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The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1884-12-12
English ignorance of Geography.


Englishmen with sons to settle find it
real difficult to understand the size OF
separate States of America, or to inn
agine that Texas exceeds France and
England put together; while their
capacity for remembering thst Arabia
is the size of all Europe west of the
Yistula, and Brazil Just that, is simply
nil. Even when they are sincerely
anxious to know. great distances puz-
zle them, and great rivers; and they
talk about cities in the Soudan as II
that horrible eSpanse were Lancashire,
and wonder why steamers should not
ascend the Nile 10 khartoum in about
ten DAYS. As to climate they know
generally, and in the rough, whether a
country is cold or hot; but they do not
know that climatically, Hong Kong and
Pekin are totally different places.
that New York can be hotter than
Madras or colder than Moscow,
or that the reversal of the seasons
which they know to he true of the anti
podes is true also of the Cape. The
writer himself failed to convince a very
intelligent Englishman that Christmas
was hot weather ut the Cape, and that
the colony might, therefore, supply
grapes to Europe out of season, and
was held to be talking nonsense when
limiting that the locality whence ice was
imported did matter, as all ice was not
equally cold Among the lower classes
this ignorance is still more profound,
reaching depths which confuse rather
than astonish the inquirer, and this
about points not in the least remote
from daily experience. We have the
| strongest reason for suspecting that
Essex peasants can not believe that the
distance from England to Ireland by
sea is three times the distance OF
| England from France, or that New
Zealand can be five times as far away
as North America. Indeed, as rule,
the poor know literally nothing OF
geography, and have an aversion to
learn the simplest facts, strangely in
contrast with their interest about the
ways of the people cover there
| They will listen to any amount of talk
about the people of any country that
| the speaker knows, often with eager in
terest and intelligence; but they will
not even try to learn where that coun.
| try is, nor what are its physical
features. Let any man who doubts this
| ask the first workman he knows about
the Chinese and China, and see how
much he knows of the former, and how
absolutely nothing of the latter.-Lon.
don Spectator.
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1884-12-12
HOME AND FARM.

For winter Towering, forget-me-
nots do best with ample root room:
hence give them large pots.
! Any grain food given to a young
calf should be thoroughly boiled and
given as cruel, with a little SALT
Cleveland Leader.
According to the Drugman pota-
toes do not absorb the arsenical prepar-
atoms used for destroying the Colorado
beetle, but the productiveness of the
soil is impaired by the use of arsenic.
An uncomfortably tight shoe may
be made perfectly easy by laying cloth
wet in hot water across where it pinches,
changing several times. The leather
will shape itself to the foot.-Ioledo
Blade.
The best potato as to real value, is
the one containing the largest percent
age of solid nutriment, that is, starch
and albumen. 1t is the starch that
makes potato cook dry and mealy.-
Cincinnati Times.
"A correspondent of the Indiana
Farmer says the man who plows and
harrows his land to get rid of Canada
thistles makes a grave mistake. Every
root or piece of root not removed will
serve as the nucleus of new colony.
He prefers to get the field into pasture
and salt them lavishly while they are
small.
Vinegar Without Cider: Molasses,
one quart; yeast, one pint; warm rain
water, three gallons. Put all into o
jug or keg, and tie a piece of gauze
over the bung to keep out flies and let
in air. In hot weather set in the sun;
in cold weather set it by the stove, and
in three weeks you will have good vine
gar. When part of this has been used
fill up with the same preparation. and
in this way supply of good vinegar
can BE- kept constantly on hand.-EI-
change.
AS the buckwheat plant flowers at
successive periods it necessarily ripens
unevenly. Some judgment is required
to determine when to cut to secure the
most perfect grain. If the earliest
flowers mature during hot, dry weather,
tie. After few days of cool weather
without frost there will be plenty of
plump, heavy grain. The fallen seed,
if near the house, makes an excellent
feed for poultry. 1t is one of the best
grains to promote production OF eggs
in Chicago Times.
Winter quarters for poultry must
be warm. To secure warmth the
houses must not only be tight, but must
be heated either by the sun, by artificial
heat, or by the warmth of the fowls
themselves. Close quarters in winter
are by far the most economical. Two
| and half feet of floor room to each
fowl in the roosting and laying room is
more than sufficient; but they must
have an equally large feeding room
where they can go by day and shell
tered sunny yard besides. Thus, for a
flock of twenty fowls, a building. or
better. room eight feet by twelve
would be required.-N. Y. Herald.
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1884-12-12
The Old London GuiIdA

