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The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1881-04-26

The Cosmopolitan, publishtd by DR.. Horace
P. Porter, at Claremont, Mimi; in reply to some
neighbor's criticism on its advfcacy of immigra-
ton to Florida. spicily says:
To begin, you are probably aisare that twenty
i've per cent of the farms Of this county are
hopelessly mOrtgaged, and that they are one BY
one falling inte the hands Of parties who viii be
compelled to rent them out To Tenn, Dick and
Harry, and in your elongated business career you
have found what kind Of customers Tom, Dick
and Harry made as compared TO those who are
able to own, keep and control. their own farms.
How would it dc for you and ypur colleagues to
organize an immigration societf that should have
for its object the importation o. well-to-do farm
er's sons from the older and kealihier States,
bringing with them capital to buy these heavily
mortgaged farms at q fair price, that Would
leave little margin to the present owners to
get away with after first paying you that little
bill that has been 90 long over siue?
But after these men have said out their lands,
goods and chattels, and paid yoa and others their
just dues, and have made Up their minds to emf
CRATE, the Cosmopolitan viii take the liberty,
without your consent, Of adviing them to 20
South there are millions of acIess Of productive
lands in healthy locations in thu Southern States
that can be bought cheap. NoFthefn muscle and
brain win he welcomed to dsvelop them, and
We advise poor men and poef women, Who are
seeking for new homes, to set tleir faces towards
tLH no0AA-~Ay sun. ~ - . t4Ltlu1G tntu& ID 10
West and freeze to death =
The cry Of blsody shirt hah about played cut
1t has been too long in use fin the purpose Of
keeping the Republican in power, and prevent
ing the development Of the SOUTH there have
been isolated instances Of law1sssness, bat The
whole country should not BE Judged by them.
Whisky makes one man kin aiiother in Kasson.
or two men fight in Montorville, bot We do not
charge it up to Dodge county. The railroads
ana big manufacturing monofelies hare ct the
North control, when they wish to, the votes Of
their white slaves. But with sil Of that there i
some liberty lelf in the land. Ind 70 get around
once more to home matteEs, II you are we'll
hxsd here in Dodge county, II your health ID
good, the health Of your wife end ehfldren i all
that yoa could desire, stay hste by an means-
But Il you are one Of the grslt army sf brave
and restless ones hat are dissalis6ed, and deter
mined to make change, couhe int The RTotto
Of the Cosmepodtss man, and let % CO The bean
ties Of the magnolia blossoms In ytur ear. and
tell you Of the mocking bird that b singing far
away from the Sioux Indiau's natural birth
right, and We win reverently Iny our hands on
your head and bid yea: stse South, voaae
mango 70 Florida
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1881-04-26

"A fashionable dresszaaker halls the C5ncia-
natl Eaqx1sr that the chief trouble with the
women's forms 3 their irregalssity. sThs num-
bar whose tive sides do not esffsspend is Won
derfal ssmetimas ons shoalasr b higher than
the Other, sometimss ons hip b bigger, and
sometimes the figure i swrY. W@an's drssa,
in this era Of clinging garmsnfh reveals every
imperfection, unlen artcom@ ID natursis help"
Pads are oflen sufacient 10 prpduee ymmstEy,
according 70 this expert, but flOoplng b soms-
thing that the drsmuaken eaznot remedy. att
ia commsn de1sct h Americas girls." - myA
Round backs nzs dislFssuiaglg numesous. and
what en- wede or thsmf NSsking e an.
ssei sonetines He puiting thsh asoak, and thss
strAppinx them nat on hoard papooD hahion,
In ths hopa ef sszagthenins fhan- R4ssnB
ought = sosk shAzp sfw DIR Nslls gtb b this
particular, md put braess O ujsm u neesaaary' =
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1881-04-26

-srAar inch in space; - squares make a col
- Ass,'i sements inserted less than one month, 81
- s,-s-~ frst and - cents for each subsequent
sis~- -.useui- rnaccompanied by the CASH will not
-.-...~ a--eut'"n-
O. zee rlau-y enclosed does not cover the number Of
.- ,- --sc-rd il will be inserted less number Of
--. .--1i-rf- not marked with the number OF times
- . .s-.-r-c nuti forbid. and charged accordingly
. .- we cupie. only of the paper will be sent to
-.-.-- r. a special agreement TO the contrary
-trrrrci sd,ertisers whose amount of space and
I. 81 -i, axed by above rates, will be required
Advertising strictly to their own business
------ -fe-s,-e ripuiaied.
i---a-~ e-ceetins fonr lines will be charged same
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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1881-08-27

