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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-10-29
CAPITALS DIPLOMATIC Dol
This Canine a Turk Of Very High De-
gree and of Aristocratic Line
ace.

We have diplomatic dogs as well as
diplomatic other things. There is a
diplomatic dog whose name Is Kiaz-
i'm. He is a canine of high degree and
aristoeratic lineage, and he belongs to
his excellency, Youssouf Zia Pasha,
Turkish ambassador at Washington,
and this blooded dog Of blooded mas
ter is liable to get us into diplomatic
entanglements with Turkey, and 1t Is
only just a few years since we got
everything fixed up with this country
of the simitar and the half moon. Re-
Gently when Poundmaster Einstein
was patrolling around Connecticut av-
enue in the capital city, his eagle eye
spied KAHN chasing cat, and he
was outside the bounds Of the Turkish
embassy. Furthermore, he did not
have a muzzle on Now an order has
gone forth that every dog In the Dis
trict Of Columbia caught upon its
streets unmuzzled is meat for the
poundmaster After short chase
Kiazim's neck was encfrcled by the
fatal rope, and he was yanked up to
be put in the dog wagon, but evidently
KAHN was imbued with the spirit
of the young Turks, for he wriggled
and bit until he got away. He fed at
once for the embassy gates, where the
Turkish encourage stood in paralyzed
horror watching the attempt to lay
violent hands on the dog Of an am
bassador. They got the dog, too. Fur
themore, KAHN still roams the
streets unmuzzled and unafraid.
Poundmaster Einstein's efforts to Sc
cure this diplomatic dog are not end
ed, and he declares that, exemption or
no exemption, an ambassadorial dog
found roaming the streets of Washing.
ton will be hauled In and held In If
possible until properly redeemed, and
IL not redeemed he will 60 the way Of
all dogs.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-10-29
1T is a charming home,'' was the

1T is a charming home,'' was the
reply.
Edwin" answered Mr.. Weed, ut ia
to be your home as long as you live
or care to occupy it. Your friends
have seen to 1t that you are to be pro.
vided for, and this home is one of the
provisions 1t isn't gift, it isn't a
charity 1t is simply a fair recon-
pense to you for your unselfish service
as a public citizen-so unselfish, Ed.
win, that you have never properly car.
ed for yourself"
For a moment Mr.. Croswell looked
blankly into Mr.. Weeds face, then
turned his head to hide his emotion.
And as he did so he reached out his
hand, grasped Mr.. Weeds, and buried
forever all the bitterness of the past
in these words:
after all, there Is nothing outside
a mans family life that compares with
true friendship, and true friend
have found in you"
This story, as I have told 1t, Mr.
Weed himself told me the last time
chatted with him, year or so before
his death, and the details came out
when l stated that had heard he had
done something to put Mr.. Croswell
in comfortable circumstances. Eyes,
confessed the old gentleman-he was
then over eighty-"and that is one OF
the happiest of my recollections."
(Copyright, 1910, by E. ]. Edwards. AL
Rights Reserved.D
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-10-29
Two Stories About the "Easy Boss"
That Demonstrate His Wit and
Capacity for Humorous
Description.

The late Thomas G. Plat spoke OF
himself at one time as the easy BOSS
He was easy in still another sense
than that in which he used the Word'
and that was in his sense OF humor
and his capacity for humorous de-
scription and anecdote. He was a
shining exception to the saying that
the politically ambitious see things
only through serious spectacles.
One day, some years ago, as l was
passing through the porter's room OF
the old Fifth Avenue hotel, senator
platt's Headquarters in New York city,
heard some one call me by name'
and looking around, saw Senator Platt
h.ckoning to me from his seat on
boot-black stand. >,
Take this vacant chair BESIDE me-
he said, land while the good BOY De-
low. who is a loyal follower OF Tom
Platt, is putting the finishing touches
unon nv calfskins, I will tell you OF
an amusing experience I had tnls
morning.
"Do YOU remember John M. Forbes'
He 1S very TiCu luCl Nhe~AAS >
dignified man, distinguished LOT hls
political sagacity, his rather pro.
nounced self-esteem and his somewhat
nrominent nose. AS l stepped into the
barber shop Of the hotel this morning
who should see yielding to the MN
istrations Of the barber but John M
Forbes. I recognized him by the con
snicuousness with which his nose STOOD
out above the lather. SO stepped W
to him and said: Good morning, Mr
Forbes, am glad to see you In sucI
exnerienced hands. Politics and bust
ness must be very satisfactory in Bos
tom
instantly the man pushed the bar
her aside, sat up straight IN the cnalr
and turned to me a face SO we'll latn
cred that l could only see the nose
and eyes. .
".sir.' he exclaimed, Indignantly,
don't know who you are, but l want te
taI, YOU that John M. Forbes has no.
= monopoly of the prominent nose
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-10-29

