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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-12-14
Catalogue Houses Busy.

Thousands of dollars are being spent
with the big catalogue houses of the
east by the residents of the small
towns in southern Utah, according to
reports brought to Salt Lake by Or.
son Hewlett, president of the Manu-
facturers' and Merchants association,
and Lorenzo Jenkins, secretary and
manager of the Retail Merchants as
sociation of the state.
Messrs. Hewlett and Jenkins spent
nearly week in Sanpete county and
vicinity, calling merchants and farm
ers together to urge greater patronage
of home industries. Ephraim, Moroni,
Fairview, Spring City, Mount Pleas
ant, Fountain Green, Manti and Ches-
ter were visited and in each place the
greatest enthusiasm was manifested
by merchants over the campaign re-
Gently inaugurated by commercial
bodies of the state for a more extern
sive patronage of home Industries.
Meetings we're called and ways and
means discussed by which the prac-
tice of patronizing the mail order
houses can be done away with. This
practice has reached alarming proper
lions in the southern part of the state,
according to Messrs. Hewlett and
Jenkins. One small town alone last
month received goods to the value of
1000 from a big eastern mail order
concern.-Salt Lake (Utah) Herald.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-12-14

well built it may be rented to advan-
tage until purchaser comes along,
but you must not rent poorly. built
house unless you are looking for
trouble.
The cheapest way to build house
fS to put up box like this and put a
straight roof over it. 1t makes all
straight work, stock sizes of every
thing work in without waste, and
cheap labor may be used to advantage
in putting it together. Everything
for the house may be purchased,
ready to go together, at the building
supply dealers.
Years ago it was considered neces-
sary to put up some fancy design In
order to have it look right when fin
ished, but this was mistake. Moth
ing looks better than a plain house If
the proportions are right. Of course
you must have a relief of some kind.
In this case you get it in the veranda,
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-12-14
TRICK The FOOLISH
SCHEMES OF PREMIUM MAI,
ORDER HOUSES.
STUFF is OF LITTLE VALUE
cbeapes Kind Of Goods Handled by
These Concerns, ard They Are
SID at the Highest Mar.
ket Prices.

Thee are dozens of preminn.e,,,ro
mail Fder houses operating in differ
eut Fies of the country. These
houas reach out for trade in all parts
Oh pe country, and do not overlook
theRrgest cities. They gain for their
aids and their agents men. women
ana children, wives of lawyers, mer-
chnts, church workers and any class
tfA tney can. Some of them make
apuslness catering to the Epworth
sgues' the Sunday schools, the
qnrches, and have plans by which
e people are humbugged and loaded
own with inferior goods, and the
Rague, the Sunday school or the
Rnurch gets a little cheap furniture.
some dinky-dinky thing almost worth
Jess for all the trouble gone to.
These premium concerns that put
out baking powder, cheap coffees, gro
ceries of every kind and description,
generally put out the cheapest kinds
nf stun. Recently samples of the
goods that have been received from
them have been sent to the chemists
of the pure food departments in 3
number of cites, and universally the
goods We're found to be of the rankest
kind. The coffee the cheapest Santos,
and doctored up with roasted cereals
and chickory; the baking powders
were an abomination of cheap acids
and other materials; the extracts
were wholly synthetic, produced from
coal-tar products, and so adulteration
was carried to the extreme. These
goods we're sold at the highest prices
and were of such class that no re-
spectacle grocer in any city or ham
let would have them in his stock.
These are the classes that the good
women, perhaps well-meaning, but
not up to snuff, palm off upon their
nefghbors when they become the Sec
rotary of the club" and the kind Of
dope they innocently give to their
husbands and children, and when the
little ones become sickened by par
taking of the stuff, the dear little
woman gladly pays some doctor four
times the amount the abominable
goods cost
There will be something dropping.
pretty quick among a certain class Of
these big companies" Their bust
ness is of the fraudulent kind and
there is likelihood that at no distant
period the government officers will Sc
cure such evidence as will put many
of the concerns out of business.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-12-14
Fake snices Sold 10 Puhlls.

