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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-03-13
A DESERTED VILLAGE.
The Last Shanty OF Frogtown, Naryiand'
Is TotterinS.

The Last Shanty OF Frogtown, Narylands
Is Tottering.
They were talking about dead mining
camps. II have seen dead camps,
said the man from the east shore OF
Maryland, land I have seen dead oil
towns, but the deadest town / ever saw
was the remains of the once prosperous
Frogtown down on Delaware Bay. 1t
was once station on one of the first
railroads built in this country, line SIX
miles in length passed through the
place last week. The engine stopped
for water or something, and l saw .
gaunt, hungry looking girl. clothed in .
greasy calico wrapper, reaching out OF
the door OF howell and tearing of .
clapboard. 1t was the last board. All
the rest had been pulled off before for
tirewood. and all the other houses in the
town had gone the same way. This was
the last house and the last inhabitant.
As soon rs the gaunt, hungry woman
committees her work of destruction she,
too, viii 90.
..Thev used to have accidents on the
roads in those old days" continued the
Marylander, meditatively. 1.-The cars
were wheeled over wooden rails COW
cred with thin iron strips nailed down
to the wood The ends of these rails
used to curl up and run through the
floors of the cars and ont through the
roof. Usually there would lie man on
the end of 'em. And it sometimes
took several hours to pick him of.
They make all sorts of fun OF East
shore people, ne continued, after q
pause, land some of The inhabitants are
queer specimens. They grow on trees.
you know. some drop off before they
are ripe. and that accounts for the vari-
ETY. of the fruit. You will meet men
with one cheek bone two inches higher
than the other, others with one side OF
their mouths turning down and the
other side turning up; some without
any chins, others with chins extending
out like horns; some with feet and
hands like hams, others misShapcn and
bent and warped and twisted out of all
semblance to humanity. A new gen.
Grafton is springing up, however, and
the latest born are very like other NOR
tails. Soon nothing will be left of the
East-shore men but tradition. Chicago
NeWS.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-03-13
GERMAN FARM HANDS.
The Wages They Receive in Some Of I'll
Empires Richest Districts.

The Wages They Receive in Some Of the
Empires Richest Districts.
Consul Dithmar, at Breslau. Ger
many, has made report TO the Depart
ment of State relative TO agricultural
labor He says the laborcr usually
lives upon the estate, and is employed
upon it the year round. The working
hours are in summer from six a. IN. to
severn D. m, and in winter from sunrise
to sunset. He has free lodging and free
fuel. and it is customary also to allow
his family the use of 100 square rods of
land for raising vegetables. As direct
wages he receives per annum $40 to
S2S. so in cash and "a bushels of rye, 3
bushels of peas and ii bushels of wheat.
The laborers wife is bound to work in
the field whenever required. and re-
ceives for days work in summer II
to IA cents, and in winter 10 to u. OF
tea, meat and tobacco the farm lahorer
gets but little. If he smokes pipe it
IS but seldom, and his tobacco is IN
manufactured leaf. In harvest time lie
is treated to schnapps to encourage
subjects estimates that laborer's
family, consisting of himself. wife
and five children. under II
years of age can subsist for
S1.09l week, or S57 q year. Miners
and mine laborers receive daily from
52I cents (Which is paid to foremen,
engineers and carpenters) to Is! and
Is cents paid to women and minors.
The average cost of the subsistence of
miners family. including rent. cloth
ing and taxes amounts to Sl22.S0 per
annum. The rents paid by miners
range from Sc cents TO 81. 10 per month.
Mr.. Fox, the Consul at Brunswick,
sends a report on agriculture labor in
that duchy. The wages paid to agri-
cultural labor depends upon the locali-
ty where such labor is employed. being
considerably higher in the level than
in the mountainous districts. In the
former the wages of a man and wife
aggregate s19L26 per annum, while in
the mountain districts man and his
wife, assisted by \ child, earns but
1854. Men aud women earn from 30
to AZ cents hoeing. ard from IL to SO
gathering beets. In this latter work
children are also employed to cut off
the leaves. and child from 10 to II
years old will earn in period of three
or four weeks "a cents daily. In the
matter of beet culture contract labor
is sometimes engaged. cash wages be-
ing from "a to so cents per diem. Oft
en- a donation of liz cents per diem is
given, provided the laborer remains
steadily at work until the contract ex-
pires. Each employee receives from 90
to 20 cents head money upon entering
into the contract, and extra hours are
paid for at the rate of 2, 5 and cents
per hour. As 3 rule, every five or six
work people receive one quart Of milk
and often one pound of bread per head
daily, with coffee in the morning and a
warm meal at noon and night, with
meat on Sunday.-Washiagton Cor. N.
Y. Sun.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-03-13
FARM AND FIRESlDE.

