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The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1909-08-12
SUTTON LETTERS
READ IN COURT
Mother Of Lieutenant Wrote
"BTuteS Killed Jimmy"
SHOT TO HIDE CRIME

DeStn ano shot By Aoams-Do-
serIbss His Wounds. and Says Dead
Son Begged Her to Live and Clear
Hls Name.
Annapolis. Nd. AUG. lO.-The read
Ing Of the record Of last Saturday.
when the board OF inquiry investi-
eating the death OF Lieutenant James
n. Sutton, L. 5. NJ. c.. on the govern
ment reservation here about two years
ago, conducted the proceedings OF that
day In secret. and the cross-examina-
uon OF Mrs Sutton. the mother of the
dead Officer, occupied practically all
OF the meeting OF the board. No
sooner had Mrs. Sutton taken the
stand to testify than Major Leonard.
Judge advocate. demanded that the
letters OF Mrs. Sutton. read at the
closed session on last Saturday. be
read in public. along with the record
Of the whole meeting.
The letters were four In number.
and they we're written to H. NJ.
Swartz. clerk in the marine corps
paymasters' ONCE in Washington. ID.
c.. by Mrs Sutton. The first asked
Swartz II she could write with conf
dence as to his sympathy
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-03-27
Senatorial Temner.

A good way to tell the disposition
and temperament of senator is to
watch him when ne gives the three
rings for the senate elevator The
rule is when three are given, no mat
ter who is on the elevator or where it
is going, the elevator man must
hasten the car in answer to the rings.
If the senator who rings is at peace
with the world and the White House
he will permit the car to go to its des-
tination with the passengers. If the
bell ringer is a crouch he compels the
car to be stopped, and he has to be
carried to his objective point no mat
ter who is aboard or how much hurry
they may be in.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-03-27
NOVELTY OF RAILROAD DEPOT.
Presidential Suite Makes Station at
Washington Unique.

Although the new Union station at
Washington has many unique points
of distinction, being the largest and
costliest railway terminal in the world,
it's most notable novelty is found in
the presidential suite. No other ruler
Of republic has ever had such an in
stitution, and, indeed, no foreign SOW
ereign has been enabled to enjoy SIM
liar apartments of like luxury and con-
venience.
The aim has been to make the State
Suite at the new railroad terminal at
the American capital as different as
possible from the royal apartments in
European railway stations, and at the
same time have it in keeping with the
dignity of the United States as the
greatest railroad country on the
globe.
The new railway rendezvous for the
American president is, for instance, in
marked contrast with the royal apart
ments at the Windsor station in Lon
don, which may be cited as representa-
tive of European ideals on this subject.
At the London station the private
waiting rooms for royalty are found in
a one-story house of marble and iron,
with ornamental doors and windows,
set down on the main platform of the
station, and thus possessing an in,
dividuality of its own instead of being
part of the main station structure, as
is the suite of which the president and
his family will make use.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-03-27
CROWS ON CAPITAL BUILDINGS.
ilI-omened Birds Have Their Regular
Haunts in the Seasons.

A venerable crow, .sas black as any
crow can be-" which made its nest
for several years in one of the tall
trees in the Capitol park, Washington,
and then suddenly disappeared from
its accustomed haunts, is said to have
been seen recently in the tree in
which it had reared several broods of
young birds. He has come back to his
own.
Another crow for a number of sea-
sons nested in one of the recesses
STOUT the tower of the postoff1ce de-
partment building, and his shrill cav
caw-caws" could be plainly heard by
the pedestrians on the busting streets
below
This particular postoffice crow met
tragic fate last year, however, and
since that time there has been no.
ticeable scarcity of that breed of birds
on the big gray building. Formerly
the old crow had many visitors, espe-
cially during the early morning and
sunset hours, but his death at the
hands-or rather talons and beak-cf
big hawk no doubt was spread
through Crowdom, and now it is
rare thing to see one Of the uncanny
birds in the vicinity of the postof1ce.
Policeman Frank Emmert was
witness to the tragedy on the dizzy
edge Of the coping about the postal
tower. The great hawk came up from
behind and bounced down on the un-
suspecting crow There was brief
struggle, then the surrounding atmes-
phere was filled with black feathers.
The crow gave several loud "caws"
and then succumbed to its enemy.
The hawk proceeded to devour The
bird of evil omen, and finished all ex.
cept the head, which was dropped to
the sidewalk and picked up by Police
man Emmert and preserved as ne
mento of the battle in midair.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-03-27

