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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-03
By KARL KAFFER

dinner. They were going to spend the
afternoon at neighbor's three miles away,
and | was to furnish entertainment by play
ing Sunday school tunes on a cottage organ
which the neighbor had just bought. In fact,
the whole thing was planned in my honor
and for my special pleasure.
Now, honey, can you wonder that was
reduced to the unhappy necessity of telling
a fib about headache? And when the
good people saw my lack of enthusiasm
they stared at me so hard [ nearly blushed.
| tell you what, there are handicaps in
living the rural life, and good and kindly
as these people are their ways are not our
ways
But what think of them, my dear, is
nothing at all to what they think Of me.
/ feel in my heart that they look with
suspicion upon many Of my perfectly inno-
cent little habits
Such as
Preferring small, hard cot to feather
bed.
Liking iced tea. better than hot coffee
in July.
Occasionally having coca-cola sent to
my room.
Having bath by any hook or crook.
Sitting up later than 8 o'clock.
And other things.
really wish You were here, my dear. |
think the established conventions Of the
real country would be tonic for you.
FRIDAY
In view OF my camping place there is
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-03

the loveliest farm 1t lies in little hollow
among the hills and the ante-bellum house
is shaded by immense walnut trees. 1t
makes a dream Of a picture and made
snapshot for my kodak book.
But, my dear, it is more than dreafll-
it is a snare and a delusion.
From distance it looks SO romantic, so
sweet and clean, and when you get near
heavens!
Tell me, my friend, does everything in
the country have a smell to it,
/ went to my dream-house today, osten-
sibly to buy fruit, in reality to see what
it looked like, and the atmosphere Of that
place was redolent Of pigs and goats, and
everything dreadful you could imagine.
On the front porch there was fruit dry
ing, and feather beds summing likewise
dogs, and in one corner there was nest
with a setting hen And eevrything else
was in keeping with the porch-just con
gomeration of chickens and animals and
disorder and curious smells.
Now why can t we be satisfied with the
enchantment that distance lends
SATURDAY
/ find, dearest, that there are pitfalls in
the country as well as in town.
There are many you can fall in. To
enumerate a few, you can easily fall in a
rage
When you are taking your afternoon
nap at 2 o'clock, and well meaning but
misguided family walks in to call upon you.
A fit
When you are taking your morning
walk and meet face to face bunch of JOY
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GUS cows as you turn the bend III the road
A swoon--
When you forget your dignity so far as
to go wading in the branch that runs off
from the spring, and step Oh wriggling
little green snake.
A panic
When you go to return one of your
neighbour S calls and seven ferocously bark
ing dogs rush out to the gate to welcome
you.
When you learn that the drugstore only
gets ice cream from the city twice week,
and there is neither mail nor ice on Sunday.
On the other hand, 1T is true there are
other things you can't very well fall in. In
love- for instance-not unless you bring the
man. along with you.
II would be hard also to fall in debt
when there's nothing to buy but chewing
gum and soda water.
And as to falling in bad company, you
simply couldn't do it if you tried for all
these people are respectable to relentless
and reckless degree.
SUNDAY
Ny dear
Just line to ask if you will meet me at
the train tomorrow
| am pining for the smell of gasoline
and peanut stands--to. sit up all hours at
night-to eat ice cream every day if / like,
and SO forth. For, believe me, my friend,
this ssnear to natures heart" business is
not what it's cracked up to be.
PRISCILLA.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-03
MONDAY

