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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1895-06-15
HERE AND THERE.

There is a miniature maize grown
in Brazil. The ears are not larger than
a little finger. and the grains are the
size of mustard seeds.
The department Of agriculture re-
ports for March l. 1895. show that 49,
600, 900 bushels less of the corn crop is
held in farmers hands than A. same
time a year before.
Scatter air-slakcd lime freely
around the grape vines. SO as to cover
every portion Of the ground. 1t is ex-
ccllent in assisting to destroy the
spores o; the grape rot.
Every reason ever offered for pay
ing a bounty to sugar growers will ap-
ply with still! greater force to the cot
ton growers, and with equal force to
the growers of any other farm product.
The comb is an index to the condi-
ton OF the fowl; whenever the comb
becomes pale it is sure sign that
something is wrong, and the fowl
should be removed to q secluded place
away from the others of the flock.
Just after the berries have bloomed
is . good time to 60 over the patch and
clip off all the dead tips with pruning
shears. A good deal of dead wood
will Re found this spring, too. the
result of hard freezes OF the past
winter.
Missouri and kentucky mules are
export I'd to every part Of the civilized
world. and distinguish themselves by
airing their heels ON q Russian. SOkth
Africs 4, South American or Egyptian
with he same ease and levity that
they display in similar exercise At
home
Twenty years ago the forest area
of this country amounted to 76O. OOO.-
COO acres Ten years later there were
left but GO. 000. 900 acres, while this
year thelc can he measured up in the
entire country not more than 4lo. o0o.-
600 acres and the daily destruction u
going on II the rate Of $500 acres
The farmer can only hope for sue
cess BY exercise Of cummon sense. sea
soned BY q diligent search for informA-
ton upon every point entering into
his liSe-the rules and regulations
governing marketing as well IS pro-
duction. IN word. If the farmer will
produce all he consumes at home. and
stay ont Of debt. he will be able to
handle the surplus Of his productions
probably.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1895-06-15
Good Roads.

At this time of the year we can ap,
preciate good roads fully, and it is to
be regretted that we forget how incon-
venient bad roads are as soon as tho
roads that are bad get good in the
spring. Several weeks ago we had occa-
sion to drive four miles into the coun-
try in northern Ohio, where the roads
get frightfully bad on occasion. and al
though we had a fairly good team and
light buggy, the best time we could
make was to drive the four miles in an
hour and half When we arrived at
our destination the team showed the
effects of the hard drive very plainly.
though they had not been driven OF .
walk. A week ago in southern Ohio.
we saw a team trotting along hitched
to q wagon on which was three
thousand pounds of hay. They have
good roads in southern Ohio, or,
rather, southwestern Ohio. and they
derive the benefit from them. They
cost a tidy sum to make, but now that
they are made the people benefited
would not return to the barbarous
mud roads of former years for any con-
sideration. The costliest item Of ex-
pense to the farmers of this country
is the loss they sustain from impassi-
BILE roads.
There has been much agitation on
the subject and it is having its effect.
but until something is done to improve
the condition Of the roads Of the ceun-
try. its prosperity will suffer to an
enormous extent. Land in county
where the roads are good is worth
twice as much as in mud road coun-
ty, and the farmers of the country
could not pay taxes for any purpose
that would make greater direct re-
turns. Good roads are necessary to
perfect civilization, and that means
that e shall have them some time in
the not distant futurc.-Farm News.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1895-06-15
OLD BLUE CHINA.

