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The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1892-03-26
HE WAS FINED,
The Judge Decided That the Contents OF


The Judge Decided That the Contents of
the Bottle Was Deadly.
The police judge of one of the in
terror Ohio cities had been on a "bar''
in Toledo, and there was no telling
what he hadn't been through if one
were to judge from his appearance,
said the drummer at the Cadillac. When
he was able to take the bench again
there were a lot of cases for disposal,
the first one being concealed weapon
charge.
49," said his honor to the prisoner,
'.you were carrying concealed deadly
weapon, were your
mo, your honor" denied the pris-
oner.
''The officer says different Didn't
you have anything on your person?"
Nothing, your honor, except bot
tie of whisky, and there's nothing dead
ly about that, your honor"
"Where did you get it2" inquired the
judge.
Toledo, your honor"
The Judge rubbed his head as if it
were sore clean through.
Fifty dollars and COSTS" he said
slowly. II guess you don't know what
a deadly weapon is."-Detroit Free
Press.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1892-03-26
CARE OF THE SICK.
Some Simple Rules for the Supervision of
Invalid's Rooms.

Some Simple Rules for the Supervision of
Invalid's Rooms.
Let in the sunsine.
Danish all confusion.
Cleanliness is the first rule.
Make mustard plasters thin
Ask the doctor as to visitors.
Don't ask questions of sick people.
Wear a clean dress and a bright
smile.
Flowers are permissible, but never
in profusion.
Simple surprises are pleasure to a
convalescent.
Rheumatic patients should lie be-
tween woolen sheets
Eat a cracker or two before going
into the room of contagion.
A sandwich of minced raw beefsteak
often tempts an invalid.
A mustard plaster mixed with the
white of an egg will not blister.
Watch the ventilation and gauge TIE
temperature by thermometer
The sick chamber should be plainly
furnished and no heavy hangings.
The best night light is candle,
weighted with nail and made to float
in a glass of water.
All woolens or similar goods should
be removed from the room where con.
tagion is under treatment .-Philadel.
phia Record
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1892-03-26
HER FRIEND.

Twas in the Boston fast express little maiden
sat;
She occupied the seat alone; beside her lay
her hat.
She clutched her dolly to her breast in childish
mother play,
AS If she feared some dreadful giant would
snatch 1t right away.
''Are yon alone, my little girl:" I asked, as
stopped down.
My mamma told me bod was here" she said,
with half frown.
ohe tissed me an my dolly, an dess don t
know you.r
"But, DEAR, I answered. smiling. "teIl me
where you're going to?''
She twisted in her seat, and then she tossed her
tangled hair.
SIN doin' on to Boston, an my popll meet me
there
But, dear" questioned gently, ''if the choo
choo cars should STOP [
"And you should walk, and WALK, and WALK,
ana then not find your pop,
What would you dor The little maiden
shook her head and frowned
MY mamma says when pop is gone, that bod is
somewhere round"
The train rolled into Boston town. I waited
there awhile
And watched my little blue eyes, with her half
expectant smile.
"Dess waitin for my pop she said, with dolly
FAST asleep"
ana then man came rushing in knew him by
his leap.
Hesnatched his little daughter up with frantic,
feverish glec;
And then, with fathers instinct, Quick his eve
was turned on me-
wen, Bess,' he asked, ''who is your friend?''
With quaint, expressive nod
The maid replied: 81 dess I know. fink II
mus be Dod"
Tom Mason, in Jury.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1892-03-26

