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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-05-18
THE STORY.

n ALL the daughters of the Philis.
~ tines Delilah was the fairest.
None could compare with her in beau
ly of face and form, and with the
physical charms there went a vivacity
and cleyerness which made her beauty
well-nigh irresistible. Many were
her suitors among the lords of the
Philistines, and ardently did they be-
siege her heart with all the wiles of
the lovers art, but to none did she
give special encouragement. With
bewitching coquetry she kept them
dancing attendance to her and main
tanned her sway over them, SO that
the beautiful valley, through which
ran the brook Sorek, where she dwelt,
became known as the eachantress
garden where the queen of hearts
ruled supreme.
Now it CHANGED in the course of his
erratic travels through the land, seek
ing here and there adventure, watch
Ing the Philistines and curtailing their
power, and judging his own people,
L16 lSIdSutCSs LufsI 0duSOu one Jay
came into the valley of Sorek. When
his presence became known to the
Philistine lords who were sojourning
In the place they were filed with fear,
condition of mind which was lily
concealed from the eyes of the fair
Delilah.
TELL me, We brave ones" she said,
In tantalfzing way as soon as she per-
ceived the situation, what there is to
fear from this man, and he one of the
despised Israelites? Are not the Phil
istines masters of the land, and do not
the Israelites serve u.s."
"Yea,' they exclaimed, "but thou art
not ignorant of what this man Sam
son hath already done to the Philis-
tines? How he hath singee-handed
smitten our armies, and hath deted
the strongest to bind Or hold him?
"And that is not ALL they went on,
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your farm? The accessibility of a
market. You know what your grand
| father did on that same farm? Drove
his hogs and hauled his grain 80, so,
maybe Is miles to the nearest market
town, and received prices for them
that would make you howl about the
trusts. And he hauled back the fam
lily supplies for which he paid what
you would consider monopolistic
prices Do you happen to know what
the old farm was worth then? Well,
it lacked a good deal of being SIS or
800 an acre.
Yes, the home town, with its handy
market, has advanced the value OF
your property and maze you worth
several thousand dollars more than
your grandfather was worth. The
home town affords schooling for your
children, and perhaps social and
church privileges which your family
would not otherwise enjoy. The rural
mail routes and telephone systems,
radiating from the home town, as
spokes from a hub, bring to your
home the greatest conveniences OF
modern times.
What would your farm be worth
and how many of these advantages
would you be enjoying now, If the
city from which that mail order cata,
logue came were your nearest market,
your most accessible trading point,
your only post office and social center,
the only place to which you could look
to connect you with the outside
world?
Have you ever noticed that the first
thing the settlers of a newly-opened
reservation do is to send for wagon
load of mail order catalogues? Well,
haven't They lay out town site
every six or eight miles, start two or
three general stores, build a school
house, a church, a blacksmith shop, a
grain elevator, petition the depart
ment for a post office, and start a
newspaper. They know, from former
experience that, with these things
close by, life will be endurable, what
ever hardships may come. They know,
also, that without them they must live
lives of isolation and endure an exist
ence that is contrary to all natural
human instincts.
On the other hand, it goes without
saying, that the average country town
cannot exist without the support OF
it's tributary territory. Then, if that
town affords the advantages for the
rural citizen that have been enumerat.
ed, there exists what we may call an
interdependence and moral obliga
ton between the two. Are you, Mr.
Thrifty Farmer, living up to that OBJ
legation when you do your trading
with the mail order house?
To this line Of argument the farmer
may answer that his greatest obliga
ton, his first duty, is to his immediate
household, and that among the duties
TO mis- family and to the heirs of his
estate is that of practictng judicious
eeonomy-buying where he can buy
j the cheapest and TO the best advan
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the catalogue seems, in some cases at
least, to be lower than the price
quoted at the local store. Isn't that
describes the goods and quotes a
price; maybe it gives a picture Of the
article also, but you don't see the
goods. The local merchant shows you
the goods; you may examine them
critically; he may allow you to test
them or to call in an expert to advise
you Is it fair to conclude that the
catalogue article is the cheaper just
because the price is lower?
An element that must enter into the
comparison of goods and prices is,
that IN any attempt to fool the GUS
toner, the local merchant is decided
ly at disadvantage. He must show
the goods, not merely describe them.
His business depends wholly upon the
limited trading area Of his town and
his ability to inspire confidence within
that circle. He cannot afford to make
practice Of naisrepresenting his
goods
The mail order house is not so tied
down to the maxim that Honesty is
the best policy" 1t has no neighbors,
no fellow citizens, no mutual interests
with it's patrons. It's trade area is
wide and always shifting. Naturally
these conditions do not demand extra
ordinary vigilance in supplying hon
est-made goods. And where Vigilance
is not needed employe in the bust
ness he is generally taken off the pay
roll, which makes a saving in expense,
as well as in the cost of the goods. #
lower prices are quoted by the cata.
logue house, may not this account for
it?
"Will it pay?" Is it matter of
economy to buy inferior and damaged
goods when the same money, or even
little more. will pay for goods of the
best quality? Which course does a
mans first duty to his own household
dictate?
But to get at the bottom of that
question, we must consider the far.
reaching general erect OF mail order
trading. If single catalogue houses
are to be capitalized at $4,000, 900,
they must be reckoned with along
with Standard Oil, the beef trust and
railroad mergers. If they are allowed
to suck the blod from our country
towns, your grandchildren will find
conditions much the same as those OF
your grandfather's time. Their mar.
kets will be 30, SO or Is miles away.
The towns and villages will be de.
serted, and the hubs" will be too dis.
tant to send the radiating spokes of
rural mail, telephone lines and other
modern conveniences far into the
| country.
CHARLES RPAncuAw
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DR.. ]. F. PIGOTT,
Covington, La.
DIR. F. JULIUS HEINTZ,