When snow is scarce and the
weather freezing, look out for your
orchard trees and vines.
Coarse brown paper soaked in
vinegar and placed on the forehead is
good for sick-headache. If the eyelids
are gently bathed in cool water, the
pain in the head is generally allayed.-
Exchange.
-Treacle Mullins: One and one
fourth cups oatmeal, one cup flour. one
half cup brown sugar, one-haf cup
butter worked into the sugar, one egg,
small cup of milk, teaspoonful soda
dissolved i'm less than a half cup of
molasses, one egg, little nutmeg
Albany Journal.
For light tea cake, take one cup
of sugar, two eggs. half a cup of melted
butter, one and quarter cups of milk.
two teaspoonfuls of cream of tartar and
one teaspoonful of soda. Add -four
enough to make a stiff batter. Bake
twenty minutes in good oven.-Boston
Budget.
"A Salamander: Bone chicken and
rub it well all over with cayenne and
pounded ginger; put quarter OF a
pound of butter in a stew-pan and lay
the chicken in it.; let it simmer in the
butter until it is quite cooked; lag it on
dish and pour the butter over it, with
the juice of lemon; serve very hot
The Caterer.
Snow Balls: Core and peel six APP
pies; ill the place where the core was
with orange or lemon peel chopped.
Allow two tablespoonsfuls OF rice to
cover each apple and scatter this over.
after it is placed in the cloth. Tie
each apple in separate cloth and boil
one hour. Serve with sauce.-CtaciH-
matt Times.
For ebonizing wood. use half an
ounce of copperas and eight ounces of
logwood chips. Boil the logwood
chips in one gallon of water for half
an hour and then add the copeeras.
The mixture must be. applied hot To
the wood. Two or three coats will be
required. If the cbonize.l wood is TO
be vanished, little black must be
added to the varnish else it will give it
a brown tinge.-Chicago Journal.
Orange snow is delicious when pre-
pared after the following methods: An
ounce of isinglass is dissolved in pint
of boiling water. 1t is then to be
strained and allowed to stand until it is
nearly cold. Now mix with it the juice
of six or seven oranges and one lemon.
Add the whites of three eggs and sugar
to taste. WhiSk the whole together
until it looks white and like sponge.
Put it into mold and turn ii out on
the following day.-Toiedo Blade.
Plum Pudding: Beat thoroughly the
yelks of four eggs and stir them into a
quarter of pint Of milk; add a quarter
of pound of suet chopped fine, half a
pound of fine bread crumbs, half a
pound each of stoned raisins and cur
rants, one-eighth of a pound of citron
cut into thin peels. one and a quarter
gills of sugar, a little nutmeg. powdered
cinnamon and mace. Mix all well
together. adding to the last the white
of the eggs beaten to stiff froth. Tie
in cloth and boil six hours, turning
once i'm while, and being sure to keep
boiling water on hand to add to that in
the kettle when it boils down.-Boaon
f4l0be
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-03-13
A SIBERIAN JOKE.
Painter Life-Like Portrait OF Man
He Had Never Seen.


Gloomy Siberia has furnished joke
of her own that has made all the Rus
sias laugh. Ivan Petroff, merchant
and Mayor of the city of Cork, of the
Tomsk province, died awhile ago.
The citizens raised two hundred ru-
bies to procure a painting of the dead
Mayor They sent the money to MIR.
Skotti, the well-known painter OF Mos
cow, asking him to make a portrait
of the Mayor They did not inclose
any photograph. but gave this descrip-
ton: Age. tfty-two years and six
months; stature. five feet, six inches;
bair and eyebrows, auburn; eyes,
gray; nose, mouth and chin, ordinary;
face. clean. He had no special traits.
except stammering" The artist laughed
and gave the curious order to one of
his young pupils, Astrakhoff. who in
a few days painted the portrait OF
the stammering Mayor and sent it to
Siberia. In few weeks Skotti re-
.ceived letter from the Gorkians. say
ing: The relatives OF tie late Mr.. Pet
rolf and the rest of the citizens believe
that no better likeness could have been
made San Francisco Argonaut. ~.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-03-13
WANTED HONORS.

