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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1915-12-18
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Boguo Talays Grove Ne. d.
Meets on she 1rst saturday and
third Friday OF each month. At 1850
n. M. In Masonic Hall, CoylQGton.
b. FONTAN. JR., Noble Arch.
z, b, HARbOLlN. Sec.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1915-12-18

BOY WANTED-Apply 40S Glib
son street.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1915-12-18

LOST-A gold cuff button initial
cd Allan. Reward for return to
this Office.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1915-12-18

FOR SALE-Japanese sugar cane
for planting. $500 per 100 stalks.
Makes the largest crop of any known
forage plant. 40 tons of good, sweet
food to the acre. Write for photo
and folder. Plant early In the fall.
D. y. Watts, Pearl River. La.
nov13-1m
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1915-12-18
kNiGhTs OF COLUMBUS

Meets hrst ana third WedneGdAys
Of each month in knights OF Coaan-
Gus Hall, CevtnEton. L..
}. l.. SMITH, q. K.
G., C., kORNFELD, Recorder.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1915-12-18

ALMOST GIVEN AWAY-pony. sur
rey, pigs, furniture, iron roofing, els
terms. DR.. Stevenson. dis
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1915-12-18
STOCKHOLDERS MEETING.

There will be q meeting Of the
stockholders Of the Covington Bank
& Trust Co. In the banking room, at
900 o'clock p. M, on Tuesday. Janu-
airy IL, 1915. for the purpose Of
electing q Board Of Directors for the
ensuing year.
e. G. DAVIS.
d18 President.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1915-12-18

FOR SALE-65 head Of cattle,
mostly from Is to So months Old.
All guaranteed in healthy condition.
Call on or address Les CoQuille Co..
713 Hennen Bldg, N. o. n13-tf
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1915-12-18

MASONIC LODGE NO. leo
r. = A, u
Meets every second ana 1oufsn
Tpeedsys ct 1850 p. m.
e. G.. DAVIS. w. u.
r. H, WHITE, Secty.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1915-12-18
SCHOOL BOARD

The st. Tammany Parish School
Board will meet Thursday, January
6, 1916, In regular session.
EIAGER e. LYON,
Superintendent.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1915-12-18
OHAAlBERLAIN.s TABLETS.

], II. WARMER, Pres.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-03
CIVIC CHAMBER WILL MEET NEXT TUESDAY
Several Matters of Import ance to Be Taken Up-TO
 Nominate Officers

Attention of members of the Cham- Der of Commerce was called yesterday to the general meeting Tuesday aft ernoon at which several matters will come up for attention.
 Probably the feature of the meet ing is the fact that it is the annual nominating meeting at which time names of officers will be put up for the annual election.
 It is also desired to have the cham Der send suitable representative to the foreign trade council in St. Louis, Jan uary 21 and 22, at which time export CTS from all over America will as- semble to discuss the problems brought on by the European war. ]. R Me- Wane of Birmingham is member of the council but it is desired 10 have a number of Birmingham men pres cnt.
 The matter of sending delegates to the United States Chamber of com merce meeting in Washington next will also be disposed of.
 At Tuesdays meeting the chalnb CT will also complete the utilization of the Furniture Dealers associ- ation with the Chamber of Commerce through the Board of Trade. Arrange ments have practically been completed and the secretary of the furniture deal CTS will have an office in future in the Chamber of Commerce rooms.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-03
STAGE WORK BEGINS
 ON COMIC OPERA
First Actual Stage Work Will Begin Wednesday Night-Changes in
 Cast Announced