Tenders his professional services to
Che people of the parish.
Office and residences: Abita Springs,
Rext to the postofice. Phone 1872.
Private diseases specially.
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tage. And this brings ds 20 the sec
ond point in the argum89t-the para
mount question in thia3 commercial
age-"Wiil it pay?"
BY most people an Affirmative an
swer to that question iAsaccepted as
the call of duty. AS IaAtter Of fact,
"Will it pay?" is goodetest to apply
to any project or propagation. There
are commercial, as we'll as political,
demagogues, and the maj who Is ap-
pealed to on the score zf patriotism
or profit, duty or dollars, can scarcely
do better than to sit down by himself
and submit that question-"Will it
pay?'-to his own best judgment.
Provided always, thai he goes to the
very bottom of it.
l believe that every man ought to
know why he does SO and SO. 100
many of us travel in ruts. We get the
habit of buying certain goods or trad
ing at certain places when we might
do better by changing. This will ap-
ply sometimes to people who trade at
abroad. 1t is always well to investi-
gate. / have known people to make
expensive trips to the city to buy
goods that the village merchant would
have sold them for less money They
hadn't taken the trouble to investi-
gate.
What are the relative advantages of
buying at the local store and ordering
from a catalogue house? Advantages,
understand, that figure in the ques-
ton, "Will it pay?" Don't get away
from that question. It certainly is
very comfortable to sit down by your
own f1reside and select dress pattern
or a sulky ploW from a printed des-
cription and a picture of the article;
much more comfortable, in fact, than
hitching up and driving to town on a
raw day.
A consideration more important,
perhaps. is that the printed price in
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SERMONETTE.