little creature realizes in her soul her
own potentiality to be an Ethel
courted and kow-towed to, the idol,
even pro tem., of the nation. It's only
through a fiuke of fate that she her.
self isn't an Ethel. Sweet little Ethel
with the merry, twinkling eyes and
the towsley hair is the naturalization
of almost every girlish dream-till
Helen comes. Then ladies change and
all hands round!
An altruistic White House manage
ment provides that all boarding school
girls in Washington over the age of
Is years shall have the opportunity to
attend one of the four state receptions
of the season. The names of the eligi-
bles are presented to Mr.. Loeb early
in the winter by the principals of the
various colleges. Invitations to
scholastic circles are issued almost ex-
clusively to the two middle levees, the
judiciary and the army and navy.
Adolescence figures sparingly, or not
at all, at the two more august func-
tions of the series, the diplomatic, at
the beginning, and the army and navy,
at the end. Tickets for these two
spectacular affairs are at q premium
always
Where. the attendance is large at
any special school, half the senior
girls are invited TO one reception and
half to the next. 1t is supreme
event to most of these favored ones,
entered upon with almost as much
trepidation as their debut or their
bridal. 'I'm scared to DEATH" a.
sweet girl from Tennessee declared
as the Single fire" order came
to those in line just before the
presidential presence was achieved at
the congressional reception 81 never
shook hands with a president in my
life before! Is my wig straight? Is
my placket shut? Amt it awful, Ma
bel! Whew! Here goes!"
Those who watch the self-conscious
enfilade of futtering femininity are
amused to note in how many a case,
when the fair subject has preened her
self for the supreme and crucial mo-
ment of passing down before the re-
ceiving line alone, she forgets to re-
linquish her clutch on her petticoats,
and the augustness, oft rehearsed, of
her long trained entree is entirely lost
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-03-27
NO ONE BEFORE ST. PATRICK.
AdmIrer Ready to Fight for Prece-
dence for His Saint.

There was man reading news
paper on the car, and all the rest Of
the passengers seemed to be waiting
to hear more about the Brownsville
shooting-up affair when man got up
who looked bit Hurried, and after
a moment he sat down beside the man
with the paper and asked:
Sir. can you tell me about these
holidays? I've got mixed up about
them"
why, yes" was the reply. I'VE
start with New Years, you know"
Eyes, sir; I'm on to that"
Then comes Lincoln's Birthday,
st. Valentines Day and Washington's
Birthday. Got that straight"
Il have"
"Then we get out of February into
March, and along comes ST. Patrick's
Birthday. Then we jump to Fourth
of July, and"
Hold on minute, sir. st. Valen-
tines Day comes in February and St.
Patrick's Day not until March, you
say?"
That's right"
"And who was st. Valentine?"
"Phe God of Love, l believe"
And who put his birthday a month
ahead of st. Patrick's?"
"Why, it just happens that way, /
suppose"
ooh, it does? Well, you just tell the
man that made it happen that way
that he's insulted st. Patrick, and that
if he will stand before me, I'll knock
the block off him in one round. That's
ell. sir. You can tell him that for me. :"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-03-27
Fisherman's shrewd Trick.

