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Mr.. William A. Radford viii answer
questions and give advice FREE Or
COST on all subjects pertaining to the
paper. On account of his wide expe-
rience as Editor, Author and Manufac-
turer. he is, without doubt, the highest
authority on all these subjects. Address
all inquiries to William A. Radford, No.
1874 Fifth Ave, Chicago, Ill.,, and only
enclose two-cent stamp for reply.
A fve-room cottage that is con.
venient and that looks neat and COM
Portable is not easily planned. There
are many difficulties in the way Of
laying out living rooms and bedrooms
on one floor. Cottage house plans
have brought grey hairs to the heads
of many architects and good deal
of comfort to the owners after they
are built and paid for.
Formerly families were not SO hard
to please as they are at the present
time; in fact, hundred years ago
the most fastidious and exclusive of
our forefathers thought they were
quite comfortable in log cottage
having two rooms and loft. The
front room answered for parlor, sit.
ting room, bedroom and general liv.
ing room, while the kitchen did serv'
ice for general work, comprising cook
ing, washing and storage for wood
vegetables and many other things. A
little round bottom table in one cor
ner did service for a dining table
This table often was made by split
ting log in the middle and inserting
lengths cut from saplings for legs In
| the rounded side.
Since the good old times, however
cottage hogses have passed through q
wonderful evolution. A little i'm
| provement can be traced through
each generation, until the present
plans offer as much comfort and
privacy as a two-story house. Oul
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MEN OF MANY LANGUAGES.
Cardinal Mezzofanti Probably the
Greatest Linguist of them Ali.

Fifty-eight languages at the end Of
ones tongue! Yet this was the num-
Der of tongues of which the Cardinal
Mezzofanti was master, and the most
wonderful thing about it was that
nearly all of these different languages
had several separate dialects. Mezzo-
fanti was probably the greatest lin.
guist the world has ever known. To
hear language was with him to
speak it. He was a man with three
score words for every idea, and he
laid his great attachments to his excel
lent memory and to the fact that
once hearing a word he never forgot
1t.
jeremiah Curtin, the translator Of
"Ouo Vadis," is credited with speak
ing go languages and dialects.
There are few men nowadays who
pass the mark of speaking knowl-
edge of ten languages. Six or eight
seem to be the limit, even with men
of great learning. Mithridates, Pico
and Sir William Jones were said to
be masters of over 20 tongues, and
Sir John Bowring, Muller and Fres-
mel are said to have spoken in 90
The Sunday Magazine.
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to do business with such gentleman
even if he did have to send a col
lector for the money.
The fact is the count is typical OF
very numerous class of persons who
have no adequate conception of the
value of money. He appears to have
imagined that the Gould millions bred
like rabbits and that one lifetime was
entirely too short period in which
single-handed the most energetic and
determined spendthrift could throw
them away.
Victim OF Sharpers.
Although the late Jay Gould Is
credited with having left an estate
"A s75 600. 900 III rapidly increasing
Investments. the dowry Anna Gould
nrought to the French nobleman was
onIy *, 900 900. This was regarded as
annie. considering the fact that 1t
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to the expense Of furnishing a full
sized house and they don't want the
work and trouble of keeping it up.
Small families are suitable subjects
for sympathy because they look lone
some, but they do look great deal
more comfortable in neat little cot
tage house than when they under
take to scatter themselves through
the different rooms of a more preten-
tious habitation.
Lots OF men and women fool them
selves by building house several
times larger than they really need.
They do it out of pride. They want
an opportunity to show off and they
generally get disappointed. They can
exploit themselves alright enough, but
where they get left is in the satisfac-
ton of lording it over their less pros
nervous but more sensible neighbors.
It is a sort of bully business in which
the aggressive party usually feels a
boomerang effect. The thing hits
back. MAN needs but little here be-
low. nor needs that little long" but
a mans needs and his wants are two
very different propositions.
This little cottage is 33 feet wide
and it is 43 feet inches long, with
the yorches extra. The wall is laid
up to a good height above ground.
You have a much more comfortable
feeling in a cottage il it is well set
IN; in fact, the bottom of the windows
should be higher than a mans head,
then you feel as though you might
leave the WINDOW open without seeing
some investigating tramp crawl In
when you are not looking.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-01-26
Rise Of Two Street Waits.

