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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-01-25

1T is a tremendous undertaking to
get a new play accepted and pro-
duced," once said the late Clyde Fitch
to friend. so many are written
and SO few ever see the light of day
An English playwright with gift of
humorous eXaggeration illustrated
this fact to me once. He told me how
he submitted a play to a celebrated
actor and how, in the course of the
conversation, the actor remarked.
Don't you think it is growing chilly
in this room Yes, it is rather the
young playwright admitted. Then the
actor rang a bell and a servant forth
with appeared. James, said the actor,
this room is rather cold. You may
put three more manuscripts on the
fire Exchange.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-01-25

There is a certain youn lawyer
just entered into practice, says the
Denver News, whose heart was glad
dened the other day by the appear
ance of a prospective client The eli
ent desired to bring suit against a
railway company for damages alleged
to have been done property of his
on the river front. Your claim ap-
pears to be a good one" said the
youthful attorney when the clients
case had been outlined to him, "and
think we can secure a verdict without
much trouble" The man seemed
pleased. That's what told my wife, y
said he, "and yet she insisted that /
engage a first-class lawyer"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-01-25

Under the rotation system which
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-05-06
Woman City Treasurer.

The question of permanently filling
the vacancy created in the office Of
city treasurer and tax collector by the
hasty flight of Ralph Bane and his
e.nbezzlement of $4,000 is causing
the city council more worry than did
the loss of the money in the first in.
stance. AS soon as it was demon
strated that Bane had gone with no
thought of returning vacancy was
declared and the council elected Miss
Pearl Hunting to the position, giving
her the title of city treasurer and tax
collector pro tempore.
This happened last May. Mayor
Dudley has discovered that 1t is nee.
essary that the city have city treas
urer in fact, and in his last message
he recommended the immediate filing
of the vacancy. Miss Hunting has
served as treasurer and attended to
the collection Of taxes with entire
satisfaction to the city and the coun-
ell and in filing the Office has won
for herself the distinguished honor OF
being the only woman municipal treas
urer in California.-Santa Monica Cor
respondence Los Angeles Times.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-05-06
LOCOMOTIVE MADE OF APPLES
Awarded the Highest Premium OF the
Horticultural Exposition at
Sabastopol, Cal.

One Of the most unique and attrac,
tive features ON exhibition at the
great horticultural exhibition recently
held at Sebastopol Cal. says writer
in the Wide World, was a huge apple
locomotive" All the exterior parts
of this immense fruit engine" were
composed of large and beautiful ap
In the completion of the work, At
first a wooden frame-an exact dupli-
cate of railway engine--was built,
and all over this were placed apples,
in tasty and artistic patterns. When
all this work was completed there
pie locomotive" Under brilliant
electric light the work presented
magnificent appearance-fairly daz-
cling. To build such figure required
much care, artistic skill, time. and
no little expense. The total length
of this fruit engine" is 26 feet. while
from the apple roadbed and ties UP to
the top of the stack is nearly ten feet.
No detail has been omitted in the
work. Every appurtenance belonging
to real, genuine locomotive is there,
including cowcatcher, boiler, head
light, stack, whistle. bell, sand cham
Der, cab and tender. It is needless to
add that this splendid piece of work
was the central figure of public admi-
ration, interest and curiosity; also
that the huge apple locomotive was
| awarded the highest premium of the
Horticultural exposition.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-05-06
Train Stopped by Mouse.

On the Italian lines an electric ap-
paratus, upon the departure of a train
from any station, rings six strokes
upon a gong in the next station. The
station master at Capri, hearing three
strokes when there should have been
six, Immediately came to the conclu-
sion that there was something wrong
on the line, and ordered up the cleo
trio signals of warning. The train,
which by this time was ander full
headway, came to dead stop. Then
began a transfer of telegraph mes
sages. The passengers were anxious
to know what was the matter. They
waited while the messages went back
and forth. The inquiry established
the fact that everything was right on
the line, and the train was ordered
forward after a considerable delay.
The station master about this time
thought it might be well to look into
his gong, and there he found stuck
fast between the cogs of the electrical
apparatus a poor little mouse. The un-
happy animal happened to be in the
interior of the clock when 1t STRUCK
one" and down he attempted to run,
but was caught between the murder.
GUS wheels. His little body was big
enough to stop the whole apparatus
and so to stop the train as well-Ex'
change.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-05-06
ExpIainino the "Tips,"

