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The St. Tammany Farnner PU1BLISHED WEEKLY. COVINGTON. a LOUISIANb CUPID IN THE ELEVATOR A By Carro Watson Rank rHE inhabitants were chary of intrusting themselves to the elevator in Bailey Mansions, for it was of so unstable a character that the initiated had lost all confidence in it as a means of transportation. Katherine, however, was not an Inhabitant.

In her own home elevators pursued the even tenor of their way without vagaries of any sort; so, when her call on the top floor was completed, with every reason to expect a swift and uneventful journey she stepped confidently into the elevator. At the fourth floor it stopped to admit a second passenger, a mian named Westcott. Westcott differed from Katherine in that he entered the cagelike apartment with a full knowledge of its treacherous tendencies, but Westcott was that morning in a frame of mind to court disaster. He assured himself as he stepped in that it was a matter of complete indifference to him whether the elevator shot suddenly upward and crashed through the skylight, or dropped without warning into the basement. The elevator, however, did neither of these things.

Under the guidance of a chubby, blue-eyed youth, it pursued its THE BOY GENTLY DISCOURAGED FURTHER CONVERSATION. downward career until it reached the space between the first and second foors; there it stopped. At the sight of her fellow passenger Katherine turned pink with embarrassment. The man had muttered something under his breath and bowed frigidly, for, before courting disaster, he had courted Katherine-apparently it had amounted to the same thing. They had parted forever only the evening before, and the ring she had worn for three months was at that moment in Westcott's vest pocket, where he had thrust it savagely at the end of their quarrel.

"Why are we stopping here?" asked Katherine, turning to the elevator boy of cherubic countenance. 'Cause we can't go on," returned the boy, producing a bag of nuts and a comic paper and proceeding to make himself comfortable. "The power's off again." "Has it ever-does it often go off like this?" "Oh, yes," replied the boy, cheerfully. "There's nothing to be scared of. Sometimes she runs all right for as much as a week; then, again, she won't budge for six or seven hours at a stretch." "Six or seven hours!" gasped Katherine.

"Yes," replied the boy, settling himself more comfortably on his stool. "Once it was longer, but gin'rally they get her going in an houror two. There's no danger at all miss." The boy gently discouraged further conversation by burying himself in his paper. Katherine moved to the end of the long, leather-covered seat. Westcott, at the extreme other end, stared gloomily at the wall.

Katherine looked at her watch; it was already past luncheon time, and she had been too miserable to eat much breakfast. Still-she brightened at the thought-she should not starve, for she had with her a box of chocolates she was taking home to her sister's children. NEW CAVALRY TRAINING. Novel System of Instruction to Be Introduced for Benefit of the British Horse Soldier. Apparently as the result of the admirable experiments in cavalry training made by Lieut.

Col. de Lisle at Hounslow, the new system of instruction is to be int'oduccd into the First British army corps, writes an Aldershot correspondent. The innovation will do away with much of the useless routine work which in the past has occupied so much of the cavalryman's time. From the beginning of the training the aim will be to develop the cavalryman's power of initiative and resource and general intelligence in the field. One of his first lessons will be to catch his horse when turned loose, to train it.

and ride it across country instead of around the riding school. The care of horses is also to be taught. Men are to be instructed in the treatment of minor horse maladies, how to judge and treat lameness, and to tell good forage from bad. Outpost and advance guard duties, reconnoissance duties and map reading are to be taught thoroughly. Parties of men are to be sent out to find their way to fixed points entirely by the map.

The art of scouting will be instilled by the "flag stealing" game and practical trials of scouting, in which special stress is to be laid on intercepting moves of the enemy, learning his strength without being seen, dispatch and inaking intelligible verbal and written reports. More attenticn is to be paid to firing, the proper appreciation of cover, rapid shooting, natural rests, and the effects of wind. She looked at her watch again. Only four more minutes had passed, but the pangs of hunger were becoming unendurable. The chubby boy munched nuts with apparently no thought of his fellow sufferers.

