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ton that have sunk such insignificant rank
salt water to-day?
The colonies let loose their upon the COM
merce of their naughty enemy. Their merchant ships
had long carried cannon and gunners Fighting was a
part of commercial seamanship in those pratcal days
In 1871 the thirty cruisers of the continental had
dwndled down to nine, while the American privateers
amounted to 449, with 6,735 guns, oil manned by mer
chant sailors and directed by private owners.
These armed merchant ships not only secured the
in all directions sweeping British commerce
but they hung the British coast and captured
the linen vessels The linen fleet passing between
Ireland and England had be, for the first time
voyed by men-of-war.
So CALAMITY did the American privateers outwit
outrun the kings cruisers and prey the kings
that before the end of the they had captured
destroyed something like $12OO0O0 worth of British
property to nothing of the terrific loss occasioned
by the general interruption of British And
it is not difficult to understand. aside from all other
things that the merchant ships built of American trees
in American shipyards and manned by American Sailors
made the aurse-sensitive British all the eager to
abandon the struggle with America.
What could the United States do to-day, under SINH
l circumstances, with practically deep merchant
any unusual effort foreign ships and foreign
to secure adequate coal supply?
1t is not fact that the American members of The
Hague international conference continue plead with
other great nations to goods carried in neutral
ships during war? And why? because only per
of American international commerce goes under the
American flag and must depend upon the flags of
other nations to protect the other 80 per cent.
In 1894 the tariff weapon used to protect Ameri-
ships when congress abandoned the 10 per cent
reduction in duties carried in American ships
and instead added 10 cont to the duties on mer-
chandise imported in foreign ships
American shipbuildng and ocean commerce grew by
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-03-26

GRAFTON similarly agreed to support
Smith or Jones as the case might be-
The pair were married, the man voted
according to instructions, and then he
and his wife, standing on either side
Of a tombstone, said Death us do
part" With this literal fulf1llment
of the matrimonial VOW they regarded
their marriage dissolved. At the last
election in Bristol before 1892 hun.
dred women gave votes to men.
Soldiers have even been used to
provide artificial majorities in Eng
fish elections. In 1854 $50 Of the
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-03-26
What He Was After.

George Washington Henry Clay Lin
coin Carter, one of Georgia's younger
darkey citizens, was suddenly called
upon not long ago to explain his pres
ence at l a. m. in the henhouse of a
white neighbor
Stealing my chickens, are you, you
black rascal?" the owner demanded
George w. H. C. L. c. rolled his eyes
until they were all whites.
Now, now, lookyeh, Mars George"
he protested, 'dat amt no way ter ac'
an please dom pint dat gun at me
dat er way, cunnel, sah,'' he hastily
added, holding up his battered hat as
a shield "Ah 'clar All warn't gwine
steal no chickens; no, sab! Abs wri.
tin er dialec' story-an All des' come
moseyen roun' hyah ter git local color
-yas, sab, OATS all All was after. All
'clar to de Lawd hit was!"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-03-26

man O. the people" ran and won
Abraham Lincoln was only 1.-The Hi
nois baboon," and "a third-rate, slang
whanging lawyer"
Marrying for votes was a device of
oldtime British election agents. AS
the law stood before the reform act
of 1892 widows of freemen on marry
ing again made their second husbands
freemen and therefore voters. At
election times widows were conse-
quently paid handsomely to go
through formal marriage with
voteless bachelor, who for a consid-
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ELECTIONS OF OTHER DAYS

only the bravery of a ruffian and the
warlike cunning of an Indian chief"
adding: Constantine was violent,
uxorious, and gambler; Jackson is
all this besides a dueIist and muir
derer." He was denounced as "the
man of the pistol and the dirk, the
firesfde hyena of character, the Ten
nessee slanderer, the great western
Bluebeard." Language had become a
little milder by the time the next
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-03-26

