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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-05-02
SYSTEM III BUSINESS.
Necessity Of Making Appearances Such
az TO Please the Sensitive Public.

System in the average retail or even
wholesale house has. advantages in
more ways than one. It is now gen
orally conceded that system is neces-
sity to dispatch of either Office or
house work. It also is necessary to
appearance. A well-systematized
store, no matter what kind of stock it
contains, presents a much handsomer
appearance than one with the ODDS
and ends jumbled together as If defy
ing human ingenuity to unravel it, The
eye-photo or unconscious mind impress
sion received by the customer, while
totally unconscious of its impression.
is lasting and decisive.
The dealer and each of his clerks
may enter the store in which they
work and not notice the want of sys-
TEN, but the impression is constantly
going out with each visitor to your
place of business.
1t is well to occasionally look at the
matter from. the other side of the
counter. Imagine yourself in the stead
of the customer. See what sugges.
lions you could make for an internal
improvement If the store belonged to
the other fellow. You will be sur
prised to see how many things you
would change.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-05-02
Cleanliness About stores.

Close observers note that the most
successful grocery stores are the ones
which are kept in the cleanest and
neatest order There is large class
of people, and they are not the richest
ones, either, who would rather have
good, clean groceries, things they
know are pure and kept right, and pay
a good price for them, than have in
ferior, earelessly kept goods at a cheap
price. Attractiveness about the grocery
is a most important thing. It means a
saving all around. In tho southern
country where the summer weather
continues for the greater part of the
year too great care cannot be exer-
cised in the looking after stocks. A
little neglect will cause losses that
will prove serious. Some classes of
goods if not protected from insects
will be soon ruined. The grocer who
would have his windows attractive
will do well to avoid having stale
things displayed. He should strive to
make an impression that his stocks are
clean and well-kept.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-05-02

A Chicago woman who has tasted 81
days in Los Angeles-not as delicate
compliment to California's cooking,
but to try one of the health-fad theo-
ries-reports that she is gaining
weight instead of losing it. At first
she dropped few pounds while her
system was getting accustomed to the
new conditions. Then she began TO
pick up weight. Now she tips the
scales few ounces higher up each
morning. Our agricultural experiment
stations should not overlook this state
Of things, urges the Chicago Daily
News. We do not desire to compare
the lovely Chicago woman to live
stock, but If fasting will work this
way on human beings why should 1T
not on the lower animals? 1t is up to
the scientists to show the farmer how
to put the last ten or twenty pounds
on his porkers by the fasting process.
VIII they rise to the occasion?
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-05-02

friendly He relates how he was done
up by the former agent. Then the
traveller turns loose his walls Of wrath.
He accuses the concern represented
by the first agent as robbing outfit,
and one that should be put out of
business. He gets an order, but the
farmer does not understand that the
goods come from the same concern that
the other agent represented. That
emily different name was used, and
the farmer is on their regular list OF
suckers" The only safe way fur
the consumer to do is to patronizs
home concerns. His home merchants
are interested in being fair and square.
They know that they must deal hon
estly or they will lose customers.
Their percentage Of profit Is far less
than that made by the box-car con-
Germ. Then, again, the principle OF
sending money from the neighborhood
where it is earned is all wrong Il 10
against the interests of the consumers
of every class and kind. A lively
home town always affords the best
market. There is saving in freight
rates and commissions to middlemen
D. NJ. CARR.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-05-02
FOR SPRING AND SUMMER TRAD.
Right Kind of Advertising ErtrGs =
the Customers and Builds UP
Business.

Merchants who get out and present
their lines in the right way are going
to capture the trade. Questions that
the retailers should ask themselves,
are: What am doing in the way OF
advertising? Have l the right kind
of space in my home paper? Have !
the proper style of copy? Have I
spoken to the printer about getting
up the advertisement tastefully and
with a border, ETC., and in the right
kind of type?
Spring goods should be in show win
dows now, and much of all that Is
ready for the buyers.
If the merchant uses page or q
half page in the local paper, he should
have the printer lift the form and run
off thousand or more handbills that
can be circulated about the country.
No use in doing this unless it is the
right kind of advertising. No use in
just saying: Spring goods of all kinds
at Browns" Such won't bring bust.
ness. Give prices, and tell how low
the prices are and how good the goods
are. The advertisement should be so
divided as to give a space to different
kinds of goods, and some good illustra-
lions, and some prices that will talk,
SO when the prospective buyers come
they will not be disappointed. MeF'
chants should see that clerks don't lie,
don't misrepresent, and that they treat
every caller courteously, See that de-
liveries of goods are promptly made,
and that in each package there goes
out a circular telling of other bargains.
Now should be the merchants harvest
time. Everybody who has money ex-
poets to spend a goodly share of 1t.
Don't neglect advertising right. Tell
your patrons that you can secure for
them any kind Of goods that they want
if you should happen not to have what
is inquired for in stock. Your jobber
will take special pains to put up a
small order for YOU If you tell him
that there is need for it, and viii try
to assist you all he can. Now is youH
harvest time and make the best Of 1t
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-05-02
Fake Investment concernr,