Katherine untied the pink string that bound the chocolate box, uefolded the paper, lifted the lid, and ate a chocolate. When she had eaten three she glanced at Westcott. He was still gazing at the wall. The walls in elevator shafts are seldom interesting; this one was tinted a bilious green-a color that Westcott abhorred. "How he must hate me," thought Katherine, eating another chocolate, "when he'd rather look at a wall than at me.

I wonder what I ought to do? If we were utter strangers, cast away on a desert isle, and he had one biscuit and three drops of water, I should think him horrid if he didn't offer me half. I suppose I ought to offer him some of these chocolates, even If we're not on speaking terms." Katherine, sitting very erect, and gazing straight ahead, pushed the box along the seat. Westcott paid no attention. "Will you have a chocolate?" asked Katherine, somewhat unsteadily. Westcott was so sure that he was dreaming that he did not make any answer.

"The lady spoke to you," prompted the elevator boy. Westcott looked inquiringly at Katherine. "Will you-will you have a chocolate?" "No, thank you," replied Westcott, returning to the contemplation of the green wall. There was another long pause. The neglected box remained half-way between the suspended passengers.

"I think you're very ungentlemanly," said Katherine at length. "So you said last night," responded Westcott, coldly. "You're more so to-day." "How?" "You-you know I'm too polite to eat these chocolates and let you go hungry, and I'm fairly starving." Westcott, with an air of exaggerated politeness, took a chocolate and ate it, with his eyes fixed unsociably upon the green wall. He dared not trust himself to look at Katherine. Katherine nibbled a bonbon, waited in silence for ten minutes, and again offered the box to Westcott, who gravely helped himself.

This operation was repeated until only one remained in the box. The remaining one was heart-shaped. "It's a heart!" exlaimed the elevator boy, who had read too many "dime shockers" not to recognize an interesting situation when face to face with one, and who was unable to contain himself longer. "You'll have to toss for it. It is a heart, isn't it?" "Why, so it is!" replied Katherine.

"Will you have it, Bob-pardon meMr. Westcott?" Westcott shot a quick glance at Katherine, who had gradually moved two feet away frdm the end of the leathercovered bench, and was consequently that much closer to the man she had jilted the previous evening. "Do I understand that you are offering me a heart?" asked Westcott. "It's your turn," said Katherine, flushing a beautiful crimson. Westcott took from his pocket something that glittered, laid it in the box beside the chocolate heart, and pushed the box toward Katherine.

"Do we play fair?" lie asked, with his eyes on Katherine's. The elevator boy, agog with excitement, retired discreetly, but with reluctance, to the pages of his paper, but not before he had recognized in the glittering object a ring. And when he looked again the box contained two hands, although only one was visible; the man was no longer gazine at the wall. The hand of the indicator above the boy's head was leaping from number to number in curious fashion, sounds of ringing bells and impatient voices drifted from the elevator shaft; but the man and the maid paid no heed. Then the boy moved the lever slowly, even reluctantly, and the elevator dropped quietly to the ground "Oh!" exclaimed Katherine, drawing her hand gently from Westcott's and giving a long sigh.

"We're actually down." "Yes," beamed the boy, "and you might have been down 15 minutes ago just as well as not; but I seen how things was going, and I thought I'd help them along some." "You shall come to the wedding, Cupid," said Westcott, slipping a heavy coin into the cherubic boy's hand. And he added, as they stepped out of the elevator on to the solid ground: "If I ever own an elevator you shall run it." -Pearson's Magazine. Skill at arms is not to be forgotten. and mounted combats and competitions are to be instituted. To render charging a little more scientific, an interesting game, somewhat after the idea indulged in by the German infantry, will be practiced.

A squadron of dummies in line will form the objective, and the squadron bowling over the greatest number of the enemy will be declared the winner. COURAGE. Where crowds rushed in at noon to eat, The clerks, the scribes and all the others, He came and hunted for a seat And jostled with the hungry brothers. His hands were large and red and rough, His coat was frayed along the border. A bowl of soup he deemed enough, Apparently, for him to order.

