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Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1894-08-23
ICEs.

am now prepared to furnish a
superior quality of ice frozen from
pure al tesian we'll water. Ice deliv-
cred to any part of the city at the
lowest rates. Orders given to me
personally or left at my residence at
the north end of Minnesota street
will be promptly attended to.
m3m FRED WILDER.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1894-08-23
New Restaurant

S, Bassett an experienced restau-
rant man, has leased the Capitol res
taurant, so long closed, and will open
it in frst-class shape on Sunday
next. He proposes to make it a
first class restaurant in every res
pect.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1894-08-23
For The Ladies,

Dennisons Tissue Crepe Paper.
Piano Lamp Shades. Elegant stat
ionary ETC., received last night at
Cagwin aud Notewares.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1894-08-23

Clothes cleaned and pressed for 50
a suit, Repairing done also on short
notice, Satisfaction guaranteed.
Chairs caned from 20 cents up.
Leave orders with j. A. Bird.
Ross.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1894-08-23
STOCKS.

Yesterdays sales In the SaE
francisco Stock Exchange:
Yesterdays AFTERNOON BOARD.
Ophir l G5
Mexican 90
Gould & Curry %
Best & Belcher %
Con. Cal. Va. 2 80
Savage 81
Chollar "a
Potosi AZ
Hale e Norcross %
Crown Point %
Yellow jacket 40
Kentuck 10
Belcher 90
Confidence 20
Sierra Nevada 90
Bullion 10
Overman Ia
Justice IL
Union Con 80
Alta Is
Challenge 81
Occidental &c
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1894-08-23
Notice to Hunters.

Positively no shooting allowed on
the Holstein ranch.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1894-08-23

Ben Fitch the new lessee of the
Arlington arrived yesterday,
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1894-08-23
Piano Lessons.

Miss Sophia Jacobs who has been
>tudying music under the instruction
of Prof. F. Zech of San Francisco, is
now prepared to give lessons to a
limited number of pupils.
For particulars inquire at resi-
dence.
When Baby was sick,
We gave her Castoria.
When she was a Child,
She cried for Castoria.
When she became Miss,
She chung to Castoria
When she had Children,
She gave them Castoria
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1894-12-29
THE FAIR sMuGGLER.

She was as good q woman as had ever eyes Of
blue
She never told falsehood-all her words w~rc
strictly true.
She was most charitable no one ever left her
door
Who did not get the penny that he asked and
something more.
She brought her children up with . most high
> regard for truth:
On Sundays she went forth to teach the Word
to ragged youth.
always seen.
And once she wrote on Conscience" for q lead
Ing magazine.
Il there were trouble somewhere that she could
alleviate.
She went at once and did It, in the early morn
She never blabbed gossip, and no person eier
could say
He'd heard her speak an unkind word in any
kind Of way
And yet. when in the summer with her daughter
she did 20
Across the seas to Paris and to London dom
you know,
She bought stock OF lovely clothes. rich
hosiery and thin:s.
A lot Of splendid gloves .Snd cloaks. a watch or
two, and rings
Returning home the custom-house ofhcials ell
she dared
BY saying she had nothing that had ought to
be declared:
And all the while she'd in her sleeves, 80 doth
her husband say.
A lot Of things the tariff law says mustn't c'me
that way,
And have noticed thousands OF that same
delightful kind
Who on the side OF Strictest truth you re always
sure to find
Until il comes TO duties" then her mind
seems wholly bent
On finding little schemes to cheat the q. S.
government
-Harper's Bazaar.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1894-12-29
Nlssapplied Assistance.

Two women sitting side by side in =
street car the other day had an anus
ing experience. They were strangers
to each other, but one happened to
notice that the other was having seri.
ous difficulty with the jacket she wore
and at which she tugged, with the re.
suit that it would neither 20 on nor
come on.
Permit me-" said the woman yha
sat near to her, and she pulled ppon
ore shoulder and jerked up the top Of
the collar.
Still the woman with the iacke,
struggled with it, and the side that tbs.
other woman had SO obligingly rs,
sisted up slipped down again, to be
grabbed once more and pulled into
place by the obliging passenger.
Now, if you'll turn this way. I'll
help you on the other side. she said
TO the astonished wearer.
THANK you, ma'am." snapped the
other woman, If it's all the sane to
you, I'm trying to get this jacket or"
and with final jerk she succeeded in
herself from the encumber;no
wrap
And the woman who had tried to
help her gazed into blank futuritv and
recalled the example of the man who
got rich minding his own business g.
Detroit Free Press.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1894-12-29
Feeding Wheat tn Pixs.

