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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-04-16
MADE UP HIS MIND QUICKLY
Prospective Juror Evidently Was Not
FavorabIy Impressed with Pris-
oner's Appearance.

In q southern county of Missouri,
years ago, when the form of question
ing was slightly different than now,
much trouble was experienced in get
ting jury in murder trial. Finally
an old fellow answered every question
satisfactorily; he had no prejudices,
was not opposed to capital punish
ment and was, generally, valuable
find. Then the prosecutor said, SOL
EMMY:
Juror, look upon the prisoner; pris-
oner, look upon the juror
The old man adjusted his spectacles
and peered at the prisoner for full
half minute. Then, turning to the
court, he said:
Judge, durn if don't believe he's
guilty"
The unconscious humor Of it so con-
vulsed the court and everyone else,
except the prisoner, that the loss Of
another juror was overlooked.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-04-16
waiting and watching" she quavered.

waiting and watching" she quavered,
in a voice that had lost all its irrita-
hility. Had any news, deary?" she in
CURED eagerly.
I've brought same things for you to
wash and iron, If you will" Miss
Ritchdon felt that this matter-of-fact
statement might lessen Miss Prent's
queerness, and so it proved
Miss Prent undid the bundle with
pract:ced fingers. You want 'em done
up" she queried. 'I'll have to charge
you IL cents apiece for the waists and
dunno's ought to take less'n IS
cents for the skirts"
"Oh, I'm sure shan't quarrel" be-
gan Miss Ritchdon; but Miss Prent
checked heI with little cry:
Il didn't mean to quarrel with
Steve! no. | didn't Set down, set
DOWN. she went on hastily, land I'll
tell you all about it. You see"-she
stopped, her eyes wandering wistfully
out Of the window. But there! He
knows it's all right, he knows. Just 10
o'clock in the morning, deary, and a
u,
sailed away on the fastest schooner in
the iieeu and he'll come a-sailing back
some Gay, know! I'm watching"
Miss RitchdoE went down the mar
row staircase with dull terror at her
heart against which she strove vainly,
The tiff between Godfrey Kenton and
herself had never struck her as seri.
ous-she had vaguely imagined a
reconciliation; now it suddenly oc-
| Cured to her that life without Godfrey
would DC dreary indeed. Was she to
wait and watch through the years that
awaited her, as that poor creature had
done, m.urdering her tale, half wit
less, in strangers ear?
A sudden gust of wind swept by her,
chill and salt from the sea; the light
grayed; a multitude of small clouds
| thickened overhead She hurried along
into the house.
MY! You look real pinched!" ejac-
ulated Mrs. Clates. Winds gone east,
amt It? And there's mackerel sky.
sure sign CT storm. Well, how'd you
make out with Miss Prent? Could she
do 'em?"
Yes. She said they'd be ready Sat-
urday." Miss Richardson spoke with
an effort and Mrs. Clates looked at
her curlously
Miss Prent's been telling you about
Steve Empton?" she queried. shes
pretty doleful at times. You see, she
and Steve set everything by each
other and"
Il guess I'd better go upstairs,
Mrs. Clates, and get on something
thicker" Miss Ritchdon interrupted.
Its growing rather cool"
We'll. maybe you had" returned
Mrs. Clates, with hint of vexation in
her lone.
The wind steadily increased during
the Afternoon and by supper time It
was blowing a stiff gale.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-04-16
In the Teeth
of the Storm
BY CLARA INEZ bacon