The accidental meeting in Kansas
City few days ago of two ex-gov.
ernors seems to illustrate the oftre-
peated statement that "the republic is
opportunity" Fifty years ago two
street waits of New York did not seem
to have fair start in the world. John
Brady was, as he says, "a little Mick"
with no home but the streets. and
Andy" Burke had the same home.
They were friends. Sent as homeless
boys to an institution on the island"
they heard an official read a letter
from another waif who had been sent
to Indiana. The letter told Of the won
ders of farm life and impressed them
so deeply that they clambered aboard
train for the west. Burke reached
North Dakota, where in the course Of
years he was elected governor. Brady
went to Alaska. where after Striking
it he was appointed governor.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-01-26

grandfathers had an open fireplace
and it has pleased the present gen.
Grafton to retain this idea, although
in a greatly modified form. We
haven't so much room to waste on
brick work and we don't need such a
wide opening, because we don't cook
in the fireplace any more and we
haven't any logs or cord wood sticks
to get rid of, so we build a little
dinky affair that looks nice, and if
we are lucky enough to have draft
sufficient to draw the smoke up the
chimney we can maintain handful
of red Goals for companionship, while
we heat the house with furnace.
There are a great many small fami-
lies that may be accommodated in a
house of this size. They don't need
any more room, they don't care to go
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-01-26
WHERE HORSE IS EATEN
-. 4 the Flesh as an Article of Diet
il Spreading in Europe.

Relgium, AS in other European
aNries the sale Of horsenesn IS De-
cona recognized branch OF the
s 800 ssring business, according TO con,
Dnscn sEcNaily of Liege. Scattered
su III Iaege Are many shops seLling
ells meat exclusively, Q morse mead
h sa Ehad & the front. Of the shop or 2
at.ss Indicating the business WITHIN.
~ ID ID not forbidden for g meat
Il i handle both beef and horse
81 & Quite unusual 70 DO So
: oarrying their separate lines,
tba meat III dressed and exposed
the onls noticeable difference
u color, which is Of g deeper
bag 8 eoarser fiber than the
~ accustomed to eat horse
id Ia its praise and de-
turn thatable as beef. and
enr aorieat horseaesh I'M
~ ,at they are eat
trophy @ doubt t;aat
was highly favor, II slslls
and family
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-01-26

or vice versa, thus giving rise to an
other impenetrable historical mys-
terry. AS about the same time hand
some wardrobe, price $28O,O00, was in
troduced into the counts apartments
it may be surmised that this fact will
be seized upon as the key to the mys-
terry by the future chronicler, who will
show conclusively that the coat was
bought to ornament the costly piece
of furniture and that the bear hunt
was a mere incident.
Dance Is Expensive.
Another entertainment which was
the talk of 'all Paris" was little
dance, Louis XVI. style" This cos
tune ball was very charming and not
too dear at 100000. A more modest
dance-Louis XIV. style-cost $780,
900. Both of these fetes were appro-
pirate in the palatial setting which
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was practically 100000 more than
the count was accustomed to enjoy.
Under the French law the husband
has full control over the income of
his wife, so that at stroke of the
pen the poor count had millions to
spend.
Approaching his own weakness, he
guarded the countess against acquir-
ing his habit by limiting her to from
$50 to $50 a month. This prevented
her from buying cheap paintings at
fabulous prices and inculcated a
model spirit of frugality. AS for him
self, the count lost about $4,000 a
day during the racing season. After
the first day or two the ordinary man
would have become suspicious OF
straight tips" and sure things" but
Boni appears to have been too much
of a gentleman to have ever harbored
a suspicion against any personnel
Their at Longchamps or in the picture
dealers gallery.
Wisdom does not appear to have
guided any expenditure Of which the
count has been guilty. He put his
wife's whole dowry into town house
in Paris, modelled after the Little
Trianon. Then there is country
house which cost another half million.
A yacht cost 100000 and yacht can
not be kept in commission for moth
ing nor a crew paid with Il. 0. us.
His attempt to become a politician
cost another 100000.
FoIIies Are Numerous.
No extravaganza was too stipend
GUS or too astonishing to be neglected
| by Count Boni once he had conceived
| the idea for an entertainment. His
dinner to the king of Portugal made
him famous Not only was 1t carried
| out with a magnificent disregard FOL
| cost, but it was one of those complete
and perfect entertainments where
every guest feels that an artist Is IN
command. 1t was cheap, too. Ac
cording to reports it ran the count
only about $4,000 in debt, although
it is reported that 100000 clock was
added to the Little Trianon De Cas-
tellane In order to provide the sen
sational feature and give regal zest
to the dinner.
The SILL 900 fur coat which the
count purchased is not perhaps to be
credited to the account of the beal
hunt which the Croesus gave for {
Russian grand duke. Opinions diffel
as to whether the hunt was the excuse
for adding a fur coat to his wardrobe
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-01-26
At Least He Was Truthful, II Some
what Undiplomatic.

