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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-11-12
Newspaper Accounts Of the Sullivan
Ryan Prize Fight Caused the
Preacher to Be Late for En-
gaaement at Divinity School.

The we'll nigh universal interest
that was being taken in certain event
scheduled to take place in San Fran
cisco on July 4 has served to remind
me of the lecture that great and pow
erful preacher, Henry Ward Beecher
forgot all about. My authority for the
anecdote, which reveals one side OF
the abundant human nature which
was so characteristic of Mr.. Beecher,
is the late Prof. Johnson T. Platt OF
the Yale Law school.
"Mr Beecher was always favorite
lecturer at Yale, before the divinity
school," said Professor Platt. You
may recall that he delivered several
series of lectures on the Lyman
Beecher foundation, named after his
father, and at other times he also lee
tured before the school,
well, on the afternoon of the par
ticular Beecher lecture l have in mind
the hall was packed to the doors with
students and others eager to hear
him. The hour set for the beginning
of the lecture was three O'Clock. but
when it arrived there appeared no
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-11-12
Harry Vanderbilt Obtained NearIy
100000 to Pay for the Campaign
ny Personal Appeals to
Wealthy Men In the East.

As remarkable instance of how
It Is possible for man to accomplish
work regarded at the time as Of
supreme importance and still remain
IN comparative obscurity, the case
OF Harry Vanderbilt, nephew of
commodore Vanderbilt, who died re-
Gently In New York city at a green
Old age after making a fortune for
himself as manufacturer, is of es-
pecial interest. For this Vanderbilt,
On the authority of his lifelong friend,
q. J. Jayne, who earned a name and
. fortune for himself In the seven
Ties by uncovering a nest of great
customs frauds, should be accredited
with the honor Of having made it pos
sible for Abraham Lincoln to secure
his reelection to the presidency in
1864.
For some years prior to the out
break Of the Civil war;" said Mr..
jayne. who is now almost eighty
years OF age, Harry Vanderbilt held
responsible position in he Ports
mouth (NeW Hampshire) navy yard;
but when Salmon p Chase became
Lncoln's first secretary of the trees
ury. Mr.. Vanderbilt went to that de-
partment as appointment clerk. re-
naming there for more than ten
years, or until the middle of Grants
administration. It was during Lin
coins first administration that 4Ar.
Vanderbilt's ability as a trusted po-
Htical worker was discovered and
proved on several occasions by the
party chiefs.
Tt Is well known that, following
Lincoln's denomination, the party
leaders in charge of the campaign
greatly feared that Mr.. Lincoln would
fail Of reelection on account of the
Inability of the national committee
to obtain funds sufficient to carry or
q thorough and aggressive campaign.
It was at very anxious period OF the
war. The drain on the resources OF
the nation had been exhaustfng and
no immediate relief was In sight.
Taxation had reached what appeared
to be the limit of safety and all de-
mands for money for political pur-
poses were met by sullenness or alb
solute refusal.
The national committee seemed to
be powerless to find way out Of the
uncompromising situation. It's chair
man, Henry J. Raymond, the distin-
guished newspaper editor, was not an
adept In the art of raising campaign
funds, and he had profound distaste
for ordinary political methods OF get
ting money for campaign purposes.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-11-12
Building a Chicken House

Then the man dropped the plank be
had picked up.
UGH" he said. Then he examined
his hand for the splinter he knew was
there.
Then the man grew weary of this
sort OF thing. He laid plank upon
plank, regardless of angles. and ham,
mered and sawed industriously. The
bent nails he left in and the roof he
laid on the bias.
Then he stepped back and regarded
his work.
Well. you're DONE" he said; you
may not be pretty, and you may leak
like strainer, but don't give a hang
You're done" - Galveston (Tex.)
News.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-11-12
illustrated by the inpuisive Manner In
Which the "Boss" Bought Some
Property He Wanted to Add
to Country Estate.