Those ghostly tips" that come out
Bill railroad men, are explained in vari-
GUS ways by the; different: cults and
schools Of the occult Dreams and fore
warnings are placed in the same class
BY those who argue that there Is some
thing supernatural about these occur
rences. The scientist gropes through
the galleries of the brain, the known
and the unknown in search OF some
clue that will enable him to lay down
the laws that govern thesesweird mani
festations of the so-called sixth
sense" He is not satisfied with the
eyasive answer that it Is some super
natural quality that does these things.
Literature is full of well-authenticated
instances of premonition and forewarn-
ing. Every day life is full of 1t, and It
ia not at all uncommon to pick up a
paper and find that the victim of an
accident had told some friend Or men,
Der of his family that he feared death
or injury on that particular day. The
records of the various societies that
are devoted to the running down OF SUI
pernatural instances are filled with
Observation-Disclosures cases of the sort.
| War time literature is especially rich
in cases of forewarning where men
ordinarily untouched by the fear of
battles chances have spoken to their
comrades of the inevitableness Of death
| in the next engagement. So many un'
doubted cases of premonitory warnings
of this sort have occurred that they
form literature all by themselves.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-05-06
How Acorns Work.

It is as good as tonic to see the
acorns now. After a winter spent In
luxurious ease. they are learning what
it is to earn their board and lodging.
They have thrown off their caps, and,
with red faces and jackets split up
every seam, are intently engaged in
putting down taproots into the mellow
earth, digging away for dear life. AS
a result of this 1T OF industry the
woods will by and by be full of tiny
oak trees-most of them, sad to re-
late. destined to be eaten up by grubs
and fungi and such small deer. An
oak lust elt of the cradle is a jaunty
little fellow, with fat, juicy stalk
and the two chunky halves of the
acorn. probably still in the shell, cling
ing to it like lunch in bag, for 1t
is on the stock of starch stored in
the meal of the nut that the plantlet
subsists until 1t develops strength
enough to make living for ITSELF
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-05-06

and nothing makes him more peevish
than a useless stop that will cause
him to whip his engine" up and
down grade in order to make up the
lost minutes. He pulls, with the help
of engine No. 1882, the fast train that
comes up out of Texas on the stroke
Of midnight, and roars across the
state of Oklahoma by the time the
sun Is a few degrees above the pra1-
rie skyline He insists with the pla-
cid insistence of big man that he
arrive at the end Of his run on time.
His fireman suffered grievously be-
fore the days of the "oil burners" be-
cause of this ambition.
They were showing the telegraph
poles behind them at the even rate
of SIS miles an hour one summer morn
ing about two years ago. Leaving
the junction north of one of their few
stops they raced across the outskirts
of the Darlington reservation. climbed
to the crest of Okarche Hill and set
tied back on either side of the cab
to watch the drivers roll" There was
nothing to keep them from tearing on
the mileage between Okarche Hill
and the Cimmaron river at the rate
of 60 miles an hour or upward. Just
why he did it, the engineer could
never tell, but his hand suddenly shot
out, seized the throttle, shut off the
steam, and an instant later set the
air brakes The heavy train Jared
to a stop, while the fireman looked
|wonderingly at him from ad ross the
cab. Without saying a word, Darst
swung down from the cab and ran
forward along the track. A few feet
away from the engine pilot he saw
the crumpled body of a man lying be-
tween the rails.
When the train crew came running
forward a few moments later the en-
gineer conflded to the little group
that something" had made him stop
in spite of the fact that he had not
caught sight of the body till he was
within a few feet of It, In the mean
time a frantic dispatcher was trying
to get message to train No. IL with
the highly important information that
the bridge over Dover creek was In
bad shape and that sreed of all trains
would be reduced to IL miles an
hour over that suddenly important
culvert. The unusual stop gave him
time to receive and forward that mes
sage to the now belated train. The
train was saved from the conse
auences of dilatory track walkers
carelessness by the few minutes lost
in stopping and picking up the body
found on the right of way.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-05-06
Popular First Names.

