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The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1884-12-13
Worried Wives.
A Wholesale Lesson For The Fireside.

"It's the last straw that breaks the
camel's back" said Lucy, bursting into
tears.
The pleasant June sunbeams came
peeping into the cool stone-paved dairy,
where pans of milk and cream were
ranged in orderly array, great stone pots
stood under the shelves, and a blue
painted churn was already placed on
the table for service.
Mr.. Bellenden was justly proud of
his dairy. Not chance guest came to
the house but was invited down to see
it; not housekeeper in the neighbor-
hood but secretly envied its many
conveniences and exquisite neatness.
'And it isn't the dairy alone, trium-
phantly remarked Seth Bellenden.
you may go through the house from
garret to cellar, and you'll never find a
speck of dust or stain of rust. There
never was such a housekeeper as my
wife,
Mrs. Bellenden was young, too
scarcely three and twenty. She had
been the daughter of a retired army
officer, delicately reared, and quite ig-
norant of all the machinery of domestic
life-until she married Seth Bellenden.
IT'S very strange Lucy had written
to her father. 'The farm is beautiful.
You never saw such monstrous old cot
tonball trees, nor such superb roses, and
the meadows are full of red clover, and
the strawberries shine like jewels on the
sunny hillsides. But nobody sketches
or reads; l don't think there's copy
of Tennyson in the whole neighbor-
hood, and no one ever heard of Dore or
Millias. All they think of is how many
dozen of eggs the hens lay, and how
many cheeses they can make in year.
The woman who hasa receipt for waffles,
or a new pattern for a horrible thing
they call a crazy quilt, is the leader in
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1884-03-15
James Luck.

Il always thought Jane would do
well," said Mrs. Lookahead, as she laid
the letter she had been reading on her
lap, and wiped her speetacles with the
corner Of her apron. '.She said she
would never marry poor man, and
she has kept her word
"Indeed." said Mrs. Nearneighbor,
'.she has made good match. theng''
"She has that. Her last words tn
me when she left home to visit her aunt
in Chicago were: Mother. the man
marry must have wealth. or be in po-
sition to accumulate it rapidly I
well remember the words.''
'.She has married q wealthy man,
them"
Hes not exactly wealthy yet, but
he's making fortune RAPIDLY"
"What is he? a banker, or broker
or what?'
He is the porter Of Pullman car. -
-Some,tiile tEass.l journal,
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1884-03-15
TAMMANY PARISH La MARCH Is, 1884.

continues forty days the profit. by q
simple process in arithmetic, amounts
to S1.440. The bulk Of the business. SO
far. is in apples and peaches, but 1t
coull be extended
Where is the business in apples and
peaches carried on with most vigor?'
peaches in Few Jersey, Delaware,
Maryland and Pennsylvania, and ap..
pies in New York, New England and
Canada
.'What other things are evaporated?"
BLACK and red raspberries. straw
berries, blackberries, cherries, grapes.
sweet corn, potatoes, beans and pump
kins. Cabbage and celery are bleached
to a crispy white. The latest notion is
evaporatng tinely-chopped vegetables
to be used in soups. see no reason
whv a revolution should not be produced
in the trade in these common bulky vege-
tables, the transportation of which costs
so much to city consumers. ~ T.
SIM
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1884-03-15
A Cold Day for Snakes.

A hunter. while wandering around the
foot of a mountain in Indiana County,
Pa. was overtaken by darkness. Com
ing to sheltered place he prepared to
camp for the night. In searching for
wood he found buried under pile of
leaves lot of sticks, or what appeared
to be long pegs sharpened at one end.
These he supposed had been hidden there
by party Of railroad engineers who had
gone over the ground not long before.
After starting a fire beside big log he
drove several of these pegs around in
front of it, on which to hang blanket
to keep the cutting wind off his back.
He was scarcely through with his lunch
when he noticed one Of the pegs, which
was about three feet high, begin to lop
over to one side and then straighten up
again. Then a twinkle of light, like q
tiny flash of lightning, would emanate
from the crack in the end of the stick.
Supposing that his lunch had affected
his sight, he went to sleep only to be
awakened by the gum blanket falling
on him. Getting up to investigate. he
found half dozen big snakes trying to
get their frozen tails out Of the holes he
had driven them into, s,lpposing them
to be surveyors pegs.-Erchonge,
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1884-03-15
Goose Bacon.