The first actual stage work for the Pirates of Penzance," the comic opera to be given for the benefit of the Asso- ciated Charities. will begin this week at the Jefferson theatre.
 It has been definitely decided to present the opera on Thursday night, February i, instead of January 2s. as was an- nounced.
 Robert Lawrence. under whose direc- ton the opera is to be given. stated yesterday that he was almost entirely feel equal to holding a rehearsal Mon day night.
 All members of the company are re- quested to be on the stage of the Jeffer- son theatre on Wednesday night at s o'clock
 Some changes in the cast have been made, which are given below together with the full list of all members of the company:
 Pirate King H. J. Posner; Pirate
 Kings lieutenant, T. w. Fitzpatrick: Pi- rate Kings apprentice Samuel Thomas Major General Stanley, Leo Karpeles; sergeant of police, Laurence E. Smith Mable. Mrs. w. T. Ward; Ruth Mrs. . Specht; Isabelle Miss Alice Phillips; Kate, Miss Ethel Burger
 Female Chorus Mrs. D. G. Ewing, Mrs. G. J Welch Miss Leona Loveman, Miss Helen Mewhnney, Mrs. w. c. Kilgore. Miss Bessie McCaskey Miss Margaret Schwartz, Mrs. Philip Oster, Miss Re- becca Bazemore, Miss Joe Bodeker, Mrs M. G. Boshwitz Mrs. H. F. Brittle Miss Viola Laurell, Miss Marion Ford, Miss V. B. smith, Miss Sarah Dryer, Miss Fannie Rubel Miss Mary Lee Frederick, Miss Elizabeth BiclSley, Miss Florence Moffett, Miss C. Anger, Miss Mildred Jaffee. Miss Willie Jones' Miss Bessie Russell Miss Mary Daffron.
 Male Chorus: T. J. Bickley, c. R. Tur- ner, J. D. Goss ". H. Bason, J. A. Bate, A. c. Cooper. Henry Baker. w. l.. Baker Henry Lee Lewis, Holden Naff, w. c. Lawley, W. l.. Trice, V. V. Evans, W. c. Bentley, J. R. Simmons. Bert Hirsch, J. E. Aderhold. w. D.. Blackwelder, Earl w. Holmes, c. Joseph Cuneo, John Harris, Earl c. Woltersdorf, Clifton Cantelou, H. P. Russell, A. N. Laurell.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-03
THE PASTORS WIFE"

By the author of "Elizabeth and Her | German Garden;" Doubleday, Page & | Co.,, publishers. Garden City, N. Y. "The Pastors Wife, one of the sea-
 sons most popular and readable books,
 Is by the same anonymous author whose
 fame spread so quickly after the publica- | ton of her inimitable "Elizabeth and Her
 German Garden,' and like that book this
 one deals with German life and how an l English girl lived it.
 | To attempt to describe this book would
 be manifestly unfair to the reader Chat
 and criticism of the story must remain | for the reviewer), but a few samples of
 its incisive humor and the searching con-
 trasts drawn between British and Ger
 man ideals and temperaments when drawn
 together in the mesh of family life. may ] perhaps not be amiss. For instance.
 there Is the time that Herr Dremmel, | the strenuous wooer and somewhat ab- | stracted husband, took his bride to see her mother-in-law. The account of that
 visit must be read to be appreciated.
 The departure Is all we have space to | quote
 l Farewell, and God be with you" said Herr Dremmel. departing down the pas- sage and forgetting in his hurry to get his bride home as quickly as possible to take her with him.
 For moment she was left alone con- fronting her new relation. She made , great plunge into filialness and, swiftly blushing. picked up her mother-in-law's passive hand. "She had meant to kiss 1t. but looking into her eyes she found kissing finally impossible Shd shyly murmured an Eng fish leave taking and got herself. in- fintely awkwarJ1ly. out of the house. "One has to have them." was Herr
 Dremmers onlyl comment.
 And then after some distressing do-
 mestic times tlh good Herr Pastor out of the depth q conviction spoke these words to his Ehglish wife:
 ''Ingeborg.' lA sain with the severity
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-03
THE SUNNY SIDE OF DIPLOMATIC