A Color OF which No One Ever Gets
Tired.
When Whistler made . marvel OF
beauty of his dining room by decorat-
ing the walls with old blue china there
was n revival of interest in azure-tintcd
ware throughout the length and
breadth of England. but in America
the admiration for ''old blue" dates
from the colonial period, and has nei-
Their waned nor renewed its intensity
from modern fads.
There is quite difference, however,
among amateur connoisseurs as to the
relative artistic merits of the various
depths in tone, some claiming that the
pale tint of the old floating blue" the
early Wedgwood and of the willow
ware used by our grandmothers. lends
itself to harmonious blending with its
surroundings, while others claim the
exclusive merit Of beauty for the deep
blue of the StafFordshire ware, in which
are made now the rather scarce and
rare Lafayette plates, the "B. L o. rail
way plates" with the first primitive
train on them, and the present day
willowware of American and japanese
manufacture.
Some Staffordshire plates recently
seen in the window of curio shop
ranged rather surprisingly in price.
Though all made at the English pot
terry, the Lafayette plates were ten dol
lars each, the railroad plates five
dollars, and those upon which famous
English castles were depicted in deep
est cobalt were only one dollar and
half.
The maker of them evidently thought
there would be more ''9O'' in the rail-
road plates at five dollars than in the
castles at one dollar and half among
unsnobbish Americans.
The Lafayette plates are quite large
and make most beautiful plaques
against a neutral wall or card platters
on q polished hall table. and there is
nothing prettier for a card now than
one of deep willowwarc, blue, or of
Japanese blue and white, on a mahog-
any or dark cherry table.
BY having two picture rails, one
right at the angle line of the ceiling
and the other near enough to it to hold
the plates tightly between them, q
very effective friezc of willowware
plates may be put round a room at
small cost; or dado in the same way,
If that accortis better with the general
decorative scheme. Whistler had lit
tie blue flower pots also hung from the
ceiling and filled with growing ferns.
and little jars of the same at each cor
ner of the center cloth on the table.
There are lots of quantity pretty
pitchers, jugs and squatty teapots Of
this inexpensive porcelain that may be
made to scce ntuate the artistic effect
by placing them skillfully on the over
mantel, or on . shelf over low door
way, or on 4 graduated row of corner
shelves. according TO taste.
1t is certainly . fact that one does
not tire OF this color rs soon rs of
others. and people of artistic tempers-
ment simply revel in it. Charles Lamb
admitted an almost feminine partiality
for old blue china, and when he went
TO great house he always asked to SEQ
the china closet before the picture
gallery. and quite recently one Of the
most successful novelists of the dsy
wrote home to her mother. while visit
ing an old homestead in the country:
''You may know am happy; it j. al
blue china and dormer windows IN.
Y. Herald.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1895-06-15
A Remedy for Heaves.

It is generally understood that
horse having heaves can not endure
dry feed, especially dry hay, and that
greatest relief is found in the use of
green, fresh grass, at season of the
year when grass can be had. but that
it can only be had q part of the year.
1t is found by thorough experiment
that q horse that could endure no
fatigue. and could scarcely breathe
when fed on dry hay, can apparently
be rejuvenated, and put in sound, COM
Portable condition by a regular feed OF
ensilagc and perform regular farm
work without show of heaves.-Coun-
try Gentleman.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1895-06-15
BOOK CHAT.

THERE are thirteen miles Of book.
shelves in the British museum, Lon
don.
In six months $4,000 copies Of Han
Caine's 'The Manxman" havc been sold,
one-third Of them in the United States
MUDIr1 CIRCULATING LIBRARY IN
Loodoo has ,so0. 900 books constantly
In circulation and employs l7s people.
AoLossARY Of Greek birds hiss been
prepared by Prot Darcy Thompson, q
Dundee, aud will soon Be issued by the
Clarendon press. What wc know Of
them comes mainly from Aristotle. and
task Of Identifying the birds described
by him = 20 ea1y onA
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1895-06-15
LONDON GOSSIP.

Tn Pail Mall Budget n to be given
mn, - It does not pay expenses
An artesian well twelve inches in
diameter and four hundred feet deep
was completed recently In afty-avo
days for . brewery at Hackney. In Lon
don.
No LESS than ten new peers were en-
titled to take their seats in the house OF
lords 1t the beginning Of the session,
owing to the death of their predecss-
sorA The bishop Of Rochester. Dr..
Davidson, also became peer, in place
OF the lste bishop Of Hereford. .-i
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1895-06-15

Sounds but q mockery 70 the dyspeptic. He
hears it, Of course, but his stomach does not
respond to tho call. He .'goes through the
motions" and suffers afterwards for the
small amount of victuals he partakes Of. Hos
letters Stomach Bitters alters his condition
heartily, and assimilate thoroughly. Ma
laria, rheumatism, consti patton and bilious
ness are conquered by this world-famed
vnndicinA
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1895-06-15
THE SCULPTOR'S ART.