MJNlJA1
fNE1Y DEAR: Away from the city with
IVA its smells and its dust and its
EsSS1J noises! Oh it is great to be in the
country--the real country [ mean, not a
gilded and artificial summer resort, where
the "mineral' waters are medicated by
the hand Of man, and you pay a dollar a
breath for the costly privilege of breathing.
Not that kind of country-oh, no! The
country where you camp in a shack, on
hillside and SO close to a real mineral spring
that you hear its gurgling. Near to nature S
heart, in fact.
OF course it's rough. But who cares for
that! | mean to stay a month-perhaps
longer.
TUESDAY
Well, my dear, good morning! And
hope you feel better than | do. | didn't
sleep SO well last night You see | rented
furnished room in the shack from a good
country woman; and the bed | won't say
what was the matter with it, but slept on
the floor, and today | am going over to the
village to rent a cot | wish | had my own
bed here. 1t is the best ever slept in.
Don't you think, dear, that country peo.
pie are very strange?
Yesterday | was hot and tired after my
journey, so | asked the good woman who
rents this shack to campers, where | could
20 for bath. Well, she stared at me as if
/ had said something positively indelicate.
and finally understood that campers are
not expected to bathe
WEDNESDAY
I drink great deal of spring water, my
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ter is loath to grant the soft imputasion
that he ought to expire frum polyticks
along with his present turn, and retire to
his home in Alabama with his system full
of glory and yankee bullets accumulated in
72 yeers of being soldier, banker, lawyer,
Guvvernor and Senator The Senator points
out the fact that he is still quite yung
man and feels that he is Just entering upon
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-03
Senator Johnston, of
Alabama. as Man
Who Stays on the Job

yeers work but few bullets he had
thoughtlessly tried to stop becawse they
weer exseedlng the speed limmit -sand with
no hope for pension is apt to make one
sef1us.
Then in addison to that being Unitee.
States Senator is no joke. It's trew that we
have had sum United States Senators that
were jokes; but they didn't know it, Nun
Of them would evver admit it, in fact it is
sumtilnes hard to get them to admit enny
thing.
Senator Johnstun seys that he is in no
hurry to start his campain. It has been
limited to him that sum of his oppcnints
weer mussing up his polytical record and
otherwise stacking the cards against him
down in Alabama, and trying to get things
all sowed up by an early start This fails
to annoy the Senator in the least; he is not
at all rceyed becawse he is not ablill to get
out this hot weether and whoop 'em up Liz
ia Jane alnung the Vox Populy-the Sena-
ter in.i1pates that he will start things to
rolling long in the fall and when lie does
loosen up that he proposes to put a hole lot
of expression In his campain. IIe believes
in short campains with lots of Pep in 'em.
He seys that it has been injured by snm
folks that he is getting long in yeers and
feebull in expression buthe seys' that report
is erroneous. He intimates that reports as
to him being dead one is grately exagger-
ated. He kinder intimates that when he
does get started in that Alabama Senate
ryal campain that he will have the same
effect upon it that jug of hard cider has
upon a country danse in Maine Frum that
time on folks will know that there is sum
thing doing. Up to this time there has
meery been roomers that sumboddy or
uther is running for the Senate to succeed
him.
There air varius and sundry kinds of
United States Senator's, and Senator John
stun may be set down as cumming under
this general he'd. He may be eether called
yarius or sundry just as it pleeses his con-
stituents. He is a hard working member of
the upper house, and is always on the job
He rarely ever attempts to get up and
grab the American Eagle round the neck
and roam off into the milky way, and thrill
the Senate and the Galleries with his elo-
ounce. The Senator is not much of thrill
ler When he has emmy thing to say he sevs
1T and he usually knows what he is talking
about and gets results. Results is of far
moor valew to the plain peepul than thrills
Ii folks can get few and plain and unob-
trusive results scattured along through life
they could be happy if they newer saw
thrill. Results will bring sumthing on the
open market, while thrills air exceedingly
small cumfort when one is trying to raise
CROP Very few families have success
fully passed through cold hard winter see
sun subssting entirely on thrills.
OF corse the peepul may beside that
Senator Johnstun has had enuff and vote
to retire him to private life, but he don It
look at it that way and he is going to offer
a few well chosen obiecsions to emmy such
proceedings. tits up to the PeepuI.
Yours trooly,
Washington, d. c. BILL VINES.
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a career of usefulness. He has been in the
Senate, or will be, about eight yeers when
his turn is out and is just beginning to
lern all the rest of the Senators by there
first names He has Termed quite good
deel in this eight yeers by close application
and denying himself the pleasure of the
baseball games and uther forms of boyish
amusemint which abounds in Washington,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-03

