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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1916-11-18

WANTED-A yard boy. Apply
VIM. Oswald, Military Road.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1916-11-18

1000 fig trees, vigorous stock. 10c
up. Plant an orchard. Big demand
tor figs. DR.. Stevenson. o14-tf
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1916-11-18
HINTS FOR HARVESTING CROPS
FOR SIIO.

Quality Of Silage Depends Upon Crop
Being Cut at Right Stage-Cut
Corn When Grains Are Well Dent
ed and Glazed and Lower Leaves
Br0wn-Cut Pea Vines and Soy
Beans When in Full Bloom and q
Few Heads Are Ripe-Plenty of
Help Essential.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1916-11-18

FOR SALE-Two horses. Apply
A. Peyret, Abita Springs. n11-2t
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1916-11-18

FOR 9ERVICE-Registecer NAM
moth Kentucky Jack, Fairbanks W..
No. 5O34. Terms: $500 down and
$500 when foal comes. w. NJ.
Poole. at Parkview Livery Co. stable.
Covington, La. oc21-tf
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1916-11-18


Secretary.
The report Of the treasurer for the
quarter ending Sept. 80, 1915, was
read, and on notion Of Emile Fred
erick, seconded by ]. e. Nilsson, re-
ferred to finance committee.
Following is the treasurer's re-
port:
Covfngton, La, Sept. 80, 1916.
To the Honorable Mayor and Town
Council:
I herewith submit my report for
the quarter ending Sept. 80. 1916:
Receipts:
June 3Oth, balance in
Gov. Blk. & Trust Co. 1856
July 1. deposit ..... $3.50
July s, deposit ....... 1925
July II, deposit ...... 81.75
July 10, deposit ...... 81.75
July Is, deposit. 49,. 1O9.50
July %, deposit ...... $3.50
Aug. 1, deposit ...... 1850
Aug. 10, deposit ...... $3.50
Aug. II, deposit $50. $500
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-25
The Night Letter Popular

From LeSlie'S.
 Revolutions! The night letter has worked a revolution in the popular at- titude toward telegrams. Formerly the telegram was confined to business and when used for social purposes was usually connected with sickness, death or some misfortune. Six years ago there were no night letters. Now the nightly average is 10000. Of the 100. coo. DUO messages year sent over the W estcrn Union lines 12.000,000 are night letters The night letter is largely used for business, but the greatest development has been in it's use for social purposes. Husbands and wives who ace separated have gotten the habit of communicat- Ing by night letter and the woman who used to open telegram witt, fear and trembling now receives it IS mat ter of course. However there are sull many people who do not yet have tho right letter habit. In connection with the celebration of Mothar's Day the proposal was made that sons ard daughters away from home should send words of cheer to mothers by telegram. It was suggested that many moth srs would receive a shock that would more than counteract the message. Accord insly. the messengers were instructed to say on delivery: Madame. this is s, Mothers Day message" In year oI two with the growth of the custont, this precaution will not be nect ssaiy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-25
Truth About Mexico
Ariza in Leslie's.


 The ruin and devastation of a once fourishing country have beer to d again and again. Yet few pc ople real. izc, for instance. that to travel in Mex ico nowadays is something almost in- possible. If afoot. a band of highway robbers will certainly take the tray : eler's clothes. if he has nothing else, from him. If on horseback, the ficst patrol he meets on the road will dis possess him of his mount. If in rail- road coach. he is liable to be either blown up by bomb placed on tne tracks by the Zapatistas or shet dead by the brigands that make specially of trainlOOting; but his greater danger lies in the fearful condition of the roll ing stock which has not been repaired during the last five years so that wrecks occur daily on every section of the so-called National railway lines.
 Hunger has reached such stage in Mexico that no words can give prop CT idea of it. Brigands of all kinds and demonstrations share the spOids of q starved nation with a privileged crowd of self-appointed petty rulers, while the poor peon-for whose, sake it is claimed that al these thin.s cane to pass - has to content himself with whatever food he can steal. as i: is too expensive to acquire 1t honestly. The stealing of corn is punished with death. remember the ghastly sight q two soldiers shot dead at the entrance of 8 church in Tehuacan. while the wol- en and children were coming ous from the mass. Over the corpses of the wretched men hung. with grim satire, the sign: ''Thieves." And the general who had ordered the execution was engaged at the time fin removing to
 his private car all the furniture, eren to the bedding and the flower pots, from residence he had been unlav fully occupying for over a yeat' Not once piece of furniture belonged to him. Nor the private car, for that mat | ter. 4ss
 Two blocks away from the chur sh where the shooting had been done Q mob of ragged, perspiriny, yelling women fought and tore their scant raj
 ment in a pitiful endeavor to get .
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-25
ne lived in Norwood he had a garden