THE SUNNY SIDE OF DIPLOMATIC
 LIFE, 1S75-19i2"
 By l.. DeGegermann-Lln Llndencrone. Illus
 trated With Portraits. Facsimiles. Etc.
 Harper Brothers Publishers, New York.
 Matter enough for many novels. experi- ences enough of the sort that people prize and retell to enrich several life times, one would think, are contained in Madame de Hegermann-L Lindercrones g new book, ''rhe Sunny Side of Diplomatic Life" And yet this is the second of this authors books of "reminiscences! The earlier volume, ''In, the Courts of Mem ory,' was so full of amusement and hu- man interest, the qualities and foibles of notable people. the conversations of the wise and witty, observations of life and character. and pictures of unique oc- casions. that might have seemed hardly possible that so much more. equally valu- able and entertaining, remained to be told. Yet the second book is even more re- warding than the first, Madame de Heg ermann-L Lindencrone was formerly Miss 1.illie Greenough of Cambridge. Upon the fall of the empire and the death of her husband. Mrs. Moulton returned to Amer ica, where a few years later she mar ried M de Hegermann-Li -Lindencrone, at that time Danish minister to the Uni ted States.
 It is at this point that Madame de Hegermann-L -Lindencrone takes up her mar rative in "The Sunny Side of Diplomatic Life At the beginning of this book we get an interesting view of the crudity and homeliness of official life in Wash ington in 1875. and of the wit and intel feet that made it all worth being part of too. A trip to California varies the routine of Washington life and We re- ceive a pquant impression of Buffalo Bill who reappears, later, in Rome. After the return of the party to the east we hear, as matter of passing interest, Of an interview between Longfellow and Sarah Bernhardt, when the divine Sarah csme very near repeating iliawatha and Longfellow was kissed
 The American part of the story, how ever is little more than an introduction. Essentially Madame de Hagermann-L Lin dencrone's narrative is story of diplo- matic life in many different foreign lands. M. de Hagermann-Ln -Lndencrone repre- sented his country successively at Stock holm. Rome, Paris, and Berlin. Queer yet pleasant experiences of society, out door recreation, and court functions in Denmark and Sweden; vivid. picturesque scenes in Rome and Paris: friendly, even affectonate, relations with kings and queens who for once seem not the less interesting as human beings because of their rank; and always the frank com panionship of the best minds and the deepest personalitieCthese are some of the clements of narrative full of unex- pected charms. In Berlin the Emperor told the author that he had read her articles in 'Harper's Monthly and said: Your description of Napoleon III is quite historical. You have given me a new idea of him" We read of how Theodore Roosevelt and Emperor William charmed each other, and of how the Emperor quite won over Saint-Saens and Massenet who were. naturally enough, prejudiced. In
 er acquaintance with great musicians
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-03
PROOF OF BOOKLET
 OFF THE PRESSES
Handsome Pamphlet Will Probably Be Ready for Distribution Wednes-
 day or Thursday

Secretary w. c. Radcliffe of the Chamber of Commerce announced yes terday the proofs of the Birmil, gham booklet weree now off the press and that the first of the completed book lets would probably be received Wednesday or Thursday.
 It is the handsomest thing of the kind ever attempted by the Chamber of Commerce and extensive plans have been made for placing the book lets where they will do the most good h the railroad offices and hotels of the country.
 Several thousand of the booklets will he printed with the back page blank Tn order that merchants and business men may procure them and print their own names in the blank space for cir culation among their friends and GUS toners.
 When completed the booklets will probably be placed on sale at several of the downtown stores.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-03
LEFT PENN|LESS Y
 AMONG STRANGERS
Girls of Little Boy Blue~ Company Victims of Men
 Who Wanted Money

No performance of Little Boy Blue,' vas given at the Jefferson theatre last night as the result of an attachment served on the company's property at the instance of three of the travelling stage hands. The performers are ac- cordingly stranded in Birmingham
 Manager Smith of the company said business had not been very good In the south, but had shown much improve ment during the past few days. The company as a whole had been In sym pathy with the managers efforts to keep things going and yesterdays ac- tion by the stage hands is said to have come as a surprise in view of the i'm proving conditions.
 It was said last night that the most regrettable feature of the whole affair was that some of the girls of the conn- pany are left practically pennilcss.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-03
TO ORGANIZE GRAND
 JURY TOMORROW
Judge Fort Will Charge Inquisi- torial Body for January
 Term

Judge W D. Fort will organize the grand jury for the January term and the petit juries for the week tolnor- row morning in the first division of the criminal court. noncapitei fell ony docket of jail cases Is set for the week which will be taken up by Judge Fort and Judge B. M. Allen as soon as the juries are organized.
 Juries for the week for tho city court will be organized tomorrow by Judge John C. Pugh of the first divf- sion A jury docket Is set in all four divisions. Judge E. c. Crow will or- ganize the juries in the circuit court
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-03
BOYLES ELECTION TO
 BE HELD TOMORROW
Citizens of Suburb Will Vote on In- cOrpOration-Ballot Boxes
 Sent Out

Tomorrow the citizens Of Boyles will hold an elecIf~ to determine as to wheth- CT the town be Incorporated or not There is interest in the election. Yesterday Age J. P. Stiles of the pro- bate court sent out the ballot boxes to the managers, including the voting lists and the ballots to be used. The election was called by Judge Stiles on a petition signed by a large number of citizens of Boyles asking that the citizens of the thriving suburb be given an opportunity to vote on the question
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-03
WILL ENTERTAIN
 FOR HIS EMPLOYES
Louis Pizitz Announces Grand Pros- perity Banquet and Dance at Store
 Annex Tomorrow Night

Louis Pizitz has announced grand prosperity banquet and dance to be given his employees tomorrow evening and has issued the follow ng formal invitations:
 You are cordially invited to attend grand prosperity banquet and dance. given in appreciation of the faithful and loyal cooperation of our employees, Mon- day evening. January I. 1915. Annex, third floor. store. Louis Pisitx. Banquet 8 ?. m. Dancing. 10 to A'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-03
"ORTHODOXY."
By Nina Wilcox Putnam. Mitchell Ken nerly, Publisher, New York.