A Youth Who Desired to be Respected In
His Own Village.
..Some fellars played me out of fifty
six dollars up at Port Huron yesterdays
said a young man of about twenty-three
who called at the Central Station YES
terday.
"How?" asked the Sergeant.
well. one of 'cm had three cards.
and he tossed en- around and wanted
me to bet could pick out the ace Of
hearts"
1T was thrce-card monte"
"Was it? That's what came in to
ask YOU. I've read about confidence
games, string games and SO on, but
didn't know what this was. Thank
you"
Ibid You take any steps to have 'em
arrested?" asked the Sergeant as he
was going.
20. no. merely told EN- if l ever
caught either of EN- in st. Thomas I'd
mop the ground with him. ., didn' t
propose to make 'em any particular
trouble"
LOU IuuSN oC al SSiIei OuS.Icdit cu
man. 5sts -
We'll. am. Another thing is. l
never had anything happen to me- No
body ever slugged me. or picked my
pocket, or drew a gun on me, and
when l sit down with the boys in Be-
bees grocery and venture my opinion,
somebody speaks up and says:
"'What do you know about it? You
never went anywhere or had anything
happen to you.
THE case will be different now. I've
bin swindled out Of fifty-six dollars and
the boys have got to stand back for me.
This ere case will stand me in five
hundred dollars in reputation. I'll be
pointed out on the street as the chap
who got in with the monte men and
I'M going to the papers this afternoon
to have 'em give me good lift.
They don't all take it this way"
observed the Sergeant.
No, suppose not, but you see my
policy. don't you9 If l could only get
my pocket picked of the eleven dollars
I've got left I'd be the biggest man in
St. Thomas for a year to come. Do you
know of burglar who will talk with
me. or pugilist who will give me a
black eye to carry home. Detroit Free
Press.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-03-13
SELF-CONTROl.
A Trait Whose Beauty and Power Can Not
he Over-Estimated.

A Trait Whose Beauty and Power Can Not
BE Over-Estimated.
Who does not admire the power and
beauty of this trait! To my mind, it
more than any other gives honor and
dignity to its possessor. Witness two
cases of behavior under provocation.
Abuse borne in quiet patience awakens
for the sufferer our ready sympathy;
while one who RACES and vows venge-
ance on his prosecutor loses part of our
pity, in the scorn which he provokes.
There is greatness in the one who holds
himself in submission. If it is .better
to rule ones own spirit, than to take n
city," how much better than
to WELD, through selfishness. the
wills of our friends. There are
those who, If fearful of losing
their own way. will indulge in fit of
passion, even to bringing on illness,
making all the other members of the
family feel obliged to lay aside their own
feelings and walk with the greatest fear
of exciting such consequences. Cases
have been known where this person was
not child but the wife and mother Of q
grown-up family. Father and children
may develop an unusual amount of kind
thoughtfulness. rendering them very
pleasing; but, alas. il can not prevent
the contempt they must feel for the self
isE and passionate wiifulness which has
wrought in them this result. Dear read
ers! You can not afford to grow into
snnh a character Cpmmpncc early to
practice Christian at Work.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-03-13
London would seem to be fast b

coming the paradise of domestic serv-
ants. "A lady living in Regents
Park. advertising for cook and house
maid, announces that they '.will be al.
lowed the use of piano and late din
ner." They will also be allowed out
two nights Il week and every other Sun
day. So considerate an employer has
right to require that candidates shall
be Furnished with highest testimoni
ais -
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-03-13
A Popular Novelist.

"What is your business'" passenger
on railway train asked of chance AZ
quaintance.
81 an, writer of popular novels"
"What is your manner"
"Nick Smith"
swell, don't believe that ever read
any of your novels. But perhaps you
employ a nom de plumes"
Yes"
..What is your pen name?"
81 change it very frequently"
"Why SOP"
swell. you see, am employed by y
publishing house to continue the works
of men who die in tine zenith of their
fame. l have finished Hugh Conway
and am now waiting for Wilkie Collins
to die. "-ArkdnSato Traveller.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-03-13
MFR. Whittier dislikes. for himself.

biographies and biographers. 'sOi
course, am glad" he said to s recent
visitor, "to have thee tell my friends
anything about me they care to know;
but such fame as man gets from books
written about him after he is dead seems
to me worth very little. have never
thought of myself as poet in the sense
in which we use the word when we
speak of the great poets. have Just
said from time to time the things /
had to say, and it has been series
of surprises to me. that people should
pay So much attention to them and re-
member them so lone
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-03-13
In the Hospitals.

