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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-04-21
CRIME OF rHOUCHTLEssNESS


ThOughtleSSneSs and mistaken kind
ness in the sickroom slay their thou
sands, and the family and nurses are
Ofttimes the unknown accessories to
the deed. They fear criticism too much
Their mothers and grandmothers never
dreamed of refusing admittance to the
sickroom; it would cause talk" to be-
gin it. So the nurse casts responsible.
ity off on custom, and puts blind trust
in Providence. and the deed is done.
No matter how visibly it harrows the
soul of a nervous woman to have ''out.
siders" about her, there are those who
will persist in invading every sickroom
they can reach, regardless of the con-
dition of the patient. or the probable.
ity Tor lack of probability that they
may be of any service. 1t often happens
that it is the least useful and and most
tactless women of the community who
the afflicted. Such visitors seriously
handicap the efforts of the physician
and nurses and undoubtedly cause
many a death. 1t is astonishing to
witness the recklessness of most fam
lilies in regard to this phase of the care
of their sick. Unless a patent is actu.
ally in articulo mortis the country doc
tor does not like to endanger his pop
ularity by ordering the arbitrary ex-
clusion of visitors. Without his COM
mands to back them up the family that
attempts the innovation invites and
gets the ostracism of the neighborhood
for no short time. / would not be
thought to decry the good, sensible,
self-denying neighbor nurse who in al
most all rural communities and in
homes of slender means everywhere
must supply the place of the trained
nurse when the home force is not suf-
ficient to properly care for patient.
God alone knows the extent of her use.
fulness and can adequately reward her.
Only cheerfully sympathetic society il
a benefit to convalescents, and tha.
kind, like medicine, only at proper in
tervals and in right amount. In fact,
so much depends upon the mood and
manner of the visitor that one might
almost advise the patient to observe
the precaution that is affixed to some
prescriptions: "Shake well before TAX
highland Drummer Huddleston, in
Woman's Home Companion.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-04-21
II viii 6e caught p an ref vcted 10Y
] !!'f;$|!|k:4r f;$|!| 4r;;;,;{'=,i,:::':..., = i,::' Z, :. i: !:
ld item YOU wi irdens
resup AstoyN wood,

ter:supl oN stovO wooa, an ocea-
siorlal visit to'a a neighbor.
These and hundreds of other little
things that will not cost much will
make your hcme very different place.
Life ard labor will have different
meaning.
With God and nature, sunshine and
showers to help you, farm life can be
made happy and farm homes attrac-
tive.
Try it. Begin at once. Do not put
il of. BEFORE you put this paper
away decide on something. A Begin
ming once made the rest is sure to fol-
low and will be easy.
How the crowded city people win
be envying you your opportunities
and pleasures before summer is past.
Make the best of all around you and
Heaven will do the rest.-Southern
Cultivator.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-04-21
The New Greens and Psrples.

Water greens are handsome in silk.
ribbon, cloth, cashmere and velvet.
They are known as pastel greens and
are of light, whitish cast. A faded
slightly olive light green is handsome
in cloth, and the clear emerald shade
remains in vogue for trimming gray,
mode or black. Yellow is not favored
this season, neither is . clear white;
ivory and cream white are. Purple
shades are almost too conspicuous to
be popular. The soft tints In violet
are in high favor. The violet shades
are parma, volubilis and iris. Fenelon
is a faded lilac, and = peculiar purplish,
old-rose raspberry tone (Porthos)
forms the second true antique or pastel
shade in dressy cloths, but not in silk
or ribbon. Many of the shades are 70
light in effect that ut night under
strong light they hardly seem to be
anything more than . tint Of . pale.
delicate appearance. - Ladies' Home
Journal.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-04-21
CovINGToN ST. PARISH, SATURDAY.. APRIL 2 1900

wa would otherwise be talking poll.
tics on street corners or around back.
room fires. !
All that is needed 10 first decide -
do it-then go at it.
In few weeks the spring sum and
showers will do. the rest.
Many now iilapidated looking
houses can then be transformed into
scenes of beauty.
Along with this begin talking cheer.
lily and singing merrily. Now and then
whistle happy tune. Everything viii
soon catch your spirit, for such a spir.
it is as contagious Us the measles.
Study mp something to encourages
each of your children and tenants or
employees. \ little patch extra for
fruits or vegetables, dollar or even a
dime given now and then as an encour-
agement will put new springs in dull
muscles and new plans in dull heads.
Scatter sunshine everywhere you %.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-04-21
ONLY ONE TREE IN sQuRAR
FuRnish Shade fer ALI
who Enter.