By Nina Wilcox Putnam. Mitchell Ken
 nerly, Publisher, New York.
 Do you always say what you really think? Of course you don't; no one does. Only consider-you meet a stranger How do you do?'' you say. I'm so glad to meet you" But are you? More often than otherwise you are not. Mrs. Putnam has exposed in a satiric though not too bitter spirit this most common of all of our little hypocrises in her book "Orth- odoxy." In '-Orthodoxy' her people say exactly what in their innermost hearts they are thinking, though ythey act as we all do. The result is--to say the least startling. "Orthodoxy'' is an exceedingly clever bit of satire with an underlying vein of seriousness that will appeal to almost everyone.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-03

THROUGH THE BRAZILIAN WILL DERNESS." By Theodore Roosevelt Charles scribners Sons, publishers, New York.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-03
NEW SHERIFF'S ASSISTANTS
Partial Announcement of His Staff
 Made by Thomas J. BatsOn

Partial announcement of his office force and assistants was made yester day morning by Sheriff-elect Thomas J. Batson, who will assume office on January IS. The local office force will include E. B. Knight, J. w. Hamilton, Ivan McReynolds and James c. Jordan. The chief deputy of the Bessemcr of flee wi" be W. 2 1lI1ll1lIjth D. M. court.
 It is unt Hat many of the bailiffs now ill s.iice at the court house will be retained. Mir Batson states he will make other appointments from time to time until his force Is complete.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-03

THE GRAND CANYON AND OTHER POEMS By Henry Van Dyke. Charles scribner's Sons, publishers. New York
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-03
"OUR AMERICANS OPINION OF IT
 WAR;

WAR" An Answer to Germany's Appeal" By Frederick w. Whitridge. E. P. Dutton x Co.,, publishers, New York frank, forcible and absolutely sincere reply to the German appeals for Ameri- can sympathy, is Frederick w. Whit ridges "Our American Opinion of the War;
 No mincing of matters; no exageera- tion; no subtle arguments; no propagan- da Just candid examination of the Geramn position, as it looks to an able American lawyer, who admits having spent the happiest years of his life in Geramny.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-03
ESSAYS POLITICAL AND HIS
 TORICAr.

By Charlemagne Tower. J. E. Lippincott
 Co.,, Publishers, Philadelphia.
 There have been but few Americans In public life who have had the opportunity of feeling the pulse of European senti- ment as has Charemagne Tower, the dis tingushed eX-member of our diplomatic service. In this volume with the excep- tion of two essays concerning interesting features of the American Revolution the author treats of subjects dealing with the United States as a world power. with our country in relation to the other nations of the world. The European attitude to- wards the Monroe doctrine, the treaty ob- legations of the United States relating to the Panama canal, the relations of the United States to arbitration for the set tement of international disputes, these and others of similar significance, are matters concerning which all Americans intellgently interested in affairs political will be anxious to consider as treated by an experenced international statesman. There could be no more opportune time for the publication of this volume.
 - The political essays are especially inter- esting in that they treat of subjects con- cerning which there is much talk, but precious little specific knowledge, and in that they deal of matters that may well be of vital import to us in the near fu- ture, but the historical essays while not on such vital matters possess a real in terest in that they delve in questions con- corning which there is much discussion among both American and English histor- ians; the civil and military actions of Lord Cornwallis and General Howe dur ing the revolution. It Is one of the most fascinating questions for us to settle with regard to our war for independence.
 One cannot but regret that more or our prominent men in public life have not done as has our author; the expression Of the beliefs and the deductions of those who have had practical experience in the ways and means of statescraft is of real value as an educative influence in our democracy. Such experienced accounts are surely of more value than the pages and pages of ephemeral political theoriz- ing with which the market Is swamped
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-03

