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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-08-27
Of. st's syss, T ass Thompson's Eye Water
Tabled Fountain of Youth Could Not
Be More Potent Than Association
With Little Ones.

"Play with the children!" was the
recurrent advice Of a wise and sue
cessful man. This will keep your
heart young, your viewpoint fresh,
your wit sparkling. The child heart Is
at once the purest and the happiest
in all nature; the child tongue Is q
TRANSPORTING power"
Something of this induibtable power
attaches to good stories of those naive
and innocent little ones scripturally
declared specially blessed and potent.
The child mind transforms, the child
touch lifts to glad laughter incidents
and accidents not otherwise worth
noting. Witness this little tale of the
careful mother to whom came a tiny
son all agog over the requirement OF
new and forbidden knowledge.
"Mother!" cried the child, baby
eyes shining, baby cheeks glowing.
do you know what TIL be hornswog-
gled' means?"
"No, DEAR" said the mother, sol
EMMY, selling the opportunity to I'm
plant a lesson. I'm sure do not"
well, do" was the ecstatic an
swer, the suggested lesson being Ut
terly ignored. "It means just the
same as TIL be gol-darned!'"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-08-27
s. Observation-Disclosures
A Colonist Of Canaan
By lola Forester

The Southwestern f1ier drew vi, al
Canaan Junction. It never stopped
merely slowed up long enough tt
throw out the mail sack, and give the
curly-headed boy in the express car
chance to call hello to Nell.
But today it stopped, stopped while
one man swung off sleeper, and the
porter dropped a suit case and grif
on the platform beside him.
The man left behind was young, sc
young that he had outgrown his years
and there was latent. careless
strength, mixed with awkwardness
about him that reminded one of cub
Nell took one look at him and
caught her breath sharply. She knew
him in an instant, but there was a
bare chance that he had forgotten her
It had been four years, and four years
Is lengthy stretch when one Is II.
He set the suit case down under the
ticket shelf, and went back to the
water bucket
"It's hot enough down here, isn't
1T" She watched him drain the tin
cup second time before she an.
swered: I'VE don't mind it much"
Il suppose not. came from the
north. Don't suppose you know any
body here named Acton?"
The girls hand closed tightly over
the package of letters she had drawn
from the mail sack. Her back was to-
ward him. But her voice was steady
and natural.
mo, don't"
you'd be pretty likely to know,
handling all the mail, and so on,
wouldn't you?"
"Oh, yes, would know I know the
name Of everybody In this town."
Except nine"
He came over to the ledge and
leaned one elbow on it, smiling in at
her cheerfully. She did not answer.
Maybe he's using different name,'
he went on, presently. "He had
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-08-27
WHEN THE DEAD RETURN

This is story Of mistaken identity
of remarkable character. Mary McGon.
lyle was struck by a trolley car in
New York last April and died shortly
afterwards in a hospital. On notifca-
ton from the coroner, her relatives
came to view the body and she was
identified by her son, her sister, her
brother and cousin; burial permit
was issued in the name of Mary Nc
Gonigle; an insurance company paid
SLY on the life of Mary McGonigle;
the traction company paid $3.50 for the
funera. Of Mary McGonigle; the body
of Mary McGonigle now lies in Cal
vary cemetery
Late one night recently Mary Nc
Gonigle in the flesh walked into her
sisters home.
To say there was surprise at her
visit would understate the emotions Of
the relatives. The sister screamed;
the brother dropped his new clay pipe
and a small niece tainted. Mrs. Nc
Gonigle herself was surprised but
placid; she had not read the newspa-
pers, and did not know that she was
supposed to be dead.
Then came explanations. Mary Nc
Gonigle had been buried all right, but
it was the wrong Mary. The living
woman is in private service and her
address fluctuates with her employ
ment. The dead woman who bears
such an extraordinary resemblance to
her, and had given her address to the
hospital. The undertaken who buried
the late Mary, was summoned to view
the living Mary. Il never saw such a
resemblance he gasped, ''and I've
buried many"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-08-27
CHILD WITH TWO HEADS