Mr.. Hallam describes the old guilds
as s.fraternities by voluntary compact
to relieve each other in poverty and to
protect each other from injurj" and
adds: 1.-TWO essential characteristics
belonged to them, the common banquet
and the common purse They hadalso.
in many instances, . religious, some
times a secret, ceremonial to knit more
firmly the bond of fidelity. They read
ily became connected with the exercise
of trades, with the training of appren-
tees, with the traditional rules of art
From what has Just been stated Is TO
the origin of the several companies Ills
pretty clear that this description by NJ.
Hallam of the guilds is applicable Ito
the companies. London was, no doubt,
in these early days great manufactar-
ing town, in or near which cloth-wdk-
ing, the smelling of iron, the making
of arrows and bows, the working OF
silk and leather, the manufactured the
precious metals, and other industries
were practiced with much success, and
the several trades appest to have had
in. such early days their recognized
quarters in the city, and. owing to
their localization, thy formed them
selves into guilds or Companies for mu-
tud protection, and such no doubt
they undertook to regulate the trades
whose names they bre; they appoint
ed oyerseers to INSPECT the wares pro-
duced and sold am umpires to adjudiA
cate in cases of dputes between mas
ters and workmet But it should al
WAYS be kept in bind that nom very
eaiiy times the fvera1 companies con-
sisted largely non-craftsmen; from
time immemortl the privileges Of MEM
bership have ben hereditary, one mode
Of admission Aaying always been by
natrimony. yhich causes the right
IS the frehom to descend to all
the lineal descendants, and rom
time imme1orial system of appren-
ticeship hy entered into the ccnstitu-
ton 81 tb companies, under which
the mesntrs, irrespective of whether
thew wejo or were not members of the
trades u names Of which were borne
by the {mpanies. were privileged to
vekpprentices. Thus it came to
uass g L IS early = 1445 Of the Skin-
nerz' lbmpany there was only onQ
skinnf by trade 4 member, and thatin
1850 Il tho Eve persons named as mas
~ "a wardens Of the ClothWcrferBss
o. any. only one was \ clothWorrers
end nj IN still earlier times No Eoys
ernI hody contained ocnxpely III
"a NM leenth n nll!l1
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1884-12-12
Food and Nutrition.

An know that the body consists of
the food eaten, digested and assimilat-
ed; that growing body needs proper
tionately more food than one which has
reached its growth; and that q body
habitually active needs much more
than one habitually at rest. 1t is not
so generally known that every particle
of the body is in q constant state of
waste-lives but for moment and is
succeeded by a new living particle, and
SO from birth to death; that every
movement of limb, each action of an
organ, every contraction of muscle,
every thought, volition. desire passion,
every emotion of JOY. grief, fear. or
anxiety, uses up nervous force-itself
the product of the food-formed flesh.
The failure of the food-supply to equal
the body's demand is starvation.
But many seem to be ignorant of the
fact that one may starve more or less
completely on an abundance of food,
provided the body does not contain all
the elements of the body. Some forms
of dyspepsia are of this kind.
1t is as when = land is un-
fruitful from lack of single element
say phosphate of lime-though the
soil is otherwise rich. Some persons,
womenj especially, keep habitually
feeble = partially starved - by living
mainly on white bread and tea. Nat
ural milk contains, in divineiy de-
termined proportion, all the elements
that make up an infant body; but thou
sands of infants yearly starve to
death, many of them in homes of afflu-
ence, because fed on artificial foods,
the best of which fall far short of ma
lures marvellous supply.
Scurvy results simply from a lack of
vegetable food, and light cases of it are
more common than is thought. The
patient is pale and sallow; is disin-
clined to exertion; has aches and pains
in his back; his gums are spongy,
swollen, and bleed Almost at the touch.
Multitudes of such cases are relieved
at once on taking proper quantity of
vegetables with their food.
In ricketts, there is not lime enough
for the bones-not one-half as much as
there should be. Hence the bones are
soft and bend; the ankles and wrists
are spongy and large; the head is big;
the teeth are black and loose; the
breast-bone protrudes; the ribs fall in,
and the abdomen Is enlarged by the
crowding of the liver, etc.
1t is mainly disease of the poor,
and begins within the first two years
q life. It il due in part to the poor
quality of the mothers milk, she be-
ing imperfectly fed, and in part to the
child's being fed with food it can not
digest outh's Companion.
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1884-12-12
People Living in Trees.