become accustomed to those treacher-
Gus, mean and contemplate towards
called wolves, and for long time put
them about on par with coyotes, but
did them an injustice. Hunger and
numbers will make them sufficiently
dangerous to satisfy the most exact
1ng. had an experience with few
OF them one winter up in Montana, the
recollection of which makes me shudder
even to-day. / had been for several
months engaged in doing the work Of
special messenger, or courier, for a
syndicate looking for mineral up there,
and one day found 1 would have to go
across from where we were, near Fort
Logan, to Lewistown, about one hun
dred miles northeast. just as I was
starting, a worthless old Indian, wh o
generally hung around the fort, said, in
his characteristic way: evolves heap
hungry, and, though appearing to pay
no attention to his remark, got me an
additional revolver and box of car
tridges. i expected to reach the ranch
OF u friend that night, and did so, stay
ing with him, and starting out bright
-~--N
town. Not wolf had seen the pre-
ceding day, but by nine o'clock on the
second day their barking began, and in
an hour there was IA pack quietly form
ing behind me, and coming along in
that swinging lope and keeping about
the same distance from me all the time.
Presently they came within range and
killed one. The rest ate him up be.
fore | could tell it almost, and were
back again, when l shot another one,
and the same process was repeated.
This was kept up for about an hour,
when they grew so bold and there
were so many of them that felt it best
to save my ammunition until it was
necessary to act in self defense. was
not particularly uneasy, for although
l knew it had been hard winter and
the beasts were ravenous, was out in
The open country at MONDAY, and they
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1892-03-26

use in soups at cheap restaurants. The
best grades bring from sixty-five cents
to one dollar per bushel, but very sell
dom go higher than the latter figure,
although there are seasons of the
year when the river is so filed with ice
as to obstruct navigation to a certain
degree, and then the price sometimes
goes above dollar.
II you never ate bushel of oysters
without stopping, or never saw anyone
engaged in gorging himself in that
manner, you cannot appreciate the nov
city of the situation. Well-dressed gen.
tlemen wearing kid gloves and silk hats
and carrying gold-headed canes ap.
proach the wharves, and give the negro
shucker silver dollar for bushel al
raw. The colored man produces a
splendid grade of oysters worth about
seventy-fve cents bushel, which he
opens for his customer, who rapidly dis.
poses of the albuminous beauties by
swallowing them whole. The colored
man clears quarter of dollar inside
OF fifteen minutes and the customer al.
ways goes away happy. The oyster.
opener lifts one-half of the shell from
the bivalve, loosens the oyster from the
other half and places it on a little bar.
rel in front of him. The customer, hav.
ing removed the glove from his right
hand, picks up half-shell, conveys il
to his mouth, throws back his head and,
with another swoop (now you see il
and now you don't), the oyster is gone,
This operation is repeated until the
whole bushel has disappeared.
An oyster roast is very enjoyable
affair, between nine o'clock and mid.
night. any night during the winter
There is little shanty opposite the
main oyster wharf, in one corner OF
which is a stove about twelve feet long.
Congressional parties of dozen or more
each take the belt line cars near the
National theater and ride to this oyster
roasting shanty. AS soon as they enter
the door the colored servants empty
three or four bushels of oysters upon
the red-hot surface of this large stove,
and there they roast for from five to ten
minutes, when the opening commences.
In ninety-nine cases out of hundred,
all oysters are spoiled in the cooking,
because they are generally served very
well done, when they are tough as
leather and as indigestible. The roast
ed oyster is thoroughly warmed
through. smoking hot and cooked in it's
own juice, and therefore so soft as to
be self-digestible When taken from
the top OF the stove the shells are so
hot that it is simply phenomenal that
the colored men can handle them at all.
The steam arises in clouds of vapor that
MI the room with their aroma, to the
gastronomic enjoyment OF the lovers OF
these epieurean businesses, The roast.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1892-03-26

still kept few feet back. This did
not continue long, however. They
soon began running UP and swapping
at my horses heels, and now for the
hrst time l began to grow apprehen-
sive | first thought would shoot
whenever they came close enough, but
found that would not do Then l
decided to shoot only when they came
mp and actually tried to exercise their
teeth. But even this kept me busy.
Presently one OF them fastened his
teeth IN my horses leg and hung there
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1892-03-26
No Use for a Trunk.