A most wonderful child is the six
year-old daughter Of John o. Nelson
of Brooklyn Hills, N. Y. She has two
we'll developed heads; and though I'M
able either to sit up or walk, her gen
eral health is good, and she possesses
normal intelligence.
When the child was born the doc
tors said she could not live, but Mr..
Nelson, possessed of considerable
means, engaged the best physicians
and gave the little one the most care
full attention, sparing no expense in
trying to make the delicate infant a
healthy child. According to her ia
Their the child speaks English and Ger
man with equal fuency, using both
mouths when she speaks.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-08-27

plenty OF cause to change it, the Lord
knows, when he started down this
way. know he's here all right, and
I'm going to find him.
As the man left she caught up the
telephone receiver and called a num-
Der.
II want to speak to father, please.
Is he there? Well, wait Give him
a message. Tell him to come over to
the depot right away. Tell him to
come around by the river road, not
Main street. / want to show him
something there"
Then she waited. It seemed hours
before she caught signt Of the dear
old figure, swinging along the river
road, his gray felt hat well back on
his head, his gray mustache and i'm
perial giving added distinction to the
fine, gracious face. The tears rushed
to her eyes as she watched him, but
with smile.
'Sit down and rest minute, honey.
You've got 20 minutes. They-they've
wired for you to come down to Alca-
Ear. It's some committee meeting, l
believe" She turned away, and bent
over time table, so that he should
not see her tell-tale eyes. you can
make the 1:10 local. dear. And-don't
bother about coming back tonight.
I'm sure they need you down there"
''In rush, aren't they?" laughed
the colonel, wipfng off his forehead.
Guess it's about their new town hall.
It consists Of four flags on a center
plot at present, with geranium bed
in the middle. I suppose I'll have to
go. Be all right, won't you, Nell?"
She nodded and smiled. It was Is
minutes now. She watched the road
to Main street every now and then,
half expecting Fate to play her trick
and send the long-limbed stranger
back again. 1t wasn't wrong. She
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-08-27
HOARD IN A FLOATING LOG

party of campers from Seattle
were hauling a gigantic cedar log up
on the beach of Lake Washington to
be converted into fireWood when what
appeared to be huge plug attracted
their attention. One ran for the axe
and the log was split into two pieces:
The plug acted as a door of safety
vault where some logger twenty years
ago had hidden his savings. There
were $500 in gold, S6S in silver and
$500 in currency. The name, though,
DIM on the post Office money orders
appears to be Claude Parsons or Par
ker, and they are payable in the post
Office at Eau Claire, Wis. The money
orders are dated April. 1891.
Efforts will be made to find the
rightful owner of the hoard. Many sto-
ries are told of the prodigality with
which loggers handled their money
in the halcyon days of logging. A
favorite bank was to put boom
augur hole in a big stump. Into this
hole was put the gold, silver and pa
per and big plug driven into the
hole. The plug was then sawed off
plumb with the bark and the wealth
left until wanted. Many of these i'm
provised banks were swept away by
foods or destroyed in forest fires.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-08-27
KEPT HIS WIFE's SKELETON

An extraordinary instance of hus-
bands devotion to his wife's memory
has just been revealed at Bucharest
An inventory of property left by
Miklos Denner, merchant. was being
made, when the skeleton of a woman
was discovered locked up in a cup
board. 1t was at first thought that
a murder had been committed, but
inquiry showed that the skeleton was
that of Denner's wife, who died a
natural death ten years ago, and was
buried in the ordinary way.
The husband was inconsolable till
he secretly exhumed his wifes re-
mains, and hid the skeleton In the
bedroom. The skeleton is to be re-
inferred in Denner's grave.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-08-27

grew stronger, and within three months
/ was perfectly well woman. .
IL want this letter made public to
show the benefit women may derive
from Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound. Mrs. JOHN G. NOLAN,
2115 Second St., North, Minneapolis
MINI.
Thousands Of unsolicited and genu-
inc testimonials like the above prove
the efficiency Of Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound, which is made
exclusively from roots and herbs.
Women who suffer from those dis
tressing ills peculiar to their sex should
not lose sight of these facts or doubt
the ability of Lydia E. Pinkhan's
Vegetable Compound to restore their
health.
Ifyou want special advice write
to Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass.
SheWill OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
confidential. For 20 years she
has been helping sick women in
this way, free of charge. Don't
hesitate write at once.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-08-27
NeighborIy Attentions