In Nassau, the capital city Of the
Bahama islands, they say ''the tree in
the public square," not the trees.
Now, the public square of Nassau il
quite al large as that Of most cities
Of the size, but there il only one tree
in it. and that tree literally fills the
square and spreads its shade over all
the public buildings in the neighbor-
hood. For it is the largest tree in the
world at its base, although it is hard.
ly taller than . three-story house. II
Is variously known n . ceiba, or .
silk cotton tree, but the people of the
low islands Of the West Indies call IL
the hurricane tree. For no matter
how hard the wind blows it cannot
disturb the mighty buttressed trunk
Of the ceibs.
In the hurricane Of last spring all
the palms and many Of the other
trees of Nassau were overturned, but
the great hurricane tree, although II
lost all its leaves. did not lose 50 much
~ . branch. Its trunk throws out
great curving, windlike braces, some
Of them 20 feet wide and nearly ~
high. These extend into the ground
ON Ill sides and brace the tree against
al attack, while the great branches
spread . thick shade overhead. In
the tropic sunshine Of midsummer
even Thousands, Of people
may gather in the cool of its shadow.
No one knows how old the great tree
II, but 1t must have been growing
II not Thousands, Of yeaza
-Whshin1tOn Post.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-04-21
what He Called ninself.

First Tourist-Are you not going to
climb this mountain?
Second Tourist-No: it is absolutely
too steep and rough for q donkey to
climb. 20 l shall not try to ascend
Harlem Life.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-04-21

Lobbyist-What did you mean By
refusing 20 vote ON this measure?
Congressman-Ihad forgotten which
way you paid ne to sote.-N. y. Jour.
nal
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-04-21

She was kindly.faced woman and II
WAS easy to see that she was bubbling
over with love for the httle folk. She
walked modestly into the once Of the
city editor and inquired:
"Will you please tell me which one Of
the stan II il that writes Al those prct-
ty little stories about children? /
know he must love the little folks, be-
cause he writes such nice stories about
them. ! want 70 tell him = precious
little story about my darling boy. who
b only
THAT man ossr there" interrupted
the city editor.
(which one. pray?"
That one with the cofneob pipe in
his mouth and sweafing 1t the ONCE
y."-Omah4 WoR1d-Herald.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-04-21
PARIS OF THE FAuDoUR0S :


The people OF the faubOurgH, the
humble folk generally-small traders
and small annuitants. - well ~ work
men-like all the rest Of IN, are the
product of their surroundings. They
are shaped by the private life and by
the public life. by the street. and the
home. These people In Paris owe .
great deal to the public life It CON
descends to their needs for color, va,
riety. movement, in . way universal
among the Latin nations. Out OF
doors is merely their larger home, and
they expect to find adequate provi-
sion there for every kind Of enjoy.
ment. Our own race ten0s to regard
that domain as . mere thoroughfare
between the Workshop and the fire.
side, where all our interests are cen
tered. II il serves that purpose that
is about all we ask Of it., 1t may be
n ugly ~ it likes, and, within Ger.
tain limits Of indulgence, almost n
dirty. To the Frenchman it il mors
than . place Of transit; it il almost
. place Of sojourn.
So the Partisan common man has
his share of the Champs Elysees and
Of the boulevards in his freedom oi
access to their fountains and prone
nades, and their bordering alleys OF
tender green. He comes downstairs
to them, 20 to speak, ~ soon as the
scavengers have done their timely
work. He descends to his thorough
fare n the millionaire expects to de-
scend to his breakfast-room or his
study, with all its appointments fresh
from the broom, and aiming in their
brightness Of metal and glass. So
whatever the gloom Of the domestic
prospect, his street helps him to feel
good. The beauty Of the statuary,
Of the public buildings. il means to
the same end. For nothing the poor.
est Of poor devils may see the glori-
ous bronzes in the terrace garden Of
the Tuileries, the outdoor figures OF
the Luxembourg, the great horses u
the Place de Ia Concorde. the magnifi.
cent compositions Of the Arch. The
very lamp-pos that win light his way
at nightfall serves the purpose of
thing Of beauty MI through the day.
Compare it with the English bar Of
cast iron, hideous to the eye in form
and color, foul with the mudstains Of
years Of trafic. The Frenchman must
have 1t suave and shapely in its lines,
. model Of . good Renaissance orna-
ment in its decorations, bronze in its
material, and washed and polished
every week or 20 to keep It smart
Richard Whiting. in Century.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-04-21

