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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1916-11-25

FOR SALE-One!half square of
ground with house and barn, at your
own price. Apply to N. Nielsen.
Covington, La. nlS-tf
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1916-11-25

1000 fig trees, vigorous stock, 10c
up. Plant an orchard. Big demand
for fgs. DR.. Stevenson. o14-tt
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1916-11-25

WANTED-A settled woman for a
small family Of two. Milking and
general work. Address Mrs. Edwin
Pierce, Pearl River, La. n25-2t
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1916-11-25

Furnished rooms Tor light house
keeping, with all modern convent
ences. Write Box 486. or phone 261.
nov11-3ts
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1916-11-25

FOR sERVICE-Registe-er NAM
moth kentucky Jack, Fairbanks W..
No. 5O34. Terms: $500 down ana
$500 when foal comes. w. N.
Poole. at Parkview Livery Co. stable
Covington, La. oczA-1A
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1916-11-25

STRAYED-Heifer, about years
old, red and white spotted under
stomach and on sides, unmarked,
short crumped horns. Reward II re-
turned to Mark G. Magee; Folsom.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1916-11-25

FOR SERVICE-Tne pure bred
Jersey bull, Major" formerly own
cd by G. McHardy. He Is ID excel
lent condition. Riverside Farm:
Box 635, Covington. La. 1ulS-t1
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1916-11-25

FOR SALE-Good horse, harness
and surrey. Apply 1906 jackson.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1916-11-25
NOW LOOKOUT.


When a cold hangs on as often
happens, or when you have hardly
gotten over one cold before you con
tract another. lookout for you are
Liable to contract some very serious
disease. This succession OF colds
weakens the s~stem and lowers the
vitality SO that you are much more
liable to contract chronic catarr!l,
Or consumption. Cure
your cold while you can Chambe..-
lain's Cough Remedy has q great
reputation. It is relied upon by
thousands Of people and never dis
appoints them. Try it. It only
costs . quarter. Obtainable every
wheSo.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1916-11-25
DO ron HAVE SOUR SToMACH?

II you are troubl> with sour
stomach you should eat slowly and
masttcate your food thoroughly, then
take one Of Chamberlain Tablets
Immediately after supper. Obtain
able everywhere.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1916-11-25

FOR sAI1E-One new Remington
D1mp shot gun, used % ut once.
uksap. Address =. ]. Hester. Box
391, LAcombe, La.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1916-11-25

Try our for sale" column II you
1av0 seogk ~ saas.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1916-11-25

fill the vacancy by reinstatement.
The compensation of The postmaster
at this Office was $245 for the last
fiscal year.
Age limit, 81 years and over on
the date OF - examination, with
the exception that In . State where
women are declared by statute to be
of full age for all purposes ct Is
years, women Is years Of ago on the
date of the examination will be ad-
united.
Applicants must reside within the
territory supplied by the post ONCE
for which the examination 10 an
nounced.
The examination 10 open to all cfbd-
zens OF the United States who can
comply with the requirements.
Application forms and full fnfor-
NATION concerning the requirements
Of the examination can be secured
from the postmaster at BUSH or from
the u. s. Civil Service Commission,
Washington, d. c..
Applications should be properly ex-
ecuted and filed with the Commits
sion at Washington at least seven
days before the date of the exami-
nation. otherwise It may be imprac-
ticable to examine the applicants.
U. 8. CIVIL SERVICE COM.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1916-11-25

We are now compiling new list Of
farms and farm lands for sale. This
list goes into the hands of buyers In
the North and West answering our
ads run In the most prosperous Sec
ions in the Middle West. Get your
property on this list II you want to
sell. Property listed with US does
not lie dormant waiting for some one
to come around by chance asking
for it; as Is most usual with country,
real estate dealers. We go after
the buyer. II you have anything to
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1916-11-25
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS.