IT had great luck fishing in Cali
fornia last winter" sighed business
man, as he scraped with his penknife
the frozen mud and slush from his
trousers ends. 81 wish 1 was there
now. The waters of the Pacific were
very clear where I did my fishing,
and, by the advice of a Dutch uncle,
I lowered by a cord over the side of
the boat well corked bottle half filled
with grasshoppers, worms and water.
There were a dozen boats fishing on
all sides, but none of them had MY
luck. I landed three fish to their one.
You see, those tempting insects, strug.
Cling in the transparent glass, were
visible long way in the clear water
They excited the fishes hunger and
drew them to me in shoals. kansas
City Star.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-03-27
Its GIorIes Departed,

On the southeast corner of Eigh-
teenth and G streets, in Washington,
there stands plain three-story brick
the home of Edward Everett, when,
after his service in the house of repre-.
sentatives, from 1924 to 1884, and his
succeeding governorship of Massa-
chusetts, he was appointed secretary
of state, under President Fillmore,
succeeding to the place made vacant
by the death of Daniel Webster. Mr..
Everett did much for the young coun.
try, and through his efforts on the
platform Mount Vernon was pur-
chased for the people from the Wash
ingtons.
The Everett house was occupied
next by Jefferson Davis, the president
of the confederacy, while he was Sec
rotary of state for the federal govern
ment. Then it fell into the hands of
Jacob Thompson, secretary of the in
terror under Buchanan, who, for his
alleged populations of government
funds, sought refuge in Egypt, where
he died soon after his flight from his
native land. Another distinguished
occupant of the house was Capt.
Henry A. Wise, who became famous
as naval commander, and who mar
ried daughter of Edward Everett.
Since those days the old house has
lost its splendor, and the halls that
once resounded to the music of the
dance and the rhythm of slippered
feet have become the nesting place
for spiders and the abiding place of
dust and shadows.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-03-27
Misunderstood the Dream

zone of my clients" said a Wash
ington broker the other day, "a con-
siderable trader, and susceptible of
influence from almost any direction,
came to me one morning with smil-
ing face and gave an order for the pur-
chase Of several thousand shares, say
ing he had had a, wonderful dream in
which was depicted a large field con-
tanning hundreds of bulls, and he was
quite sure it foretold a sharp advance
in the market The order was duly
executed at advancing prices, and for
the first hour looked very rosy, but,
alas, that was an end of the bull mar
ket, and at the close of the day the
tape showed marked decline. My
client was a popular man and good
loser. being well able to stand it, but
as he had told his tale to others In the
office, he was numerically chaffed,
but maintained his dream to have
beer a good tip though he had mis-
interpreted it, as the bulls in the field
were all lying down."
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-03-27
MADE A WONDERFUL RESCUE.
Mother and Baby Saved from Cap
sized Ship.

A marvellous rescue of woman and
baby from the cabin of a capsized
vessel came to light on the arrival OF
the liner Oceanic at Plymouth re
Gently
While IL miles from Ruatan island
the British schooner Annie, command
ed by Capt. c. M. Decker, was cap,
sized by whirlwind accompanying a
waterspout which formed Immediately
over the ship. When the vessel turned
over, Capt. Decker and the crew
climbed over the side and chung to
the keel.
Mrs. Decker was in the cabin, and
her baby was lying in its cradle at
the moment of the accident. She was
thrown down and pitched through the
door Of her cabin into the companion
way. Although severely cut and
bruised, she managed to crawl back to
the crib, and threw her husbands oil
skins over it to protect the child from
being hurt by the debris.
By that time her husband and the
crew had climbed around the broad
side of the sinking vessel. Olsen
tangling the two boats as quickly as
possible, they went through small
portfolio to the rescue of Mrs. Decker
and the infant.
Meanwhile Mrs. Decker, with admir-
able presence of mind, hurriedIy knot
ted rope out of an oil-coat and other
things, and for few moments there
was desperate battle for the lives of
the two imprisoned ones.
The vessel was rapidly filling with
water, and the cabin was half full,
when the plucky mother managed to
make rope basket for the baby and
saw that the infant was safely hoist
ed through the aperture
Then her husband and the others
succeeded in pulling her, more dead
than alive, from the cabin.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-03-27
MosIems Welcome +he Auto

There arrived at Bagdad the other
day the first postal automobile and it
filled the minds of the natives with
wonder and awe. The car carried the
mails, hitherto borne on camels' backs,
from Aleppo, a distance Of 625 miles,
in so hours. This can hardly be called
a speed record, but when it is re-
membered that the roads are rough
camel tracks leading through the deep
sands of the Syrian desert and the
stony plains Of Mesopotamia the jour
ney at the rate of little more than
ten miles an hour appears quite a
creditable performance. The Moslems
of these regions, hitherto STEPPED in
the fiercest fanaticism, now gladly in
trust parcels and missfves to this new
ship of the desert.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-03-27
Copyright, by Daily Story Pub. Coz