A parson was applied to for advice
by member Of his congregation wbo
complained OF the continual noise
MADE on trombone by next-door
neighbor.
Can man." he asked, who prac.
t1ses on such an instrument from
morning to night, be a good Chris.
tian?"
Such man might possibly be a
good Christian" the parson replied
but his next-door ~eighbor couldn't .
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-08-27
RODENT HAS MONEY TO BURN

A pet red squirrel belonging to Otto
Speltz, farmer, of Bellingham, Wash.
has been under surveillance ever since
he was discovered tearing SIS Canad-
ian bill to pieces. Speltzr rescued the
money and sent it to Ottawa for re-
demption.
He had no more than despatched
the letter containing the shreds of the
five than the squirrel was found play
ing with a piece of a United States
SO bill.
Speltz garnered this money in be-
fore it was too damaged for barter,
and is now watching the movements of
his pet. It Is believed the rodent has
discovered hidden hoard laid away
in past years by miser or cached by
a robber in hollow tree and found
by the squirrel.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-08-27
SNAKE BINDS OWL TO TREE

Charles Allison Ct NASHVILLE, Ind,
relates a peculiar experience with a
snake and an owl. He was walking
along the creek carrying his gun.
when he noticed large owl sitting in
an old dead tree. He shot three times,
and says he knew he hit the bird each
time, as it would drop it's wings when
he discharged the gun. On going
closer to the tree he found why the
owl did not fall. A large blacksnake
had wound around the bird, and had
it's head hanging down the tree. He
shot the snake, then the owl and rep
tile both fell into the water.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-08-27
FIFTY-POUND HAILSTONE

The notoriety of setting new stan
dard for all stories of big hailstones
befell William Dittenhafer, a cellar
digger of York, Pa, entirely unsoli,
cited. He found mass of many hail
stones CONCEALED or melted together,
thirty-six inches long, fourteen inches
wide and five inches thief, in a deep
depression in the lawn. This mass
weighed more than fifty pounds
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-08-27
THE DRUGGIST.

HE DHUGGlST.
I am a druggist, lorn, and lone.
A being without guile.
When strangers grab my telephone
I merely smile.
A big directory keep,
And should, through any stress,
You want my aid, Til in 1t peep
For an address.
I have on hand OF glue and string
A large and free supply,
Til gladly get you anything
You'd like to try.
AT midnight climb slowly to
My little cot to camp.
But I'll get up to furnish you
A postage stamp.
Emotions I have learned to curb;
I've always helpful been.
And naught that happens can disturb
My gentle grin.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-08-27
ADDING the insult.

Bonney (morning of the second day
outcome, old boy, let's go out On
deck Breakfast won't be served for
half an hour yet, and brisk walk on
an empty stomach will do you good"
Klabber (feebly trying to simle)-
Take walk on yours, If you like,
cshappie Mine ISIS entirely too
empty.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-08-27
Warden Not Much for Chances

When George J. Warden took his
manufacturing business to a new loca-
ton recently it was noteworthy
thing for him to d.. For Warden ia
about as little addicted to making
changes as any man in Cleveland. He
himself was speaking of this fact a
day or two ago.
4 lived more than Sc years In the
same house on old Perry street, he re-
marked. land for AZ years took milk
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-08-27
Qualified.

A prominent western attorney tells
Of boy who once applied at his Of
fee for work.
This boy was bright looking and I
rather took to him.
Now, my son. said, If you come
to work for me you will occasionally
have to write kilograms and take
down telephone messages. Hence a
pretty high degree of schooling is es-
sential. Are you fairly well educatedr
"The boy smiled confidently.
"I be- he said. '-Independ
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-08-27
Nine Points in Law,

A little three-year-old was being
made ready for a bath, much to her
discomfort, as she heartily disliked
soap and water. Don't dit water in
my eyes," she said, "and don't dit
soap in my nose"
Thinking to quiet her, her mother
said: Never mind. Dorothy, it's my
nose, anyway"
well, I don't care" replied Dorothy
with feeling; cts me that's using it."
The Delineator-
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-08-27

Some ingenious man in Europe has
invented a typewriter so small that 1t
can be carried In the waistcoat peck
ct. This tiniest of all writing-ma-
chimes is made in the form OF watch
The letters make their mark under the
pressure of the knob within the ring
and the writing is done on a narrow
strip of glued paper.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-08-27

