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The Osceola times., 1883-09-15

been showed up in the newspapers a
dozen times. Didn't you read about
b,m2"
a don't read newspapers groaned
the minister.
"Then YOU can't blame nobody but
yourself Every man, these days, Is sup
posed TO read newspapers"
81 take religious paper, but 1t never
told me anything but to have faith"
"Yes, an that's'jes' where you got left
In this day, lemme tell you a mans got
TO look out for his body as well as his
soul. The newspapers don't pretend to
save the SOUL" continued the wagon
yard philosopher, "and the religious pa
pers don't pretend to lookout for the
body. so. YOU gee, a u.an oughter take
both"
The old man happened to think of the
Rev. Mr. Mulkittle, and inquiring the
way, he directed his steps toward the
city minister's house. He was warmly
received, and the story of his misfortune
was listened to with sympathetic atten-
ton. In the evening after the kind
Mulkittle had loaned the brother TWEEN.
ty dollars and prayed a few times with
the old man declared that he felt might
lily hope up
When bed time came, the old man
started up to room which had been
previously shown him. On the stairs
he met the boy VINO had been kept away
from the old man and who, his pcrents
thought was in bed and aslce,.
"Are you'g 'goin' to bed?" the BOY asked.
"Yes, my little man. Where have
you been ali this timer"
ave been around all the time. May
/ go up to your room with your"
TOO by shore; come on"
The old man lighted his pipe and sat
on The side of the bed. The boy sat on
trunk watching him. do you preach
in this town." he asked.
"No, thank the Lord,' the old man
replied. 90,
"Becansc | wouldn't preach to such
people. | want nothing to do with such
vile sinners"
"But the Bible says you must preach
to sinners If the people was already
good they wouldn't need prcachin' to
Did the people IN this town treat you
bad?"
"Yes, shameful, and | wish ! had
some of 'em by the neck II Jonah had
been sent to town Ike this wouldn't
have blamed him for running away. A
man to-day cheated me out Of twenty
dollars, and if had hold of him now I'd
maui him tlll he couldn't stand up"
"Would that be returning good fol
cvil?"
at would be returnin' good beatin
for an evil act, that's what il would"
"If you had been in Jobs fix you'del
cussed God an died, wouldn't your"
mo, wouldn't"
"But you'der got mao? You'er mad
now cause man cheated you outcn
twenty dollars, an that amt half as bad
as to be covered all over with boils, is
it"
No, reckon not" and the old fellow
put aside his pipe and began to draw of
his clothes.
"Then why are you mad now?"
"My little man, | want to 60 to sleep
now."
"But want you to tell me-"
81 shall not do anything of the kind,
and he stretched himself upon the bed
''Did you ever have boils on you?"
"Yes."
"Did you have as many a. Job?"
"No."
"How many did Job haye?"
81 don't know"
'Then how do you know you didn't
have as many"
The old man sprang from the bed
rushed to the door and yelled.
'Oh, Mulkittlel"
"Yes;" came from below.
"Here, take back your twenty dollars
and make this blamed boy 90 down
from here"
The Osceola times., 1883-09-15

is of your sort-won't get old. He will
start out now with his pouch and ham
mer and walk for miles looking up geol-
ogical specimens. His headquarters are
in Library hall, in Louisville, Ky. He
has some Of tina rarest specimens in the
world in his collection. i
send you his letter TO me. Please do
not lose il, prize it highly"
The Osceola times., 1883-09-15
CONFESSIONS OF A GAMBLER.
Methods OF Protecting the Bank and OF
Fieecing Innocent Players.
Pittsburgh Commercial Gazette

Pittsburgh Commercial Gazette.
"What are the chances against player
in square game of faro?" the reporter
asked of an old gambler who stood on
Smith field street lamenting the restric
tions that were placed on his buziness
by the Pittsburgh police.
against sucker-a producer you
mean ?" inquired the gambler.
n mean the clerk or merchant that
drops in to tackle the game" said the
reporter.
"Well, that's what We call the 'produ-
cer,'" the sport explained, and then
went on. That's the class that produ-
ces the wealth that makes gambling a
business, II is the producers money
that keeps the game going. The chan
ces he has of winning, with nothing
against him, and If he hasn't got a sys-
tenn, and isn't betting high, are about
one out of two, or, maybe, two out of
three or in three out of five plays against
the bank, and no matter how often he
wins he is sure to be dead loser in the
end. II he plays big and has q system the
doaler sooa Gs(s On 70 Il. II no IL struck
. = - - plsys 'thzss on dde,' or
= - - 1sth - aqninst he
The Osceola times., 1883-09-15
WASHINGT0N'S MOTHER.
An Occasion Upon Which Minister Lowell
Declared That She Was n Boy.