lsS9l sion on the part of emmy citizen to
want to becum a United States Senator.
There air menny attractive lectures about
being a United States Senator, and have the
privilege of being assosiated with wise
Pressidint Marshall, and jim Ham Lewis.
The Cloke rooms to the United States Sen
ate air also very cumfnrtabull and Sena-
ter can always find nice sofas and easy
chairs in there with electric fans and uther
conveniences where he can while away the
time and cuss the administration in pri-
vate while college, is doing so in public
and heeted language on the floor of the
Senate.
In the good old days of the past it used
to be that the United States Senate was
maid up largely of gentlemen who had ac-
cummulated large gobs of weelth and weer
extreemly careless with sed weelth around
the vicinnity of there respective leggisla-
lures Not that emmy of them ever bought
there way into the Senate-not at all-ev-
yer one of them was the spontaneous choise
of the Legislature aftur sed Legislature
had been dewly and constitusionelly con-
vinsed that they weer the proper parties to
represent the plain peepul in the Senate. 1t
sum times took long time and arduus
work and CRATE expense in bringing the leg
gislature to that frame of mind, for be it
known that sum leggislaturs have extrav-
vigant nosions, and exaggerated opinions
of there responsibility to the peepul-and
of what they owe the country, and them
selves, mainly themselves, but when they
onse see there way cleer to discharge there
obligasions to themselves they patryotticly
do so, and elect the cannydate to the Senate
who has been the most useful in bringing
about this happy state of affairs.
But things are not thus emmy moor Now
man to be elected to the United States
Senate must go before the peepul and get
the necessary votes to put him ovver. While
the peepul still repose a CRATE deel of con-
fidense in the Legislature when sed leg
gislature is not in session-they have taken
ont of there hands the trublesum details of
electng a United States Senator Thus
does State polyticks gradually yeer by yeer
becum less attractive to the aspiring yuth
Of the land.
- In Alabama for menny yeers the peepul
have elected there Senator'S. This was dun
through the Prymery system, and the can
nydate for the Senate went before the pee
pul at there pic-nicks and barbecues and
lodge meetings, maid speeches, shook
hands, kissed the babies, jollied the VIM
min folks, abused the Republicans and had
a good time GENERALLY, which was much
bettur than having to deel with an irrita-
bull and peevish Legislature and feed the
same for three or fore munths on Canvass
back ducks and Gin Rickeyes.
Senator Josef Forny Johnstun's turn
as United States Senator will expire March
3, 1918. This cold hard fact is printed in
the public record of the Senate, and cannot
be controvurted. Senator Johnstun, how
pvver, while he admits this fact-with sum
reluctense--is still moor reluctint to admit
That it will expire permanently. The Sena-
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and being pressint at evvery roll call.
Senator Johnstun takes publick service
very seriusly. That may be dew to the
fact that his first publick service was
very serius mattur. He quit school when
he was about Is yeers of age, and joined
the Confederasy as a private long
yeers of War-only to cum out on the loos
ing side with nuthing to show for the fore
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1913-12-20
TREsPAss NOl1C1i.

TRESPASS NOi1C1l.
- II
/ The underlined forbid ell hunt
ing trapping or tr>srs ssing on their
lanes. Anyone caught doing SO will
he punished to the full extent OF ths
law.
QUEEN & CRESCENT CLUB.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1913-12-20
ORDINANCE.