Baltimore and Philadelphia hospital ply
sicians are prescribing the new proprietary
medicine, Rod Star Cough Cure. 1t contains
neither morphia, opium, nor any other inju-
rious ingredients. The price is only 25cents.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-03-13

sSEE hier, fadder Dot celebrated DR..
Hammond says dot in t'ousand years all
mankind will be bald My gracious. my
son, ish dot so: guess may be den We bet
ter mark our schtock of combs down.
Chicago -teles.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-03-13

An octegenarian named Bohannon.
of mithton. Mo-. died the other day.
after having tasted. it is claimed. for
sixty-one days. His abstinence was
caused BY sickness-St Louis Post.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-03-13

A YANKEE clinched his argument with
an Englisbman as to the relative size of the
Thames and Mississippi by saying: why
look here, mister, there amt enough of wa
ter in the whole of the Thames to make d
gargie for the mouth Of the Mississippi
Rivern-N. y Post.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-03-13

EVERY man is made better by the posses,
sion of a good picture, even if it is only q
landscape on the bac.; OF !. hundred-doliaT
uote -.IOrTiStoen Herald
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-03-13

PIKE's ToorHAcHE DROPS cure in minute q
Glenn's Sulphur Soup heals and beauties. sc
GERaAN CORN REMOVER kills Corus 4 Bunionl
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-03-13

FoE removing dandruff and promotingt the
growth of the hair, use Halls Hair Remover.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-03-13

THE Widow Larkin says the main reason
that they marry a missy Y. Journal
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-03-13

IT was Vassar girl just graduated WHIT
inquired: us the crack of the rife the
place where they ppt the powder.''-Tro!
Times.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-03-13

PAT took the bull by the horns when be
said that all the men in China were washer
women.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-03-13

AYERS Cherry Pectorai. i'm thousands of
eases, has cured a cough in q few days.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-03-13

A DESIRABLE thing in gloves-A warm
lning.-Bosfon Courier.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-03-13

A MAN about to build house advertises
for proposals. Why don't the girls try that
plan l-LotrsH Citizen.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-03-13

Why teach a girl to speak several Ian
guages when as a wife she can .alk him
baidheaded with one.- Chicago Tribune
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-03-13

SOME men are like eggs. You can't tel
whether they are good or bad until they arr
broke.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-03-13

BRONCHITIS is cured bv frequent small
doses OF Piso's Cure for Consumption.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-03-13

UNCLE GEoHGE-" And so you go to school
now. Johnny. What part of the exercises
do You like bests" Jobnny--''fhe exercise
we get at recess w. Boston Transcript
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-03-13

A BRooKLYN man has printed a book t.
prove that the earth is flat. He judges by
himself-FaH Rirer .4drance.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-03-13

PEOPLE with telephones in their houses
have more boiler days than other folks
California .kaerick.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-03-13

II afflicted with Sore Eyes use DR.. Isna,
Thompson's Eye Water. Druggistssellit. pc
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-03-13

PEOPLE we must put up with-Hotsl
keepers-LoureR Citizen.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-03-13

Love is little confidence game, in which
both parties arc taken in-by the clergy
man.-Dsir0tt FREE Press.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-03-13

There are firms in New York and
Philadelphia who hire out clean cuffs
and collars. IN. Y. Mail
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-03-13

A sNow-pLow is like bad habit-A
good thing to cut adrift.-Boston Bulletin.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-03-13

WHEN trains are telescoped the poor pas
sengerS see stars.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-03-13

THx sigh of the Observation-Disclosures
Paul Herald.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-03-13

