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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1908-10-01
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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1908-10-01

DAISY TRAVELLING CLCcK-In Mo
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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-06-27

Lawyers are not so prominent as
Legislators in Great Britain as in this
country. Mr.. Asquith, the new pre-
mier, is the first eminent lawyer to
hold that Office for almost century.
Lord Melbourne, 1t is true, was called
t. the bar, and DisTaeH was lawyers
clerk, but neither Of them practiced
Lord Salisbury and Mr.. Balfour were
landed proprietors and their profess
sion, IL any, was that of statesman
ship. Public life attracts men Of
means in England, large proportion
of whom regard it as a duty to give
their time to the service of their coun-
try. Neither the members Of the house
OF lords nor of the house of commons
receive compensation for their serv-
ices, and although the Irish National
Est and members OF the Labor party
are paid from funds privately sub
scribed, the amount they receive il
quite moderate, The ordinary English
lawyer is so busily occupied making q
living that he does not often seek an
election to parliament until middle
life. In this country young lawyers
enter public life as a. means of making
themselves known and thus increasing
their clientage.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-06-27
During the Summer Months.

The summer time is the time the re-
tail merchant must keep things NOV
ing at lively pace In his store. Gen.
orally the warm weather season Is
dull with retailers and the period from
June to September is generally regard
ed as time when there is little doing.
Here is where the retail merchant
must not allow himself to take
wrong view of things. The fact that
this stretch of three months has been
generally regarded as period Of in
activity Is just the very reason why he
cannot afford to allow it to be one.
There can be no periods OF inactivity
for the merchant of to-day. He must
keep a full head Of steam up all the
time. and it is even more important
that he should do this on the up grade,
when he Is working against the forces
Of gravitation than on the level, when
the business rushes almost of its own
momentum.
The live merchant will make up his
mind that there will be no periods of
inactifity in his store. He keeps
things moving all the time; there is
something doing every day and he
doesn't give people chance to forget
for a single day that he is selling the
best m erchandise at the lowest pos
sible prices.
It is these periods Of inactivity on
the parts of retail merchants which
have given the retail mail order
houses their opportunity to make in
roads on their trade. With the mail
order houses there are no periods of
inactivity. and during the summer
months they will hustle harder than
ever for trade, because they need the
money" The retail merchant must
prepare to meet aggressive competi-
ton on the part of the catalogue mer-
chants and it is up to him to hustle
and see we'll to his local advertising.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-06-27
HANDLING FARM PRODUCTS.
Improved Methods Practiced in Many
Agricultural Towns.

Every farming community turns
trade to the town where best prices
are paid for the minor products which
the farmers have to dispose of. The
prices paid for butter and eggs, quite
often, decide the business life Of o
town. The general practice in many
places is for individual merchants to
take produce in exchange for goods.
The lowest market price is the rule In
these towns. Should one merchant
pay cent pound more for butter,
or cent more q dozen for eggs, the
farmers conclude that the difference
is made up in the quality Of goods or
the quantity they receive in exchange.
To overcome the annoyances occa-
stoned through unwholesome competi-
ton in the buying of farmers prod.
ucts, the business men of many agri-
cultural towns, during the past few
years, have undertaken the operation
of cooperative produce establish
ments. These establishments general
ly consist of commodious warehouse
with cold storage appliances. The
merchants of the town are the stock
holders in the concern. A manager is
employed on salary and ig intrusted
with the buying and marketing Of all
produce. The storekeepers refer all
farmers who have produce for sale to
the produce house and the highest
market price is paid and due bills
given which are payable in goods at
the stores in the town.
This method has proved highly sat
isfactory everywhere it has been tried.
Not alone have the merchants found
it advantageous, but the farmers 40
well. Another feature worth consids
GRAFTON is the fact that farmers are
not compelled to trade at any particu.
lar store, but can make their \pur-
chases in any store in the town. Then
again much trade is saved to the com.
munity that might go to the mail-ors
der houses of the larger cities.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-06-27
FROM SMALL TOWNS
HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOL
LARS TAKEN ANNUALLY.
MAIL-ORDER SYSTEM
Views Of a Banker on the Situation
During the Recent Monetary
stringeney Well Worthy Of
Consideration.