Mrs. Wicks-The committee has re-
quested me to make dozen pies for the
charity bazaar.
Mr.. Wicks-What IL the object Of the
bazar, my dear?
'Toraise funds for the free hospital" !"
'But understand the hoepital IN M.
ready overcrowded."
"Yes, / believe it il"
Then for goodness. sake don't do
nate any Of your pies." Chicago Even
ing News.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-17
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.

To J. w. Oberman, and your heirs and
assigns:
You are hereby notified that I have ex-
pended the sum of one hundred dollars in
labor and improvements, upon the Rack
arock lode mining claim, situat in the
Camp Creek mining district, Silver Bow
county, Montana, in order to hold the
said premises. to-wit: Fifty dollars dur
ing the year 1897 and fifty dollars during
the year 1899. said work being annual
assessment work and being done under
section 1924 revised statutes of the United
States, and for the year ending Deem
Der 31st, 1898, and being your share there
of.
And if within ninety days from the
service of this notice upon you Cor with
in ninety days after this notice by pub
lication) you fail or refuse to contrib
ute your said proportion of the total
amount so expended by me. to-wit: Two
hundred dollars. our portion being the
sum of one hundred dollars, aforesaid, as
co-owne to the extent of one-half of
said expenditure, your interest in said
claim Will become the property of the
subscriber, you co-owner. under a
section 1924 revised statutes of the
United States.
WALLACE M. L. DERNIE.
Dated at Butte, Mont, January 10, 1900.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-17
NOTICE TO

To William Richardson, Charles M.
Buck and Amanda r.. Buck
You are hereby notified hat the Butte
Land and Investment company, your CO.
owner. has, in accordance with section
1924 of the revised statutes of the Unit
ed States, expended in labor and improve"
ments upon the Helen Placer Mining
claim, which is the NJ. e. n Of sec. Is. 4. 2
NJ, r. Z W., Silver Bow county, Montana,
and notice Of location of which record
ed at page 4s9, Book B." Placer Records
of said county, che hundred dollars an
nual representation in the year 1896, one
hundred dollar in the year 1897, n hum
dred dollars in the year 1898, and one hum
bred dollars in the year 1899, a total of
four hundred dollars, and you are hereby
notified that unless you, William Rich
ardson, contribute your proportion,
, twelve dollars and fifty cents ($12. 500 for
a; each of the aforesaid years, a total Of fif-
ty dollars ($50) and you, Charles NJ. Buck,
contribute your proportion, twelve dollars
ard fifty cents ($12.5 500 for each Of the
aforesaid years, n total of fifty dollars
| ($5O) and o Amanda r. Buck, con
tribute you proportion, twelve dollars
| and fifty cents (S12.5O) for each of the
| aforesaid years, a total of fifty dollars
the interest and costs, within ninety days
after the com plete service of this notice
by publication al your right, title and
interest and claim in and to the above
described Helen Placer Mining claim
will become the property of the under
signed, your co-owner, which has per-
formed the work and made the required
expenditures thereon.
BUTTE LAND & INVESTMENT CO.
BY s. v. KEMPER.
It's Attorney in Fact
Butte. Mont, March Q. 1900.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-17
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.

Mining Application No. 1883. U. s. Land
Office, Helena, Montana, March 2Ith,
1900.
Notice is hereby given that John Hele-
han. whose p%ostoffice address is Melrose,
Silver Bow County, Montana, has this
day filed his application for a patent TOR
1880 linear feet, being 100 feet westerly
and 1880 feet easterly from discovery
shaft of the Hibernian Lode Mining
Claim, upon which a notice OF intention
to apply for patent was posted on the
18th day of March. A. D.. 1900. situated
in Little Pine. unorganized. Mining Dis
trict, Silver Bow County, State of Mon
tana. and designated as Survey No. 5S14,
in fractional township 2 south of ang .
| west. and being more particularly des-
cribed as follows, to-wit:
! Beginning at the outhwes corner, a
porphyry stone set in the ground with
mound OF stone alongside, marked 1-5S1a
for corner No. /, from which the north
west corner of township 2 south Of range
3 west bears north y degrees IS minutes
| w, 1924 feet and running thence north 4a
degrees 90 minutes F., 654 feet; thence
south 70 degrees E.. 1880 feet; thence
south 43 degrees 20 minutes w. 654 feet;
thence north 70 degrees W.. 1850 feet to
the place OF beginning, containing an
area of 2O.2 acres claimed by the above
named applicants.
The location Of this claim is of record
In the recorders office of Silver Bow
County, State of Montana. in Book TX
Of Lode Locations at page 3S and III
Book r of lode locations at page 447.
The adjoining claims to these premises
; is the Robert Emmett lode, unsurveyed
John Helehan, claimant, on the south
east.
GEORGE D. GREENE,
Register.
Samuel Barker, Jr., Attorney for ap
plicants.
First publication. March Is. 1900.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-17
ALIAS ms.

