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Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1907-07-06
TWENTY YEARS BEHIND TIME.

The Suns Washington CORES lohd'
ent says good old farmer Wilson.
who b. tho grace OF Mckini"y ard
Roosevelt. has run the ACT icultnrai
Department for the last ten years. and
as some claim run II into The ground,
has become laughing stock In
Washington and kansis. II all"ar-
that when the green bug MAS i"Nas'
ta,ing the Kansas wheat field- Farm.
er Wilson out Of the goodnes. OF!
his heart. decided 20 give the Kan
sas farmers some advice no" 10
beat the bugs in the future. Plant
turkey red wheat said Farm! MI.
son. tor in 1897 | made experiments
and found that turkey red spreads
out and wristbands the rasAgeS OF
bugs better than any other Variety
Rut the miilers and wheat growers
all over Kansas began 10 poke frn
at Farmer Wilson for making expert.
meuts in 1897 with TURKEY red wheat
as for ten years previously Kansas
farmers had grown that yariety al
most exclusively.
This shows how far behind IN.
times the Agricultural Department is
In many things and how much IL re-
quires reforming. It's statistics are
rotten and have been the sport of
grafters many OF its socalled scien.
lists are far behind the times. as the
turkey red wheat episode indicates;
the scientists OF the Weather Bureau.
which is part Of the Agricultural De-
pArtment. are still working on the
erroneous plan and theory OF the
winds and weather adopted thirty.
nix years ago. and the weather fore
casts are spoken Of as not as reliable
- Hicks predictions published a
month ahead. The Department Of Az.
ricuiture. ~ we'll a. other departments
of the Government. IL suffering from
Try rot and grating brought about
by 20 many years Of control by Re-
publican partisans. who that party
cannot. II II would. get rid OF from
he party necessity OF providing for
10 camp followers who II not FUN.
Ished With what they have. or some.
Thing equally ~ good. would turn
md rend Il. IL 10 not the clerks who
ars to blame. though some OF them
IRE worthless. but the Republican
politicians Who are in charge OF them.
II he voters knew one-half Of the
partisan and grating conditions tn
most OF the departments they would
10TH in the cry OF turn the rascals
out"
Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1907-07-06

4 ~ 10sssA y1saaass ssreet re-
peo1pO ~ "1ae~.l5sv" tAs most Of
- ~ ~ aensosoS1 70 ses ON
e1o = - bsyAse1 Gays there
- = - AGu1l ~ - hog vailow"
- . oel1o - s1vaseaos b eieanli.
o@ i aoDosA No saiy shs worst
soooe = 0aAnDsins. ~ II vosld a.
0ae y ~ - ~ H. Alehses, In
~ ooDaa. 6so . staslpotse Of ROT,
- -. VA . aassure of other
eseesa. 90 - said ol this thorough.
Aee vh1eb y hound 70 prove . men.
~ - ~ AealeA At he community
y ssostAlag n Tie matter Of repsirs
- ~ 0oos 0oea- yoe blocks pedes.
6looe ass Unable TO cross the thor.
eaehsnss without stopping anywhere
6eo aok1s % k,ss1esp in nasty.
sdnv 1s4. anA IL street b q dis,
gsaes - ~ town. While IL NJ.
0eseoes - q work. let tAsu do
suoe4hg % relieve this stasna,ed
SD0oso q a1n1ss o. NortA Pa.
- sRooe ~ svet1 stekness which
= bsun1 - fellow.
Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1907-07-06
A GIFTED SOUTHERN GIRL.