The president of bank at Mime
Rpolis, during the recent financial
stringency, called attention to one
source of financial drain upon the
country towns which should be taken
into consideration, and remedy ap-
piled.
I'm this remarkable situation" he
said, when everybody is prosperous
and there is not enough currency to
go round, it is important that every
dollar possible should be kept at home
until the banking business is again on
cash basis. In the cities this is be-
ing done with good deal of success,
and the clearinghouse certificates and
cashiers checks prevent a serious
embarrassment. But out in the coun-
try, where there are no clearing
houses, every dollar boarded or sent
away from home counts double.
cat this time the patronage Of the
foreign catalogue houses is a factor
that ought to be considered seriously.
By their own reports two of these
catalogue houses, which deal in almost
every commodity of use to the home
or farm, do business of $90,000,O00
year. This is 100000 for each of the
six business days of the week. This
money comes largely out Of the coun-
try towns. These catalogue houses do
not sell to people in the cities where
they are located. It is from the farm
ers and residents Of towns of less
than 5000 population that 95 per cent.
Of their business comes and at least
third of it is from the northwest. And
remember, too, that there are other
catalogue houses, and that the COM
bined business done by them is at
least $200,000,OO0 annually.
81 am informed that all through the
state of Minnesota this competition of
the foreign catalogue houses has been
very seriously felt by the merchants
Of small towns, to such al extent that
some have been driven out of business
entirely.
eff this has been the case during
the great prosperity of recent years,
when money was circulated freely,
what must the effect be now when the
currency is needed at home? Money
spent with the local merchant is dis
bursed in the locality, at least the
profits of his business are, but money
sent away is lost from local circula-
ton.
without going into the home-trade
question it seems plain to me that
those who buy from foreign cata-
logue house at this time are directly
injuring themselves, for this question
of keeping money in home circulation
involves people Of all conditions"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-06-27
American Opportunity.

A bulletin from the bureau of manu-
features Of the department Of COM
merce and labor shows that, while the
United States has made extraordinary
progress in many directions, there
still are fields in which this country
Is greatly excelled by others. The
manufacture of laces, especially of the
finer varieties, appears not to have
been developed here as abroad. The
statistics are interesting. The people
or the United States last year pur-
chased laces worth no less than $780,
O00, 1000, for American women are
among the most prodigal buyers Of
this form of adornment. OF this total
more than 80 per cent. was imported.
This is fine thing for the European
aaeemakers, who find their best mar
ket In the United States, but economi-
calIy speaking the showing Is most I'M
satisfactory. Lace-making is one Of
the arts and crafts that should be
capable of development In this coun-
try, and thus a highly important addi-
ton could be made to our industries.
The bulletin in question hints at
something of this sort when pointing
out the fact that the various old-world
countries make very handsome profits
out of lace, although the cotton and
cotton thread which are the raw ma
ferials" are bought abroad and i'm
ported subject to duty. The United
States Is the great cotton-growing
country of the world, and with an
abundant supply of such material at
home should be among the foremost
I'm producing and selling fine cotton
products. Such information as that
in the bulletin from the bureau Of
manufactures should set Americans
thinking.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-06-27
CHANCE FOR GIRLS TO MARRY
Lines of Business That Furnish the
Most Opportunities.

81 have noticed that girls from GER
tain counters in department stores
continually marry Off," said a clergy
man. II refer to the counters that
men patronize-the pajama counter,
the pipe counter, the haberdashery
counter, and so on. Were I a girl
about to take a place in a depart
ment store, I should choose, even at
lower salary, the pipe rather than
the ribbon line.
Nurses, too, are a great class for
getting married. And they make good
marriages. They become the wives
Of promising young physicians. It's
different abroad. Abroad a nurse is
treated almost as a servant. A physi-
clan would regard over there a mar
rage with nurse as misalliance.
"GoVernesses, If the family travels
a good deal, marry the mates and
stewards Of ships. With stationary
families their matrimonial chances
are less good, though now and then a
really pretty governess hooks in some
friend of wife or husband, million
ARE broker or publisher"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-06-27
WHEN THE HAIR is OILY.
White CASTLE or Tar Soap the Best for
the Shampoo.