Minister Lowell, in his recent address
to the boys OF Dulwich college, England,
said: 81 shall not emulate the enthusi-
asm of gentleman whom | once heard
addressing an assembly of children at a
school festival in my native town. A
lunch had been provided-one of those
combinations of cake and lemonade
quite MS sure to be the parent of indi-
gestion as the boy to be the father of the
man. The benches were extemporiza-
tions of rather slender stri ps of board and
in the middle of one of these stood the
orator. He was stoutish man and
there was so much of the boy left in me
that as he rose upon his toes, and
brought down the whole weight of his
body upon his heels to mark the more
impassioned sentences, | expected-shall
{ venture to say hoped?-that his plat
form would give way under him in a
conclusive crash. He was dilating on
the remarkable fact that childhood
was period of life through which we
were all of us called on to pass sooner or
later, and, addressing himself especially
TO the boys, he melted them to well-do-
ing by reminding them that many fam
ous persons, and especially Washington,
had once been boys. This he dwelt on
at some length, and then suddenly re-
membering that there were children of
the other sex among his audience, he
held mp TO them an example of eminent
women who had begun life by being
girls like themselves, Unable, however,
TO get his tongue cut of the groove in
which it had been running, he conclud-
ed with this startling announcement ::
Yes, my young friends, never forget
that the mother Of Washington was a
bow"
The Osceola times., 1883-09-15

the shore, and ! always find a number
of lovers sitting or walking in the most
afiectioDate positions away from the
crowd. Sometimes the remarks hear
sound very spooney, and sometimes they
prove to me that the mothers had better
be looking after their daughters
The Osceola times., 1883-09-15

In New York there were Is toy pistol
accidents last year, of which Is proved
fatal in Massa saaluse,ts, 80, of which 20
produced death in Pennsylvania, l2. OF
whi''h 10 proved .a.al in Connecticut, ~
OF which were fatal in Rhode Island,
4. OF Which 3 We're fatal ; in Maine, @, oi
which . were fatal: and in Chicago, ~,
of which i9prJvoa fatal.-Chicago Her
aid.
The Osceola times., 1883-09-15

Avoid flue ventilation of every sort !;
let the fresh air come in as direct as pos
sible. Night air is the only air you can
have at night so do not fear II. Dread
foul, because tainted, air manufactured
within the rooms. Any outside air is bet
ter than lung and skin tainted inside
air.
The Osceola times., 1883-09-15

YES" said the reporter, Il always
carry my copy in my hat" Il see," re-
piled F0N; news in q nutshell"
The Osceola times., 1883-06-30
FACTS ABOUT FOREIGNERS.

President Grevy's salary is S240,OOO a
year. Louis Napoleon, whcn emperor,
received a yearly allowance ofS5,WOUo
Honolulu advices state that the large
Chinese immigration is the absorbing
question. At the rate the Chinese are
now arriving they will soon outnumber
the natives. Meetings of protest are con-
stantly being held.
At the meeting of the Salvation Army
i'm Exeter. Eng, fortnight ago, Gen.
Booth reported 4,49l corps and an in
come of el2l 600. At the close of the
meeting it was announced that flO,OOO
had been collected during the day, in
cludirg some gifts of 81 600 each.
There is an island somewhere to the
east of Sardinia to be bought, all except
the port. which is the property of King
Humbert. The rest is for sale, the price
being $4,000, and the purchaser will be
permitted, if it suits his caprice, to as
sumo the name, style and title of king.
Paris has 2.226, 900 inhabitants, has %
theatres, 6 music halls, and 3 circuses;
Vienna, for ,204 900 inhabitants, has Z
| theatres, circus, and music halls;
Berlin, with 100000 inhabitants, has Is
theaters, circus and music halls.
According to the new army list, the
Spanish infantry numbers 90 regiments.
the disciplinary regiment of Conta, and
the 20 battalions of rifles, disciplinary
battery of Melilla, l40 reserve battalions
40 depot battallions, and / battalion OF
orderlies and writers.
Chinese labor is about to be introduc
ed into Brazil; 10000 indentured labor
ers aIe to be landed at Rio Janeiro, at 8
cost of a little over e2 head. They
will be paid I'D. day, out of which
they will have to provide their own food
The ultimate importation into Brazil o
100000 to 100000 Chinese is anticipated
In the English army shoe stores scru
pulous attention is shown to shape anC
make in conformity with high surgica
authority. The inner line of the boot il
made straight, so that the great toe il
not pushed outward dude fashion.
shoemaker usually measures his custom
er's foot when he is seated, and thu
fails to allow adequately for expansion
The safe plan is to stand up and hav'
the outline drawn on paper with a pen
ell. The British soldiers boots arr
made wide in the tread and low heeled
One-half of the - prominent Irinrc'
and generals upon whom the Emperor
William Of Germany conferred the ranl
Of t!eld-marshal general in 1928 ar,
dead, viz: Won Steinmetz, Count Room
Count Wnngel (who, however, received
the title as long ago as 1856, Prince
Frederick OF the Netherlands, Prince
Charles of Prussia, and the Grand Duk'
of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. Those wh'
survive are the crown prince, Prince
Frederick Charles, Count Moltke, Prince
August of Wurtemburg, Baron Won Man
teuffel and Gen. Herwarth von Bitten
field.
The Osceola times., 1883-06-30
Clara Morris In stuffed slippers.