In London there stands an hour
glass that undoubtedly is the largest
ever constructed. 1t contains more
than 100 pounds of sand When the
lower bulb is filled the frame turns
over, and the process is reversed to
mark the flight of another 60 minutes
So huge is this glass that the revolu-
ton is made by hydraulic engine,
shown on the left of the picture The
height of the glass is nearly II feet.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-08-27
WANTS HER
LETTER
PUBLISHED
For Benefit of Women who
Suffer from Female ILLS
Minneapolis, MIMI was a great
snfferer from female troubles which

CduS6u d WCsshuCS0
and broken down
condition of the
system. / read so
n1uchofwhatLydia
E. Pinkham's Veg.
etable Compound
had done for other
suffering women ]
felt sure it would
help me, and must
say it did help me
wonderfully. Ny
pains all left me, ]
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-08-27
Quantity Not Quality.

Quantity Not Quality.
Teacher-Willie, have you whis-
pered today without permission?
W1llie-Yes, wunst.
Teacher - Johnnie, should Willie
have said "wunst?"
Johnnie (triumphantly)- ma am.
he should have said twist.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-08-27

You know they're
best; SO do a few
others But tho
general public-are
they informed? Tell
thernl Don't keep
1t q dark secret.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-08-27
Copyright. 1903. by w. N. %

f'RADE M0RAL-Nobody would
have known the Good Samar-
itan's kind act were it not for
Our Saviour's parable. Be the
home folks Good Samaritan,
MIR. Merchant; make this pa
per your commercial bible;
write your own parable and
put 1t in our advertising COZ
umns.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-08-27
The Real ThInu.

The Real Thing.
you say your husband was cut by
his neighbors at the party?"
"Yassah, OATS SO, sah."
did they cut him with malice pre-
tense?"
mo, sab; wiz a razah, sah."
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-08-27

The supply Of talk always exceeds
the demand
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-08-27

from the same family, never missing
Gay. Then, for 81 years was shaved
by the same man in the same shop.
Our family began taking milk from
Mr.. schurmer. farmer out Strongs-
Vile way, about fifty years ago. When
he died we bought milk from his sons
and for AZ years We got milk from
them without missing single day.
Eight years ago man by the name
OF shuman bought out their milk bust.
ness and we have been taking milk
of him ever since. So you could al.
most say that I've been getting milk
from the same place for an even hale
century."-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-08-27

Londons pageant providing series wonderful pectaces
The Republican journal., 1910-03-24
A Farmers Complaint.

They say the farmers git it ALL
They claim we live in princely style.
But still my incomes purity small,
Though l keep workin' all the while;
The Sunday suit have to wear
Would hardly please millionaire.
They're blamin' us because they pay
So much for meat and other things:
To judge by what they have to say,
You'd think the farmers all were kings;
And yet have to scheme, my friend,
To git out even at the end
My wife amt wearin' costly furs,
And on her hands no jewels blaze;
III tell you honestly that hers
Are pretty much all busy days;
Yes, it is true that eggs are high.
But SO are all the things we buy.
There may be farmers who have learned
The knack of layin' by bit
From what, by workin' hard, they've earned
But I'm no Croesus yit;
And wouldn't you want burned good paw
10 be farmer. any way?
IS. E. kiser, in Chicgo Record Herald
The Republican journal., 1910-03-24

carries very little for the Pine Tree State,
but the sundry civil bill, which the House
committee on appropriations is now franz
ing, will have several large Maine items.
One of these will be for the Soldiers
Home at Togus. Representative Burleigh
always looks out for that and makes a
number Of visits to the appropriations
committee to see that the veterans are
getting as much for the maintenance of
the establishment as can be had The
same bill this year will also carry some
items for the fish hatcheries in Maine,
which have become important institutions
for keeping the ponds and streams of the
state stocked with good game fish. There
will also be some good items for the con-
tlnuance OF work now in progress on pub
lie buildings within the State. 1t is quite
generally known that the river and har-
Dor bill this year will carry several Maine
items. With these and other items
pretty round total of federal money will
be dlsbursed within the old State during
the twelve months beginning July LIST
next. 1t will be pretty generally paid
out, however, for the same projects and
along the same lines of activity as in re-
cent years, With the enforcement of the
economy program under this administra-
ton, not many new and expensive projects
are being un1ert L on apvu-baro
The four Maine Representatives and
the two Maine Senators by no means
confine themselves at Washington to
local matters. They are taking an active
part IN general legislation, which is now
keeping both the Senate and the House
very busy, and will keep it very busy for
several weeks to come and well up to the
hour of adjournment.
The Republican journal., 1910-03-24

