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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-03-21
DRESS TRIMMINGS OF RRAips.
BY Fashions Decree, These Will orna-
ment Spring Costumes.

1t is comforting to learn that braids,
SO universally practical as well as or
namenta1 as trimmings, are to con-
tinue smart, and that binding braids,
comparatively new, will be much used
this coming spring for tailored cos
tunes.
These binding braids now come in
novelty patterns, and where last sea
son they were plain or in the diamond
weaves, this coming seasons offerings
come in colored, in striped and other
effects. The cords or stripes are so
arranged as to come in the center of
the braids. This insures the edge ap-
piled to the cloth being as fiat and
smooth as possible, while the center is
rendered more ornamental by the
raised cords or the smooth satin strap
pings.
Another desirable feature of the new
braids is the fact that they have the
double pull edges, making it possible
to adjust them to every curve and
point at a garments edge.
The soutache and radium braids will
be features of the coming spring and
the following autumn as well. Radiums
are being manufactured extensively in
Berlin, and as for soutache, it will re-
tain If not exceed it's present FASH
ionable vogue.
A strong point in favor of soutache
is that it is no more expensive and
difficult to apply, as compared with
other braids, being generally braided
or embroidered directly on the, gown
or wrap, and that it can never become
common, as do too many other at
tractiye decorations.
FfIet lace and embroideries will con-
tinue to be as much worn during the
next few months as ever and many
new and handsome patterns are being
imported for the spring season.
In many of them the net is black,
with the embroidery or fine braiding
done in colOrs.
In the silk embroideries on filet
grounds there are many bands, some
with serrated and many with straight
edges, and fine silk braid, as well as
silk floss, is used in the embroidery.
The Chinese and Japanese and other
Oriental bands, in hand and also in
machine made atripes and bands, are
being imported, and so are the bands
woven to initiate the Oriental en-
broideries.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-03-21
SHOWS THE WORLDS PROGRESS,
Labor-Saving Devices That Would AS
tonish Our Forefathers.

When Mccormick built bis first hun.
dred reapers in 1916 he paid Az cents
for bolts. That was in the mythical
age of hand labor. To-day so bolts
are made for cent. So with guard
fingers; Mccormick paid "a cents each
when James K. Polk was in the White
House. Now there is a ferocious ma.
chine, which, with the least possible
assistance from one man, cuts out
1900 guard-fngers in ten hours, at a
labor cost of one cent for six. Also,
while exploring one of the Chicago
factories, came upon a herd of cud.
chewing machines that were crunch.
ing out chain links at the rate of So.
100000 a year. Near by were four
smaller and more irritable automata,
which were biting off pieces of wire
and chewing them into linchpins at a
speed of 100000 bites day.
Take out your watch and time this
man." said Superintendent Brooks of
the Mccormick plant. See how long
he is in boring five holes in that great
casting"
Exactly six minutes" answered.
well, that's progress" observed
Brooks. Before we bought that ma
chine it was a matter of four hours to
bore those holes"
In one of its five Irvine mills-a
monstrous bedlam of noise and will.
derness of fuzz, which is by far the
largest of its sort in the world-there
is enough Irvine twisted in a single
day to make girdle around the earth.
Everybody Magazine.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-03-21
For Little Folks.

The combination of white hosiery
with black slippers is much seen.
Little girls wear both leather and
beaded kid slippers. Only very wee
tots under five wear stockings and slip
pers in pale pink or blue.
Wash fabrics lead everything else
for making little party frocks, and
more embroidery than lace is seen.
When lace is employed at all it is
as insertion to set off strips of hand
run tucks or hand embroidery. The
sheer materials, like batiste, Persian
lawn, handkerchief linen, fine Swiss
and French dfmity, are much used.
Pique is too heavy for little girls, and
with@china silk is quite eclipsed by
materials which tub and take just
q suggestion of starch.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-03-21
Pendants Here Again.