Cincinnati Enquirer.
She told me in a highly-spirited way
about her first adventure in Shakspearean
drama:
when | was child they gave me in
the Cleveland theatre a speech TO make,
twenty or thirty lines, in Anthony and
Cleopatra think Oh, | was frightened.
Ii began or contained somewhere, the
word 'vouchsafe,' How wrestled with
that hard verdi | suppose was fifteen
years old. Said |: 81 have no dress TO play
that great part Never mind said the
chief supernumerary ! will give YOU
my sandals to wear. Take courage, little
thingp So he brought me the sandals.
Big enough for negro minstrel. They
looked like two bceves tongues all length
and moldy, too. was so proud and lost
in them that Goody Two Shoes was not
so wonderful. But the matter was how
to keep them on. So | filed them with
paper, and my foot in there looked like
CHINA slipper of sevrcs sent home in a
long box of shavings lest il might get
fractured. Then | bought five yards of
muslin, at six cents yard. and yard of
red something 10 trim it, and made me
a toga or robe. All the while the play
was going on | was walking in this
gorgeous attire at the back of the stage.
saying over my hard lines: 'Vouchsafe,
vouchsafe ouchsale'-etcetera. SO when
was called. | had tot fly suddenly from
the rear of the stage in front. As came
travelling on my nerves, the paper stuiling
began to fly. | knelt, and broad grin
extended all over that stage, saw them
shaking with laughter everywhere.
The trasedian, covering his mouth with
his hand and laboring with its corners,
whispered Don't cry, my little bravep
why said !, what isitY looked back
at my sandals as ! knelt, and it said on
my ankle, in letters an inch high: The
Cleveland Ileraldp"
The Osceola times., 1883-06-30
Errors of speech.

There are four words in the English
language, in the use of which, we will
venture to say, half of the readers ofthis
paper make mistakes every day in the
year. Thus they must be common words
and it surely would be well to know
how to employ them Alright
They are common words and they are
simple also-only three letters each, and
yet we have known men who were in
college, and not only did not use then
correctly, but could not have done SC
had their lives depended on the test.
The four words are '1ay," '1ie." "set'
and "sit" Stumbling blocks over which
nine-tenths of English speaking people
fall; and yet in one short lesson Of L
minutes, you may learn SO much of then
that you VIII never make mistake
again except by carelessness. First
commit the principal parts of each verb
which are as follows:
The Osceola times., 1883-06-30

New York. The superiority of the Sc
ney system is that of an equally good
por. at Brunswick, and they have the
long run all the way from Norfolk, from
the Mississippi river and the far south.
The Georgia Central has no long interior
lines toward the west or the northwest"
GLOW do YOU consider, as a southern
railroad man; the influence of the city of
New York;"
"Why, il is overwhelming. The time
is near at hand when the general offices
of almost every railroad company in
America will be kept in New York City,
and the railroads managed from that
point. | might as well be in New York
half the time as off in the interior. Here
YOU make your connections with every
form of business, every kind of man and
interest, and everything is gravitating
toward New York in the way of trans
portation aud direction"
"What is the condition of Montgome-
ry, Ala.?"
THAT town is now growing again,
strange to say At the close of the war
the people settled down to wait 10 he
paid for their niggers. They waited -
wears. with their hands crossed on their
knees, and finally starvation sat around
the table with them, and they drew a
sigh and got up and went 10 work. If
they had Just begun on that plan at the
close ofthe war, Alabama would be in a
far better condition. Waiting to be paid
for niggers has intensified their poverty.
At the close of the war had some Con
lederate money, and ] wanted TO get
something for IL. | saw that the end
was near at hand, and that it would not
be worth one cent at the close of the
war. If bought cotton with it, il would
be destroyed as the Confederate govern
ment issued an order to burn all cotton
without any regard e. ownership, to
keep the Yankees from getting it. So,
in my despair, | concluded TO build some
houses in Montgomery. | thought
would get a good rental for these houses,
and it would keep the wolf from the
door, In little while saw that desc
lation was settling down on Alabama,
that Montgomery was going into a long
sleep, and then lawyer came to me and
took 81 900 from me to defend my title
TO the land, and then told me he thought
he would lose the suit. So Just let the
houses had built 90, and tdrned in an
other direction and went TO work. Mont
gomery, as | said, is now picking up
again. Before the war it was one of the
richest towns in all the south"
Said |: What is the state ofMobile?"
Mobile has got the dry rot There is
no accounting for the decline of a city
like that except upon the admission that
the great body of the white people must
for years past have been sitting on their
hands waiting for something to turn up.
That country which raised Mobile to her
importance can still produce results, but
there has been a decline ofenergy there,
upon the foolish hopes growing out of
politics"
what is the condition of the black
man in the south?"
"The negro has found his level and he
is giving us no trouble. His labor is all
important 10 us, aud although he does
not work with the driven force he did
once, he raises our crop of cotton for us in
great part, and that is our main indus
try,"
The Osceola times., 1883-06-30