For oily hair white CASTLE soap and
tar soap are good shampoos, but the
;reen surgeons soap, which is so
much sold and used nowadays, is rath-
er too strong for ordinary hair, and
should be diluted before using. If you
wish to make a shampoo which you
:an keep on hand you can boil some
CASTLE soap by shaving it down and
boiling it to a jelly, which you can
keep and use as you need it. For a
heavy head of hair about an ounce
of this jelly is enough for a shampoo,
and for less heavy hair half ounce
is sufficient
The application OF tonic to the hair
is always good thing If some reliable
authority is consulted as to the best
one to use, but too much tonic is bad
for the hair, and as a result 1t should be
applied not oftener than once a week
unless the hair is falling out. The
present fashion of roughing up and
putting the hair is very apt to split it,
and the only way to prevent this and
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-06-27
Life-Savinq Work.

|
The stars in their courses condemn
the idle woman. The quiet forces Of
nature reproach almost as severely
the woman who voluntarily overworks,
and thus makes herself a hindrance
instead Of a help in the busy world.
The keenest impression left by Prof.
Palmer's noble biography Of his wife,
Alice Freeman Palmer, is that Of her
wonderful skill in adapting her work
TO her strength, and in finding
strength for all important work, says
the Youths Companion. She always
scoRed at the idea of Saving herself"
She saw clearly that a woman's vigor
is not like cistern, containing so
much water, but rather like a spring,
flowing for human need, and to be
guarded at its source, not at its mouth.
Says Prof. Palmer: eff there is any
one lesson which Mrs. PaImer's life
prominently teaches, it is the nfe-pre-
serving influence Of persistent, severe
and judiciously managed labor" She
experienced every sort Of demand
which may be made on a woman, ex-
Cept, perhaps, that of monotonous toll
at some long-continued drudgery. Even
that, one can fancy, she would have
irradiated by her joy in every human
relation. In her varied and exacting
life she steadily built up her physical
strength. Her power of physical en-
durance, not great in girlhood, in
creased as her judgment ripened.
"She believed continuous work to be
conducive to health, and proved it SO
by practice" her husband testifies.
She died Of an acute disease, which
could not have been foreseen or pre-
vented, but her too short life is a gIo-
Tious witness to the value of sound
mind in a sound body.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-06-27
1T PAYS.

When the dimpled baby's hungry, what
does the baby do?
Il doesn't lie serenely and merely sWeetiy
coo:
The hungry baby bellows with all it little
might
Till some one gives 1t something to curb
it's appetite;
The infant with the bottle which stills its
fretful erie,
A lesson plainly teaches-It pays TO al
vertise.
The lamb lost on the hillside when dark
ness closes round :.
Stands not in silence trembling ana walt
ing to be found;
Its plaintive bleating echoes across tle
wales and meads
Until the shepherd hears 1t, and, nearing
kindly heeds,
And when it's fears are ended, as on MS
breast it lies,
The lamb has made this patent: 1t pays
to advertise.
The fair and gentle maiden who loves the
bashful boy
Assumes when in his presence manner
that is coy;
She bushes and she trembles till he per-
ceives at last,
And clasps her closely to him and glad
~ holds her fast,
And as he bends to kiss her and she Sc
renely signs
This fact is demonstrated: 1t pays 10 al
vertise
IS L. Kiser, in Chicago Record Herald
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-06-27
LEARNED A LESSON.
One Farmer Finds Out Somethinl
Through Buying a MaiI-Qrder Stove.

