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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-07-17
RATS WORRIED THE FIREMEN

batted at it with his hand just as it
was climbing his coat, squeaking hor-
rfbly.
Then the men saw others, hun
dreds, they say. In the light of the
fire, which was feeding on the heaps
OF rags, bones and ancient junk in the
rear of the shop, the f1remen saw
them, squirming up through holes in
the floor, scattering through the smoke
along the rafters, tumbling in suffoca-
ton down the piles of smoldering rags.
The rats climbed up the firemen's
boots and worried a way under their
coats. Some dropped from the ceiling
on their helmets.
ugh! Let the fire burn and give
the stream to EN-, boys" yelled the
chief, and after that the water plowed
the length of the floor and searched
the walls, carrying with 1t the bodies
of the drowning rats by the dozen.
Some of the streams carried through
the rotten roof and rats began to drop
with the water on the heads of the
Italians that had massed themselves
in front Of the burning building. They
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-07-17

after you own them. Not only must
you have the right kind of hen, but
you must use time and thought in
caring for her to make her the pay.
ing kind.
They paying hen is usually Matched
from paying strain. The paying
hen THAT comes out of flock of good
for nothing birds is seldom met and is
not worth hunting for. It takes time,
it takes money, it takes born hen
sense to produce a flock of paying
hens. 1t takes very little neglect to
send this flock back to the class of
nonpaying birds.
Paying birds are a delight to the
eye. You like to show them to your
friends and linger in your description
of what they are and what they have
done for you. The class of birds re-
ceive thought and attention from you.
AS pet or object of fancy breeding
no breed of fowls calls forth more adj
miration than the abundantly feath-
cred Cochin.
Paying birds make up large part
of your flock when you sell the cream
of the chicks every year. Money max
ing f1ocks are made up of the best you
raise, always letting the second quail
ity go to the market. Paying birds
live in houses free from vermin and
supplied with pure air and water.
They get feed that is needed to bring
the profit to the proper point. Cheap
feed-because it is cheap-never
helped to produce the paying hen or
kept her running to the nest. Hens
that pay can be yours if you are will
ing to do your part.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-07-17
Plant Pumpkins.

The pumpkin likes warm weather.
So it is not too late to plant some
yet. Many farmers put them in with
their corn, but they may be grown in
a patch to themselves the same as
watermelons.
1t pays to have pumpkin feed along
in the fall and early winter. They
are a succulent food and come after
most other crops have largely passed.
They thus serve to keep open the ali.
mentary canal and ward off disease.
Some farmers claim that when
pumpkins are fed hog cholera never
comes. This is because the pumpkin
keeps off constipation when the hogs
come heavily onto the new corn diet.
AS in man, the animal is more apt to
contract disease when the alimentary
canal is blocked with putrescence and
disseminating poison through :he sys
tenn.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-07-17
Stick to the Country.

Life in metropolis makes young
children sharp, but not clever; it often
destroys their chance Of ever being
clever, for it hastens the develop
ment of the brain unnaturally; it
makes them superficial, alert, but not
observant; excitable, but without one
spark of enthusiasm; they are apt to
grow blase, tickle, disconnected; they
see more things than the country bred
child, but not such interesting things,
and they do not properly see any
thing, for they have neither the time
nor capacity to get at the root of all
the bewi1dering objects they crowd
into their little lives.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-07-17
HOW TO ADVERTISE A SPECIALITY

