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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-03-22
A Logging
Camp Story
BY ETHEL N. C0LSoN.
Copyright by Authors Syndicate,

i OGGING camps are by no means
parlors, and the "shanty-man's''
life is seldom happy one. But the Nc
Adams camp is easily the most pop
ular in all the Muskoka region, and
the shanty-1aen who carry their huge
Turkeys thither in the autumn
usually travel with good courage.
There is no unfairness or unjust dis
elimination under the McAdams au-
thority. The food, if coarse, is good
and plentiful, and the man who suf-
fers unavoidable injury while at work
is sure Of his pay-check notwith-
standing. Also there is much jollity
in the evenings, and the man who
can sing a good song or dance a
clever hornpipe is king among his fell
lows, so thoroughly is the entertain
ment appreciated. For which reason
Angus McAdams turns away appli-
cants every autumn when other camp
foremen go begging for helpers.
Archie Brewster, cheerily trudging
the forty miles Intervening between
his home and the McAdams shanty
last autumn, believed his lot a happy
one. AS skilled sawyer he would
receive a generous wage for his la
Dor. His Christmas dinner was to be
taken with Genevieve Dixon and her
parents; and, in the spring, quiet
home wedding with no more camp
winters, but happy life on the home
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know the particulars or can INFORM
against the overseers." If Washington
had been writing about farmers in Lii
nois, Iowa and other prairie states he
could not have hit the nail on the head
any harder than that.
The first turnpike road built by cor
porate interests was the Wilderness
turnpike, from the Shenandoah valley,
Virginia, over the Allegheny noun
tains at Cumberland Gap, to central
Kentucky. This road had toll gates
70 miles apart, where tolls of two dol
lars were collected from every travel
er. The next good road constructed
was the Lancaster and Philadelphia
turnpike, which is until this..day an
excellent work on the macadam plan.
In 1906 the government had received
over $500, 900 from the sale of public
lands in Ohio, and the congress appro-
priated 5000 for the beginning OF the
construction of the Cumberland road,
from Cumberland, Nd, to Wheeling,
Va. This was the first national high
way. It was we'll macadamized, the
rivers and creeks were spanned by
stone bridges and toll houses were sup
piled with strong iron gates. Henry
Clay was the chief advocate of this
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swindled the LandlorA.

Recently gentleman was eating
oysters in Paris restaurant, when
he suddenly uttered an exclamation
and removed an object from his mouth
which had nearly broken his tooth.
The other patrons gathered around
and inspected the object, which one,
who said he was a jeweler, declared
to be pearl worth $3.50. The delight
ed finder ordered q magnificent din
ner to celebrate the find and invited
the jeweler to join him. When the
waiter presented the bill for $50 for
the dinner he declared he was short of
money, but asked the landlord to hold
the pearl as security. This the land
lord still has, and as its value is tive
cents there is little chance that he win
ever see the scamp and his jeweler as-
complete again.-Detroit Free Press.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-03-22
..1.M COIN WITH YE."

farm to follow. Because OF these
mercies of providence Archibald
Brewster lived in Paradise for three
weeks and over; the inevitable SER
p.nt, Transforming the paradise to
purgatory, wore the burly guise of
wry-faced Jonathan Newling, the dis
appointed man to whom Genevieve
Dixon had recently returned chill
ing "No, thank you"
The men had been singing that
evening, and Archie, who could troll
out a hearty ballad acceptably, had
SING of love and home and kindred
topics. His fellows had good-na-
turedly twitted him upon his love-
sick condition, and he had answered
merrily in kind. Then Jonathan New
ling. twisting his wry mouth in de-
rision, had sarcastically inquired as
to Arches arrangements concerning
his sweetheart's love-making during
his absence.
.I guess Genie amt Their kind Of
girl to go pinin' fer Kisses" he OBJ
served, with irritating slowness. Il
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-03-22
HISTORIAN AT WORK
What He Found Out About Early
Roads in America.
Washington Was Deeply Interested
in the Construction of Solid
HiRhways-CalhOu Part
in the Agitation.
Especial Washington letter.