There, where the hungry hundreds sat. With elbows touching as they hurriedThe tall, the short, the thin, the fat, The unconcerned and those that where the hard-faced infidel Partook beside the mild agnostic, And flouted Heaven and' laughed at hell, And flung out grim remarks and caustioThere, crowded in among them, he Whose hands betrayed the marks of labor, Not caring who might turn to And elbowed by his thoughtless neigh. borThere, in the noise that they' who ate And they that fed the crowd were making, He closed his eyes above his plate And bowed his head before partaking. His hands were rough, he was not blesse, With greatness as we think we know it; But oh, that I such faith possessed And dared as he could dare to show it. -S.

E. Kiser, in Chicago Record-Herald. General Opinion. A man who expresses himself contented is looked upon a lacking in bition. Superiority of Women's Clubs By MRS.

CHARLES HENROTIN, a President of Chicago Woman's Club. WOMAN'S club is little more than a school to teach her A many things for the advancement of the home. While men at their clubs spend their time drinking, smoking, telling stories, perhaps gambling, women are planning in their organizations for the establishment of kindergartens and for caring for their unfortunate sisters. The general idea that a woman's club catser her to neg- I lect her home, disregard materndl duties, and forget the obt ligations of a married woman seems to have originated with those who do not stop to consider it a part of the natural a trend of civilization. Fifty years ago women spun and wove their -own 2 cloth, and a few hundred years ago they made their own cooking utensils from clay.

At one time woman made everything for home use. Now the establishing 'of factories for the manufacture of home necessities has taken those duties from her, and we find that she gives more time to social and educational projects, and endeavors to make her home 1 I brighter and more pleasant and the members of her family better. Hence the clubs. A woman's club offers the only opportunity to a woman for a postgraduate education, and in the clubs are music, art, literature and cul- a ture. Besides, a woman learns much that directly benefits her home in teaching her to care for her children and rear them properly, and in some clubs, cooking schools, and instruction in sewing and house- 4 keeping are taught.

Instead of its causing deterioration it is a revelation of good which can only be reckoned by a comparison of the wome an of yesterday and the woman of to-day. SUN AS HEALTH RESORT. The Great Luminary Is Not a Molten Sphere, But a Shining Sanitarium. The western astronomer who announces that the sun is not a molten I mass, but, on the contrary, a delightful I place to inhabit, will receive more re- I spectful attention than would have been I possible ten years agd, says the Phila- a delphia Inquirer. That the sun is the I source of practically all the light and I heat we receive is undoubted, but the nature of these two forces is not only a 1 mystery to us, but the theories which I have from time to time been advanced concerning them have been found un- a tenable.

Although we have immeasurably increased our knowledge concern- I ing the universes and some of its laws 1 in the last four centuries, we are not 4 much nearer any appreciation of the causes underlying them. I The ignorant talk glibly about the "subtle ether," gravitation, light, heat I and electricity, but the wisest admit i that mighty little can be positively as- I serted about any of them aside from ob- i served phenomena. No reasonable ex- I planation has ever been given that ex- plains the law of gravitation, which alone of all these in the universe seems I to work exactly the same at all times and under all condition. No one can explain how the rays of the sun pass I through the fringed space for 90,000,000 1 of miles and yield us the warmth and a light without which life is impossible. Very plasible theories have been ad- I vanced to explain how the sun main- I tains its volume of heat in spite of the i constant loss through emanation, but I they are theories only.

The atomic theory was used for decades to explain many things, but I since that has been destroyed or made a doubtful through the discoveries at- I tendent upon the Hertzian waves and the emanation of ions, scientists are at I sea where once they felt secure. Radi- um exhibits phenomena that are thus I far inexplicable, and it is probable that the western astronomer has arranged his theory of an inhabitable sun largely I because of these recent discoveries, I which have done much more to destroy i former views than to construct new i ones. He thinks that the sun is the i great dynamo of our system, and that a light and heat are mere effects of elec- I tricity as locally manifested when in contact with matter. This sounds well, but i it means little. It does not dispose of the difficulties attendant upon the the- i ory afforded by other known condi- tions.