Tn. Florida friends Of former I
g Senator Call aad III h"'"Ttd
Deceased Wiz M b" interested! /"
the following account O! 'h"ir s''t"!
daughter. ;ao.u - ~ Th" Mr-ica!
American Dt 'ui" -.
Luz. lie CAL Uho-" >Ins.ns has
attracted much attention AZ ~" Met
ropol!,an Opera Iuu--. and ~ !nhIic
p-r.urnarc.- Ot the M.'lupO.Itan
opera Schoo, durn. N" Last W."
years -a!led :or Europe LAT Saturdai
and will maxi her debut in la ira
yiata AZ III. opera hpu>" IN Turin
in A...,t,
Miss Call + a Sou'h--nrr having
been torn IN Jacksonville. Fla.
daughter Of United Stats senator
Cali. she has spent most OF her IL"
in Washington, wh"r" 81" rUT>u"d
h"r music studies UNTIL N" b"cam"
connected with ~" Metropolitan Or
era Company Two Years ago IL"
metropolitan D.anag. :n.nt sent her
and Lgc.l' l..wro:o" ~ EuroD" 'or
study and upon her r",urn SIC was
assigned more iInporIan; roles in the
productions at the Metropolitan. The
possessor Of lyric soprano voice OF
unusual purity and beauty. she Is con.
sidered one OF the most gifted and
promising singers before the Amert.
can public. The effect OF her sing.
ing is enhanced. moreover. by her
prepossessing appearance and charm
OF manner.
On her return from Europe, in the
fall. Miss Call will make short
concert tour in October. under the
management OF George n. Robinson,
who will present her again in a num-
Der o! concert, next spring. at the
conclusion OF the opera season"
Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1907-07-06

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- 80 a1vge1g1ng IN The Sun
4D sgnmoeA 'v11sA sccoants Tor the
- a1sse1s1ns Daaruaass Of The
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! none~1se tAese Who advertise
r. - ths1s naoe ID PRINT.
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Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1907-07-06

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Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1907-07-06

The Board Of County Commission.
ers are not only determined to have
hard roads. but substantial bridges
- well. Al Wednesdays session the
board let the contract for a steel
bridge to span the Santa Fe river at
~ TSrt White landing. the contract
price bsins 5000. with the provision
that the expense II to be equally d..
vided between Alachua and Colum.
bin counties.
The proposed bridge will be 200
feet in length. with three spans. The
main span will be 12O feet, while the
end spans will cover forty feet each.
The plane provide that the structure
will Be modern In every way. and one
that will be durable for . century or
more.
The commissioners are TO be con.
graduated upon the stand they are
taking for good roads and good
bridges. and they may feel sure that
they have the hearty support and
cooperation Of the people
Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1907-07-06

S 1uD 11n1ns - hse csaGAt .
] t. 800 msulA 1elssa ineAss vide
Il II $500 sAGag ahsse ~ saosy b
Z nt ~ - alo1De1 tAaG ~ s.ea
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Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1907-07-06

President Jordan OF Stanford Uni.
verstty. says: Boys who smoke ciga.
rettes are like wormy apples. They
drop long before harvest time. They
rarely make failures in after life be.
cause they do not have eny after life.
The boy who begins smoking before
his fifteenth year never enters the
life OF the world When the other
boys are taking hold OF the world y
work he Is concerned with the sex.
ton and undertaken"
Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1907-07-06

y oeethtMG jumbo OF aches HICKS
Capodine cures them at once. Buy q
bottle today and prevent your nervous
system being upset. It's liquid affects
immediately-easy to take. Sold at al
drug stores.
Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1907-07-06
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~ g1nsnsna. ss,sss eaher~ise
- h0n6bnnG vsss3es ~ kssvs 70 10
z 1onuAs1 - ~ ~ sovsssisins is "a.
$500 TmB Many SCN.
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lolGSasa IN ~ Inst we'd .
q oD 0oaeleaan. IN Win give
TX 11es - sso6sennisy to Oh
$3.50 tofS11nlDvs Ds6jls oe the two
1 - = AgAAsss.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-06-08
The Actor,a Complaint.

The physician looked grave.
Il give you," he said, 'but ten more
years of work"
Grinding his teeth, the actor Kissed
maleyolently:
Curse you, why didn't you tell me
this before? Are you aware that you
hare robbed me OF at least seven fare
well seasons? 2"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-06-08
consscrated by Royalty.

The emperor's great bell in the Ca
thedral of Cologne was consecrated
with great Domp. twenty-five cannons
taken from the French were assigned
by the Emperor William for its manu-.
facture. 1t was cast by Andreas
Hamm Frankenthal, and more than
5000 pounds was paid for the casting.
It bears an inscription, recording
that "Wi liam the most august en-
peror of the Germans and king of the
Prussians, mindful of the heavenly
help granted to him whereby he con-
Quoted tho late French war to a pros
porous is sue, and restored the German
empire, caused cannon taken from the
French to be devoted to founding a
bell to be hung in the wonderful ca
thedral, then approaching compile
ton" A likeness of st. Peter, the
name patron of the church, is on the
side, beneath which is Quatrain in
the style Of the medieval conceits,
praying that, as devout hearts rise
.heaRenward at hearing the sound of
the bell, so may the doorkeeper of
Heaven open wide the gates of the ce-
lestial mansion. On the opposite side
is inscribed sextet in German.-Suns
day Magazine.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-06-08
All CUTTING SAVING.

