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The Portland daily press., 1899-10-23

FOR S ALE-House in Portland, on two cleo
tric car lines, 10 rooms, bath and other
improvements. cost $500, land comprises 5
cents per loot. II sold at once price s50oo.
particulars, Real Estate ONCE, FREDERICK
.. VAIL. 25-1
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FOR sALE-Elegant pianos, vIolins, mando-
linS guitars. bapios, music boxes har-
monlcas, superior VIOLA and banjo strings,
popular sheet music, instruction books and
everything " The music line. Your patronage
tOuclttu. HALVES. Ala Congress ST 2I-i
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SPOT CASH.-.OLD GOLD.

We give you the highest price for Old Gold as
We use u for making rings. MCKINNEY the
Jeweler. Monument Square. oct27du
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Forty words inserted under this head
one week for IS cents, cash I'm advance.
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IN oUSEKEEPERS TO drop us a postal and we
~ VIII call after their old rags bottles.
bones, brass. copper. lead. zinc and pewter
We pay highest spot cash prices. JAMES
WHITE &Co, Portland Pier, Is our address.
III
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N ANTED-I am now ready TO buy all kinds
OF cast OF ladies', gems and children's
clothing pay more than any purchaser in
the city. Send letters to MIR. or MRS. DE-
GROOT, 20 Middle st. sep2bdSw-tf
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LOST AND FOUND.

Forty words inserted under this head
one week for 10 cents, cash in advance.
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NANTED-A secondhand is II. z. steam
w boiler. Address stating price PORT.
LAND CREAMERY. 9S7 Congress ST., city
The Portland daily press., 1899-10-23

WANTED-A first class meat cook at the
w sToDDARD HOUSE,, Pennington, Me.
The Portland daily press., 1899-10-23

ITO LET-A very pleasant down stairs rent of
six large rooms, all on one floor, opposite
Price reasonable. Apply at 90 FRANKLIN
STREET. i7-1
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FEMALE HELP WANTED.

WANTED-Good cook and laundress, small
w family, short distance in country on
trolley line wages SC per week. Address with
references f. q. D.. Press Office. III
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WEDDING RINGS,

NoTICE-Goss & Wilson. auctioneers, re-
Silver st. diff
The Portland daily press., 1899-10-23

WANTED-Everyone who wants new
w house in Portland or its suburbs to see us
az once; we have several new houses which we
VIII sell low on easy terms, or will exchange
Tor good collateral; no fair offer refused; this Is
your chance. DALTON s. co. b3 Exchange
street. Juue0du
The Portland daily press., 1899-10-23

FOR RENT-House No. 60 Gray street. Nine
rooms beside halls. bath and store rooms !;
hot and cold water. set tubs, furnace heat;
with good yard loom: All in first class order.
Enquire at "A DEERING ST., morning, noon or
night sep5-u
The Portland daily press., 1899-10-23

VVANTED-To buy for cash a good retail
w business. Address NJ, Box 81. 23i

WANTED-Refned married couple or two
w gentlemen 20 learn OF a genieel boarding
place where the refnements Of an ideal home
may be secu edi choice nelshborhood, easy OF
access to all churches, etc, etc references ex.
changed. Address REX RAY, Portland Press
ONCE. 2O-1
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-05-27

A COmnletc Fertilizer.

a complete fertilizer in the litcral
sense of the word is one which con-
tains every kind of food a plant needs.
Ashes come nearer meeting the detini-
tier than any other substance used
as manure. except stable Dianurr,
which meets the definition entirely. as
it contains every element of plant
fooG. But as many of the elements OF
plant-food are present il sufficient,
quantity in ordinarily good soils. it is
common 10 speak of any fertilizer
which contains the elements in W ich
soils arc usually deficient as complete
fertilizers. The substances most gen
orally deficient in soils are phosphoric
acid. potash and nitrogen. and any fer
tilizer containing these in reasonable
quantity is usually spoken of as J
complete fertilizer. In that sense the
combination YOU, mention Is COM
pletc fertilizer. If the acid phos-
rhate contains IL per cent. of
available phosphoric acid. which is the
usua, average, the mixture will ann
1t contains less phosphoric acid than
lize as follows: Phosphoric acid, six
per cent, and potash three per cent.
staEdard guanos. which by law in
some states are required to contain
eight per cent. OF that substance
Dixie Farmer.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-05-27

FOREIGN GOSSIP.