he lived in Norwood he had garden which was 25 feet by 30 feet; that from that garden he got a crop of vegetables which furnished his family with all they wanted to eat and that he gave a good many vegetables to the neighbors, and sold $27 worth of multiplying onions from the same garden the same year. He said he raised on that plot four crops of Golden Bantom corn, besides spinach to- ma atoes, radishes, parsley, squash, cu- cumbers. pole beans and onions, besides having the beds bordered with flowers.
 It is estimated that the average gar den is worth $100 a year to the average farmer, and I have no doubt that this estimate is a conservative one Certainly, the pleasure to be derived from gathering fresh vegetables of your own raising is worth a considerable amount in itself.
 On Saturday afternoon I inquired the price of roasting ears in the Birmingham market, and the price quoted me was 50 cents a dozen. At that rate man who has an acre of green corn could
 realize considerably over $1000 per acre.
 was once told by friend who lived in
 Ohio that they found that they could
 make money selling green corn at cents
 a dozen. In view of the fact that an acre
 can produce 1O5 rows of corn with 42C
 plants to the row, which should give
 on an average of two years to the stalk,
 if a prolific variety is planted, it can
 easily be seen that a handsome profit
 could be made on corn at much lower
 price than it is now bringing in the Bir-
 mingham market. The grower of an acre
 or more would have to sell to the mar
 kets probably at lower price than the
 consumer would have to pay. but still the margin of profit would be considerable. In the back lot, however, by planting a short row of Golden Bantam. Adams Early, Stowell's Evergreen, Country Gen tleman and Mammoth Sugar. each, one could have a succession of "roa sting ears from early spring right along, anc if. in addition to those, he plants a few hills of Mexican June corn, he need have no fear of dry weather and will have green corn until frost, even though h, may have to use a step-ladder to plucl the ears.
 Make the ground rich spade deeply plant about six inches apart in the row and. after covering the corn, SOW some radishes on the rows and by the time tn, corn is high enough to work the radishe are off and you can plant beans and st
 keep all the ground utilized and pro ducing.
 The ground on which Birmingham il built is naturally fertile. For proof, ob serve the luxuriant crops of weeds wf1cl grow wherever they are not molested There is hardly back lot or yard Whlcl | will not produce vegetables with compar 1 atively little assistance. while the vacan lots in Greater Birmingham would, if cul | tivated, feed an army. By little cooper ton between the owner of the unim proved lot and the man out of work or the man who is not fully employed the food problem would be to a grea extent solved If the city would talk
 hold of the proposition. and give employ
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-25

MT, w. M. Lindsay is an expert stenog- rapher, so expert that he is used in some Of the most difficult cases which come before the courts. The first time l got into court. which was more years ago than l care to count, MT. Lindsay took the evidence. 1 may remark, incidentally
 that I won my case. MT. Lindsay still wields a rapid and correct pen. but his claim to fame does not rest alone on that; he is one of the most expert grow CTS of fruits, vegetables and flowers to be found within the confines of greater Birmingham, and he could, I am sure, a tale unfold which would be exceedingly interesting to the citizens of Birmingham If he could be persuaded to put down some of his experiences in writing. For a good many years he had green houses in Woodlawn and produced many things
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-25
Making the College Practical
narlton Bates Strayer in Leslie's.