The Wayne (Neb.) Herald recites
the story of Wayne county farmer
who was caught by one Of the cata-
logue houses. He learned the lesson
and paid dearly for it. Mr. Farmer
had seen the stove picture in the cata-
logue and had sent on his good 500.
adding $3.50 for freight. Then the
stove came to the depot. The farmer
came to town, loaded up the junk and
drove up onto the business street.
Then to some friends, he confided:
THAT stove cost me $29 and $3.50
freight, and I'll bet 1t is half sheet
iron. have been waiting for it for
over two months and my wife is near
ly crazy about it. could have done
better by buying Of the Wayne hard
ware dealers. The catalogue fellows
can go to hades in the future"
This is lesson that people Of Ne
braska and other states are being
taught every day in the year and it is
a pleasure to know that they are get
ting their eye teeth cut in the most
artistic and approved style. They are
ordering from the catalogues and in
return they are getting miserable lot
of junk, paying much higher prices
than they would have to pay for first
class goods sold in the home stores.
The catalogue houses live and grow
fat off just such people as the man at
Wayne. These men are constantly
looking for the big end Of the bargain.
The catalogue houses are doing the
same thing. It would look as though
it would be when Greek meets
Greek" but it's nothing Of the kind.
The catalogue concerns have all the
advantage. They have gotten the
money of the individual and then they
send him out any kind of an old lot OF
junk, knowing that he has no recourse.
These catalogue houses have been do
ing this thing for years and find
plenty of suckers, for you know there
is something recorded about a sucker
being born every second. Perhaps
they do not get the same sucker a
second time, but they catch some that
came along in the new crop.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-06-27

= That tips are wages has just been
decided by the appeals court Of Eng
land. The case came before it in the
claim made, under the Workmen's
Compensation act, in behalf Of wait
er who was accidentally killed in a
dining car 1t was contended by his
dependents that the true basis Of
reckoning was the mans wages plus
his tips. The lower court denied this,
but on appeal it was held that tips are
TO be regarded as wages when the
giving and receiving of them are open
and notorious"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-06-27

Memphis has decided, through it's
park commissioners, to restore to the
monument of Andrew Jackson the in
scription, "Our Federal Union: 1t must
be preserved" The phrase was a
toast given by Jackson in 1880, on the
anniversary of Jefferson's birthday.
When the civil war broke out the idea
was not popular in Tennessee and the
inscription was removed. The restora-
ton of it is a sign of the passing of
old feelings and the growth of the new
national unity.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-06-27
keep it in good condition Is to have 1t
singed and clipped at the ends.
Walstcoat Decorations.

Since all the spring coats are being
made with waistcoats, it is necessary
to embroider them in a great many
novel and attractive ways. A favor
tie material for the waistcoat is sort
of fine canvas, which may be easily
embroidered in solid flowers. 1t is not
necessary to work very large design
or to shape it in any way; merely an
embroidered band down the front of
the vest is sufficient, and it makes
these little affairs very attractive.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-06-27
Ideas for Market DAVIS.


That the market day" idea is be-
coming decidedly popular in the coun-
try is indicated by the fact that the
merchants of dozens of western towns
have adopted the plan lately. Re-
ports from these places, which have
been giving the market day" plan
trial, indicate that it is giving salts.
faction to dealers and to their
patrons. Like any other innovation
the success of the establishment of q
market day depends almost entirely
upon the interest which it evokes and
tAe sustained energy that is en-
ployed in giving it distinctive value
to producers. The merchants will get
out Of the plan no more nor less than
they put into it. II the arrangements
made afford the assurance that pa
irons will find improved facilities for
the disposal of their products 1t is Ger.
tain to prove q drawing feature. If
it is employed simply as a plan for
drawing crowd Of farmers to town
to spend their money, 1t is equally
certain that the ultimate result will
be unsatisfactory, II not seriously
detrimental to future business rela-
tons. It is good policy not to go into
C scheme Of this kind until satisfied
that conditions are right for its sue.
cess, and once undertaken, to push it
for all it is worth. Make It worth
while for customers to come from a
distance for the day, so that they will
be ready to assist in the perpetuation
Of the plan. A great deal depends on
starting right" and, once having pop.
ularized the idea to keep up sustained
enthusiasm by providing improved
facilities for caring for the Increased
trade which it develops.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-06-27
A Stiff Lingerie Collar.