This experiment in feeding wheat to
pigs in Ohio. given by the Northwest
ern Miller, with others of similar pur-
port, should encourage very large use
of the grain in this way. Twenty-one
shoats were fed for q week ,on wheat.
The weight Of the hogs when feeding
began was 1890 pounds, and at the end
of the first week It was 2,3a2 pounds,
showing a gain of s55 pounds. The
amount Of wheat fed was IL bushels.
The wheat was soaked twenty-four
hours before feeding. The hog. we're
sold = te delivered September Is at
$3.50 per 100 ponds. 1t is figured that
the wheat sold at si.3s Per ssasshel.-.
Kansas Farmer.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1894-12-29
CHAPTER III
1t was daybreak.

IL was N6yDTe0k.
The storm had subsided and still
Basil Beresford suffered in the ter
rible clutches of the heavy oak. He
was about to faint away when he felt
something crawl DER his PROSTATE
form. Stretching forth his hands,
which were free. he caught . large
terrapin. This was soon devoured.
for the young artist had not tasted
food for day. Hours slipped away
but no helping hand came. The lone
illness was only broken by q constant
procession of terrapin across the form
Of Basil, who fortunately enough had
fallen directly across the Faith used
by the terrapin to 20 to the bay.
Basil would select the best ones, slay
them with his penknife, and place
them beside him for the next meal. II
was then that he thought of an old
legend of Chesapeake's shores It was
said that il you point diamond back
toward a certain place and start the
animal on its journey It win at some
time arrive At the objective point
Quickly taking his penknife Basil
scratched sketch Of his death trap
on the back OF the hard shell of .
well-built diarspnd back, giving the
exact location Of the spot where he
was lying. Then pointing the ter
rapin towards the happy home Of
Phyllis Marmaduke he started it on
its journey.
Days. months, and eva ycars passed,
but Basil was still in his terrible
prison, sustaining his weary life by
means of the terrspin and Praying for
deaths release
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1894-12-29
ingredients taken from tn. soil BY


standard crops. He says:
SHOULD our farmers continGe to raise
crops year after year without paying
any attention to fertilization. it will be
a few years only until exhaustion will
be plainly seen. The sooner we recog-
nlze this necessity of fcrtiliZ:itio the
better. 1t is not q question for the up
land Farmers alone, but for their neigh.
bors on the bottom lands as well.
Tie three fertilizing ingredients Of
most Importance aro nitrogen. potash
and ohosphoric acid. Nitrogen is worth,
we will say. is cents per pound; potash,
oehts, and phosphoric acid, cents.
In o.ie ton Of wheat straw th ere are II
pounds of nitrogen, 1e pounds potash
and ~ pounds phosphoric acid. At
the Ioove valuation these are worth a.
mantre Sa.9i.
''Ib one ton of corn stalks there are
II poands nitrogen. Is pounds potash
and 10 pounds phosphoric aid, worth ~
Y ma nure 81. 20.
TOO frequently the straw and stalks
are burned or disposed of in some other
manner, and not utilized as a manure.
These products usually remain on the
farDL
Lot us consider 4 few products that
are sold. When the farmer has dis.
posed Of S5 bushelsOf wheat at 81 cents
per bpshel. he has in hand Sa525. If
we care not for the value of our lard
and the necessity of maintaining fer.
tility, the above statement is cor, ect;
but let Ms 70 little further. In dis
posing of % bushels OF wheat the farm.
er has taken from his soil 36 pounds
nitrogen, 16 pounds potash and lC
pounds phosphoric acid. and has taken
from his land Ss.OS worth of fertilizinp
ingredients. lfhe sells the same mum.
Der Of bushels of corn. he has taken
from his land 80 pounds nitrogen, :
pounds potash aud 10 pounds phos.
phoric acid, containing 1855 worth Of
fertilizing ingredients. Should he sell
7e bushels of oats. he has taken from
his land 81 pounds of nitrogen,
pounds potash and Is pounds phos-
phoric acid. which, in manurial value,
is worth $50. What has been said of
wheat, corn and oats may he said OF
SSVI IutuS tudt IL TstlSSl ON Il Idrln.
'While it is not advisable to use
wheat, corn and oats for fertilizin.
purposes. it should not be forgotten
that the ingredients they draw from
the soil should be returned if we would
maintain the fertility. The wisest
thing for our farmers to do is to begin
right now. and carefully and intrlli.
gently consider the question of ho v to
best retain the present fertility of their
soil.
work all the straw you po. o.sibly can
through your sta bles. and when this is
done do not be afraid to hau, manure.
Do not have your sta blcs located on the
bank of creek in such a way that
every time it rains the water from your
barnyard will drain into said creek. for
in this way the water soluble portion
Of the manure is carried off aad moth
ing remains but fibrous matter. which,
as a fertilizer, is Of little valne."-
Kansas Farmer
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1894-12-29
FALL FuRs.
A Fashionable Trimming fur Ladies' Oct.
door Costumes.