The latest bulletin of Smith college
gives the total number of students as
1850, coming from all parts Of the
country. To many women and parents
a summary of their first names may
not be uninteresting. The most popu-
lar name is Helen, Of which there are
101; the old favorite Mary, follows,
with 80; Margaret comes third. with
So; Ruth has 60; Florence, 52; Eliza.
beth, At; Marion and Mildred, each
Al; Dorothy, 40; Edith, IS. Fewer
than twenty of the others number over
a dozen each, viz: Agnes, Is; Alice.
%: Anna, %; Edna, 1e; Eleanor, 49,;
Ethel, %; Frances, ts: Gertrude, 50;
Grace, q; Josephine. 13; Katherine,
Is; Louise, &c; Marguerite. II; Mar
jorie, %; Mabel, ID. The foregoing
constitute one-haf of the 1860. and
the rest are in great variety.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-05-06
PINWHEEL is QUITE UNIQUE
1t RevoIves Both Ways at Once and
Produces Most Bewiiderlng
Effect in Coiors.

Even the simple pinwheel has been
modernized by an Ohio man. He has
contrived an arrangement whereby the
wheels themselves and the group OF
them revolve in opposite directions at
the same time, producing bewilder-
ing effect of motion and color. This
novel toy consists of three pinwheels
mounted on a three-armed head.
which is pivoted on rod. Each disk
of the pinwheels is made in two col
ors. AS a child runs with one OF
these toys the disks Of the pinwheels
revolve as they do in the old-fashton-
ed kind and the two colors mingle In
a pleasing way. The puzzling part OF
the affair, however, is the action OF
the structure on which the pinwheels
are mounted and which revolves In
the opposite direction, making puz-
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-05-06
Seal Found on Track.

A peculiar accident occurred in Cal
ifornia last week when young fat
and lazy seal basking in the sunshine
ON the railroad track stopped an in
coming train at Los Angeles. At a
point where the seal was basking the
track was clear and the engineer was
able to observe 1t without running
over it. The train was stopped. The
engineer and brakeman captured the
seal, placed it in the baggage car and
brought 1t to the depot. The animal
was found several miles from the near.
est water. The railroad officials sur
mise the seal was carried out to dry
land by. an extraordinary high tide
from the Pacific, and that when the
tide went out it was unable to find its
way back to the water.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-05-06

the anarchistic Angelo Brescl shot him
dead and all the demon world of the
reds rejoiced.
On June "a, 1904, M. Sadi Carnot,
president of France, was assassinated
by Cesare Santo, an anarchist Carnot
was not tyrant, but duly selected
servant of the French people.
Our own Mckinley was victim OF
the horrid teachings of the school of
murder. Leon Czolgosz was an an
archist and pupil of Johan Most,
Emma Goldman, and other of the SER
pent school which America, after the
manner of England, had Rugged to her
bosom.
The list might be extended. But
why go into the details of bomb-throw-
ing, shooting and stabbing?
The point-and it is one on which
the world is to be congratulated-is
that England is waking up and that
her bargain with the anarchistic and
criminal element of Europe bids fair
to be brought to an end.
A. M. DICKINSON.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-05-06
Homemade Napkin Rings.

in order to make solid, stiff founda-
ton for the ring.
Wherever the cardboard overlaps it
must be shaved thin, SO that, when
glued together, the points will be per-
fectly smooth Figure shows just
how this is to be done.
Each strip of pasteboard should be
long enough to overlap about one
fourth of an inch. After the strips
have all been glued together fasten
the whole thing somewhere where ut
will be held tightly, until it Is per
fectly dry.
After this cut the ends Of the paste
board perfectly smooth with q very
sharp knife. Figure shows this
operation.
The next step is to make the raised
rims for the ring. This is done by
pasting narrow strips of paper one
fourth of an inch wide on top of each
other, in the same manner as the
pasteboard strips were pasted.
After these strips are solid, they
are to be covered with narrow strip
of gayly colored calico, as shown in
Figure 3.
The rest of the napkin ring can be
covered with a pretty colored paper
or with some other pattern of calico.
Gold paper makes pretty covering.
Another very attractive covering can
be made from Powered crepe paper.
The inside OF the napkin ring must
be lined with smooth materials. A
brown glazed paper is the best. Fig
ure shows the best way to insert the
lining with the help of the index and
third fingers.
Figure shows the ring complete.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-05-06
Eeroclous senoal Tloers.

