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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-10-08
Beau Says United States More
Polite Than France.
Worlds Most Famous CotilIion Leader
Calls on Youth of His Nation to
Recover Lost Science Of
PoIiteness.

Paris, France.-M. Fouquieres, who
Is called the worlds most famous
leader Of cotillions and is also known
as the last true dandy of the Beau
brummeI type" finds that the United
states and England are now more
polite than France, thus contradict
ing F. Hopkinson Smith, who has held
up France as a model in matters of
etiquette. The noted society leader
mas issued a stirring appeal to Paris
lans IN which he describes the decline
OF courtesy, calls politeness most
useful quality and urges his fellow
citizens to regain their reputation for
good manners as they are recovering
In aeronautics their reputation for
heroism.
"Poiiteness is disappearing" de-
clared M. Fouquieres. 'It must be ad-
mitted that we are no longer the most
courteous people in the world. The
politeness which was formerly a ma
tional virtue. and the former gallantry
which always characterized French
men are today neglected, ridiculed
and almost despised.
Look at our young folk. They are
formal, stir, Indifferent and disdain-
full; their movements are Identical
and bombastic like a funeral ballet
and they affect phlegmatic ennui
which it is cain to criticise, for it is
the mode.
Foreigners trusting to our reputa-
tion for courtesy are astonished to
find themselves inspected insolently
when they venture into public places.
Women do not escape sly, gay looks
and vulgar murmurings and whoever
makes malicious jokes at their ex-
pense is applauded with the laugh of
appreciation. Lack of tact is consid-
cred witty. Our savants, aviators, au-
tomobilists and sailors perform heroic
deeds daily and their glory is undi-
minished. Only politeness is lost.
yet there is no quality more use
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-10-08
OLD GARDEN OF MON7EZU1MA

of four years to studying the plans
found there. Through the inscrtp-
lions he has been able to CLEAN his
torical data concerning 81 successive
caciques. Tropical trees, flowers and
fruits were transplanted from the Is-
thmus Of Tehuantepec and Central
America to this garden, and there
were grown cocoa. vanilla, parota, vol
loxochitl. mecaxochiu and another
rare flower which gives of It's odor
in the night. These plants and their
friends were ingredients of the deli
cious chocolates which were the IA
vorite beverage Of the Aztec lords
when Cortez arrived.
The garden was visited by Acama-
pixtle and Ilhuicamina, the second
named being identical with Monte
yuma I. 1t is claimed that Monte.
yuma Ilhuicamina appropriated this
beautiful garden to his personal use
and pleasure.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-10-08
Wonderings Of Years Are Finally Set
tied by Clark In Clothing
ing Store.

Once a man, weary and hot from his
long summer days work uptown.
was vending his way to the south
ferry. His home was on Staten Is
land. In anticipation of the cooling
breeze on the bay, with dripping brow
he stopped to refresh himself fire.
ouently, but in yain-for it was very
hot day.
His last stop brought him opposite
a ready-made clothing establishment,
and the idea struck him that his COM
paratively thick coat was responsible
for his discomfort. Acting on this
thought, he stepped across the street
and asked the attendant il he had
anything in the way of coat more
suitable to the season than the one
he was Notwithstanding he could
nut on at once and that would fit?
LET me see, let me see" said the
man. ST think l have just the thing
In alpaca" and after careful survey
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-10-08
SHE HAD 1901 PROPOSALS
Young Seattle Widow, Telephone
Operator, to Marry the Last One
to Declare.