OTHER BOOKS RECEIVED. (RE- VIEWS LATER).
 THE TRAWLER." By Jaems B. Con neiiy. The S25,0OO Collier prize story charles Scribner's Sons, New York
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-03

l.. A. Powell of Atlanta has been se- cured by Shaw & Son, to take the place as chief embalmer left vacant by Earle A. Spangler, who removes to Bessemer to assume the management of Kennedy Brothers. Mr. Powell arrived in Bir- mingham and took up his duties at the well known establishment yesterday.
 Tt was stated last night at Shaw X Sons that MT. Powell had built up his reputa- ton as an embalmer and funeral director in Georgia. It was stated that the young man had ample exepr.ence in all lines of undertaking work and was well known as a Catholic funeral director. Mir. Powell was introduced to physicians and the staffs of local infirmaries yesterday by Manager Hicks of the Shaw company. of disappointment, pulling hls sleeves out of her hands and going to the door, have you then not yet discovered that a true husband and wife can never be frieEds?'
 INNOCENT.
 Her Fancy and His Fact" By Marie
 Corelli. George H Doran Company,
 Publishers, New York.
 Marie Corelli, after proving by 'Thel- ma," "Barabbas, "The Life Everlast- ng," "Wormwood,' 'The Sorrows of Satan. and many another book that she has such intensity of romance, has delib- erately set about writing the most ex- quislte love story, enshnning the most iovable girl that she could make-and she has succeeded in Innocent To the herone she has not given merely author S craftsmanship, but all her warmest love.
 There is all the mediaeval charm with the conviction of modern life in the pc pf a fn m where TpnOrppt Jocelyn refused to permit the use of modern machinery, and here life moved sweetly. beautifully, with the murmur of doves in the elms and the stout barns crammed with such great crops as were found nowhere else The ancient rlace had once been the refuge of the Sieur de Jocelin, and in the attic Innocent found delicate books of old France, still ia .ntly scented with the rose leaves of more romantic age, bravely illuminated and telling gentle tales of lovers long since gone. Here reading, here musing OH the golden green of velvet meadows, she built world of fantasy-from which she was suddenly jared
 That she was not the daughter of Farmer Jocelyn, that there was a strange mystery about her origin, that not for her was quiet love with the sturdy boy lover Robin, that intangible forces were bitterly fighting against her dreaming happ.ness-these things tore her from the old farm, threw her into the midst of the turmoil of the modern world-into London of today, with its taxicabs and telephones and feyered ambitions. But the quiet strength of dreams is not lost In London. among charming painters and writers and lavender-scented old house. hold whose support she bravely became, Innocent moved, a dramatic figure, yet always exquisite, romantic.
 Strange things were to happen to her, and none but Marie Corelli could tell with such intensity of conviction such a story of woman's heart and life and fight as Innocent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-03

AND so THEY WERE MARRIED" GA Comedy of the New Woman) By Jesse Lynch Williams Charles Scrib- ner's Sons. publishers, New York.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-03

Madame de Hegermann- -Lindencrone was particularly fortunate. She saw Mas oagni come before the curtain, bewildered and half starved. after the first perform ance of "Cavalleria Rusticana.' Verdi, Mario, Grieg, Ole Bull. Sgambati, Tosti, Moszkowsky-al figure more or less fa- miliarly in her story. Few other remin- iscences bring us so close, we feel, to the real Liszt. And the story is all told in contemporary letters-letters full of the freshness of recent impressions. the ex- eitement that fingers in the mind on the day following an interesting experience. Absolutely devoid of self-importanee or undue self-consciousness, these letters re- fleet life and character with transparent clearness and spontaneous brilliancy of appreciation
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-03
'ODDSFISH. by Robert Hugh Benson. Dodd, Mead {

By Robert Hugh Benson. Dodd, Mead &s
 Co.,, Publishers, New York.
 Oddsfish,' a new novel by Robert Hugh Benson-his last work before his death-has been received with great in terest by his legion of admirers and friends in America, as well as his native heath, England.
 "Oddsfish'' is an historical romance, of the time of Charles II of England. The hero plays q party to several historical Incidents, such as the Titus Oates Plot and the "Rye-House Plot" and finally participates in the extraordinary events that centered around the Kings deathbed Historical accuracy is carefully observed, as in all of Father Benson's historical novels, and the character Of Charles II is conscientiously and cleverly inter- preted.
 A word about the author may be of n- terest to those who do not know of his life.
 Monsignor Benson was the son of the late Archbishop of Canterbury. He be- came Roman Catholic in 1903. and in view of his fathers position as head of the English church, his conversion