An ordinance .levying annual taxsap-
on al corporations, firms, persons.
individuals, carrying on or pur-
suing any trade, occupation, bust
ness calling, within the limits OF
the town OF Covington.
Section /. Be it ordained by the
Mayor and Town Council of the town
Of C0vington. That q license tax Is
hereby levied for the year 1914 upon
all corporations, firms, persons or
individuals pursuing or carrying on
any trade, occupation, business or
calling within the corporate limits OF
the town Of Covington, which Is sub
ject to State license.
Section :. Be it further resolved,
ets., That the amount of license ia,
shall be and the same is hereby fixed
ct the same amount that is now levi
Cd ana collected by the State for the
same kind Of trade, occupation, busi-
ness or calling, except the license for
i
toxicating liquors, of which the IL
sense tax shall be hereinafter fixed.
Section 8. Be 1t further ordained.
etc., That the license tax of carrying
on business OF saloon or the retailing
Of liquors in less quantities than five
gallons IL hereby fled at the amount
Of Five Hundred ($50O.00) Dollars.
That license tax for carrying on bust.
ness Of selling at retail beer or wine
only, license tax is hereby fixed at
the sum of TwD Hundred and Fifty
(&3so.00) Dollars.
Section 4. Be it further ordained,
etc. That no license shall be issuec
for q longer period than one year.
and the license tax as herein levied to
b due and collectable on the same
day and date as the license tax cue
tho State. II not paid s.. the same
time the same shall be delinquent at
the same day and date as the license
tax for the State becomes delinquent
Section s. It shall be the duty OF
the Tax Collector to notify all license
tax payers when the said tax Is due
By them, and when the same shall
become delinquent, and he shall re-
port Ill delinQuents to the town at
torney Who IL hereby empowered to
institute suit for the collection Of
said delinquent license. Tax payers
shall be subject to all costs, charges
and interest % 10 afiixed by the law
Is this State. 20
Adopted at the regular meeting
held November 4th. 1913.
Moved by L. A. Perreand, second
~ ~ Louis David, Jr.. that the
'1beve ordinance be adopted. Upon
which motion the following vote
Yea: L. A. Perreand, Louis Dav-
a.. Jr., D. l. Addison, Leon Hebert
and n. p. blanche Nay: None
Ahfent: P. ]. Lacroix.
Adopted Nov. 4. 1913.
F. G. MARRERO,
Mayor.
&. r. DELCROIX,
~. Secretary.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1913-12-20
BUDGsr FOR THE YEAR 1914

nODG1T FOht AHh AL1A"
he venues f;urt taxation
% per assessment roll
for the vnar 1913. o773.2"
Revenues from license
taxes levicd fol the
vear 1919 551o.oNI
Total revenues for the
year 1913 ........ 1923 80
Amount to be paid out
or said revenues for
al salaries OF officers
and employees for the
year 1914 ......... 5oOO.oV
Amount to be paid out
for electric lights DUR
ing the year 1914 >. 4OOO.O0
Amount to be paid out
for water service dur
ing the year 1914 =. BIZ Oo
Amount. appropriated to
the maintenance and
improvement Of the
streets, ETC., during
the year 1914 ...... 100000
Amount Of surplus APP
piled to general fund
for the year 1914 46l.I5
Total amount Of budget
for the year 1914. 12273.23
The items fixed on the above bud
get for the year 1914 are based on
the specific appropriation for each
item hereinabove shown that all sur
plus Of each or any Of said items
should there be any, is to be paid
into the general fund, subject to such
appropriations as may be deemed
neeeesary hereafter.
r. G. MARRERO,
Il Ill Mayor.
8 DELcRo1x,
..ss Secretary.
RisBT AND CHEAPEST.
For Constipation, Biliousness
Headache. Royaline Liver Reg,ilaJ,
% = best and cheapest. IS cents
neaay hack ptaA. s' 81
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1913-12-20
TREspAss NOTICE.