What can be said is that no one with any intelligence will at once categorically disput the theory. That period has gone by. What is demanded is that he I who propounds this or any other hyp.thesis shall back it up with reason- I able proof of a scientific nature. We I are unlearning many things just now, and are preparing to learn new ones, and we must all approach any subject with an open mind, devoid of prejudice. The sun may or may not be inhabitable.

It is going to be difficult to establish either proposition. FRENCH DETECTIVES. Police Service in Parts Muheb Superior to That of Many Other I European Cities. When the emperor and empress of Russia had arranged to visit Paris and 1 Compiegne the efficiency of the French detective police was thus tested: The a chief of the Russian police came se- cretly to Paris with orders to lie quiet- ly by in a hotel and only to report himself at the embassy after a stay of I a week. But he had not been three hours in Paris, says London Truth, be- fore the prefect of police learned of his arrival from a French detective.

At St. a Petersburg they thought this a satisfactory result, and the imperial pair ventured to come to Paris and drive down the Champs Elysees without cavalry round their carriage, A similar test ap- i plied in Rome brought to light a police slackness there. The head of the Russian police lay by there for a whole a week without his arrival being suspect- I ed. On the evening of the sixth day he called on Count Nelidoff to report himself, to the great astonishment of that ambassador. They both agreed that if the Roman police had not scented out the head of the greatest police force in tbe world, they could not be depended upon to know much about the goings on i of anarchists and nihilists.

Nicholas is glad to be, they say, relieved of the I weariness of an official visit to Rome, but nettled at the hatred manifested by the Italian socialists. Retort Sareastice. Spartacus-What would you advise as the most effective disguise that I might assume for the masked ball to-night? Smarticuss-You might put on an in- 1 telligent American. Paeteries in Hungary. Hungary has 2,612 f.ctories, which I employ 259,464 personsa MISSPELL WINDOW SIGNS.

New Trick in Advertising Which a New York Merchant Says Works Wonders. "One of the tricks of the trade during the next year," said the window dresser for a big department store, according to the New York Sun, "is going to be the misspelling of words in window signs. -It works wonderfully. You know, at one time, a great trick was to put a picture in your window, upside down. People would come in droves to tell you about the and it gave business a boom for a time.

"But this misspelling of words beats all the other old devices. Why? Because it is human nature to love to correct other folks. It's the same spirit that animates the man, woman and child, who go blocks out of their way to show a stranger where he wants to go. "It pleases people to know that they know something you don't, and after they have corrected you they go on their way inwardly pleased with themselves, or else they are so brim full of geniality that you can sell them goods that they never dreamed of buying. "We tried the new trick' two weeks ago.

I had a sign made to go in our 'white' window. It read: Thanksgiveri Well, that sign had hardly been in the Window 15 minutes before a gray-haired man wearing spectacles stepped in. The floorwalker at that door caught him. He was beaming. He had noticed an odd error in spelling in the window, and if the floorwalker would only step outside he would show it to him.

"The floorwalker went out, of course, with the old fellow, who pointed with his cane at the carefully misspelled sign. The floorwalker thanked him profusely and, they chatted until the old chap got asking questions about the price of some of the handkerchiefs in the window. Then the floorwalker took him inside and turned him over to one of the counter girls. "After that they came thick and fast. In two hours the floorwalker sent for me and said he couldnt stand it.

He wasn't engaged as a barker and somebody'd have to be put on the job; he was neglecting his business. So we got a man to do nothing else but attend to that misspelled sign. "It worked well all that week and last week, too. Persons who did not want 'white goods' got inside in trying to correct that Thanksgiving error, and saw something else that interested them, so it was just the same. "But last Friday we took the sign down and spelled Thanksgiving in the good old-fashioned way.

Pretty soon I expect we'll have to spring another one. There's no reason why we shouldn't take all honest advantage of the frailties of the human race." HOW WE CATCH COLDS. The Old Notion About Exposure to Draughts Has Been Abandoned. The London Hospital, a medical magazine, maintains that colds are caught, the colds that have nasal catarrh for their chief symptom, in the same way that other infectious diseases are caughtby the lodgment of a germ, says the Boston Herald. The character of the germ is not specified.