The late Prof Park, of Andover,
Mass, always gave generously to
charitable objects. Several years ago
the Sunday school children were in
terested in getting funds for the
Thanksgiving dinner FOR the Little
Wanderers Home in Boston. A lit
tie boy who was sol citing for this
dinner approached the professors
residence and found the venerable
gentleman pacing to and fro on the
board walk in front of his house.
The little fellow was quite bashful,
but being anxious to obtain the pro-
fessor's donation stated his errand.
The reverend gentleman stopped in
his walk, and as he looked down at
the embarrassed lad a kindly twinkle
crept into his eyes.
t'Well, my boy, said he, wouldn't
you be sorry if should have to go to
the poprhpuse because give You this
money for the Little Wanderers din
nerg.'
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-01-26

Count Boni De castellane has souan-
dered $8,OO0,000 In four years. Half
OF the millions were the Gould. mil
lions and the other half belonged to
trusting tradesmen.
Notwithstanding the ill-timed boast
ing of Pliny, Seneca and Juvenal. now
principally read by college boys,
against their will, of the ability of the
royal money spenders in their time,
Count De Castellane appears to de-
serve the palm all the king of spend
thrifts. Starting out to vie with
Apicius, who, upon the statement of
the ancient writer's mentioned, squan-
dered 100000 on riotous living. he
has surpassed Lucullus, who Eat one
meal devoured q whole estate"
Juvenal did not intend this allusion
to whole estate to be taken literally.
In the case of the French count who
married Anna Gould the estate to be
devoured was avery large one, but
the nobleman made a good fight, and
II he failed to cause it to disappear
at single little supper it was because
he lacked the necessary invention.
The French count was too much of a
gentleman to ask the price or to ques-
ton the BILL Hence he acquired for
a bagatelle of 100000 few paintings
appraised at about $50 and a pair of
candlesticks for $4,000 which connois-
seurs aver are Imitation and perhaps
worth about one one-thousandth of
the price. Anybody would be glad
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-01-26
The sneeze.Mood Tree.

This queer name is given to a Ger.
tain tree that is native to Natal and
other parts Of South Africa. Work
men cannot saw or plane it without
sneezing, the dust having precisely the
same effect as the strongest snuff.
The wood has a bitter taste, and in
sects give it wide berth. For this
reason it is much used for work that
is required to last a long time.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-01-26
An InduIaent pepositor.

Pat Sha1ghnessy, hearing that the
bank in which he kept his savings
had failed, rushed around with his
bank book and demanded all his
money. The paying teller straight
way began to count it out. %, we've
got it, have YER said shaugllnessy
with sigh Of relief Kape it, then.
Oh don't want it as long as ye have
i. Everybody Magazine
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-01-26

for about half the price of beef or
mutton.
The dealers in horse meat are
most active in proclaiming the prime
quality of their article and cam
paign of persuasion is now on. They
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-01-26
BOY WANTED THE MONEY

mo, sir" the boy promptly replied,
whereupon Prof. Park threw his head
back in his characteristic way, and
laughing heartily, handed the boy a
dollar bill.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-01-26
School.

