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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-05-11
The Evolution Of
Household Remedies

The modern patent medicine nr,;
ness IS the natural outgrowth of the
Old-time household remedies.
In the early history of this corn+,r
EVERY FAMILY HAD IT'S HoMy'
MADE MEDICINES. Herb tess
bitters' laxatives and tonics, were to h.
found in almost every house, Compound
ed by the housewife, sometimes aas;s+oa
by the apothecary or the family doctor
Such remedies as picra, which WAS
aloes and quassia, dissolved in ann1o
brandy. Sometimes a hop tonic mad
OF whlskey, hops and bitter barks A
score or more of popular, homemade
remedies were thus compounded tba
formulate for which were passed alone
from house to house, sometimes written
sometimes verbally communicated
The patent medicine business 10 a
natural outgrowth from this whole
sone' old-time custom. In the bepin-
ming, some enterprising doctor, i'm
pressed by the usefulness of one of
these homemade remedies, would take
1t up, improve it in many ways, manu-
"sacture it on large scale, advertise IL
mainly through almanac" for the home
and thus it would become used over a
large area. LATTERLY THE HOUSE
HOLD REMEDY BUSINESS TOOK
A MORE EXACT AND SCIENTIFIC
FORM.
Peruna was originally one of these
old-time remedies. 1t was used by the
Mennonites, of Pennsylvania, before IL
was offered to the public for sale. DR.
Hartman, THE ORIGINAL COM
FOUNDER OF PERUNA, is of Mem
MONTE origin. First, he prescribed it
for his neighbors and his patients.
The sale of it increased, and at last he
established a mandatory and fur
nished it to the general drug trade.
Peruna is useful in a great manv
climatic ailments, such as coughs, colds,
sore throat, bronchitis, and catarrhal
diseases generally. THOUSANDS OF
FAMILIES HAVE LEARNED THE
USE OF PERUNA and its value in the
treatment of these ailments. Thew
have learned to trust and believe in
Dr.. Hartman's judgment, and to rely
on his remedy, Peruna.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-05-11
AGE TOLD BY THE PULSE.
From Birth TO Death the Beats Have
a Steady Decrease.

How old are you? Ask your pulse.
The human pulse has wide range,
even in perfectly healthy persons.
The female pulse always beats fast
er than the male, and from birth to
death the pulse beats steadily de-
crease. It has been said by great
authorities that the age and sex Of
a person could be ascertained by the
rate of the pulse alone. Babies at
birth have pulse beat Of $50 times
a minute in case of a girl and $50 in
the case Of boys. At the age of four
or five the pulse beats will have fall
en- respectively to 10 and 100. Maid
ems and youths pulses average 95
and 90. Mature men and women av-
erage 80 and rs. Elderly men and
women have an average of 60 and 80.
An old woman's pulse rarely, If ever,
sinks below so, but among men a
pulse beat below so is quite common.
There are, however, great variations
consistent with health. Napoleon's
pulse is said to have beaten only a.
times a minute,
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-05-11
SKIN SORE EIGHT YEARS.
Spent $500 on Doctors and Remedies
but Got No ReIief-Cuticura
Cures In a Week.

upon the limbs and between the
toes my skin was rough and sore, and
also sore under the arms, and had to
stay at home several times because of
this affection. Up to week or so ago
I had tried many other remedies and
several doctors, and spent about three
hundred dollars, without any success,
but this is to-day the seventh day that
I have been using the Cuticura Rene
dies (costing a dollar and half,
which have cured me completely, so
that can again attend to my busi-
ness. I went to work again tonight.
had been suffering for eight years
and have now been cured by the Cut
Icura Remedies within a week. Fritz
Hirschlaff, "a Columbus Ave, New
York, N. Y, March 20 and April 6,
1906"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-05-11
GONE FOREVER.