This is no new discovery or theory. Knowing persons have long been careful about exposing themselves to infection by persons who have a cold, lest they "catch" it. The old notion that a cold is the result of exposure to draught or to cold air or getting the feet wet has been abandoned, although it is true that one may get a chill in that way which will afford some of the symptoms and sensations of the nasal catarrh caused by a noxious germ. It is safer to avoid close contact and all unnecessary contact with a person who has this cold. A horse that has been wintered out often catches a cold upon being brought into the "ltable in the spring.

Experiments with disinfectants have shown that it is not the warmth of the stable that induces the cold. Arctic voyagers are frequently free of colds until their return to a community where they prevail. In the small rocky island of St Kilda, one of the western Hebrides, colds are unknown except when it is visited by some vessel, and it is said the inhabitants can distinguish between the' different kinds of colds brought by different ships. There is much similarevidence relating to the subject, and the Hospital declares that "some source of infection must be present before it is possible to catch cold." what appears to be needed is a specific germicide which may be used for prevention or cure. Bat-Shaped Kites.

The bat-shaped kite invented by S. F. Cody, F. R. M.

has been adopted by the British admiralty. The kite Ismade from bambo and silk and will carry a Sman. It may be used for reconnoitering I on land or sea, and will be able to haul I a sledge over Arctic ice with but one man to steer it. RELIC OF THE PAST. The Talamancans a Forgotten People of the Isthmus.

Their Aneient Usages and Customs Have Not Been Afected by Four Centuries of Medieval Spanish Civilisatiom. Within less than 100 miles of where the United States intends to complete the greatest interoceanic ditch the world has seen, in territory where the newly created republic of Panama is situated, there dwells an' Indian nation that is to all intents and purposes identically the same to-day as it was when Columbus first discovered the western hemisphere. These are the Talamancans, who inhabit a few square miles in the mountains almost midway between the two oceans and but a comparatively short distance from the Panama railroad, though it is much to be doubted if they have ever seen it or are aware of its existence. The Scientific American says that although for upward of four centuries the medieval civilization of Spain has surrounded them on all sides, they have neither been contaminated by its influence nor exterminated by its kindness, as was the case in Cuba and other Spanish colonies. Their language is still their own, and seems to have lost little of its original character through conta with the execrable mixture of English, Spanish and French spoken by the lower classes throughout the West Indies and along the Spanish Main.

Living in virtually an unknown region, at least three days' journey from the nearest settlement, their solitude is seldom broken. The visitor is received with the greatest hospitality, and is welcome as long as he desires to remain. Their visits to the outer world are infrequent, rarely extending beyond the nearest port, and are undertaken only in quest 'of luxuries. Extra fowls and porkers are bartered on these occasions for tobacco, gewgaws and ammunition. The spear and blowgun are used more than firearms for various reasons.

The former are not only infinitely cheaper, but usually more effective in the hands of the Indian than the cheap muzzle-loading fowling piece of French or German origin with its paper-like barrel-the only iran he can afford to purchase besides the machete. Their language and customs in some respects resemble those of the score or more of widely differing peoples that are scattered over the territory lying between the Mexican border and the isthmus. Their ancestors doubtless TALAMANCAN ROYAL PALACE. Structure That Was Built Hundreds of Years Ago.) served Aztec masters for centuries before Cortez appeared on the scene to impose a worse slavery upon them, for they are not of the superior race of which so many reminders in the shape of gold and silver ornaments, stone idols and curious specimens of pottery have been unearthed in quantities in several of the Central American states, and being the opposite of warlike, they could easily be held in bondage. They are not idolaters in any sense of the word, nor do theyprofess religion or hold public worship of any nature, though their belief tends more to fear of an evil spirit than faith in a good one; in fact, the Talampacans present an instance of a nation 'without doctor, lawyer or priest, the "sokee," corresponding to the medicine man of the North American tribes, usually combining the functions of all three.

