, ter
races or gardens.
All American in Design.
The house is three-story and base
ment building, constructed of sort of
granite with Indiana limestone trim
mings, and is purely American in de-
sign. The original of it is seen in the
old stone houses built years ago.
There are 70 rooms connected with
electric bells, while about rs rooms
are not connected, these being rooms
and apartments of the servants.
The house is built around a central
court, each of the four sides forming
a wing. On the first floor there are
four entrances, the main entrance be-
ing from the front terrace, which
leads from a long winding walk down
into the woods. This entrance leads
into a reception hall which runs from
the central court through to the OPP
pOsite side of the building, and Off the
reception hall is the large reception
parlor.
The drawing room, or living parlor,
is so feet square. The floor is OF sol
i'd oak and so closely are the joints
made that the floor looks like one
huge wooden surface The side walls
are of paneled cherry. The ceiling is
of plaster paris composition with plain
fern decoration. The molding in this
room is heavy and behind it are Sc
creted the electric lights. The din
ing hall, servants dining room, kitch-
en- and refrigerators are also on this
floor
Organs in Entrance Hall.
In the entrance hall large organ,
run by electricity, is erected in loft,
while directly across the hall is an
echo organ. This organ will furnish
the music during the dining hours.
Elevators at two points in the build
ing carry the members of the family
or guests up and down, while third
elevator is for the use Of servants
only. On the second floor are the
apartments of Mrs. Hartman. Mrs.
Harriman's suite consists of three
rooms, a large reception parlor, sleep
ing chamber and bath. Mrs. Harri-
man has the most desirable location
in the building. Her rooms look out
on the southwest corner of the
grounds, over an expanse of beautiful
gardens, granite stairways, coy seats
and pagodas.
Mr. Harriman's apartments on the
same floor consist of four rooms, his
library and private room, his sleeping
room, reception room and bath.
The reception rooms are about SO
feet square, have oak floors and pan
eled side walls of white The side
walls in all the living and reception
rooms are of white, the woodwork
having been rubbed down to satin
finish, SO that with the application of
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-09-11
STORE SEVEN YEARS WHEAT
EngIishmen Plan to Copy JosepH1's
Scheme by Erecting Warehouses
to Withstand Siege.

London.-Labor and socialist rep
resentatives from all the important
centers of the United Kingdom met
at conference at Shoreditch town
hall recently to discuss the food SUP
ply of the United Kingdom.
The speakers said England was de-
pendent to such a terrible extent upon
foreign sources for it's foodstuffs that
it would be possible. by a combination
of powers, without war, practically to
starve the nation out. The only rem
edy lay in the direction of organized
agriculture as national concern.
Ben Tillet of the Dockers union,
who opened the discussion, declared
that unless something was done in the
matter of the food supply, this coun.
try was bound to go down in proper
ton as other countries developed We
had 100000 acres of good land lying
idle, while other countries were devel-
oping. Our food supply was in dan.
ger, and he declared the time had
come when we should ask parliament
not to piff1e so much about unearned
increment, but interest itself in those
things which affected the everyday
life of the people
A discussion followed on the imme-
date measures that should be taken
for the mitigation of the dangers of
the increasing dependency upon for
eign powers, in which the national
storage of wheat and the cultivation
of uncultivated crown and other lands
were suggested.
]. Scurr IS. D. P.) advocated the &C.
emulation of national wheat re-
serve. Reservoirs could be erected in
various parts of the country for the
storage of seven years supply,
which could be accumulated over
period of IA years at cost of G2S.-
100000. Major Murray suggested the
erection of granaries, an expenditure
of e240,000 year being sufficient for
a four months wheat supply.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-09-11

