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The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1907-02-22

Lent is now here. Without re
gard to church affiliations, it is
becoming recognized that at least
a partial observance of Lent is
good for people both physically
and mOrtaIGy. 1t is a good halt
ing place to take account of stock,
and it is good also to mediate a
little upon the deeper meaning of
life which we seldom have time to
do in these hustling times.
The Vermont Review for. Feb
ruary proves it's ability to Keep
abreast of the times in Vermont.
The general review of events Oc-
curing in Vermont as well as
the special articles by well known
men of the state are interesting.
The magazine has a good claim to
the patronage of VerInonters in
terested in Vermont.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1907-02-22

The Chinese of this country and
of China celebrated their new
Year last week. They do not go
in very heavy for resolutions, but
they do make a practice of one
thing that is worth several resO-
buttons, and that is they pay all
their bills and settle their ac-
counts before the New Year
dawns. No wonder they celebrate
for a week.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1907-02-22

The sinking of the Larchmont
in the Sound develops many les
sons, but few, if any, new ones.
1t shows that men and women
holding responsible places will
fail under stress and it shows
that all art not heroes who ought
to be, along with many other
things. Great disasters bring out
the worst as we'll as the best of
human nature. 1t depends on
the quality of the human life that
is being tried.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1907-02-22

Once in a while, yes, and some
times twice in a while, son or a
daughter assumes the debts of a
parent to clear the family name,
or to relieve a family anxiety,
such a case is now causing CONS
ment, but every little while a
parent is paying a sons debts
and that does not seem so worthy
of comment, perhaps, because it
is such an ordinary happening.
Yet, when you come to think of it
there are lots of children caring
for the declining years of parents,
as their own early life was provid-
ed for by parents. The world is
a fairly good place after all, and
things usually even up.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-12-28

form the beginning of the system. In
this way two miles of tunnel have
been built under Milwaukee's busiest
streets without disturbing traffic, save
for a few square yards where it has
been necessary to put in manholes.
The engineering problems were the
same as those encountered in the
building of the big Pennsylvania rail-
road tunnel under the Hudson river,
the differences being those of size
alone. 1t was necessary in these Mil
waukee tunnels to do quite bit Of
the work by means Of the air lock,
much of the system SO far built being
in the old swamp that once bordered
the Milwaukee river
In order to keep these tunnels dry
a system of drainage is provided. This
consists of a series of wells into
which the precipitated water and such
condensed steam as finds it's way in is
drained At each we'll is an electric
motor pump, automatically operated,
a float in the well turning on the cur
rent when the water rises above a
certain height and turning it off when
the well is cleaned. The tunnels
throughout their length are lighted
with electricity.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-12-28
WHAT WAS IT.
The Woman Feared?


What comfort to find It is not ''tEe
awful thing" feared, but only chronic
Indigestion, which proper food can re-
1ieVe.
A woman in Ohio says:
Il was troubled for years with indi-
gestion and chronic constipation. At
times I would have such a gnawing
in my stomach that / actually feared
/ had al dislike to write or even
think Of what I feared.
Seeing an account of Grape-Nuts
1 decided to try it. After short time
I was satisfied the trouble was not
the awful thing l feared but was still
bad enough. However, I was relieved
of a bad case Of dyspepsia by chang
ing from improper food to Grape-Nuts.
Since that time my bowels have
seen as regular as a clock. I had also
noticed before I began to eat Grape
Nuts that was becoming forgetful of
where / put little things about the
house, which was very annoying.
But since the digestive organs have
become strong from eating Grape
Nuts, my memory is good and my
mind as clear as when / was young,
and I am thankful" Name given by
Postum Co., Battle Greek, Mich. Read
the little booklet, "The Road to Well
vile, in packages. There's a reason"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-12-28
PARIS MODEL MARKET