The city had had an attack of
morality and all gaming houses and
bookmaking Offices were closed up as
closes the clam. Cities have these
spasms as man has the collie. The
one stops gambling and the other
eschews cucumbers-for while.
A certain firm of bookmakers did
not resign themselves to the fiat OF
the law. They procured copy of the
edict and scrutinized it as they were
wont to examine the program for the
days races. They discovered in the
statute an aperture through which
they could drive the metaphorical
horse and wagon. The law forbade
bookmaking save on race courses
where races were being run. Straight
way they leased for a song a disused
half-miIe track near the city, ran two
plugs over it every day for purse of
five dollars and made books on every
race from Sheepshead Bay to the Pa
cific coast. If the law frowned that's
all it could do.
The peaceful little village wherein
was the race course became trans
formed. Farmers studied dope sheets
as they guided the plow and talked
knowingly of mud-larks and cinches.
Everybody became sporting man
and among them David Cobb, the viii
lage carpenter.
Cobb was sore smitten with the bet
ting disease. 1t would have puzzled
him to try to name the boundaries of
his state, but he knew the pedigree of
pretty much all the horses running
and once and while he won bet.
A felicitous run of luck which Mr..
Cobb had been enjoying suddenly
changed and fortune-ever a capri
cious jade, turned her back on him. He
couldn't win bet and one August day
found himself penniless. He sat
gloomily on trestle in front of the
blacksmith's shop listlessly reading
the entries for the day. Mr.. Quinn,
disqualified jockey from one of the big
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-03-27

tracks and now betting room tout,
came languidly across the road and
accosted him.
Dave said he, IT have it."
So great was Mr.. Cobb's depression
that he made no inquiry as to what
Mr.. Quinn possessed.
Here's a letter from a man who
gives me only two or three tips year
and they never fall down. Here it is:
Lucky Dog will win the second handi-
cap race at the Bay Wednesday. Get
on it. Now, Dave, here's our chance
to make good stake for the season.
whats the use of talkin'?" asked
Mr.. Cobb, dis gustedly Whats a tip
to man who's got nary cent to bet
on it,"
Cant you raise ten dollars?" in
CURED Mr.. Quinn, interestedly.
Il can't beg, borrow nor steal a dol
lar let alone ten. And there's no job
O. work I can get"
Busted, eh?" and Mr. Quinn walked
off seeking anotl@r capitalist
For some reason the name Lucky
Dog" kept DINING itself into Mr..
Cobb's ears all day and all the next
day. He felt prescience that the
horse would win albeit that his re-
searches disclosed that he had only
run once in the far west.
Two o'clock on the eventful Wednes-
day on which the tip was expected
to materialize found Mr.. Cobb abed,
He had not arisen for he reasoned
with logic that a man who could not
raise the insignificant sum of a dollar
may as well lie in bed as stand on his
feet. Another point was that Mrs
Cobb had proclaimed with acerbitv in
the morning that, as the breakfast
and dinner would result from her in
dividual earnings he would not be ex.
pected to participate in the repasts.
Mr.. Cobb lay prone and gnashed his
teeth when he thought of the busy
scene in the betting room nearly on
posite to his house Already the odds
were up against Lucky Dog. If he
should win Mr.. Cobb felt sure he
would foam at the mouth like a mad
man. No one could stand such a
buffet from fortune as that.
man with trucuient face came
down the dusty highway and Mrs.
Cobb glimpsing him ran upstairs. She
opened the Bible lying on the bureau
and taking something from between
its leaves turned to her husband.
tThe collector is coming for the
rent" she said. IF l had not taken
ten dollars from your winnings one
night and made ten more myself by
sewing we would all be turned out in
the, road for we owe two months" and
she held up two ten-dollar notes.
This was an unwise move An old
saw sayeth, 'let sleeping dogs lie" and
it might be applied to recumbent hus-
bands. The sight of those two ten
dollar notes acted on the raw nervous
system of Mr.. Cobb as might a gal.
vanic battery. He sprang from the
bed and snatching the notes closed
them up in his hand.
Then Mrs. Cobb executed a diplo-
matte movement worthy of Talleyrand.
She caught her husbands clothes
that were on chair and clasped them
against her body. The two glared at
each other.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-03-27