One of the barge Office people is tell
ing very funny story about young
Irishman who passed through his hands
the other day. Desiring to ascertain
the extent of worldly goods with which
the son of Erin was endowed, he said:
Where's your trunk?"
"Thrunk is it! What for would be
having thrunk?" asked the boy.
ITO keep your clothes in," replied
the official, tartly.
'And go naked?" was the quick re-
sponse.-N. Y. Recorder.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1892-03-26
SEVENTH STREET WHARF
Where the People Of Washington
Buy Their Oysters.
Excellent Bivalves Sold for One Dollar a
Bushel-Gay Parties Whose Members
Have a Weakness for Steamed Mol
lusks-Thrifty Colored Walters.
Especial Washington letter.

Especial Washington letter.
One OF the most interesting spots in
Washington is seldom seen. 1t is the
Seventh street wharf, where bushels,
gallons and tons of oysters from the
lower Potomac and Chesapeake bay are
landed. 1t is not only an interesting
but gastronomically enjoyable place.
No sooner does the passenger alight
from the Seventh street cable cars, near
the foot of that busy thoroughfare, than
his olfactories are greeted with an odor
which plainly indicates the vicinity of
an oyster mart. A very short walk from
the car track, around sharp bend,
brings the visitor to the river bank,
where dozen or more oyster sloops
are moored to the wharves. The cap
tains OF these vessels are always ready
to sell oysters of any kind and quality
and in any quantity, from bushel to a
boat load. No sooner is customer in
sight than these captains come out of
their smoky cabins or emerge from the
groggeries in the vicinity, whip out
their immense oyster knives and com
mence opening some of their choicest
bay fruit to exhibit to the prospective
customer and convince him that they
are pure salt water mollusks of the fin
est kind.
A great many people go to these
wharves, especially on Saturday nights
and all day Sunday, from sunrise to
sunset, for the purpose of buying
oysters by the bushel and eating them
right there in the midst of the bivalvu-
lar atmosphere. Very fair oysters can
be purchased for fifty cents bushel,
but there is lower grade of small
oysters which can be purchased at
thirty-fve cents per bushel; but this
latter grade is generally purchased for
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1892-03-26
She Pardoned Him.

"Why didn't you come to see me
when was down with the ague,
Henry?"
IL was afraid
"You needn't have been. 1t is not
contagious. But even if it were, your
love for me, if you have any, should
have led you to risk coming to see me. -
1T was because thought the ague
was contagious that ! didn't come to
see eru, and also because / am so fond
OF -, didn't want you to give me
the cold shake. IN, y, Press,
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1892-03-26
Had to Have Her Saw.

They were going to get up surprise
party and one of the lady promoters
asked Mr.. Simpkins, who had just said
he was willing. II suppose you can al
SO speak for your wife, Mr.. Simpkins?'
Indeed, can't. The man that could
speak for her doesn't live. Mrs Simp.
kins must speak for herself or she d
die. e."-Philadelphia Times.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1892-03-26
Graduated in High Standing.

Cal Lerrin-Well, neighbor, busy as
usual making footwear? But what a
peculiar lap-stone you have!
Hyde Cutter-Yes, sir That lam
stone has history. Eight months ago
my little girl graduated from the cook,
ing'sehool This lap,stone of mine is
Judge, 'N#F ~
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1892-03-26
An Tmpertinent Question,

Jack Dashing- She's the most unin.
teresting girl ! ever met, though she is
rich. She can't say anything but "yes'
and $50"
priscilla-Which did she say to your.
prooklyn Lifo
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1892-03-26
4 Tramp's Praise.

Little Girl-That great big, dirty, ole
tramp Is big, big story teller. He
said that pie was as good as his mother
used to make.
Mamma - Don't you think that
likelyP",
Little Girl-Of tourse not, He never
had any mother, Coed News
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-12-30
Fishermen OH the Banks.

