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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-02-17

Alice wished to do some shopping,
but inasmuch as the weather was in
clement she decided that t would not
be humane to keep the clipped Horses
and the Coachman waiting for her in
the blustery street for an Hour at d
Stretch, so she attired herself warmly,
without reference to Looks, and went
over to the corner to grab Trolley.
The Car stopped promptly wlen she
gave the High Sign and the Motorman
was careful to have the Back Step so
near the Crossing that Alice WOULD not
have to trail through the Mud.
In helping her aboard the Conductor
did not handle her as If she We're third
class Freight, hut assumed the gentle
and chivalrous manner of 4 Leader of
the Cotillon.
There were no unoccupied Seats. but
q well-dressed Gentleman arose prompt
" and begged Alice to take his place,
whereupon she thanked him cordially.
The Car was at a comfortable Tenn
perature, neither too hot nor too cold
and Alice noticed that the Passengers
did not look as if they were on then
way down TO the Morgue to identify
SEINE Remains
The Conductor gave no sign or ilnpa-
thence while Alice was searching her
self for the Nickel, beeause she had ii
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but the Quiet Love Scenes evoked
Thunders of Applause.
After SO per cent of the Audience got
tired of Song. the six Encore friends
with the Iron Hands would subside i'm
mediately and permit the Dialogue TO
be heard.
The only unpleasant Incident of the
evening occurred when a beautiful Sou
brine, assisted by eighteen Broilar
came out and did Coon Song that
could have been heard two blocks
away. Everybody Missed.
When Alice and her Friends came
out of the Theatre, they say across the
street the bright lights of a Refractory.
No one in the party suggested a Mid
night Gorge.
Alice knew ii was customary to go
over among the Palms and order six
on the Half Shell about the size of
Footprints; also a Bird with wreath
around il, some of the Bubbles and a
little Camembert Cheese SO ripe that
it had to be eaten with a Spoon.
Alice and her friends talked it over
and agreed they would be much better
off and feel more cheerful next morn
ing if they cut out the nocturnal Eats
So Hubby called a cab and he and
Alice started for their own Shack to-
gether, she handing him several Bou-
uuets for The diplomatic manner In
which he had deported himself az the
Theatre.
After alighting from the rattler, Hub
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-02-17

Many years ago Alice visited Won
derland
The things that happened to her were
about as much on the Circus Order as
those that happened to Lawson.
IL Alice had not been an innocent lit
tie Tike with Flaxen Curls one would
he led TO suspect that just before visit
ing Wonderland she had smoked a
Green Pill about the size Of a Hickory
Nut
BY counting up the years You will
Know that Alice is now in Full Bloom.
She IS beginning 20 look little bulky
around the Shoulders and is interested
in the Ads of the Beauty Doctors.
Never again will Alice keep on two
stepping until a rosy light suffuses the
eastern Sky. Once she was Queen of
The Coterie known as the Young Mar
lied People, which for Speed and En-
durance makes the Kid Set look like a
bunch of disabled CUTTERS.
Now she is wearing a Blanket and
lets a new Generation Of Recent Brides
do the Searching.
Alice's notion Of good. lively Employ
ment al the present Moment is to be
Patroness Of something. She is keenly
interested in all Charitable Enterprises
that viii keep her name I'm the nosey
old Newspapers at the top of the Col
umn and next to Pure Reading Matter
Years ago she discovered that in or
der to enjoy all the up-,o-date Privi-
leges Of her Sex and acquire the fullest
Liberty she would have TO be a Mar
ried Woman.
Many friends gave her the TIP thai
Mstrimony was advisable. the same a:
being Vaccinated. Accordingly she did
and now she has Home Of her own
a Rope of Pearls, an Angora Cat. g
portable Vapor Bath. private Brough.
am and a couple of Children.
One morning not long ago, when Alice
arose feeling that she did n6t need a
Facial Massage and about a peck al
Promo. she knew at once that during
the Night she had been transported 10
the Realm Of the Impossible.
Sure enough. when she aroused the
other Half OF the Sketch and told him
that il was not yet Breakfast Time,
but possibly he would like to get up.
he did not draw the Bed-Clothes ever
his head and humble and Cuss. but
bounded cheerily out irto the middle
of the floor and went to his Additions
vhstling a blithesOme tune.
The children piled out long before
any one went TO call them and were
quietly seated in the Library, ints nj
Upon their School Lessons.
At breakfast Hubby did not read his
Newspaper and ignore the remainder
Of the Family Circle. He faid the COT
fee was excellent, and not once during
the meal did he poke at anything on
his plate and want to know what in
Thunder It was.
After breakfast he kissed his wife or
the Cheek. instead of missing her Ear
By about an inch. and when she urge
him to take his Umbrella he did not
say something under his Breath, but
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-02-17
6rcWt1=up Hliee.
By George AIDE