Knives, no matter how carefully
sharpened, are little saws; the grind.
ing away of the steel. done by the
stone, is not an oven work, but when
the edge gets thin is process of tear.
ing away tiny bits of steel by the grit
of the stone. This tearing makes the
teeth. A fine stone makes fine teeth,
a coarse stone coarse teeth. A carving
knife, used on meat, is sharpened on a
coarse stone or steel, and has coarse
teeth, although its edge is thick. It's
action in parting the meat is more that
of saw than fine wedge. No mat
ter how soft it may be, It will not
cut easily anless 1t is drawn over the
meat and not simply pressed down.
A razor, however, with it's paper-like
edge, will cut into flesh with a simple
pressure-it is wedge dividing the
fbers of flesh just as a wedge of iron
divides the f1bers of the log it splits.
But razor is saw, too, only as 1t is
ground on the finest stones and later
finished with leather strop, its teeth
are very fine indeed-hundreds and
hundreds to the inch of blade.-St.
Nicholas.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-06-08

Column after column has been y tit
ten deploring the fact that the buyer
spends her Or his money away from
home, that she Or he is helping to build
'up the mail or der house to the detri-
ment of the home merchant. The SEN
timent is good and the cause Is worthy
of the efforts being made to Etop this
undertow; but no amount of writing,
and no amount of home patriotism will
ever overcome the bae effects of the
dead merchant in the little town. The
truth can be plainly seen.
Let us turn back to the general
stores and look up the proprietor OF
any one. He probably will be found
busy waiting on customer, but ii not
he will tell you that it is not the cata-
logaes alone that he fears, but also
that it is the lethargy Of these two
dealers. They are helping to drive
away trade from home.
I have wandered from the subject
and gotten over on the buyers side
of the fence; but isn't 1t well at times
to look at the other side of this pitiable
story? / started to write few lines on
why People Should Trade at Home, .
and have gotten into toe field of why
the Home Merchant Should Induce
People to Trade at Home" 1t may be
fair to the little town to once in a
while throw few shovels full of earth
on the dead merchant, lest he stinketh
and polluteth the rest.
EDWARD r. HALE.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-06-08
DEAD MERCHANT
HE SOMETIMES DRIVES TRADE
AWAY FROM THE TOWN.
HINDRANCE TO LIVE MERCHANT
Are as Much to Be Feared as the
Competition of the Catalogue
Houses-ShouId Be Awak-
ened or Buried.

Why should the home merchant be
patr0nized instead of the mail order
house? The subject has been ex-
hausted almost and from all points of
view and all sides there is no valid
reason why the merchant at home
should not-excepting two, price and
articles wanted.
It is not the intention OF the writer
to jot down pleasant flow of Ian
guage or to produce an interesting bit
Of reading matter, but merely to state
In few simple sentences what have
seen and learned of the competition be-
tween the catalogue houses and the
home merchants. In the first place no
one community suffers greatly in this
competition. That makes the problem
all the more difficult in solution. I
mean by this that the majority of buy
ers in no one community purchase by
mail. The business of the mail order
house is scattered oySr-a large terri
tory, the number of orders coming
from any one community compared
with the whole is comparatively small
to the number Of orders in the town.
There is an exception to this in a COM
munity where the home merchants are
dead ones and ask exhorbitant prices.
To illustrate. There is little city in
the central part of Wisconsin, beau
tiful little place, with it's shady streets
and pleasant homes. 1t has several
general stores owned by live, wide
awake merchants, who are hustling for
business, yet are always pleasant and
ready to visit with a customer. They
are not put out at any time to show
goods, taking down bolt after bolt of
cloth and maybe then not making even
five-cent sale. They take that as
part of their business: they are always
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-06-08
willing to send post.haste to the city