She became Asti's model, and he paint
ed hardly any other till he died.
Henner-his name occurs to one
quite naturally when one is thinking
of red hair-had his studio upon the
Place Pigalle just opposite the foun-
tain, knew all the models, and was
loved by them. He rarely if ever en-
pIoyed any of them, for he had his
own models who came regularly, but
he was known to all of them as Papa
Providence" for Henner had the hand
of the glad giver to the humber hang
ers-on of art, although he had the
reputation Of hard man in his bust
ness relations. The whole world Of
Paris art used to climb the dirty stairs
to Papa Providence's studio however,
and Henner was always glad to see
everybody unless he was really hard
at work. Then he was adamant His
bell would ring, and the old artist, in
his rough voice with the strong Alsa-
tian accent, would call out and ask
who was there If he was working,
the answer was always the same,
'Inudile, mon bedid! Je dravaille!"
and the visitor had to CO. One day
picture-dealer called. who is
there?" called Henner "Inudile, mon
| bedid! Je dravail1e!" But, cher
maitre, have brought you nine thou
sand francs!" PUT them under the mat
and leave me alone" said Henner, and
he went on working till the light failed
him. Those three hundred and sixty
pounds remained under the mat out
side Henner's studio door for three
days, when one of the models
from the Place below fell over the
mat and found them. The incident
amused Henner SO much that he gave
bank-note of twenty pounds to the
finder for herself and her comrades;
and for that day and for three days
| following the Model Market of the
Place Pigalle kept high holiday.
v. DE PARIS.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-12-28
Trade at Home.

Patronage OF the big mail order
houses is founded largely on short
sightedness. In one way it is akin to
patronage of the get-rich-quick
schemes. The buyer believes he is
getting something for his money that
is really not given, and fails to realize
either where his money goes Or what
he gets for it.
No one would think of telephoning
to a furniture store and asking the
dealer to send up dozen dining room
chairs, without having previously ex-
amfned the chairs, or of ordering
dress or pair of shoes, or stove in
this way. Yet that is practically
what the patron of the mail order
house does. He orders by mail without
having seen the goods or having any
idea of their appearance or character.
He is taking a long chance. Two
things on which he has to base his
conception of the articles ordered is a
description in the catalogue and the
cut given there. In other words, the
attractiveness of the offer made de-
ponds on the promises of the firm and
the engraver's art. It is possible to
make very creditable cut from a
fimsy and worthless model. It is
possible to describe an atrocity in a
way that makes it appear most desir-.
able. Incidentally it seems to be al
ways possible to find some one who
will accept the promise and cut at
their face value, without properly dis
counting them, and on the credibility
of these people the mail order bust
ness thrives. A little investigation
and comparison will convince the
average person that his money will go
further and yield greater returns if
invested right here in Beverly, despite
the fictitious values offered by the
outside houses. But the articles sold
by the mail order houses must be
compared as they really are, and not
as they are reputed to be in the cata-
logues.-Beverly (Mass.) Times.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-12-28
AN ANCIENT WHEEzE.

"The world would be happier" re-
marks Judge, eff people who want TO
possess everything they like would be
content with liking everything they
possess" Or words to that effect.
We quote merely as an example of
how one of the seven original jokes
crops up periodically. This one hath
a thousand forms-take the recipe and
make your own joke. For instance:
"She-She goes wherever she
pleases, doesn't she?
SHe-Yes, and she pleases wherever
she goes
Or:
"smith-You seem to like whatever
you eat.
"Jones-Yes, and I eat whatever I
like"
Isn't it easy? We hate to expcsa
the tricks of the trade, but we sew
this variation resurrected the otker
day:
Mrs. A.-Are you able to pick all
those cherries yourself, Mrs. d.?
Mrs. B.-Well, pick what / can.
Mrs And then?
Mrs. B-Then can what pick..
O slush!-Cleyeland Leader.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-12-28
HELPS THE TRUSTS
ERROR TOO FREQUENTLY MADE
BY 5HE FARMER.
BUYS THROUGH MAIL ORDER
And in Doing So Contributes To-
ward Capital Concentration in
the Big Financial centers, to
His Great Injury.