Numbers of pendants have come
into use for dress ornament, and
especially for neckwear. Those for
the evening, that is, the most accessible
forms-are little basket forms, jeweled
and set in silver or gold. Many heavy
pendants are seen in Roman designs,
on which the head of some goddess is
worked out in repousse, or in cameo,
or the center is set with big, heavy
stone, the amethyst being much IA
vored this year. Old and oxidized sill
yer settings are especially fashionable
in such pendants. The chains on which
the latter are hung are all very light.
The nearer they are to a thread the
more fashionable.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-03-21
4 "a - -.,v,.s-para.szz So
w Asss4 5Es-S4T
Sezg

White Japanese silk makes a smart
froek for quite little girl. and locks
pretty if worn over colored slip. The
upper part is gagged to form an en-
pire bodice, the foot is finely tucked
and trimmed with insertion and lace,
the silk being cut away from the back
of the insertion. The neck Is finished
with wide turned down collar made
in two sections, each edged with frill
of lace, and a lace applique is sewn in
each point. Materials required:
Five yards silk 81 inches wide, four
yards insertion, and six yards lace.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-03-21
For Einoer Bowls.

A woman with a mild mania for
things Japanese had little wicker
baskets placed before each guest
when finger bowls might have been
expected. In each basket was a folded
napkin of Enthusiastically Japanese ma
terial made moist, but not dripping,
with perfumed water. Following the
example of the host each guest seized
his napkin and used it, still folded, on
lips and fingers.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-03-21
Il.

If only men bought things nobody
would ever havo issued trading
stamps.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-03-21
Wonian's Chief Weapon.

Woman, having no other means at
her disposal for Vanquishing and at
taching men to her chariot-Wheels,
has for many long centuries had to re-
ly entirely on coquetry. It is not as
tonishing, therefore. that this weapon
is deeply ingrained in the feminine
sou1-has become, in fact, an instinct
at once conscious and involuntary
and that it now constitutes one of
woman's most fundamental character
istics.-The Grand Magazine.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-03-21
SERMONETTE,

Elijah lived in the spirit and
confidence of the One Hundred
J and TWerty-first Psalm. During
all these terrible three years
. while King Ahab and his en-
issaries secured the land and stiff
! ed the nations round about seek
ing in mad rage for the prophet
that they might kill him as they
had killed all the priests of the
: Lord upon whom they could lay
: their hands, Elijah rested safe
: Iy and peacefully under the
shelter of the Almighty. No evil
: could come to him, for Gods
. hiding places are beyond mans
: power to find, and Gods re-
sources for supplying the needs
: of the body are infinite.
There were only two things
the prophet needed to do in
! order to bring himself within the
sphere Of Gods perfect care.
To OBEY and to WAIT.
Obedience made him the bear
! er of an unwelcome but need
full message. He dared to speak
the truth, even to the king. IL
10 not honeyed words the world
needs, but the burning words of
Gods judgment on sin and his
call to Righteousness.
! Obedience made for the
prophet powerful enemies who
sought his life, but obedience
also made certain the unfaiIing
friendship of God.
Obedience made him a fugi-
tive and drove him from the fell
lowship Of man, but it also won
for him the fellowship and hos
pitaIity of God.
And having obeyed, he waited.
Perhaps this is the hardest
test to which the servant of God
can be subjected.
To push boldly into the pres
ence of the king and bluntIy
give Gods message took ,cour-
age, but to wait, just wait, dur
ing the weeks and months while
Gods word was being fulfilled;
to wait, just wait, while the de-
Vouring drought wasted the
land; to wait, just wait, until
God spoke, even though the
angry king had decreed your
death and was sending his SOL
diers to take you; there is where
the real testing comes; there is
where sublime faith lie needed
to keep one steadfast.
To wait on God is to make GER
tain that you do not miss the
only door of escape to Gods shell
tering care. Elijah waited even
until the king had spoken the
sentence OF death upon him,
even until the shadow of tho ex-
ecutioner had fallen across the
doorway of his humble dwelling,
and then God babe him 90 to
the brook Cherith.
To wait, just wait, and see
the last drop Of water dipped
from the brook; TO wait, just
wait, after the ravens had made
their last visit and came no
more! All! what testing. Had
God forgotten? Was he to per-
ish there? No waterI No food,
for the hour when the ravens
should have returned was gone!
In the darkness of the moment
he just waited, and then God
spoke, pointing the next step
and opening the door to new
supplies Of his grace and
bounty.
It pays to obey God and then
to wait, for "He will not suffer
thy foot to be moved; he that
keepeth thee will not slumber."
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-03-21
The Mun Purse