There are only I6 breweries in Mex
GO. of which three are in the capita
The largest is in Monterey.
Every other Austrian household .an.
every third Italian family contribute
one member to the national army.
Crem;. ton is largely on the increas
in Germany. Last year 4O5 bodies wer'
crcmated-2l at Jena. 179 at Gotha, 10.
at Heidelberg. and 9s at Hamburg.
\ Copenhagen bl ever, Herr Jacob
sen, has presented his art collections
whose value is placed at 100000 Krone.
(SI,350,0O0) to the city authorities.
\ mountain of salt is one of the nat
ural curiosities of San Domingo. Th'
mountain is about five miles square a
the base, ar! is estimated to contain
about 9O.O0o,OO0 tons of salt.
Poetic justice has been dealt to ;
British sportsman, who died of bloot
poisoning brought about by the scratch
of Il wild rabbit he was letting loose TO:
the hounds in coursing match.
Londoners consume 275.O00.C00 gal
Ions of water a year, according to thu
Home Magazine; they do not drink al
of it, and what they do drink is not al
ways taken clear. as they use 25.0GO.
OcO pounds of tea us well. They do ru'
down 153,G00.000 gallons of beer, how
ever. as well as 100000 gallons o,
spirits, besides 5O,0OO,OOO gallons o
mineral waters.
Mr.. Lionel Philips, the South African
millionaire who was implicated in th'
Jameson raid. has offered the ltafiai
government the monsy needed to buy ;
block of houses now standing over th'
remains of Easilica Aemilia, near th'
Roman Forum. 1t is believed that tn
excavation of the Basilica may bring Il
light some of the Greek spoils taken ts
Rome after the victory over Perseus a
Pydna.
\ parliamentary report on water
gas. street railway. electric lighting
and other reproductive undertaking;
carried on by municipal boroughs il
England. shows that at the end o
March. 1SaS. the total capital invested
amounted to Gss,152.600. of whicl
s s.. .379, 300 had been borrowed. Bu
of the borrowings, s II .496. 100 had beer
repaid by the boroughs. Average an
nual income from these undertaking
during five years was fS.S9S.4e0. ant
average annual net profit 6 e3.61a.100
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-05-27
HERE AND THERE.

Brood sows should not be fed
much corn at this time Of year. They
should be fed slops of bran, middiings.
harley or ground oats. An excellent
thing for them are roots, cabbages.
c,,lled potatoes and clover hay.
1t is useless to contine hogs in a
cicse pen in which the sun rarely
shines and expect them to make rapid
growth and remain in good health.
Sunshine is ife-giving and health-be-
slowing.
There is everywhere an increased
t.emandd for farm nurses. Farmers
who were going out OF business year
Or two ago, have concluded to stay on
tie farm a little longer. Better prices
for wheat has had much to do with
this change of front.
Until private dairies glut the near
ny markets. they will be found mote
profitable than creameries. 1t is only
where the number and capacity ri
cows exceed the local demand that
butter making en- wholesale sale be
comes Q necessity.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-05-27
WHY DO WE PLow THE SOIL?
A Question, the Clear Undcr.taud-
ing of which Will be n Material
Held In Farm Work.