emperor of Morocco and the hey OF
Tunis, leaving the waters of the Med
iterranean safe for American ships.
At first the conflict between Napo-
leon and Great Britain compelled the
transfer of European ships to the
American flag. The carrying trade OF
Europe was in American hands.
Then the American sugar trade was
killed by British blockade of the
French and Dutch West Indies. The
British also searched our ships at sea
and impressed our sailors into their
navy under the claim that natural
lied citizen of British birth was still
Briton. In 1906 and 1907 there were
5000 Americans serving unWillingiy
in the British navy. American mer-
chant ships were confiscated on all
sorts of pretexts. They were stopped
and searched by British naval COM
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guards were sent to vote as house.
holders against Fox in the Westmin-
ster election. Upon that occasion the
device failed, but it succeeded in an
Irish election. The patron of large
Irish borough, finding that there was
some uncertainty as to the return of
his nominee, marched in regiment
OF soldiers from their quarters at
Loughrea and had them all elected
freemen. Their vote put the victory
OF his candidate beyond doubt.
Presidential cabinets are apt to
have too many secret drawers.
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shipping In the foreign trade from 125Ss3 IONS 10
576 1888 Before the discriminating tarln LOT 'He
protection of ships adopted only II per cent OF
American imports were carried the American nag
Within five years foreign ships had been almost e4'
PEELED from American international commerce
Everywhere everywhere the fame OF the American
shin and the American merchant spread The Amer
lean flag was the remotest parts OF the eartn
In those days American statesmen knew the natlonai
value of a merchant marine.
Alas the armed struggle between France and Great
Britain which opened the nineteenth century brought
temporary ruin American shipping just as American
menof-war under Preble Decatur and Rogers smashed
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-03-26
p.cords show That Abuses of the
Franchise Have Been Common
for Many Years.

Some personal abuse characterized
tho late British election, but no candi-
dato had anything said of him COM
narable to what Andrew Jackson had
near when he successfully stood for
NO I5r3t,4s' States presidency. His
forth that he possessed
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-03-26
Cultivate Discretion.

Discretion is synonym for tact
To rush In where angels fear to test
their wings is as untactful as it is in.
discreet. Learn to handle the world
with gloves and it will rarely give you
black eye.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-03-26
Bio Buns.

DR.. Cook was talking to az Washing
ton correspondent.
The man is wrong in his attacks"
he said. He errs as ludicrously in his
idea OF polar conditions as the Brook.
lyn domestic, who said:
1t must be a filthy place, that
north pole, ma'am. hear it's full of
ice bugs as big as churches. Wash.
ington Star.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-03-26
Energy Must Be There.

Energy will do anything that can
be done in this world; and no talents.
no circumstances, no opportunities
will make two-legged animal a man
without it.-Goethe.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-03-26

For sore throat, sharp pain
in lungs, tightness across the
chest, hoarseness or cough,
lave the parts with Sloan's
Liniment. You don't need to
rub, just lay it on lightly. 1t
penetrates insta ntly to the seat
of the trouble, relieves conges-
ton and stops the pain.
Here's the Proof.
Mr.. A.W. Price, Fredonia, Kans,
says: "We have used Sloan's Linz
ment for year, and find it an excel
lent thing for sore throat, chest pains.
colds, and hay fever attacks. A few
drops taken on sugar stops cough
ing and sneezing instantly"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-03-26
A Jolt to Romance.

A Jolt to Romance,
How about the young doctor? Has
he proposed?"
Mot yet. Papa ruined everything
last night
How was that?"
Just as the doctor was pleading for
peep at my eyes, papa came in and
asked him to take look at my
throat"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-03-26

1t is an excellent an.
tiseptic remedy for
asthma, bronchitis,
and all infammatory
diseases of the
throat and chest;
will break up the
deadly membrane in
an attack of Group,
and will kill any kind
of neuralgia or rheu-
matte pains.
All druggists keep
Sloan's Eminent.
Prices 25e., &c., $500
DR.. Earl s. Sloan,
BOSTON. MASS.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-03-26
Sloans
Linlment