Meets first and third Wednesdays
OF each month in knights Oh CoauM-
bus Hall. Covington. La.
ROBT. l.. AUBERT,, y. Il.
C.. C. KORNTELD Secty. :.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1916-11-25
II. A. o. D.

u. A. q. ID.
Boaue Falaya Grove No. FL.
Meets ON the first Saturday ana
third Friday Of each month. Ut 7:5V
D. M. In Masonic Hall. Covington'
F. ). FITZs1MONs. N. A..
r. B. MAtiSOLAN. Sec. 4.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-01-01

WOMAN
James G. nafnadiihes nranegiq ~
the New Washington lfstei would
Just an soon marry ap "uite14'htinE
woman.
"Of course. y'undsrhfand, I'm not
quite old enough TO get married.
he said. but have an Idea that
nome day ! would lihe TO marry n
grl--prouded she In interesting
That r. the one Important requisite.
I'm looking for such a woman"
Prof Stevenson Smith, al the
university. has won nonc attention
ns n hypnotist
Hut nj that-hc'H bachelor.
Chance for the goods. n they
like tho doctor, TO use little OF bis
own stuff
Frank Hall n curator at the Tni.
vcrHity OF Washington museum.
lie might DO good prospect u
Il wasn't for Nellie.
Nellie IL tho Egyptian mummy.
whose left foot sticks out.
VIII Nellie Get Him
University faculty men say Hall
loves Nellie. but she has always ig.
norcd his advances. Maybe Nellie
will get busy. now that IT'S leap
year
Judge Tallman OF the superior
court II venerable bach lie must
have figured that leap year would
DO here Friday Anyway. no got
out Of town In a hurry Thursday
afternoon But he'll be back. girls
he'll DO back
Here they hre-ihc rest OF them.
Remember that speed In an ifn-
porant element. and tho competi-
f'1n II keen.
Sic en-.
L. q. YouNos. supe ein,enaent Of
the city water department.
CAPT. CHARLIE SULLIVAN, In
the police department
w. w. PHAtEk, popular colur,-
bis City grocer,
Or. MILTON RANDOLPH. Sc.
s,tle's handsome dentist.
| HAZEN j. TITUS, superintendent
o. Norshern Pacific dining car ser.
Vice.
CRAWFORD WHITE. former dep
uty prosecuting attorney.
DAN LANpon. attorney ard
state senator.
OR. FRED LuNpY.
PROF. JOEL NJ. JorANsoS Of
the v. os w. English department
TOM NoRNER. attorney.
ALBERT HANSEN, wealthy
IeweIer.
JULIUS sHAEFER. prosperous
merchant.
CHARLIE Mcaum. haberdasher
In the University district.
col. J. "A. HAWTHoRhE, widely
known democrat.
DR.. ELMER NICHOLSON.
PROF. HAMILTON DOUGLAS.
dancing master.
ALVIN r. HEmRicH. assista nj
general manager OF the Seattle
Brewing and Mating Company.
FRANK L. RADfoRD. sdvertis-
ino manager Of the Bon marrhe.
Or. MOORE. the popular dentist.
Or. HARRY SHAW, physician.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-01-01

candidates. But there are 9th.
er rliionsirea. Esmes Mac
vea9h Of Chicago. Louis Doxler
of ST. Louis. and Edseii Ford
Of Detroit are other shining
lights Of the millionaire class.
Here's White House HOPE
U. 8. Senator Theodore 4. bur
ton. ~ he eyer marries. might
make his vife tho first lady OF the
and, for he IL near the top OF the
list OF presidential possibilities
But. like Senator Boies Penrose OF
Pennsylvania and Attorney Genera
Mckeynolds. he seems TO be an in
Icurahle bachelor.
For comic relief. one might men
ton Charlie Chaplin. To be sure
he'll never be president. but hts
movie antics earn him as large al
income as the chief rnagistrate's
DIR. Carey r Grayson. the presl
dents young medical adviser. Il
one OF the catches OF tn. Washing
ton season. but he'll have 10 DO
caught quickly n he's 10 he caught
at all. Dame Rumor already f.
busy with the names OF nr. GRAY.
son and pretty young hciress Who
~ an intimate friend OF tho preai
dents wife.
Like = War Herof
The extremely Romantic GIRL
will be particularly Interested
In Kari NJ. LleweIlyn. He 10 the
real hero of tho list. for hal
the only American 20 win the
Iron cross In Europe. te went
TO war for the sake OF adven-
ture, had all he wanted OF Il
and came home. hero, 10
teach school In New Haven. He
is young and handsome.
For the girl who regards life az
a really serious affair. the leap
year list contains John Hfys Ham.
mond. ir.. inventor OF the wireless
control for torpedoes and small
noats. DR.. Rupert Blue. famous
scientist and chief OF the United
States public health service. and
Rev Bouck White. reforIner and
pastor Of the Church OF the Social
Revolution.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-01-01