It has been found that more than
80 per cent. of the groceries sold by
travelling agents who sell direct to
consumers are of the adulterated
classes. Examinations made of cot.
fees sold by such concerns proved
that there was so per cent. adultera-
ton. The cheapest kind of Santos
is used for base, and with this
ground cocoanut shells, burnt corn
and chicory are combined. Such con-
coctions are dangerous, and a rank
imposition upon the people. The
spices that are sold by many of the
alleged pure food concerns that have
agents working among the people in
small towns are dangerous to health.
Many classes consist Of ground
bark, nut shells and other materials
and favored with artificial fiavors
that are coal tar products. 1t is un.
safe to buy from the concerns that
gain their business through can.
vassers, or who do an exclusive mail
order business.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-12-14
Nuisance in Pittshura.

Pittsburg is troubled with the iron
ore dust nuisance as we'll as with
smoke. and the former is proving the
harder to eradicate. Members of GER
tain residential districts brought &C.
ton against one company owning
furnaces valued at 100000 in 1904.
Since that time the company has
spent 100000 in the effort to prevent
the emission of the dust and has been
unsuccessful. The Pennsylvania SUI
preme court has decided that the own.
ers of the mills must cease to operate
if they cannot abate the nuisance.
Capital amounting to nearly 100000.
600 is affected by the decree.-Spring-
field Republican.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-12-14
Calls FOR Eneraetie Action.

There is but one way for the coun-
try merchant to combat mail order
evil and that is to organize and syste-
natically fight and the battle must be
carried on energetically if it is to win.
This has been done in some sections
Df the country and can be done in 9TH
ers. Where few years since the
larger portion of the people have
Spent the major portion of their earn
lngs with the mail order houses, to-
bay they do their purchasing at home,
but this has only been accomplished
By hard work by thoroughly organ
BED body.-New Iberia Enterprise
leader.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-12-14
Lava Put to Good Use.

Residents of the district ro1nd We
suvius have put to practical use the
lava which has flowed from the vol
cano in the past and recent eruptions.
Naples and its vicinity appear to be
a world of lava. The streets are paved
with it. There are lava staircases and
statues, drinking troughs, bric-a-brac
and even jewelry. The guides make
a profit out of it by pressing coins or
other objects on partially cooled frag-
ments and selling these to visitors.
On the ashy sides of the mountain
there is enough lava to build a large
city. In appearance it resembles a
shoreless frozen sea of dull black that
shimmers strangely purple in some
lights
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-12-14

wasA in making starr ssr home
OF course. a little mone3 II necessary
but the amount paid out Fl rent each
MOI Hi would soon pay III q $1,000
cottNge and leave the owner In posi-
tionlto so ahead on sometaing larger
If nd needs tt Sometimes people get
so attached to a little home that is
comfortable and convenient that they
are i4 no hurry to leave 1t. My advice
has always been to make a start and
make modest enough So you are not
embarrassed To make your payments,
and / believe 1t is 4 great deal better
to go good deal too slow than 10 go
a littlehbit too fast.
lik to see good houses, and when
a person can afford it like TO see
them living in an expensive house,
but don't like to see yaung fellows
start in with a property good deal
larger and more expensISb than they
need when they haven't ke means to
pay for it, because / kndw 1t means
many months and yearsrS hard work
and a good many nights L worry, all
Of which may be avoided BY making
the proper start. A littld house may
be buried IL vines partially hidden By
shade trees and beautifd1 by a yard
full Of flowers until the puse is for
gotten and the coy hona only is re.
membered.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-12-14
Scheme for Health Restoring.

In the large German towns, and also
those of German Switzerland, visitors
will be struck with the frequent re-
currence of the words "Licht-Luftbad
Anstalt," advertised on buildings. In
yestigation will show that the build
ing on which this sign is placed is
surrounded by high fence, inside OF
which numbers of men and women
will be found disporting themselves in
the open air. These people are clothed
sufficiently, but the clothing they
wear is light to a degree, and it ad.
mits all of the air and sun possible.
These air baths are new scheme to
restore health by returning to nature.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-12-14
Catch.PennY Schemes.