\ clear understanding of this ques-
ton will help us in nearly all the
work upon the farm. We pInw because
we can not farm successfully without
plowing. The earth will produce
without plowing, but the growth will
De composed mainly of the harder
plants.
Plant food exists in the earth as
abundantly before we plow as after
ward. We do not create plant food
with the plow. Before we plow the
plant food is largely IN an insoluble
condition. In this state plants can
not use it; hence we say it is unayail-
able. Much of our food is not digesti-
pie in its raw state. We cook it to
help digestion. We chew it to help
digestion still more. Plants can not
digest solids of any kind; so we must
dissolve the food we wish our crops
to feed upon.
Almost any substance will dissolve
in water more rapidly when crushed
than when in Jumps. The potash,
phosphoric acid. lime and other ele
ments of plant growth are mixed in
all our soils. They exist in abundant
quantities. Any soil will produce i.
these are made soluble in water and
plenty of water is present to dissolve
them.
The chief object of plowing is to Sc
cure and maintain these two condi-
tions.
The same result may be gained by
using the spade or any other tooi
which will tear the soil to pieces; but
the universal verdict of mankind is
that the plow will do this work at less
expense and more satisfactorily than
any ether tool.
The soil must be broken in. small
particles. If these particles are very
small, the soil will give up its food
readily and produce large crops. If
made as fine as the dust under our
carriage wheels on the highways, we
would call it pulverized. Such soil
would produce very large crops. Bot
tom lands are made up of such par
ticles, which have been floated down
from the hills and left on the low
lands. In this condition the plant food
is easily dissolved and readily taken
up by the plant roots.
Chemical analysis shows that the
hills contain as much plant food as
the bottoms. Why. then, do they not
produce as large crops? Because he
coil is compact and the plant food Is
not soluble. BY intelligent use of the
plow we can change this. We can in
crease the depth of the soil and make
| II fine. so that the food will dissolve.
At the same time we largely increase
the supply of water in the soil.
We plow to break up the crust Of
the earth and t-rn it into soil. The
deeper we plow, the more soil we have;
the oftener we plow, the larger sup
ply of plant food we have ready to dis
| solve. Hence to farm successfully we
must speed the plow. The great phi
| losopher's stapza.
Plow deep while sluggartis sleep.
/ And you will have corn TO sell and to
l keep.
| is not q mere poetic fancy; it is the
| statement of great scientific truth
Southern Cultiyat0e.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-05-27
FARMER AND DPLANTER.
COTTON AT A PROFIT.
here Is q Way to Reach the Result
II One Only Goes Mt 1t In the
Right Way.

The way to make cotton and money
in ont and the same crop, is very neat
IL laid down in the books md bulletins
but it's little harder to do it in the
SOL. Good faithful working, after
planting as well as before, is neces-
sary of course, but there are other
things to look after as well. The crop
must have good seed, clean bed. ana
last but not least, good and sufficient
food.
This fertilizer matter seems hard to
agree upon; that is, just what is the
besI fertilizer. We all know that fer
tilizers pay, but some pay better than
others. and we all want TO fnow just
what kinds pays best. Cotton has
been planted straight ahead on most
cotton lands for years, and tie natural
query is: What has it taken away"
When the credit at the store gives out,
we pretty well know what's wrong:
we've taken away more than we've put
back.
\ crop Of 200 pounds Of lint takes
from the soil about 35 pounds of am
oria. 33 pounds of potash, and 10
pounds Of phosphoric acid. Now, if
this has been going on for years with
very little return. the credit at the
store must soon give out; even if the
cotton seed meal is returned the ac-
count doesn't balance. Ammonia is an
important fertilizer ingredient; for
every 100 pounds of ammonia carried
off in the crop, "a pounds of potash
and pounds of phosphoric acid are
ais" carried away. Suppose the cotton
seec meal is returned as manure; for
every 100 pounds of ammonia re-
turned, there is also returned
pounds of potash and 3 pounds oi
phosphoric acid. Place the account
| side by side for comparison.
Taken off Returned to
the soil. the soil
Ammonia .. 100 lbs 100 lbs
Phosphoric acid 49,. ) lbs. 8 lbs.
Let the planter do little figuring
| for himself on this basis. How lon.
will the account keep good at this
rate: Potash and phosphoric acid ae-
count at the store is apt to be very
low, while the ammonia Is in better
shape when we consider that COW peas
will supply ammonia very cheap.
We all know that fertilizers pay ber-
ter with heavy crops than with ligh;
crops. 1t costs very little more 10
make $50 pounds of lint per acre than
it does to make 200 pounds. The cost
of picking nearly covers the extra. Ii
| Il fertilizer cost of about 81 per
acre will give that extra $50 pounds Of
liEt, the investment is a paying one.
While double the amount of fertilizer
may not bring the lint up TO 500
| pounds per acre, it will SO much re-
dIce the other expenses in proportion
to the yield, as to be even more prof
liable than with the smaller applic;,-
ton. 4 little of what the Yankees cal
''gGmption'' helps out great deal il
making money and cotton in one and
the same crop.-R. Garwood.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-05-27
GARDEN AS PART Of "a EA1<M7
No Farm Complete without q kttch-
en- Garden to supply tho
Home Table.