Lizard, alligator, pigskin and all the
other varieties of real and imitation
skins are used for the muff purse.
They are usually from six to eight
inches long and 31s inches wide.
They hold all that could be contained
in a good-sized wrist bag. and are
really much safer to carry about, both
because they are less easily opened
and not likely to be lost.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-03-21
Chenille Trimming,

Chenille is beautiful, whether in
fringes or embroideries, and is es-
pecially suited to trimming velvets
and brocades. Soutache is used in
embroidering nets and laces and other
thinner materials, and makes a strik
ing contrast.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-03-21
The New Shades

Blue promises. to be the leading
color this spring. Amsterdam blue
and tapestry blue are two of the new
shades. They are soft and lovely,
with no suggestion of harshness in
their tone
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-03-21

Scripture Authority Kings 1
and 10th verse Of Chapter Is.
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1908-10-24

oers Of other reasons why we should
have Il. but how to get 1t is alto
gether another matter.
IL seems 10 me that orr good Post
master General and his assistants
have made 1t perfectly clear to Con-
gress that justice demands that the
parcels post privileges should be ex-
tended to our people. and they have
not needed their requests. I think
very nearly all the State Rural Let
ter Carrier Associations have passed
resolutions favoring a system OF rural
parcels post. and that seems not to
avail. So I reckon we will have to
begin at the boxes and educate our
patrons regarding the advantages IL
would give them and thereby create
"A greater demand for the service by
those who would be the direct bene-
aciaries and then let every carrier
appoint himself a committee of one
and go TO the member OF Congress
from bis respective district and ex-
plain to him The advantages IL would
give his constituents In the rural
districts and ask him 10 use his In
auence TO get some favorable leEis-
lation on the subject.
THCs~ v. HOWELL
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1908-10-24
Plow Handle Talks.


house. At the ends let IL be straight
up, not drawing IL I'm any.
This Is better than stacking around
poles In small stacks. You viii not
have so much waste because there
vii not be as much % IL exposed 10
the weather az II you had a lot OF
small stacks. You can make small
stacks this way or large ones. Make
them according to your amount of hay
] have put afty acres Of large growth
Of pea vines tn one stack and I have
only put three loads tn a stack. II
wiil De less trouble than digging
holes and getting poles
There IN but one trouble In making
such large stacks. you can't get OF
a small amount OF I; as ron want IL
This can be remedied By getting a
hay knife and cutting OF what you
want to move. You can cut through
a large stack In less than an hour
Can cut IL IA fast as one man can
take IL away This In the way the
Western hay farmers stack their hay
This wiii apply 20 any kind Of hay
or wheat straw I also put mp ms
whoa; this way ia a long row: don't
make a round shock Of wheat. You
can put a whole crop Of wheat in one
stack Start the stack BY setting the
wh@nt heads up leaning 20 each
other coufiuue this until ron gef
n about ten feet side and as long a.
Il wtii requir" for the wheat ron have.
and set more on top % this and con
tinus as high an you want IL. draw
snE tn 50 you stack. until IL In auiRh.
ed up sharp on top. Y. c. A.
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1908-10-24
No Lo~~ From Grazing Crimson
Clover