When William NJ Tweed, who Is no
orious in the history of American graft
as Boss" Tweed, was at the height
OF his power in New York city-When,
Ia other words, the metropolis of the
New World practically ate out OF his
hand--he lived the greater part OF the
year not in the city that he and his
ring were robbing right and left, but IN
the town of Greenwich. Conn.
There Tweed bought farm in 1865.
II is now the country home OF Mrs. A.
A. Anderson, who is we'll known
throughout the country as woman OF
great philanthropy. In the farm as 1t
was when Tweed bought 1t there were
forty acres, and upon the place Tweed
began at once to spend large amount
of money. The barn which he built
cost $4,000, large sum for such
building In those days, and 1t gained
national notoriety.
About I'VE years later Tweed decided
that he would like to secure an adjoin-
ing piece of property and add 1t to his
country home. This was tract of
twenty acres owned by the late Fred
erick Mead, who in his time was a
nrominent merchant and banker in
New York city. Tweed was very anx-
tous to obtain possession of Mr.. Mead's
acres because he felt that they would
round out and complete his own place.
Whatever else may be said to Tweed's
dishonor, this must be said in his ia
vor-he was a man of good deal Of
artistic taste and had keen eye for
natural beauty.
.wnat will you sell that twenty-acre
tract for?" Tweed said to Mr.. Mead
one day.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-11-12

There was nothing wrong about
Silas Carter. He was strapping
young man who worked in a sawmill
and ate three square meals day.
When evening came he sat down to
store his mind with knowledge. He
couldn't borrow Shakespeare or
American history and, in consequence
he borrowed romances. They were
not eactly dime novels. They related
mostly to knights and chevaliers and
rescues of distressed damsels.
After reading for two or three
years Silas got the idea that he was
q chevalier, and that the distressed
damsel would sooner or later heave
into view. He didn't say anything
about it. It might be that he WASN'T
chevalier, and it might be enat the
distressed damsel would be detained
on the road.
One night when he was calling on
Miss Eunice Bebee, the daughter OF
a villager, he casually observed:
"Eunice, / love you and want you
to be my WIFE"
Il WILL" she replied.
Eunice had known Silas for long
time, and had come to realize that
she loved him, and why shouldn't she
have answered that way? Why blush
and stick finger in her mouth and
reply that she would see her father
about it? She did just as a plain,
sensible girl always does under the
circumstances-she waited for Silas
to say more.
He began and ended right there.
If the distressed damsel appeared he
would tell Eunice that he had
changed his mind; if she didn't then
they would get married some day.
Eunice continued to be a good, plain
girl, and Silas kept his eyes open
for what was coming.
1t came one July day. A young
lady from the city, stopping at sum-
mer hotel in the village, came down
to the mill pond to fish. Silas was
in the mill yard, wrestling the saw
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-11-12
Job Is a Whole Lot of Trouble and
Causes Many Near.Swear
Words.

The man threw down the hammer.
"Doggone the ding blasted, dong
swadded thing!" he remarked.
At the same time he carefully
wrapped the fingers of his hand about
his thumb, from which sparks and
streaks of light were radiating.
All day long he had tried to build a
chicken house. The thumb was but
an incident, and the day had been
filed with just such incidents.
In fact, after he had hit the thumb
first it asserted it's presence 80 furi-
ously that he couldn't miss it If he
tried. It was glowing target for the
hammer
Finding that he was not killed the
man resumed operations. 1t is lots of
trouble to build a chicken house 6
feet long and feet wide and 6 feet
high-almost as much trouble as
building real cottage
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-11-12

appeals to men of wealth who were
of the Republican party. and at last
secured from them. either in actual
cash or pledges, $4,000. Next he can
vassed Philadelphia, where he also
secured large sum, then New YORK
and several other cities. In none was
his mission known to or even sus-
pected by any one Oh whom he did
not call; and in this manner he at
last got together fund that totaled
close on to three hundred thou-and
dollars, to the great delight and relief
of the national committee. Then,
having been assured by those in the
secret that he had performed great
service in behalf of the Union, Mr..
Vanderbilt went back to his duties as
appointment clerk in the treasury de-
partment.
Just how Mr.. Vanderbilt induced
the men he visited to contribute to
the campaign fund, nc one ever knew
exactly" added Mr. Jayne. "All any
one ever learned from him was that
he made personal appeals. He never
boosted about the important part no
played in making possible the re-e1ec.
ton of Abraham Lincoln. / am one
of the very few men with whom Harry
Vanderbilt ever talked about this feat
of his; and l am certain that l am
the only one now living who knows
personally that it was he who raised
the Lincoln campaign fund of 1854"
copyright, 1910, by E. ]. Edwards.)
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-11-12
Tueed's Methods in Business