; An Unworthy Love.-There
are strange Inconsistencies in
; the lives of good and great men,
sometimes, just as we find in
; this incident from Samson's
: life. We marvel that one so
; strong could be so weak; that
a man of such faith as to win a
: place in faiths gallery in the
eleventh of Hebrews could fall
SO low; that a man of so iu-
: tense patriotism could play
so. completely into the hands of
the enemy; and yet it only re-
veals the fraiIties of human ma
ture. 1t certainly proves the
scriptural declaration that the
"heart is deceitfuI above all
things and desperately wicked"
and that without God, man can
do nothing" that is worthy or
enduring.
Samson allowed this unWor-
thy love to take possession of
: his heart and to exercise sway
over his life, and there was only
one inevitable outcome, humiIia-
Z ton, defeat, disgrace and an
I guish of body and spirit.
Samson loved DeIiIah. What
\ was there in this woman that
could appeal to the heart of a
godIy man? Nothing, surely,
of the quality of goodness. 1t
was a love based, not on char
acter, but upon the outward,
physical beauty which captivat-
ed the eye. Such love is al
ways dangerous.
There is no more powerful
influence over a life than that
: love which takes possession of
Z the heart, for tout of the heart
are the issues of life" IF that
{ love appeals only 30 the ma
teriaI and physical, high ideals
are absent, pure motives are
} lacking and inevitably that life
must sink to the level of the
life on which that love is be-
slowed. This explains the moral
decay and sad tragedy in many
wrecked life. Step by step
the unworthy love gains ascend
ancy over the will until at last
the complete surrender is made
as was the case with Samson,
and one finds himself shorn of
! his strength and undone.
But if that love is worthy
one, there can be no more po-
tent influence for good over the
b life. It leads out from self. 1t
|. finds Inspiration and help to
+ higher ideals. Il welcomes the
hardship and seIf-deniaI which
Z are necessary to the attaining
of those ideals.
And say not that we have not
the power of control over our
loves. We have! We can will
! to love WorthiIy. We can curb
the superficial emotions of the
heart, and seek for those deeper
expressions which will interpret
the will and love of God in our
lives. The affection that is be-
stowed apart from the Divine
will and purpose is sure to lead
astray. God seeks to share in
all earthly relationships, and to
the degree to which he is given
his rightful place, to that degree
will the life be blessed and be
blessing unto others.
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The Larger View.

"Up around the Connecticut coast"
Mr.. Higgins will remark. with a
bland, blue eye. "there are schooners
in the business that are $50 years old
and still staunch vessels"
You must not murmur at this. It is
best not to gainsay sea-folk; they are
tempestuous and squally, and besides,
1t would do no good, There is some
thing about the salt sea air that
makes hyperhole and the aggravated
use Of the multiplication table invol.
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The commonest Of All.

Every man hugs some delusion."
Eyes, especially if It wears petit
coats"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-05-18
DR.. H. E. GAUTREAUX,
Physician and Surgeon.

Physician and Surgeon.
Formerly assistant surgeon OF the
lrouro Infrmary, of New Orleans, has
located his Office with DR.. A. @. Crib.
bile, opposite TRULY & Oplatek's drug
tItore. Hours, to IL am; to SPIN.
Residence phone, "a. Office phone,
IG13-3.
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(CopyrlghI, lsV7, by the Author

Scripture ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS is;
1-21..
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CUNNING and lanorance.

CHARLES BRADSHAW
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-05-18

UNFAIRLY. The size of fish, the view
of a sea-serpent, the length of a swim
all these things are known to ex.
pand and increase in the briny air as
a flower develops in sunshine; it is
something childlike, ingenious, ma.
tural. Neptune is the father Of men.
dacity.-BroadWay Magazine.
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Cunning always has been the of.
fensive and defensive weapon of ig.
norance. Match cunning with cum.
ning'' only as a last resort.--John A
Rowland.
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-28
TWO FIREMEN REDUCED
Iawlor for One Year, Fleming for
 Fourteen Days.

The board of fire commissioners in a special session last night reduced Ladderman Matthew J. Lawlor, Of il
 Main street, a member of Hook and
 Ladder company No. 3. for the indis- erect use of intoxicating beverages on December q. He was reduced from the second grade to the third grade for one year, Lawlor pleaded guilty.
 Captain Martin J. Fleming, of 8 Me chanic street, in charge of steamer No. f on the night of December 21 made a mistake in answering an alarm of nre On that night there was a firs at the residence of Theodore H. Shel. don, assistant cashier of the Second National bank, at 235 Lawrence street. The alarm for the fire. was from box 90, corner of Whitney avenue and Ed wards street, but through a confusion in the numbers the captain responded to an alarm for fire from box 45. Greene street and Woodster place. that had never been sent in. As there were mitigating circumsta.ses, one of which was illness the board decided to reduce him one grade. This reduc- ton in grade will be for fourteen days
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-28
BAR EXAMINERS MEET
One New Haven Man Takes Legal
 Test.