A Fashionable TrimminG fur Ladies' Oct.
door Costumes.
Though most Of US are interested
just now in the autumn fabrics that for
the time iseing we have almost forgot
ten the existence Of furs there are GER
tain wise folk who bear in mind the
time which is not far OFF, and are FASH
,. .isc beautiful, luxurious comhiua,
lOls.Ara.
tions of Iu.s- satlns and velvets. Fur
will play very prominent part in
dress as well as cloak decorations this
winter. One beautiful street gown of
black crepon had large rows of ermine
turned away from a velvet underbodice;
a narrow edge Of ermine on the upper
skirt Of crepon was slightly looped
over . velvet underskirt; metallic
green cloth gown was very beautiful
with plentiful trimmings of chin
chilla. Caracula will hc3d its
own with other furs for close-fit-
ting coats. One beautiful cape of he
coming shade Of green, linei with
caracula and forming fiat revers con-
tinued in two long ends to tho bottom
of the gown, was a new importation.
Another was of Alaska seal faced with
sable tails and lined with copper and
pink brocade. The capes are very
many of them trimmed with collar and
long ends of contrasting fur. A long
coat of brown box cloth was .:ned with
Russian sable and fastened with orna-
ments of brown silk and had q rolling
collar of the sable. A smart little
Eton- jacket in finese sealskin, with
full cape sleeves. large collar and very
large square revers and a stylish seal
skin cape, with zouave unde--jackst
edge, with three rows Of golden 5eave,.
all show the great variety rot only Of
furs but the shapes one has to chocee
from this coming winter The muRs
will he larger.-N. Y. Poet
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1894-12-29
HERE AND THERE.

Fresh, pure water in abundance il
a necessity for milch cows if you would
have good milk.
TO have healthy swine, see that
their surroundings are clean and CON-
Portable.
Rye is one of the best crops a
farmer can plant for winter and spring
pasturage.
Give your fattening hogs a dose Of
salt and hardwood ashes once a week
with their feed.
AS soon as the rush of cotton pick
ing is over, spend a week or two in re-
pairing your fences and buildings.
Give your horse his principal feed
at night He then has time 10 eat lcis.
urely and digest thoroughly what he
eats.
Gull out your poor cows-fatten
them for beef, get rid Of thcm--an
breed from only the hest ones. It don't
pay to raise scrubs. r
Don't neglect sailing your stock.
It is as necessary for their health as
for yours. Keep lot of rock salt
where they can lick it at will.
To develop good heavy beeves, Won
must take care of your cattle from the
time they are calved. You can never
make much out of stunted calf.
The government reports show an
increase in the exports of agricultural
implements, being s5,027, Ses in 1894.
compared with 4.657. .22s2 in 1893.
Too many farmers are negligent
about their straw stacks Good wheat
or oat straw is well worth all the labor
it costs to put it up in waterproof
stacks or ricks.
i "A farmer who has tried it speaks in
the highest praise of gas tar for paint
ing wagon wheels, stating that it tight |
ems wagon tires and spokes better than |
else that can be tried.
Free exercise and varied diet viii
give to the hogs the streak of fat and
the streak of lean now SO much desired.
They will be especially happy over .
diet of vegetables, waste fruits, skim
milk and bran.
1T pays to have good roofs on all
your OuIlOlngS. GOO0 shelter Tor stock,
implements and harvested
:rops Is IS necessary as the raising and
gathering of your produce. Sec that
vour roofs don't leak.
AT the bottom Of scrub farming and
he tenacious adherence to scrub stock
vill Be generally found a scrub educa-
ion. The days when this detect IN a
lations economy can be tolerated are
apidly passing away.
-Gather mp and put under cover al
ools and implements not in use. Clean
q sll the dirt, and grease the iron.
York not painted. During the winter ,
hey clu Be painted and repaired and
. rely Tor use when wanted.
-Cttton-seed meal possesse. rreat | !
ntrfive elements nearly three tine. /
, hch = coFn-yet it i not rood |
~ tood Of itself Fed In nsodcsate
ntifiss With hay, cotton-seed hnIls
eAer: cnnsse foods II is erce,.sc.:t 1
e real will pec3nee esSss, ]
4 NIX q egrn
f$s 49, Al x,alz.s<T1 ~, 81 I S
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1894-12-29
FULL AS GOAT.