II don't think | want to sell 1t at
all" was the reply.
Well" said Tweed, think it over,
me know"
Several weeks later Tweed, meeting
Mr.. Mead at the Greenwich railroad
station as they both were on their way
to New York city, pressed the latter
to put price upon his twenty acres.
Tweed, in fact, was insistent that Mr..
Mead should do so, but the merchant
as steadily insisted that his place was
not for SALE
But you will sell If you can get
your price, won't your" Tweed finally
asked. You will certainly sell the
property for Tweed price?"
What do you mean by Tweed
price?" asked Mr. Mead.
Why" was the reply, "a price that
Tweed will be willing to pay"
MIR. Mead laughed well, would
sell that twenty-acre lot for S55, 900"
he said, still laughing. That is s2,75o
pay that for it,"
Instantly lived turned to the sta.
ton agent. Look here" he said, lend
me pen and ink, will your" At the
same time he pulled out a check book.
opened 1t, seize' the proffered ink and
pen, wrote out a {. ok for $4,000 on
the little shell before tu> ticket agents
window and handed it 10 the aston
ished and nonplussed Mr. Mead. Now
that l have paid you. Mr.. Mead" he
said, you can send me tie warranty
deed at your convenience"
A high value upon the property at
that time would have been $500 an
acre. Today high value upon it
would probably be thousand dollars
an acr', almost twothirds less an acre
than Tweed paid in the heyday of his
notoriety.
Copyright. 1910. by E. ]. Edwards.)
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-11-12
Lecture Beecher Forgot About

| Henry Ward Beecher, to the mild
surprise of the professors In charge.
for hitherto Mr.. Beecher had never
been tardy in appearing In the hall.
But when it got to be nearly half after
three and still no Beecher the sur.
prise and CONSERVATION were great.
| and, after hasty consultation, a pro-
fessor was sent to the hotel where
Mr.. Beecher usually stopped, to get
trace of the missing lecturer, II pos
sible
Yes, Mr.. Beecher was stopping at
the hotel, the clerk informed the pro-
fessor, who thereupon fastened to
Mr.. Beecher's room, knocked upon the
door and was told to come in, which
he did at once. But before he could
frame even a "how do you do" Mr..
Beecher, spying him, let out an
astonished declared followed it up
by hastily pulling out his watch and
looking at it, and exelaiming in dis
may, Why, it's going to four, and you
have been waiting for me all this time
at the divinity school,
"Ae grabbed for his hat. Then, as
he was reaching for his overcoat, he
turned on the professor with a quaint
smile.
"'Oh, WE'LL he said, Z might as
well make full confession. When
left my home in Brooklyn this morn
ing I bought copies of two or three
morning newspapers. There was
something in them that interested me
greatly, and 1 intended to read all
about it on my way to this city But
after | got seated In the train friend
came along, l shared my seat with
him, and he talked to me all the way
here, so that I did not have an op-
portunity to read my papers. But as
soon as got to the hotel l saw that
| would have an hour of leisure before
the lecture began, so slipped up here
and began reading-and, do you know,
| found the reports of the event so
graphic that actually forgot all about
the lecture. It's in the Anglo-Saxon
blood to be interested in such an
event, doctor-I was reading about
the Sullivan-Ryan fight which took
place yesterday down in Mississippi
For moment or two Mr.. Beecher
looked the professor OF divinity
squarely in the eye. Then he reached
over and dug that gentleman in the
ribs And now that have made my
confession he said, laughing, I'm 60
ing to say something to you. would
be willing to wager that you yourself
read the report of that battle with
bare knuckles this morning before
you went to the divinity school,
"'Well. Mr.. Beecher,' replied the
professor, I might as well confess.
too, did get up a little earlier than
usual this morning and go to the front
door for the morning paper 1t hadn't
come, so l actually waited at the door
until the boy brought it. Then I sat
down and read the report of the fight
before breakfast
"Mr. Beecher beamed on his COM
panion In wickedness. Come he
said, and linked arms with the other.
And that shameless professor after
wards told me that the lecture which
Mr.. Beecher delivered a little later
was the best he ever heard that Gift
ed orator make On any platform"
Copyright, 1910. by E, J. Edwardsl
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-11-12