human society
The advocates of peace, however, have sufficient
historical and social philosophical insight 70
know that an institution which has been at the root
of human society for many thousands of years can
not be made to disappear with stroke, but like all
other changes in nature and in society will be brought
about gradually and in response to the newly created
necessities and standards.
The movement for universal peace has in the last
few years developed into science Sciences never
create, plead force phenomena merely observe
them and recognize them. The movement toward uni
versal peace accomplishes and more as the world
becomes organized its separate units begin
more closely This is process in harmony with all
the laws of nature.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-10-29
Thomas C.. Platt a Hun1orist

and though have sometimes been to
ken for him when persons have seen
me in profile, yet have never before
been recognized as Mr.. Forbes when
my face was all lathered and await
ing the BARRIERS razor!"
Senator Platt chuckled violently.
"Do you know" he said at last, that
Is good one on my friend John M.
Forbes; and shall relate 1t with spe-
cial qualification to some Of the elite
Republicans Of Massachusetts, who
have been much associated with him
in reforming politics"
Upon another occasion Mr.. Plat
was called upon at his hotel In Wash
ington by a gentleman who protested
to be very anxious to see General HOW.
ard Carroll, who some years earlier
had been Republican candidate for
congressman at large from New York
state, and who was very intimate
friend of President Arthur. His Wis
itor asked the senator where General
Carroll could be found.
What General Carroll do you
mean?" asked Mr.. Platt.
why" was the reply, II mean How
ard Carroll-General Howard Car
roll"
"Ah," replied the senator, blandly
| had you spoken in the first instance
| of Howard Carroll instead of Genera
Carroll, / should have known whom
you meant"
why, what is the difference?'
asked the senator's friend.
| Gust this" was the reply, Il al
| ways speak and think of him as How
ard Carroll. You see, God made thu
man, while >Is.made the general, ant
out of consideration for his maker
always refer to him as Howard Car
roll, regarding Gods work with re
| spect to him as of much higher con
sequence than my own. Other peopl
are less reverential. They speak O
him as the general made rather thai
as the man.whom God created"
Within a week this characteristic
Plattonian jest had circulated through
all the public circles in washington
and at last reached the ears Of Ger
eral Carroll himself, who to this da
delights in telling it.
| downright, 1910, by e. J. Edwards)
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-10-29
The New Cook.

The New Cook.
It was in 1920. , -.
"oh. pa" exclaimed the little lao,
,reath,ess with excitement, guess
what has happened?"
"What my SOM" asked pa as ne
u..d a wireless from Europe.
"Why, you know our automatie
.ook-the one you bought in the hard
ware store?"
"Think I should know her. l was
,rs+ about to cali and tell her to pre-
nara my condensed eggs and coffee
well you needn't. She's gone"
= .Gone? Left, without noticew
"worse than that, pa. The auto
.,+,c iceman came in and Rugged
har 50 tightly he broke all the steel
snr;nps she was composed OF and
che fell to pieces. Ma raked her up
and is going to sell her to the junk
man." -, 80 -,
MON cooks, the business man OF 1920
left for his ofHce.-Sandusky Register.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-10-29
Last Talk With Peter Cooper