! about the President being clinched with
somebody.
Hubby arrived home from the Office
exactly at 8 o'clock, although some Men
had tried to detain him at the Club.
He reported. everything satisfactory
at the Office-nothing had happened all
day TO give him a moments worry.
Alice reminded him that they wers
going out to Dinner. He had not for
gotten about the Engs cement; in fact.
he was very enthusiastic over the pros
pect. He said he loved to come home
from the Office and dress and go on:
to Dinner.
Alice offered to lay out his Things
for him and put the Studs in his Shirt.
/ But. he said nO-he knew just where
everything was and it was really a
Pleasure to get ready.
Alice and Hubby came down all
dressed at exactly the same Moment
and each praised the other for promp-
titude
Hubby noticed that Alice wore her
new Gown. He admired it very much.
He could not understand how she had
managed to get such a Corker for a
comparatively Small Sum of Money.
At the Dinner Alice found herself
next to a Nice Young Man who was
highly Conversational without being
Gabby.
Several times she requested Hubby
| TO tell the Company some Of his Funny
Stories. and each time he told one she
laughed heartily and said it was New.
After dinner the Men refused to loiter
around the table and Smoke, as they
wished to be i'll the Front Room with
the Ladies.
Inasmuch as Alice and some Of her
/ Friends were going TO the Theatre. they
/ hurried away because they did not
think it Good Form to enter a Play
/ House after the Curtain had gone up,
/ lest they might disturb some who want
/ ed to see the whole Show.
/ They sat i'm the Box all evening with
out conversing aloud.
In looking over the assemblage Alice
noticed that all the women had taken
off their Hats without compelling the
Ushers to come down the aisle and ar
que with them.
Also the Men did not walk over per-
sons the moment the curtain went
| down.
The Stage Performance was very IN
pertaining. The acrObatic Song and
Dance was received with Dead Silence,
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wants to fly? Not me. We can't be
amy too close to what Hogan calls this
old terra FIR me. No. sir. want 10 feel
it undher me feet fvry moment iv tn
day. Man was intinded to SLOUGH around
in tn mud, an that's what he'll be do
in durin' our lifetime. I'll nivver be-
Heve rale flynn machine has been
built till wan thing is rayported about
it."
What's that?" asked Hennessy.
1T must lay an egg" said Mr.. Doc
ley. 9TH beginnin' iv fight is an egg
I'll not believe anything till 1 Tread
in tn pa-apers: Yesterday mornin' at
tin O'Clock. amid tn lusty CROWN iv all
tn fiyin' machines in tn garage, tn
Santos-Dumont flynn machine laid an
egg. Thin I'll know that tn day has
arrived whin foolish man has got up Is
far in tn what Hogan calls tn animile
kingdom as tn goose. tn pigeon. an
tn loon. But not till thin
I'D like to bet ye yen be fyin'
hundherd years fr'm now" said Mr.
Hennessy.
Il hope 1 will said Mr.. Dooley
"Annyho>v, I'm glad ye have such
good opinycn " me"
Copyright. 1907, by Il. H. Mcclure 8
Company
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THE CHAIN INTACT.
CPhiladelphia LEDGER

81 see there is another search being
made for the missing link, said the
young man. trying to make conversation.
Now. / never felt any interest in the
matter"
Perhaps" said the young lady kindly
Sin your case, the link is not missing
Still, this was poor excuse tor the acIl-
rnonv manifest in the slamming Of tbs
door after him
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SECTION.

by gave Cabby a Dollar and was going
up the Steps when the Driver called
to him
Il beg your pardon" he said. you
have given me a Dollar. My Legal
Fare is only 20 cents. and"
Then Alice woke up.
Copyright. 1907. by George AIDE in the
United States and Great Britain.)
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-02-17
The SUPREME TEsT.

cleveland Plain Dealer)
Here is a Missouri man who claims to
be the best speiler in the WOrld-"
Say, I'd like to see how he'd come
out in a spelling match with Brander
Matthews giving out the words.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-05-04
THE STORY.