Then the aummer mornings we're
full of singing birds, always waiting
outside our windows to help as be-
gin The day with happiness. Then
flowers we're born as If to accom-
pany the birds in their benevolent
mission. Then all our dreams were
pleasant inaginings and Arabian
Nights Entertainments, visions Of
untroubled JOY. Then June was the
longest and loreliest month in the
calendar. Then we were never de-
pressed by bad weather. Then
personal rheumatism was unknown
to as. Then insomnia had not been
and we were not obliged
to draw upon the druggist Tor vials
Of sleep. Then all was gold that
gslistened Then iue leere young,-
james T. Field.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1881-08-27
HOW TO EAT A WATERMELON

Instruction in eating watermelon.
is given by the Baltimore American.
which should be good authority, az
it is published in the melon region.
The hotel plan of cutting water
melon like tulip, and putting q
lump OF ice in it. is condemned. be-
cause ice should never touch the
pulp: but q burial of the uncut
melon in ice fer two days is wise.
Then cut lengthwise and eat be-
tween meals. People deal unjust
ly with this fruit sometimes by eat
ing hearty dinner FIRST, and then
topping off with a melon, and then
if a moral earthquake sets up in the
iaterior they charge it to the melon.
The watermelon was intended as
an episode-an interlude-a ro-
nance without words-a nocturne
in green and red-not intend
ed to be mingled with bacon and
and greens. It's indulgence leaves
a certain epigastral expansion. but
this is painless and evanescent.
The remedy is to loosen the waist
band, and-take another slice."s
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1881-08-27
A GOOD JOKE ON A LAWYER

An honest German laborer a day
or so ego WAS passing along the
street, when a small dog rushed ont
of yard and bit him on the leg.
tearing his pants ami leaving the
print of his teeth in the calf. The
man hastened to a lawyers office
and asked the barrister if he'd agree
to take the ease aid made PROPOSE
tions for filing a suit of 5000 dam
ages, alleging that the dog was
a feroeious animal and the plaintiffs $
flesh was terribly lacerated. necessi-
tating the expenditure of large sums
OF money for medical attendance
and for a new pair of pants. The
client was directed to go to the
owner of the dog next day, make
demand of $1,000, and ascertain the
name of the defendant He call
ed at the house next day and asked
for the "boss.' He was somewhat
surprised when the lawyer present
ed himself as the owner of the little
dog. The lawyer was no less sur
prisef to learn that his black and
tan was the cause of the trouble,
and he informed the client that a
suit would not be maintained, as
the injury done was a mere trifle
and the dog was only in fun. The
result of the conferences was that
the lawyer gave the client 66c tol
pay for patching his pants, and took
a receipt in full satisfaction of all
claims for damages. Both parties
were spared the trouble of trying |
a vexahous and costly damag e |
suit.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1881-08-27

to him"
"What are your terns?-good
heavens. the roof has fallen in!"
"Eo, it hasn't; that's a college
professor. and that's the way he goes
down stairs. If you listen you may
hear him break his neck! Can you
give any references Anybody
know you?"
Certainly; if Twas that gunf"
Il guess SO. lily cousin has got
n prairie down stairs where he hunts
Indians and butfaloes and things.
Sometimes he's road agent, and
then he robs us on the stairs.
We always allow for it in the
board, so it evens up. Got any
money of your own2"
"Never mind whether / have or
not; I don't think ] want a room
here, anyway Let me out please"
Couldn't let you haEe cne any
how" retorsed Miss, preparing to
slide down the balustrade "There's
only one empty one. and that's too
high-priced for you; besides, you
don't wear very good clothes, and
we prefer not 20 have Eeu around"
And down the slide she went with
II whiz-z, while the old lady battered
off after another home-Ike house.
Brooklyn Eagle.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1881-08-27
QUIET BOARDING-HOUSE