81 am prepared to swallow the whole
story, except the pouches in the mouth,
laid gentleman the other day, to
whom Prof. George G. Shelly, anthro-
pologist and member of the Geograph-
ical Society, was recounting the story
Of the capture of hairy family, clearly
human, but bearing many strong re-
semblance to the anthropoid apes,
which were secured by himself and the
weli-known explorer, Carl, aided by
some native soldiers, in the wilds of
Laos in the year 1882.
There are, said the professor,
ssthree distinct races Of men who live in
trees These are Indians in South
AneTica, who inhabit the borders of the
q lrmoco, TucuyA and MADEIRA rivers;
tie Yeddas of Ceylon, and the Krao-
Noniek of Laos, a dependency of Siam.
Krao-M oniek means man-monkey. Laos
s. = part Of the world which has never
teen fhoroughly explored, and but COM
pafatively little is known about it by
feeGraphers and scientists. It con-
tninS from eight hundred to one thou
6lnd square miles, and lies between the
lkseuth and twentieth degrees of north
1atitude, north of Siam, east of the
lnham Khong, west of AMMAN, and
4holf four hundred miles southwest Of
1Denin. The reason why Loas
~ not been thoroughly ex-
loCed Is because almost everyone
No has attempted it has died of
1alarial fever. That paat of the coun-
~ u which the Krao lives is very
ompy, Is inhabited only by the men
- hSe in trees and by elephants and
j The people live In trees to es-
H. snakes and the wet ground.
weave the branches together and
q huts therein. In climbing. the
- they use their toes as monkey
They do not grasp the trees with
& leEs, s We do. They do not use
\ They live on dried fish, wild rice,
9xind Of green cocoanut Their
Weapon Is club.
Tan years ago Carl Book, the au-
- u The Man Hunters of Borneo'
Ny Travels in SIAM was travel
"a Asia ON behalf of Mr.. Farini, the
nEisA Barnum, to look for the tall
9oq1e which were bald to live there.
leheeoozt Of the king of Burmah I
and talked with 8 hairy family.
E< Wure kept by the King for his
s.. ement, IS European kings former
1ools and dwarfs. Book tried
10y Way to secure them to take to
but he failed. He offered
40 Tor one Of them, but money is
eet there; they have more of il
10y know what to do with. These
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1884-12-12

There is no need of our receiving
any idiots. insane persons or mentally
imperfect people from foreign coun-
tries. We appear to be able to produce
enough ourselves. In a total of 81, 997
insane, 1851 are native Americans.
In total of 76,895 idiots, 72,888 are
native Americans. In a total of 48, 928
blind, 4O.599 are native Americans. In
= total Of S. 676 deaf mutes, so. 507 are
native Americaas.--Chcdg Times.
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1884-12-12
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

Married women in Portugal retain
heir maiden names.
Tn France whole cherry orchards
are protected from birds by fish-nets-
"A single Japanese hairpin win cost
- much as six or seven boxes OF the
American manufacture.
The peasant farmers OF France
have about $500, 0O0,0 on deposit in
the Government Savings Bank, upon
which they are paid four per cent. inter-
est.
A correspondent writing from the
valley of the Amazon says that stalks
If fan grass are found in that region
which measure thirty-five feet from the
ground.
The Societe Franklin is an associa-
tion of France for promoting the es-
Enlistment of popular libraries, deriv-
inc its name, of course, from our swn
BENJAMIN Franklin.
"A manuscript of Charles v. in an
unique leather case, delighted the
bibliophiles of Paris, and was consid-
cred bargain at $4,000. 1t turns out
to be a fraud, but the workmanship is
So clever that at an auction sale it
brought $500 as curiosity.
According to the Indian Forester
famines in India are caused by goats.
They eat the young saplings; forests
thus disappear, rainfall ceases, and the
crops fail. Why the people do not re-
taliate by eating the goats is not ex-
planned.
The municipality of Bondy, in
. France, got up fishing match the
other day. Ninety men and women
5 took part in it, each of whom paid an
entrance fee. After angling three hours
time was called, and the man who had
caught the most fish received the grand
prize.
The financial condition of the Ital-
ian Government has very much I'M
proved Of late years; deficits in the an
nual budget are smaller than formerly,
the one for 1885 being set down at only
&1,OOO,0O0. The peninsula no longer
keeps financial company with Turkey,
Spain and Egypt.
"A sign of the progressiveness OF the
times is the fact that recently some
German journeymen artisans, a class OF
workmen who, from time immemorial,
have trudged on foot the highways and
byways of the Fatherland. as well as
of the neighboring countries, were seen
riding on bicycles, their slim bundles
strapped behind them.
When the late Bishop of London
revisited the University Chapel at Cam.
bridge, after long absence. he found
the same verger there whom he re-
membered in his college days, and said
TO him: ssYou have much to be CRATE.
full for,'' Il have, indeed, my Lord, y
replied the old man, s.for have heard
every sermon that has been preached
In the chapel for fifty years, and, bless
the Lord. / am Christian still"
The astronomers at the Greenwich
Observatory have been making calcula
lions as to the pace of the star Arcturu:
Ia his progress toward the earth. They
6nd, as the result of twenty-one OBJ
eervations, that this beautiful, scintil
hating star is coming for us at the ratt
of fifty miles and seventy-eight one
hundredths per second. This amount.
10 about 8, 900 miles minute, 1S0,00t
miles an hour, or 4, 800, 900 miles day
II Arcturus makes straight shot W,
win probably be knocked into smithes
Gems, but not for 9S,009 years yet
london Truth.
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1884-12-12