All persons are prohibited from
trespassing upon the lands between
Coyington and Abita Springs former
iy known as the B0ssier-Herwig
Lands, and from cutting any trees
or timber on said lands, or hauling
any wood therefrom, or lacking or
mailing any Advertisements or notices
on any Of the trees. Ten dollars re
ward will be paid for information
and conviction OF trespassing.
CHARLES T. BRADLEY.
THOMAS & PARKER.
August 26. 1912
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1913-12-20
nissr AND CHEAPEST.

FOR Constipation. Biliousness
Headache. Royaline Liver Regular.
o. = test and cheapest. IS cents
Heaoy hack plaa. go
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1913-12-20
Secretary,
ORDINANCE.

Ansofdinance to provide revenues Tor
tho town Ut Covington for the year
1v14, for tie purpose of paying
the statutory, usual, necessary anu
ofdinary cha: ges of said town for
I y the year 1914. "
Section L. BE 1t ordained Dy che
1ealor and Town Council of the t.:wn
% Coying:n1, Fiat nine CO. mills
On tho dollar IL hereby. levied OH AL
e6xablo property taxable ..un Ter the
laye (uf tho State Of. Louisiana stu
at4d within the corporate limi!s Of
the town Of Covlngton, ACCORDING 20
thu aBseseed value Of the property as
!. shown on tEe assessment roll O. the
town Of Ccvinglon for the year 1919.
which assessment is now on hle IN
tht lomce .: the secretary Of the
town council, tor the purpose of reis-
ng and providing sufficient re serucs
Ia meet statutory, usual, necessary
6nd ordinary CHARGES and obligations
1orstfe sai.. town of Covingto1, Tor
the year 1914 az shown by the but:-
get Of 1911 adopted by the said town
council. :,
Section 3. l.c It further ordained.
ete.. That the Tax Collector be and
10 hereby authorized and instructed
e proceed With the collection OF t5c
|saelGt Tor Tic rear 1913, according t.
49,. Asseesn.ea. roll for 1913. anil the
Z STovjbionb sad instructions herein.
8 Moved 81 L a. Perreand. second
% By LOUIS Irvid, Jr., that inc
shove ordinance be- adopted. !1pol
which molten the following voted
Yea: L.. a. l erreand, Louis 0av-
ID IT., D.. !. addison, Leon Heocrt
nnd n. r. P.anene. Nay: None.
Absent: P. !. :.acroix.
Adopted Nov. 4, 1913.
r. G. MARRERO,
q Mayor.
8 Secretary.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1913-12-20
rREsPAss NOTICE.

All persons are hereby warned and
prohibited from cutting, burning
deadening, carrying or floating away
or otherwise injuring or destroying
any trees, timber or wood growing OF
living upon the 'ands of the UNDER
signed. The re also prohibited
from fshiu hunting or trapping
with dog. or torch or trespass-
ing in any Jay on lands belonging
to the UNI -~ gned.
f. P. ROBERT.
H. II. MAYFIELD.f5
II. ]. MAYFIELD
r. A. ORR.
JAS. PROVOST.
no21-tf GEO. H. CAUSE.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1913-12-20

For Madisonville and Covington
The SCHOONER "ROSA A"
Will leave head of New Basin every
Thursday at 2 p. N. Returning will
leave Covington every Monday at .
|p. m.
St. Tammany Naval Stores Co. Owners
Covington phone 1852.
New Orleans Warehouse phone
Main 459.
New Orleans Office phone Main
1916.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1913-12-20
TREsPAss NOTICE.

TRESPASS NOTICE.
We. the undersigned, forbid all
uniting, trapping and trespassings on
mr. lands. Anyone caught so doing
viii be punished to the full extent
VI the law.
JAMES BARRENGER,
MANDANE BARRENGER.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1913-12-20
NOTICE.