When wearing one Of those soft
collars, sold as a turnover collar,
which is too fine to stand any starch,
it is a very good idea to cut the band
from mans collar and fasten it about
the neck, tying over it ribbon to
which is attached the soft collar. In
this way trim effect will be main,
tanned, and the heavy linen is so stiff
that no amount of feminine wear and
tear will break it down.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-06-27
IFZ & q 8zE2 "a
GE57f[5C[9[5[D> STILES
TRADITIONS.

The traveller entered the wooos Of
coore,a with the traditions Of the 10
cality strong upon him.
"a close shave!" ne exclaimed
when some hogs had chased hirA up
a convenient sycamore, for ne Thought
of them as razor-backs.
Imagine his establishment whea ne
saw none of the beasts stroFplng
themselves against the trees.
awe are modern saiety-razor-baek S,
explained the swine, diyining mis-
thought, land require no stropping or
honing."
II was with a saddening sense OF the
mutability of things that he at length
came away from those regions of.sonG
and story.-Puck.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-06-27
The First Law.

The head of the police department
had just eurtailed the powers of the
Law and Order society.
Professional jealousy?" he was
asked.
ooh. no. he responded, nothing
but se1f-preservation."
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-06-27
They Saw This Occurred.

''Well, children" beamed the Sunday
school superintendent, what shall l
talk to you about this morning? Come,
GOMEZ want you to choose what you
want to hear about. Any little boy or
girl here suggest something? What
shall speak about?''
A long silence. Then boy in the
back row ventures
What dyer know bout?"-Cleve-
land Leader.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-06-27
FiNess

Mr.. Quinby called up his wife ~
telephone.
"Arabella," he said, "I'd like to
bring friend home to dine with us
this evening. Have you something
good"
JASON" she said, you told me you
were going to bring a friend to- take
dinner with us, and I've laid myself
out to get a good meal. Where il
he?"
"Arabella," answered Mr.. Quinby. 7
said I'd like to bring friend. I
couldn't find any to bring. If dinner
is ready, let's eat. I'm hungry. Chi
cago Tribune.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-06-27

Tea-table cloths are nowadays by
no means the squares Of damask or
linen of almost conventional plainness
which they were few years ago. So
much drawn-thread work or embroid-
cry is introduced that they have come
to be regarded as one of the most cost
ly items of the linen chest, and are far
too precious to be included in the
weekly washing list, and handed over
to the ministrations of the ordinary
laundress. Washing of this descrip-
ton is always best undertaken by
some one who can give the matter in
dividual attention, in default Of which
fine drawn threads are apt to part
company with the linen foundation,
and the design ironed SO carelessly
as to flatten the pattern and ruin the
appearance of the raised embroidery.
Before attempting to wash the tea
cloth It should be looked over care
fully to see If it Is stained in any way.
Tea stains-if recent-can usually be
eliminated by holding the cloth over a
basin and pouring boiling water on the
stain from arms length. If obstinate
ly fast, it is good plan to spread a
little butter over the spot before try
ing the effect of the boiling water,
while lemon juice or sour milk and
salt have each a satisfactory result in
the case of ink spots.
If piece of fine lawn or muslin is
laid over motifs or bands of openwork,
the point of the iron will be prevented
from catching in the delicate network
of threads, while the treble thickness
OF flannel raises the pattern in the
case Of Irish hand embroidery. Lace
edgings should never be pressed
without interposing a folded cloth be-
tween them and the iron, or they are
apt to gain a glazed appearance, and
in lieu of this, each scallop should be
stretched out gently with the fingers,
and the loops pulled out with a hair
pin or fiat bodkfn. To flattena the
edging, the teacloth should be re-
versed, a damp flannel laid over the