.sAs feature of my business said a
Harrison street packer to reporter for
the Tribune, Il am introducing smoked
geese breasts"
And do You find it profitable??" was
asked.
Il do, very''
"Will you tell me what you mean by
smoked geese-brea>ts?'
Smoked geese-breasts? Why. it is
kind of delicacy, 1 suppose. but
there are places in the world where
they are as common as bacon. 1t is
not always easy to make the business
profitable. owing to the hign price of
fowls. We can only preserve the
breasts and legs. When the legs are
preserved said the man, smiling
broadly, ..they are called hams"
'.How do you dispose of the other
portions of the fowl9''
.Well, some of it we are compelled
to throw away. Other portions can be
used in making goose-lard. That YOU
know sells at forty cents per pound.
We get from one to two pounds from
each fowl. This is a small yield, you
must understand. but we do not hunt
for fat geese in buying for this trade.
We want those that seem to have
plenty of meat but as little fat as is con-
sistent with their health and flavor.
The breasts when smoked and dried
weigh on an average about three
pounds. Three and a half pounds is
about as heavy as we can get them gen.
orally. They are cured almost the
same as pork hams, except that we add
little garlic to the sugar and salt
When offered for sale the meat is as dry
as dried beef and is Clipped and eaten
raw. To tell YOU the truth, there is
nothing better in the way of dried
meats. l ship a great deal of the dried
meat or 'goose-bacon to New York,
and some l sell here, where the other
material is always disposed of. The
only product sold in its green or fresh
condition is the livers. These | sell
under contract to one man, who pays
me fifteen cents apiece for them. You
know they are very small. All healthy
livers are, though the most unnaturally
enlarged ones bring the most money"
You speak only of geese: do you
distinguish between them and the gam
ders?'
80, no, there is only a trifiing differ
ence. if any. in the flavor. and we pay
no attention to sex in replenishing our
stock of fowls"
"Who are your patrons?''
They are divided chiefly among the
Jews and the Germans, and by both
goose-bacon is considered a rare deli
cacy. You would be surprised to see
the kind of people who buy of me. l
have people come here in carriages to
make purchases and leave orders. L
often have more orders than l can fill.
During the last cold spell was unable
to do much business on account of the
high price Of fowls. The price always
advances, by the way, whenever it
grows cold enough to ship the dressed
fowl East. Chicago Tribune.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1884-03-15
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

Of the five hundred students at the
Munich Academy of Fine Arts forty-two
are Americans.
George Ball, rich banker of Gal
weston, Tex, has given . $40, 900 school,
house to that city.
A Methodist woman's smass-meeting
was held in Baltimore recently to take
measures to secure the money, some
thing like $500, 600, for an educational
institution for the higher education of
the daughters of Methodist parents.
The San Francisco Occident is dis
turbcd by the gift of $780, 900 BY Cali
fornian to Yale College, and says that
people who have made their money in
the new Pacific States should not for
get their debt to their Western home,
and should provide educational advan-
tages there similar to those now en-
joyed in the East.
MIR. Joseph Atkinson fayors the es-
tablishing of an educational laboratory
which shall aid people to solve the prob
lem how to live on small profits and
how to save on their food. He says it
costs more in the city of Boston to get
the food from the bakers ovens into the
mouths of those who eat than it does
to bring the wheat from Iowa and pre-
pare it for consumption. Hestern PaoU-
man.
"A London schoolmaster was SO an
moved by a boy who persisted in talking
during lesson time that he fastened a
strap with a slip-knot around the tongue
of the offender and then tied the other
end of the strap by piece OF string to
chair, thus stopping the nuisance
The matter was carried into court, but
the magistrate dismissed the case on the
ground that no real punishment had
been inflicted.
Bishop Simpson says: "Ihe no
man Catholic Church has devoted par
ticular attention to the higher female
education, and in this way it has come
to exert quite an influence over tae
army of the United States. There is
an academy at Georgetown, near Wash
ington, and the young army officers.
coming in contact with the young ladies.
fall under their influence and marry
them In this way has the army been
tinsed with Roman Catholicism.
The pastor of Western church
was recently attacked by number Of
members of his church, who came to
his humble habitation at night in the
shape of donation party. He was
presented with suit of clothes which
on trial proved to be half block too
large for him. In referring to the mat
ter in his pulpit the following Sunday
he let drop the information that. while
he was exceedingly thankful for the
gift, still he could not help thinking
that the spokesman who made the pre-
sentation speech was just little too
previous in calling the gift '.itting
tribute. Chicago Times.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1884-03-15
w. G. kENTZEL, Editor