The man eater is usually an older
tiger whose strength is failing and
whose teeth have partly lost their
sharpness. Such a beast finds 1t
easier to Turk in the vicinity Of settle
ments and to pick up an occasional
man, woman or child than to run
down wild cattle, says st. Nicholas.
The largest, fiercest and most
brightly colored tigers are found in
the Province of Bengal, near the
mouths of the Ganges river, and not
far from Calcutta. A fullgrown Bengal
tiger sometimes measures ten feet
from nose to tip of tail. Such monster
makes no more account Of springing
upon a man than a cat does Of Selling
mouse. He surpasses the lion in
strength and ferocity, and has no
rival among beasts of prey except the
grizzly bear and the recently discov.
cred giant bear OF Alaska
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-05-06

things. He devoted himself to re-
forms and did much for education. By
a stroke of his pen he freed millions
of serfs. But the third or fourth ef-
fort to slay him proved successful, for
on March 10, 1881, he was blown to
pieces by a bomb and Russian liberty
was set back decades.
Then there was Humbert, king OF
Italy, a man whose heart beat only
in love for his people. He tramped
earthquake-ridden Ichia and visited
cholera afflicted Busca and Naples,
bringing succor; he gave in charity
every year 100000 from his private
purse and walked unguarded among
his subjects But, on July 20, 1900,
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-05-06
TumbIer Through a Table.

Place the spectators at some little
distance on a level on the opposite
side of the table to where you sit,
having spread unperceived handker.
chief across your knees. Take drink
ing glass-a tumbler with no stem is
preferable-and. covering 1t with pa
per, mold the covering as nearly as
possible to the shape Of the glass
While uttering some cabalistic
phrases drop the glass into your hand
kerchief unobserved, and as the pa.
per retains the shape there is no diff
ficulty in making the lockers on be.
lieve the tumbler to be still beneath
it. Passing the glass in the left hand
beneath the table, you now crush the
paper down with your right, when
the glass will appear to have been
sent through the table. II a cloth is
over the table the trick can be moro
easily performed.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-05-06
Three Glasses Of Fares.

The Swedish state railways have
three classes Of fares, the proportion
in price being about as 1872. Herto-
fore only the first and second class
have had access to special
sleepers, also run by the state rail-
ways, but now sleepers have been also
nut in for third-class passengers. The
price for these is very low The fare
from Stockholm to Gothenburg. 2s5
miles covered in ten hours, is So, and
the sleeper ticket 10 only 81 cents
extra.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-05-06
NAPKIN RING is HOMEMADE
Attractive and Pretty Little Souvenir
That Any Young Lady Can
Make for Friends.

A very pretty napkin ring can be
made from extremely simple mate
rails, all of which are to be found in
any household.
To make the ring you need round
piece of wood few inches long,
around which the ring it to be work
ed. A piece of curtain pole will I'LL
the purpose admirably. A round bot
tie will do very well.
Now cut several strips of thin card
board about two inches wide. These
are to be pasted one over the other,
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-05-06
Enolner,s Nerve Served.

His skull fractured by coming in con-
tact with water plug as he leaned out
of the cab of his locomotive, Martin
Diefenderfer, Reading railroad en-
gineer, retained his senses long enough
to bring his train to a standstill at the
regular stopping point at Middleport
station, distance of 400 feet, accord
ing to a dispatch from Pottsville, Pa.
Then he dropped over unconscious.
his limp body hanging from the cab.
Nothing was known of the accident
until the locomotive failed to start at
the conductors signal.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-05-06
creasAd Garments.