Especial Washington Letter.
WHEN Maurice o. Eldridge was
w acting director of the office of
public road inquiries for the
department of agriculture he made
study of the history of highway con-
struction in our republic, and the re-
suits of his research were given to-day,
in brief, for the information OF the
readers of this newspaper.
The sentiment expressed by Mr.. Ell
bridge willmeet with general approval:
eff our first settlers had arrived when
the Roman empire was at the zenith
of its glory, our republic would now
be bound together with perfect sys-
tenn of magnificently constructed
highways" True, the Romans were
good road builders, the first and the
greatest of whom we have history.
The expansion of that empire made
good roads as necessary as soldiers and
statesmen. The mighty legions OF
Rome required good roads for troops
and impedimenta; also for couriers,
civil and military. The cavalry and
chariots, the big catapults, the am
munition wagons and supply wagons
were heavier than those used by mod
ern armies. Moreover, Rome was a
trafficker, and as industrious in spread
ing her commerce as the Yankee ma
ton of this present day; and good
roads were necessary for commerce.
But Rome was declining when this
continent was discovered and settled.
The immigrants came from England
and France mostly, countries which
still used road systems inherited from
the dark and illiterate ages. Naturally
our first settlers knew nothing of road
building, for they had received no in
struction to that end. Everything must
have beginning, and our ancestors
began with the Indian trails along sea-
shore, river and forest primeval. Their
forefa theirs had not known nor taught
them, so they learned from the saw
ages how to travel about this bound
less realm of natures businesses.
For more than century after the
settlement at Plymouth Rock no eff
forts were systema tically made to pre-
pare roads over which passengers or
supplies could be safely transported.
Each individual blazed his way, as did
the Indians before them. They chung
close to seashore and streams, thereby
maintaining personal and commercial
relations by means of sailboats or row.
boats. Because of the scores or hun
dreds of miles between settlements
there was, there could have been no
concerted systematic attempt at good
road building. Indeed it may be said
that full four centuries elapsed before
the government undertook this work
for the whole country.
It was not until 1911 that great
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-03-22
Orange and Nut Salad.

Two cupfuls of the large chestnuts
that have been boiled and blanched
and cut into dice. Two fine large Or
anges peeled, seeded and cut into
small cubes. When the chestnuts are
cold bind them well together with a
good stiff mayonnaise dressing in
which you have stirred quarter of a
cupful of stiff, dry whipped cream.
Put a layer Of the nuts into the
salad dish, then q layer Of the un-
dressed oranges, then more of the
nuts, and so ON, having layer of
nuts on top. Decorate with slices of
orange cut into quarters, mayonnaise
and whipped cream. Garnish with
crisp white lettuce. English walnut
meats may be used in place of the
chestnuts if you cannot obtain the
latter. You car blanch the walnuts
or not as you fancy.-Washington
Star.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-03-22
SCOPE OF MANUAL TRAINING.
But to Aid In the Development
Of Brain,

In the opinion of an experienced
public school principal, too much cam
not be said to correct the impression
that the manual training in our pub
lie schools is based on desire to give
the boys start at the trade of the
carpenter. and cabinetmaker. A re-
cent writer on the subject distin-
guishes a training for trade from
the manual training of the schools in
this way: Manual training of the
hand means the learning of trade,
while manual training by the head il
distinctly educational
It is a well-established fact, the
principal points out, that the training
of the hand SO as to make it auto
matte and therefore of service in q
trade has little influence on the brain,
but much upon the muscles. Auto
matte hand or muscle movements
neither require nor cause extensive
brain activity.
The brain must have material 10
work ON. These materials cannot be
supplied except through the senses
sensuous observation through all
manner of manual activity. The hand
acts as sort of dragnet for the brain,
provides it with innumerable SEN
suous observations, and these make
the basis of an education.
Man differs from the lower animals
in that he uses his feet for locomotion
and his hands for other things. I'm.
agine the effect of eliminating the
use of the hands from our daily activ-
tiles!
Keeping the hands idle while the
brain is active with the alphabet has
q strong tendency to strengthen the
memory at the expense of the judg-
ment centers of this wonderful piece
of mechanism. Manual training. by
means of the hand, says the New York
Times, provides the brain with enough
sensuous observations to carry on the
development Of the different brain
centers in perfectly harmonious
manner. The result 10 powerful
brain.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-03-22
THE HAIR BETTER DRESSED.
Changes In the Couture wrous -
Modern ft-some Latest
ranEements.