Fos charity festival In Brussels re-
Gently, the sculptors got up novel ex-
hibition Of statues executed In snow In
one Of tho parka
CvRIousLY enough . huge statue OF
Ii Hung Chang. ordered and paid for In
his most prosperous days, has just BEEN
finished in Germany.
IT is but eight years since Leopold
Won Ranke, tho German historian,
died, but the hundredth anniversary OF
his birth is already at hand. II is pro-
posed to celebrate it BY erecting mon
nment to him 1t Wiehe. in Prussian-
Saxony, his birthplace.
A Bust OF John Couch adams, who
shares with Leverrier the honor OF dis
covering the planet Neptune. has been
set up opposite tho bust OF Sir John
Herschell, in the great hall OF st.
Johns college, Cambridge. tho college
of which both astronomers were tel
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1895-06-15
AROUND OUR OWN LAND.

HALF of the worlds product Of quiz
nine is used in the United States
FIFrY-EIeHr of the senators are law
yers; twenty-five representatives are.
CHICAGO has thirty-eight hospitals
twenty-five general and sixteen special.
THERE arc nearly two thousand wom-
en- practicing medicine in tho United
States.
CONNECTICUT has passed . law pro-
hibiting stress cars to cross steam roads
at grade.
THE annual fire loss from incendiar-
ism in the United States and Canada il
eS9, 00o, 900, according to conservative
estimates.
THE heaviest snowfall In this country
began on February 10, 17l7. and con-
tinued five days. At its close tho snow
was from five to seven feet deep oil
over New England.
AMERICAN colonial art Is becoming
fashionable IN london. A set OF ten
handsomely carved chairs, imported
from Pennsylvania $50 years ago. were
sold there recently for SITS.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1895-06-15

The proportion of women to mes
in the United States is greatest in New
England. where the woiaen arc h OK
cess: II is least in the far west where
the number Of men sxoceds thates the
Womc4r
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1895-06-15

WIFE to unhappy husband) FL wouldn't
worry, John: it doesn't do any good to Dor
row trouble" Husband-''Borrow trouhlel
treat Caesar, my dear, i ain't borrowing
trouble: / have it to lend. ~ Colorado Sun.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1895-06-15

the wrong tdings and too much. They
stimulate action in all Of the digestive
organs. They stop sour stomach, windy
belchings, heartburn, fatulence and cure
constipation, biliousness. dyspepsia, in
digestion, sick headache and kindred
arrangements
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1895-06-15
DO Not He Fooled.

We do not believe that any southern
farmer will be deluded by the recent
increase in the price Of cotton. There
Is no good and sufficient reason for the
iaessasA u b simply work Of Wall
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1895-06-15

On tho principal lines of tho Chicago,
Milwaukee 4 St. Paul railway passenger
trains are electric lighted, steam heated and
protected by block signals. With these
modern appliances, railway travelling ut
high speeds has reached degree Of safety
heretofore unknown and not astainable on
roads where they are not in use. Electric
lights and steam heat make it possible to
dispense with the oil lamp aud the car
stove. Block signals have reduced the
chances for collisions to the minimum BY
maintaining an absolute interval Of space
between trains.
Miss OLDAcRE (who has still got skittish
ways,-s'IsE't 1t sad, captain, when \ w0m-
IN perceives that she's grown olderr' The
Csptain-"Yes; but it's more sad when she
doesn't perceive it."-Judy.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1895-06-15

A COxvERf-visitor lin Maine)-"Its
against the law to sell this stuff, isn't II r.
Drug Clerk-"Ies" Visitor who has just
had somel-'.It ought TO be."-Smith, Gray
4 Co n MOnthlv
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1895-06-15

-, ~ DON'T think your arguments against
Wagner are sound" .Well, if they are not,
that's where they differ from Wagner's mu.
sic."-Harper's Bazaar
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1895-06-15
In Old Age

The vigor SO earnestly craved for IS
given by Hoods Sarsaparilla, because
it restores the vitality and purity Of
the blood, and thus strengthens and
sustains all the bodily organs.
81 could fill a newspaper with words of
praise for Hoods Sarsaparilla for it is the
best medicine for tho blood. I am an old
man % years of age and i feel very thank
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1895-06-15

NOTHING recalls to the mind Of tho mar
ried man tho joys Of his single life 50 vivid
~ rs to find that the baby has been eating
crackers in bed-Texas Siftings.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1895-06-15