is easier to use than porous
plasters, acts quicker and does
not clog up the pores of the skin.
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wator -,
hal, sheer force OF its weight swept mile and
ha into the gray fog against the combined power of
'our tugboats sent to stop it.
-, asnincent glorious! Yet the same week that saw
la ses' ana costiest bateship in the world launched
under the American flag from an American shinvard wit
. the humiiating spectacle of two American mer
th steamships Finland and Kroonand transferred to
~. isah nag because they could not be operated with
49, oss under the American flag thus leaving only six
"erlcan steamships in the whole transatlantic trade
"here once America was supreme
me American navy has become the second naval
power, while the American flag is being rapidly driven
from the foreign trade of the time when inter-
national commerce has assumed imperial proportions.
Does 1t thrill the American Imagination and stir the
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-03-26
THE VILE ESS. SlRS) Capturing
THE S21TISH SIS. R/77

enormously increased freight charges
There is brave, prosperous and
glorious past that makes the present
seem all the more weak and shame
full
Nothing in the history of the Amer
lean people has more of the thrill of
romantic adventure, steady courage,
keen enterprise and shrewd, substan-
tial accomplishment than the story of
the once matchless ships and seamen
OF the American merchant marine.
1t makes of blood run faster to-day
TO know that no foreign yacht can
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-03-26

S THE 22,00O-ton
battleship Utah slid
down the ways a
few weeks ago a
smiling girl swung
a bottle of cham
payne at the end Of
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-03-26

Indispensable"
We have set our government 1000 miles from the
American continent; have developed nterna
tiona commerce amounting to three and half bill
lion dollars and we insist being recognized
OF the great world powers; yet swiftly Amer
can ships vanishing from the common highway of
nations that have to trust mails to alien ships
coal.
Meanwhile our British and German rivals are
launching greater and swifter merchant ships and the
people of the United States face face with the
trade is in foreign ships dependent upon foreign gov
ernments for protection.
war between England and foreign nation. Ger
many, for example, would almost parayze the ocean
results would be -
felt throughout ~ <
the country in }V&A e.
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leaps and bounds
under this vigor.
GUS protective
policy. In the
seven years ly.
ing between 1883
and 1896 Ameri-
can m ere b a n t
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payne at the end of
a gay ribbon and smashed it against
the bow of the greatest fighting ship
in existence.
A roar of 10000 voices greeted the
miQhfN Of hull
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read of the Ameri-
can m e r. c h ain t
ships and seamen
that once made
{ b e stars a n d
stripes emblems of
cou ra g e. enter
prise and success
on all the seas and
oceans? Then con-
slider these plain
facts:
In the past year
not one keel Of an
American ship for
the foreign trade
was laid.
In the same pc
Rod not a mer-
chant ship carry
Ing the American
ia g pas s e d
through the Suez
canal.
The American
tramp steamship
has practically dis
appeared from for
eign trade.
Our ship tom
mage In the for.
eign trade has
The San Francisco call., 1910-08-07
"Ouestions on Shakespeare

BY Albert II. Tolman. Published by th
/, 81 cents. Vol. II, $1.09 (postpnid).
Questions on Shakespeare" is the
title of a series of books to be COM
pleted in six volumes, two of which
are now ready. The author says in his
introduction: The teacher who looks
through some of the questions in order
to get suggestions for exercises of his
own framing, the private reader who
notes them in order that he may read
a particular play more intelligently-
these make just as legitimate use of
the book, and one just as much in
tended by the author, as does the sys-
tematic student who writes out formal
answers to most of the questions upon
some play or group Of plays"
The first volume is almost an intro
duction to the series 1t is given over
to study in the minutest detail of
Shakespeare's language, and, dry as the
subject sounds, it is written in a way
to interest the lay reader quite as
much as the student of grammar and
language. The book also contains a
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Books Received