Coop for boils-The tea-kettle.-Bostos
Bulletin.
The Hope pioneer., 1886-09-10

Paternalism in France brought re.
suits in which Americans may read a
profitable lesson. Responding to the
demand for the extension OF State
control to the utmost limit OF practi
cability and in order to provide for q
swarm of officials, the Government
bought up railways, telegraphs, fac
tories and mines, and proceeded to
operate them. The people fancied
this system would be a vast improve
ment on Individual ownership. Griev
ously have they been disappointed
all except the innumerable function
aries, who draw salaries and are quite
content. Industrial statistics demon
strate that the cost of production un
der State supervision is sixty per cent
greater than where. factories, mines
ETC., are under individual manage
ment. Russia is suffering greatly from
the same evils that afflict France.
The Hope pioneer., 1886-09-10

The United States letter sheet en-
velopes have made their appearance
They will prove very useful to travel
ers or business men who write many
brief notes, as they are arranged in ex.
tended sheets on pad, and after one
has been written upon it needs only
to be folded twice and gummed, las
ordinary envelopes are gummed) when
it presents the appearance of an en-
velope. On the outside is stamp
bearing the portrait of Gen. Grant,
and at its right "return" notice and
the words Omitted States Letter Sheet
Envelope" with the American shield.
The color of the printing is light green.
Perforated lines make opening very
easy. The price is about 2 1-3 cents
for each sheet, including the two-cent
stamp.
The Hope pioneer., 1886-09-10
Alesson to American statesmen who

Alessonto American statesmen who
would rely on harbor defences alone
to protect our seaboard cities from q
hostile feet, is found in the result O,
the English naval maneuvres at Mil.
ford Haven. The evolutions were in.
tended to settle the question whetbe,
permanent forts, protecting all enor.
nous "boom' and mine fields with
electric lights on shore, to discovc,
the whereabouts of the enemy, would
suffice to keep him out of q harbor,
and they have proved pretty conclu.
sively that these measures are wholly
inadequate. Admiral Sir William Hew.
lit, whois an extremely able strategist
and a dashing commander, by the aid
of smoke RATS rendered the searching
electric light on shore of little use
The torpedo boats blew up the boom,
destroyed the mines by means ofcoun.
terInines, and then one of the iron.
sclads went through the .'boom" with
out the slightest hindrance. If Hhehad
been q real enemy he could have fore
cd his way up to Milford Haven and
TO the dockyard-in in spite OF everything
that had been devised to keep him
out.
The Hope pioneer., 1886-09-10

Mr.. Lowell's advice to Americans
while he was Minister to England has
been repeated by the United States
Minister at theH ague, concerningAmer-
lean fortunes in Holland. There are no
remaining Dutch estates that now can
possibly be claimed by descendants OF
Dutch ancestry in this country, as
recent legislation makes all claims
untenable that were not presented
and proved before the Commission OF
Liquidation in 1857. Mr.. Lo well sent
the information officially that there
were no sums of money lying unclaim-
ed in the Bank OF England, and no old
estates in England subject to claims
IN this country at present.
The Hope pioneer., 1886-09-10

The agriculture, manufactures and
trade, as we'll as the finances of Rus
sia, are in a critical condition. The
leading newspaper of St. Petersburg
says: "The economic struggles are far
more dangerous than the military
ones,the former carrying off millions
OF victims where the latter take only
thousands; and as to cost, the former
surpass the latter tentold, and even an
hundredfold. An economic crisis may
throw a whole country into poverty
for a long period OF time"
The Hope pioneer., 1886-09-10

Ocean travel was never before so
cheap as it is now. Many of the
steamship Offices in New York display
the sign, Twelve Dollars to London" "
which is the price for steerage passage
under the cut rates. Some of the
lines are giving cabin rate of $50,
which will probably be made still
lower by the competition for this class
OF passengers, as they yield the largest
profits. AS q result of the reduced
rates, ocean travel is increasing in
volume every year.
The Hope pioneer., 1886-09-10

As an illustration OF the increasing
thrift OF the colored people in the
south,it may be noted that in Charles
ton, SC, there are LOST negroes who
have accounts in savings banks, the
total amount on deposit being $685.
600. One pure blooded African has
nearly 81, ,0OOi in a bank, besides owning
$4,000 plantation mortgaged for
only $4,000.
The Hope pioneer., 1886-09-10
= II SIMPSON. Publisher.
HopE, NORTH psSogA.

The distinguished Southern evangel.
SITS Som Jones, and Sam Small have
been talking to immense audiences in
central and northern New York. The
general opinion was very favorable.
Rev. DR.. Cuyler and Rev. DR.. Deems.
we're present on several occasions and
warmly expressed their admiration of
the discourses.