his little library. He wore loose
morning gown. or jacket, and the
heavy lenses of his spectacles, which
carried sidepieces. caused his eyes
to CLEAN with unusual brilliancy and
to appear Of great size. He blew up
an air cushion to it's full capacity,
then seated himself in coy chair
and began to chat in easy fashion
about the greenback movement. And
as l listened to him 1t seemed to me
almost incredible that was seated
before the man who had designed
and built the first American locomo-
tive, in $780, and the E.ethod of pro-
polling canal boats by an endless
chain, and who was among the earli-
est to promote the laying Of the At
lantic cable.
At length, and without showing the
slightest sign of fatigue. either ply
steal or mental, the old gentleman
outlined his views on the money ques-
ton. Then, as I prepared to leave.
he accompanied me along the pass
age leading from the library to the
front door, which he opened before
either myself or a servant near by
could make a move to do so. Pass
ing through it, he took his stand up
on the broad top step and looked
with an absorbed countenance in the
direction of little Gramercy Park, one
corner of which was visible from
where he stood. He put his hand up
on my shoulder-not for support, it
| seemed to me, but to direct my gaze
where his was. Then, at last, he
spoke, and fancied that half regret
fully he turned his eyes to me from
the exquisite vista before us Of that
little gem of parkland in the heart
of New York.
"This is a very beautiful world" he
| said, earnestly, simply. II like to
look out upon it, and each day as
grow older and see with my eyes
somewhat blinded though they are
by. age-the beautiful things which
God has given us, and which every
one may enjoy without any cost II
he will only look, realize more and
more how exquisite is the charm OF
nature, and what the worlds perfec
ton really is And as I have grown
| older l have also come to realize thai
there is more of good than of evil In
the world-that there is some beauty
in every human being. no matter how
low he may have fallen, just as there
is beauty in everything that grows.
Eyes, this is a beautiful world-s
very beautiful world. I am now s.
years Of age Not for long now an
l to be permitted to look out upor
it, Yet I hope to make the best o.
the brief opportunity that Is left tt
me to behold Gods beauty all about
me. 1t gives me serenity and peace
of mind to see it, and yet there is {
lingering regret that cannot EMO.
it much longer.
IT hope you will come to see me-
again. Come when the leaves have
turned. To me there is no sadness
In the falling leaf, il it has color IL
It. You have spoken of Cooper in
stitute. All, could leave no bette
legacy to my fellow men than the pow
er to see daily the beauties of tn
world that God has given us to liv'
In; for if we can do that we shall
all have riches that cannot be los
; or in any way taken from u.s."
copyright, 1870 by E. ]. Edwards. Al
| Rights ReSerVed.)
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-10-29
Things Which the Sailor Thinks
Lucky or the Reverse for tho
Ship He Sails In.

There is . general idea that the
sailor labors under more than the one
pet superstition popular tradition as
signs to each individual. Competent
authority contends, however, that tars
are no more superstitious than any OF
their equals in training and oppor-
tunities. However that may be, the
following may be cited as instances OF
the signs and tokens In which those
who go down to the sea in ships put
their faith.
In the past superstition was a part
of every ship; it entered into its keel,
climbed to its flags, ran at its launch
ing, controlled its crew and cargo,
evoked portents and governed its ven
lures and arrivals.
A bit of stolen wood was always
mortised into the keel to make q
ship sail fast. A silver coin was
placed in the matnmant step to insure
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-10-29
Aaed .Phllanthropist Outlined 7's
Views on the Greenback move
ment and Then Talked OF
the Beautiful World.

Peter Cooper, who did the greatest
work of his life when he founoeo
Cooper Union, in New YORK, ana
thereby made his name well-nigh i'm
perishable, was eighty-nine years OF
age when l had my last chat with
him. That was in 1880, three years
before he was gathered unto his ia
Tiers.
I had called upon Mr.. Cooper at
his home in Irving place, in New YORK
city, for the purpose of obtaining his
views upon the greenback question.
The old gentleman was a very ear
nest advocate of issuing irredeemable
paper money based upon the race ana
credit of che government.
He received me very cordially IN
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-10-29
Flirting Is
Beginning
of Family
Life
BY FRED BUcH