If there is one thing in which modern
art in dressing excels more than an
other it is in the arrangement OF the
hair. The days when the hair was
drawn over ugly pads and tortured INTO
unnatural sausage looking curls' nave
passed fortunately, and however mucn
may be added to a woman's couture 70
make it fashionable success, 1t IS done
in such an artistic, clever manner that
the result has at least the appearan nee
of being natural, says the New YORK
Sun.
The greatest art, after all, is in con
cealing art, and it has been brought to
a greater degree Of perfection in ham
dressing than in anything else which
serves to supply the deficiencies OF ma
ture.
We still have the pompadour pun,
but it is this puff with difference
which makes it softer in effect, and
much more becoming than the Old
time mode of arranging it.
It is a very important change that
the latter years have effected in halr
dressing, and one, too, which has much
to do with a woman's general appear
ance. 1t stamps her up to date or the
reverse, very promptly and the fash
ionable couture is absolutely essen
tial to her good looks.
The back is quite as important as the
front, since she is expected to look just
as we'll going as coming, and her back
hair is a sort of catch-aH for fancy
pins and combs distributed in vari-
Gus ways.
We have no one particular mode OF
hair dressing. tbs only in general out
line that it is necessary to conform to
rule, and this is modified to suit the
fancy and especial cast of countenance.
The illustrate tons show some of the old
style modes of hair dressing which m
phasizes the great improvement that
has been made in the art.
Foreign fashion budgets tell us that
undulation will still continue, but it il
the large, soft wave which looks as
if it were natural, and that the ques-
ton of whether the hair is to be done
high or low is one which the Partisan
women decide for themselves. You see
a great many low coiffures, yet there
are quite as many high ones.
In front the hair is arranged in full,
large waves, and you may have bunch
of curls on the top of the head If the
hair is dressed high, OF at the nape OF
the neck if it is dressed low.
When the hair is worn en- bandeaux,
style particularly becoming to the
usual pert little Partisan face, the knot
is usually at the nape of the neck, and
there are couple of flowers behind the
ears. Sometimes instead of flowers
there are new art decorations in gold
and enamel, which take the form OF
round placques.
Foliage and particularly oak leaves
and ivy leaves, are much worn as hair
decorations. For bridal coiffures
there is rumor of change. Instead
of orange blossoms, any white flowers
may be used.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-03-22
SOME PRETTY BEDROOMS.
Designs for Wall and Ceiling Dec.
orations, Furniture and Other
Details.
Here are some suggestions for bed

Here are some suggestions for bed
rooms:
No. Pink striped paper, ivory
white paint, finished with coat of
enamel, cream-washed ceiling, curtains
and covers of chintz in pink, white and
green, plain green Administer carpet
or green and pink rugs, Sheraton ma
hogany furniture and twin beds to
match, pink-rose toilet ware, sofa
cushions of fine white monogrammed
muslin, some over pink, others over
green silk-faced saten, says the New
York Commercial Advertiser,
No.2-Walls divided into panels and
hung with ivory-white satin-striped pa
per and floral border, dado and all
woodwork painted ivory, cream
washed ceiling, plain or small-pat-
termed pile carpet of the deep pinky-
red shade of the roses in the border,
chintz curtains and covers, repeating
as nearly as possible the design in
the floral border, mahogany furni-
ture, pinky-red toilet ware.
No. Soft green satin-striped pa
per, with green and white for border,
white paint, white curtains with
stenciled or applique bands to match
wall paper border, carpet in shades
of green and pink, white or mahog-
| any furniture.
Pinks and greens are the predominant.
| ing tints in the foregoing described
rooms, as they are screens for winter
or summer bedrooms. For country
bedrooms all-white, pale green, pale
yellow, light blue and white are sug.
gested, while gay little room fitted
up recently for young girl in West.
chester house is all white and scarlet,
scarlet poppy paper, white paint, white
fur rugs, white enamel furniture, and
white wicker couch, with gay poppy
| chintz cushions.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-03-22
The Vogue of Black.