The only man that weakened after the
trial was poor Risikah, who asked for the
prayers Of the church"
1T is said that there are no informers
among them. Is that true%
"No. Goldberg, the Jew, turned In
former and aided the police to discover
the murderers of Alexander However,
there are very few"
as the excitement in Russia as great
as pictured?'
not know that anything was happening
except what you read in the newsps pers,
The police regulations are scarcely felt
but when Count Shovolief had control
under Alexander H., the regulations
were very severe, and there was a sepa-
rate political detective force of police. A
person couldn't speak then without dan.
ger A young student friend Of mine,
remembt was sent home because called
on him once Now that special force has
been done away with. The Nihilists
however, are numerous, and | think ar,
likely to increase. The manifesto of tn,
new Emperor is not satisfactory, and of
fers little promise to the PEOPLE, who's
condition is certainly miserable in thu
extreme"
"How do you account for the fact tina
no attempt was made on the life of tn,
Car at the coronationW
'The Nihilists had no opportunity
The students were sent away or arrested
and the walls of the Kremlin are sum
deep into the ground, so that it would b.
almost impossible to effect an entrance
The winter palace, you know, was under
going repairs at the time of the explosion
there and it was easy for Nihilist Il
carry his materials in carpenters too
box"
The Osceola times., 1883-06-30
Personal.

Nilsson has taken to magazine wri-
ting.
Mrs. David Davis, nee Burr, is dis
tant relative of the famous Aaron Burr.
Tony Pastor has paid SOS GOO for res
idence in New York.
Neal Dow SAYS there is a western cler-
gyman in the pay of the liquor business.
Mr.. Haskell, of the Boston Herald,
has bought vineyard at Nara, Cal
Gen. Grant is to escort nartv of
Americans to Niagara Falls in June.
Gen. j. W. Phelps, the anti-NIasenic
candidate for the presidency in 1880 re-
Gently married at the age of 20.
sylvester Baxter, of the Boston press,
goes to Mexico to take editorial charge
OF the Mexican Financicr.
Jas. b. Cort, of Norwich. Conn. is a
candidate for sergeant-at-arms of the
nextnational house of representatives.
Dr, Graham, of Kentucky, father-in-
law oil Congressman Blackburn, will be
loo years old in October, when it is pro-
posed, should he live till then. to tender
nm grand dinner at Louisville.
Baroness Alphonse de Rothschild. at
recent ball in Paris, wore a Lord By
ron" dress, ofwhich it is said: at was
OF black velvet, like his melancholy; COW
cred with diamonds, like his poetry"
The Osceola times., 1883-06-30
The Premier and the Boy.

Mr.. Gladstone is fully aware of the in
tluence which a personal courtesy from
the prime minister exercises over the or.
dinary British mind, and he never miss
es a chance of using that personal influ-
ence to win a friend for his party. Not
long ago a small Westminster schoolbov
was standing by the refreshment bar in
the house of commons, when Mr.. Glad
stone walked up to him and asked him
his name. Having satisfied himself on
this inomentous question, the promier
next inquired as to his politics. The
small boy had no politics; but he knew
who his interlocutoi was, and what his
politics were, so he replied promptly
enough: Il am a liberal, sir" And
what progress do libersr ideas make in
your SCHOOL," continued the great man.
They are flourishing rapidly, SIR re-
piled the diplomatic boy, though in truth
he had not the least idea what liberal
ideas" were. On hearing this Mr.. Glad
stene grew more benignaut than before.
and Would you like my autograph" he
suggested. On hearing that his small ac-
quaintance would like it very much, he
took out pencil and piece of paper
and wrote on the refreshment bar
"Iours, with best wishes for your future
William f. Gladstone" And from that
day TO this the boy has been staunch
Gladstonian liberal.
The Osceola times., 1883-06-30
California Ostriches,