No farm is complete without .
kitchen garden. 1t is very late, but
rot too late, to have good garden.
Let the ground get dry; then break
thoroughly. Use all the manure your
conscience will let YOU; spread =
broadcast; mix it thoroughly with the
soil Throw up very light beds-jus.
enough to keep the rainwaicr from
settling around the little plants. Plan,
your seed, if convenient, just before
night; cover lightly with mandrake.
Small seed should be planted near the
surface. Then be sure to press the
soil tightly around the seed. You can
do this with a plank. Lay the plank
along on the seed row and walk upon
it, or roll the beds with an empty ba,-
rel. This is easily done and does good
work.
If your soil bakes. loosen it up with
ha ndrakc each side of seed row. No
' ork in the garden pays better than
this rolling and raking. The rolling
will nearly always secure good
stand. All gardeners know how inn
wrtant this is. The rakings kill weeds
o. grass in the sprou. or soon as up,
and makes the soil warmer. which is
very important to :he health of young
plants.
This is one spring when every one
should plant freely of Irish potatoes.
The early varieties, such as Rose,
Goodrich, Hebron and Triumph. will
very soon furnish palatable and whole
some dishes for the table.
We desire to say that we hope every
farmer will grow and save his own
Irish potato seed. Our second crop
are the very best of seed. Southern
seed are as good as eastern, if saved
with care.
Turnips, kale. cabbage, collards.
spinach ard other salad crops should
| be sown in abundance. They are good
for the table, the pantry, the pigs and
the COWS.
Eeets. beans, onions cucumbers, sal
s:fy, cantelcupes. squashes. peas and
others. according to taste,can soon fur
rish variety and plenty.
Look after the garden. \ good gar
den, a good COW, few pigs and hens
will almost support any ordinary FAM
Iiiy.-Southern Cultivator.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-05-27
Farm Building. in the south.

IT has been largely owing to the
desolation and poverty caused by tie
civil war, that southern farms have
been so poorly equipped with con'-
Portable and capacious buildings for
sheltering stock and also for taking
care of the products grown on the
land.
Yet it must be confessed that the
south before the war was rot atten-
tive and regardful on this line save IN
notable exceptions. Northern farmers
were compelled by stress of climate to
build better barns, and the profit that
followed made the enterprise conta-
gicus among the agricultural classes.
Now. it is an established fact, that
the farmer who builds Il COED barn and
hay sheds will soon save enough to pay
for the expense of erection. in better
stock and more economical feeding.
Even i'm the south cattle need good
shelters and swine always do better
with clean quarters to sleep in. l do
not suppose there is farmer in this
broad land who takes proper pride in
his calling, who does not feel easier
in mind and body when he lies down 1T
right knowing that every animal on
the premises has good place to stand
CT lie and enough food TO hc satisfied
against hunger.
And nothing less than this should
be allowed in land of Christian civil
zation. Cruelty TO animals - not cor-
fineo to beatings and o,erwork. The
roo-. shivcring beasts that stands in Il
muddy lot with snow on their backs
are as badly mistrcated as the CAP
horse that falls in the street from cN-
haustion. with full stomach. There
is nothing mere pleasing than to see
comfortable farm buildings as you ride
along the public roads, and nothing
speaks more plainly for the thrift and
industry of the owner.-DiNie Farmer.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-05-27
FREE LUNCHES PROVIDED.
several Mig Embellishments In En9.
land Doing This for Em-
pl0yes.