We, the undersigned, forbid all
hunting, trapping and trespassing onl
our lands. Any one caught SO doing
will, he nunished to the full extent oil
the law: ~
FRANK LUNN,
JAS, FITZMORR1S.
H. ROBERTS,
c. E.. WILSON,
EUGENE FITZMORRIS,
FIELDER ~FITZMORRIS,
DEED FITZMORRIS.e
FENNER FITZMOkRIS.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1913-12-20
NEW ORLEANS GREAT NORTHERN
Rail ROAD COMPANY.

NEW OIL Fans GREAT NORTHERN
RAILROAD COMPANY.
Double Daily Service Between
Between
|, CONVICTION
xEW UsLE.aNS
alANDEVlLLE
SLlDELL
BOGALUSA
COLUMBIA
FRANKLINTON
TYLERTOWN
|. Low comMuter fares on sale tD|
year round. Low weekend rates.
SCHEDULE
EFFECTIVE MARCH 80, 1913
Daily. Except Sunday.
Southbound. Northbound.
Leaves Covington Arrives
No. Fl 1905 pm No. % $3.50 q M
No. % 6::25 q m No. "a 6:45 pa
Sundays Only.
No. rs $40 D m No. &c 10: 20 q II
No. n 7:15 y m No. e SAB p. n.
For information apply TO Ticket
Agent, or
q. b. AUBURTIN, A. G. P. L..
M. j. MCMAHON, G. z. A..
suite 905 Whitney-Centlal Bldg.
New Orleans. Long distance phone
Main 488.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-08-25
And Shows Great Temper Be
cause His Breakfast Ar
rives Late.
- Aannraares, eaansi

sHEERBROOK, Quebec, Aug. 25-
Neither William Travis Jerome Tor
the state of New. York nor Roger
osMara for the Thaw famlly, had
reached Sheerbrook this afternoon
and counsel for both sides marked
time by holding further conferences
The general understanding was that
Thaw would be arraigued Wednes-
day ON the commitment under
which he has been held fugitive
from the Matteawan hospital, turned
over to the immigration authorities
and ultimately deported to Vermont.
Thaw had row with the jail au-
thorities today because his break
fast from a hotel arrived. late. u
was the worst show Of temper since
his detention here.
J. Parkinson, OF Montreal, con-
nected with the Dominion secret ser
vice. reached sheerbrook today 10
keep in touch with the case,
stories of Thaw money corruptinG
the courts, all OF them baseless SO
Tar as one can learn, we're being dis
cussed in the hotel corridors and
in the streets. Former Governor
stone, OF Pennsylvania, character
ICED all such rumors as absurd.
THE law will be allowed to take
its course in this case he said. All
we are asking is simple Justice.
w. X. McKeown, OF the Thaw legal
contingent. explained one OF the
reasons why they had not yet an
nounced a definite plan Of action.
ave are waiting for the SSner
side to show its hand,'' he remarked.
ut has never been made clear to us
lust exactly what the attitude OF the
Canadian authorities IS in regard e
.Thaw"
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-08-25

WASHING
gy IN ne E
woE exists tfro aH
pi1e even inthe
peona Is genera
cogdin % > o c
rlissiot1 tore
been rel yea ~ le
but copies arssin etn'
ohlciais.
commonly captu 0l
them into slavery FL
sent 10 China
In the native sasI1 ftHe
have been enticed non
by SLAVE agents ltpo
scholarships in sclpoo
those IN an instance
Worcester ReportE In
and others WeEe far du
money. ne cites the case II
teensy ar-6ld girl hous cor
is &C. chiekehs ana clo
3 apreme court OF he
reie the slave tradeg o
ground thaA no crime had -
n tied secause no pllsfsic
been used. This one sass
cseter says has brcug11t other
pr ecufIosis The Philipplne
ftIy has stopped laws for the
preston Of the tfalIlc. tie says be
many or its membe con
provinces where Slavery oa
One Of his reports on The tra1iAe
asserts, lies tabled pN
assembly.
II could obtain "a ei
of a hundred, a MI t I'D TEN nc