6sMY father, reproach not thyse1f.
IN Thou hast done well, else
would not the God of Israel given
thee this great victory over the enemy
of thy people. Think not of me!
Think of the God whom thou would'st
honor with thy most precious offer
ing"
The great form of the strong man
shook with the suppressed emotions
that swept through his soul and by
way of reply he drew more closely to
him the form of the beautiful girl. He
dare not trust himself to speak. All
night long he had agonized over the
awful tragedy which faced him. From
the moment of his return from the
battle when his daughter had come
forth with music and dancing to
meet him and he had realized the ter
rible import of his vow there had
ragged within his breast a conflict
which it seemed at times would fair
~ tear body and soul asunder. Back
and forth the battle of conflicting
thoughts had ragged. Now self was on
top and he was almost ready to re-
pudiate the VOW he had made, and
then there would ring through his
soul the words of his daughter: IF
thou hast opened thy mouth unto the
Lord, do to me according to that
which hath proceeded out of thy
mouth" and the sterner sense of duty
and loyalty to God would drive the
weaker self back and again hold him
to the obligation he had taken.
And with the coming of the day.
light had come his daughter to say
good-by. She had chosen that time
for leaving for her solitude in the
mountains, for, said she: 1T is not
a time of darkness but light; it is not
a time of sorrow but of gladness, for
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-05-04
Fine Art of sneezinu,

Yesterday" said one woman to an
other in a Chestnut street car, " l met
a sneezing teacher. I do not mean a
teacher who sneezes, but a person
who teaches the proper way to sneeze.
1t struck me as a decided novelty. l
think will take lessons. The teach
er argues that he is most useful per-
son to society. Nobody, he says, can
prevent sneezing, no matter how many
formulas and medicines the afflicted
one may absorb. But though a sneeze
may not be avoided, it may be cult
waited, and from a stertorous snort it
may be modified into gentle, melodi-
Gus noise. For anybody who startles
the neighborhood with frequent
sneezes the experiment may be worth
WhtIe.-Phi1adelp Record.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-05-04
Worshiped as Deities.

Snakes, the objects of terror to
most Europeans in eastern lands, are
worshiped in most parts of India. In
some districts there are from $1,000
to 10000 shrines dedicated exclusive
ly to the worship of snakes. These
shrines, which are invariably in honor
of one of the minor divinities of the
country, possess, in some instances,
valuable properties for their mainten-
ance and for the cost of the numerous
ceremonies which their keepers have
to perform. In these shrines the Hin
dus set up fantastic idols of serpents.
The devotees of this strange religion
make periodical offerings of dough
and milk and cooked rice to the SER
pents living in the shrine, in order tc
receive their favor.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-05-04

sell at a close margin of profit in or
der to attract trade in his general line
on which heavy profits are made
Blank should advertise hardware in
much the same manner the mail-order
man advertises hardware, and he has
this advantage-he can invite the peo-
pie Of the community to visit his store
and see the goods for themselves so
they will know just what they are buy
ing.
If, instead of expressing meaning
less generalities in a two-inch space,
Blank had used a little more space
and properly displayed an advertise
ment something like the following he
would have been sure to have at
tracted attention to his store, and in
all probability would have been sur
prised at the drawing power of his ad-
vertising:
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-05-04
HOW TO ADVERTISE
EFFECTIVE METHODS THAT WILL
BRING RESULTS.
SHOULD TELL THE PRICES
GeneraIities Are Meaningless to the
Pubiic-Why the MaiI-order Man
Wins-Try the Plan.