Lord bless the American farmer.
he is one OF the nabobs of creation
md he hardly knows it. In single
Tear his work adds to the wealth of
me nation more by a hundredfold than
all the mines of the country. He gives
% the world twice the value in crops
Ind produce than the output all the
factories and mills of the nation pro-
luce. He supplies the lubricant to
keep the wheels of progress in mo-
Lton, and if he only knew it could buy
and sell a few hundred Rockefellers,
and still have enough left to purchase
J. few kingdoms as large as Spain.
Yet it must be admitted that this great
eminent as to common economics.
While he is the king of wealth produc-
ers, and a lot of it sticks to his fingers,
he is also u philanthropist and doesn't
know it. He works hard to produce
his wealth and then patronizes the
that lands a goodly portion
of it in the Golfers Of the Captains of
Finance who dictate things in Wall
street and elsewhere; in fact he as
sists the trust magnates to the money
required to build up combinations that
the good philanthropic farmer is COM
PEELED to support. He does it and he
knows not that he doeth so. Every
time the good tilIer Of the soil sends
away to the big mail order house for
his supplies, he does his mite toward
capital concentration in the great
financial centers. and his little mite
seeks a resting place among the
money held in reserve to feed the
wants of the trusts. 1t is about time
western farmers take tumble to cold
facts, and come to realization that
their interests are best subserved by
keeping their earnings as close to
their homes as possible.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-12-28
a Girls GinnIe.

Samuel Shadwell, a touehy old man
living in an Indiana village, had a
pane of glass broken in his house, one
night not long ago and next day he
had ten-year-old girl named Minnie
Dayton arrested for it.
When the case was called in court
he was asked how he knew it was
Minnie He admitted that he didn't
see her, but heard her giggle. When
asked If her giggle was different from
that of any other girl he said it was,
but he couldn't tell why. Neither
could he initiate the giggle, and he
lost his case.
We all know what a girls giggle is,
but if any of us were asked to give an
imitation of it we'd probably fail. A
boy may litter, but when it comes to
giggling only girl can do that
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-12-28
MAKES A SPLENDID SHOWING.
Missouri Paclfic's Gross Earnings In
crease, and Expenses Decrease.

The Missouri Pacific system Gnclud-
Ing the st. Louis, Iron Mountain G.
Southern and the Central Branch)
operated last year for 66.8 per cent,
as against ratio of 67.9 per cent.
In the preceding year, which, on its
face, is a very creditable showing,
and which improves upon examina-
ton. Gross earnings were $48,703, 342,
the largest in the history of the com,
pany; net earnings were Sic, ,272.
To net earnings add $3,2S3,282 other
income, and the total available income
is $19,471, 555, of which taxes, inter
est on funded debt and equipment
trust obligations. and sundry Other
charges consumed 60.5 per cent, or
$11,773,45 The $7,698,1 remainder
equaled go per cent. on the outstand-
ing $77,817,875 capital stock.
That this result was not obtained at
the expense of the property is shown
by the following percentages: Gross
earnings increased 9.3 per cent; ex-
penditures for maintenance of equip
ment increased 81 per cent; expendi-
lures for maintenance of way and
structures increased 9.8 per cent; the
cost of conducting transportation in,
creased &c per cent; general ex-
penses increased II per cent. The
secret of the company's showing is in
the small increase in the cost of con-
Quoting transportation. Expenditures
for maintenance increased in greater
ratio than gross earnings, but as
against an increase of 9.3 per cent. in
gross earnings is an increase OF but
rs per cent in the cost of conduct
ing transportation.
There is obviously nothing in the
showing made by the company for the
last fiscal year to account for the fact
that the stock is selling at the lowest
price since 1900, when it was non
dividend bearing security. It has
earned and paid it's per cent. a year
since then. The price of the stock
must be supposed to be due, partly, to
financial conditions affecting all Sc
curities, and partly to the fact that
in the last two or three years there
has been no organized effort to sup
port Gould securities. They have been
left to find their level with investors
Since the appearance of the annual
report the transfer office of the com
pany has been fairly overwhelmed
with the opening Of new accounts in
odd lots.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-12-28
USE MORE PRINTERS, INK.
Good Advice to the Small Mercha4.t
Who Would Succeed.