There are probably very few bust
ness men who do not at some time or
other have some little thing of their
own invention or conception, or some
thing that somebody else has invented
or conceived, which they would like to
advertise if they knew how.
A certain druggist know has a
tasteless castor oil. Everybody would
rather castor oil didn't taste so bitter
when it has to be taken; but how shall
the news be distributed? A farmer has
an improved pick, or an ak handle.
Each and all dream of fortune If they
can get their discovery upon the mar
ket, and usually they look as far away
from home as possible. They think OF
small advertisement in big maya
zine, inquiries by mail, or sales to
large dealers through clever letters set
ting forth the merits of the article.
Those who succeed with these spes
cialties, and there are many who do
succeed and make small fortunes,
nearly always begin very near at home.
;; The man with the improved pick goes
to every contractor in his immediate
neighborhood and tries to interest him.
If he can't interest a man he can see
and talk to, he can't interest those far
away, to whom he can only write.
When he has got lot of his neighbors
to using his pick, ne finds he Is begin
ming to make little profit out of his
sales, though the article is not known
so miles away and the big country has
never been touched. But the enthus1-
astic Endorsement Of his nearby friends
he puts into neatly printed circular
and writes a strong, enthusiastic per-
sonal letter to those who are so far
away he can't go to see them. He gets
only three orders from hundred let
tiers, but that is enough to show
profit on the first sales, and he knows
that future sales will pay him hand
somely. And so the enthusiasm of his
first customer grows until it reaches
far and big interests take him up and
help him to carry the good news every
where, in return for a liberal share in
the profits.
The druggist first tells his own pat
rons about his tasteless castor oil.
They are so much pleased that he
writes to a number of druggist friends
in other towns, and because they are
his friends they try his discovery. The
merits of the thing create enthusiasm
in each of these points, testimonials
come in of their own accord, and the
spontaneous enthusiasm of those who
are pleased is little by little spread
farther and farther. He doesn't bank
rupt himself by trying to do too much,
he feels his way step by step and letter
by letter. He tries over and over
again to tell his story till he has found
the best way, and after while the
volume of orders coming in every day
shows a fine profit.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-07-17
Improvement of Pastures.

There is no time in the year as
good to kill brush and weeds as when
they are in full leaf
Many pastures where the brush are
not too large can be moved with the
mower. Most any old machine that
is nearly worn out will cut brush and
do a good job. We have much of our
pasture cleared off so we can run the
mower over it, and enjoy moving
it over as much as do the meadows.
We always cut the large brush as
closely to the ground as possible the
first time, and then if the land is
quite smooth we let the mower do the
rest.
Last fall after manuring we spread
about an acre with good stable ma.
nure just to see what it would do to
the old WORKOUT pasture. We had a
good lot of rain in the fall and the
grass started up fine. This summer
there was more grass on that acre
than on any other six acres in the
field, and I am sure this experiment
paid US well.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-07-17
Unpatented Device That Noted Writer
Suggested Might Be Useful
to Authors.

"But, of course, it happens with
everyone that the brain is sluggish
sometimes, and I have invented lit
tie spur for such occasions. Will you
just help yourself to that square of
cardboard on that chair over there
that's it.
"You see, I have two dials set side
by side. On one of them is printed,
in round robin form, a list of sub
jects for paintings: Windmill, old
church, hay meadows, stone steps at
Capri, Alhambra, Coney Island, Notre
Dame, and so forth. On the other
dial is printed list of weather or
time conditions, like moonlight, sun
rise, haze, snowstorm, windy day, June
clouds, and so forth. You'll notice that
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-07-17
Cabbage Worms.

A southern correspondent says that
the best remedy he ever tried for rid
ding cabbage of worms and lice is
air-slacked lime. 1t can be sprinkled
on thickly and evenly by putting the
lime in an old guano sack, then shak-
ing the sack over the cabbages. It is
better to put it on early in the morn
ing while dew is yet On the cabbage.
1t may be USED once or twice a week
until the wo!ms disappear. Cabbage
will thrive, end the heads grow firmer
and whittier after using it. Air-slacked
lime is also valuable for sprinkling on
young squash and cucumber plants to
protect them from the ravages of in
Sects.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-07-17
HOW TO FOLLOW UP BY LETTER.