Hartford, Dec. 27.-The state bar ex- amining committee held an exanina- ton to-day in the supreme court room of candidates for admission to the bar and of those who desired to take the preliminary literary examination Those In charge of the examination were Judge Samuel 0. Prentice. For mer Mayor William Waldo Hyde and Attorney Alvan W. Hyde. One of the candidates who took the examination for admission to the bar was the Rev Farrell J. c, Martin, pastor of St Ceeelia's German Catholic church in Waterbury. Father Martin is already a member of the New York bar having been admitted to that bar less than a year ago
 Those who took the law examina- tion were as follows: Fred C. Baubv of Waterbury; Howard c, Bradford or Putnam, Edward J Condon of New London, Ferdinand D'Esopo of Hart ford, Frank N. Gardner of Norwich. Charles D. Hopewood of Bridgeport. Addis w. Lowell of Waterbury. Far rell J G. Martin of Waterbury. VII liam J. McEvoy of Hartford, Richard T, o'Connell of Colchester, sabin S. Russell of Killlngly, Harrison T. Shel- don of New Haven, George A. Stokes of Waterbury and James A Hurley of 
 Kendall M. Pierce of Bristol took the literary examination
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-28
WAL LKER MAY NOT RETURN
San Diego Thinks Return of Securities
 Win De SatisfactnrY.

San Diego, Cal, Dec. 27.-Julius Fl, Pease, an attorney who came to San Diego to see whether he could recover | any of the securities which if is though William Walker alleged ab- sconding officer of a New Britain. Conn. band hid in this city, left to- day by steamer for Ensenada, Mexico If is alleged that the officers of the bank are more anxious to obtain these securities than they are to see Walker punished. It is said that if Walker will tell about the securities he may never be extradited. Of the s565 0oo taken by Walker much was in the form of non-negotiable securities. It Is hoped he may he induced to reveal their hiding place.
 Hartford, Dec 27.-State's Attorney Eggleston and John H. Buck have been very busy preparing supplements al affidavits to be forwarded to Mexi- 70. Judge Eggleston was visited this Forenoon by Superintendent of State Police Egan and by the Rev. K. IT. Divine, secretary of the Connecticut Baptist convention, from which Walk CT stole about s57O00. No telegrams have been received that Julius Pease of New Britain has yet reached En- senada, Mexico.
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-28
ASSAULT DUE TO JEALOUSY
Migalsl<y Believes Chapinsky Was
 Flirting With His Wife.

Albert Migalsky of Rose street has a wife Adam Chapinsky of Gilbert street has not Adam is accused of flirting with Mrs. Migalsky Migalsky was yexed last night and went to the house of a mutual friend named Ro- dowsky in Cedar street, where Adam was Migalsky had his hand swathed In handkerchief Concealed therein was brass knuckles, He walked over to where Albert was sitting and hit him on the head twice. The latter ran to a bedroom, and Migalsky followed him there and struck him again. The mutual friend of Adam and another threw Migalsky out. Then Policeman John Schmitt arrested Migalsky, and the wounded man was taken to police headquarters where Dr. Seymour l.. spier dressed his wounds, which were pronounced not dangerous.
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-28
NEW SERVICE SOON
New Haven Road Tells of it's Troubles in Operating
 Electric Line.
POWER STATION DEFECTIVE
Current Provided Was Only Sixty Per Cent. of Amount Calculated
 on for Traffic.