Fifty million dollars annually in the
amount that is conservatively esti-
mated the people of the United States
lose by patronizing fraudulent invest.
ment concerns. The government has
been diligently fighting the operations
of all kinds of illegitimate mining com.
panies, bond schemes and the like,
still it is difficult matter to head oil
their operations. The people are anx
iocs to get the greatest returns for
the money they have to invest, and
are too DESTROYS of taking a long
chance If the masses would only
realize that any investment which ii
sound and will pay fair profit can
easily secure all needed sands for its
operation without calling on tha
masses, it would soon drive the faks
concerns out OF business.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-05-02
Show Model Rural schoolhouse.

Under the supervision of Miss
Martha Van Rensselaer,, who is in
charge of the reading course for farm
ers' wives of the State Agricultural
college, Cornell university has erected
On it's campus a model rural school
house. The essential feature of this
sschooIhouse is a workroom which oc
cupies one-third of the floor space. The
purpose in building this schoolhousa
is to show tiat such buildings may be
made artistically attractive, homelike,
sanitary, comfortable and durable for
the same amount of money and labor
as the unattractive and unsatisfactory
buildings to which so many rural dis
tricts have been accustomed. The
Cornell model is designed for 25 pu.
pills in the main room, and the folding
doors and windows in the partition en-
able one teacher to manage hoth
rooms.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-05-02

! Secretary Wilson says the public
cannot tell fresh eggs from stale. That
is mistake. The public has an infal-
lible rule. All it has to do is to ask
the groceryman. The public isn't
obliged to carry around an electric
battery and an X-ray machine for the
purpose of testing its eggs. The gro
Ger is always more than pleased to
give the facts. That is what he is
there for The skeptical person might
think the grocer himself didn't know,
but he does. 1t is an easy matter for
him to know. All he has to do to get
Ia strictly fresh egg is to pick it out Of
the 41-cent basket. The price seems
ito him sufficient guaranty of fresh
ness.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-05-02
Bad Effects Fron, Cold.

Mr.. NJ. J. Deutsch, Secretary Building
Material Trades Council, ISL Washing
ton ST., Chicago, ILL.,, writes:
ST have found your medicine to be
unusually efficacious in getting rid of
bad effects from cold, and more espe-
cially in driving away all symptoms of
catarrh, with which l am frequently
troubled.
1.-THE relief Peruna gives in catarrhal
troubles alone is well worth the price
per bottle. have used the remedy for
several years now"
Spells of Coughing.
Mrs. C. E. Long, writes from Atwood,
Colorado, as follows:
"When I wrote you for advice my
little three-year-old girl had cough
that had been troubling her for four
months. She took cold easily, and
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-05-02
Modern Hosnitals.


It is difficult to conceive the change
which has been wrought in human life
by modern hospitals. From the be-
ginning of the Christian era the reli-
gious made an effort to reduce suffer
ing by caring for the sick and aged.
Compassion for pain became speedily
q characteristic Of the Christian. But
although hospitals increased in num-
Der from the dark ages up to the mid
die of the nineteenth century, there
was often reason to question their &C.
tual benefcence. The risks of infec-
ton were SO multiplied by the assem-
bling of numbers of sick people that
it was doubtful how greatly human ills
were diminished by the hospital. But
with the knowledge of antiseptic meth
eds all this has been changed, and to-
day the beneficence of hospitals is i'm
mense and unquestioned. For their
practical work they are largely de-
pendent upon the devoted labor of
women. The women nurses within and
the women benefactors without the
hospital walls are numbered by hun
dreds of thousands. In a great city
the service of the hospitals is enor-
nous. On Hospital Sunday" London
subscribes no less than 100000 for
the support Of its hospitals. A single
one of them, situated in the White.
chapel district, among the very poor
est people in the great city, has
served 100000 patients since it was
opened. 1t has more than 800 in its
wards constantly. Fifty patients are
operated on daily. When one thinks
OF the number of women who by day
and night, year in and year out, sup
ply the wants and alleviate the pain
OF the patients in the great London
hospital and in thousands of similar
institutions over the whole civilized
Christianized world, remarks the
Youths Companion, one partly realizes
what a mighty stream of compassion
took its rise when little group oil
men in Judea heard from the Masters
lips His answer to the question, "Whc
is my neighbour"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-05-02
I CATCHING Cold NIllEIiI: stree sS;I1.

