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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-08-21
CARE OF HANDS.
How the Toughest and Hardest Hands Can
BE Made Soft and White.

How the Toughest and Hardest Hands Can
he Made Soft and White.
There are not nearly as many secret,
in hand treatment as people imagine.
A little ammonia or borax in the water
you wash your hands with. and that
water just lukewarm. will keep the
skin clean and soft. A little oatmeal
mixed with the water will whiten the
hands. Many people use glycerine on
their hands when they 60 to bed, wear
ing gloves to keep the bedding clean;
but glycerinc does not agree with
every one. 1t makes some skins harsh
and red. These people should rub
their hands with dry oatmeal and wear
gloves in bed. The best preparation
for the hands at night is white of egg
with a grain of alum dissolved in it.
Quacks have fancy name for it, but
all can make it and spread it over theiI
hands, and the job is done. They also
make the Roman toilet paste. 1t is
merely white of egg, barley-flour and
honey They say it was used by the
Romans in olden time. Any way, it is
a first rate thing; but it is sticky sort
of stuff to use. and does not do the
work any better than oatmeal. Tho
toughest and hardest hands can be
made soft and white in months time
by doctoring them little at bedtime,
and all the tools you need are nail,
brush, bottle of ammonia, box OF
powdered borax and little fine, white
sand to rub the stains off. or cut OF
lemon. which will do even better, for
the acid of the lemon will clean any
thing, United Presbyterian.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-08-21
Removal Of Spots and Stains.

Matter adhering mechanically
Beating. bruising and currents of
water, either on the upper or under
side.
Gum. Sugar. Jelly. etc. - Simply
washing with water at hand heat.
Grease-White goods, wash with
soap or alkaline Ives. Colored cottons,
wash with French chalk or fuller's
earth, and dissolve away with benzine
or ether.
Vegetable Colors, Fruit, Red Wine
and Red nixon white goods, sui.
phur fumes or chlorine water. Colored
cottons or woolens, wash with luke
warm soap, I've or ammonia; silks the
same, but more cautiously.
Blood and Albuminoid Matters
Sleeping in lukewarm water. If pep
sin or the juice of Garcia papaya can
be procured, the spots are first softened
with lukewarm wafer. and then either
of these substances is applied. -chemie-
ZeitunQ.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-08-21
FARM AND FIRESIDE.

Horticulture and agriculture are
better for the promotion of health and
OF sound morals than any other human
occupation.-.N Y. Tribune.
Wherever coarse aquatic grasses
are found growing. however dry the
surface may appear, the farmer may
depend that understanding will bo an
improvement.
The horse that does six days hard
work during the week deserves to have
An undisturbed rest on the seventh.
You can not afford to wear good horses
by making pillow horses of them
through the week and buggy horses of
them on Sunday.
usually from three causes-rapid
growth, bottom heat in breeders, and
the use of sulphur. Lard and sulphur
rubbed on the legs of fowls, in damp
weather. will cost them the use of thei,
legs for awhile. Western Rurai.
Weeds are particularly preJudicial
TO crops in q dry season, as they ex.
hsust the soil of moisture in proportion
to their superficies or the surface of
their stems and leaves. some species
transpiring their weight of moisture
every twenty-four hours.
The moss that grows upon the bog.
IN old pastures makes the best of fire
kindlers; if you have never tried it You
will be surprised to see how readily it
burns. 1t can be collected in the sum-
mer season and stored for winter use.
but it must be kept in dry place, as it
will absorb water like sponge.-Prai-
RE Farmer.
Pudding sauce for steam pudding.
One cupful brown sugar, one-half cup
full butter, or if less is used. a pinch of
salt, one dessert spoonful corn starch,
one-half teaspoonful cinnamon, less Of
cloves and a little nutmeg; stir all to-
gether thoroughly; pour on boiling
water, stirring all the time until the
sauce is rs thick rs desired.-7olcdo
Blade.
Squash and sweet potato vines
having rootlets that grow out from the
under sides of the joints. which anchor
them and prevent the wind from dis
lodging them, should be lifted very
carefully when growing. as the rootlets
AAoe oA'y hc.u WIZ Pi0usc paw ous
assist in procuring nourishment, and
any damage done In handling retards
the vines.-N. E. Farmer.
DO not plant the stumps of cabbag.
to grow seed from. You may thereby
get cabbage seed thatcosts nothing, but
like most other things got without ex-
pense, it will be worth even less than
it costs. With crop requiring so much
labor as cabbage poor seed is a costly
damage. The best seedsmen are par
ticular to select the choicest heads and
leave them on the row when growing
seed Chicago Standard.
Tea Biscuit: One-half cup of but
ter. two cups sugar. two pints flour,
two teaspoonfuls of baking powder.
one teaspoonful extract nutmeg. Sift
the flour. sugar and powder together;
rub in the butter cold and add enough
sweet milk to make soft dough; add
the extract last: roll out half an inch
thick and cut out with biscuit cutter:
wash over with milk and bake twenty
Boston Globe.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-08-21
HEALTH AND DEBTS.
Influence Of . Mans Pecuniary state Upon
His Physical Condition.