Not long ago Prof. Massey. writ
the opinion Ina; the hay might cause
serious results to horses. ff this Tn
the case. think there tn hardly any
danger from grazing IL. as ] have
graEed IL for about 10 years With both
cattle and horses. often beginning
in January. and sometimes eontia-
ming through The month OF May. and
have never seen any unfavorahIe re-
suits orr any stock so II IL In not
safe a. hay IL surely im 90 grars and
certainly one OF our best winter
tups for grazing n LANE.
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1908-10-24

in each community responsible men who can
furnish horse and buggy 10 take orders from
Primers. GArdnuerx and Orchars1ists for our
goods. Articles will DC bouxhI NJ once By every
person who owns q farm. orchard or home snr
den Can work AL or part of time from Novem
Der iss 20 April list each year. and MAKE a sal
AIRY OF from ave 20 TEN dollars per week. ac
cortinz 10 The time you work. We require
Ersi~class references. but cash capital This
- spsen6td opportunity for farmers sons
Also siEts tree ard sewing machine agrnts. 20
make . business connection xhsca wiII become
morn profitable tn them each rear. Write Us
81 once IL 10 Dow tluse 10 h~g3u taking orders
Address r. q. Boz ~ Young IslAnde :. G.
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1908-10-24
bitches THAT HAVE LASTED 80
YEARS.
Mr.. Fai@on Tells How They Were
Built


Nessrs. Editors. I see what Mr..
Berry says about binding bitches.
and recommending lx4 inch strips
for the work.
We have bitches that my father
had cut and refilled at least seventy
ere years ago. and I have never
known them TO fail 20 run freely
shen there vas water on the ground.
These bitches we're filed with
poles cut from the land while clear
~ tsny sire and any length by
glscing the poles In the bottom begin
ning at the head Of the ditch and
placing SO the water can pass be-
tween and below the poles. the I'M
even lengths 20 break The joints.
After the poles. put In plenty of green
pine brush and bonEhs. then pack
the earth in until the ditch IN allied
and there In no telling how long they
v5ll do the work They wGli never
rut or cave In II properly filed. and
/. Is cheaper than lumber and bet
ser. J. y. IRELAND.
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1908-10-24

Place bruHh or wood on ground :
~ 10 feet side and M long an IL
I'LL require 20 hold al tho hay that
. convenient 80 carry 20 thla place
Place The bar on thla place same am
: making roana stack around = pole
ssneps IL wtIl not hare any poles and
VII be long Draw IL In or tho sides
% sharp polnt like the root Of n
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1908-10-24
Experience With Wagon Box Manure
Spreader

| have had one seasons experience
with the wagon box manure spreader
and find that Ii gives very satisfactory
results. ! consider 1T a great labor
saver, as my fourteen year old boy
can manage 1t all right by himself I
used a s0-bushel Galloway spreader,
which can be operated with an ordi-
nary pair Of mules. The manure
should be scattered before the land
is broken as IL Is rather difficult to
pull over plowed land. The machine
can be regulated TO put IL out thick
or thin. J. E. JONES.
LAGRANGE. y. G.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1908-04-20
Lively Republican Convention Expected

Carson Appeal: War has broken out in dead earnest In the
ranks of the Republican party of Nevada. 1t is all over the dele
gates to the National Convention. The bone of contention just now
is the attempt of Blakeslee to run the party in thu. interests OF the
railroad. 1t is settled that George Nixon, Patsy Flanagan, Oscar )
Smith, Billy Easton and Con Ahern are to be accorded the honor of
going to the National Convention.
The party gags at Sardis S~ummerfeld of Washoe. His brother
inlaw, Douglas Of Esmeralda, is ON the warpath against him for his
treatment of his wife in the divorce suit, and Esmeralda is a unit
for Douglas. 1t is also intimated that if Sardis shows up at Win
nemucca that his brother-in-aw will beat the packing out OF him.
There is also talk of sending Morehouse to Chicago, but Herrln
of the Southern Pacific says no, and it is apt to be that way. More
house was the man who ran independent in California years ago and
kept Dan Burns from going to the United States Senate, and the road
has not forgotten it. Morehouse is marked for the slaughter, and
now the fight between Summerfed and Douglas will be worth see
inc. Symmetrical cannot command a solid delegation from Washoe,
and Douglas has all of Southern Nevada in his train.
When the convention meets at Winnemucca next Monday peo-
pie are wondering what they will do when it comes to indorsing the
policies of Roosevelt Some OF the G. 0. P leaders like Smith and
others say that they will not stand for it, and Patsy Flanagan IS also
reported as being against such Endorsement Meanwhile the knives
are being sharpened and tomahawks being ground down to a keen
cutting edge to be ready for business at the opportune moment
There will be more fun than a bushel of monkeys loose when the
convention meets.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1908-04-20
Of a
RiOtOuS Convention