The editor of the Anaheim, Cal, Ca
zette has been viewing the ostriches on
a ranch near Costa Station. He says /;
'The female lays an egg on alternate
days TO the number of fifteen, when, if
permitted to set, she considers her work
done. If. however, her eggs are taken
from her, she will lay thirty before she
discovers the deception.
And such eggs The one showed us
weighs three and half pounds, and
contains food sufficient to furnish plen-
tiful breakfast for four men.
One would suppose that the flavor of
such eggs would be unpleasaHtly pro-
nounced such is not the case, however,
the flavor not being rs decided as that
of duck eggs.
What school boy has not read ofthe
ostrich egg, and of its being hatched in
the hot sun of Africa's sunny shore e?
But this pretty little legend, like many
other cherished stories of the past, is all
CANNON. The chicks are brought forth
in the good old way. The female sits on
the eggs in the day time, and the male
assumes the duty at night, allowing .he
female to seek rest and recreation while
he attends to the household duties. 1t
must be noticed here that the male is
much more solici'ous for his household
than is the female. 1t not unfrequentlv
happens that the latter prefers to CAD
about rather than take her turn at set
ting, and on such occasions her lord and
master administers to her deserved
chastisement by kicking her heartily
around the paddock, until she manifests
proper contrition, and signifies her will
lingness to settle down on the eggs.
There is moral somewhere about this
incident which, when found, make a
note of
The Osceola times., 1883-06-30

Not far from Louisville, KY, there is a
monastery Of Trappist monks. A visitor
to this strange building is said to feel as
if he had stepped back into the Middle
Ages. The abbot's chair is sor, of ele-
waited throne, and in order to reach il he
must pass over his own grave. The
monks live ON vegetable diet alone. They
rise at two o'clock in the morning, and
when they die they are buried without
coffins. There are sixty of them in the
monastery.
The Osceola times., 1883-06-30

At Hampshire (England) County
Court, judgment was given against the
proprietor of public house of the town
and the bailiff was ordered to seize the
first thing he could, which happened to
be the omnibus plying between the house
and the station. In the bus WAS seated
the Judge who had ordered the seizure
and as it was not allowed to continue its
journey, the learned gentleman was
obliged to get out and walk, in conse.
quence of which he lost his train.
The Osceola times., 1883-06-30

Old tin cans are now gathered up and
shipped to Newark, n. j., where they are
flattened out, blackeped and sold to
trunk makers to bind the edges and bot
toms of trunks, and often to cover up de-
fects of woodwork. In this manner old
tomato cans becom, most useful as
well as ornamental material. The pro-
cess of heating the cans also has its
profitable result, for the solder, running
through gra'e into receptacle, is sold
for IL cents pound, it alone paying, i
\ claimed, I'll that Is originally paid for
- enns
The Osceola times., 1883-06-30

ALondon theater-goer recently render
ed himself quite conspicuous by wearing
or carrying an electric light in his but
ton-hole. But, unfortunately, the battery
which was in his pocket becoming de.
ranged, the light suddenly went out, to
the great delight of the wags, who shout
ed 1Turn on the meter ~
The Osceola times., 1883-06-30

The Chinese have some queer medic
ines, as this, for instance, known as the
five poisons: Dried snakes, pulverized,
l oz.; wasps and their nests, . o.; cent?
pedes, 3 o.. scorpions, Q or, and toads
10 or. These choice ingredients are
ground into powder, mixedup with honey
and made into pills.
The Osceola times., 1883-06-30

Mother Goose according to the latest
authorities, far from being a myth, was
the wife of Isaac Goose, and lived in
Pudding Lane (now known as Devon
shire street. Boston. She was born in
1855 and died in 1857. The first edition
of her nursery rhymes was published by
her son-in-law, Thomas Fleet, in l7l9.
The Osceola times., 1883-06-30

The Northern Pacific Railroad is a
monument to modern engineering. The
highest point reached in the survey is
the mount Of the Bozeman Pass, where
the altitude is 5,7l3 feet. The rails are
laid TO the top of the pass, and for eight
miles before the summit is reached an
engine or car will not remain stationary
unless brakes are applied.