Questions on Shakespeare" 2 volumes By
Albert II. Tolman; University Of Chicago Press,
Chicago.
''From Kitchen to Garret" by Virginia Ter
hume Van de Water; Sturgis & Walton. New
York.
The Boy Aviators' on Secret Service'' by
Captain Wilbur Lawton; Hurst & Co., New
York.
Theodore Roosevelt as an UNDERGRADUATE
BY Donald Wilhelm: John W. Luce & Co., Boz
ton.
''The Sovereignty OF the States By Walter
Neale: Neale publishing company New York.
The Unseen Thing BY Anthony Dyllingtoas
John ". Luce & Co., Boston.
1.-The Bourgeois" by Henry de We're stac-
poole: Brentanos. New York.
"Euthenics," by Ellen III. Richards; whiA-
comb & Barrows. Boston.
Maurice Hewlett by Milton Bronner; JOIN
W. Luce & Co. Boston
''Skid Pufer,'' by Francis F. French; Henry
Holt & Co., New York.
''Storm and Treasure by II. c. Bailey;
Brentanos, New York
'.wnd Oats" by James Oppenheim: B. W
Huebsch, New York.
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MY aunt sat by me and told me all
sorts OF facts and details of those days.
and I got more California from a friend
of mine who has an endless supply of
such lore. L went to the public library
and searched the files Of the old papers
for the history of the Cora case"
Miss Chamberlain is not, by the way,
as lenient with her hero. Johnny Mont
gomery, as she has induced her public
to be. She is inclined to believe that
he was wild, registering young blade
and that he had a great deal more
consideration shown him than he act
ually deserved. Her favorite scene
with her heroine, the moment when she
seems to like her best of all, is when
she revives in the convent garden after
leaping from the window Of the Span
ish woman's house. This begins: IT
could not tell how long a time had
passed, but gradually out Of complete
consciousness. grew up the sense OF
wretched throbbing. 1 thought it was
my head 1 opened my eyes and found
I was looking straight up into the sky.
1 lay staring at 1t, 1t was so wonder
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Anony nous. Published by Henry II
One glance into "Skid Puffer' was
enough to discourage the reviewer, for
dialect is difficult enough to read at
any time and almost impossible to
read rapidly; but this book has been
so much advertised and is published
anonymously-anothe dodge to rouse
the curiosity-that it could not be
skipped nor lightly cast aside. And how
we'll is one repaid for careful reading!
The publishers tell us that skid Puffer"
is new, true and individual as "Huck
Finn" We at once prepare to quarrel.
Every page convinces us that that is
scant praise.
The story is divided properly in two
parts; the first scene is the kankakee
swamp, near indianapolis. and there is
where one meets the masters of ver-
nacular humor. Colonel Francis French.
who tells the story, is an important
and strong character. He has taken
vacation trips from his home in Chi
cago to this swamp for years, hunting,
and, staying always with the Puffer
family, has become well acquainted
with them. Skid and he occupy the
same room, and during the evenings or
rainy days the colonel induces Skid to
talk Skid tells him all sorts of tales,
which are not only humorous in them
selves, but give perfect picture of the
people and the country in which they
live
Skids father, Squire Abe Puffer Of
Pufferland, was an extraordinary char
acter. He has gone to the great ST.
lens" some Is months, but about half
fathers stories or experiences. Each
chapter gives us one or more. Some
show the homely philosophy of these
people and others are frankly humor-
Gus. After one becomes accustomed to
the dialect 1t is easy to read and pure
joy. 1t lends itself well to reading
aloud if one does not quite spoil it by
chuckles.
In the course of time. Skid is taken
to Indianapolis and educated and proves
again his remarkable adaptability.
There is a mystery about his parentage
which is cleared up in this part of the
story and the romance begins here. too.
AS the plot is unrolled before us,
there are many complications and it
becomes very exciting toward the eli
max. Skid finds it necessary in the
course of his duty to pursue a criminal
who has wronged his family. This
pursuit takes him over the Arizona des-
erts and gives the author an opportu-
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fully soft and blue. Presently the
wind swayed a green branch into my
line OF vision; at sight OF that the
query of where I was came into my
mind"
Probably nothing gives more strong
Iy the quaint simplicity of the little
heroine. who tells the tale. than the
concluding paragraph in which she con-
fesses that her lover. leaving her for
two years in a wilderness. kissed her
goodby-"although father did not like
that at all. for II would help to make
the two years shorter"
For the student of San Franciscos
history, for those who love the bring
ing back of the things they have known
before, for those who care naught for
local color or atmosphere. but seek
simply a love tale with a strong ele-
ment Of excitement, for those who want
a book to grip the interest and retain
1t, The Other Side OF the Door" may
be heartily recommended.
The first installment will appear in
The Sunday Call next Sunday.
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he Rod of Justice"