Ten years ago farmer put his ini-
tials on dollar bill. The next day he
went to the nearest town and spent it
with a merchant. Before the year was
out he got the dollar back. Four times
in six years the dollar came back to
him for produce and three times he
heard of it in the pocket of his neigh
bors.
The last time he got it back four
years ago. He sent it to mail order
house. He never has seen that dollar
since, and never will. That dollar bill
will never pay any more school or
road tax for him, will never build or
brighten any of the homes of the COM
munity. He sent it entirely out of
the circle of usefulness to himself and
his neighbors.
Patronize your local merchant who
helps you to pay your taxes, support
your schools and churches, and lends
a helping hand in times of sickness
and trouble.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-05-11
TREES STEAL AN ISLAND.
Rv Action of Roots and Waves Al
dabra Is Disappearing.

Strength is not thing usually
attributed to maidenhair fern" re-
marked local florist, "and yet, if
its roots have not sufficient room,
they will break the strongest flower
pots. Indeed, the strength in Vege-
table growth is wonderful.
'The most striking example is the
island of Aldabra, to the northwest
of Madagascar. The island is be-
coming smaller and smaller through
the action of the mangroves growing
at the foot of the cliffs. The roots
break off immense pieces of stone,
which fall into the sea. Into the gaps
thus formed the waves eat their way.
.Tn a few years it is likely that by
the combined action of the waters
and mangroves the island will disap-
pear"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-05-11
CURlOS OF ETRUSCA
INTERESTING COLLECTION NOW
IN SMITHSONIAN.
Dainty Ornamental Safety Pins Among
the Relics of Many Centuries
Ago-Designs Are as Fine
as Those of To-Day.

An exceedingly interesting collec,
Clon OF Etruscan curios is being
placed on exhibition for the first
Time in the Smithsonian institution.
All those who think that hair pins,
pins TO keep garments in place when
Tue buttons are gone, safety pins,
G"eezers and articles for the mani
cure table are of modern invention
should examine these relics, dating
back 1000 and 5000 years.
The modern safety pin is a poor
ara1r when viewed beside the dozen
OF more varieties brought from
Etrurla. The most ornate were OBJ
tanned in Chiusi, the ancient Clusi-
um, city of Macaulay's Lars Porsena,
VINO was SO versatile in the fine art
OF swearing that his name is immor-
tai. The men of Clusium used the
safety pin with as much ease as their
Womankind. Some of the long
bronze articles could keep the heav-
lest blanket in place and some were
undoubtedly to keep the trappings
OF horses in order. Others are so
delicate and finely wrought in sill
yer, gold and bronze, that their own
ers must have been far advanced in
the art of looking pretty. Some are
OF twisted wire, looking very much
like the modern filigree brooch, with
rings and ornaments pending, just as
they do now from the bangle bracelet
OF the modern belle. The savants
at the Smithsonian think that some
dozen or more Of these dainty pins
were used to confine the loose flowing
robe of the Etruscan grande dame.
Then here are long slender safety
pins, much like those in use in every
civilized home of the world. There
are heavy coarse looking bronze pins
evidently for slaves and poor people,
but the bellies in Etruria, in the year
1900, B. c., had as fine wrought and
graceful brooches and toilet aids as
the woman who patronizes the most
renowned Partisan goldsmith.
Hair pins, hair ornaments, cute lit
tie ivory catches to keep the back
hair from straying on the neck, all
were old to these women of that past
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-05-11
Both Devoured by Wolves.

A postman named Kelemer and his
wife recently met with a terrible
death, at Buda-Pesth, Hungary.
Kelemer had not returned home after
his days round at his usual time.
His wife became anxious. She knew
her husband had to travel over de-
serted roads covered with snow and
that the presence of wolves in the
district had been reported. She spent
several hours at the window, but as
he did not return she ran into the
village and inquired if any one had
seen him. No one had seem the post.
man and the wife set our in search
of him. She also did not return. A
few hours later some neighbors went
to look for her. They came across
some torn garments and a few bones.
They were all that remained of the
postman and his wife, who had been
devoured by wolves.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-05-11
STRANGE FREAK OF CAT.
Adopted Small Rat to Take Place OF
Dead Kitten.