1T takes some people whole lifetime to
hnd cut that no dollar is big enough to give
an hours happiness. Rams Horn.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1895-06-15
What an ordinary man eats
and the way he eats it would
be enough to give dyspepsia
to AN ostrich-unless the os-

Wise enough 10 as
sist his digestion
from time to time
with an efficient
combination of
veget able ex-
tracts. Such q
preparation is
DR.. Pierce's
Pleasant Pellets.
They are the pills
par excellence
for those who
sometimes eat
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1895-06-15

A PATH may look pleasant and vet be
hlled with footprints made by the clover
hoof.- Rams Horn.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1895-06-15

AYfER physicians had given me up, was
saved by Piso's Cure-RALPa ERiIo, VIII
Transport, Pa, Nov. g, lS90
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1895-06-15
Short Jesrneya o : Is.e R.eA

q the characteristic title Of q profuscly
Illustrated book containing over one hun
dred pages Of charmingly written descrip.
tons OF summer resorts In the country
matter is new, the Illustrations are new.
and the inform alton therein will be new to
almost everyone
A copy OF ''sShort Journeys on a Long
Road" will he sent free to anyone who will
enclose ten cents ito pay postage) to Gro
d. HEAFfoKD, General Passenger Agent
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul Railway.
Chicago Ill
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1895-06-15

A True knight is fuller Of bravery In the
midst than in the beginning Of danger.-Sir
p Sidney.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1895-06-15

Essential to the production Of the most per.
feet and popular laxative remedy known,
have enabled the California Fig syrup Co.
to achieve q great SUGGEST in tho reputation Of
its remedy, Syrup Of Figs, Is tits conceded
to be the universal laxative. For sale BY u
druRRista.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1895-06-15

THERE II more Catarrh In this section Of
the country than all other diseases put to-
gether, and until the last few years was sup
years doctors pronounced it o local disease,
and prescribed local remedies, and by con-
stantly failing TO cure with local treatment,
pronounced itincurable. Science has proven
catarrh to be . constitutional disease and
therefore requires constitutional treatment
Halls Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. j.
Cheney Il Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only con-
stitutional cure on the market. II Is taken
internally in doses from 10 drops to tea
spoonful. 1t acts directly on the blood and
mucous surfaces of the system. They 0fer
one hundred dollars for any case it fails to
cure. Send for circulars and testimonials.
Address, F. J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists, &c.
Halls Family Pills. . cents.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1895-06-15

THERE il NO blood in the preaching against
which the devil never lifts n club.-RAm's
Horn.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1895-06-15

II thou hast wsnderings In the wilderness
and find'st not Sinai. tbs thy soul II poor
Lowell
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1895-06-15

HAxeINe and wiving 90 by destiny
Shakespeare
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1895-06-15

Me full to Hoods Sarsaparilla,
for believe 1t saved my
naYiIIa life. I was troubled very
severely with my stomach
kae and from disordered blood
"SS having sores on my cheek.
Al Some thought had can
y" Ger but Hoods Sarsaparilla
MIL cnred me. The pains in my
DlVUu stomach left me, it regulated
yels and that dull feeling was driven
The sores on my cheek healed and l
very way greatly improved. can
d words good enough to praise
Sarsaparilla" ARCHIE INGALLS,
oung Hickory, New York.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1895-06-15