Clothes packed away during summer
are often very creased. To remove the
creases hang the article @ q clothes
line In the bath room. shut door and
window, turn on the hot water tap to
fill the room with steam, and leave the
clothes for an hour or two. Afterward
dry In the open air II possible.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-05-06
TEDDY'S SENTINEL,

Last night I woke up in the dark.
All shiv'ring in my bed
For fear giant would come in
And roar, Il want you, Ted!
My sword was in the nursery.
My shield and helmet. too.
And. all defenseless as / was.
Sheath, what could I do?
But all at once sat right up.
AS happy as lark,
Because way down In our front yaro
/ heard old Rover bark.
And then I knew that I was safe
The giant d never dare
To even touch our picket fence.
With Rover watching there!
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-05-06
Awe and Respect.

Bindlesworth seems to rather look
upon his wife with awe"
YES, met him yesterday and he
wanted to borrow five dollars from
me. l asked him why he didn't go to
his bank for it, and he replied with
SURPRISE that he was unable to con-
ceal:
"Why, bless me! I'd forgotten that
the banks were open today, just the
same. You see this is nay wife's birth
day.' ssss
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-05-06
BUILDINGS of Paper.

Paris is always doing something out
Of the ordinary The latest innova-
ton is novel church that has fairly
distanced the servantless house,
which is fitted up with electrical con-
trivances and the house made Of glass
1t is said to be made of paper, made
watertight by means of curdled milk
and white of egg. 1t accommodates
1000 persons; and novelty-seeking
Parisians are now contemplating the
construction of paper country homes.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-05-06
SHOW HAS CAPTURED LONDON
American Circus Takes English Me-
tropolis by Storm-Trained Cucka-
toos a Feature.

The big American circus now In
London has taken the town by storm
and all the English weeklies have pic
lures galore of the freaks and animals.
The trained animals especially seem
to appeal to the British heart, and
the trained birds are prime favor
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-05-06
Fisherman'a Friend

Bacon see automatic machines
have been invented which will thor
oughly clean $500 fish an hour.
Egbert-That seems all right. No
fisherman who has any regard for the
truth will claim that he catches more
than that number In an hour.-Yon.
kers Statesman. o
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-05-06

strip, extending three-fourths of the
may across the width of the seal. The
seal can only .be used in connection
with a car pin having rectangular
hole 1t Is inserted in the hole. and
the ends bent up at the ends. This
forms a triangle of metal. The strip
is coated with tin and, in bending, the
metal is always broken. Thus the
seals cannot be Strengthened out for
second use while cold and the coating
of tin prevents their being heated
without detection, as the heating
would show by discoloration of the
metal-Popular Mechanics.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-05-06
GOING Out With tho "Pram."

ties. Here is a picture of cuckatoo
wheeling a perambulator in which re-
poses another bird Of the same spe-
cies. This has sent the Juvenile por-
ton of the metropolis wild with de-
light. The birds also fire off toy can
non. walk on rolling ball and do
other clever tricks.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-05-06
Why Called Dot,

One Of her mammals callers was
telling little Oracle Of her twin grand
children named Dot and Dimple. "One
ia called Dimple," explained the lady,
because she has dimples"
And I 'spose the other one has
dots" remarked Oracle.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-05-06
keenIno Cut Flowers Fresh.

When putting thick-stalked flowers,
such as chrysanthemums, branches OF
lilac, and such like into watsr. notch
the stalks at intervals; they will suck
up the water better and last fresh
longer.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-05-06
Would Protect Monopoly.

Automatic cigar and cigarette light
ers are being heavily taxed by the
French government, on the ground
that these lighters, which are becom'
ing increasingly popular in France. IN
fringe the state monopoly of matches
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-05-06
Little Marbles WI.h.

Little four-year-oid Margie, witt
had just been corrected by her fathsr
tor disobedience, astonished him jy
exclaiming: Il do wish you had nsp
err married into our family!"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-05-06
NEW CAR SEAL INVENTED
1t Cannot Be Used Second Time o.
Tempered With Without
Detection.

A new car seal that cannot be used
a second time or tempered with with
out detection has been invented and Is
being tested for the purpose OF deter.
mining it's value The seal Is strip
of metal containing the initials of the
railroad and :: identification number.
Two triangular notches are cut in the