"Coula yoI tell me, Mrs. Clates,
where can find laundress-a really
good laundress?" Miss Ritchdcn
Queried, somewhat difidently of her
summer landlady, who was placidly
bending over her cook stove in a
temperature of about 100 degrees
Fahrenheit.
We'll, now" returned Mrs. Clates.
with finely expansive air, 'Td do 1t
in minute. just to accommodate. but
I'm expecting company of my own
next weeE to say nothing of roomers.
and l don't see how l could. Maybe
she's laundress that would suit any
body, but don't know; l s'pose you
could try her-some folks get along
with ner all right" she paused.
VINO is she, please?" inquired Miss
Ritchdon curiously. And what's the
matter with herr"
She Rosetta Prent, and-well,
she's one Of the best, but she's little
queer"
"Oh, t. that's ALL" returned Miss
Ritchden, with evident relief. please
give me her address; I'll 60 at once"
Miss Ritchdon heaved a little sigh
as she went along, glancing out over
the blue water o. the harbor, dotted
with yachts and buzzing with motor
boats.
But Geoffrey had accused her-Iola
Rtchdon-cf flirting! Well, a girl
must be civil, even to men. as she had
told Godfrey, who had retorted-well,
who cared for what Godfrey had said
or for Godfrey, for the matter of that?
Thanks to the efforts of several
neighbors, Miss Ritchdon finally found
Miss Prent's house, perched as it was
on precipitous ledge, cat-a-cornered
to the street. Miss Prent appeared
at the door.
Its all of ten o'clock in the morn
ing" she announced in rather severe
tones. There's boats in the harbor,
too. You come right along after me-"
She mounted the stairs with consider
able alacrity and Miss Ritchdon fol-
lowed, wondering.
What charming view!" she re-
marked with disarming graciousness
as she entered the room.
Her hostess turned towards her with
lackluster eyes and a tremulous face.
I'm waiting and watching. deary;
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-04-16
Wart Hog Not a Beauty.

In the superlative degree the wart
hog is absolutely the ugliest thing on
earth, except it be another wart hog.
1t would be hard to analyze the rea.
sons for anything being as hopelessly
a phantasm of hideousness as the face
of wart hog. It is pretty much all
dun-colored bone, and starts from
about two inches from behind the
ears, ending in kind of a point
where his teeth protrude. His tough
hide is as bare as the back of a
shaved hog, excepting half dozen
bristles under his excuse for chin.
Such a critter is now in the Washing
ton zoo.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-04-16
Unpublished Utterances.

Herein is set down hitherto UNI
published utterance of Emerson. There
is no doubt of it's authenticity: "An
a boodely boodely boodely boo, dood
ely doodely doo!" 1t was his favorite
way of addressing babies. Carlyle in
variably addressed babies thus:
Hockey hockey hockey koo, hockey
hockey koo!" Occasionally he varied
that with: "Keekey keekey keekey
kee, keekey, keekey keel" Shake
speare's conversation with babies was
this: "Too r-o-sey! Too r-o-sey!" Sil
Francis Bacon's was simply: "Klklk.'
David Hume said: "Boo!" Charles
Dickens used to say: ''Heao, faint oo
yaph itty bit?" Sir Isaac Newton
used to say: "Howdydoogums!'
George Eliot used to say: "Cunnin
sin! Burdie!"-Puck.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-04-16
LOOKING Ahead.

Josephine, aged ten, has decided
lisp. She also is very fond of attend
ing the matinee. The other day she
was giving spirited story of the play
to Marion, who was aged nine.
"My mamma says it isn't good fol
little girls to go to the theater,' sale
Marion with an air of self-righteous
ness, I'm not ever going till I'm 18.
"Humph,' retorted Josephine with
out any hesitation, "th-pose you die
when you're theventeen, then you'll
be !"-Woman's Companion.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-04-16
GoIdsmitl1's Old Home.

Acting on a suggestion by Dean
Kelly of st. Peters Athlone, the West.
meath county council have decided to
preserve the old home of Oliver Gold
smith at I.issoy from further decay.
Opposite it's gate,' the dean wrote,
'sis the ancient fort of Liss, of which
Goldsmith wrote to his brother-in-law,
Daniel Hodson: I had rather be
placed in the little mount before Lis
soy Gate and there take in to me the
most pleasing horizon in nature The
capacious fireplace around which sat
the groups depicted in the Vicar of
Wakefield and the Deserted Village
Is gone. The ruin is now mere she'll,
and a zinc rooted shed has been erect
ed within it."-London Evening
Standard.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-04-16
Goaded.