logs about, and after time he heard
a scream. He ran for the water and
was in time to pull very wet and
frightened girl out by the hair.
When she could speak she called
him "a hero and said he had saved her
life and won her eternal gratitude.
She was the distressed damsel and
he the hero-the chevalier. There
could be no two ways about that. He
was invited to call at the hotel and
receive further thanks, and the drip
ping damsel took her departure.
Silas Carter called. He was braced
up by the heroic deed he had done,
and he felt very important when he
found himself in the presence Of a
young lady wearing diamonds and
fine clothes, and almost smiling at
the fresh grease on his boots. He
didn't know exactly what to do with
his hat, hands and feet, but he slowed
them away somewhere and modestly
said that he stood ready to rescue a
damsel every day in the week
IlS was tudLhcu dllu luduhGu, anu
the damsel said she could never for
get him. She even went so far as to
give him her address in the city and
say that she would be pleased to hear
from her ENTHUSIASTICALLY. In get
ting off the hotel veranda Silas fell
over a Widows poodle dog and rolled
down the steps, but he was none the
less a hero in his own eyes for this.
He had read that they occasionally
took a tumble and were none the
worse for it. That evening when he
went over to see Eunice he said:
"Euny, l asked you few nights
ago to marry me, didn't II"
Eyes"
well, Wen hold on awhile about
it, I guess"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-11-12
An Appropriate Text.

John D. Rockefeller, Jr.," said a
new York banker, asked me one Sat
upday afternoon a good Biblical text
to base an address on. I'm thinking,
he said, about that beautiful verse
from the Twenty-third Psalm-"The
Lord is my shepherd, I shall not
want Beautiful and appropriate,
agreed. But, Mr. Rockefeller,
there is even a better verse in the
same psalm-"Thou anointest my head
with oil: my cup runneth over"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-11-12
Unpreiudiced Editor.

Entirely unprejudiced is the editor
of the Allgemeine F1eischer-Zeitung. q
journal for butchers. He advises
butchers who suffer from headaches.
nervousness or stomach troubles to
give up meat and adopt . vegetarian
diet.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-11-12
The Summer Girl.

.How'd you like to be engaged to 4
millionaire?'
! 81 was engaged to enc all last sum-
rer. and he seldom spent a dime. /
| want to be engaged to a young man
who is down here for two weeks with
about $500 In his rol"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-11-12
it Was Excusable.

.That druggist acted grouchy when
on, interrupted his compromising to
buy stamp"
@What of it?"
"A business man should always
smile"
ooh. / don't know. You can't ex-
meet a man to be hypocrite for the
cake Of two-cent SALE"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-11-12
Giving Him a Tin.

+ wish to speak with your mother
"Yes?"
Yes. I have proposition 1 wish
TO place before her."
Better place it before me. Ma's
a widow and might snap you up."-
Houston Post
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-11-12
Md They "Hock" Them?

.svn the .olden days they had no
watches. you know" said the father.
aAnd how did they tell the time p"
asked the son.
"By sun dials."
swell, father" said the young man,
sealing of his watchless chain. how
,cnch could a fellow get on sun dial.
do you suppose%-Yonkers States
man
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-11-12
GET RIGHT TO VOTE.

+ ton to amend the bill by making wom-
en- eligible was carried by vote Of
43 against 81.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-11-12

Luck is something we blame when
we fail and deny when we succeed
The midland journal., 1910-03-04
NEW TRIUMPH FOR EDISON
Storage-battery Cars Cross The City
or New York.