Those who make habit of answer
ing advertisements in the cheap
mail order papers are sure to bite at
the bait" held out to them sooner or
later. One of the common gratis is
advertising for men to distribute cir
culars" and offering from three dol
lars to five dollars day for the serv-
ices. These concerns generally charge
fee of from two dollars to five dol
lars for registering" and in return
send number Of printed blanks and
names of companies who want adver-
Using matter circulated. After some
dollars worth OF postage stamps is
wasted in writing to the names sup.
piled, the person anxious for a job
concludes that he is out of pocket.
A common form of fraud is the adj
vertising for men to become detec-
tives. There are few of these rank
humbugs doing business, and in way
so shrewdly devised that the authori-
ties cannot deny them the use of the
mails. In a few cases fraud orders
have been issued against them, but q
change was quickly made to another
city, and the same old graft put in
operation. In these cases fee is
charged for commission and badge
and instructions. The bit of nickeled
brass sent out as a badge is familiar
in nearly every police court as a
source of trouble for green young men
who think that its possession gives
them official authority.
Business men should be on the look.
out for a new game which has been
played in number of parts of the
country of late. IA stranger enters
store, buys a small bill of goods, not
exceeding ten or fifteen dollars, says
that he will call for them later, and
gives check for $50 or more on a
bank, receiving no change in return.
He remains away for a few days, then
calls for the goods. He is told that
the check is no good. After roundly
'cussing" the bank he pays for the
goods, takes the check and goes. In a
few days more the check comes to the
merchant, paid at the bank, because it
had the merchants endorsement on It.
This was the end to be obtained. Be
on the lookout for this game
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-12-14
MUST BUILD UP BUSINESS.
Country Merchant Can Use the Local
Press to Advantage.

The sentiment exhibited in the nn
| merous articles now printed in coun
Try newspapers for the purpose of in.
auclng people to trade at home in.
stead OF sending their money to mail
order houses is good and noble, but
we doubt if it appeals to the multitude
who patronize these mail order
houses.
The best way in which. the mer-
chants in the towns and smaller cities
can fight the mail order houses is to
advertise. They know most of their
patrons personally, can show them the
goods before they buy them, have
many other advantages over the mail
order houses and in almost every in.
stance can sell just as cheap, if not
cheaper.
If the home merchant lacks fore
sight and is too penurious to proper
ly advertise his goods, why should the
publisher exert himself to keep the
trade at home for him? If solicita-
tons on the part of the publisher fail
to educate the merchant to the fact
that he must advertise if he wants to
keep up with the procession, then
nothing is left to the merchant but
to learn in the school of experience,
and if the teachings of that renowned
school are of no effect on him, then
there is no place for him and eyentu-
ally his place in the commercial
world will be taken up by some
more enterprising competitor.-Buck-
eye Informer.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-12-14
r. William A. Radford will answer

questions and give advice FREE OF
COST on all subjects pertaining to the
subject of building for the readers of this
rience as Editor, Author and Manufac-
turer, he is. without doubt, the highest
authority on all these subjects. Address
AL Inquiries to William A. Radford, No.
1874 Fifth Ave, Chicago, ILL.,, and only
enclose tWo-cent stamp for reply.
All the essentials of a home are EN-.
bodied in this little cottage. BE it
ever so humble, there is no place like
home" applies with especial force to
a neat little cottage that is built for
comfort and surrounded by welI-kept
grounds. A cottage house well kept
looks a great deal better and it gem
orally contains great deal more COM
fort than larger house that is in q
measure neglected.
In building small house it is Gus
tomary with some builders to slight
the work in certain directions, because
it is only a cheap affair, anyhow, but
this is mistake. 1t does not pay, for
instance, to use outside doors that are
less than one and three-quarter inches
in thickness. You can put on cheaper
ones and dress them up so they look
all right for awhile, but after time
the panels spills and the doors warp
until it is an aggravation to open or
shut one. Then repairs are neces-
sary and you put more expense on the
job than would be necessary to do it
right in the first place.
If you are building a house to sell,
sometimes you can skin it in places
and get out from under, but it is a
poor way to do business. If you want
to drink from sieve you must drink
quick. Sometimes house built for
sale don't sell right away. II It is
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-12-14
Broke Statue in Spite.