Black is being worn more this win
ter than for many seasons past.
When black is becoming it is very
much SO, but to the average woman
there is no identifying power in it's
unreieved somberness. It accentu-
ates the lines, the lack of color and
other complexion faults. But almost
any woman can wear black, if it be
relieved by just the right color for
her complexion. With touch of
white, pale blue or other becoming
shade, and the use of soft white or
cream materials, black raiment may
be effectively worn by the woman
who could not otherwise assume it,
Detroit Free Press,
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-03-22
THE SAD CASE OF ELI MINcH.


Mr.. Ell Minch, rich bachelor, who died
IN New Jersey a few days ago, claimed
mat ne had never attended circus; never
played cards, checkers, dominoes, baseball
OF SKINNY: never skated with girl; never
went counting, and never was in love.
What did he live for, anyway
Poor Eli Minch!
He never had the time to play,
He never loved maiden fair:
he never rushed, on circus day,
Away from duty and from care.
Poor Ell Minch!
He never held a maiden's hand
While gliding DER an icy plain,
Nor tumbled with maiden, and
Got up with her to try again
Alas! alack for Eli Minchl
He just made money day by day.
Poor Ell Minch!
And let no dear one come to lay
Her cheek against his own and try
To get him WooZled up to pay
For gimcracks that she wished to buy
Poor Eli Minch!
He ne'er bent DER the checker board
Or mourned when faulty moves were
made,
His only pleasure was to hoard
And now beneath the sod he's laid,
And no one weeps for Ell Minch.
He never knew the sweet delight
Poor Eli Minch-
OF sitting, with but little light,
Close, close to some enchanting girl
And counting her till late at night,
And going home, with head awhirl-
Poor Eli Minch-
To dream sweet dreams of all her charms !;
He ne'er saw one with wistful eyes
AS he held out imploring arms
Rush into them-with happy sighs-
Alas for luckless Ell Minch!
He never hurried home at night
Poor Eli Minch-
To lisping little ones whose bright
Eyes danced with love, whose childish
glee
Was shouted as he came in sight
And pounced upon them hungrily-
Poor Eli Minch!
His cheeks were never stroked by small,
Soft hands that stole out of his own;
He piled up wealth, and that was all,
And went his loveless way alone
All, poor old cheated Eli Minch!
IS. e. kiser, in Chicago Record-Herald.
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roads and levees. The Cumberland road
received annual appropriations until
1922, when President Monroe inter-
posed a veto. In 1880, on similar
grounds, President Jackson vetoed an
act authorizing government SUBJ
scription to stock in turnpike COM
pany.
On the Fourth of July, 1928, ground
was broken for the beginning of the
Baltimore & Ohio railroad, the cere-
mony being performed under the direc-
ton of Charles Carroll, of Carrollton,
the then only surviving signer of the
declaration Of independence. This
beginning of railroad construction by
the estate sovereignty people as an
argument against appropriations for
turnpikes. They said that railroads
would soon supersede turnpikes, any
way. They were wrong, but they had
their way.
States and counties and cities then
began local construction of roads.
Thousands of miles of plank roads
were built. They were popular roads
for time, particularly in the prairie
states; but the planks soon rotted
away, and the plank roads ceased to
exist. Few people living remember
them. Then came the corduroy roads.
Over one of these from Cleveland to
Sandusky, in 1912, Charles Dickens
travelled, and his description of the
Journey is one of the most entertaining
and amusing of his voluminous writ
ings.
From 1854 to 1860 81 600, 900 were
appropriated for military roads, -
principally in western territories. In
this manner the friends Of good roads
circumvented the estate sovereignty
opponents of government appropria-
tions for good roads. But this SUBJ
ject is becoming national once more,
although more than half Of the states
are working under good road laws.
What the congress will do in the mat
ter cannot be anticipated, but the de-
partment of agriculture has ample evil
dence from all over the country that
the people are looking for national &C.
ton. SMITH d. FRY.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-03-22
THE PEWTER WEDDING.
Take. the Place of the Wooden An
niversary So Many beautiful
Things to Buy for the Occasion.