- York-Edward H. Hartman,
80 eturned from a seemingly fruit
ssaTch for health in Europe, now
eaes his new country house on
nil, near Arden, N. Y. The
completed only few days
ote the railroad magnates arrival,
ohe Of the finest in America, and
Nost considerably more than 100000,
au ne owner has spent nearly ST.
Ooo'VV0 on the magnificent estate.
Dut Mr. Hartman is sick man,
sno whether he will ever be able to
iully enjoy the delights Of the earthly
paradise he has created, only time and
POSSIBLY his physicians can tell.
Wnen one leaves the city of New
Durg, en- route to the little settlement
which is now known as Arden, most
beautiful country is at hand A new
ROAD built by the state stretches the
sntlre distance, most of the time fol-
lowing a pretty brook, which skirts
the base of the several mountain
ranges and when near Arden forms
Wnat the country folk call the Rama
po river, but which is nothing more
imam a creek.
Center of Beautiful Section.
The roadway leads through the val
ley, with mountains on either side;
Tor distance the silvery Hudson can
De traced and then, as the road wi
dens around the inland hills, the YER
dant meadows and the mountains
change the view and lend another
touch OF beauty to the scene.
There is, perhaps, no prettier Sec
ton Of America than that which lies
IN the Ramapo valley and around it.
Mr.. Hartman certainly demonstrated
his taste for natures handiwork when
he selected this site for a home in
summer.
Mr.. Hartman selected Tower hill,
one OF the highest mountains in the
Ramapo range, for the site of his
home. In doing so he fulfilled a life
long desire to possess a spot rich in
scenic beauty, high up, away from ma
laria, and where the air is always like
t~~ANNS ~ q pSAACSL 111O1 ming. 1ACA,
too, he wanted to be secluded, away
from all cares, where curious ones
would be shut out and where he could
roam about unmolested. Tower hill
seemed just the spot, and when his
mind was once settled upon it he was
not long in making the purchase.
Estate includes Whole Mountain.
There was not house within three
or four miles of the summit of the
mountain, and to prevent the spring
Ing up of any undesirable residences
Mr.. Hartman bought the mountain
and all the land within a radius of
three or four miles.
To reach the summit of the noun
tain was the first problem, and when
some of the best engineers in this
country went over the ground they
were not long in coming to the con-
clusion that an incline railroad was
the only means of safe travel up and
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-09-11
s7opaLL JACKSON WAS
.zattletred," Bottle Scared" and
ssi Sacred" According to
the Printers.

rho a of John William Jones,
n alumbus, Ga. recalls what
4 nrob. the funniest series OF
iIs.,psrail plumbers which ever
ecsott,,allyurred. The writer can
ao tify te accuracy of this series,
t .'.a,,se read them at the time
p w. waade in the two journals
..nss.o,vedfter the civil war DR..
l Ias wbathern correspondent OF
S ~, Nemk Examiner. At that
tns thaas a rival Baptist paper
10 1ow city called the Watch
Y lifting Of the death of his
lend lend svalr Jackson Dr. Jones
lars,sed his character, and re-
pred tn as a "battle-scarred
se me IRIS of the Examiner
ended and IL was stated to
.na readnat Stonewall Jackson
1ns 8 scared veteran" The
M s.ssatchtosw a chance to make q
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-09-11
BIG MONEY ORDER PURCHASE
Roumanian Interpreter and Boarding
House Keeper Sends Home Six
Years Savings.

Waynesboro, Pa.-John Padura, a
Roumanian, who is an employe in one
Of the local shops, an interpreter and
the keeper of large board
ing house for his fellow Roumanians
employed here, sent postoffice money
order to AIRED, Hungary, for $4,000.
To be exact, he sent Al money or
ders, because the postoffice depart
ment will not issue an order for more
than 500.
The Roumanian saved this money
and $500 more during six years here.
He made fairly good wages as inter
prefer and as workman, but the
greater part of this sum he saved
from the boarding house operations,
sometimes having as many as 40
boarders.
The money was sent to Europe to
buy farm, which Padura's father and
mother will manage.
The money is the largest amount
ever put into single money order
purchase in this valley, it is said.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-09-11
IS GOAT FEVER IN CHICAGO i?

the goats"
Micrococus meliteasis is said to be
one of, the smallest germs in existence.
If DR.. Evans finds it in goat milk
he will start search for goat fever in
Chicago.
1t is estimated at the stock yards,
where goats are sold, that there are
about 1000 of them in Chicago, and
that goats milk is extensively used,
much of it being brought from outside
places. Many physicians are said to
prescribe it for infants and invalids.
Should the discovery be made that
the milk is infected with micrococus
meliteasis the sale may be restricted
and precautionary measures ordered.
No case of the disease has yet been
reported in Chicago, but physicians
will be warned to be on the Lookout
for it.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-09-11

little fun of its rival paper and at
tempted simply to reproduce the
error of the Examiners printer; but
the printer of the Watchtower took
his turn and made it read that Stone
wall Jackson was a "bottle-scarred
veteran"
Now the Examiner had a good
chance to get back at its rival, and
made merry at the trial to correct
one error by making a worse one.
But, alas! it seemed that the express
sion was doomed to a comedy of
errors, for when the Examiners
triumphant counter appeared it in
formed its readers that in attempting
to correct the error in the Examiner
the Watchtower had said that Stone
wall Jackson was battle sacred
veteran" At this both the editors
gave it up as bad job.-Watchman
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-09-11
In Migratory Flight When Costing
1t Fell from Exhaustion Into
Woman's Yard.