"A man who's less than he might have
been because he always thought himself
more than he was, his works were we'll
known and essentially American. His
first articles appeared in 1.-The Portico, I"
a southern magazine, and his best known
poems are ''Men of the North" and
emusic of the Night" And now, claim
ing the attention of the old world as well
as the new, came Washington Irving,
William Cullen Bryant and Edgar Allan
Poe, and after them that large and we'll
known group which includes James Fen
more Cooper, Ralph Waldo Emerson,
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wads-
worth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell,
John Greenleaf Whittier, Oliver Wendell
Holmes, and many others whose names
we are proud to claim, but with their ad-
vent American Literature had more than
''begun."
MARGUERITE P. SCHoPPE
Bozeman, Montana, MarchS 1910.
The Republican journal., 1910-03-24

you course of my thorough home treatment
for you to thoroughly test in your own home.
| have cured many severe chronic cases that
other doctors could not and hospitals gave up
to die Following but a few of many in
your own State that had given up all hope be-
fore they tried my treatment, whose testi-
monials with hundreds of others will be sent to
any one Interested:
Mrs c. H. Croker, r. F. D. l, Bangor. Me.
tumor 80 inches in size removed without the
knife or pain. d. w. Robinson, So. Brewer,
kidney trouble, twenty years standing, cured.
Mrs. Ellie Leclair, Orono, cured of dyspepsia
and female trouble in its worst form Mrs C.
/ W. Luce. Hermon Center, confined to her bed
for nearly year with rheumatism, up and able
to ride ten miles in few weeks Mrs, C. E.
Dewitt, Lincoln Center, suffered with gall stones
for years. quickly cured Ira l.. Cook, East
Machias, says: DIR. Morrow saved nav wife's
and my life" Mrs. T. M. Nelson, Orono, cured
of the most severe forms of sick headaches.
Annie G. Reynolds, cured of epileptic fits.
MAY CURE YOU?
want to prove it at my expense Write me
your symptoms fully and l will prepare and
send you months treatment. If not salts
factory it costs you nothing, nor does it place
you under any obligations to me, as place it in
your hands, all charges prepaid Write me to-
day j. W, Morrow, M. D., S52 Morrow Bldg.
N. Bennington, vt.
The Republican journal., 1910-03-24
Paul Revere Bells.

letter has been received in Gorham from
Boston parties stating that the authentic his
tory of 112 of the Revere bells has already
been traced and the information regarding the
bell in the First Parish church in Gorham is
greatly appreciated Paul Revere and son
Joseph were for many years engaged in the
casting of church bells and cannon, and from
old records recently unearthed it is ascertained
that the bell which found its way to Gorham
early in 1922 was cast by the son, Joseph Re-
we're, in his factory at Canton Mass. This bell
is said to weigh 1908 pounds, while its tongue
weighs % pounds.
A Paul Revere bell hangs in the belfry of
the Unitarian church in this city.
The Republican journal., 1910-03-24
The Shoe Situation.

Slightly improved conditions noted in
the footwear market last week are still
apparent, although no particular activity
exists, the disturbing element between
buyer and seller still being the question
OF prices. Boston shipments, as compil-
ed by the Shoe and Leather Reporter,
We're 80, $50 cases last week, compared
with SO. SIS the preceding week. Trade
in all kinds of leather shows slow but
steady improvement and is still far from
normal, buyers expecting lower prices
and operating only for current needs. =
Dun's Review March 18th.
The Republican journal., 1910-03-24
FARM FOR SALE

In Northport Maine, containing $50 acre
acres of moving land. This farm is first
for hay, potatoes, corn, and other crops
are SO acres of pasture-high land, suitabl,
sheep. The remainder is in woodland
and soft wood, only II miles from new 81.
saw mill. This farm is well watered
springs that never go dry. There are so u-
trees in good bearing condition. The buildr
consist of one-story house, l. and wood hu
and barn 70 by AZ, in good repair There
well of good water at the house, which is
miles from Belfast, q miles from the Nor
port Campground, on an r F. D. route
further particulars inquire of David L. Her.
onsthe premises or address
DAVID L. HERRICK
tf49 r. +. d. No. s. Belfast, Nj.