It is the modish thing this year for
all those happily married couples VINO
wish to celebrate their fifth anniyer-
sary to announce pewter instead OF
a wooden wedding. Wooden weddings
are invariably farcical, and from the
point of view of the couple that Gel
ebrates, distinctly Improbable, while,
by substituting pewter, the purses OF
the gift-giving guests are not over
strained and the recipients acquire
useful and ornamental objects OF dis
tinct artistic value. The fashion was
set on it's feet by lively young wife
who had seen the new Tudric pewter
and earnestly coveted the possession
of some good pieces. She and her
husband are enthusiastic pewter col
lectors, and while the pewter OF Iud-
ric make is not antique nor expensive,
it is distinctly beautiful in design, and
is wrought into household goods that
grow in daily value by reason OF their
utility and decorative charm, says the
Washington Star.
In this particular type of pewter
nothing fimsy or false, in material or
design, is permitted, and every article
is as carefully marked and registered
as the finest sterling silver. 1t is not
a pewter of very white luster nor cap
able of receiving a polish that sim
ulates silver. The color of the antique
Dutch and English composition has
been studied and secured, and while
in the designing many good old forms
have been retained, the cups and pat
terms are invariably treated with spe-
cial decoration that can be only de-
scribed as Tudric. A piece of good Tud-
rio is always special piece, hand
wrought, by skilled and original art
list, and distinguished everywhere by
it's wise and graceful departure from
the art nouveau movement that has
been so vulgarized, as we'll as by the
judicious use of strange decoration
with colored stones. The richly col
ored Connemara stones are sunk en-
cabochon in the skin of the pewter,
where unerring taste suggests the APP
plication; and these, with Scotch peb-
bles, bits of highly polished onyx, black
and white larva, malachite and cameo
shell, with occasional touches of
enamel, is all the color treatment al
lowed.
In Tudric pewter every household ar
ticle, from high art milk pans to many
branched candelabra are made, and the
shrewd young wife who celebrated her
pewter wedding with entire success
was the proud recipient of a stunning
crystal and Tudric pewter decanter
with polished Prussian boar tusk han
dies; waist clasp adorned with green
enamel and hammer-marked vase set
with glowing Connemara stones.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-03-22
COSTLY SODA FOUNTAINS.
~ Fine Mexican Onyx That
Are Worth as High as twenty
Thousand Dollars.

"The great majority of the finer soda
%onntains of to-day" said soda foun-
tain manufacturer, according to the
New York Sun, fare built of Mexican
onvx Some run in cost up to $4,000
or 5000.
"a $4,000 soda fountain would be
made of the finest materials and would
be of great size. It might have 30
draupht tubes and 100 syriu cans.
every beautiful onyx fountains Of
the dimensions more commonly used,
saw with ten syrups and three draught
tubes, can be bought for $3.50 to $3.50.
In fact handsome onyx fountain can
be bought for 5000.
seBut not everybody wants an onyx
fountain. There are yet purchasers
who prefer one of marble. A marble
fountain with onyx trimmings could
be had at say $3.50. An old style mar
BILE fountain might be had for $100.
FIFTY years ago or thereabouts soda
water was drawn from a silver tube
rising out of the counter. Then came
the first visible soda fountains, small
marble boxes placed on the counter.
From these developed the elaborate
and often costly fountains of marble
that preceded the onyx fountain Of
the present.
beautiful and costly marble was
brought from all parts of the earth to
be used in the construction OF soda
fountains. But now the fashion ID
ONYX, with canopy or superstructure
of wood.
"Along with its great development
in beauty has come corresponding
improvement in the soda fountains
working parts. The contemporaneous
fountain is far more convenient and eff
fcient in operation than its old-time
predecessor.
GAS for the consumption OF soda
water, it is far greater now than ever
before. This is due in very consider
able measure to the wide introduction
of ice cream soda. It would probably
not be unreasonable to say that where
ice cream soda is sold at low price
the sale of soda water has been, within
ten years, quadrupled.
cat the same time some share OF
the increase must be attributed to
the far greater variety and attractive
ness of the soda water and other bev-
erages now supplied at the soda water
counter; to the great improvement in
compromising, made possible by inn
proved fountains, and to the vast i'm
provement in all the appliances and
utensils used about the fountain.
1--WE export some soda fountains. In
fact, we have been sending some TO
England for the past Is years, but more
within the past five years. England Is
great for bottled waters, but not for
fountains; but it is buying more foun-
tains than it did. It has, until recent-
~, been taking fountains Of marble;
it is now beginning to buy onyx foun-
tains.
eve sell also soda fountains in the
English colonies, as in Australia, and
some in Germany and France; with OUT
exports of them, in general, increas-
ing"