Flint, Mich.-'T don't know when he
was hatched,'' said Mrs A. C. John
son, pointing to her feathered pet,
but / have had that goose for So
years. feel sure he is the oldest
goose in the United States.
Zone morning in April, 1873, when
/ went out in the yard, / found a
young gosling half buried in the snow.
Evidently the bird was one of flock
of wild geese flying overhead, and in
the night had become tired and worn
out, dropping to the ground. I picked
him up, took him into the house, fed
him and ever since then he has re-
manned with me. l gave him the
name of Baby"
The old goose is known to every
child in the neighborhood He will
follow his mistress about the streets
whenever she will allow him to do SO.
and is a pet of many people. A few
weeks ago the old goose was caught
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-09-11

of plenty with display of fruits, and
in the background are a wreath Of
leaves, quiyer arrows, a hunters
horn, spears, a gun and a hunters
knife. The piece cost Mr.. Hartman
$12, 1000.
Water Is Brought from Lake.
The water for the mansion comes
from Cranberry lake, which is part
of the Hartman estate and only an
eighth of mile from the residence. 1t
is brought in 16-inch pipes, and as the
lake is higher than the house the
gravity system of pressure is en-
ployed.
Although the house is fireproof, hose
connections have been installed on
every floor and in all the corridors
and hooks, and the water for this
purpose is brought from another small
lake quarter of a mile from the
house. In case of fire, pumps in the
basement are at once set in motion,
allowing heavy pressure. An cleo
trio lighting plant on the other side
of the mountain furnishes the lights
for the building.
Next spring library will be added
to the building, and this will occupy
an entire wing. Here will be read
ing rooms, billiard rooms, bowling al
leys and other amusements. This
wing will cost, it is estimated, $4,000
more.
Another feature yet to be added is
wireless telegraph station on the
top of the mountain.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-09-11

down. Within a short time Charles
p For, one Of the most capable and
pxperisced eonstructionists in the
state, as engaged by Mr.. Hartman
Az GENIAL superintendent, and to him
Is due ke exquisite home grounds and
site. he incline railroad is most
compile and has all Kinds of safety
dgyices 1t is a pretty trip up through
the trs, and one forgets that he is
trayelii up 1900 feet at an elevation
II almt 10 per cent. An automobile
with hwy cushions and fitted to run
nm the tracks makes the trip from
he rahad station at the foot of the
r,ounta IN the incline and directly
into thlouse.
Evertrrangement that will insure
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, lack Of commo-
t,on orcitement about the summit
- the puntain has been installed.
ror inace. a track leads from the
Incline road directly into the house
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-09-11
The Shortest Street in London,

There can hardly be shorter street
in London than the one connecting
Pail Mall with the southeastern corner
OF st. James square, from which the
name John street has just been re-
moved. 1t has only one house, which
is No. 1; for though there are two
other doors in the street, one is num-
bered as belonging to Pail Mall and
the other is the side entrance of a
public house. Presumably, therefore,
the single house is now to be absorbed
in st. James square and the London
directory is to lose yet another of the
slowly diminishing number of John
Observation-Disclosures Gazette.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-09-11
Mines in Frisco Harhor.

San Francisco.-That the t1arbor of
San Francisco can be mined in less
than 4S hours, and the port made safe
from invasion by foreign feet, is
the statement of Capt. Ferguson of
the mine-planting steamer Armistead
after placing seven unchanged mines
in the Golden Gate. The work of the
mine planter and the coast artillery
was undertaken as practice meas
ure, and to demonstrate the speed
with which the mines could be laid
A number Of mines will be placed at
the mouth Of the harbor and exploded
in actual practice for the coast artil-
lery.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-09-11
Gambling in Prison.

st. Petersburg has been discoV-
cred that the rooms of Col VarnaVsky
of the SIS. Peter and Paul fortress, the
great island prison of st. Petersburg,
are a much-frequented gambling den,
in which many persons, including
ladies', have been ruined. The COM
mander of the fortress has been de-
tanned and the roulette and baccarat
tables have been seized.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-09-11

the enamel they have surface as
smooth as the top of a piano. The
satin, soft, dull finish is used instead
of the glossy finish. The sleeping
rooms through the building, that is,
the rooms used by the family or
guests, have solid oak floors, and pan
eled side walls of cherry
Each of the children has a suite of
three rooms, and each member of the
family has several suites for guests.
These rooms are palatial in every
way. Solid brass beds predominant
though in some of the apartments are
solid mahogany suites.
Furnished in Finest Style.
The furnishings of all the rooms are
of the finest. Heavy silk draperies
and rich old lace curtains adorn the
windows and doors, while Turkish
rugs and mats decorate the floors.
Green in the decorations of the rooms