There arc hopes for pF. Lilburu
Merrill. chief probation officer nj
the juvenile court. aitho tile doctor
is strongly I'm favor OF the Chinese
system 81 providing life mates
under which parents OF the mar
rying couple fran. up tho match.
Ho wouldn't reveal the reasons
why he iH still single.
Likes Chinese system
III did. Il would put me In line
with some OF tn. popular noyellsta
llk. Robert Chambers" he said
but seriously. am q great ad
mlrcr OF tho Chinese system.
lived over there. and must admi,
that Il works out well. tho tho
younger generation In China is In.
clined 10 give Il up.
Now. | would be In favor OF
an ~ugenics bur-au--better get a
staff cug~nies advisor.
IN my work see good deal
% tho s.amy aide OF married life.
and I'm afraid that often fall 20
see IN. effectiveness OF the aver,
aga home.
Yet realize that there must be
n great deal OF JOY connected with a
we'll regulated home. oh. I'm no,
hopeless. BY any means"
billy Sutherland interviewed
billy Sutherland. who has been
the business mans friend for many
year. isn't married
Tn not going 20 be Erouchy
about this leap year situation" he
said. yesterday In fact. I'm In a
receptive mood. Nothing To do
nov Aiight as we'll listen to all
arguments and be open minded %
Billy aald that the Ideal woman,
In his estimation. ~ss one who u
dumb like a fur. and who knows
! how 20 share tho worries and cares
OF the domestic struggles. AZ we'll
IA tn. gate receipts.
coserove IN the Market
Howard CosKrove IL n good catch
for somebody. ~. ~ats alone most
81 the time. and lives at the Arctic
club.
Tho main reason why I'm not
married In because haven't ever
appeared on tho eligible list" he
said yesterday. But III recon
pcnse The Star n this leap year
plan foes along all right
I've never taken time 10 draw
up specifications ~ my ideal OF a
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-01-01

alone WAS iis per cent and for the
country outside OF New York City
tho increase was 30 per cent. max.
ing the increase average for the en-.
tire country T5 per cent
out Of 100 principal cities. only
10 showed smaller ciearings than a
year ago. while III cities set entire.
ly new high records.
The total amount OF money in
circulation on the LIST OF Decem her
was $3.50. 900. 900. compared with
$3.50. 600. 400 a year ago.
The per capita circulation IL
ssS.oi, compared with $50 90 year
ago, the present per capita circula.
ton being tho largest ever re.
corded
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-01-01
TAKE YOUR PICK, GIRLS! HERE ARE
VERY BEST TO BE HAD in AMERICA

For the girl who would take nd.
vantage OF tho seasons privilege.
the Hat Of famous bachelors In.
cludes something 10 suit every
taste" AZ they say In the stores.
Harold Vanderbilt probably
heals the Iist a. the young.
est, most noneyed and social
" exalted Of all the leap year
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-01-01
SEATTLE BANK OPTIMISTIC
OVER uNEQUALED BUSINESS

The First National Bank Of Sc.
attic has issued its monthly trade
digest 4, overflows With optimism.
Record operations in mos, man.
ufacturing lines. heavy increases In
building operations ard railroad
tonnage and unusual Wholesale and
retail business generally is. in
brief the story OF the present bust.
meas situation in this country.
The total volume OF comm srcial
operations being recorded each day
has never before been eaualed
Bank clearings for Novemb cr
were over $4,000. 600. 900 compared
with $1,000 600. 900 a year ago.
The gain for New York City
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-01-01

Thsre are 10000 ELIGIBLE
BACHELORS in the United States.
and IT'S LEAP YEAR
Sixty thousand unattached male
human beings and not one OF them
with AN INCOME OF Less THAN
$1,000 A YEAR. according to the In
come tax figures.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-01-01

Here they arc. girls
the handsome. wealthy
and accomplished bache-
Tors OF our fair city. The
bars are down-it's leap
year, SO il you can't land
one OF these its not be-
cause The Star didn't
give YOU an early tip.
Some OF these fellows
have reasons why they
are not already married.
And some OF them have
told their reasons 10 the
world.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-01-01
PREPAREDNESS
PLAN APPROVED