The mail order question is one that
is of perennial Importance to nearly
every one of the smaller cities and vii
lagos in the land, although the danger
that these institutions were bound to
annihilate the smaller stores does not
seem as imminent now as it did a
few years ago. For instance, since
The passage of the pure food law by
congress many, if not all of the mail
order people, have discontinued the
selling Of groceries. 1t was plain in
this case that there was consider.
able amount of adulteration in the
goods sold or the mail order houses
would not have taken this step.
There are aspects Of the Pail order
question which may well give hope to
the local dealer. The facts in the
case are that the catalogue houses
are not enjoying an unmitigated cinch,
for they are handicapped in many
ways in which the country merchant
is not. For example. the entire coun-
try press almost without exception is
closed to mail order advertising. Here
is a distinct advantage for the homs
merchant, although sometimes he =
somewhat slow in taking advantage
of it, If he is fossiIiZed and walking
around to pay funeral expenses in 4
business way, fguratiyely speaking
he will spring that ancient chestnut
that "it doesn't pay" to advertise. But
let the, newspaper man take an ad
in the remotest corner of his paper,
and this same business man will be
apt to object very strongly.
The mail order houses have ad-
vanced their business by advertising,
and have been badly handicapped by
having virtually only the magazines
and the catalogues to tell their story.
If the merchants of to-day expect to
cope with the mail order houses and
hold a fair share Of the trade that
they ought to get, it means that they
will have to use printers ink and ad.
vertising space. Furthermore, they
will have to advertise intelligently
and in accordance with twentieth cen
fury standards. Don't spring the
ancient gag about having been in
business so many years. The people
don't care a rap how long you have
been in business. They are interested
mainly in two things: First, what
goods have you got? Second, what do
they cost? Unless your advertising
deals with these questions, it will be
as sounding brass Or tinkling cymbal.
The mail order houses have built up
trade by doing just these things, and
their glowing descriptions and prices
have done the business.-San Antonio
(Tex.) Light.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-12-28
PICTURESQUE PLACE WHERE AR
lists GO FOR SUBJECTS.
Interesting People Who Are Capable
of Posing as Any Character
Story of the Romance of the
Artist Asti.

The model market is on the Place
Pigalle, on the frontier line, between
Paris and. what Sails used to call it's
capital, Montmartre 1t is held on
Friday mornings, and sometimes on
other mornings also, and in all wealth
ers.
They are interesting people these
models, talking all languages with
equal impurity, and having
women, and children-the same curl
Gus contempt for the artists by whom
they make their living. The Place
Pigalle, or at all events that strip of it
which circles the fountain and makes
a little pavement oasis in the middle,
has become theirs by right of pre-
scription. They gather there from
half-past eight or nine o'clock till
early afternoon, they bring their meals
with them and camp upon the foun-
tain edge. And strangers very often
wonder why that portion of the Place
Pigalfe smells so decidedly of garlic.
There have been romances connected
Will IudI 1OunLaAl NOPAhSo' ANiS A1SSE "
been more of them, no doubt, than
ever have or ever will be published;
but one or two of them are known,
and these are curious. Most readers
know the pictures which brought Asst,
the painter, at bound out of the ruck
of hard work at small pay as litho-
grapher into possession of big bank
ing account and the popularity which
is akin to fame. Few people know how
Asti's inspiration came to him upon
the Place Pigalle One winter he
was crossing it with no idea of any
thing but his daily work when girl
dropped her umbrella at his feet. The
artist and the girl stopped simultan-
eousIy to pick it up. Their heads col
lided. the girls hat fell into the foun-
thin and her hair came down. 1t was
hair OF the Titan red which Asst
loved. and her eyes sparkled with
mingled anger and amusement at the
accident. need not describe her, for
she has been reproduced by the hun
dred thousand since that morning,
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-12-28
Iist Of Miorohes Growinu.