If you, Mr. Merchant, would compete
with the mail-order houses there are
three main essentials to success-the
goods-the prices advertising.
The last Of these is quite as essen
tial as either of the others.
In the great majority of cases the
local merchant has the goods, and he
makes the prices, but in very many
cases he either fails to do the adver-
Using, or what he does do is not effec-
tive in the same way that the mail
order mans advertising is effective.
The writing of effective advertising
Is not an art, it is not business that
requires years of study to learn. A
few hours of study and comparison
will give you every essential detail
that you will need.
It is comparatively safe to say that
IS per cent. Of the advertising carried
by local merchants in the local papers
is worded in generslities only. Such
advertisements as the following are
found in every paper:
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dressed with Intentional disrespect by
any person in my employ" Gays Jose
phine Daskam Bacon in the American
Magazine.
Il have never been left day with
out my regular staff of employees,
which has varied from one to five
(that is to- say, that I have never
been left suddenly or without suf1-
Gent notice to supply the vacancy.
Il have never had satisfactory
worker leave me except for what
considered a good reason Tin the ma
jority of cases an advantageous mar
riage).
Il have never lost an unsatisfactory
one except by my own dismissal.
have never to my knowledge, or even
suspicion, suffered the loss of a pen.
ny's worth by theft, and my record
for breakage is such that it produces
utter incredulity.
In three cases out of four have
had services willingly and frequently
offered me along lines where it was
not expected or requested. 7 have
had extra money offered by me to off
set extra work occasioned by sickness
refused on the ground that at such
times all the household expected to
STARE the trouble.
''And as climax am able to state
that once, at least, on my offering
raise in wages to express my appreci-
alton of competent and devoted serv-
ice was met with the astounding sug-
gestion that as my expenses were
heavy at the time and likely to in
crease had better not consider it.
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tail the goods he has to sell, GAd
quotes the price he asks for it will
attract the favorable attention of the
public far more often than the one
who deals only in generalities. It is
this kind of advertising that pays It
is this kind OF advertising that is at,
tracing the dollars from the smaller
cities and towns and farms to the mail.
order houses of the city. It Is this
kind of advertising that drew $780,
100000 into the Golfers of the Chicago
mail-order houses alone last year, and
it is this kind of advertising on the
part of the local merchants that the
mail-order houses fear more than any
other one thing.
But, Mr.. Merchant, whether your
line be hardware, dry goods, groceries,
clothing or other commodities, it is
well to go further than your newspa-
per advertising, though this is the
foundation of success. Go to the local
printer and have him make you little
catalogues of your own. They do not
need to be large affairs, but small
folders of four, eight or Is pages. Put
into these folders the descriptions and
prices of the goods you are carrying,
or leaders in the line. Be sure that
the prices quoted are right, then put
one Of these into the hands of every
customer; keep them circulating
throughout the community, and make
a practice of getting out a new one
every few weeks.
You, Mr.. Merchant, can make adver-
Using pay larger returns than the
mail-order man secures; you can make
it the mainstay of your business, and
you can make it the means of killing
the mail-order competition in your
community. And when you do this
do not begrudge the publisher the
reasonable price he asks you for ade-
quate space in his columns. He will
give you better value than any other
commodity you can buy.
WRIGHT A. PATTERSON.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-05-04
SERMONETTE.
Copyright. 1907 by The Author, W. 5. Edson.l

One cannot read this tragic,
} and yet beautifully touching
story of Jephthah's daughter
without. being deeply touched
by her devotion to God, her
} heroic loyalty to her father, and
her sweet, tender, graciousness
as she faces the awful doom
which her fathers rash vow
had brought upon her.
Her purity and strength of
character stand out clear and
positive.
She is one of the splendid
galaxy of noble women which
the Bible narrative gives to us.
This daughter of Jephthah
had not much to look back upon
in the way of ancestry, for her
} grandmother, as the Scriptures
declare, was an harIot, and up
on her must have rested much
of the stigma that surrounded
the birth and the early life of
her father.
But whatever she lacked in
the way of proud family tree
she made up in the charm and
nobility OF her own character.
There is much in this story
of Jephthah's rash vow and the
sacrifice of his daughter which
} we cannot understand, except
as we consider the customs of
the people about them and un-
derstand that that which Jeph-
than did was common practice
in the worship of the heather
gods.
But without attempting to
discuss the perpIexiRg phases,
which our space will not allow,
even though such contemplation
were profitab!e-Which is doubt
ful-Iet US gather up some
thoughts and suggestion which
will be helpful to US.
First of all, we must recog-
} nize that however imperfect
the knowledge of Jephthah's
daughter concerning what the
true worship and service of
God required, she realized that
God had first claim upon her
and upon her father, even to
life itself.
And second only to this was
her deep sense of filiaI obedi-
ence. No word of reproach; no
despairing cry.
Nay, rather, there was such
utter forgetfuIness of self, that
she turns in soIicitude to COM
fort her father and encourage
what seemed to her a faItering
courage and a threatened dis
loyalty to God.
And lastly, during those two
months of secIusion what more
reasonable to suppose than that
she was performing final min
istry in spiritual. things to the
companions she had gathered
about her. The precious mo-
ments which remained to her
were to be used to the uplifting
of others. Surely, in these
more striking points Jephthah's
daughter being dead yet speak
eth.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-05-04
Moodx,s First Bible School.