Charlton Bates Strayer in Leslies.
 The college student of other days lived in 8 little world of his own apart from the real world about hum Nor was the course of study designed to fit one for practical life. The Good Government club of Williams college is an example of the new spirit that has entered our colleges and universities One function of the club is to secure prominent speakers on various social and political problems. The second ann and the much more important of the two. is system of practical com munity service through committees. At Williamstown this has meant the asv sistance of neighboring farmers in ap- pie raising and in forestry. the inves- .igation of water and milk supply, the instruction of foreigners in tie GUS
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-25
ION THE WING"
Lindsay Vegetable Grower and Some Other Reflec
 tions Truck Gardening

that were a delight to the eye and pleas ing to the palate.
 l was talking to him the other day about how successful friend of mine had been with spinach, lettuce and pole beans, and quoted his statement that on lot 50 feet by 50 feet he could raise $50 worth of stuff. Mir Lindsay remarked: That is not so very strange, because on my farm near Springville, piece of ground eight feet wide and D feet in length, and within 90 days from the time of planting, I raised crop of lettuce, for which I got a $1OO bill" Thereupon, I figured out that he was getting a yield al the rate of somewhere in the neighbor- hood of 5000 an acre. The beauty of the performance cited lies in the fact that the stuff raised near Birmingham by a Jefferson county man was paid for by money earned in Jefferson county, which in turn, was again spent in Jefferson county.
 MT. Lindsay stated further that while
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-25
ment to the unemployed in making food

ment to the unemployed in making food for those who are so unfortunate as to be foodless, the ever-recurring question of Charity" would be less a question than as at present. Furthermore, If the vacant lots were cultivated and made to produce food, the owners would not peril odcally have to pay for destroying the weeds which grow on them. Nature looks out for the future and if man neglects to plant useful things, nature grows crop of weeds to enrich the ground for fu- ture crops. A friend of mine says if all the loafers in Birmingham were put to work on the vacant lots they could raise 10000 bales of cotton. I think his figures are rather high, but I know if all the idlers would go to work raising corn the land would laugh with fatness.
 JAMES H. HARD.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-25
handful of corn that was being dis

ndnuIul or corn tHdC WcS 7DelFS uiS- tributed by charitable institution.
 A wild horde has swept over Mexico and nothing but ruins remain where civilization once held sway. In that unfortunate country no man, he he Carranzista. Zapatista or Villista, thinks of much else than loot, graft and murder. And there will be "revo- lution' in Mexico while there remains man to be despoiled. house to be ransacked or a woman to be dishon- ored.
 The Mexican laborer who was of- fered liberty and justice has been given oppression and slavery. Every town is ruled by the local clan of petty miii- tary grafters. Every home IS menaced Ky their bestiality. No mans life is safe from abuse. No womsn's purity is free from attack. No city is clear of brigands. Over this lawle S and un ruly mob a new flag waves--the black flag of piracy with the skull and bones as fitting emblem. And instead of the inspiring and beloved national an them this motley crowd now sings 3 | low and ribald son: "The Cockroach.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-25

|75c value boys wash suits Nn
 made in good blouse styles. TYG Splendid wash materials at zVO }Boys' $1.OO value wash suits An
 in Buster Brown and A4C Balkan styles at AVO
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-25

toms and ideals of the country. work ing for prohibition. law enforcement and town improvement. and helping boys through the "big brother" move ment The young man who gets four years of this sort of experience in con- nection with academic training will be a bigger man than his predecessors and will justify his superior training by better service in the community an1A the state.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-25
Proof That He Feared God

r TUT1 CIft T dfI MdII 0dZcttc.
 Parson--Susie. I am sorry your papa was not at church.
 Susie-Please. no. sir; he went out walking in the woods
 Parson-I am afraid, Susie, your papa does not fear God.
 Susie--Oh. yes. sir; r guess h. does; he took his gun with him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-25
Takes Expertness

From the Louisville Courier-Journal. sTt must injure a ght-of-hand art ist to explain his tricks"
 Not at all. Now take the latest expose in high finance"
 What of it?"
 You see exactly how the trick was done and yet you can't do it."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-25
A Clearing of Notions