The correct principle for arranging
certain letter in certain vein, from
certain point of view, will interest
certain percentage of the entire list,
and make very little or no impression
on the rest of the list.
The first follow-up letter should be
made to appeal to another class, and
be arranged from a different point
of view, but otherwise should cover
the same ground substantially as the
first letter. All the important ele-
ments of a sales letter should be pres
ent in this follow up
The main thing is to keep all the
elements we'll in hand in every letter
instead Of considering that the GUS
toner will have in mind what you
wrote before. He will either have
forgotten it, or he never paid any
attention to it, or it remains so
vague in his mind you do not get your
complete effect unless you restate all
the salient principles.
Yet of course the follow-up letter
must be really fresh one. If man
looks it over and says: why, I saw
that before!" he is likely to throw it
in the wastebasket without reading it.
If it is fresh he may take interest in
seeing what more you have to say,
but it is more the new manner of say
ing it than the substance that af-
fects him. Driving the old points
home is not Objectionable to a man
If the manner is fresh.
When circumstances are such that
the previous letters must be referred
to, this should be done as briefly as
possible and wholly without worrying
the customer or seeming to find fault
with him for, not having responded.
There should always, if possible, be
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-07-17
HOW ARTIST GETS SUBJECTS

only one subject at a time is shown
through the little slit that I have cut
in the paper that covers my dials.
Now turn the left-hand dali
I turned it and came on Oxford"
Nov spin the other one for tho
atmospheric conditions"
This brought me June clouds"
you see; Oxford, in June. Very
easy to paint Magdalen gardens I'M
der June clouds-and so it goes. But
l seldom have to use my machine.
rs my mind is full of places I have
seen."
Wonderful man! If men had never
humored their laziness we would have
had no great inventions. Why could
not authors have a plot dial and a
character dial? 1t might change the
style of stories now current.-Charles
Battell Loomis, in Success Magazine.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-07-17
Woven Wire for Vegetables.

What is known as chicken wire is
recommended for plants on the order
of peas and lima beans as better than
the old pole order. One who has
fully tried and believes this, says:
For lima beans, use the six feet
wide wire with large mesh; attach
to stout stakes set ten feet apart, and
plant the beans two feet apart in the
row.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-07-17

paraphernalia for raining down death
dealing bombs, is still a rainbow which
all the world can see, but may never
reach. Perhaps it will some day be-
come a practical means of transpor-
tation; without doubt it may be used
as a spy, lookout to give notice of
the approach of an enemy; doubtless,
as we'll, it may be used as a messeu-
ger to carry few men from camp to
camp or from ship to shore. But it is
not going to accomplish all the hor-
rors now being claimed for it.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-07-17
On Their Minds.

I've got something on my mind
that I've got to get rid Of" said the
author, bursting in and selling a pad
and pencil. "And when you have got
ten rid of 1t and have received a
check for 1t, there is something down
In the milliner's window that l want
to get on my mind" said the au-
thor's wife, picking up his hat, coat
and umbrella.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-07-17
Tc Count a Billion

To count 1,000,0O0,000 would require
a person to count 200 a minute for a
period Of 9.512 years, 342 days, five
hours and 20 minutes, providing he
should count continuously. But sup
pose we allow the counter IL hours
daily for rest, eating and sleeping,
then he would need 19,O25 years, 319
days, ten hours and 40 minutes in
which to complete the task.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-07-17
Remained a Major.

A newspaper man once asked the
late ]. K. Hudson whether he should
call him major" or general" Hud-
son was major in the civil war and
was made brigadier general in the
Spanish war, but in the latter conflict
he did not get into active service.
Call me major" said Hudson in reply
to the question. Il was vaccinated for
general but it didn't take
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-07-17
Grow Pure Bred Corn.

In cooperation with the county fair
associations over so bushels Of pure
seed corn was distributed free By the
Universitp of Wisconsin Agricultural
Experiment station to the young peo-
pie who grew small plats and exhib-
tied their product at local fairs. This
work has been introduced into 26
counties, and has proved of immense
value in interesting young people in
agricultural matters.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-07-17
Diseases of Wireless Operators.

A French naval surgeon has OBJ
served facts which he thinks warrant
him in attributing certain morbid
conditions to overexposure to the
electrical waves employed in wireless
teIegraphy. For the most part they
have affected the eye, generally in
coniunctivitis, though in one instance
there wa8 keratitis.
Eczema, too, has been observed ana
che author thinks that many cases OF
nenrasthenia are attributed to the cur
-en+ He remarks that induced cur
ronts are common product of the &C.
zion az the apparatus, and intimates
.ha+ these may cause trouble among
other persons than those Immediately
Concerned in the Geographic opera
lions He recommends that operators
he provided with blue or yellow spec
4anIaS.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-07-17
Wedding Month In germany,

In Germany the month of April IA
the chosen time for weddings. One
must, however, be careful to select =
lucky day for the event. The lucky
days, SO say those who Rnow, are the
second, fourth, twelfth and twenty.
second. The unlucky days are the
seventh, eighth. tenth, Rixteenth and
tWenty-drst.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-07-17
Wide-AWake Farmers.