Saving became passion with the
man and the woman. No privation
was too great, if SO be by it they
might add to their accumulations.
And they labored jointly. The wom-
ans sacrifice was in every respect
equal to that of the man.
But when they had amassed $4,000
the man, because he had the power,
took the money and purchased with
it, not the automobile which he had
led his faithful wife to expect, but a
home.
"Brute!" she cried, and when next
a mob of suffragettes came that way
she joined them. Who could blame
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-04-16
Eikins' Fondness for Stone,

SCUdIUT OLVVV LIhIuS Oh W0SC VII.
ginia, spends very little time in the
senate, but he scarcely ever blows in
without going over and hob-nobbing
with Senator Stone of Missouri. Ell.
kins was a native of Ohio, but he
spent a great many years in Missouri,
ana it was there that he put in his
civ:S war service. He has great
fonensss for the state, and he really
Ia trry fond of Senator Stone.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-04-16
-Four Letters: MANY Sounds,

"The senator from Iowa." said vice.
president Sherman, but he pronounced
it 'I-o-ah," with the accent on the 80"
There are old-timers who cling to the
ancient Indian "Ay-o-way," accenting
the way" while still others say
Hawaii" with emphasis on the
"wah,' or "I-o-a," accenting the "oh."
It has been called "Ee-o-wah," with
the first syllable accented, and even
other sounds have been given to these
four letters. People from the Hawk
eye state pronounce the name as their
fancy dictates.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-04-16
Entitled to II.

How are things lookin' over to
Dingledell?"
They've been looking p1ty
squeamish for a spell. The creek got
so blame high it overfowed Peasley's
dam, an there's two foot O water in
Wilder Browns cellar"
well, well, s'pose you folks over
there will be so stuck up pretty soon
thet you'll be calm yourselves tn
Parisians of AmeriBy. "-Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-04-16

immigration made big record last
year and the indications are that this
years figures will be even larger. And
with such an inpouring greater be-
comes the necessity for careful ex-
animation at all ports of entry. Gov
eminent officials must be compelled
m do their work thoroughly and see
that no undesirables from any foreign
land are allowed to land.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-04-16
Congressman Coudrey would re-

COuE51
late taxicab charges in the District
of Columbia and has introduced bill
to that end A man, speaking of this
bill the other day, said it is all right
for a member of congress to give at
tention to everything in the District
of Columbia, but In view Of the over
charge of the st. Louis cabman for
conveying Senator Stone to the sta
ton, he thought Missouri congressman
were afforded ample opportunity to
give some attention to cab fares In
their own cities.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-04-16

woman is suing for damages on
the ground that she was not awakened
IN a Journey in time to dress prop,
ar,v and was thereby Inundated in
tba ewes of her fellow-passengers. And
on1v woman knows the depth OF
the humiliation of not being properly
and becomingly dressed with lot OF
atber women looking on. No matter
mat plea the defendant company ay
.,,,t in. that woman realls Suffered.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-04-16

One of the many causes contribu-
ting to the panic Of 1907 was the
slump in copper due to the decline in
demand. Now the market reports
chow a large gain in copper sales,
with the consumption for January 49,
600 900 pounds in excess of production
for that month. The growing use of
conner means increased activity in
y.rious branches of industry and
hence shows that business continues
on the up grade.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-04-16

People who have received with alb
solute indifference reports that ten,
twenty or fifty-dollar counterfeit bills
were in circulation are now seriously
disturbed. A counterfeit 81 silver GER
tificate of good workmanship has been
discovered.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-04-16

as the different
c o u n t ri e S of
Europe, $4,000 out
of the 10000 men
killed in the coal
mines in this
country in the last
ten years would
be living today,
while 10000 out
of the $4,000 in
= 4tx %L~S~
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-04-16
The innocent Victim.

II believe" said the blunt individual,
''in speaking my mind and calling a
spade a spade"
YES" replied Miss Cayenne. MANY
are that way. The tendency is what
;corrupts the vocabularies of so many
parrots
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-04-16

The decision of the appellate divis.
ion that a divorced man need not pay
alimony to a former wife when she
marries again should strike the Sec
ond husband favorably in his self-re.
spect.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-04-16

The plan of the California superin-
tendent of education to require less
work for school children at their
homes does not, of course, apply to
doing the chores and keeping the back
ward clean.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-04-16

A New Jersey man threatened his
wife with divorce because she joined
the boycott and would not give him
meat. The beef magnates should
make some substantial recognition of
so determined stand in their inter-
ests.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-04-16

There is nothing the matter with
New York's subway except that it is
overcrowded. It's tubes will also be-
come congested. 1t is town that al.
ways outgrows public conveniences.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-04-16
An Execution.