Seattle-New YORK may have it5
herd of 1876 loves in the person OF one
Roscoe H. Sanborn, but Seattle has .
real merry widow with 1,001 proposals
to her credit. The one thousand and
first man is the lucky one and the
wedding will occur shortly.
The merry widow Is Mrs. Ria May
Dixie, a phone operator. It Is ques-
tionable If Mrs. Dixie ever saw more
than scant half-dozen of the1, DOL
suitors. But that did not detracf
from the ardor Of their love epistles.
They wrote from the north. the SOUTH
the east and the west.
Mrs Dixie was formerly an Iowa
girl-Ottumwa being her home. Three
years ago she married and with her
husband went to South Dakota He
was killed in wreck and Mrs. Dixie
bravely faced the world and took up
a claim.
She called her place 'sOttumwa," and
it is still known by that name IN
South Dakota.
At the state fair in Huron, s. D.,
In 1908, Mrs. Dixie was awarded the
prize for being the prettiest young
woman in the state. Newspapers de-
voted columns to her photo and
beauty.
At first letters came by two and
three, but finally the rural delivery
man had to put on an extra mule to
aid in hauling the mail out to "ot-
tumwa."
Mrs. Dixie has bungalow on her
16O acres. There she opened and read
every one Of the proposals.
Her house needed papering Moth
ing would better serve the purpose
than ton or two OF love letters. Mrs.
Dixie plastered the walls and the
ceilings and used the photos for roof
ing. and with the surplus built chick.
cen corral. Over all the pasted this.
large sign:
Love letter shack. Tack new pro
posals on vacant space"
Mrs. Dixie was literally driven on
her claim. She came to Seattle IN
1909 and found employment. There,
however. her beauty attracted Other
wooers, and though she fought them
of with her rugged South Dakota ar.
perience she at last fell victim to
Cupid, and Seattle business man
won her hand.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-10-08
COMPANIONS OF CITY WAYS
New York and Chicago Stories Illus.
trating Rivalry Between the
Two Places.

Harley Livingston of Chicago came
TO town the other day. His conserva-
sation consisted largely of unpleasant
comment upon the manners of New
York. thereby reminding his acquain-
lance of the standard story of o. Hen
ry. The novelist, you may remember,
was hurrying along the street one day
when he was run into by a man who
was walking along, his head turned
over his shoulder.
Il beg your pardon" said Henry,
"but really you ought to look where
you're going
IF | did, l wouldn't go--in New
York" said the other with an acid
smile.
"Ah," said O. Henry. "And how are
the folks in Chicago?"
Well, Livingston, being hungry and
In hurry, was escorted into help
yourself lunch by one of his friends.
They walked to the counter and load
ed themselves with eatables and then
sought adjoining chairs. Mr.. Living
ston called his friends attention to a
man who got up, took off his hat, and
left 1t in the chair while he walked
away.
What's he doing that for" asked
Livingston.
That" said his New York friend,
us his way of reserving the chair He
is on his way to the counter for more
provender. While his hat is there, no
one would think of taking the chair"
They wouldn't take 1t in Chicago,
either" said the Indignant Livingston.
That's a live town. They'd take the
aat."-New York Letter to the Cincin-
natl Times-Star.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-10-08

Commencement was over. Still in
academic cap and gown, Paul Con
over sat, pensive and alone, in the lit
| tie dormitory quarters which had
sheltered him for the past four years
The roll of parchment which empow
cred him to write the coveted A. B
after his name rested on the table be
side him
There were few evidences of com
Portable living about the place. The
Nain furniture supplied by the col
lege authorities could be made attrac-
tive only by effective draperies. and
they were wanting. An unrestful look
ing couch, a table strewn with text
books and lesson papers, two chairs
there was little else. f.
But it had been home to Paul Con-
over and he had no other. When he
had matriculated. four years before,
he had in his possession il, sum of
money that would not have been suf-
ficient to carry many one Of his
classmates through a single semester.
1t had been his sole inheritance from
his fathers estate and it had been the
dead mans last counsel that it should
be used as it had been.
The newly made A. B. put his hand
in his pocket and drew forth his re-
naming capital. He knew what it
was without further reckoning, for
he had watched 1t dwindle day after
day with an interest that took large
ly from the anticipated joy of COM
mencement week. He had in cash
precisely 81 cents-a bright quarter
and two dingy pennies. Besides his
diploma, his scant wardrobe and
fewer personal belongings than are
the property of most college men, this
remainder OF 81 cents represented his
entire available assets.
All? No, there was something
more. He had been appointed to the
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-10-08
Referendum.