dogs or the world. anG make people
who are not so overland to 'em get into
a better way of thinking. apd be just to
'the friend of man..
There's not starving cur in the
street that ought not to be the better for
Bob. For his sake, hope people will
be kinder to dogs. one and all. A bone
or a crust to starving dog can never
be thrown away.
"Some people take lot of pure
bred dogs, and pet 'em up until they
are downright uncomfortable with good
living: but the same people will often
stone or shoot a starving cur In my
opinion. no dog is a cur. and some Of
them which are called 'mongrels' are
the best tempered. affectionate. faithful
creatures going Bob ant thorough
bred, but I'd like to lind one better bred
than he is. Ask any of the crew of the
Ezra if there is another dog like Bob.
and you will get an answer right away
from their hearts.
Not that we think less of other dogs,
but more of Bob. We had brave men
among us, but Bob was the true hero OF
the Era, and from the Captain to the
lowest among us there's not one that
wouldn't freely give place to him.
lin our opinion, Bob ought to be
thought much of and well of. He's the
sort of dog that verses ought to be writ
ten on and stories told about. and l
don't see why big book of his Life
shouldn't be written. He's been just as
useful, and perhaps a little more so.
than many men who had lot writ
ten about them. A live dog is better
than dead lion, I've heard. Bob alive
is better than any living lion, | say;
and even dead his memory will do more
good than all the animals in the Zoolog-
ical Gardens put together"
Bob is no fiction. but living dog. al
ready seen and admired by many thou
sands who have visited the Fisheries
Exhibition Retrievers have more than
average dog-intelligence, and Bob has
more Intelligence than the general run
of his breed He is worth seeing, and,
if YOU understand dog language Spoken
with the eyes and taiD, worth talking
to. There is some danger of his get
ting too fat, but he deserves all the rest
and good living he can get. He has
earned both, and something more. But
it would be a pity if he were to share
the fate of my lady's pampered poodle,
and die of a surfeit.
The kindest way of treating dogs is
to feed them well on suitable food, treat
them well. and make friends of them.
For every kind word or look a dog will
repay by his faithful love.
Having learned his duty, he does it.
You may trust a dog. He ewill never be
tray you. He will even love you if you
are unkind. How much more of his
heart, then. will you gain if you give
him the affection and care to which he
is entitled by his many valuable serv-
ices, and for which he was created and
given to man!-British Workman.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1884-03-15
WIT AND WISDOM.