In the Justices Courr township of Walk.
eryille. County of Silver Bow, State OF
Montana. before ]. NJ. Lewis. Justice OF
the Peace.
r. F. Fitzmaurice. plaintiff VS.. John
Cadieux. defendant.
The state Montana sends greeting to
John Cadieux defendant above named.
Won are hereby required to appear be-
fore me ]. Nj. Lewis at my office. 43 West
naIv street, in Walkervflle Township.
Count; of silver Bow and State of Mon
tana, on Friday. the 9th day of April. A.
n. 1900. at 2 O'Clock p. M. and answer to
the complaint of plaintiff on file. in an
action to recover Of you the sum OF
twenty EIGHT and 75-100 ($2S.75) dollars. al
a balances due plaintiff for goods wares
and merchandise, sole and delivered to
YOU by the plaintiff at your special In
Stance and request; said amount being
| now due and unpaid.
And you are hereby notified that II you
| fail to appear and answer the said com
| nlaint as above required. judgment will
ha taken against you according to the
COMPLAINT and costs Of this suit.
Given under my hand this 18th day Of
March, A. D., 1900
j. NJ. LEWIS.
Justice Of the Peace.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-17
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
MINING APPLICATION NO ats. UNIT
ed States Land Once. Helena. MOI

MINING APPLICATION NO Ats. UNIT.
ed States Land once, Helena, Mon.
tana, Feb. 18th. 1900.
Notice is hereby given that Alfred N.
Patterson. Joseph l.. F. Gervais, Linz H.
speer. John Lindsay and Francois x.
Giard whose postoflce address il Butte,
Montana, have this day flied an applica-
ton for a patent FOR 1900 linear feet, Of
the Long Pilgrim Lode being foc S6s feet
easterly and 1886 feet westerly. 1881 linear
feet of the Rose Eud Lode being for 686
feet n~ortheasterly and 645 southwesterly
from the point Of discovery on the Long
Pilgrim and Ro2e Bud Mining Claims.
situated in Independence (unorganixed)
Mining District Silver Bow County, Mon
tana, the position. course and extent, OF
the said mining claim. designated by an
official survey thereof, "a Survey Nos.
5So4 and $500 r.. No. 3 N. =. NO. 8 W., a
notice Of which was posted on the claim
on the 22nd day Of January, 1900. and be-
ing more particu;arir SGT .'orth and des.
cribed in the official field notes ard plat
thereof on file in this office. as follows, to-
wit:
Beginning at the 3. W. corner OF the
Long Pilgrim Loda. q granite stone SxSx2O
inches, set Is inches deep. with mound Of
Garth alongside ana marked 1-ESO4 for cor
ner No. J., from which the n Sec. corner
between Secs. 81 and 20. T. 3 N. r. s W.,
bears s.. 81 degrees So minutes w. 3O2 feet
running thence ~. Sc degrees 43 minutes
Il. 1900 feet to corner NO. 2: thence N. 10
degrees 81 minutes W, GIG feet to corner
Mo. 3: thence s. So degrees 43 minutes w.
1900 feet to corner No. I: thence S. 10 de.
grees "a minutes e. SIG feet to corner No.
/ the place OF beginning. containing an
area of 20.64 acres.
Beginning at the s. w. corner OF the
Rose Bud Lode, a granite stone sx1ox2o
inches. set Is inches deep with mound Of
earth and stone alongside. and marked
1.5SO5 for corner No. 1. from which the 4
Sec. corne: between Secs. 81 and %, T. 5
n. r. s W. bears S. 81 degrees 4S min
utes w. 1865 feet; running thence N. Sc
degrees l3 minutes T.. $50 feet to corner
No. Q: thence N. Is degrees 90 minutes E.
GAS feet to corner No. 8: thence N. 10 de-
grees 81 minutes W. 600 feet to corner
No 4; thence S. sc degrees 80 minutes w.
1914 feet to corner No. s: thence s. 10 de-
grees 81 minutes 2. GIG feet to corner No.
/ to the place of beginning. containing an
area of 1865 acres. Total area OF these
surveys claimed. 1923 acres.
The location OF this mine Is recorded in
the office OF the Recorder Of Silver Bow
County. on pages ~ and III in Books @
and G Of Lodes. There are no adjoining
GEORGE D. GREENE.
Register.
JOS. H. HARPER
u. 5. Claim Agent.
rst Publication Feb. is. 1900.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-17
, NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.