His Physical Condition.
A Western newspaper very reason
ably affirms that ones condition fol
health or disease often depends upon
his pecuniary state. To insure health,
so far as human effort can control the
matter, one should, above all, be cheer.
full, contented and calm. You can no,
do. this if you Intentionally or unin:
tentionally incur debt, for debt is en-
barrassing and painfully annoying. Nc
person of the least pride or self-respeci
can possibly be comfortable if in debt.
Debt is something that can not always
be avoided, although it never fails to
produce, in persons of principle, an
amount of mental worry that is abso-
lutely distressing. Mental tension, pc
cuniary trouble, is one of the chief
causes of insanity. Men struggle for a
competency because they. especially
those not far removed from poverty,
fear poverty, not for themselves. but
for others.
A father will suffer more in the
thought that his wife or daughter may
be left penniless than he will if the
family physician tells him that the wife
has an incurable cancer, and may die
any moment, or that the daughter will
be crippled for life. He prefers even
this to the thought that she may be
forced to manual labor. 1t is true that
poverty in our artificial state of So
ciety involves all the miseries-hun-
ger, overwork, humiliation and sick
ness, yet we can hardly understand
why men should not choose them all
rather than sickness and physical suf-
:ering.
The man who commits suicide from
pecuniary troubles is. nine times in
ten, found to be one who is over
worked, or who has ragged secretly or
openly at the apparent injustice in
volved in work that brings no return,
or who, haunted by fear of poverty,
has lived beyond his income. incurred
annoying debts. and takes his life to
escape the consequent misery and
mental agony. Nothing overturns the
mental balance so surely as long
continued sense of injustice or long
continued debt. and nothing is so fire.
ouent cause for suicide. Hope is
said to spring eternal in the human
breast" but in the matter of money.
making years of non-success kill hope
and destroy mental vigor and bodily
health. No other form of misery pro.
duces quite the same impression a.
financial wrong. To be a healthy man
learn to bear cheerfully the misfortune
&c uall aS the GOOD fortune of life,
Therefore, the mental requirements Of
the laws of health are cheerfulness,
contentment and calmness, and that
man live within his income, however
sraall.-Phrenologicat journal.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-08-21
LONG LIFE.
How the Reader May Tell Whether He
Is Likely to Have 1t.

How the Reader May Tell Whether He
Is Likely to Have 1t.
If any one would know whether he
is likely to live long or to die soon let
him inquire whether old age runs in
his family or not. for the good tissues
Of long life are apt to be hereditary,
and he may commit a great many ex-
cesses or other errors without killing
himself if he cones of long-lived
ltock. In like manner he may get
much help toward a knowledge of the
diseases to which he is prone and which
excuses or other errors are likely to
light up by inquiring what diseases his
forefathers or kinsfolk suffered or died
FROM Some diseases are VIGOROUSLY
rcckoned to be directly hereditary in
like kind. for example, epilepsy, phthisis
and insanity. When a person has one
of them we are not at all surprised to
learn that his father or mother had it;
indeed, we are apt to treat the discovery
as a sufficient explanation, and to think
that no more need be said. But it is
not really an explanation; it is merely
an indication of the direction in which
the exact explanation has yet TO be
sought. If it be sufficient explains
ton, how does it happen that all the
children of the same unsound father or
mother do not suffer in the same
way? How is it that twins. living
under the same conditions, have
not always, as now and then
they have. the same diseases at the
same ages? In calling disease hered-
itary it is not really meant that the dis
ease itself is actually inherited by the
offspring, who in that case. would be
born with it; what is meant is that the
latter inherits certain organic con-
stitution which, being likely to undergo
that pathological development in the
ordinary circumstances of life, is, there
fore, described as 4 constitutional pre-
disposition or tendency to the disease.
We do not in the least know what is the
intimate nature of the predisposition,
but we know that it may be greater or
less in different persons. and that 1t IS
thought to be so great In the cases
of the diseases mentioned, and so likely
to be transmitted to children. as to be
serious objection, if not an actual bar,
to marriage. Those who. having fallen
in love, are aware of the existence to
them in their families are therefore not
little troubled sometimes with scruples
of conscience and anxiously ask medical
advice whether they shall marry or not
In the end they commonly marry.
whatever the advice given them. having
persuaded themselves that the epilepsy
was not real epilepsy. but a form OF
violent hysteria; that the lung mischief
was not constitutional phthisis, but tho
accidental consequence of a neglected
cold; that the insanity was not the out
come of family degeneracy. but an
accidental blow on the head, which was
thought nothing of at the time. Would
the earth ever have been peopled had
cool reason been potent enough to
quench the hot passion of loves-Fort
nightly Rerieu.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-08-21
Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute.