When the time came for the re-
nomination of member of southern
legislature the member sauntered
down to the corner store one night to
sound out the opinion of the townsmen
as to whether he could be sent back
to the capital Of his state as a law.
maker
We'll, boys" he said to the assem-
bled politicians, what about IT."
There was an embarrassing pause.
Speak right out, fellows" he en-
couraged the meeting.
ITO tell the truth, SAM" said one of
the crowd. we've decided that, judg.
Ing f. I'm what this hyuh county got
out Of the legislature while you were
there we mought as we'll have writ q
letter. Popular Magazine.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-10-08

Simeon Goodboy fellowship, and the
annual stipend amounted to $65O.50.
This, however, would not be availa-
BILE for four months. Then it re-
CURED to him with sudden disgust
that old Simeon Goodboy had shackled
his foundation with an absurd condi-
tton-the appointee to its benefits
must engage in no other occupa-
ton on pain of instant forfeiture!
Paul burst into loud guffaw at
thought Of 1t, but it was a guffaw
without merriment.
So it seemed to old Aileen, the dor
mitory scrubwoman, who was max
ing her final round of the halls in the
building for the college year. She
didn't like the ring of it. and she
halted at Paul's door to tell him So.
"'Twas the laugh of a ghost, Mr.
Conover, and little BETTER" she de-
clared, Twas not bit like the
laugh of a man that has finished his
job"
you've finished yours, Aileen, for
the year. and I don't hear you laugh
ing" said Paul. loosely You ought
to be feeling especially jolly"
Then I'm not, Mr.. Conover," the
cid woman returned promptly. Meth
er would you If you hadn't been able
to lay by cent and your work was
over for the summer"
Cant you get other work."
II could, Mr.. Conover, but agreed
to take no other jobs while held this
one"
At this Paul broke into a laugh so
genuine that old Aileen could find
no fault with it. It was so like the
ridiculous condition imposed by the
fellowship that, moved by a sudden
whimsical inspiration, he told her the
whole story, and did not fail to call
attention to their similar plights. The
old woman appreciated the humor of
the situation and quite agreed with
him in his estimate of the absurdness
of those who impose impracticable
conditions.
What are you going to do?" she
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-10-08
Different Now, Of Course.

Civil service reform has given us
a splendid army of civil servants. II
wasn't always So" The speaker
Mayor Whitlock of Toledo, smiled
when l was writing my first short
Stories" he resumed, I'VE had civil
servants of different stamp. An
elderly resident of my native Urbana
back in those days, sought out his
congressman.
Congressman he said, I support.
ed you at the polls, and now / expect
you to get my boy good civil service
Job
"'All right, FRIEND the congress-
man answered. What can your boy
do?'
do? snorted the other. What can
he do? By crinus! man, If he could
do anything, do you think I'd be
bothering your"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-10-08
KNOWS WHAT HE LOOKS LIKE

cried with loud voice: James!
bring me up a number fve-fat."
The old coat was done up in neat
package, which the purchaser said he
would carry himself, for, being a SUI.
burbanite, he had been feeling strange
going home without his usual bundle.
When relating this incident he re-
marked to friend that he had always
wondered what he was like, but that
now his doubts were set at rest.
II know what I look like and what
am; I am NO. 5-fat-"
He had found his foYmula.-Atlant1c
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-10-08
Man as Beast Of Burden

Williamsport, Md-John prvo. .
deaf mute. with his wife and sa,,
children, who are returnins 70 49, q
nome IN Montana, passed. up tha
Chesapeake and Ohio canal to,vs 40
Cumberland. where they win abses a.u
two small boats In which thew 1s a.n
travelling. a1e
The family started on the cans, =
Washington and camped out a. $50 8.
In tents. They have a few ntans s !.
and carry supply Of provisions p...
or pulls the boats with j 49,. I ~.
around his body. ~ lea
me family came east several va.rs
ago, and. becoming dissatiaf,aa eals
cided to return to their old home IN i,
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-10-08
Friend Of Lincoln Dies,

John B. Allen, ninety-six years and
six months Of age, who as a New
York delegate turned the tide in favor
of the nomination OF Abraham Lincoln
for president In the Republican con
vention In Chicago In 1860 by making
known his stand in favor of Lincoln
after the chairman of the delegation
had announced William H. Seward as
their choice for president, died few
days ago In New York CITY.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-10-08
Feminine.

what is Mrs. Green crying for?"
MRS. Watson snubbed her in the
street carr"
"But Mrs. Green doesn't speak to
Mrs. Watson, anyhow"
Il know, but she's crying because
she didn't see Mrs. Watson in time to
suub her first"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-10-08
Quick Profit.

s'How many cows nave you no"!
inquired the visitor.
.tE,ieht." replied Farmer Corntos-
sci, discontentedly; "all comm home
regular every night to make work for
somebody"
II understand two of your neigh
bors' COWS got hit by railway trains
last week."
yep, An he got cash fur EN-, too.
I don't see how that Teller trains his
cattle not to shy at locomotive
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-10-08
Estimate on canadlan 49,.