Six kittens were recently added to
the feline population by Phoebe
Snow" the pet cat of the ferryman
who tends the little rowboat ferry
across the gap" in the Lackawanna
yards in Hoboken, N. ]. Some days
later one of the little ones died.
All day long Phoebe appeared
downcast, and in the afternoon start
ed on hunt for rats. She has a
record as a rat catcher, so the ferry
man was not surprised when few
minutes later, she deposited a big
wharf rat at his feet.
Phoebe again disappeared, and re-
turned moment later with baby
rat tenderly carried in her teeth.
Straight by the ferryman she marched
and over to the basket where her five
kittens lay, and beside them she
placed the young rat.
AS an experiment, the rat was taken
from Phoebe several times, but on
each occasion she deserted her kit.
tens long enough to find the missing
youngster and return with it to the
basket.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-05-11
French Sailors Use pruas.

The extent to which the narcotic
habit prevails in the French navy was
Illustrated few days ago by the pro-
ceedings of a court-martial at Brest.
The defendants were half a dozen
seamen of ordinary rating, who were
charged with a considerable number
of robberies. All the men were VIC
tins of opium or the the ether habit,
or both combined, and were in the
habit of bemuddling themselves daily
with these drugs and the robberies
had been committed to crafty their
passion. Severe sentences were
posend
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-05-11
Ice Mountain,

One of the natural curiosities of
this country is the Hampshire ice
mountain on the banks of North
creek, 26 miles from Winchester, Va
For about quarter of mile the
west side of this mountain is GOV.
cred with loose powders and stones
of light color, the mass extending all
the way down to the river By lift.
ing these stones on any day in the
year, crystals of ice can always be
found securely hidden in the crevices
beneath.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-05-11
cnminn PonuIar craze.

Signs are not wanting that amateur
photography will have a vast increase
of raw recruits in 1907. From the
cloistral retreats Of the learned 1t
has transpired that We are on the
verge of discovering the art Of direct
color photography. And the masses
there Is abundant evidence OF It
dis beginning to turn their eyes to-
wards this hobby which promises 30
many wonders for the near future.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-05-11
PRAYs TO Pics.

The native of Borneo prays to a pig
on all important occasions. If he
fears enemies, i'll luck, or sickness are
coming, the pig is brought into the
hut with its legs tied together. A
lighted brand is applied to scorch it
slightly, then the pig is asked about
the matter which the natives wish to
know,
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-05-11
Back TO the Club.

The honeymoon was on the ragged
edge Of the last chapter.
my DEAR" said the ex-bachelor, II
believe I'll teach you to play cards"
THAT will be just too lovely for
anything, darling" rejoined the young
wife. What game win you teach
me?"
Solitaire" answered the heartless
wretch, who promised to love, honor,
and pay the groceryman.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-05-11

WANTED-For U. S. Army, able
bodied, unmarried men, between ages
of 81 and 35; citizens of United States,
Of good character and temperate hab-
it's, who can speak, read and write
English; for information apply to re-
cruiting officer, 126 N. Court, Mem
phis, Tenn; 236 Main, Jonesboro,
Ark; Union City, Tenn; Caruthers-
vile, Mo-; Corinth, Miss; Dyersburg,
Tenn, or Humboldt. Tenn.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-05-11
Good Theory, Poor Practice.

To encourage temperance the Brit
lsh admiralty allows 36 cents a month
to sailors who forego their daily ra-
ton of rum. But, as a sailor who does
not wish to drink rum can draw his
rations and sell them to other sail
ors at 80 cents or even more a month,
the temperance plan is not SO sue
cessful as was hoped.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-05-11
MRS HENRY LEE

Owing to modern methods of living
not one woman in a thousand ap-
proaches this perfectly natural change
without experiencing a train of very
annoying and sometimes p ainfu1
symptoms.
This is the most critical period of
her whole existence and every woman
who neglects the care of her health
at this time invites disease and pain.
When her system is in deranged
condition or she is predisposed to
apoplexy or congestion of any organ,
the tendency is at this per o d
likely to become active and with a
host of nervous irritations make life a
burden. At this time also cancers
and tumors are more liable to form
and begin their destructive work.
Such warning symptoms as sense
of suffocation, hot flashes, headaches,
backaches, melancholia, dread of i'm
pending evil, palpitation of the heart,
irregularities, constipation and dizzi-
ness are promptly needed by intel
ligent women who are approaching
the period of life when this gre a t
change may be expected.
Mrs. Fred Certia, 1914 So. Lafayette
Street, So. Bend, Ind, writes:
Dear Mrs. Pinkham:-
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound is the ideal medicine for women who
When a medicine has been
actually thousands of women, 20
it, 81 do not believe it will help
and family to try Lydia e. Pink
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-05-11
A Wide Field,