For some years past several OF the
large manufacturing firms of this coun
try have found it profitable in various
ways to set apart by no means un-
important portion of their space for the
purpose of a messfoom or dining-hal
for their employees. Where the EN-
p.oyes include members of both sexes
separate rooms are provided.
The question now arises: Would il
not be still more profitable TO the
principals of large firms generally to
provide free lunches for those employed
by them? One firm in London. employ
ing about 30 hands in its factory. has
already decided to give free tea. the
determination being based on business
ideas rather than on philanthropie
principles.
1.-The tea will cost us so much. rea-
son the principals, 'butour workIeople
will remain on the premises. and there
will be less time lost in leaving off and
recommending work. In winter they
can stay in the warm shops. and in sum-
mer they can walk about. our own piece
IF land The morale will be better in
any case. and at the very least we shall
reap more benefit than we could pur-
chase a. the cost of the free tea. And
our employees will get far better tea
than they could afford to buy outside"
From purely business point of view.
the question .of free lunches is well
worth the consideration of large en-
rloyers. The plan has been adopted
by several big companies in the United
States. so far as their large clerical
force is concerned. and is working very
successfully. Here. also. philanthropy
enters to very small degree into the
transaction.
a dining-room is set apart for the
clerks. who go to lunch in parties at
stated times. The food is prepared on
the premises by an experienced cook.
and. on reaching the dining-room. Is
carved by carver and handed to the
clerks by walters. Both the food and
attendance are much superior to what
the men could expect from such res
taurants az their means would allow
them to patronize. while the room is
As exclusive as club. no visitors being
admitted during the luncheon time.
The time allowed for this midday
meal is reduced to half an hour: but
rs there is no walking or journeying to
restaurant. the men do not in the
least complain. In fact. although in
one firm the employees may go out te
.unch If they choose. il is very seldom
that anyone takes advantage of the op
ton.
Despite the cost. the employers are
we'll satisfied with she result. The saw
ing of half an hour per Gay on each
mans time goes long way toward re
coupling them for the outlay. Then
as in the case of the London firm previ
ously mentioned. there is not so mucf
time wasted in recommending work.
Finally. the men are rot subject IL
the temptation TO spend their time II
the public house. especially in we
weather. and. having had good lunch
go TO work with that contented frams
of mind which good square meal gen
sralIy induces. The net result to th'
employers is profit on the transac
,;op paarxonsS weoklv
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-05-27
Juxt Like . Hoy.


4 Washington Sunday school super
in.endent who is very young at the
business made an address to the scho!-
ars one Sabbath recently. in which his
concluding remarks stated that this
beautiful Sabbath was only promise
of the blissful hereafter. of the happy
land TO which we all want to go"
".And what is that happy land ? he
asked. The small boys on the from:
seat kicked each other superstisiously
and viciously. but nobody spoke till lit
tie George said, with tone midway
between sniff and gurgle:
Heaven"
"Ah, that's il! that's it," said the SUI
perinendent. Little George knew il.
1t is Heaven. And we all want to GO
there. And now. children. can you tel
me what kind of little boys go there q
George was emboldened by praise
His head was dizzy Nth success. HI
rose in lis place.
Dead ones.' he bawled:-NashinS'
tea Post.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-05-27

Two weeks afterwards the future of
the twins was already decided upon. and
they were told to bid good-by TO one
another. They had been living at the
Fellside farm since their mothers
death, but the vicar had interested him
self i'm them, and he had decided that
Don must be near the school; so, a
small subscription having been raised,
he was to board with family IN the
village until he could work for living.
Mairly was to go to an orphanage some
30 miles away, where she would event
uaily be trained as servant. More
than one house would have been open to
the children, in the first tide of pity
and wonder at the tragedy. but the
vicar thought that their future welfare
would be best considered by this ar
rangement: and when he took the mat
ter up no one ventured TO protest.
The twins parted quietly, without
tears. Mrs. Bleasdale had tried to nit
igate what she considered "a cruel
shame" by whispering that it would
only be for little while, and they inn
plicitly believed her. Indeed, the past
two weeks had seemed to them like an
ugly bustling dream, and they hardly
realized that worse could befall them.
1t was only at bedtime, when he found
himself without Mairly. in room with
three or four other children, that some
sense of his desolation burst upon Don.
He lay sobbing far into the night, and
refused to be comforted. Mrs. Smith
had every wish to be kind to him. but
she had a houseful of unruly children
TO manage, and Dom n'swayswerest strange
to her. She complained to the neigh
bors that he made himself fair silly Wi
frettin. When he was not CRYING he
was perplexed and frightened by his
new surroundings. The children quar-
relied over their games and their
nhutkcT usually quelled the disturbance
by dealing out slaps with a generous
haffa.A Bon came in for share of these
with the rest; heNwas missing soor
aftefdnd WAS not found till nirhtfall
fast asleep on his mothers grave. Mrs
Smith considered she must break him
st bad habit, SO she beat him again
aKd Told him he should not see Mairl,
If he went there any more. That nigh
be cried SO that the other childrer
could not sleep, and after Q week il
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-05-27

An hour later the two children were
found by the old shepherd. barefoot in
the road, clinging fast together and
CRYING bitterly. When the doctor came
il was found that the mother had been
dead some hours.