Ottawa, Ont-Canada,s total un.a.
crop this year is LIS, $4,000 hushs ss'
according to the estimate Of tha '. .,s,
eminent statistics officer ,n.s 80 :.
nounced. This is 43,95s 900 bush az
less than the yield of 1909. r-4s'-
Inc Wheat produced in saska+cn.
wan, Alberta and Manitoba this l w.,
y estimated at 1880, 900 busnsls, q 4
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-10-08
Still Friends.

"He and I used to court the same
girl"
at doesn't seem to have interfered
with your friendship"
mo. One of us would have mar
ried her If the other hadn't always
been in the way"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-10-08
Since June.

"And how is your college son get
ting along with his career?'
"Wen, SO far, he has been a bill
collector, a shipping clerk and soda
water dispenser" Louisville Courier
journal.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-10-08
Professional Advice.

gi,l,;ns-Doctor, my wife has lost
her voice. What can | do about It?
Doctor-Well, as married man. I'd
advise you TO get down on your knees
and return thanks. Chicago Daily
News.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-10-08
Looking for Trouble.

"What's pessimist, dad!
"A pessimist, my son, is feiiow
who would see pneumonia germs in
nectar and typhoid bacilh in am
brosia."
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-10-08

Get health. No labor, pains. nor
exercise that can gain It must be
grudged.-Emerson.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-06-26

road in game O prisoners base"
"He couldn't beat steam roller gon' Backward
HE couldn't head bull up lane.
"He couldn't beat fat man in spud race"
Him for the glue works."
"He couldn't beat land crab goin' up grade"
Hes lump O Swiss.
Hes only a mornin' glory" "a morning glory" in
the turf vernacular, being horse that works great
guns when it to speed at his morning trials and
fails dsmaly when he goes to the races in the after
nOOn).
"He can't run fast enough to keep himself warm"
Hes phony and four-fush and an in-and- outer"
Gina nd-outer" being horse of the now you see it
and now you DON'T variety, which wins CALAMITY to-day,
only to fall down most abhorrently tomorrow, thus
lacking in consistency
HE for the books "a horse, that is to say, that
the bookmakers safely LAY against knowing that
they have under cover
Hes sucker horse" "a horse, namely, that only the
suckers" should back; and the chaps who say this
after having backed the sucker horse wholly overlook
the fact that they including themselves under that
headng).
He ought to be hitched to milk wagon
HE couldn't beat bum with wooden prop llegl in
a sack sprint.
He couldn't beat me old aunt goin to mass.
HE was lookin for hole in the fence all the way.
"He wanted to lay down before he'd gone furlong."
"He just that other horse come alongside and
look him in the eye, and he said, You have it."
"He couldn't beat mich headin for crick."
Hes there with the saffron streak
"He cured up like caterpillar in front of crate
fire."
He let em all pass him as if he was tied to post"
He couldn't raise enough of ope to keep his hoofs
from crackn'."
There is middle verbal ground for the race follower.
Everything must be expressed in terms that embody the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-06-26
Vernacu1ar of the Race Track