Il have come in answer to your
advertisement for board" said 9
nervous old lady to . pert miss oI
l3, as the latter showed her into q
parlor of all the comfurts of a home
establishment on Henry street.
'.But won't come here unless your
house is perfectly quiet. now re-
member that"
"Quiet! well. you may smile." re-
piled Miss. THAT noise you here
now is the dentist in the basement
pulling out tooth. but he'll get it
out. if it takes him a month. How
much can you afford to pay?"
u think I hear some one up
stairs shouting" said the old lady.
That's only q young lawyer
practicing case. You'll get used
to him. Nobody liked it at first,
but we've all got used to it and
don't mind it now. Got any chill
dren? We don't take children, be-
cause our babies tight 'em SO"
mo, Ihavent. Who's that yell
ing in the mex. room?"
That's the landlord trying to
collect the rent. You know pa is
very deaf and you've got to howl at
him. You'll have to pay in adj
vance if you come here"
Good graciousi What's that ?"
ejaculated the old lady, as furious
din swept through the lower
regions.
Il guess the cook ia driving
grandma out of the kitchen with
the clo,hespole. She oftens does
that. Hav. you got much baggage9"
"Sakes alive! Somebody is be-
ing murdered up-stairsl Who il
it?"
"Oh that's literary fellow on
the top floor. Whenever he writes
he squeals like pig. But
be generally writes at night. and
you needn't pay any attention to
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1881-08-27

sion without a tremor.
Bless your Mmid soul, non-pay-
ing Subscriber. the ether end of the
world is nothing, # you only shape
this end as near right as you know
how.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1881-08-27
BAD BOYS AND GOOD OLD
MEN.

aAny chesnuts round here?" ask.
ed one of three boys who met ar
aged, benevolelk looking farme,
ont in Montgomery county. The
old mar hesitated.
"You don't want to steal ,em 2
he asked
"Oh, no! We just want to find
out" said the hoys.
"Well, there's a few trees back
there; but if ! thought you wanted
to steal them I wouldn't have told,
for ths owner Las gone to town.
But you are bright, honest looking
boys"
The boys blushed with the pride
of conscious goodness.
"When will the owner be back9"
they asked
"Well. said the old man II don't
exactly know. but not before dark,
I reckon"
The boys respectfully thanked
the old man, waited until he got
cut of sight. jumped over the fence,
and we're soon shaking down the
burrs.
The shaking vas easy; but the
opening of the chesnut burrs was
more difficult and unpleasant. At
last the boys he'd q splendid pile of
handsome brown nuts on the ground
and they prepared to put them in
the bags they brought with them.
"Pleass don't take any more
trouble" said the beneyolent old
man. who stood by the fence beam
ing kindly on the startled boys. Il
am not 70 strong as I once was, and
! fear I can't hold in this dog much
longer. If you hurry. though. I
think ] can keep him here till you
get to the Railroad track. Down,
Tiee. sir"
As the boys looked back from the
railroad fence they could see the
STOPPING figure Of the old man
scooping the rich. brown chesnuts
into a tvo-bashel bag Hartford
CourGlk.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1881-08-27

A little girl. the other day. told
the school-mistress there Was sick
ness in her house, and WAS sens
home to learn the name of the dis
ease. Next morning after roll l-call.
she bashfully advanced and said:
"Please Miss, ma says we have u h,-
tie baby at our house. but yGu
needn't be afraid, for i. amt caich-
ing"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1881-08-27

The price Of wheat is IS per cent
higher than it WAS year ago. and
the aggregate crop will be about Is
DER cent less in amount SO the
farmers win receive as much for, the
crop Is they did then. p
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1881-08-27

Reeds Gilt Edge Tonic restores
the appetite.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1881-08-27

Reeds Gilt Edge Tonic anrss
Fever h Agne.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-03-23
A Curious Custom in Syria,