$50 your son is going to apply for
admission to the bar? | didn't know
that he had ever read law"
HE hasn't. 1t is his intention to
practice the unwritten kind. There
seems to be considerable doing in that
line lately" -Chicago Record-Herald,
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-05-11

The executive board Of the Wesley
brotherhood has referred to its gem
eral convention to be held in October,
1907, the resolutions from the Broth
erhood Of st. Paul requesting the ap-
pointment Of committee to confer
with similar committee from the st.
Paul Brotherhood concerning the uni
fcation of Methodist brotherhoods.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-05-11

Tue Rev. w. Arthur Noble of Corea
has one of the largest districts in
Methodism. Recently he walked 800
miles, the church in one section Of
his district being near enough for him
tn 90 this.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-05-11
Different.

my wife simply pelted me With
beautiful flowers when I came home
from the club last night.
How NIGEL"
mot much They were all in flower
pots. milwaukee Sentinel
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-05-11

Take Garfield Tea in the spring-it will
save YOU many days of headache, lassitude
and general i'll health. This natural laxa-
tive purifes the blood, cleanses the sys..
tenn and establishes normal action OF
liver kidneys and bowels.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-05-11
Famous Book Free,

Every reader of this paper can get free
Of charge one of DR.. Cotfee's famous books
which tells of new method by which
persons afflicted with Deafness, Head
Noises, Sore Eyes, Failing Sight from any
small expense.
Write letter Immediately to DR.. w. O.
Coffee, 800 Century Bldg, Des Moines, Ia.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-05-11
All Too Late,

The cider man gets, declares
philosopher, the less time he has to
learn things he thought he knew when
he was a boy.-Chums.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-05-11
Beet Sugar In the Frorpe.

Ono hundred years ago the West
Indies supplied about onehaIf Of the
worlds sugar. hut the industry IS on
the decline The worlds crop OF heef
Sugar is now about 6,gG0. dG0 tnnz-
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-05-11
II Cures While You walk.

Aliens Foot-Ease is certain cure. for
hot, sweating, callous, and swollen, aching
feet. Sold by all druggists. Price Csc; Don't
Address Allen S. Olmsted. lie Roy, N. 7.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-05-11
For
Ladies
iii s
B6
His Occupation.

What is your occupations" the
magistrate asked John White the
other day in the Westminster police
court, London. Il steal pewter pots, y
replied the candid Mr.. White.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-05-11

Old Sofas, Backs Of Chairs, etc, can
be dyed with PUTNAM FADELESS
DYES, fast, bright, durable colors.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-05-11
Chance WROUGHT by Time.

Dinizulu, the Zulu chief once wide
ly known and feared in war, has
graphophone with which he enter
tains his guests. He has also an or
gan built in England, on which he
plays.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-05-11

United States Leads In OIL
OF every 100 gallons of Illuminating
oil used In the world, 81 gallons are
produced In the United States.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-05-11

Itch cured in 80 minutes by Woolfords
Sanitary Lotion. Never fails. At druggists.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-05-11

Pure! Pleasant! Potent! Three inter
esting facts about Garfield Tea, the Nat
ural laxative 1t is made of Herbs and is
guaranteed under the Pure Food and Drug
Law.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-05-11

Mrs. windows Soothing Syrup.
For children teething, sofens the gums, reduces n
damRatton, allays PAIN wind collie 25c bottle.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-05-11

The Lutheran church has recently
issued a call for 1000 new ministers
to fiji vacancies in that denomination.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-05-11