There are wide-awake farmers, ana
more every year. These nave pride
in their occupation; and add some->
thing to it's worth. But the farmers
who add to the worth Of the occupa-
ton are those who farm intelligently,
and tell what they learn.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-07-17
KEEP ONLY FOWLS THAT PAY
Mo Profit in Feeding a Lot of Old
Hens That Have OutIived Their
Usefulness.

Some hens are not worth their keep;
others produce enough to cover the
cost of their handling. The hens that
pay are those that more than meet the
expenses of money and time necessary
to make them worth while. There art
three classes of hens and tbs last is
the one that we all desire and the one
that we can have if we are Willing to
pay the cost.
What is necessary to own birds that
pay? 1t takes more than money. You
can buy birds that can pay, but it is
another thing to have them pay you
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-07-17
Cow Is Profitable.

The COW is great profit maker, and
gives food every day of the month
Of lactation. But there is a difference
in cows. The cow whose period is
ten months is worth more than twice
az much as the cow whose period is
rve months.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-07-17
FOLLOW-UP LETTERS.

There is a sort of fetch attached to
the term "follow-up letters" by many
persons, who have an impression
there is something magic about them.
Others think you will get orders if
you keep after people long enough
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-07-17
...,S -Axiatorfal Mysteries.

me biggest thing about an airship
:. tha quantity of superheated air
!. 4sat inflates it, and much OF the talk
= ga tha day about aidships Is OF the
: sane stuff. The mighty dirigible' In
s..i.e lightning proof and wind
ss sf loaded with its mortars and
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-07-17

The average citizen Of the United
States consumes half his own weight
in sugar every year, and the sugar
bill of the country aggregates $1,000
900 for every day in the year.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-07-17
Tho Younn IDEA.

'Ma," said a newspaper mans son,
81 know why editors call themselves
'we,'" "Why?" SOS the man that
doesn't like the article will think there
are too many people for him to
tackle. "-Christian Work and Evan.
gelist.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-07-17

some fresh circular matter to go with
each new letter, and when practicable
the stationery and wording on the
letterhead should be changed so as
to make the outer appearance as at"
tractive as possible, and as fresh
looking.
The essential thought should be the
same, but the dress should be fresh.
The old arguments should be put in
in new form. That is the important
element
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-07-17
The WAY of a Woman.

Oh, woman, in your hours of ease,
You keep us wobbly at the knees.
You tell US things. then show your gall,
BY swearing 'twasn't meant at ALL
Los Angeles Express.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-07-17
Just Shonninn.

Here's one proposition that holds
good, anyhow"
What's that?''
Two can shop as cheaply as one."
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-07-17
Model Farming Community.

The territory of Hawaii is preparing
TO establish a model farming cons
munitE on the island of Maui.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-07-17
The Easiest Way.
my wife's in tears"
Said Mr.. Peck.
81 guess I'll sign
Another check"
A Promise.

The recording angel wrote in his book
And said: IN remember the man
With patient heart and ragged coat.
Whom the world calls an also ran 80
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-07-17
One Grin.

Here lies the body of Jim Pyle
Beware, young man, of quaffing!
He started out to take a smile"
And now he's died of laughingi
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-07-17

broke in panic and fed for their
homes.
The daily sentinel., 1909-11-04
RESTAURANT is SOLD.