Say, kids,
What do you think of school?
BY gum,
Amt it bum?
And yet you've got to have it;
It's medicine, you see,
To cure you for the uses
Of our futurity
1t takes your baby knowledge
And spreads it big and wide
Into a power of greatness
That swells the nations pride;
1t makes the feeble potent,
1t lifts the strength of man
TO such an. elevation
AS nothing mortal can;
1t builds you into something
You can't at present see,
And makes you what your Maker
Intended you to be.
SO. Kids,
Stick to 1t through thick and thin,
And you're bound to win.
But just now its tough
Enough
i;'''ii'o' E. RAN rs..4
Maui ~
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the cagtellane mansion afforded.

the Castellane mansion afforded.
When the other day the countess
lawyer denounced Boni as "monu-
mental spendthrift' he evidently was
well informed, for the rapidity with
which the count showered money
and obligations for more money-has
perhaps never been equaled.
There is far more fiction than truth
in the accounts Of the royal spend
thrifts of former ages. For instance,
the statement that Caesars supper
bills for four months were more than
e5,OOO,O00 steriing-or almost $685.
000,000-is probably exaggerated.
Some explanatory notes are needed
also with the anecdote of Antony Civ
ing his cook town of $4,000 inhab-
itants. Next morning, very likely, An
tony rebuked him for failing to take
a joke But the case of Count De Cas-
tellane is one of those modern in
stances which in measure is open to
the inspection of the world.
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the vegetable dyes, which produce the
tender, mellow tints for which Alas
kan baskets were formerly noted, for
the aniline dyes with their crude.
bright colors. The supply of local has,
kets does not equal the demand and
many are imported from the United
States, TO be brought back by traV-
elers.
Skagway, the termination of the in
land passage, was reached on Sun.
day in August.
Skagway resembles Juneau in the
character of it's rough frame build
in,gs, but there are fewer indications
Of woman's taste. One good stone
building attracted our attention. We
were particularly struck with the evil
dence of precaution against fire, of
which there is a great dread in Alas
kan towns. There is an army post
here and the soldiers have acted as
firemen very efficiently in many in
stances. We attended the Episcopal
service, which was held in small
room over store in one of the rough
buildings peculiar to Alaska. There
were about 80 persons in the congre-
cation. A small parlor organ was
very well played by a Minneapolis
woman, a teacher of music in the
town, and the choir consisted Of four
persons.
Such wonderful trip as we had
over the White pass! Skagway and
| Dyea, situated on either arm Of Lynn
canal, unheard of in June, 1897, were
towns of some thousands of inhabit
ants the following October. They are
the gateways respectively Of the
White pass and the Chilcoot pass
The only two convenient entrances
to the Yukon country, these passes
were made known to the world by the
misery resulting from the rush
through them when gold discoveries
were first made in the Klondike re
gion. AS the White pass was selected
for the railway, Skagway steadily
grows.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-01-26
MONEY THAT
HAD WINGS
HosO Royal Spenders of the
Past and Present Haze
Cast Array Fortunes.
De cASTELLANE THE KING

French Husband of Anna Gould
seems 70 Have Had Absolutely No
Conception of the Value of Money
I'm England the Marquis of
AngIesey and In America "coal Oil
Johnny" Dissipated Enormous
sums They Had Not Earned.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-01-26
The American
Woman
in Alaska

= BY Hrs. Of. ". Greedy g
Wife OF Famous Explorer Tells
Of Her Experiences in the Far
North "A City Where 1t Is
Nearly Always Raining The
Gateway to the Klondike -
Hardships Endured by Army
Officers Wives and Other
Women.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1907-09-01
VALUE OF FARM MANURE.
(E. K. Slater.)