Polygamy is the most important feature of their domestic relations, few if any of the members of the different tribes being content with less than three to half a dozen wives, while his Talamancan majesty might well exclaim with Launcelot: "Alas! Fifteen wives is nothinge." His seraglio is usually better provided in point of numbers. The government of this Indian nation is entirely hereditary, and it is astonishing to learn of the many points of the doctrine of primogeniture as practiced by the reigning families of Europe, with which they are familiar. Their laws are naturally few in number, both the legislative and judicial power, as is usually the case where no fixed principles of either have been acquired, being vested exclusively in the king. In common with others in his position the world over, he is a despot, and rules according to royal whim where this does not conflict with long-established custom. The marital relitioW is held sacred.

The engagement bf a girl begins within a few hours of her birth, the bridegroom-to-be making' a contract with the parents at that time. It is usually consummated when she reaches the age of ten or twelve, a custom that is responsible for great disparity in the age and longevity of the sexes. Found After Many Years. A pocketbook containing $50 in gold was lost eight years ago by Mrs. Davolt, of New Boston, Mo.

Shi never heard from it until the other day, when the money was found in a peculiar way. A young man rode up to the Davolt home and tied his horse to a tree near the house. When he returned for the horse he found that it had pawed a pocketbook out of the earth. It was the one Mrs. Davolt had lost eight years before.

Pi5 with Elephant's Head. A remarkable animal w'gs lately born at Rye, England. It is a boar pig, with the head and features of an elephant. One ear is of immense proportions, and a trink protrudes from the forehead. Between the trunk and the spout there is a huge eyeball contaigik-two pupils.

The Flr-t Stmp. A failure to start often saves a miserable Daily News. SOME MIGHTY APES. Valuable Colleetion Recently Pre. sented to Philadelphia Academy of Natural Seiences.

The Darwinian theory of the descent of man may soon be studied at close range, owing to generosity of a prominent Philadelphian, Dr. who has just returned from Europe with what is believed to be the most complete collection of anthropoid apes ever owned by one person. The specimens were obtained from various sources and prepared by the German taxidermist, Umlauff. Among them is a fine specimen of that rarely secured animal, the gorilla. On account of its immense strength and ferocity when cornered it has been most difficult even to obtain a dead specimen of the gorilla family, it being necessary to risk life in order to track it to its lair in the interior of Africa.

The specimen secured by Dr. Biddle was shot by a venturesome German, George Zenker, near the Yaunde station, Western Africa, a little to the north of the equator. The New York Tribune says thatthe height of this gorilla is a little over five feet, and the strongest man would 'I AN AFRICAN GORILLA. (Posed for the Camera by the Natives Who Killed Him.) probably be a plaything in its hands. To some monkeys, despite their lack of good looks, the expression "cute" may apply, but it is not possible to so describe the gorilla.

With his fiat nose. enormous jaws and protruding teeth, the thick neck and bulging chest, this ape is far from the human ideal of a handsome animal. When he can, the gorilla will run from a man, and as no one has been particularly anxious to come to close quarters with him, it is not possible to speak with assurance of his 'mode of life. It is said that he travels for the most part on all fours, and only rises on his hind legs to resist attack. It is also said that he builds himself a home in the trees.

The collection contains three specimens of the chimpanzee. One is the ordinary chimpanzee, another the bald chimpanzee and the third a variety called the Koola Kamba. The chimpanzees are more intelligent than the gorilla, and have been trained in captivity to do tricks. Naturalists have been long atrodds as to the number of their species, as well as those of the orang-outang, of which a fine specimen is included in collection presented to the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia by Dr. Biddle.

The specimen presented by Dr. Biddle' has a great lateral expansion of the cheeks. BISMARCK OF JAPAN. Marquls Ito, Whose Death Is Alleged to Have Been Planned by a Tokio Assassia. Marquis Ito, a plot against Vhose life has just been disclosed, is a statesman of great renown, and also an able naval and military officer.

He commanded the fleet in 1894 when the Japanese ships, though considerably fewer in number, destroyed the Chinese navy. THE MARQUIS ITO, (Japan's Greatest Statesman and One of the World's Cleverest Diplomats.) Ito has been prime minister on two or three occasions, and for 25 years has been the close adviser of the mikado. He has traveled extensively in Europe and America, has studied politic.alscience with the utmost care, and at times jas been called by his admirers the Blamarck and the Gladstone of Japan. COREAN OFFICIALSI The Noble Art of Graft I. Not Despised-DBlackmall and Bribery in OfIICelaldom.