In Syria people never take off their
caps or turbans when entering house
or visiting friend, but they always
leave their shoes at the door. The
reason is that their floors are covered
with clean mats and rugs, and in the
Moslem houses the men kneel on the
rugs to pray, and press their foreheads
to the floor, so that it would not be de-
cent or respe ctful to walk in with dirty
shoes and soil the SHADY on which they
kneel to pray. They have no foot-mat
or scrapers, and it is much simpler and
cheaper to leave the shoes, dirt and all,
at the door. It is very curious to 90 to
the Syrian school-houses and see the
piles of shoes at the door. There are
new, bright red shoes, and old, battered
shoes, and kob-kobs, and black shoes,
and sometimes yellow shoes. The kob-
kobs are wooden clogs, made to raise
the feet out of the mud and water,
having a little strap over the toe to
keep it on the foot. You will often see
little boys and girls running down steps
and paved streets on these dangerous
kob,kobs. Sometimes they slip, and
then down they go on their noses, kob-
kobs fly off and go rattling over the
stones, and little Ali or Yusef, or what.
ever his name is, begins to shout: "Ya
imme! va imne!' ('Oh, my mother!'1,
and cries just like the little children
in other countries. But the funniest
part is to see the boys when they come
out of school and try to find their shoes.
There will be fifty boys, and, of course,
a hundred shoes, all mixed together In
one pile. When school is out the boys
make rush for the door. Then comes
the tug of war. A dozen boys are
standing and shutting on the pile of
shoes, looking down, kicking away the
other shoes, running their toes into
their own, stumbling over the kob-
kobs, and then making a dash to get
out of the crowd. Sometimes shins
will be kicked and hair pulled, and tar
booshes thrown off, and great scream.
ing follow, which will only cease when
the teacher comes with ''Asia," or
stick, and quells the riot. That pile of
shoes will have to answer for q good
many schoolboy fights, and bruised
noses and hard feelings in Syria. You
will wonder how they can telltheir own
shoes. So do l. And the boys often
wear off each others shoes by mistake
or on purpose, and then you will see
Selim running with one shoe on and one
of 1brahim's in his hand, shouting and
cursing Ibrahim's father and grand
father until he gets back his lost prop
erty.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-03-23
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

The colored people of Boston arc
forming Congregational Church.
The late Mrs. Lydia Maria Child
bequcathed $4,000 to Hampton Insti-
tute.
There are 1,O37 students in attend
ance at the various schools and depart
ments of Yale College.
There is said to be church accom-
mediation in London for only one-fourth
OF the population, yet there are many
vacant pews every Sunday.
The Shaw University, at Raleigh,
N. c., one Of the Northern Baptist
schools for freedmen, has sent out more
than 1000 teachers among the colored
people. 1t has now 275 pupils.
The Southern Baptist Mission So
cietV has contracted for the erection of
nine spacious buildings at a point with
in the Choctaw lines, sixty miles south
west of Muscogee.
There arc at present in South Caro-
lima twelve colleges, two professional
schools, three industrial tras.4ing
schools. eighty one private academies:
1iitv-nine public academies, three even
ing elementary schools. 208 private ele-
mentary schools, and 1888 public
schools.
The law of California provides that
the same pay shall be given for similar
work, whether done by men or women;
and, as consequence, the women
vice-principals in the San Francisco
schools receive as much pay as the male
yice-principals. 1t is SAID by the Alta
that proposition is under considera-
ton to give the title Of MASTER to
male vice-principals, and thus enable
them to draw higher pay.
The new arrangements of the
Louisiana State University provide for
classical and scientific course of FIVE
years each, including one year of pre-
paratory teaching; also for an agricult--
ural' and mechanical course Of three
years each, including similar prepara-
ton. A plan for a training ship for
nautical Instructions mentioned in con-
nection with the University.
The last general educational report
shows that Massachusetts, of all the
States, has the highest percentage of
population of school age enrolled in the
schools, and also the largest average
daily attendance. Massachusetts also
shows the greatest difference in the
salaries given to male and female
teachers. The former receive $50.
the latter $33.O4
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-03-23
Practical Education.

1t is great mistake to presume that
the school-house is the only important
factor in the practical education of the
masses. The gifts which men have do
not come from schools. The boy forced
to attend school, with no dominant
purpose of his own, with no ambition
to learn, becomes mere machine. He
may become receptacle of other mems
ideas, but unless his own originality,
his own thinking capacity, is stimulated
to action, his education is superficial
and theoretical. Sef-made men-those
WHO move the world-are commonly
these who, first recognizing the value
of knowledge, have comprised every
means within their reach to attain it.
10 such men schools might be bless
ing; but more important than the
schoolhouse is the disposition to de-
velop the latent individual capacity, to
work out the power within us, to make
ourselves wiser, better and more use
full.
The lathe may polish iron and steel,
but does not create them. Education
increases mans powers, widens his
capacity, broadens his judgment. yet
no college can make a wise man of a
fool. Education develops, presents
greater opportunity, but It cannot de-
velop in man that which was not
crested in him at the start. Wealthy
people often err in educating their
~ y
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-03-23