4 n11E - Thss HefsneaeaO Olsss Sad Ez'
ample Of That Condition
Look out dere, fellersE' shrieked |.
touzzle-headed youngster, whose flying
bare feet were carrying him toward
the foot of West Fifty-first street.
Look out dere, Billy's on a tear.
There wasn't very much doubt about
II. Billy's tear was extensive. 1t led
him from the sidewalk to the middle of
the street, and from the middle of the
street back to the curb, along which he
tried to walk with as much comic dig
nifty as complete failure. 1t led him to
leap into the air with his feet together
and to come to earth again with his
feet helplessly limp and wide apart. 1t
led him to rush across the sidewalk
with his head dead set for . fruit
stand, and then, before he got half
way across. plunge suddenly backward
down into German cobbler's shop in
the basement. The cobbler gave the
intruder jab with his awl and Billy
few out of the areaway like . compact
rocket. scattering the crowd OF yell
ing youngsters that had gathered Mt
the top of the stairs and cork-screwing
down the street like the propeller of
an Atlantic liner at full speed. There
was policeman at the corner, but he
made NO effort. to arrest the inebriate
Or to check the procession. In fact, he
rather seemed to enjoy ii and held ON
to the railing that he might not double
Up with laughter. For Billy was goat
;allen into evil ways
1T do bate the divil," said the po-
liceman with . fine department accent,
ito see that goat when he's full. He
was the daycintist goat on the block
till thin Flaherty byes give him y
dipper av lager last St. Pahtrick's day
and iver since he's bin . dishgraee."
''But how does he get the beer@'
'Ah! it's = regular can-canner that
he is now. He waits outsoide the sa-
loon, and whin they roul ont the kigs
and shtands IN up at the kirrub, Billy
Just butts them over and lic<s up the
hale-taps. And whin he gifts full he's
the killingist thing outsoide av cock
foight- There he goes now acrass to
the Fefty-secind and weth the whole
divils gang after m Gobs, but I'll
have to rim him in yet, mebbe, I
dunno"
Meanwhile Billy had charged his
pursuers twice. had overturned . baby
carriage with twins in it, and tried to
get behind q board fence by going
through it. But his legs were getting
shaky, and when he reached the empty
lot by the riverside he made = ,last At
tempt to gather his beard into his
mouth with his tongue. tied his front
feet together, threw one bleary, beery
wink at the cliffs Of Wcehawkep and
gave faint bleat that ran into . hic-
cough and fell over. Billy was dead
drunk.-N. Y. Sun.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1894-12-29
fragrant Perfume 500 Year. Old.

A curious box was recently found
smid the ruins of Pompeii. The box
was marble or alabaster,. about two
inches square and closely sealed. When
opened 1t was found 70 be full Of 4
ponatum Of grease, hard but very fra
grant The smell somewhat rescmbled
that of roses, but was much more m
grant What the perfume wss made
Of can not be eonjectured now, hut It
= singular that men IN the nineteenth
century should be able 10 rexale theh
noees With perfumes .preraiod IN the
espA-R ReileaslpAia efssk
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1894-12-29
WOULDN'T FEEL SAFE IN JAIL

Why . Prisssser In . NcHeoFy County
Court Wanted . Change Of Venue.
Judge Goggin came back the other
day from Woodstock, McHenry county,
where he had been holding court, with
. story he is telling with considerable
enjoyment.
just before the judge went TO the
little county seat there had been \ Jail
delivery which excited the entire COM
munity. Four prisoners had with an
ordinary case knife cut big hole
through what in the plan and specifi-
cations was known as the '.steel plow-
Of the Jail, and through this hole es-
capped A later examination showed
that the floor was only sheet Tin. and
the only steal about It was in the
building.
While Judge Goggin was holding
court man named McSwceney,
horse thief, according to the McHenry
county indictment, but accused Of 9TH
er and more serious o6enscs, came up
to be tried. He was anxious to get
change of venue into Kane county,
where his trial would be delayed, and
he asked for one.
HAS the court any prejudiE against
your asked Judge Goggin in his most
judicial voice.
5"ntiy .".~nd-.i to-
No, your nonor.
Can not you secure an imparl a.
jury in this county?" again asked the
Judge.
Yes am not afraid of the jury
Then why do you ask for change
Of vcnue?'
We'll, to tell the truth. your honor"
replied AcSweeney, hssitating, Il do
not think the McHenry county jail is
safe place to keep prisoners in."-Chi-
cago Times
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1894-12-29
ne Oia nr,eIk 0xe..