An official statement coming from
 the New York, New Haven and Hart
 ford Railroad company gives the req
 sons of the recent delays and lrreeu-
 larities of the new electric service of
 the system between Stamford and New
 York. After repeating the recent ex-
 planation relating to trouble caused bv
 defective and Incomplete heating ap-
 paratus in the new electrical engines if
 is stated that the power house devel-
 oped unexpectedly only about SO per cent, of the necessary current. New machinery has been ordered for the power house and is being installed which will give the system the neces sary current Earlier in the year ser ious interference of the feed wire cur rent with the working of the ttle- graph and telephone wires near the tracks developed. This has been rem edied and the electrical department of the company now gives assurance that no further trouble will ensure from NAA1"t s9SbA cS. NillOi nave also come from accidents connected with the switching and from short circuit Ing of the current by falling outside wires, in one case during a recent sleet storm the whole service being 1isordered by Q sagging telegraph wire, provision has now been made with almost absolute certainty against any trouble during sleet storms, and it g now stated officially that barring unlocked for accidents the whole cleo Uric service between Stamford and New York will be in full operation at he end of two weeks. The losses due .o engines fall upon the Westinghouse company and not upon the New Ha- zen company corporation.
 From the electrical department of he New Haven road the statement is made that the delay in. the new Hart ord~ Rockville electric service is due o the necessity of building new in- peetion pits for the cars at Rockville. i The line will probably be opened with n a week or ten days
 It is officially denied that the oper- ting department of the company has oaned or sent any locomotives to the Baltimore and Ohio road.
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-28
PROTEST TROLLEY ACTION
WhitneSville Citizens Move to Insist on
 Present Schedule.

A considerable gathering of Whitney vile citizens gathered last evening in the Whitneyville schoolhouse to regis ter protest against the proposed re- duction of trolley service on the .Coun- try club line. The Connecticut com pany has announced that, in accord with it's policy of retrenchment. it in tends to alter the service on that line from every twelve minutes to every twenty-four
 Those present at the meeting were unanimous in their desire to keep the present twelve minute schedule in ef- feet To this end a petition was drawn up which will be presented to General Manager Smith of the New Haven lines demonstrating against the change and asking, as patrons of the line that the present service be continued.
 MT Jackson was chairman of the meeting and the secretaries were Fred erick ?. Gr&ve and Gustave x. Am rhyn.
 It is expected to enlist the members of the Country club in the cause also as they are regular patrons of the line.
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-28
FOLEY IS UNDECIDED
Not Certain Yet Whether He Will Enjoin Vault Work
 or Not.
"A LITTLE TECHNlCALITY
That is What Rowe Calls Trouble, But Foley Thinks There is
 More to It.

The injunction on the fire proot vault construction at city hall stil
 hangs fire. Francis w. Foley. wht
 will assume the office Of director oj
 the board of public works next Wed
 nesday. has not altered his opinion ak
 to the illegality of the action of Con
 troller Rowe in advertising for bids
 for the furnishing of the vaults.
 Mir Foley said last night that he
 was not prepared to NV whether or not an injunction, would be placed upon the opening of bids next Mon < day for work.
 He has not been able to see. with the aid of any statement that Con- troller Rowe has made on the matter. that the latter has any right to act for department other than his own when the work in question strictly appertains to that other department. If the finance board empowered MT Foley to advertise for bids what right has he, says MT. Foley, granting that hls position Is right to consult with the director of public works. as he said he did with Mir Coe? The char ter does not give him any authority to do this, MT Foley adds.
 Yesterday the controller said the matter of flreproofing the vaults at city hall had been pending year. State Inspector of Public Records Hathaway having served notification on the officials at city hall that their vaults, in order to conform to the law, should be made fireproof The board of finance ordered the work done Immediately
 Mir Foley said that If 1t was some thing ordered by the inspector of public and the public works depart- ment was not to act, why was it not brought up before the board of alder men, that body making the preliminary and the board of finance the money?
 MT. Foley wants to know why. if inc city got the $15,00O from the courts in tl1e heating suit case, an amount of money it was not expecting, the con troller did not have the finance board | put 1t in with the rest of the appropri- ltions for the year 1908 when the bud get was made up. It surely belonged E here he says. Another thing he would ike t9 know and that Is where Mr. Zoe derives his authority for delegat- ng power to Mir. Rowe In this connec- | ion, for the charter does not give it.
 MT. Rowe speaks of the matter as title technicality but MT. Foley diff CTS from him. He believes that the avs as laid down in the city charter hould be followed