Of its birth through long years Of the chd development until
as girl she desires marry you help seeing that Irritation
hereditary.
Why should like to admire nice chldrena 81
And why not the sweet girl Of sixteen?
still better the full developed form of loving moherf
Is the mother of man? a8s
is the world without her?
Would there be love?
Firtaton kept pure within the natural borders
Of civilization, is merely the beginning Of love-
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-10-29

DR.. Stanley Hall, president Of Clark
university of Northampton, Mass, IN his
remarks about flirting, according to the
Chicago Daily News, may have spoken 2
few words too many, but in his principles
he is perfectly right and sane.
What would this world be without firt-
ing7 You might well say that it Is the
beginning of family life. Flirting is her
editary,. DR.. Hall says; ct must remain
impervious through all time to mans
edict.".
If we watch closely motherly love as il
- 4. 8 Il. - y
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-10-29

Red-headed persons with white checks
and blue eyes ought to be very proud Of
their colors, for these are the beautiful col
ors Of nearly all the flags the world ever,
especially cold glory"the stars and
stripes forever, the gem Of the ocean.
Red hair for the red stripes, white
cheeks for the white stripes and blue ewes
for the blue field. Thus we have the red,
white and blue.
Whenever celebrate flag day I usually
choose red-headed maiden of sweet s;r-
teen summers to hoist the flag, because4.
they are the most beautiful wona,, III !
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-10-29
Machine to Wash Money.

after the thoroughly cleansed bills
have been run through the "plater,"
they are in almost every respect as
good as new, the renovating process
not only restoring the original colors
of the ink, but also the crispness of
new money.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-10-29
Forbid
Man to
Marry Old
Women
By MRS. SARAH BEAN

himself times out of ten there children oder than
After a few years he will take to WATCHING yonn ~
RED couples out with their chldrenand where i Happy
mand he will look at his wife the m without
dissatisfaction linen comes
The only real happy marriage Of this kind I eva. 4,
the woman had 50 many millions that did not 2 was where
Get busy boys hunt up nice girls younger than oun
married Never mind the salary. yourselves and ges
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-10-29

They simple the kind hearted freedom preaching
to the cruel loving people that is much better to
peaceful understanding fight The advocates peace
the greater of the public about painting ho
re light possible hoping by sentimental descriptions
horrors Of prevail upon lords to leave the sword the
sheath.
The whole object of the peace advocates short consists IN turning
the governments to mutual love- They
show how peasan comfortable happier and health
Ter it is to live in peace than is to quarrel and fight
War-wheher it is being waged or whether aenhas from
mmenoa present day the ruling motive and
human society," Peace interruption and accident What
the advocates precisely the thing around They
ruling of society,"
far could be illegal interruption In
society," which rests entirely upon basis the Object
all diplomats to accomplish which the soeny prom
d by the Of all othersls MAIN
tanned only through preparations and through the
structing of Notifications r.<@s@zA@s
peace much with the
temporary maintenance of peacehoug prefer such state to that
wrbu with the enhonng Of peace not to reard war
but away with entirely wpng institution OF
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-10-29

change of admins
tration, a capital
correspondent as
serts, for it's not
the same old
Washington that
it was in the days
before the Civil
war. The office
seeker as a type Is
as extinct in Wash
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-10-29

there should be a law forbidding men
to marry women much older Than tba,,,,
selves. That Glove is matter of the so,,l
not OF age may be true, but when yornp ],
man thinks of marrying a woman ton ne :
more years older than himself he i MT i
love. After marriage he will avaLa 49, !,
the matter Of the SOUL" but be cann M,
change the age and woman ages wbaa !
man seems to stand still. - nen :
It is the duty Of every clean-cut vo,,ns
man m mt to M, marry and raise family a ,aas
is but half man until he has nA :
Should be ,nan. Iamlly.~
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-10-29
OLD CAPITAL DAYS
CHANGES HAVE TAKEN PLACE IN
METHODS AT WASHINGTON.
Ofd-Time Offce-Seekers and Profess
sional Lobbyists Scarce-civiI
Service Law Does Away With
Many Abuses.

"Office-seekers" no longer clutter"
Washington with each succeeding
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-10-29
Always.