- "a
MINING APPLICATION NO. AIS u. 4.
Land Office, Helena, Montana, Feb. IA,
1900.
Notice is hereby given that James
Welch, whose pOstOffice address is Butte,
Montana. has this day filed his applica-
ton for a patent for 159. 81 acres of the
Welch Placer Mining claim, upon which
a notlce or intention to apply for a pat
n was posted on the 18th day of Janu-
airy, A. D. 1900. situated in an inorganic
ed mining district, jefferson county
state of Montana, designated as Survey
NO. $500. in unsurveyed r. 9, N. of r. 6
W. and being more particularly describ-
ed as follows, Notwithstanding at the
N. r.. corner a granite stone set in the
ground, witnessed by bearing rocks, and
marked 1850 for corner No. /, and from
which U. S. location monument Nc. $500.
L. 2 N, r. 6 W., bears s.. Is degrees 10
minutes w. SOL feet, n running thence
>. 81 degrees 03 minutes w. 400 feet,
thence S. 70 degrees q minutes w. 1898
rect, thence N. SO degrees OF minutes w.
1884 feet, thence N. 6 degrees As minutes
w. LIPS feet, thence N. 81 degrees 03 min
utes b.. 800 feet, thence s. SO degrees OF
minutes F.. 4,93O feet, to the place of be-
ginning. containing an area of 1884, 81 acres
claimed by the above named applicant.
The certificate of location of this claim
is of record in the office of the recorder
OF Jefferson county, state of Montana, in
book en- of placers on page ia.
The adjoining claims to premises are
unknown.
GEORGE D. GREENE.
Register.
SAMUEL BARKER, JR.,
Attorney for Applicant.
First publication, February 16, 1900.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-17
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

Estate of Joseph Grant deceased.
Notice is hereby given by the under.
signed administrator of the estate or
Joseph Grant deceased, to the creditors
of and all persons having claims against
the said deceased, to exhibit them, with
the necessary vouchers. within four
months after the first publication of this
notice to the said administrator at the
offices of Mediation & Cotter. rooms
51S-522 Hennessy building. Butte City.
Montana, the same being the place for
the transaction of the business of said es-
tate, in the County of Silver Bow. State
Of Montana.
THOMAS GRANT,
| Administrator of the estate of Joseph
Grant, deceased.
Dated Butte, Montana, this 18th a OF
April. 1900.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-17
REWARD.

The undersigned will pay the sum Of
twenty-five hundred dollars ($2, 500) to
any person or persons furnishing the I'M
dersigned with information which will
lead to the detection and conviction of
n person or persons or corporations,
who have heretofore or may hereafter
trespass upon and extract and remove
ores Or minerals from any of the under
ground workings beneath the surface of
those portions of the Michael Dewitt lode
claim, which are included within injunc-
lions issued by the state or United States
court of Montana.
BUTTE AND BOSTON CONSOLIDATE
ED MINING COMPANY.
By c. s. Batterman, Asst Supt.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-17

brides sister, Mrs. Bert Selway, about
two miles from this city. At 8 o'clock
the happy pair took their positions IN
the parlor, and having plighted troth
in the presence of the relatives OF the
contracting parties, Rev. r. p. Smith OF
the M. e. church pronounced the words
which made them man and wife. After
the usual congratulations :he guests par
took of an elegant ppc Bearing les-
timony to the high esteem IN which Mr..
and Mrs. Arntz are l:!l were the in
Vulnerable and costly presents given
them by their friends. The happy couple
is now comfortably located in II OF
the Morse & Stone cottages on Washing
ton street.