The stock farmer is the only one
who can keep his land in proper shape
How many of these really appreciate
the true value of barnyard manure?
We fear that the percentage is small.
In spite of the great value OF the
manure as it is handled on the aver
age farm, the fact remains that not
over one-half of it's true value is de-
rived from it, Some years ago the
New York experiment station inquired
into the subject of the loss of fertil-
izing value in manure when exposed
in the barnyard. AS is well known,
horse manure deteriorates in value
more rapidly than does COW manure.
This is because the air has a better
chance to reach it and produce fer
mentation. The nitrogen is converted
through fermentation into ammonia
which escapes into the air. great
deal of the phosphoric acid and potash
is also lost through teaching.
According to these experiments it
was found that where two tons of
horse manure had been exposed six
months forty two per cent of the or
ganic matter was lost, whereas in an
other experiment there was an organic
and mineral loss of siXty-two per cent.
Again, 1000 pounds of horse manure,
composed of 1913 pounds of excre-
ment and 681 pounds or straw, de-
creased in weight from April "a to
September %, a period of six months,
to 1,730 pounds, showing tremendous
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waste. In another experiment with
COW manure the loss amounted to one
half the value of the manure.
1t can be readily seen, therefore,
that there is an enormous waste of
real value in handling the manure as
it is handled on the average farm.
1t should be spread upon the land
just as soon as it is possible to do
this. On many farms the manure is
hauled away from the barnyard for
the purpose mainly of getting rid of
it, and it is hauled away only when it
has become so serious nuisance that
the hauling must be done. The real
value of the product is not apprecia-
ted.
The right way is to have a manure
spreader and keep the manure hauled
away all the time except when grow
ing crops.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1907-09-01

boxes of Baldwins. Now the Baldwin
is one of the apples that l would
recommend for western Washington.
believe it will do better west of the
Cascade mountains than on the east
side. So Mr.. Marlin ought not to
have any trouble in disposing of his
apples if they are put up in good
shape. But there is the crucial point
Many beginners do not know how to
properly pack apples. Mr.. Marlin may
know how but l know that a good
many western growers do not know,
or if they do know, they are too care
less. 1t is risky to say this for peo-
pie are very sensitive about what they
do not know No one is to blame for
this unless he allows it to continue
without any effort to improve matters.
When our orchards came into bear
ing my sons and I did not know how
to pack our apples. Try as we might
we could not make them come out
right. l had to hire an expert packer
and pay him extra wages to teach us
and some of our hired men. 1t was
a hard struggle to learn. If we had
our apples packed now as many of
them were then we would fail. Sizes
must not be mixed, the boxes must be
full and the apples tight and not too
full. Better line your boxes with pa
per and still better, wrap every apple
separately. The box must be clean
and everything look spic and span. 1t
would pay a beginner to go to some
good apple orchard where everything
is done just right and learn as an ap-
prentice Don't blame the commission
men with your own blunders. They
have enough sins to answer for with
out being ga scapegoat" for someone
else.
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There is no change in the apple
crop outlook. Apples are high now
and will continue to be. Some apple
buyers are going around with some
trade journal with big headlines show
ing that there is a bumper crop. That
is true in some sections, but, taking
the country as a whole, it is not true,
and any man knows it who knows
enough to go in when it rains. There
is no failure of apples but the crop is
short in the United States and there
is a big demand in Europe for Ameri-
can apples. I could fill these columns
with statements from all parts of the
United States showing this is the true
condition of the apple crop. Take
good care of your apples and let no
one beguile you into selling too low.
&
Our own apples are doing we'll and
were never so free from worms this
time of the year. Prof. Piper expressed
great approval of the results of our
spraying He also said he never saw
such a success as we have made in
top-working old trees. Some trees
top-worked to the Rome Beauty and
the Jonathan in the spring of 1905,
have three boxes of very fine apples
to each tree We are proud of our
success in that line and Mr.. Piper says
we we'll may be.
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There are inquiries on hand that
must go over till the next issue. Send
them in, friends, and we will attend
to them in due time.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1907-09-01

Mr.. w. A. Marlin, of Florence, Sno-
homish county, Washington, wants to
know how to dispose of his winter
apples without keeping them into WIN
fer He saws he will have about 500
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1907-09-01

Say you saw it in The Ranch.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1907-09-01

There are inquiries on hand that
must go over till the next issue. Send
them in, friends, and we will attend
to them in due time.
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fully keep up this loss it would take
millions of tons instead of 100000 or
100000 tons which we now import. If
this was done the nitrate beds of
Chile would ultimately be exhausted
and then starvation would stare us in
the face.