New York. April 15.-In a two days
session which began Tuesday with Bit
ter factional disputes and was concluded
late tonight amid scenes bordering on
the riotous. the Democratic State Con.
v~ention %squelched a boom for William
j. Bryan. drove the Kings County fac
ton headed by Senator Patrick McCar-
rem from their seats and chose an un.
pledged delegation to the National Con-
vention at Denver. The last hours
business was transacted amid q hubbub
that made it almost impossible to de-
termine the will Of the delegates as ex-
pressed in their voting.
Senator McCarren. beaten in commit
tee. carried his fight to the floor of the
convention, and before he was voted
out of that body threatened that never
in the lifetime of those present would
Tammany be able to elect another Dem.
ocratic Mayor. McCarren was cheered.
Kissed. interrupted and insulted.
When the new State committe plan
was put through there was a wild scene.
Those on the stage crowded about the
chairman until the sergeant-at-arms was
pitched into the orchestra pit.
Immediately afterwards. Harry Walk.
err. who IS looked upon as Mr.. Bryan's
local representative, declared that he
would call another Democratic conven'
ton to send contesting delegates to
Denver.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1908-04-20
President Roosevelt Calls
Important Meeting

A three days conference OF State and
Territory Governors is arranged to be
held at the White House in Washing
ton beginning May Is next. The meet.
ing has been called at the request OF
President Roosevelt to discuss.conserva-
ton OF the natural resources oil the
country. aud will be the first meeting
In the history of the Nation of Federal
State and Territorial executives. Inc
names of the five distinguished special
euests invited by the President to at
tend the forthcoming meeting are:
Grover Cleveland, William j. bryan,
James J. Hill. Andrew Carnegie and
John Mitchell. To those who are
aware of the strained social relations at
present existing between two OF the
invited guests-Brysn aud Cleveland
the conference will be looked forward
TO with more than ordinary interest.
The meetings will be presided over BY
President Roosevelt.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1908-04-20
STANTON HAS the HABIT
Undaunted Nevadan Takes His
Third Young Wife Within
the Year at Goldfeld
Major Stanton is married again.

Major Stanton is married again.
Ia a single year. Major w. A. Stan.
ton has been married three times. III.
latest bride is Erta Alice Cobre, a pret,v
young lady from Reno. whom he mar.
ried in Goldaeld on March 30. Effort.
were made to keep the marriage a "A.
cret. but the news finally became pub.
lilo.
Last July Major Stanton secured a
divorce from his young wife, Susan
Stanton, In Philadelphia. and immedi.
ately thereafter began a most exciting
courtship of Blanche Nye, 10 yesr.
old, In Los Angeles. The young lady's
parents objected to the elderly suitor.
but his ardor surmounted all obstacles
and he finally won her hand.
The happy couple went to Goldfsld
and the excitement of the pre-nuptisl
troubles paled into insigni6cance In
comparison with the vicissitudes Of
married life. Within q few weeks thu
majors child wife began suit for al.
vorce in which she recited a warfare
that existed in the home almost daily
that well illustrated the militant dis.
position Of her husband. A divorce
was granted and 1t seems the IN.
daunted major at once sought new
hearts to conquer and. 1t seems, nc.
ceeded.