Resolutions were adopted Friday
ut the annual New Years luncheon
OF the Seattle Merchants Exchange.
urging that the United States
adopt n policy OF preparedness that
will safeguard the nation against
invading foes. and demanding OF
the lawmakers from this state that
they "indorse the secret plans pre-.
pared for defense. as outlined by
the respective experts OF the war
and navy departments"
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-01-01
LESS DELINQUENCY
AMONG CHILDREN

Delinquency among the boys and
girls OF Seattle has materially de.
creased during 1915. according to
the annual report OF DR.. Lilburn
Merrill. chief probation officer. one
thousand, one hundred and eighty
two children were brought before
the juvenile court this year. 60 less
than during 1914.
DR. Merrill thinks this showing
In remarkable. inasmuch as the
school figures show an increase of
3 per cent during 1915.
No liquor may he sold In Rainier
National park
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-01-01
BACHELORS on The
BARGAIN COUNTER:
LOOK AT EN-, GIRLS

Seattle EIgibes Tell The Star What They Think OF
Marriage; DIR. Lilburn Merrill Probation Officer Says
He Favors the Chinese System, by Which Parents
Make Arrangements for the Young Folks to Wed
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-06-11
Americanization in California.

BELOW is of letter by dent
Edward Hyatt to the school superintendent Of California
thus the second attack the problem education of the for
eign born from the state point of view:
please let call your particular attention to phase of
pubic education that has not engaged much attention
ofOe but that surely going demand the near future
that s the education and the Amercanzation adult
eigner.
Among thoughtful people among law makers growing
up the convection that the of the erae foreigner
danger and menace to and institutions Under
conditions he be years more knowing
nothing OF our language to the influences
good citizenship He can be guided and by the ntrer
and the boss of his nationality but be touched
Uncle SAM Thus. in time of stress danger may
dangerous and threatening in the extreme the very life
republic.
1T is coming about that burden of teaching and Amer
canzng the foreigner to be laid upon educational forces
the commonwealth That means
THE commission of immigration and housing
ed This body investigate and plan recommendation
the school people who must teach There erates
reported in California There half million foreign born
school population that the taking cognzance the
matter and is moving toward assuming responsibility
AT present the most definite reach foreign
through the night schools The machinery organizing
night schools at hand school district
establish night school by action of its board trustees
will get additional public money until its additional attend
gives additional apporonment during the following year
Free textbooks furnished by the state, however
The object of this letter twOOd first call attention
to the shadow of coming events second warn you that
those schools proposing to meet the situation by opening night
taxes the for opening the schools maintain
ing them during the first year.
IF this Office give you any further information
ance, please be free to call on US"
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-06-11

necessary to bear the waste from the mill the fire. This usually
sort of trough with metal bottom along which slowly moving
chain cable equipped with ceas buckets carries the
to the fire
Acosed burner and costs about $4,000 mill
OF hundred thousand feet daily capacity Forty of the
larger mills, cutting than $4,000 board daily
equipped with closed burners Fortyve per have pits
The remainder have neither and dispose their
other way
1t estimated that for mill of hundred thousand
capacity the cost conveying the waste from the machine where
made and destroying closed burner
per cord or $0O5 day Burners seldom bring
although in few ashes sold for fertilizer in
Der Of others the burner furnishes hot feed for the boilers
Both burners and fire pits add to the insurance
ber and the of the pit the mill itself to reduce
the fire hazard to in the of the burners necessary
keep all lumber piles at least hundred and fifty feet away
the burner The matter much in the pits espec
tally the which must be kept three hundred away
from the mill and five hundred feet away from lumber
When than these distances from the mill lumber yard
respectively the insurance rates mount rapidly with
proximity until they become practically prohbve when the fire
pit is nearer than hundred feet
No wels-managed mill would produce waste it could be
avoided This however, is possible the next best thing
to seek out method of utilization of the so it will
for its disposition The forest working on this
problem, but has not yet found satisfactory solution.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-06-11
Better Federal Supervision.