This widely celebrated institution, 10
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full staff Of eighteen experienced and skill
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ical and surgical skill in America, for the
treatment Of all chronic diseases. whether
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and lung diseases, liver and kidney dis
eases, diseases of the digestive organs
bladder diseases, diseases peculiar to
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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-08-21
Communieability Of Scarlet Fever

Another case Show. g the commune
cability of contagious diseases by cloth
ing is reported from Bath, Me-, where
q girl had scarlet fever ut boarding
school. After recovery she returned
home. and trunk containing the
clothing she wore while sick was put
away in the garnet. Six months later
two little children were playing in the
garnet, and, opening the trunk, took
out some of the clothing. In a week
both were taken very i'll with the dis
ease. and one died. There were nc
other persons ill with the scarlet fever
in the community.-Scientifc 4n,eyi
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-08-21
The "0ooAest" ana the Mean00
OsMego PallAdium-l

The district school at Sand Hill. taught
oy Miss Gertie Dunn, Of Pulaski, is ono OF
the best instructed in the Eastern part of
the county. At an examination held there
. few days ago q class Of pupils were re-
quested to give list Of equality" words.
One little fellow gave the word "good,"
and defined it by saying apple pie was
good. A little bright-eyed seven-year-old,
who had been sitting quietly in his seat
during the recitation, got up and gave the
word ..mean." In reply to the teachers
question as to what was mean, he said:
swell, dried-apple pies are the meaness
things know Of" The little fellow took
his seat amid roar Of laughter from the
spectators.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-08-21
EVERYDAY BLUNDERS.

Mistakes Frequently Made by People
Who Ought To Know Better.
A distinguished journalist. testifying
before the Congressional Telephone
Committee. was guilty of the verbal
crime OF calling Cabinet officer a
Cabinet Minister. This malversation
Is common enough, yet we have no
more got (this verb is used knowingly
and advisedly) a Cabinet Minister than
we have got constitutional monarchy.
We have no Ministry" consequently
We have no Ministers. We have merely
Cabinet officers, who are not voted out
OF office, and whose status is so totally
unlike that of Cabinet Ministers that it
Is not necessary to enlarge upon the
subject Quite as erroneous is the ap-
peilation of the Secretary of State as
the Premier. Mr.. Bayard has figured
as Premier until he must be weary unto
death of being called what he is not
and never can be. The Premier is the
responsible head of an administration.
The Secretary of State is by no means
that He is merely the chief of an
Executive department. and i'm our Gov
eminent the smallest and least impor-
tant of all the Executive departments.
He is no more a Premier than he is a
pterodactyl or a xerocolyrium, and il
he is an American he won't want to be
any or either.
Worse than either of these mistakes
S the calling an interviw with the
President an audience" One con-
stantly reads in newspapers which
ought to know better of these '.au'li-
ences." as if the President were the
Raiah of Cawnpore. An audience with
the President of the United States!
Psha!
Nine newspapers out of ten, and
ninety and nine persons out of hun
dred, when they speak of Congress"
mean the lower house alone, and call 4
Representative L Congressman" The
Senate and the House of representa-
tives taken together constitute the
Congress, and Senator is as much
Congressman as a Representative is.
A like confusion of terms exists regard
ing the words "Minister" and Am
bassador.' Our representatives at
Coui 10 uOl sNhsO
Ambassadors. They are merely Min
listers Resident Only six countries in
the world-the five great European
powers and Turkey-send or receive
Ambassadors.
The difference between an act and a
law is also very great. but the contem-
porary press generally speak of them
as idrnt cal. An act may be passed by
both Houses of Congress, receive the
Presidents signature and go on the
statute books, but until the courts
have passed upon it is not a law.
MANY acts are unconstitutional; others
arc imperative; others again conflict
with established laws. An act does
not become law until it has proved
its rdisOn a. etrc. Another un-Ameri-
can blundcr which is constantly made
is speaking of a private soldier as q
common soldier. This may do in
European countries, where class dis
tinctions are rigidly observed in civil
rs well as military life, but it won't do
at all in this free and glorious republic.
where, as the Evangelist says, there is
nothing common or unclean. These
are errors picked up at random-but
one starting out to find them in books,
newspapers and magazines of the best
class could light upon two or three
billions of them Il year.-N. 7. Mail
md Express.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-08-21
Defective Spelling.