The fisherman's life on the Banks, OF
Newfoundland, and the Georges in win.
ter is very hard one, though thev live
we'll on board-better than on shore.
They have to, that they may stand tho
excessive cold, and their pay is like their
lives, floating doubt. From the gross
products of the catch arc deducted the
cost of bait and ice, and one fourth of
one per cent. for the Widows and Or
phans' Fund One huff of the net
'stocs," as it is called, goes to the own.
crs of the vessel, the other hnlf to the
crew, from which is deducted each
mans share of the crews expenses; that
is, cooks wages, water, medicine chest,
etc. They sail away full of hope and
with full larder. Arrived on the
grounds, they anchor In about forty or
fifty fathoms and set their travis. These
are long lines, anchored on the bottom,
and extending out from the schooner
many hundreds of yards. To these, at
intervals of a fathom (the distance varies
for different fish, are attached shorter
lines. These lines have to be attended
in dories, each containing two men, who
haul, bait and land the fish in the boat.
to be transferred to the schooner.
Herein lie the danger and the hardship,
for the strong tides of the Banks and the
shoal water pile up great combing seas.
The cold is cruel and the work hard.
Suddenly down comes foe-not the
soft mist of summer or autumu-but Il
thick. heavy bank, soaked through with
the penetrating cold of the icebergs fur
Their north. Horns are blown from the
vessel, but every year many dories are
lost. One would think that common
sense, if not law, would make each dory
carry breaker OF water and pilot. bread ::
but none do, and either experience does
not teach, or the fishermen like such
chances, for year after year comes the
same old story Of lost dory and two
men starved or dead of thirst. When
the fog lifts they are many miles from
their schooner, and are carried by the
swift tides they know not whittier.
Then come days of hunger and thirst;
hands are frozen to the oars madness
haunts them; and then--dcath. Some.
times they make land or are picked vi,
by passing vessel, in which case they
often return before their own schooner;
but that great happiness is rare. Then
their vessel, which so galy sailed out
past the light, comes home with her iiaa
ut half mast
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-12-30
FEATHER PULLING AMONG HENS.

You havo such fowls about your home,
and wonder what's the cause aud remedy
for it. They will pick the necks bare
of feathers in few days. time. You
cant do anything, apparently, but sep
aratc them or make them into pic
more tempting to the eye and appetite.
The trouble is caused by lack of some
thing to do, therefore exercise must be
provided in some form for them. II you
will examine tho hens mouth you will
see that her bill has sharp edges like
teeth; this is what holds the feather
when she pulls. Once she succeeds liz
pulling one feather, sho must try again
for another. A hot iron, the size OF a
lead pencil, heated hot enough to rub
over the rough bill, will smooth the
edges down, and she can't hold the
feather as before. She will get tired
trying to do so, and in few days time
she will cease feather pulling. A knife
is sometimes used, but it Is not so elfec.
tive as the hot iron rod. This should be
tried if you have such fowls about your
yards.-New York Independent.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-12-30

plant I'D in the land, and thus making
these elements available for crops. It
also dccomposes organic matter that may
be in the soil in the form of unexpended
manure or decaying weeds that have
been turned under, or the roots and
waste of previous crops, and makes
these, too, available. All this being so,
what more useful fertilizer can the far.
mer apply to the land to increase his
crops7
But one thing IS not to be neglected.
If lime thus acts, as we know it does, the
farmer must give it plenty of material to
work upon. Otherwise the soil will be.
come quickly exhausted, just as gold
mine will be when dynamite is used for
breaking down the orc and by its tenfold
strength depletes the mine with equiva.
lent rapidity. The land of the farmer,
however, is better than the best gold
mine that ever existed, for the moro it is
worked i'll the right way, the richer and
more lasting it becomes. York
Times.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-12-30
The Original Mermaids and Mcrmen

The dugong, species Of whale found
abundantiy In the waters of both great
oceans, but especially off the coast of
Australia In the South Pacific, is be-
heved to have furnished the slender basis
upon which all "mermaid" aud .'mer-
men" stories rest. Its average length is
twelve feet. 1t has head much re-
sembling thai of tho human species and
breathes by means OF lungs. It feeds
upon submarine beds of seaweeds, and
when wounded makes noise like mad
bull. Long hair in the female and hair
and beard in the male add much to the
human resemblance OF the head and
neck. The flesh of this species of whale
Is used for food, and when dried and
smoked is said to have much tho flavor
of bacon. Tho ancients believed all
manner of fanciful tales concerning these
creatures, the naturalists, along with the
Ignorant common people, holding that
mermaids and mermen were realities.
The writer owns q "Cosmograpic" of
1882, which uses a cut of mermaid on
the title page.--New York News.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-12-30
A HOMEMADE nRoopER.