Mr.. Kitamura Naoiira, sculptor OF
he marble statue of female, priced
II $4,000 yen, which is exhibited IN
lie Fine Arts building Of the Toxic
exposition, proceeded to the EXPOSE
don on June II, at Z a. M, and de-
nberately knocked down the statue
nd destroyed the head and arms
nth an iron hammer, which he had
sginaily used in earring the figure.
sason for this sfolent proceed
~ p IA that he considered that the
m ,SQmissioners of the Toxic ex-
Ill Jon Mad shown bias in their
t5s, and were prone to confine
EhB testimonials to artists Of their
IN cIique.--Japan Advertiser.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-12-14
THE WAY OF LOVE.

And Nothing Mattered So Long &
They Were. United.
Once upon a time there was ma
who fell in lore with a woman.
And they were married.
After a while the bills came in al
the man sat around and thought abht
them, Then he went to his wife I'D
said: "Dearie, can't you go a he
slow"
And his wiz replied: "Ala& I
never learned low. l rear that Aam
naturally extraagant. l don't nean
to be, but l an. Tell me thu you
love me-"
81 love you, replied the ma
After a whilethe stork paid friend
ly visit. Whe the excitemst was
over and thins quoted dan, the
man took noteof certain tthgs that
were happening The servantJTpldn't
stay. The bali was eithF o9erfed
or underfed. he spirit Of Harmony
had slipped on And the ma sat
around and tbught about lQsome
more. Then hewent to his WV and
said: 'Dearie there's sonshing
wrong with or domestic ecmpmy.
Things ought be differenq The
house isn't run light. Things aa not
done calmly or systematicallyEan
you"
His wife shoo her head.
81 don't know now" she repI Il
never had much order. l cant Ap 1t,
but-do you love me-" ~.
81 love YOU mare and more" Nalied
the man.
And after another while the man
grew to he an invalid. She reid to
take care of herself, and becaae mo-
rose irritable and incapable hing
much of anything.
And one day, as the man @@ano
thought, she came to him and aas
Dearest, 1 have been a fa1luEs I'm
thoroughly incompetent. agen't
done what l should have dalas l
have been lamentably weak. AIsn't
you, honestly now, sorry Ut you
married me?"
NO. said the man.
But I am a failure. You Quito
be sorry. Why aren't you sdiyl
And the man smiled as he npled:
Because, sweetheart, if l hadA mar.
ried YOU l never could have ldeayou
as much as do now."-The RI
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-12-14

of the sweet. and one dsy I took a
walk over to the place. The farmer
had made only two barrAs of cider
and was through grinding. / asked
him about the apple croS, the price
of cider, and so on, but found him
disinclined to talk In act. 1t was
plain that he distrusted be. / told
him how | used to WALL five miles
to cider mill in my bqhood days,
and did mr. best latp ktaas hipne1 o.sss.
but the most that + could get out Of
him was that he intended to sell one
barrel and keep the other for himself.
He was evidently much relieved when
1 took my departure, and could aot
make him out at all Two days later
! ran across him in the village, just
as he was unloading one Of the bar
rels at a grocery. He tried to dodge
me. but / hailed him, and he came
forward and said:
4 couldn't get but three dollars
for it,"
"But that's a fair price, isn't tips
It's tolerabIy fair, and hope you
are not going to freeze me out.
Il don't exactly understand you,"
/ said.
Why, hain'tyou from The Standard
OH company"
''Of course not.
And you hain't run cider up to
five dollars barrel and threatened
to freeze out any one that sold it for
less?"
MY friend, you are away on"
Honest Injung'
Il have nothing whatever to do With
the corporation you name y
"Gee-Wfizz! but / took you for the
boss of it himself and I've been shak
ing in my boots over since you showed
your nose in theSmill IN. Y. Times.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-12-14
ScotSmen Wsn+aS

Scotsmen are immigrants 81 the
finest quality, and they bring abund-
ant cash in the pockets as well 81
begin to accumulate cash as soor 8
they arrive. This is the type b Irnrnt
grant Australasia needs, and as both
new Zealand and Australia can Ofel
vastly more than Canada, We ought
sooner or later, to see a stream q
canny Scotsmen with the hardy
5 nodles' shrewd brains and the veil
llneo pockets of their race setting q
our observation-disclosures Tifa
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-12-14
Revolution in China