In view of the negotiations now being carried on between Russia and Japan, the picture which we give here of Corean government officials is speeiaUl interesting. At least 20 per cent. of the population of Corea belongs tg the official class, for every one wants to live a life of ease at the expense of his fellow countrymen, says GoldenPainny. a Corean government official does not think so much of the honor of serving his country as of the opporturfties he has for effecting "squeezes," that is to say, the levying of blackmail, theFreceiving of bribes from persons haflng business with his superior, the right to travel everywhere at the public expense, and other "pickings." The goveanment appointments are open to competition, so every one ought to have an equal chance. The successful candidates, however, are usually those who psy the best, or have the most interest.

There are eight governors of provfice it Coreo, and 332 prefects, and each ofil cial has, according to his zankor wealth a' body of secretaries, seal bearers, tas gatherers, soldiers, police and othaw servants. PROFESSIONAL CARDS, DR. M. R. FISHER, Officewith Dr.

Tolson. Every Saturday DR. G. de MONSABERT Having permanently established himself in Covington, otffers his professional services to the public. He will be at his office daily from 10 a.

m. to2 p.m. Office on Boston street near the Courthouse. 'Phone 103. Residence on Jackson avenue near Glen cottage.

'Phone 125. BENJ. M. MILLER, ATTORNEY AT LAW, COVINGTON, LOUISIANA LEWIS L. MORGAN, ATTORNEY AT LAW AND NOTARY PUBLIC Office-Covington, La.

Will practice in all the courts of the Twenty-sixth Judicial District. HARVEY E. ELLIS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, COVINGTON, LOUISIANA Will practice law, both civil and; criminal, in the parishes of St. Tamr many and Washington. GORDON W.

GOODBEE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, FRANKLINTON, LOUISIANA Will attend to civil business -ii connection with his office as District Attorney. F. B. MARTINDALE, NOTARY PUBLIC AND REAL ESTATE AGENT. Covington, La.

Office: Room No. 9. Frederick LAW AND NOTARIAL OFFICE. JOS. B.

LANCASTER Will practice in the courts of ther Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Judicial Districts and the Supreme Court. Special attention terexamin-' ing land titles, buying an( sellingi. lands, passing acts and deeds.of sale, mortgages, donations, etc. Room No. Frederick Building.

PRENTISS'B CARBER, ATTORNEY AT FRANKLINTON, LOUISIANA DR. C. Z. WILIAMS, PRACTICING PHYSICIAN Residence on the corner of Rutland street; west of the Martindale House. Office over the bank.

Day and night calls promptly atterded. Chronic diseases a specialty. DR. J. F.

PIGOTT, Covington, La. Residence in the Exterstein raised cottage, two blocks west of public school building. Offers nis professional services to the public. Office at the City Drug Store, on Columbia street. 1 DR.

GEO. R. "TOLSON, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office on Columbia street, near Rutlaid; next door to G. C. Forsythe's store.

Residence at former Schreiber place. Day and night: call promptly attended. attended. DR. F.

JULIUS HEINTZ, Coroner Tammany Parish Tenders his professional services to the people of the parish. Office and Residence: Abita Springs, next to the postoffice. Phone, 73-2. Private diseases a specialty. J.

M. YATES, -a. Parish Surveyor Covington, La. All orders left with H. R.

Warren, clerk of court, or addressed to J. Yates, Verger Postoffce, will rceive prompt attention. W. H. Contractor and uilder COVINGTON, LA.

Office in the Frederick' building. P. O. Box, No. 60.

A. O. PONS, Contractor and Builder ABITA Office at the Jackson Store. SAM. R.

BARNES, Hand Made. Cistern and Tank Maker, Covington, La, Orders left at Blekham, 3Magee Co. PRESTON STAUFFER, IMPORTERS AND WHOLESALE -GROCERS 410 to 430 S. Front Street, NEW ORLEANS; LA. Represented by S.

M. POOLE..