An Indiana subscriber asks for full
directions for making broodcr. There
are so many good brooders on the market
that it is generally cheaper to buy one
than to make it at home; brooders can
be made in quantity more economically
and generally better than when made
singly. So unless wanted for few
chicks we advise buying broodcr.
A simple brooder for few chicks nav
De made by having board sloping down
from four inches above the ground TO
about two inches have it about foot
square for a dozen chickens. Cover on
the under side with piece OF lamb or
sheep skin dressed with the long wool
on; this should only be tackled around
the edges OF the board, so as to fall lit
tie slack with its own eight and so rest
upon the chickens. BY attending TO
this as we'll as to the slope of the board,
the largest and smallest chickens will he
accommodated with equal comfort.
After the board is covered mount it
OH two sides and back of wood, the
back being two inches high, and the
sides, Of course, sloping up from that
W iouT III lIOlC WHICH is
left open for the entrance. This, how
ever, is to be protected by Il flannel drop
curtain four and half inches wide; this
will keep off draft and yet be easily
pushed aside by the chicks as they seek
10 enter or leave the brooder.
There is no need of bottom to the
orooder; if used on the ground it should
DC moved daily to give cleanliness, COM
Tort and health to the chicks. If used
within doors give a daily fresh dressing
Of sand or fresh earth to that part of the
floor upon which it rests, for the same
teason.
II such brooder is used in severe
heather of course the room must be
warmed by artificial heat. If this ex
pcnsc is incurred it is an additional item
IN favor of the factory made brooders,
which are so constructed as to economic.
heat.-Farm, Field and Stockman.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-12-30
COST OF A TON OF HAY.

In his address before the Maine Dairy.
mems Association Professor Winslow
figuring the cost of ton of hay called
the harvesting So; the plant food taken
from the soil, $4; interest and taxes and
storage, 81 more, making the cost of q
ton OF hay 50. To iced a COW on hay
and corn meal, cotton seed meal or bran
(twenty to twenty-five cents day., is
too costly. He would grow IL ore clover,
which contains the albumiuolds and car
bohydrates in about right proportions
aud obtains some of its nitrogen from
the atmosphere. Next the corn crop is a
good and an economical crop for the
dairyman to grow. 1t costs about $50
to grow an acre of corn. 1t doesn't matte.
whether tue corn is preserved in the soil
or dried. The testimony of farmers
seems to be that ensilaec as a feed for
dairy COWS is superior to dried fodder.
Peas can be raised at cost of forty cents
per tushel. BY reckoning their chemi-
cal value they are worth 81 bushel. As
substitute ration for hay, cotton seed
corn meal, or bran, take forty pounds oil
cnslage, five pounds of clover hay, and
six pounds of pea meal. This will cast
twelve cents day and will be a COOL
ration.-ChicaSo Times.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-12-30
LINE AS LAND 1MpRoyER.

Good farmers have always had hig,,
opinion of lime as an improver of the
land. This has been popular belief
from time immemorial, and, as we are
learning the reason of many things tina;
have been practiced for centuries with
out knowing why they we're useful and
valuable, the old practice IS justified BY
discoveries of the why and how.
Lime is much more soluble in cold
Sater than in warm. Therefore this IS
The right season of the year to apply il,
TO the land, so that it may slowly dis
solve during the winter and exert i,
beneficial effects upon the soil. 1t ha.
cen shown by recent chemical investi-
cations that the carbonate of lime-an,i
The. quick lime used by farmers soon be
comes carbonated after exposure to TIE
soil, full of decaying vegetable matter,
producing carbonio acids indispcns.
able for the existence and action of the
nitrogen producing microbe that So
richly fertilizes the soil. Resides, the
lime acts, upon tho mineral matter of the
soil, dissolving silica that is in combiua-
ton with nearly every kind of mineral