by Brentano's, New York. Price sI.5o.
on the scene and he and Ivory learn
how she has been tricked. The husband
and tragedy is narrowly averted. ivory
is in despair and hopes Allen will be
able to do something to save her, and
in few weeks he succeeds in snug
Cling a note to her asking her to run
away with him. Desperate, Ivory de-
cides to go and steals out OF the house
at night. Peter hears her and takes his
gun to follow and Kill the Englishman.
During a terrible thunder storm which
breaks over them Peter stumbles and
his gun mortally wounds him, though
Ivory and Allen do not know they are
followed. Peter struggles back to the
house and dies, but writes a note tell
ing the manner of his death.
Keziah, heart broken and driven to
insanity by Peters death, captures
Ivory and Allen and accuses her OF
numbering her husband. She deter
mines to wreak summary vengeance
upon the unfaithful and wicked wife.
Her jealous rage is wonderfully pic
tured and the two lovers have a very
close call. Peters letter at last saves
them, but not before much trouble
and suffering.
In barest outline this is the story,
but no description can do justice to
the strength of the tale as told by
these clever authors. The book is rich
in local color. One feels the heat of the
South African plain, and the dreadful
loneliness of the sparsely settled coun-
try. All ones sympathy goes out to
poor suffering. tricked Ivory, and, curl
ously enough, to great, strong. un-
happy Peter. For all his deceit to her
love was excuse enough and he was
sadly punished. The book does not hold
a dull line or page.
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By Alice and Claude Askew. Published
A powerful story is written in The
Rod OF Justice" one which sticks in
the memory long after the last word
IS read. It is full of passion, OF
tragedy and love. convincing in its
truth, the best thing yet done by its
authors South Africa is the scene OF
the tale. and the wild. desolate country
is graphically pictured.
Ivory Creighton is a perfect type of
tweRtieth century civilization. She has
left England because she is loved by
Allen Osbourne Cwho has a lunatic
wife), and she loves him in return.
Life holds nothing sweet for her, so
she fees the temptation he offers her
and goes out TO this uninviting coun-
try 10 forget him. Sickness overtakes
her out on the veldt and she seeks
shelter at the farm of Peter Van Mas,
q strong. rugged Boer farmer. Peter
is a well to do widower and has just
about decided that he had best marry
his cousin. Keziah, but the arrival OF
Ivory changes his plans. She is his
dream come true, and though quite un-
fitted to be the wife of rough Boer
farmer. he falls in love with all the
strength OF his primitive nature. When
he asks her to marry him she tells him
her story, but he thinks he can win
her love if only she Will consent to the
marriage. never dreaming that her
path will ever be crossed by her Eng
lish lover again. Ivory consents ana
the night after the betrothal Peter,
walking alone in his orchard, is
astounded to see a stranger approach.
The man proves 10 be Osbourne, look
ing for Ivory His wife is dead ana
he has hastened to trace his love with
the news.
Peter yields to his great temptation,
deceives Osbourne and marries Ivory.
Just after the ceremony Allen appears
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"A Cavalier Of Virginia"

By c. e. Theodore Roberts. Published
Francis Drurie is an ideal hero, a
cavalier Of Virginia. The time of the
romance is the old colonial period, when
everything that could not possibly hap
pen today did happen. The hero is
the younger son of the old Drurie
family, so he must seek his fortune
away from home. When the tale opens
he is just returning from a few months
campaigning against the hostile In
dians, and before he turns in to his own
home he stops at the neighboring es-
tate of the Darizas. Isobel the daugh-
ter, has been his playmate since child
hooo, and he has always peen devoted
to her, but lately he has realized that
his feeling for her is more than the
affection between friends. When he
stops to see her she treats him a bit
coquettishly, and Francis is fearfully
cast down. Later on, at home, his
brother allows him to think that he is
the favored suitor. having been paying
Isobel assiduous court during Francis
absence.
Francis accepts the first opportunity
which offers to leave home and forget
his disappointment in adventure. All
the arrangements are made, but at the
last minute Francis and Isobel explain
everything to each other and they are
betrothed.
Francis must go. however, and de-
cides to take advantage of his trip to
England to search for brother of
Isobel, who has been accused of
serious crime and disappeared under
a cloud. The quest leads to a series