willing to send post-haste to the city
for any article they may not have in
stock that is wanted by a customer;
their stocks are up-to-date and free
from shelf-worn goods. These men
make the humblest customers feel well
come in their stores, and particular at
tention is paid to waiting on children,
giving them even better measure and
quality than their elders would re-
ceive. And these men are advertisers.
Their ads in the local papers are
changed regularly and show time and
study. They meet the mail order man
more than half way in special sales
and clearing of odds and ends. Here
is an instance where there is no legi-
innate excuse for person sending
away after goods. And the people do
not. Very few articles of general mer-
cEandise are shipped into that city.
The buyer and seller are working in
harmony to. their own betterment and
advantage.
But look at the other side The city
which we have in mind has one hard
ware and one furniture store. Both
have fairly good stocks for the size of
their circle of trade, but just step into
either one of these stores. The pro-
prietor may be in the back room or the
back yard for all you know, but by and
by some stir is heard and leisurely he
makes his appearance store
has need of a clerk-and probably with
some grunbles about being disturbed,
asks what is wanted. There might as
well be placards in the store announc-
ing Buy what I've got and keep stilI'
and 1--WE are busy, don't disturb us. -
No effort is made to show you an arti-
Gle; nothing is ever taken down from
the shelves unless directly asked for.
Neither hardware nor furniture man
acts willing to get what you want IL he
does not have it in stock. And again
neither one Of these stores believe in
advertising. They use no space in
their home papers; newcomer would
never know the city possessed such
places of business enterprise. Who
ever heard of country hardware or
furniture store having special sale,
or harvest sale or the like? But WAY
not? These two storekeepers are bit
ter against the mail order houses. I
wonder why? talked with the rail.
road agents in that little city and he
said lots Of hardware and furniture
was shipped in. He said, "One day
made out an express order for $84 to
pay for bill Of hardware. I told the
man to go up and see If the merchant
couldn't fill the order. He went but
soon came back, saying that he didn't
have half of the stun on hand and that
he wouldn't cut bit on what he did
have
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-06-08
of constantinople constantly had a

of Constantinople constantly had n
number of trained Arabian horses (di.
rect descendants of the famous horse
owned by Ishmael 1000 years ago.
thrown forward as scouts, who from
time to tinne returned to camp and by
peculiar whinny and neigh reported
the proximity of the enemy.
But, to come down to the present
day, it is related by a retired New
England clergyman, whose sands of
life had nearly run out, that one day
on leading his horse down through a
lane to a brook for drink the animal
suddenly halted and, turning its head
round, grabbed up with its teeth one of
its hind shoes which had Just dropped
off, and, holding it in its mouth with
the nails dangling, it backed up against
stone wall and clapped it onto its
hoof and with few violent kicks
nailed it on again.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-06-08
1yv.v'v'V'v'vvyv'v'v'v'v'vN
THE STORY.

n OAZ was absent from Bethlehem
I'D at the time of the return of Naomi
and her daughter-in-laws Ruth, but on
his reaching home this bit of news
was among the first to reach his ears,
for the townspeople had not yet ceased
to gossip concerning the event, in fact
he had scarcely gained the gate of his
village before he was surrounded by a
group of neighbors who poured into
his interested ear all the story OF
Naomi's life and misfortunes in the
land of Moab, and of her having lost
husband and sons there, and of her re-
turn in sorrow and poverty to the old
home she had left over ten years be-
fore.
"Elimelech might better have taken
your advice and stayed in Bethlehem, .
calculated one, as the story was fin
ished.
eyes," responded Boaz, sadly; 81
have often wished th& he had listened
to me and been content to remain.
From what you tell me, he could not
have Jared worse had he done So.
EHmelech and his two sons dead and
only Naomi left" he repeated, half to
himself, meditatively. And what Of
Naomi?" he added, after few min
utes' pause, as his thoughts turned
from the dead to the living. "You say
she has brought Moabitish woman
with herr
"Yea, her daughterin-law, Ruth,
wife of Mahlon. "And they do say she
is devoted to the old ladS, but some
strange motive must have brought her
from her country and her people, for
Naomi hath nothing to offer her. In
fact it does seem that her coming
makes Naomfs lot the harder, for
there is one more mouth to feed
Everyone is talking about the matter
Was it not folly enough that Naomis
sons should have married contrary to
the law of Israel, and now must we
have constant reminder of their sin by
the coming into our midst OF this
Moabitish woman
@BuG did Naomi urge her to Gomez"
asked Boaz.
.'No," admitted the other. sit seems
that both daughters-in-law started to
return with her, when she rebuked
them and bade them return to their
homes and their people and their gods.
This, Orpha, the wife Of Chilion, did,
but Ruth chung to her mother-in.law,
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-06-08
SOME REMARKABLE HORSES.
Wonderful Stories About the Steeda
of Famous Men.