The list of microbes continues to
grow steadily. That of whooping
cough must now be added to the list.
DR.. II. Albrecht, of the Wilhelm hos
pital, recently spoke on the subject
before the Vienna Medical society, de-
claring that he had discovered the
specific agent that caused the COM
plant. There had for some time been
a suspicion that kind of bacillus was
at the bottom. but Dr. Albreeht felt
himself able to assert that whooping
cough bacillus was identical with that
of influenza.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-12-28
STILL AHEAD or AUDIENCE.
Comedian Made Humor of What Was
Approaching Tragedy.

willie" Collier, the comedian, was
an irrepressibIe member Of a barn
storming combination which, some
ten years ago, did the tank" towns
of the middle west.
The company had been doing poor
business for several weeks when a
certain town in Illinois was reached.
Just before the curtain went up that
night, Collier was standing at the cur
tain peep-hole," sizing up the add
ence.
"How's the house, Willie?'' asked
another player.
We'll" answered Collier, 'tthere are
some out there. But" he added, i'm
pressively, we're still in the ma
jority, old boy, still in the majority"
-Harper's Weekly.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-12-28
JUST ABOUT GIRLS.

Marriage is an eye-opener; atleast
# enables a man to see his wife as
others see her.
Some girls cultivate the art of pout-
ing because they imagine it makes
them look cute.
fortunate is the woman who is able
to mend both her husbands clothes
and his ways.
The happiest period in a girls lie
e when she gets her first skirt that
swishes when she walks.
4 girl thinks it wrong for man
~ attempt to kiss her, and p young
widow thinks it wrong il he doesn't
succeed
The average girl baby is so fond of
her father that she sleeps during
tbe day while he is busy SO she can
stav awake all night and enjoy his
society.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-12-28
MILWAUKEE, JOINS THE CITIES
WITH TUNNELS.
Far Below the Surface of Her Main
Streets Large and Small Bores
Are Being Pushed
Forward.

Out of style and out of the world"
is common viewpoint of women, and
1t may be Milwaukee as she has
watched New York and Chicago and
other cities boring under their streets
and establishing subways, has felt
the same way, for she is busy at the
present time perfecting a system of
tunnels. New York's sukways were
constructed for passenger train serv-
ice, those of Chicago primarily as teIe-
phone and electric light conduits, and
later for the transportation of freight,
and now Milwaukee comes into line
with her tunnels for the purpose of
supplying steam from a central plant
for the heating of the big buildings of
the city.
Already two miles of the tunneling
has been perfected. The tunnels are
under the principal downtown streets.
On the west side there is about $500
feet of tunnel, and on the east side
somewhat less. Of trenches there is
about one mile on the west side and
two on the east. The tunnels and
trenches underlie or pass through the
streets. 1t will be seen that the west
side system Of tunnels passes under
the street from the northwestern cor
ner of the Public Service building at
Third and Sycamore streets, and from
there goes north and east, being inter
sected at the cross streets by other
extensions. The largest stretch OF
straight tunnel is that on Second
street from West Water to Clybourn
streets.
East of the river the tunnels are
served by the Oneida street power
plant and pass under the road from
the south or Oneida street side of that
building. The largest stretch of tun-
mel on the system is on this side of
the river and runs under Market and
East Water streets from Biddle to
Michigan streets.
Branching from this system of tun-
nels is a system of trenches, they be-
: ing used wAere the volume of bust
ness is not sufficient to call for large
tunnels. The tunnels are used, not
merely to transport steam to build
ings on the streets under which they
pass, but to carry the big feeder pipes
to the smaller and more outlying Sec
tions which are served by smaller
pipes buried in the trenches.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-12-28
The Final Shower.

"And you say when the heiress be-
came the wife of the foreign noble
man it was shower wedding?"
81 should say so. The bride wore a
shower bouquet"
Yes
"And then there was a shower Of
rice"
"My!
Followed by shower Of congratu-
lations and old shoes"
"Well! Well! And how did it end
up?"
every embarrassing al! round. The
nobleman's creditors came around and
presented shower of bills"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-12-28
BURROWZNG HABIT

Modern methods of tunnel construc.
ton have done much to make central
station steam heating a success. 1t
also makes the tunnels interesting.
Those of the Milwaukee Central Heat
ing company are seven feet in height,
slightly elliptical in form and are
lined throughout with concrete. In Or
der not to incommode the public by
blocking or littering the streets, the
work has all been pushed out from
the central stations. the working
materials taken in and the excavated
dirt and other debris brought out
through the finished work and carted
away from the power plants that