people persist riding the street nucenty projected "
clothing. Of
the
this condition 1t
chilled especially when sitting
n
invariably DO not
preeauton hencet ycatch
in
adya should
without provided with
cold caught in the Spring liable to last the ent nTne
liability of catching cold is
during
n will
to
other remedies Begin az
disappeared This serious
on
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-05-02
DEMAND calcoRY.
Forei5n-8orn Americans introducing
New Product

The steady demand by those who have
emigrated to this country from Europe Is
daily creating a greater demand for chic
DRY to improve the flavor of coffee.
It IS fact not generally known to
Americans that chicory, owing to its pc
culiar properties, neutralizes harmful eff
fectS which result from the drinking OF
straight coffee as a beverage.
Now that it is becoming SO difficult ia
secure coffees at any price which are
really palatable, it is worth remembering
that a mixture of coffee and chicory will
give a beverage which we have dill
gently sought for but so often failed tc
find, for the family breakfast, viz, the
| 6rst-class restaurants and hotels.
We have our European citizens by
adoption to thank for this. Used as they
have been for more than hundred years
| to add little chicory to their coffee, this
was custom that chung to them after
| coming to America.
| Their constant demand for it upon oul
| merchants led to its being imported IL
| largely increasing quantities until one Of
! the largest foreign firms engaged in pre-
| pairing it established great works here II
| America.
Since then It's use has widened unit
| nearly all classes are now using 1t
| daily. Because 1t improves the taste o!
| Leading merchants are now putting W
| their package coffees with the addition
| of the proper proportion Of chicory an(
1 plainly labelling the package accordingly
| This insures you coffee and chicory OF
| the quality that will produce beverage
| like that served in the best hotels anc
restaurants.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-05-02
A TUB TEST
By FOREST BLAKE
Copyright, 1908, by Daily Story Pub. Coz

gun to get panicky. Then, for the
first time that day, took time to go
and look in the glass.
was a sight My hair wasn't like
the heroine's In story. You know,
when their hair gets damp it always
curls up into little, clinging tendrils.
Well, mine don't. And, when saw
myself standing there in my wretched
old wrapper, with my stringy hair, and
face covered with what Isaac calls
presperation, felt like fleeing as a
bird to the mountain. But didn't. /
just went back to my washing.
Prompt at three o'clock Isaac drove
up to the fence. / could see him from
the window, with his gloves on and
gold-rimmed glasses, and collar stand
ing way up around his ears. When
the children came a-racing through
the house to tell me he had come
just said, calmly, Bring him out
here"
Pretty soon in came Isaac. couldn't
see him very plain for a minute
through the steam, and for minute
he didn't speak. At last he says, in
the funniest voice:
What does this mean?"
ut just means I'm kind Of busy this
afternoon" says I, as picked up a
! pile of dirty clothes OF of chair and
offered him seat. How do you like
my lily complexion to-day, Isaac?"
"pm sI,re-I don't understand" he
says. 81 feel kind Of stunned"
You'd better feel stunned before
you're married than afterwards" says
/. 81 don't think any man ought tc
marry a girl till he's seen her in hel
everyday clothes. And SO / want YOU
to understand that this is the way
look about half of the time. If was
to take you I'm afraid that, judging
from your present prospects, l wouldn'
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-05-02
GIadstone's Thrift.

Gladstone's nberality :. was
very great, and was curiously accom-
panied by his love of small economies
his determination to have the prop
er discount taken off the price of his
secondhand books, his horror OF a
wasted half sheet of note paper, which
almost equaled his detestation of a
wasted minute-Recollec Of Sir
Algernon West.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-05-02


would wheeze and have spells of couF n
ing that would sometimes last for a
half hour.
"Now we can never thank you enough
for the change you have made in our
little ones health. Before she began
taking your Peruna she suffered every
thing in the way of cough, colds and
Group, but now she has taken not quite
bottle of Peruna, and is well and strong
as she has ever been in her life"
Pearu-na for Colds.
Mr.. James Morrison, SO East 10th ST.,
Paterson, N. j., writes:
/ II have given Peruna fair trial, and
[ find it to be just what you claim It
to be. / cannot praise it too highly. /
have used two bottles in my family for
colds, and everything imaginable. /
can safely say that your medicine is the
best have ever used
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-05-02
"Nails. y

mails are a mighty good thing
particularly finger nails-but don't
believe they were intended solely for
Ecratching-though I used mine large
Is for that purpose for several years.
was sorely affected and had it to do.
One application of Hunts Cure, how
ever, relieved my itch and less than a
box cured me entirely"
]. M. WARD, Index, Texas.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-05-02

have much time to stand before the
glass, neither. And I'm afraid, too"
says I, kind of cautious, I'm afraid
you'd have to find me in the kitchen
over wash-tub more than once a
week"
Then he got mad. Even If you
should have to work at manual labor"
says he, you can maintain your per-
sonal appearance" says he.
ooh, WELL" says /, as l started a
sheet through the wringer, whats the
difference? Love does not depend on
the physical. Loves spiritual thing,
Isaac. It's communion Of souls
Well, sir, he just give me one long,
shuddering look, then he lit out of
that kitchen and out to his buggy and
went away That was three weeks ago,
and l amt seen him since.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-05-02