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 Breslin h a i r pin cabinets. assorted sizes regular Sc, tW 0 cabinets for 5c Stickeri braid, all colors, wide and Il a r r o W
 scallop, bolt Sc
 E V e ry d a y
 safety D i Il S :,
 card rc
 Line 30 white
 pearl buttons.
 good quality, ! dozen to card 15c
 Regular 12'z c and 15c pearl buttons. best quality ocean l pearl l i n e s . ] l2 22. 8 cards for 25c
 | Good wire hair pins, ' pack
 q ages for 5c
Bisbee daily review., 1916-07-09
OUR MAN-POW FER

How tremendous is the latent military strength of ederal bureau. The bureau estimates that there present this country 21O71 OOO males of mill ary age-that say between the ages of IS and 45.
 This figure includes 179SOOO alien whites and 92OOO who would ineligible for military service It may be eckoned as certain, however that in of need hun lreds of thousands of aliens would make themselves eligible by taking naturalization papers, i'm unavailable on account of physical mental defects, and for those imperatvey needed at home carry civilian activities and the manufacture of munitions.
 Great Britain with a population of about 46OOOO0O, than half of ours and with larger ratio of women han have appears have raised about 5OO000O sol iiers By all of them are available for actual ,ampaign work numbers used for the trans ,ort service home garrisons, It likely, how aver on the basis of the British achievement and own resources that for defensive be fought ,ur own soil we could actually put the field about To-. OOOOO men, F79'9&W
 With such man-power, certainly have nothing to ear provided have made sensible preparation With military plans properly worked out with adequate mil ary supplies stored up with million so of soldiers nd guardsmen fitted rstline defense and enough officers reay to train and handle volunteer army ve need have any power earth, or all of hem put together.
Bisbee daily review., 1916-07-09
Sunday Morning, July 9, 1916.
MACHINE GUNS

Having found that the Illinois National Guard lacks have got together and subscribed enough money buy twenty guns Having provided the fund however, they have run up against serious obstacle. The man ufacturers have informed them that their whole output for months ahead contracted by European beger ents
 The knot of course, be cut by our government Manufacturers who liberties with foreign contracts at the request of private citizens will do the request of the War Department The Allies, more over are said have given permission to the United States government let war orders take precedence over theirs. Washington should, of course attend to this matter without delay.
 But that isn't the main point. It is humiliatng to the nation that and indispensable part of an army's fighting equipment machine guns should have to be provided by private subscription It is the governments business to furnish and ammunition and all the other paraphernalia of war And the mos serious aspect of this that there is shortage of machine guns A machine gun company of the New York National Guard has been found to have guns and has been changed into infantry company There are not nearly enought automatic for the regular army
 The fighting in Europe has shown the tremendou' value of this arm defensive purposes In the Europe regiment or company been multiplied many times Machine guns are worth much in Mexico in Europe The more of them used the fewer American soldiers will be killed The need of them is more imperative than the need of aeroplanes.
Bisbee daily review., 1916-07-09

The Republicans denounced the Democratic rura redts legislation Chicago nine out of ten of them oted for it at Washington.
Bisbee daily review., 1916-07-09
BILL POSTERS TRUST ORDERED
 TO DISBANl
Federal Judge Landis Dis solves Combine, Ordering It To Cease Restraining Trade
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CHICAGO. July S.-Judge Kenesaw M. Landis in Federal district court today entered the formal decree dis solving the Associated Bill Posters and Distributors of the United States and Canada. The decree conforms with the decision he gave two months ago in which he ordered the members of the Bill Posters Association to dis band and cease doing business as a trust.
 The operation of the decree was suspended until September 1. The as sociation is called a restraint Of trade and is permanetly enjoined from con tinuing as such, or entering into any further combinations to restrain the bill posting business in the United States. The decree prohibits the de fendants from agreeing in any way to maintain prices. It provides that no competitor shall be restricted in any way from doing business, with Dill posters who are not members of the defendant organization.
 The decree further enioins the de fendants from inducing managers Of stock or posters not to sell their goods in open competition to any and all competitors.
Bisbee daily review., 1916-07-09
PATRIOTISM AND SINCERITY