There is one old-fsShioned thing
which we would do well to return to,
and that is the brick oven O. our grand
mothers. Any one who has yard can
have a brick oven. and it will require
NO more fuel than . stove to do big
baking. In hot weather the heat can
be kept out Of the house, end last, but
not least. there is . favor about any
thing baked in . brick oven that can
not b. equkled. It is poor economy to
be forever baking. We I'll know the
woman who is perpetually stirring mp
= cake On baking few biscuit. Inn
provide,.cf is born in EcS blood; if sup
piled with .isions by the wholesale she
would always manage to be out Of
something ng-Womankind.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1894-12-29
ANCIENT NOVEL WRITER'S,
The Egyptians Were Eminsut Authors oi
Fiction and R0usance.

The Egyptians Were Emineut Aualsors oa
Fiction and Romance.
That the ancient Egyptians were
nOvelists and readers Of novels was
what no one suspected till Nine. dor.
biney purchased her famous papyrus
in 1857. The Psychologists of Europe,
in fact. fairly scandalized to find that
these grave and reverend signiors, I"
whose mummies were so eminently 70.
spectacle. had tastes as frivolous al
our own. Since that time many more
specimens of ancient Egyptian fiction
have come to light, tales Of adventure
by land and sea, tales of enchantment
and magic, even historical romauces
and ghost stories. These discoveries
have cast a new light upon the early
history of literature. They show ue
that Egypt was not only the birth
place of all our arts and all our
sciences, but that the valley of the Nile
was in truth the cradle Of romance.
1t was from Egyptian sources that
Herodotus derived many narrative
which he innocently accepted for fact
and repeated as history, and it is
from these sources that the Arab
story tellers Of the middle ages
drew many an incident familiar 20
us all in the pages of ''The Thousand
and One Nights - ''The Shiprecked Mar
iner" (who, by the way, performs the
astonishing feat of saili ng up the Nile
as far as Nubia. and thence gaining
the open seal, is cast. like Sinbad the.
Sailor, upon an island peopled by ser.
pents. Gen. Tahuti, in . story called
"The Taking Of Joppa,' introduced his
soldiers into the beleaguercd city BY
means of q stratagem less successfully
attempted in after ages by the Forty
Thieves"-that is to say he .couceals .
certain number Of men in big jars,
which are carried by others of their
disguised rs captives laden
with booty. Once inside the gates,
the pretended captives liberate the sol.
diers in the jars, and take possessioa Of
Joppa and its inhabitants.
In The Story of the Doomed Prince. /"
whose father isolstes him in q castle
On the top of q mountain in order te |
defeat the fulfllmcnt of . fatal
prophecy. we recognize the central in. |
,ident of the tale Of ''Prince Arib, the |
Third Royal Mendicant,, and in the |
story Of Rhodopis, - told by Herodotus
the Egyptian original of clnderells |
md tho little glass slipper. -Contem.
Dorary Review.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1894-12-29
CHAPTER ".

Ths sun was shining.
Around the humble cottage Of the
fisherman's daughter her happy chill
dren were ut play on the spacious ve-
rsnda- It was just fifteen years ago
that very day that Basil Beresford
had illustrated his horrible misfortune
by means of . penknife on the shell Of
a diamond back. All this while Phyl.
liss had not been happy. She had
buried two husbands and her life was
now q burden.
Presently the laughter Of the chill
dren ceased. They gazed intently at
the movements of a cool and collected
terrapin as it clumsily clambered up
the brown stone steps 1t was Phyl-
lis who picked up the belated rescue
party and saw the message upon its
back. With a shrek she fell to the
floor senseless When she regained
her consciousness she hastily sum
moned five of her strongest children
and they few-to the rescue. Afsev
short run she found the prisoner. But
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1894-12-29
rAs Count was Drsa.tae.

The Countess Gesundheimer (nee
Porkingham, was listening intently.
The count was talking in his sleep.
True, when she had exchanged her
millions for his title she had waived
all thoughts of his past, but with
woman's natural curiosity she wished
to know for the sake of knowing.
Breathlessly she hsarkened- From
the finely chiseled lips of her aristo-
cratic spouse came the words:
Collar puttons, two for Eve. Nice
ivorine COLLAR puttons, two for five
Journal.