1t is reported that the revol hionsFy
movement in China is gaining sEengh
and that secret organizations ale IN
creasing in number, especiallJ ii ths
Yangtse valley. Chinese offichls GAY
that thousands Of revolutionbts arg
concealed in the foreign quaHers 81
the cities, thus placing Themselves out
side the jurisdiction of the Chinese
courts. The revolutionary agitation re
Gently was carried into the arm. Muir
derous plots against the Mancbas con
tinue to be discovered in Pekin.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-12-14
Floor Plan

which reaches clear across the front.
It is not a large veranda and not ex-
pensive. but it makes a finish for the
front of the little house and it pro.
vides a very comfortable open-air sit
ting-room in summer and it is a pro-
lection from snow ard other storms in
winter. The money that this veranda
costs is money well spent. No matter
how cheap the house, you don't want
the front door to look bare and unpro-
tected, and you can't protect it in any
other way quite so well as by build.
ing solid looking, comfortable yer.
anda.
In size, the plan is 20 by 40 fee
and in this space the architect h
planned and laid out five rooms,
large enough to hold the necess
furniture. To save expense in
cost the house Is set on cedar
instead of having cellar. Tn
done because there are men who
afford to build a cottage house
ing $1,000 or $1,400 when it won
impossible for them to rai
money for house costing
is better to build in this wa
cellar under the house
than to keep on paying re-
year with the expectatio"
just as you want to in
years time, because the
years slip away quickly
in no better position
than you are new.
a little detegminat
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-12-14
nons In Paris.

In Paris dogs are treated as wen as
human beings ave. They wear auto
mobile toys when they go motoring,
thew have a hospital, and they even
have a good-sized cemetery, with mon.
uments and headstones and inscrip
TOPS and mortuary wreaths
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-12-14
source of His Supply

Mrs. Donald Mclean, who In aeen
reelected president Of the Daghsers
of the American Revolution; ala OF
ancestry at a dinner in New Iek: Il
think we would all, if we 81 our
choice, prefer to be well born aOod
children are more apt to cor gOn
good than from bad parents. hea,
besides, good birth is a recor snda-
ton. In everything we cons es the
source. It is like the story q the
school teacher. There was haeher,
teaching in a very poor neighh hood,
who received daily gifts of s0uers
from one of her pupils, a raggM hue
boy. The flowers were of al sorts,
sometimes costly dollhouse AouHs,
sometimes simple, old-fashioIM gar
den flowers. AS a rule, thq we're
somewhat faded. One day be boy
brought the teacher a great s0aquet
of mauve orchids. To be sun they
were much wilted, but none TIL tess #
could be seen that they had OF cost
a great deal of money. The sazzled
teacher, as she took them, SAD jim.
my, where do you get all theseaeFers
that you give me? You dons steal
them, l hope oh, no, man, the
youngster answered, fathers ID ssn
man."
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-12-14
La Belle Sa,,,,...-

.. We may educate and civilize woman
as aso we wi, viii, but the instinct d say
asery VIII cling to her still. # lo7els
t TG1nnaH l. can adorn herself WITH any
t hnrps,f IN the nature of scalps d ~
+ HTlssn a,nngling with beaas and
o c,nAlng geW,gaws, she never lcgss nel
o oaIt rum She is now decElag hsE
sen Ioreh with ieweled imitatIons y
World. q oie.-7A's
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-12-14
The Gr04vth
of Patriotic
Societies
p By Mrs. Donald Mclean G

Order of Cincinnati Founded by
Revolutionary Officers-Crop of
Societies the Result of Centen-
NAL in l976-Refusal of "Sons
of Revolution" to Accept
Daughters -"Daughters"
Soon Greatly Outnumber Sons"
Eligibility Rules for Both Are
Democratic-"Colonial Danes"
and Other Organizations.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-12-14

. This brief account Of the birth and
growth of patriotic societies barely
touches upon their excellent achieve
ment; but this is manifestly true:
The spirit Of devotion to the nation,
developed by such organizations, is
the outward, visible sign" which un-
doubtedly follows such inward spir-
itual grace" and causes the existence
of such organizations to be matter
of felicitation to the entire country,
and the United States is surely proud
of its sons and daughters and they in
turn are ready to lay their best abili-
ties, whether in peace or war, upon
the altar of their country's liberty.