final degree of exaggeration horse that has accom-
plshed good trial or work out for is said to
have done the trial distance lin nothing"
HE put down the mile, the bit, an just a-breezin
in nothin is the way the railbrd expresses it; not,
might be supposed, with obvious enthusiasm such
the remarkable purport of the statement would seem to
call for but in perfectly cool and self controlled sort of
way, if he stating a simple fact,-that the horse
had travelled over the measured mile without consuming
any time at all in doing it.
The great horse that despite his greatness beaten
noted stake race held to be not worth feeding by
the of this uncompromisng, out and out kind
of track patter. Once regular" remarked of the
mighty Hermis, for whom sixty-fve thousand dollars
had been paid but short time BEFORE He amt worth
eighty-fve cents, and wouldn't give that much for
him if he was put under the hammer right now"
Hermis had just lost race by nose after being all but
left at the post, and that the answer. The horse
that is the idol of to-day is the cur" of tomorrow with
the regulars"
While the crack thoroughbred is in the enjoyment of
a winning streak ." delverin the goods and backin
up with the turnips, he is adverted to Hindu
or Salvador Domino" (these references being
to famous horses of the gone te); but just soon
the acclaimed horse, stating off or weary OF campaign
ing, begins to lose his the hammerest OF the
followers of the game begins and the shattered idol is
"cur" and bogus and near horse, and his PROV
ess always exaggerated and he never had nothin
to beat and "Sysonby could made him look like
bone spawned Angora, and so on.
The cynicism of the REGULARS" when their picks
he horses they select to VIM don't run to the DOPE
when they fail to up their previous FORM is ex
pressed in many darly suspicious phrases. the COM
planning regular believes that the horse wasn't in
tended to win by his and trainer, he says The
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-06-26

gag he rung in?" which, interpreted means, Did you
notice how he employed his Sandow biceps to pull that
horse3" They'll say of the suspected jockey that he
"took the mutt into million pockets went to the out
sde got hung the fence by the other crabs nine times
had 60 around horses, and then his horse was
cmbin over horses at the finish an couldn't lost If
the kid hadn't grabbed him from the tap O the gong"
who couldn't ride in furniture van.
The starter himself of the most powerful of active
race track officials in for his share of criticism
when by chance he sends field away to ragged start.
"Start horses2 He couldn't start trolley cars! the
angry mob baws of him. and they so far as to init
mate that Il guess maybe that starter didn't have
ticket in his boot that lob he sent away 'front.' hey!
meaning the quite impossible thing that the starter had
gambled the animal that accidentally beat the barrier
and flashed the lead from the lifting of the webbing
Most of the REGULARS" are deeply suspicious OF all
vorte falls at of the obstacles and long priced
1eaper wins the they loudly call the race shoo-
in "a fixed affair that is, in which the seepechase nd
ers have arranged to drop to the of the meant
jumper and shoo him to the wire, they previously of
course having got thei- money down the horse thus
generously treated).
Involuntary the writers themselves in time be-
gin to employ cu:.-Ssly exaggerated terms IN their
daily accounts of the racing When for instance they
muddy they write that the track knee deep in
mud obvious mpossibility, since horses would
be mred before taking ten steps in such gong or that
1.-THE track swamp, morass, sea of mud ,; or,
the track dry and dusty they say that the track
was hard iron and Sahara simeon blowing
it all the afternoon made it still harder
The patter of the betting ring is equally esoterc,
aggerated, and difficult for the novice to understand
When bookmaker "rubs," he reduces the price
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-06-26

y ESPERANTO, it is said is making Roadway. But
II, how many average people" know five words of
- it? Is it imaginable that the breath of universal
popularity be breathed into any manufactured
language which, according the best information
rigid, fixed unalterable sedae, and proper that pat
patois slang never be evolved out OF 1t!
1t ISM possible to conceive of baseball fan root
ing in Esperanto, horse bug Esperantist howl
ing himself black in the face field of thorough
breds turning the stretch 1t isn't possible either to
conceive of the baseball fan or the horse bug CIV
ing up for all the Espeantos that may be invented
the pat and lumnative phrases that they have already
invented devised, and chosen wherewth to express
themselves
Already have transferred of these baseball
and racing terms to the currency of our every day
speech and this sort of transportation goes
ingy. Men who begin by using quite precise language
invountarily fall into the of the patter when they
become interested in either of the great American out
door sports, baseball racing.
Recently meeting friend just returned from the
track l asked him what horse had certain
"Dandelon, he win, his offhand rep y-and this
had taken honors at Harvard! No race track
regular, in talking it over, says that he won
bet II win bet, is his way of twisting the tense
about.
The slang of the baseball diamond probably is of
wider currency than the pater of the paddock because
for reason there Americans interested in
baseball than there in racing and because again the
patos of the baseball park is readily understood
than the quantity picturesque lingo of the track
1t would be possible for man not familiar with
racing patter to listen to group of racing regulars
PONY buzzing for entire evening without in the
least understanding what they talking about.
American track slang differs wholly from the patter of