The first experiment in Bible teach
ing by the late D. L. Moody was when
he took Is young people into his own
home and gave them instruction in
the Scriptures. By singular coinci-
dence, it is just Is years ago since
that first class was formed. To-day
the Moody schools at Mortified,
Mass, the outgroWth of that crude ex-
pertinent, are the largest and most
successful of their kind in the world.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-05-04
WASHDAY BARGAIN SALE
AT
BLANK
EVERYTHING NEEDED FOR WAsHDAY
AT BARGAIN PRICES
During Thursday, Friday and
Saturday of this week

DAHnta suuESudys FFfCdy ana
Saturday of this week
$40 for Sgo. a year guaranteed best quality
~ Clothes Wringer, the King of Wiring
ers Solid rubber rolls, steel spring and patent
guide board.
SLID for good american clothes wringer,
10 inch rolls, hardwood frame.
zAc for genuine mo Sag" Curtain stretchers
IT. Center brace and will not sag.
N2c for extra heavy copper rim and bottom
wash boilers.
lac Pins Pr '0AsH Oh the nrS' quality Clothes
ESC for SO foot white Cotton Braided Clothes
AO~ Line.
SNc for hardwood folding Clothes Bar of ex-
~ ceptional size for the money.
29C for full sized very pest quality Wash
@AS Boards.
7SC for medium sized galvanized iron Wash
10 Tubs.
2AC for I2-qt, heavy galvanized iron water or
scrub pail
ACC for best quality fiber Water Pail Of ex-
-fO ceptlonal merit.
=OC for an excellent quality Of ironing boards
%SS that will not warp.
FAC for an extra large heavy willow Clothes
CfS Basket.
The prices given here are of course
mere fiction. but the prices Blank
should quote in his advertisement
should show the public that he is
giving bargains; they should be prices
that would compare favorably with the
prices of the mail-order catalogues,
and he should impress it upon the
public that he not only shows them
what they are buying before they pay
for it, but that the purchaser has no
freight to pay, and does not have to
wait an interminable time for the
goods he buys, as when ordering of
the mail order houses.
It is specific advertising that draws.
The advertiser who describes in de-
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-05-04

NO THoRNs IN HER PATH.
Josephine Daskam Writes in Tribute
of the Golden Rule.

81 believe myself to be notably for
tunate in my relations with my do
nestle employees. During period of
eight years, in which I have employed
household labor in four widely differ
ent places, have never once been adj
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-05-04
onIv one Novelty Left.

Mrs. Flora Annie Steel, the author,
was asked recently by an American
friend for some information about her
self. Mrs. Steele replied: Il have
been married, I have borne children,
have two grandsons. I have, there
fore, lived through the life allotted to
woman, and the only novelty before
me is death"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-05-04
co TO
BIZ A N ks
FOR
Hardware Stoves and
TSnwaPe
BEST GOODS LOWEST PRICES

The mail-order mans advertising is
different. 1t is specific, and while the
glowing descriptions given are often
misleading-a thing which Blanks adj
vertising. should never be-they at
tract the attention of the reader and
possible purchaser because they tell
about some one thing that he may pos
sibly want.
The mai1-order man makes a run
On few things which he is willing to
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-05-04
Tours the Holy Land.

Rev A. S. Carrier, D. D., who
occupies the chair of Hebrew and cog.
nate languages in Mccormick sem
mary, has returned from an absence
of eight months, during which he took
a trip through the Holy Land, and has
resumed his class work.