New York, (Special) ~ Thomas
A. Edison flashed another brilliant
invention on the world when the
first street car using his new stor-
age battery in practical operation
travelled in place of the antiquated
horse cars back and forth across
Manhattan Island on Twenty-eighth
and Twenty-ninth streets. Though
it had been known for nearly year
that Mr.. Edison, after many years
of endeavor, had perfected an inn
proved storage battery for surface
car use, this public trial was the first
demonstration that his invention
could make money. In fact, he not
only proved that a street car company
using the new car could make money,
but more money than it could make
with horse cars or trolley cars.
Thus was sounded in New York
the doom of the horse car, and, per-
haps, the doom of the trolley car.
The horse car will be abandoned by
the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth
street lines, and within three months
they will have in operation the Eii-
son storage battery cars.
The midland journal., 1910-03-04
a ESCAPE FROM NINE.
Explosion May. However, Cause
One Mans Death.

Central City, KY. Especially - An
explosion Of gas in the mine Of the
Iron Mountain Coal Company, three
miles from this place. probably fatal
" burned Warren Gibbs. a miner,
but IA men. who, with Gibbs, COM
prised the day shift. escaped with
slight bruises.
The men went underground at the
usual hour and were proceeding to
their rooms, when Gibbs, who was
leading the way with, it is said, an
uncovered lamp, hit pocket of gas.
An explosion followed in which Gibbs
was fearfully burned The other men
retreated hastily, but forced their
way into the workings and rescued
their comrade.
Meantime the woodwork in the
mine caught fire, but the men man
aged to reach the surface in safety.
The mine is still burning.
The midland journal., 1910-03-04

Spokane, Wash. Especially. - Re-
ports from Burke. Idaho, indicate
that the snowslide is not as bad as
at first appeared. The number of
known dead now total "a.
At noon but four bodies had been
recovered at Burke, the victims be-
ing A. ID. Pitchett. Richard Shep-
herd and the children of Mr.. and
Mrs. George Neuman, both of their
parents being reported injured.
James Rogers, a boy, is known to
have been killed. Whether other
bodies are hidden under the so feet
OF snow cannot be determined as
yet.
my husband! Where is hep"
cried Mrs. Pascoe. wife of the SUI
perintendent of the Standard mine,
when rescuers pulled her out of a
mangled mass of twisted iron bed
rails under 40 feet of snow at Mace.
Only cast-iron bedpost saved her
from death. Her husband was man
gled almost beyond recognition.
To the 19 who periShed in the
avalanche at Mace and Burke and
are added three more who died in a
the Carbonate Hill Mining Company,
at Mullen, Idaho, was destroyed. and
two killed at Dorsey, Idaho.
The rescuers have dug frantically
for many hours. Every available
man and boy has been pressed into
service. Mace is situated on creek
and the mountains rise high on either
side Of the town The main body of
the avalanche, which started from
the top of Custer Mountain. passed
beyond the town and, striking the op-
posita slope with terrific force, rush
ed up the opposite mountain side.
The canyon is filed to depth of
As feet. The damage to Mace was
done by a fragment of the main
slide, which carried a construction
train from the track as it plunged
INTO the ravine. As it rolled up the
other side 1t demolished the houses
in Its path and stopped short dis
tance beyond the Pascoe home. The
boarding house Of the Standard
Mine, where 300 miners were sleep
ing, was missed by 100 feet
Among the last to be taken out
of the snow alive at Mace was Mrs.
George Hooper, an old woman who
lived on the outskirts of the town.
She was buried Is feet under the
snow and tit took four hours to
extricate Her. She had suffered
from the cold, but was not seriously
injured.
Burke is buried SO feet under the
snow and earth. The slide is 5000
feet long and fills the canyon.
The midland journal., 1910-03-04
Coaxing The Indian 10 Farm.

Washington. d, c. Especially -
With view to extending helping
hand to the Indian and to assist him
in meeting the competition of the
white man the Bureau of Indian Az
fairs will establish demonstration
farms to serve as models in improved
methods of tilling the soil. At each
school or agency available land will
be used to instruct the Indians in
the best methods of planting. Guilt
walton. harvesting and the proper ro-
tation OF the crops.