Miss Alcott says ''she has fallen IN
love with great many pretty girls IN
her life, but never once the least bit
with a man" just so with us.-B0StOn
Post.
-.Is Jay Gould a humorist?' asked
. countryman of Wall street broker.
II believe not" replied the money
handler; "but Re is considered a man
of infinite chest IN. y. NeUs.
DE oman what dresses Ter please
herself shows sense, but de oman what
dresses ter please some utider oman wild
'sperior finery is got a saft spot summers
near de top o. her rhead.-ArkdnsaU
Irareller.
-..What will yo1 think of your beau
tiful wife thirty years frorI now? that Is
the question:" SAYS Mgr. Capel. Oh,
bless you. Monsignor, she'll be all right
The conundrum is. what she will think
of us?-N y. Herald.
He was n new hand at printing,
and set it up to read on the hotel bill OF
fare: Baked Indians in pudding in
stead of Baked Indian pudding Now
the printer and the proof-reader never
speak as they pass by.
"A boy ken do wrong an outlive it.
but it amt often dat way wild man.
De kolt ken slip down an jump up
widout much injury, but when de ole
hoss falls he's ap'ter hurt hisse'f.
ftantation Philosophy.
Advice to the young: knowledge,
economy and labor are the shining vir-
tues of civilized man. They form the
most enduring basis of society and the
surest source of National and individual
welfare.-Peter Cooper.
The Empress of Russia has ordered
. cloak which is to cost $4,000 1t will
be of sable fur, trimmed with gold
and enriched with precious stones. She
could hardly put on more style if she
was an editors wife, OiIC.ty Derrick.
A lady who had recently lost her
husband and her friend were eating din
ner together at the residence of the lat
ter. Il sympathize with You from the
bottom of my heart in your great sor-
row." said the friend. 1T must be
terrible to lose such man." ..Ah. me.
ves," sighed the widow. lit is only the
hope of soon meeting him in q better
land that gives me courage and desire
to live. ."s7eras Siitings.
=" What do circus folks do in win
ter?" asks contemporary The clown
devotes the season to cleaning fresh
crop of jokes from the almanac printed
prior to the American Revolution, and
occasionally writes for the London COM
ic weeklies: and the ''strong man." who
splinters rocks with his fist. secures en-
ployment in cheap boarding house at
hammering tough teef. No doubt the
others find employment adapted to their
respective talents. -NorriSt0un Herald.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1884-03-15
FACTS AND FIGURES.

The skeleton measures one inch
less than the height of the Irving man.
The New York Young Mems
Christian Association has member
ship of 3, 356, of whom 1.569 We're add
ed last year.-N \. San.
Ontario has q total population OF
4,344, $50, of whom 609, 21S are foreign
ers-lS5. 456 being Irish-more in pro-
portion than dwell in the United States.
A couple of wheels in machine
shop at Scranton are said to be the
largest in the world. Their combined
weight is 124 tons. 1t cost $4,000 to
make them. Philadelphia Press.
The Cape Ann Adreriiser. published
at Gloucester. Mass, reports that dur
ing the eight years ended with 1888
the total loss of life among those en-
gagged in the fisheries from that port
was g9s. During 1888 alone seventeen
vessels and 2O9 lives were lost. The
worst year in the sad history of the
peIilcus business was 1878, when thirty
one vessels and la lives were sacri-
iced,
The tea-drInkers OF America form
an army of no small proportions, Judg-
ing by the statistics of teas imported.
The total importations fer the last four
years were: 1880, Sl,746. 4o1 pounds:
1881, 79,9S6,7 7l0 pounds; 1882. I,507,-
$40 pounds: 1888, 63.000,000 pounds.
The imports of last year were: Greens,
$4,000, 900 pounds; blacks GALL kinds).
1S,5GO.0 .000 pounds; Japans, 23,5O0,oOO
pounds.-N Y Herald.
The amount Of fry and mature fish
distributed by the Fisheries Commission
of New York since its establishment,
according to the Secretary of the same,
is As fol Ows: Shad, 55,6lS.010; s;,lm-
on trout, 11,2i5.000; whiteiish, $780,
200; brook trout, 100, 700; saltwater
salmon, 81, land locked salmon.
11S,O0U; California salmon, $4,000;
California trout. 1,643, 600; hybrid trout,
1890; sturgeon, 80. .0O0; eels, $4,000;
mature fish: bass. pike, perch. yellow
perch and bull-heads, 43,s62. Total,
1862, ,012.
A writer in the Cincinnati Enquirer
gives the following estimate as the proper
proportion of weight tn height in wom-
en-: Five feet in height should weigh
100 pounds; five feet one inch, loo
pounds; five feet two inches, i13 pounds;
live feet three inches, l19 pounds; five
feet four inches, 13J pounds; five feet
five inches, 1873 pounds; five feet six
inches, IA pounds; five feet seven inch
es, $50 pounds; five feet eight inches:
155 pounds; five feet nine inches, 1853
pounds; five feet ten inches. l67 pounds;
five feet eleven inches, 176 pounds; SIX
feet, $50 pounds.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1884-03-15
BEAUTY THAT WILL List,