Always.
II is always some other fellow who
rsrries the joke too far
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-10-29

Peace
What Such
Condition Would
Really Mean
By BARONESS Won SUTTNER

SPITE all that has been said and written the public at
large is still entertaining false notions to what the
ment for universal peace means The times when
waged called times of peace By putting the words war
and "peace uxtapostion people form impress
sions that the movement toward universal freedom has for
its object proong the periods of those periods when
silent.
And the means whereby the peace advocates seek to
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-10-29

be founda least the newspapers said last time
flag at Humboldt park Chicago -
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-10-29
peopIe With Claims.

there is no longer any brood Of plaus-
ible and eloquent people with claims
before Congress in Washington, as
there were for good 80 years or
more after the war. Some of them
we're noted characters, usually of
pathetic sort, but many Of them, in
Guiding the women Of the lot, were
grafters and cheerful workers of the
most pronounced description. Some
of them had actual claims, with, how
ever. little or no prospect of getting
them through and as little reason why
thew should be put through, but most
of them had claims before Congress
that were as purely imaginary as
they possibly could be.
Some of these female claimants
used to hypnotic confding old board
ing house mistresses by narrating
tales of the enormous wealth that was
| bound to come to them eventually
from their claims before Congress,
and to promise the clearinghouse
women that they would not only pay
| them all of the money they owed
them, but contribute generously to-
| ward the education of their daughters
when they grew up, and start their
sons in business, and all that sort Of
thing. Not only that, but they'd sol
EMMY go through the motions of as
signing interests In their claims to the
people who had trusted them, and
thereby gain another long clutch, with
tick. There were, of course, plenty OF
these claimants whose claims were
Just and had at least show Of going
through, but these were In the minor
ity. But the brood Of claimants who
used to haunt the capitol, and nod
and doze in the galleries and button.
hole generations Of incoming repre-
sentatives as they strolled through
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-10
forthcoming RIYaF APPROXIMATIONS

Between Mr.. Underwood and Mr.
Washington Taylor this state will fare
we'll in the rivers and harbors DILL
The bill Will carry as it passes the
House an even 100000 for the War.
rior and Tombigbee, and the sundry
civil bill will add 100000 to this
amount. This should enable the en-
gineers to start work on locks Nos. is
and 49, and then lock 90 would carry
the improV ement to the forks of the
river and within easy reach of the
Ensley Southern railroad.
The appropriation for Mobile harbor
is s455, 900, and this district is almost
as deeply interested in the Mobile bay
appropriation as it is in the appropria-
ton for opening the Warrior. Ev-
cry part of the state will be bene-
flied by a 27-foot channel to Mobile,
900 feet wide in the bay and 200 in the
river
The appropriations for the Coosa, the
Chattahoochie and the Tennessee rivers
are ample. all pointing to the opening
of these rivers by the government. The
Alabama rivers should all be well adj
vanced towards uninterrupted naviga-
ton when the Panama canal is opened.
and If Alabama fares as well in subse-
quent rivers and harbors bills as she
does in the present one every consider
able river in this state will be opened
in good time
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-10
POLICEMAN PARKER
SHOOTS Man In ARM

Policeman J. T. Parker shot and wound
ed ]. w. Glenn. a white man, this morn
ing at 2.15 under very peculiar circum-
stances. Glenn was wounded in the arm
and though painful the injury Is not
serious.
Officers Parker and Phillips found a
man lying in stupor ON the corner of
Third avenue and Fourteenth street. and,
after examining him. came to the con-
cIusion that he had been robbed. They
called the patrol wagon and when the
wagon had strated off a shadow was seen
to appear near a pile of brick nearby.
Parker states that he called twice, ask
ing the man what he was doing there,
but instead of replying Glenn grabbed
his hat in his hand and started to run.
Thinking he was a negro, Parker shot,
first In the air, and then took after him.
A fter another random shot Glenn ap-
peared under the light at Fifteenth street
and the policeman winged him. Though
he continued to run he was soon over
taken and surrendered.
Glenn lived at 343 Forty-sixth street.
He left work at the car barn at / o'clock.
lie had no possible opportunity to reach
his home last night. In fact the elrcum-
stances connected with the incident seem
rather suspicious.