The Board OF Trade restaurant.
which has become so popular with
the local public as well as the tran
sient trade, changed hands last night
b. II. Enrich, who took charge of
the business several months ago, sold
the fixtures and the good will of the
business to J. II. Samples and sons
of this city for s4.S75.
During the time that Mr. Enrich
ran the place he built up magnifi-
cent trade and annexed a great many
friends to himself.
The new owners are well known
and successful business men and they
are sure to hold the old trade. as
well as bring lot of new trade to
the place.
Mr.. Enrich will not leave the city;
but during his stay here has become
so favorably impressed with the flu
ture of the city that it is his inten-
tion to build for Grand Junction a
thoroughly modern and up-to-date
opera house. He has already secured
options on two lots, each of which are
suitable for such n building. and in
a few days he will go to Colorado
Springs for the purpose of consult
ing with an architect and having the
plans drawn up.
The daily sentinel., 1909-11-04
ACCUSED OF AsSAULTING HER.
Especial to The Sentinel. ]


Albuquerque, n. NJ, Nov 4.-Val
Dalton, who claims to be a brother
of the Daltons of the once notorious
Dalton gang of Oklahoma and Kan
sas, was arrested yesterday at Gallup,
near the Arizona line, by New Mexico
Officers, charged with assaulting
young Catherine Cornetto.
The girl was found in state of
collapse in an arroyo a short distance
from freighting camp where Dalton
was working. She described her
assailant, and Officers in an auto
mobile followed Dayton's trail for
ten hours.
The girls cries attracted the at
tention of an officer, who encounter
ed Dalton Just as he was leaving the
scene. Dalton leveled a revolver at
the officer and forced him to accom-
pany him for some distance, when
Dalton took to his heels. The girl
will recover.
The daily sentinel., 1909-11-04

Thomas NJ Todd will be chief eX-
ecutive officer. president of the coun-
ell, will preside at meetings, will see
that all state laws and city ordi-
nances are duly enforced; he may re-
NIT fines, costs. forfeitures, penalties
for violations of ordinances: he shall
have power to administer oaths; he
shall sign all contracts. bonds and
other legal instruments; all processes
against the city shall be served
against him: he shall be charged
with the general oversight of all de-
partments, boards and commissions
of the city; he shall be eX-officio a
member of each board, commission.
etc; he shall have the right to vote
on all questions before the council.
and he is vested with a great many
other rights provided by ordinances
in the charter. Never did mayor
in a small city have such power or
authority that Mayor Todd will have
in Grand Junction.
The daily sentinel., 1909-11-04
ARE IN SESSION
IN CITY TODAY

+ meeting of the council of +
: advice of the diocese of western +
: Colorado was held in this city +
this afternoon at the home of +
: the president, Rev. John Wallis !
Z OH of St. Matthews church. +
Many questions of Importance +
= pertaining to the Episcopal +
7 church and other kindred topics I
: were discussed. and the meeting +
+ was one of no small Importance. 4
7 Present were Secretary Rev. J. :
= II. Dennis of Meeker. Rev Geo. +
+ A. Wharton of Glenwood. V. L. I
Z Northrup of Grand Junction and Z
+ Rev. J. Wallis Oil of Grand +
: junction. The other delegates {
+ twho were unable to be pres +
+ ent) were Judge Avery of Lake I
T. City and Rev. William Hogg of +
+ Telluride. I
r ; + r + 4. 4. I. I. I. I. = 4. = :. 4
The daily sentinel., 1909-11-04

Two drunks were arraigned in po-
lice court this morning having been
arrested by officers Mccall and Moss
last night They stated as usual that
the whisky had been given to them
and they did not know whether or
not it had been purchased in this city.
They received ten days and eight days
respectively.
The daily sentinel., 1909-11-04
plete and accurate compilation of re-
turns published by The Sentinel.

Mayor Todd will receive salary
of S125 monthly. So will the COM
missioner of water and sewers. They
must receive no additional compensa-
ton in any form from the city. They
must devote all their time to the du-
ties of their offices. The other three
commissioners will draw 800 each
monthly.
The daily sentinel., 1909-11-04

Tonight the city council meets as 4
canvassing board and will canvass
the returns of Tuesdays election as
certified to by the officials of each
polling place. The canvass will make
no material changes in any of the to-
tails in fact, every few. if any, chang
es are likely in the vote for any can
didate as given last night in the COM