The esteemed New York Sun, which
believes in giving every man-with
a few exceptions-a show, has per-
mitted its contributors to reopen the
old controversy as to the shape of the
earth, the question being whether it
is fat or round, Apparently the Sun
is undecided.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-05-02
THE MEAN MAN.

IT believe" his wife angrily de-
clared, that If I were dead you
would be married again inside of a
year."
"Oh, no." the meae man replied,
"you are mistaken. Try me and I'll
prove it,,
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-05-02

!, Rather, a cheerful outlook, that Of
q Boston social reformer and settle
ment-house worker! 81 believe" he
said recently, that I shall live to see
five hours a days work, five days a
weeks work, and five dollars days
pay" The attractiveness of the pros
pect depends, however, upon whether
one is employer or employed.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-05-02

! Diamonds haven't gone down in
price, says the dealer. You will find
that to be true If you are going to
buy dozen OF so. If, however, you
have one for sale and it is the only
thing that stands between you and
want probably you will notice g
marked reduction in the price.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-05-02

Postage stamp vending machines
tried in the east have not proved q
success. The government may have
to continue to depend upon the old re.
liable, or rather the young reliable,
pcnpadoured stamp seller.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-05-02

More than a hundred million dollars
we're spent for about $4,000 new pleas
ure automobiles by Americans last
year. Some of those who intended to
buy an automobile this year have
changed their minds since the panic.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-05-02

| Perhaps the new gun that shoots
100000 bullets an hour will be use
full adjunct to higher civilization, but
it doesn't appear as if there would be
much left for it to shoot at after the
first hour or so.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-05-02

In Norway man is not allowed to
vote unless he can produce documen-
tary or cicatricial evidence that he has
been vaccinated. 1t is poor country
for characterization societies.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-05-02

Love as many persons and as many
creatures as you possibly can. Love
is the only power by which you can
make yourself rich in a moral world.
-BIackie.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-05-02

If ever a man comes along that'll
tell me, over wash-tub, that he loves
me, I'll know he's got the real goods
and I'm ready for him.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-05-02
Hicks capudine Cures Women,

Periodic pains, backache, nervousness
and headache relieved Immediately and
assists nature. Prescribed by physicians
with best results Trial bottle 10c. Regular
size CSC and Soc at all druggists.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-05-02

The bachelor who takes unto him.
self wife gives up the simple for the
strenuous life.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1908-10-06
CENTRAL METHODIST CHURCH.
Rev. J. W. Wolling. D. D., Pastor.

LEV. y. w. WO1uuS, -. ~, dS1o4.
Sunday was a day Of special inter-
est to the congregation Of Central
church. The official board had re-
quested special offering for the
benevolence Of the conference and a
large response was given. The pastor
explained in striking way the
"Open door, and what it means to
the unconverted, to the believer and
to the church Of God. The holy COM
munion was administered and four
names, Mrs. Kate Fl. Sale, Geo. G..
Sale, Jr., Wilber Salesand Miss Vista
Wood, were added to the roll, thus
completing the list Of rs names re-
ceived as members during the year.
Some vases Of beautiful flowers
adorned the pulpit and the commun-
ion service was in perfect order. q
The services at night we're largely
attended and by a congregation COM
posed mostly Of young people. The
choir was large and well directed by
Mrs. Burr Martin; the singing was
spirited and there was a duet we'll
rendered by DR.. and Mrs. Whit Con-
nor.
The mid-week services will be the
prayer meeting on Wednesday night
at 8 o'clock and the. Epworth League
on Thursday night.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1908-10-06


Newbelry people desired to have i
hand in this road. He made 4 buSi-
ness talk on the line Of building a
road from Edgefield via Saluda to
Newberry. He gave some interestin"
information. On his return home,
Mr.. Aull stated that he would take
the matter up with his people and the
chamber Of commerce Of Newberrv
and would make a definite report at
the meeting Of the incorporators on
October 9Th.
The matter Of the survey will be
pushed vigorously and surveyors put
in the field just as soon as possible.