IT is better to he provided with cheut and
simple remedies for such common dssor-
ders as Cou chs, Colds, &C., than TO run the
risk Of contracting a fatal disease. DR.. WV.
HALL's BALsAN is a sure and safe remedy
for all diseases of the lungs and chest. II
taken IN season it is certain to cure. IL les
been known md used for many years, e.d is
the lest remedy in theworld for Coughs, sc.
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1884-12-12
Loss and Gain.

81 was taken sick q year ago
With bilious fever


"My doctor pronounced me cured, but
got sick again, with terrible pains in my
back and sides, and got SO bad
Could not move!
shrunk!
From a2S lbs to 1901 had been doctor.
ing for my liver, but it did me no good. 1
did not expect to live more than three
months. began to use Hop Bitters- Dt-
rectly my appetite returned, my pains LETT
me, my entire system seemed renewed as II
by magic, and after using several bottles,
am not only as sound as sovereign. but
weigh more than / did before To Hop
Bitters | owe my life" r FITZPATRICK.
Dublin, June 6, 81.
CHAPTER II.
"Malden, Mass. Feb. /. 1850. Gentlemen
suffered with attacks of sick headache
Neuralgia, female trouble. for years in
the most terrible and excruciating manner.
No medicine or doctor could give me re-
lief or cure, until used Hop BitterA
" The first bottle
Nearly cured me-"
The second made me as well and strong
as when child.
"And l have been so to this day."
My husband was an invalid for twenty
years with serious
hluneY, liver anu urinary cotupislt,
Pronounced by BostOn's best physt-
clans
s.Incurabler'
Seven bottles of your Bitters cured him
and know of the
Lives of eight persons"
In my neighborhood that have been saved
by your bitters,
And many more are using them with
great benefit
They almost
Do miracles?' Mrs. e. d. Stack.
How TO GET SICK.-Expose yourself day and
night. eat too much without exercise; work
too hard without rest; doctor all the time; take
all the vile nostrunls advertised, and then YOU
will want to know hOtc to get treu, which is en-
swered in three words-Take Hop Bitters.
None genuine without a bunch of green
Hops on the white label. Shun alltne vile, poi-
sonous stuff with Hop" or Hops" in their
name.
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1884-12-12

WHEN a mans clothes come home from
the laundry only half done up it's but an
generally he gets so mad that it takes all
the starch out of him.-Bostoa Courier.
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1884-12-12

ONE of the latest freaks is using leaves
for cards. Thus when fashionable persons
call on friend to take their leave they
leave their leaves at the door and thereby
relieve themselves of the annoyance Of
personal ave-taking.-L0,cell Citizen.
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1884-12-12

SIXTH smoked q cigar, and somebody
said it put him hors de combat. And now
Henderson wants to know IL tn means
ssssck as q hprse.n
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1884-12-12

AT cheap restaurant: "Will you have
q twenty five cent dinner, sir, or a thirty
five cent one." "What is the difference
between the two:n "Ten cents, sir."-
French Fun.
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1884-12-12