Give me beauty that will last
After youth bright years are past
After summer roses fade
From the checks of man and maid.
Something finer than the hue
Of the eyes most perfect blue
or the subtle, witcaing shine
OF the black orbs most divine
Let il be the auenchless ray
horn OF kindness that will stay
When the color we admire
Shall have lost its transient fire.
Fadelcss charms, that are not lost
When the hair is touched by frost
Mfen the furTowcd lines of care
Mark the brow that once was fair.
What are lips of ruby red
That no kindly words have Saidg
What are hands rs white as snow
That have done no good below
What the fair and graceful form
That enshrines no spirit warm2
No fond heart that scatters wide
Smiles and sunshine DER life tide?
Priceless beauty of the soul.
This shall live while ages roll,
Aud therein beam love and grace
Like unto an angels face.
Give us beauty that will last
After youths bright years are past
After Joy, and care and pain
Like the sunshine after rain.
Mrs. VI. A. kfdder, ia ". I. Ledger.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1884-03-15

A married couple perished in the
City of Columbus disaster, leaving no
children, but considerable property. As
it is impossible to say surely which one
died first the title to the estate will have
to be determined by inference The
courts have held in cases of shipwreck
that the woman being the weaker the
law warrants the conclusion that she
dies first, and therefore the husbands
heirs are entitled to the property
Boston Herald
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1884-03-15

, The H'oman's journal. of Boston,
depreca,es the absurdity of the preju-
dice which seeks to promote human
welfare by the seclusion of women A
fitting illustration is found in the "Con-
vent Horror" recently enae ted in Belle
Vile, ul.-CAieago Tribune
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1884-03-15

Tea has been uceessfully and
easily grown in Georgia for several
wears, but no effort has been made to
prepare it for market on scale to at
tract the attention of wholesale buyers,
according to the Savannah Neus
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1884-03-15

There is supposed to be some beer
drinking in this country, but it is only
twenty quarts per head in the United
States to 125 in Great Britain, and 163
in Beloium.-N J. Wdti.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1884-07-11
DUBI.IC LOCAL LAW.
RELATING TO HARTFORD COUNTY.
ENACTED JANUARY SESSION, 1884.
Published By authority.
CHAPTER 154.

CHAPTER 154.
AN ACT to protect Fish i'm the waters of Bush
river and its tributaries in Hartford county.
SECTION l.. BE IL eHdcted IV he General ISSenl5iv
o. Mtytnd, That it shall hereafter be unlawful
for any person TO fish, by hauling SEINE or to haul
seine in the waters of Bush river, or any of its
tributaries, in Hartford county.
SEQ. Ahd De IL tndcted, That from and after
the twentieth day of May, in each and every year,
and until the twentieth day of August thereafter
IL shall be unlawful for any person to fish with
pound nets, or with gill nets, in any of the waters
mentioned in the first section of this act
SEC. 3. and BE- IL enacted, That hereafter il shall
he unlawful for any person to fish with pound
nets In any part of the waters mentioned in the
preceding section, distant over two hundred and
nlty yards from the shore line of said water as
marked by ordinary high water.
SEC. ana De II enacted, That hereafter il shall
be unlawful for any non resident of this State to
fish, except with hook and line i'm any of the wa
ters mentioned in the preceding sections, except
ford county, or be a renter of lands bordering
upon said waters
SEC. 8. And be IL enacted, That any person yio-
lating any of the provisions Of this act shall for
purtenances thereto, together with the boats and
materials used in fishing the same and shall Also
Tor eacn Onence, upon conviction thereof before
any Justice of the peace of said county, or upon
pay iine not less than twenty dollars nor more
than fifty dollars.
SEC. o. And be IL enacted, That all other laws re-
iating to the taking of fish, or the protection of
fish, in the waters mentioned I'm the preceding
sections, be and the same are hereby repealed
Approved March 81, 1884.
We he,e6y Ceytify, That the aforegoing is a cor
rect copy of an Act of the General Assembly of
Maryland passed January , session, 1881.
Chief Clerk of the House of Delegates
j. M. MILLER,
JeD Secretary of the Senate.