In the meantime the truculent man
was knocking at the front door.
"Open the door and come upstairs. 81
called Mrs. Cobb to the truculent man
from the window.
Mr.. Cobb's eyes roved around the
room. He heard the front door open
and then he stopped and passed
through the window onto the porch
roof. He let himself down from the
spouting and dropped to the ground
He speeded for the betting room clad
in his night shirt.
"Stop him." screamed Mrs. Cobb to
the truculent man, hes got your
money"
The truculent man dashed after the
fleeing Cobb with Mrs Cobb close at
his heels. Urchins along the road de,
lighted at the sight of a man in a
night shirt sprinting in front of a
stout man and bony woman &C.
claimed the trio Vociferously.
However, Mr.. Cobb had too good a
lead, besides he was dressed or rather
undressed for running and he entered
the betting room door fully three
lengths ahead of the truculent man.
Reaching the desk Mr. Cobb saw that
the race in which Lucky Dog was al.
ready marked Eat the post" and he had
but little time.
Lucky Dog to win," he said, hand.
ing the two notes to the bookmaker.
They're off, called the man at the
telegraph instrument.
"One hundred and sixty to twenty -
Lucky Dog" drawled the bookmaker,
handing Mr.. Cobb the ticket
The truculent man leaned over the
desk and said gaspingly:
THAT moneys mine"
THAT moneys now on Lucky Dog.
He's running at the rate of a mile in
one minute and forty seconds" re
marked the bookmaker, "if you can
catch him and take it off you're vel
come to it."
Oppressed by this problem the true.
ulent man wiped his brow and the
man at the wire called, Lucky Dog
at the quarter"
Lucky Dog at the half by two
lengths" called the operator.
Mr.. Cobb was standing on one bare
foot.
Lucky Dog in the stretch, all whip
ping" called the man at the wire.
Then Mr.. Cobb, the sweat dripping
from his face, lifted up his voice.
Come on Lucky Dog. Come on old
horse. You're running for Dave
Cobb"
Lucky Dog wins easy by length,
called the operator
Then Mr.. Cobb changed into dane,
ing dervish and spun around uttering
odd CALCULATIONS.
PAY off Lucky Dog tickets" called
the bookmaker.
Mr.. Cobb received $3.50. He handed
$40 to the truculent man with the
mien of Roman conqueror dividing
up captured kingdom. He tossed $50
into his wife's apron and sought to
put the balance in his own pocket but
found no such convenience He looked
down and saw how he was attired.
Then he blushed and darted home
wards.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-03-27

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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-03-27
DURING THE SHOPPING.
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The readers of this paper will be pleased to learA
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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-03-27
A Note In ornithoIoux.

The crows, motfonless on the worm
fence, gazed disconsolately at the
snow fields, the mud, and the slush to
which the wan gray light of the late
winter afternoon lent an added dreari-
ness.
"Br-r-r," said an old crow, as a bit
ter wind ruffied his neck feathers,
I'D give anything for a good hot
drink"
We'll, come on over to the quarry,
them said a young crow, promptly.
What for?" the other asked.
For your drink" was the reply.
"Aint there several eroWbars there3"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-03-27
Mrs. Lonsworth's Shell Rocking Chair

Curious collections of shells are
coming to this side of the water and
shells as ornaments in every sort of
way are seen in modish homes. Mrs.
Longworth is fond of shells, and she
got some exceptionally fine neck
laces and bracelets in Hawaii. She
has a lovely little shell rocking chair.
The woodwork is inlaid with tiny ir-
descent shells and water color land
scapes framed IN exquisitely tinted
shells. Navy men who go to the South
seas are begged by their friends for
the small opal shell which is seen SO
much just now strung On gold for
necklaces.