A few months ago an old gentleman
was seen mailing a notice on a fence on
the south side of Austin avenue. 4
friend, passing. said:
"Why don't you have the notice pu.
in the paper, where people can read
it?''
WALL" said the old gentleman. III
I tuck it to the newspaper orfice them
newspaper fellers would get it spelled
wrong, and then somebody might
think it was my eddicashun what had
been neglected. The notice read:
Howe fur rent ihchoir on the prey.
meysis. "-Teras Sifsings
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-08-21
Ten Cents for q Letter.
Kingston q. Y.) rreeman-l

Kingston (N. Y.) Freeman1
A few days ago number Of Italians
went into the Rondout Post-office and
asked for letters. One was handed An
epistle on which was due ten cents post
age. Yesterday morning the same man
handed one of the clerks ten cents, and
said: "Tenna Centa. Want another lettee."
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-08-21

FALLING of the hair is arrested, and bald
ness averted, by using Halls Hair Rsnewer
Obstinate cises of fever and agus can be
ured by taking Ayers Ague Cure.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-08-21

OLD pill boxes are spread over the land
tied ih by t sutfsrine humsnitS What mass
of sickening, disgusting medicine the poor
stomach has to contend with Too much
strong medicine Prickly Ash Bitters 10
rapidly and surely taking the place of all
this class of drugs, and is curing all the ills
arising from a disordered condition Of the
liver, kidneys. stomach and bowelA
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-08-21

The accumulation of books in the
public library at Boston has increased
20 much that the city has appropriated
S45O. 900 for . new building -B3ston
Post
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-08-21

Our rudder is broken SIR said the first
mate to the captain. Nonsense. That's
only imagination" BEG pardon. sir, but
it's q stern reality."-N T. Herald
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-08-21

LADIES who possess the finest complex
ions are among the patrons OF GLESN's
SULPHUR Soar. HILLS HAIR AND WHISPER
DYE, Black or Brown, Soc.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-08-21

A DONKEY is probably fond of ALPINE
oolitudes because he's . mounts in-ear.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-08-21

AKRON, O., Is . sort of heaven on earth.
Fifty seven million matches are made therG
In one day.-N T. XndependsRt.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-08-21

1T is really very odd, my dear" said a
old lady. one very hot day. to a friend.
II can't bear the heat in summer, and in
winter love it"-N. y Leigsr.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-08-21

jar GoULD's income is said to be
ten cents every time the clock ticks. This
beats the best patronized dime museum
LOreV Courier.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-08-21

PAIN will frequently transform q chile
into . gresn Yonksrs' GdzetG
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-08-21

The trade journals report an increased
movement in boots and shoes. That's what
makes so many cornx-Tr0y Times.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-08-21

IT is observed that the manageable girl
Of the period talks horse because it is the
language Of the groom.-Tid-B Bits.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-08-21

you cnn trustr' asks the poet. ITO have
. friend that will trust YOU" replied the
editor
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-08-21

'DocroR, what is the best material for q
bathing suit!n "A bear skim"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-08-21

This is very paneful affair."" remarked
the man as the sash fell on him.-Peek's
sun,
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-08-21

STRAwBERRI-BoxEs probably need Nc
cover because the bottom il SO near the top
Puck.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-08-21

As AN inducement to young mon, it may
Be said that good wife il never a miss.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-08-21

THERE are two things q woman likes to
get into papers-her front hair and her
name.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-08-21

'sREp CLOUD" the Indian warrior, con-
templates visiting Washington. He wants
q silver lining. possibly.-Ndfional Weekly.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-08-21

A SHIP is often saved by its anchor, but
men are often lost by their rancor.-WH.
bins Prorer6.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-08-21

The man who fell off the fence into the
brambles was much nettIed by tho occur
renee. We hope thistle be appreciated"
says punster.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-08-21

II all so-called remedies have failed, DR..
Sage's Catarrh Remedy cures.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-08-21

IT seems strange that an umpire is paid
. large salary when there are thousands of
men and boys on the field who know SO
much more than he does.-Philadeiphio
Press
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-08-21

The Philadelphia Record says 'Ad-
sertising is great deal like making
love TO widow-it can't be overdone "
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-08-21

USE DR.. Pierce's s.Pellets" for constipa-
lion.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-08-21

'WHAr did your father leave when hs
died, Patm Faith. he left me an orphan
lid Bits
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-08-21

Tmean no reflection" ss the headlights
said when it went out.-Terds SJtiRgs.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-08-21

The Texas Strings suggests that this ID
the season of the maiden all foe lawn
tennis
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-08-21

FRAZER AxLE GREASE is the best in tn
1orld-will wear twice as long a. any Other
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-08-21

II a cough disturbs your sleep, take
Piso's Cure for Consumption and rest well.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-08-21

A CORRESPONDENT asks how to serve
dinner. II 1t is a good dinner and You
are hungry, Just eat it. That's the way We
would serve a dinner. Boston TRANSCRIPT.