In his letters to Lord Granville, pub
lished. by the Royal Philosophical So
ciety, who was also greatly interested
in natural history, Smithson, the
founder of the Smithsonian institution
in America, relates how the horse of
Alexander the Great, Bucephalus,
would at night, on hearing blast OF
the trumpet from the soldiers on guard
showing the approach of the enemy,
run at great speed to his masters tent
and with bis teeth grab the sleeping
monarch and shake him until he sprang
into the saddle and galloped toward
the enemy.
Also that the great Caliph Haroun-e1.
Raschid in the eight century in march.
ing toward the forces of Queen Irene
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-06-08
Trained Nursee for noos,

Some of the rich people In London
now employ trained nurses for their
lapdogs. These nurses are paid better
wages than the women who take care
of the children Of these same rich pso
pie.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-06-08

Scripture Authority:-"And Boaz said
unto Ruth; 1t hath fully been showed
me, all that thou hast done unto thy
mother-in-law since the death Of thine
husband: and how thou hast left thy ia
ther and thy mother, and the land of thy
nativity, and art come unto people
which thou knewest not heretofore. =
Ruth 2:1l; read all the chapter
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-06-08
A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.AAA.A.A.A.A.A.A.I
SERMONETTE.


{ love."--TEese words of Peter to
G Christians refer to the Christ,
! and are strikingIy pertinent in
connection with this story of
{ the romance of Ruth and Boaz.
This noble and hiah-minded
! man, Boaz, had heard of the
= seIf-sacrifice and devotion of
Ruth, the Moabitish woman, and
his appreciation of true goodness
:: and worth had aroused in his
heart an admiration, yea, love,
which could have had no other
) sequel than that which this beau
tifuI love story unfolds.
2 1t is splendid thing to have
a heart which is sensitive to the
{ qualities of real goodness. Our
! perceptions of worthy qualities
T in others are so modified and
{ tempered by the external and su-
i perficiaI conditions of wealth
i and social position, that many
4 human flower of the rarest pur-
{ ity and grace and beauty is born
q to blush unseen and unknown in
{ the busy, occupied world about.
q 1t is easy to see the virtues of
9 those to whom we may look for
9 favors, but we have little thought
{ or time to spend upon the one
who in his humble, narrow
! sphere is living nobIy, t1eroicaI-
Iy sublineIy.
To most of the people In
Bethlehem Noami and Ruth were
but poor, needy unfortunates. 10
3 the former the surprised word
! of greeting on her return was
! spoken, and sympathy express
3 ed, and then she was forgotten.
Z For the latter there was the
= curious, wondering gaze of the
) neighbors and friends and towns
i people of Naomi, and the un-
d spoken query as to why she had
d come and what she had hope of
9 gaining.
But to one person at least in
= Bethlehem there came an appre-
citation of the purity and
: strength of character of Ruth.
He heard of Naomi's return, and
: being a kinsman of her dead
]; husband he might have felt an
! noyed at the thought that here
: was a poverty-stricken relative
!; who would make drafts on his
bounty. He heard of the coming
! of the daughter-in-Iaw, and he
: might have listened to the UNI
J kindly criticism which must
! have been dropped as the
i strange woman from strange
q land came into their midst. What
scheme had she in coming?
What selfish purpose had she
to serve? Suspicion of her mo-
tives and contempt for her pa
tionaIity and her poverty might
: have so prejudiced his mind as
: to blind him to the rare woman
: Iy virtues which she possessed.
: But his love for real goodness
: was so keen and genuine, and
: his hish-minded judgments so
free from bias and impure mo-
Z tives that he was able to under.
stand fully "aIl that Ruth had
! done," and though he had not
{ seen her, he loved her. His was
I not a sentimental, supe rficial
love. 1t was such love as only
9 good, pure, strong heart can
feel as it finds those qualities in
:: another, for purity loves purity;
goodness loves goodness.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-06-08
Mhare fne plf9erenes Lee.

'sW1hat is grand opera as distinct
from light opera?"
oh. you pretend 20 appreciate one
but you Gan appreciate the other"