THE AMOUNT the spends single readnaug
would more than be sufficient wipe cancer in the United
States declared Miss Susanna Cocrof health expert Chicago
recently in conference with the surgeon general the public
health service and health officials here Miss
ing movement the of the eder
supervision of the health of the nation campaign having
been launched at the meeting of the national conservation
greSs.
This dread disease she has spread rapidly that
ve tunes as prevalent it few decades The number
deaths due to the United States year fifty
thousand The eradication of this disease alone Cocroft
contends would do to protect American life
number Of dreadnaughts
I'm my work with 77OOO women she says 81 am more and
more appalled, day the nroas chronic ailments
need chemical laboratories established
physicians all over the country There many conditions
for which physicians cannot negenty prescribe without chemc
analysis and the physician has neither the
means nor the knowledge to make these adequately.
And we need broad Propaganda of education the moth
erS OF America she declares he surgeon general
much in the movement which he has undertaken the control
of contagious diseases but the propaganda which the public
service has put out is OF practical the average
is written by physicians in technical language physicians
and not in the language of the Therefore
the public health service has been conducted
the women in the home except to control contagion
The excellent work for better health BY hun
dreds of newspapers and also by the large
panes should be by the government and means for
better health supervision organized"
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-06-11
A Virginia ElySium.

SMALL island which President Wilson visited his recent
cruise the presidential yacht down the Potomac has interested
lin greatly This the Tanger island the Potomac river
chesapeake bay report of the presidents discovery
"The yards smalnot larger than two goodszed
but each of them graves here four five and there nine
r en with elaborate headstones The lawns
green and well kept with neat walks and fences Flowers
grow around the graves.
Tanger of the few in the country-maybe the
nly townwhich has had motor car There no
there either for there for them The
nge street which the town boasts only six feet wide The
ny way get there is by abottom boats for the water is
Shallow that the tender of yacht cannot be brought to the
shore. There docks.
There has not been murder Tanger for than forty
The people good they do not have sheriff
'pther officer of the law.
THE inhabitants fishermen who ply their trade every day
Chesapeake selling their catches the aboard the
cho0ners which sail between Washington Baltimore and Norfolk
There saloons the island There not single wet
when prohibition voted special election several
years ago.
There race suicide Tanger island. Some idea of
children there be had by considering the fact
that of population of 1900 there only about $50
voters.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-06-11
Much Wood Waste.

THERE than $4,000 sawmils in the United States
and their output of waste in the form of sawdus shavngs
and other wood refuse estimated trsx million cords per
This equal four and Onehaf billion feet
waste which is the capacity of bin oneha mile high with
base covering foracre lot Or considering
tain eighty cubic solid wood the cracks and air
spaces taken out these thrysix million cords would
block of wood than quarter of mile each edge
Perhaps Onehalf of this socaed product strict
speaking wasted but useful purpose fuel the
boilers Much Of the remaining eighteen million not only
serves useful purpose but in
venence and danger and costs the mill time and money
Sawmi waste is disposed of In various ways Some goes to
the local fuel market to pulp mills distiaon
plants Shavngs and log cuttings well other mill waste
are sometimes used to I'LL low places in the yard However the
most common method of getting rid of waste is by burning either
fire pit having fire. which sometimes protecting
wall the side toward the MILL or in burner enclosed on Mi
sides and having Sparkareng the top and fire
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-06-11

LEGATION just issued which contains seventy samples of
manufactured by different processes chiefly from woods hereto
fore practically unused for this purpose.
1t is pointed out that the spruce the country are
threatened with exhaustion and that the spruce pupwood
has steadily increased If the price Of newsprnt paper is to be
kept at reasonable figure the experts efficient meth
ods Of converting into pulp must be developed cheaper
woods substituted for it,
Inc bulletin on to that the method
ing groundwork pulp changed very little since its introduction
INTO this country in 1857 was with the idea of developing
methods and improving the old that tests undertaken the
forest service laboratories WauSau Madison Wis AS
result the relation Of the different steps in the manufacturing
cess TO each other has been definitely established the merits
each treatment determined The paper made
was given practical tyout by large newspapers with salts
factory results.
The tests showed that eleven give promise
ing for the production of print paper While
Der of these woods confined the West the groundwork
industry now obtains the bulk of its material the East
is thought that pulpman9 plants eventually move to
points where they obtain plentiful supply wood and an
abundance Of cheap waterpower two prime requisites
ness
The experts that because the contain i'm
mense quantities of the suitable woods abundant opportn
ties for development they will undoubtedly play an import
ant part in the future of the wood pulp industry