1906. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
261 
LETTERS FRO VI CONGRESSMEN . 
We skip to the Pacific coast this week 
in our letters from Congressmen. Hon. 
W. E. Humphrey of Washington received 
a letter from one of our readers, L. M. 
Parker, asking him how he stood on the 
parcels post question. This is what Mr. 
Humphrey says: 
I do not agree with you that the time lias 
come for a parcel post in this country. This 
law has been urged especially by William R. 
llearst, a member of Congress from New York, 
who has drawn his pay from the Government 
for the last two years, and I think I am 
safe in saying that in all tliat time he has 
not attended to his duties five days—at least 
I have never seen him present in the House 
in that time but twice. Yours truly, 
W. E. HUMPHREY. 
In reply to this Mr. Humphrey received 
what might be called a warm one, in 
which he was asked how Mr. Hearst 
could put such a hill through Congress 
if he spent only five days there. In reply 
to this Mr. Humphrey says: 
I Am the Paint Man 
2 Full Gallons Free to Try—6 Months Time to Pay 
St. Louis, Mo. 
■ AM the paint man. 
I have a new way 
of rnanufacturin g 
and selling paints. It’s 
unique— it's better. 
Before my plan was 
invented paint was sold 
in two ways — either 
ready-mixed or the in¬ 
gredients were bought 
and mixed by the painter. 
Ready-mixed paint settles 
on the shelves, forming a sediment at the bottom 
of the can. The mineral in ready-mixed paint, 
when standing in oil, eats the life out of the oil. 
The oil is the very life of all paints. 
Paint made by the painter cannot be properly 
made on account of lack of the heavy mixing 
machine. 
My paint is unlike any other paint in the world. 
It is ready to use, but not ready-mixed. 
My paint is made to order after each order is 
received, packed in hermetically sealed cans 
with the very day it is made stamped on each 
can by my factory inspector. 
I ship my pigment—which is white lead, zinc, 
drier and coloring matter freshly ground, after 
order is received—in separate cans, and in an- 
You Pay Mo Freight to Try My 
other can I ship my Oilo, which is pure old process 
linseed oil, the kind that you used to buy years 
ago before the paint manufacturers, to cheapen 
the cost of paint, worked in adulterations. 
I sell my paint direct from my factory to user 
at my very low factory price; you pay no dealer 
or middleman profits. 
I pay the freight on six gallons or over. 
My paint is so good that I make this wonder¬ 
fully fair test offer: 
When you receive your shipment of paint, you 
can use two full gallons — that will cover 600 
square feet of wall—two coats. 
If, after you have used that much of my paint, 
you are not perfectly satisfied with it in every 
detail, you can return the remainder of your 
order and the two gallons will not cost you one 
penny. 
No other paint manufacturer ever made such 
a liberal offer. 
It is because I manufacture the finest paint, 
put up in the best way, that I can make this 
offer. 
I go even further. I sell all of my paint on six 
months' time, if desired. 
This gives you an opportunity to paint your 
buildings when they need it, and pay for the 
paint at your convenience. 
Paint. 
Back of my paint stands 
my Bight Year, officially 
signed iron-clad Guaran¬ 
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I 
YEARS-ffi 
GUARANTEE 
This is the longest and most lib¬ 
eral guarantee ever put on a paint. 
For further particulars regarding 
my plan of selling, and complete 
color card of all colors, send a postal 
to O. L. Chase, St. Louis, Mo. 
I will send my paint book—the 
most complete book of its kind ever 
published — absolutely free- A Iso 
my instruction book entitled “This 
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and copy of my 8 year guarantee. 
The Paint 
Man. 
NOTE—My 8 Year Guarantee backed by $50,000 Bond 
711 R Olive Street, 
St. Louis, Mo. 
Referring once more to the parcel post. 
It is true that “Willie” does not attend to bis 
duties in Congress, but “Willie” sits at home 
and “Willie’s Ma” furnishes the money to 
publish letters and documents to send broad¬ 
cast throughout the country to stir up a sen¬ 
timent in favor of the bill to which “Willie’s” 
name happens to be attached. I am strongly 
inclined to think that there is much merit 
in your suggestion that there should be some 
means whereby small savings of the people 
could be deposited and absolutely protected, 
and I am in favor of any practical scheme 
along this line. As I have stated to you be- 
fore< I do not believe that, in the condition 
of our postal revenues—even though it were 
otherwise advisable—the time has come for 
the adoption of the parcel post law. This 
law is universally opposed, so far as I have 
been able to learn, by all classes except the 
great department stores or our cities who 
desire to monopolize this business, and who 
could, and would, easily form a trust to ad¬ 
vance prices, and those people who live in 
small towns, and some of the farmers, but 
the smaller stores, both in cities and villages, 
and commercial bodies, have almost univer¬ 
sally condemned it. Yours truly, 
W. B. HUMPHREY. 
Mr. Parker started out to learn some¬ 
thing, and he will do so before he gets 
through. This is what he sent back: 
“I have all the big mail order houses’ 
catalogues, and receive from one to six 
letters monthly from them and a few 
others, and in no case has any of them 
mentioned parcel post; all of them claim 
there is no profit to them in small orders, 
and ask as a favor to have a neighbor 
club with you or wait till you can increase 
yours to such proportions as to send by 
freight or express. As to their forming 
a trust and raising the prices, if they did 
we would still have the little pluck-me- 
quick stores left to fall back on. ‘Willie’s’ 
bill must have some merits in it. or ‘Wil¬ 
lie’s Ma’ thinks there is, or ‘Willie’s Ma’ 
would not furnish the money to push it. 
Please ask ‘Willie’ to send me a copy, 
so I may see whether I think there is or 
not.” 
d he average Congressman either 
doesn’t know what he is talking about, or 
else thinks some childish bluff will satisfy 
the people. That is where he is mis¬ 
taken. It is hard to think of a more 
foolish policy than Mr. Humphrey is fol¬ 
lowing in regard to Mr. Hearst. The 
people want the parcels post and do not 
care who gets it for them—though they 
will remember him ! For one man who is 
doing nothing to help this reform to make 
fun of another who is doing so appears 
to us about the most senseless policy we 
have heard yet. 
I obacco and a Cat.— To the question 
on page 133 about fumigation for lice, I 
have tried it thus: Put a lousy cat and 
burning tobacco under half bushel meas¬ 
ure. After treatment about five minutes 
investigated. Lice all dead, cat all dead, 
too, but with her nine lives revived and 
lived happy ever after. But the cheapest, 
easiest, surest way to get rid of cattle 
lice, is not to burn the sulphur, but to 
feed it to them in meal, about four times 
as much for a dose, as the women used 
,fi mix with molasses for their children. 
1 his repeated a few times, is a perfect 
remed y- s. H. c. 
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