There was a time when the most emphasized Amer can ideal was progressiveness" the fashion 1T ideals Everybody cared about the opinion of tho community felt obliged call himself progressive And the result was peculiar Men who regarded h their fellow-czens typical specimens of conserva tism maintained just stouty the bowling radicals that they were and always had been genuine progress ives It was almost impossible find in eithe' public or private life who would admit that he ' conservative.
 There was much talk of 'insincerity." But tho backward looking and forwardtalkng gentlemen wert moi necessarily hypocrtcal when they adopted the cur rent phraseology. Nearly all of them undoubtedl! thought that they were facing forward And men who were politically bat-bind insisted defining pocs progress Of course they mistaken. But the, were sincere as most who amount to anything
 Today the shbboleth is "Americanism" And w have much the same situation. Americans of all sort are wing with their patriotic protesatons The phrase most in favor the moment is "Amerc' first" There not a citizen, matter what his afia tions or preferences who doesn't insist that he is for America first last and all the time The mans Americanism is questioned the vociferousy Inc maintains that it is of the 24carat variety. Thus w have the peculiar phenomenon of citizens born aliens o
Bisbee daily review., 1916-07-09

of congress, a segregation was made on account of the vested rights of the iocators.
 Probably no single individual in the United States has had a more exten- sive experience in the practical ex- perience Of producing copper or is better posted in reference to copper bearing ground. than Mitchell, as he was for years connected with the United Verde Copper Company at Je- rome and later at Cananea, and but recently was compelled to abandon a property in Mexico in which he was interested, and he says: "In all my experience with copper properties, this is in a class by itself and offers greater attractions for the future than any property which l have ever been interested in. from which you will know something of my opinion of this unique situation"
Bisbee daily review., 1916-07-09
HOW HerrY MADE HER MONEY

The career of Hetty Green affords instructive les son in the art of making "The richest woman in the world" started with s4OOOOOO and died worth haps $1OOOOOOOO And she built up that immense for tune not by taking chances, but by slow steady un spectacular process of moneyending and investment.
 Although she made good deal of money long period by putting funds in the form of ca loans she to have acquired the bulk of her wealth by loans real estate
 The millions she left invested mostly in realty mortgages with bank bonds public service bonds and bank stocks The wholly nonspectacuar nature of her holdings shown by the fact that death had effect whatever the stock market
 We can't all be Hetty Greens-and few of want to. But it's worth noting that the methods she followed can be used successfully by anybody of ordinary business in eligence who has to invest and will take the same pains that she took in investing it.
Bisbee daily review., 1916-07-09
NEW MEXICO GUARDS
 ASKING DISMISSAL
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COLUMBUS, N. M.. July S.-A mum Der of New Mexico national guards men. on station here, have'appiied Tor discharges upon the ground that they have persons dependent upon them for support. Harry T. Herring. adlu- tant general. said tonight. General Herring added that eff these dis charges are admitted it will affect our organization considerably and serious lv handicap our work on the border. No action will be taken upon the ap- plications. it was announced. until ot- ficial orders upon the subject have been received from the war depart ment:
 Colonel w. C. Hayes, commandine the Second Massachusetts infantry said he had received no requests for discharge from members of his com mand.
Bisbee daily review., 1916-07-09
THE NATIONAL GUARD LAW

It may be unconstitutional" as legal sharps have argued legislae the militia into the regular ar my for foreign service But congress has done it. an6 the executive department has promptly acted on it, ant it likely that the judicial department will interfere as might have done if the matter had been referred it beforehand as merely theoretical question.
 Necessity makes precedents,and with the precedent once established even the United States supreme cour yields to the inevitable Thus the constitution means different things succeeding generations in spite of tho the characteristics that make it the great living force is
Bisbee daily review., 1916-07-09

What has Wilson done that you would have undone' hat the question every voter must answer before he oes to the polls in November.
Bisbee daily review., 1916-07-09

the of aliens characterized by intense foreign pahies in the present crisis only defending their loyalty to the United States-which is proper and ad- mrable-bu insisting that they the very best Ameri- ism
 And doubtless most of these men, too are sincere about it. They honest-but woefuly mistaken And they need not be abused because they cant them selves others see them Abuse gets any where. What need is clear-thnking.
Bisbee daily review., 1916-07-09

That America may be free among nations and tha ratio purpose t.. . t..f.