Some people are too conscientious
preach what they practice.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-05-11


era. They had such costly hair orna-
ments that they would easily be
counted among the we'll coiffured
women of to-day. Bronze hair pins
in those days were what bone and
steel are to-day. But the lady of
quality in Clusium, in Vu1ci and other
Etruscan cities had her gold and jew
eled hair ornaments just as the
grande danes now have their tiaras.
Some of the pins held large rubies
and pearls. One in the Smithsonian
collection shows that large stone
of some sort adorned the ball at the
end. They are all of graceful design,
quite comparable to the best efforts
of the jeweler to-day.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-05-11
chivalrous Enolish Candidates,

In a recent municipal election at
Chard, England, two male candidates
withdrew in order that two women
might have an uncontested election
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-05-11

It's difficult for tight-fsted
preacher to hold his congregation.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-05-11

No conquest is so severe as MS VINO
labors to subdue himself.-T. a Kem'
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-05-11

Some Of Frank ]. Wilstach's pun
gent paragraphs:
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-05-11
5Tlck-PlN

Safety Pin, Tweezers, 5arrette and
Other Things Worn and Used by
Women Who Lived Thousands of
Years Ago.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-05-11
MRS. FRED cERTlA

are passing through Change of Life. For
several months / suff cred from bot flashes,
extreme nervousness, headache and sleep
lessness / had no appetite and could not
sleep. had made up my mind there was
no help for me until I began to use Lydia
e. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, my
bad symptoms ceased, and it brought me
up my system and am in excellent health.
consider Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound unsurpassed for women during
this trying period of life."
Mrs. Henry Lee, 60 Winter Street,
New Haven, Conn.,, writes:
Dear Mrs. Pinkham-
.'After suffering untold misery for three
years during Change, of Lite heard Of
wrote you of my condition, and began to
take Lydia f. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound and followed your advice, and to-day
am well and happy. I can now walk any
where and work as well as anyone, and for
years previous had tried but could not get
around without help. consider your rnedi-
cine sovereign balm for suffering women"
Women passing through this critical
period should rely upon Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. IL
there is anything about your case
you don't understand write to Mrs.
Pinkham, Lynn, Mass, for advice. It
Is free and has guided thousands to
health.
uccessful in restoring to health,
cannot well say without trying
me-" It is your duty to yourself
ans Vegetable CompoIInd.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1907-03-13
POSTOFFlCE LOCATED.

a matter that has been OF much inter
est TO Alma people and especially busi
ness men was settled las, Monday bv q
letter to Postmaster Brown from the First
Assistant Postmaster General at Washing.
ton, awarding the contract to Horr &
Gibbs Of ithaca, for ten-year lease for
the building now in use. The provision
Of the contract calls for complete modern
equipment OF fixtures, furniture. and all
boxes for the use of the postofiice. with
city and rural delivery furniture. heat.
light, water, fre-proof safe with burglar
proof chest. The arrangement, new fur
niture and fixtures, will be under the
supervision of G. I. Gould, assistant
superintendent, of Chicago. The new
lease begins July Ist, but the new equip
meme will probably be put in so as to be
ready for city delivery May Ist. The
rental price is ssSs per year. The
new equipment will be of the modern
type, quarter sawed oak, and will be by
far the finest Office, when completed, in
this part of the state, something Alma
people may well be proud of. The pres
ent site is good one and probably is as
to the masses as any propo-
sition made.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1907-03-13
HOT SHOT FROM CADILLAC.

Justice Chadwick of this city received
letter recently from his son Claude
who is in the employ of the Ann Arbor
r. K. with headquarters at Cadillac, in
which he takes advantage of the fact that
a dead man was recently found in a
car OF potatoes at this station, to say:
''You Alma folks just because we ship
out our dead tramps with potatoes need
not sort out the tramps and leave the
potatoes unless your preference is for
tramps. But suppose dead man from
good live town is quite an innovation to
Alma people"
Claude evidently forgot the fact, that
like many others, the tramp referred to
had rather be found dead in the Gratiot
County metropolis, Alma, than alive in
Wexford County's "live" town Cadillac"