Di stop to think how eo@psetey the Aermosos
Co windmil businesst How Il hiss monop
osd this entire line q manufaetsrs because q IL idsss
desgns qualities and prices, forced other,
b ltsral and servls mitators Witness the steel
~hsei the back sssrsd runper the high sserea es.sr
q work sitter complexion the grinder ssntrifus. fesd
the Improved irgaiing md other pumps, the I'll stes
pole Il The most popular thinss Put out
tho stes storage and stock tsnks Everyh,ng we have
touched have betsered and eheapens II II the thing
have delighted and has paid wehsve established
branch have all these goods those Who
them. The Aernotcf Co. hiss but ambition.
wans build and M more new huildng hss aerss
e land 1t ccaoA unoceupsd By hadnga Il
in cover that acres with single
ha6ne Isfoss high. This will give Il u Of aoos
space Then when the public demand requires goods
than produced with this sddsd space will refuse
make effort II Will have done its share
@ supply that demand will then tsyn al eomers
rNrtL THAT FINE III EXRECfS TO CONTINUE 10 0CHYL1
TINE WORLD WITH fn4 09EAfHR FART OF ITS WINE
WuEILN f0W1n4 GR1ND1RS, HI1D CrffERA HnrS
STEEL BRAMR Buzz SAWS, STEEL STORAGE AND 0TOC2
fANES STEEL 6UosIauCrURES TIC, EIca SAL.
vAuIzEY AFTER COMPLETION. II WILL CONTIxrB 70
Deal HOST LlBE1AILy WIN fuk fTnLsC. Rr1xlsM n.
kAlns AZ LoW knsck AZ ?. Ine csEAf LODI!
0ous1 o. TAk Wo1An. A1A10I03 CO, CHICAGO.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1895-06-15

CoxPESsArIox-Ho- Mrs. Grim
shaw who lectures on bimetallism. I've
heard her. How exasperatingly clever che
seems to bev She-"Yes, but how consol-
ingly ugly Punch.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1895-06-15
GOSSIP OF THE ARTISTS.

The Boston Museum of Art has 70.
eeived . legacy Of fifty thousand dollars
for the purchase of modern American
paintings
AUBREY BEARDsLEY, it is said, has
written play in which the characters
arc to assume, rs far as possible. tho
forms and features Of his drawings
BERLIN proposes to have an interna-
tional art exhibition next year. The
Association Of Berlin Artists, with An
ton Won Werner, the painter, ut it,
head, has the matter in charge.
AT Narbonne Roman mosaic pave
ment cighty-six feet square was recent.
" discovered near the city cemetery.
The stones are black and white, af-
ranged in beautiful and novel designs.
The advocate., 1895-06-12
From Sleepy Boston.

BOSTON, June 8.-United States Assist.
ant Treasurer Joseph O'Nsill is mot dis
posed to attach much importance to the
free silver convention held in Spring
field, ILL.,, nor to take seriously the state
ment that il its action shall be followed
out 10 its logical conclusion, the demo
cratic party will bs in danger Of dis
ruption.
He says that any convention that
could be called by the silver men, if
they were TO ignore the authority Of the
democratic national committee, would
be but q "rump convention" and not be
representative Of the democratic party.
Although he admits there is q strong
feeling in the South and West in favor
Of free coinage Of silver.
Mr.. ONsill says the views Of the ex-
tremlsts who were represented at this
Springfield convention do not represent
the sentiments of the msjority Of the
people Of the country, or even a major
ity Of the democratic party.
"If they persist in their course" said
Mr.. O'Nsill, ~ believe it will result in
the further degradation Of silver rather
than its RdvRncsmsnts, because the more
this question is discussed before an 40
intelligent jury as the people Of the
United States, it seems to me the worse
1t is for the extreme advocates Of silver. "
The advocate., 1895-06-12
TOPEKA, KANSAS, JUNE Il, 1895.

Ocean Beach, Fla. This General Que
sedR is former secretary to Jose Msrti.
Department officials do not attach
any Importance TO the statement of the
London Standard that Spain would
make claim against the United States,
based on the precedent of the Alabama
claims, for permitting arms and ships to
leave the United States in cid Of the
Cuban cause. It is said that no definite
information Of this has yet been given
and that whenever it is given the Unltsd
States will use every available means 10
suppress the traffic.
The advocate., 1895-06-12
From Democratic Headquarters.

PHILADELPHIA, June 7.-ChRirmRn
William F. Hsrrity of the democrstiC
national committee has received a num-
Der Of inquiries as TO whether he in
tended to call q meeting Of the commit
tee at an early date to decide whether or
not a convention should be called to
take action on the money question.
In order to relieve the mind Of anxious
democrats with regard to the matter,
Mr.. Hsrrity has written the following
open letter:
81 do not expect or intend to call Q
meeting Of the democratic national com.
mittes until next winter, when it will
meet for the purpose Of fixing the time
and place for holding the democratic ma
tiOnal convention Of 1896, unless / shall
be requested to do 20 by the regulate
number Of the democratic national COM
mittse. do not believe there il any
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