There is one thing l like about
Binks. No matter what he does, he
comes out in the open to do it."
y know of one action he always is
careful to do under cover
II dare you to name it."
Going home in the rain"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-04-16

Thirty-two pancakes at one sitting!
That Des Moines story sounds like
that of the man who ate flannel cakes
and woke up to find half the blanket
gone,
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-04-16

The rich, as we reckon them, and
among them the very rich, in a true
scale would be found very INDECENT
and needy.-Emerson.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-04-16

Uncle Sam has new gun with a
bore 16 inches in diameter AS it jars
the earth six miles away it cannot be
called a concealed weapon.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-04-16

This year all spring poets will be
forgiven; for the winter has been
such as to almost justify an exuberant
outbreak into song or the semblance
thereof once it is over.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-04-16

1t is easy for the man who never
wore dress suit in his life to blame
all the discreditable things he hears
on polite society.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-04-16

Let the aviators who talk of the
heights to which they have scared
look at the price of hogs and be silent.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-04-16

Belgium's new king is an enthusiast
ic collector of stamps. This is less
expensive than the fads of his pre-
decessor on the throne.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-04-16

All are turning to higher things
the higher cost of living in particular
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-04-16

Have you ascertained the truth of
the statement that kissing is danger
Gus?
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-04-16
Satisfactory to Her,

Woman" observed the epigram-
matte boarder, lis puzzle without an
answer"
HUH" snorted old Grumpley. II
never saw woman without one yet"
STRAY Stories.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-04-16

Senior Pedro Calarenas, the richest
man in Mexico, is also trying to die
poor. He gives away more than a
million dollars a year.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-04-16

One trust after another is making
the discovery that the laws of the
United States must be obeyed.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-04-16

We begin to suspect that the ground
nog stayed out to see the comet and
not because he thought spring had
come.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-04-16

It takes more than a fire to break up
bridge whist party when the ladies
get fairly started.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-04-16

When colored eggs are in vogue we
can expect the turkey to lay black
ones at Thanksgiving time, tokens OF
mourning for departed sisters.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-04-16

The rush of Americans to Euro
pean resorts may be due partly to
the number of grand juries which are
probing.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-04-16

All those explanations about the
cause for high prices do not seem to
lower them any.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-04-16

How would you like to be a poor,
down-trodden farmer with nothing but
a few droves of higs to sell at record.
breaking prices?
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-04-16
ACCUSES UNCLE SAM
Blamed for $1,000 Deaths in
Nine Accidents.
j. r. caIIbreath Declares Proper Gov
eminent Supervision Would Pre-
vent Many Fatalities in
Nations Galleries.

eff the United States had the same
regard for the safety of it's workmen
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-04-16

The price of beef appears to have
fallen into its same old bad habit of
going up.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-04-16

Detroit man has eloped with his
wife's mother. He will find this is no
mother-in-law joke.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-04-16

A spring without spring poets would
ne delightful but impossible season
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-04-16

mat proposed copper merger seems
well lined with gold.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-04-16

H is cold day when packer can't
draw first page head.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-04-16

has no substitute. No other remedy is effective
for rheumatism. lumbago, stiffness. neuralgia OF
cold Of any sort. Put up in c. Csc and Soc bottles
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-04-16

How cruel of one French duelist to
run another through the arm! Ho"
now can the poor man talk?
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-04-16

Warsh1ps don't say in fashion any
longer than women's hats.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-04-16
For Headache Try Hicks capudine

Whether from Colds, Heat, Stomach or
Nervous troubles the aches are speedily
relieved by Capudine. It's Liquid-pieas-
ant to take-Effects Immediately. 10, rs
end SOC at Drug Stores.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-04-16

PILES CURED IN TO IA DAYS.
PAZO OINTMENT IS guaranteed to cure any case
of Itching, Blind. Bleeding ProtrudinR Piles in
6to "A days or money refunded. 500.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-04-16
DAVIS PAINKILLER

