St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1901-01-26
Written for the FARMER
OUR LIBRARY.

Of pOlIIlcS mas 0uOSlQeu, Win the
falling leaves of autumn. leaving
the Nation at the mercy Of the
bosses and their trusts, SO be it.
Let the disappointed ones seek
solace and instructive diversion in
Our LIBRARY.
The black octopus of the North,
known as the Coal trust (now en-
gagged in their genial occupation Of
robbing the poor. under sanction Of
their Office, can not aeach our St.
Tamm any readers, where the ruddy
glow Of the resinous pine, from
their own forest lands lights up the
domestic circle, while one of the
group reads aloud TO the RESI-, for
they are subscribers to Our
LIBRARY, enjoying one of the new
books, in common with the majori-
~ of the English reading world.
From the cabins of scatter or
fishermen on the coast Of ice- bound
Labrador, to the Antartic bergs,
from our Western coasts ali around
the Globe. wherever the circling
sun lights up the stars and bars OF
our OWE Great Kepublic, or st.
Georges cross, our steel clad deck
and turret, bastion, batlletnent or
tent, these new books, latest and
best of the century, are being read
by our soldiers aud sailors. Then,
why not by you? oh prospecting
farmer, in these days of ten cent
cotton.
Think you, your boys and girls
do not require food for intellectual
uourishment, as we'll As for the
stomach? Would about one cent !
week be too much OF an outlay for
mental diversion: for the privilege
Of reading or hearing some Of the
most entertaining aud instructive
books of the past century, now in
Our LIBRARY? The NJ. q. Bs., for
our subscribers, means More Choice
Books. Only scots. year. $50
volumes 10 choose from.
10 you also VIC appeal, busy
storekeeper and merchant, work
weary mechanic. clerk, professional
man or laborer. widen your hori-
ION of thought; study phases OF life
different from your own. And you
dear mother Of the household,
whose work should cease when the
light fl,ckers on the wall, and the
lamps are lighted, If you eau not
spare the time TO read, hear one Of
the children read some entertaining
book. You will soou become 80
much interested In the joys aud
sorrows of the characters described.
you will not brood SO much over
the troubles in your. own path OF
life. Our LIBRARY consists mainly
of choice selection of interesting
hooks for intellectual diversion.
written bv authors Of social worth
and literary culture, as we'll known
IN Europe among English resders
As III our own land.
We seek the rare c ,mblnation OF
new unhackneyed characters. with
pure manly or wOmanly pride.
showing the influences Of moral
aud mental training; the strength
or weakness Of human nature, with
the emotions that influence actions
in social or public life, true to
nature. In our young, but grow
ing Library, there are but few in
ferlor productions. The most care
fully selected measure of grain will
contain some decayed and worth
less herbs. But gems of thought,
felicity of expression, humorous or
quaint description, may be found in
all hooks worth The publication.
There Is but one exception in our
collection.
A reading community should
consider that those writers who try
10 reach the highest, purest stand
ard of literary art, should be en-
Outraged in their efforts.
Help us to become q reading
community, you fathers aud
mothers Of st. Cammany. Let
your children learn what life was
in colonial days, how the youth Of
the country, lads from foress cabin
aud cornheld, became the men
that made the Nation.
Subscribe to Our LIBRARY, to
aid the enterprise established for
the public benefit by the
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