THE cold winds of autumn remind the
farmer that it will soon be time to put their
cattle under cover. Ye who have steers to
she'd prepare to shed them now.-N. i.
journal
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1884-12-12

SUFFERERS FROM COUGHS, SORE THROAT,
ETC., should try Brorn's Bronchial
Iroches," sure remedy. % cents q boz
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1884-12-12

A'BosToS agricultural editor says thas
the best way 20 preserve peaches Is to keep
a bull dog In the orchard.
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1884-12-12

"HERE are two frogs that never croak,"
said a railway man, pointing to the
switches ON the track
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1884-12-12

MEN. for the Legal Quidnunc: Is IL law.
full for blind man to sue on bill payable
ut sight-LUe.
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1884-12-12

AZURE thing-The clouiless sky.-Bos-
ton Bulletin.
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1884-12-12

THERE is a great deal of flash literature
coming over the wires nowadays, vet no
one attempts to suppress it, Boston
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1884-12-12

stfnrinr. inflammation. all Kidney and t,rin-
AIRY Complaints, cured by "Buckupaiba- Il.
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1884-12-12

wIrH tho drunkard life is reel Rtssa
delphid Chroniclc
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1884-12-12

"IYIELDEr him the PALM" as the old
lady said when she spanked her erring
son.
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1884-12-12

An Englishman, upon hearing the cack.
ling in poultry yard, exclaimed: "Oh
this is really henchanting!"
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1884-12-12

Nervous Weakness Dyspepsia, Sexual Do
bility, cured by wells Health REMOVER" 81.
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1884-12-12

| If consistency is q jewel, why isn't it
more fashionable to wear it?-The Dial.
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1884-12-12

THE plumber may not be a musician, but
he often plays on the pipes.-Bostoa Star.
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1884-12-12

A MAN never realizes how rapidly chill
dren learn until he begins to buy school,
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1884-12-12

.Rouph on Pain" Porous Plaster. for Back
,che. Pains in the Chest, rheumatism &c
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1884-12-12

"a. 4 70. ,.,,,. 1sr n0th!nsA lipass-s omsF'
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1884-12-12

WHAT is always iu fashion? The letter
a.
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1884-12-12

sRoush on Coins." 15c. Ask for it. Complete
cure, hard or soft corns, warts, bunIons.
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1884-12-12

ssRougi, on Coughs" Troches, 15c; Liquid, 10,
for Coughs, Colds, Sore Throat, Hoarseness.
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1884-12-12
What is Calarrh?

It IS q disease Of the
rnucus Elembrane,gen
orally originating in
the nasal passages and
maintaining IT'S strong
hold I'm the head. From
this poin; itsents forth
a poisonous y!IEs along
the mcmSTIpous nn-
ings and through the
digestive organs. cor
rupiing the bleed and
PRODUCING other trouh-
lesome and dangerous
symptoms.
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1884-12-12

TINE is money, except when it is counted
bicycles; then it is fun.-N. O. PicGgune.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-12-26

The distinction betwe II the Demo-
cratic national platform and that OF the
Republicans was emphasized during
the campaign in Indiana.
Mr. Blaine clearly defined the position
OF the Republicans. He believed that
there was something miraculous about
protection; that to 1t must he accredited
che growth of the country in wealth and
population; that to assoi 1t was to as.
sail the foundation OF our national
greatness. II what he claimed was
true, or approached The truth, then pro
lection should be maintained ut all haz-
ards, aud Is Of tar greater Importance
than the revenues could befor n decade.
He therefore argued for protection with
Incidental revenue.
Hr. Hendricks met the argument at
every poi t. lie combated every Claim
and explained The plans ard purposes Of
the Democrats ~ expressed In their
platform. lie cont. nded for economy
In all expenditures, and insiS.oa Thai
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-12-26
Champagne Wine.

The best made in the United States.
Hughes Bros, manufacturing their
Grape Baking Powder have over
crowded their cellars with wines. They
will ship by express, prepaid to any re-
sponsible party in the state, ordering
through their merchant, a case OF
Champagne Wine, for the remarkable
low price OF 81 per dozen bottles, on
thirty days time, and if not found to be
equal to any brand uade in the United
States, the party ordering need not pay
one cent for it, and IT they will write us
aud give the brand they think superior,
we will express them, free of cost, IA
case of our Champagne cider, made
from the pure juice o. the Siberian crab
apple. HrsHEs Bios,
Dallas, Texas, u, y. A.