Give truth a square deal and it will
not be crushed to earth.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-04-16

Light to Danish Sorrow.
Sorrow dwells longest where the
sun is shut out.-Florida Times Union,
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-04-16

Golden Medical Discovery weak stomachs wasted bodies
weak lungs and obstinate and lingering coughs based the
ery supplies Nature with bodybuilding, ssueeparrg muscle
making materials condensed and concentrated FORM With this
help supplies necessary strength the stomach d.
get food build up body and thereby throw off lingering OBJ
coughs. The Discovery reablhes the digestive and
nutve organs in health pues and enrche the Blood
and nouhes the neen short establishes sound vigorous health
dealer offers sometime 'ust as GOOD is Prob
ably better FOR HINT better But you are tnrn.ne
of the his profit, there's nothing JUST
good" for Say
Common Sense Medical Adviser English; Medicine
smplhd 1908 pages illustrations newly revised Edl1o
bound, 81 stamps, Address R. v. Pierce Buffalo, n Y
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-04-16

Vanity is due to leah In ones wis.
dom tank,
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-04-16

Bobby-Say, pop, what does blood
relations mean?
Papa-It means near relations.
Bobby-Then nom an you must be
the bloodiest relations I've got.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-04-16
Pass Along
The Good Word

That Dr.. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery is to-day and has, for over
40 years, been the standard Blood-puri-
flyer, Stomach Strengthened and Liver
Invigorator sold by druggists. It's not
a secret nostrum but a medicine of
known composition "a medicine SO
good that the best physicians prescribe
it knowing that its ingredients, which
are printed on its outside wrappers and
attested under oath, are the best known
to medical science for the diseases for
which it is advised.
The great success of DR.. Pierce's
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-04-16

Corn may be king, but he comes In
the shape of pork.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-06-01

lice magistrate last night on charges
of assault and battery. What started
the row could not be learned definitely,
but it seemed that one was about as
much to blame as the other. Gaba-
thuler, who halls from Davenport, paid
a fine of So and costs, and was released
while Quinn chose to fight the case,
and accordingly it was continued for
10 days, at which time it is understood
it will be taken up in another court.
Justice George P. Nissen is represent
ing the defendant. Quinn was placed
in Jail in default of the $500 bonds
required to assure his answering to
the charge.
Mary Armstrong, a street walker,
was fined SIS and costs and ordered to
leave the city, which she promised to
do. The charge against her was dis
orderly conduct B. F. Van Hosen was
fined So and costs on a similar charge.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-06-01
CHILDREN IN PLAY
Pretty Exercises by First and
Second Grades at Eugene
Field School.
AWAKENING OF THE ROSES
Little Ones Represented Various
Flowers That Are Characterized
-Charmingly Given.

The children of the first and second
grades of the Eugene Field school, in
Guiding the pupils of the Misses De
Santo, Martin and Beeler, gave a very
pretty exercise entitled 1.-The Awaken
ing of the Roses yesterday afternoon
The children entered with a zest into
the spirit of the play and assumed the
parts assigned them with characteris-
tic ease and grace.
June-Virginia Dunn
Peony-Esther Rankin
Pansy-Henrietta Harder.
Pink-Marie Leytem.
Lily-Irene Coyne.
Queen of the Roses-May Lewis.
Roses-Chrystal Miller, Helen John
ston. Minnie kester, Elvira Peterson,
Marie Leytem and Evelyn Huber.
Queen of the Fairies-Alice Hedrick
Fairies-Marie Harper, Marguerite
Colling, Zuelma Goethel, Dina Blanke
Bernice Marshall. Gertrude Ross and
Ethel Mohl.
Butterflies-Walter Snouse, Nathan
Marblestone, Raymond Larson, Alva
Rarison, Elvira Peterson, Olea Paint
er, Marie Mack, Esther Rankin. Eu-
gene Thorn and Florence Eggers.
Poppies-Gertrude Ross, Ethel Mohl,
Anna Marie Watson, Flora Robinson.
Marie Tasker, Margaret Bredar. Ruth
Taxman, Alice Hedrick, Dina Blanke.
Marie Sutterman, Marie Mcdonald,