children. deen,ing the Possession vt
snowy qualifications OF more impor-
lance tiIsl the full dcvs't pn4eut OF TIE
individual. A student is sure to he
improved through educational fa,ili-
tiles, when his own self respect, his
own desire for advancement, once
awakens his individual thought I'd re-
search Boys should learn ILst winch
IS most important for their life work.
that which will be most useful whe,,
tney grow to manhood. They should
he s;ouraged in the expectancy of
fine, easy situations simply because
1hey have passed 80 many years in
school. In this busy, utilitarian age,
they will pass for what they can actu-
ally perform, they will he estimated at
what they know, not by the number of
books they have studied.
Practical education is within the reach
OF any person who really determines to
observe, listen, think, reflect. Every
man has it within his power to know
more this year than last, to acquire in
creased strength day by day tor Crap
ping with life's knotty problems. A
person who will think for himself. who
~ WY OpPOi tOil4ty dS IL Is
presented, who will occupy the spare
moments in earnest endeavors at adj
vancement, will soon take rank with
those scholars who are mere book
worms, and whose heads are full of
other mems thoughts without the ca
pacity to digest or utilize them. No
one should be discouraged in the mat
ter of education who was not favored
in his youth by superior facilities.
Many an able man. at present welding
a power in the land, did not wake up to
the possibilities OF self-culture until late
m life. Strong common sense is of
vastly more Importance and value than
simple knowledge with no capacity for
Its utilization. Every village and town
has striking examples of wise and sue
cessful men who have truly educated
themselves, men who have taken the
world as teacher, treasuring up its
lessons for future guidance. -Erchanqe.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-03-23
How a Missionary Lost q Wife.

George Bovard is the name of young
Methodist minister who attended the
annual Conference of the NJ. E. Church
at Mercer a couple of years ago. While
there he and a young lady teacher of
the Soldiers Orphan School, located in
Mercer, fell in love with each other.
Her name was Clara Shaffer. He was
about to start for India to Christianize
the heather. A correspondence was
kept up between the two, and he want
ed her to come to him and be married,
and assist him in his labors. He had
no money to pay her expenses, and she
had none. In this emergency, a few
months ago, she made confidant of
'Dick'' Wright, heavy clothing
merchant of Mercer, and he being q
big-hearted man with generous I'M
pulses, offered to supply her with what
money she needed to reach her far-off
lover. She gladly accepted his offer,
and at once began her preparations for
the long journey. s'Dick'' and Miss
Shaffer were thrown much together
for a while, and about the time she was
ready to start he was deeply in love
with her himself. But he said nothing,
and she started for New York with
enough of "Dick's'' money in her
pocket to take her to India.
Two or three days after her depart
ure he grew respondent, and chided
himself for having given away his
chance for marrying Miss Shaffer him
self. A thought struck him, and that
was to follow her, and; if possible, over
take her before she boarded steamer
in New York for distant India. He
acted promptly on the thought. took
the cars, reached New York and found
the vessel on which she was to sail.
Miss Shaffer was already on board; he
made known his affection, asked her
for her hand for himself, was accepted,
and the tworeturned to Mercer q few
days ago as man and wife.
The outcome is little rough on the
young minister who is wrestling with
superstition and idolatry in the junglos.
Of India. Rsttsbu-gA Commercial. ].
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-03-23
THE COAL-HOLE TOP.
A CITY LYRIC.

CITY LYRIC.
How doth the little coaEhole top
Its slipperincss disguise,
And feet on bOOtiesS crrands send
30 often to the skies!
The little schoolgirl steps on it
With M el:;sti gait;
But ere she c:n step or again
She Sits upon her slate.
The little boy, with pail of milk,
Trends on it ''jnsi in play,
he sees some stars. The p.isseTs-by
Gaze on tue "Inliiky way
The belle. with rich nbcIiiSh!nent.
Comes UP with minc,ny tread.
Her shoes Arn made OF be It french xii:
her stockings checked with rcd.
The big policeman, proud. erect,
Wnh gum shoes on bis feet,
DisEuises it with confidence,
How quick he's or his beat!
The gr,;nger with his c;,w!iic boots;
BY thunder! Did you see
How spry that little iron thing
Got out flOm under me!'
No matter what the size Of feet,
Nor with what they are shod,
The coal-hole top has never yet
With uprightness been tod.
:-....sx Albany Ary,ls
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-03-23

Water filtered through charcoal be-
comes perfectly pure,
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-03-23

THERE is in Boston an organization
for the relief of the poor named the
$ Stonewall jackson Association aft
er the Confederate chieftain.