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Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1884-09-30
Lok so unti6y.

Nothing looks more untidy than the
presence Of scurf and dandrufi in the
hair and on the clothing. One bottle
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scalp and free it from this nuisance.
Stops falling of hair promotes new
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Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1884-09-30

Dir. Samuel II ge's Sarsaparilla
and potash is sure cure for rheuma-
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chronic sores of all kind or any dis
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Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1884-09-30
INMATES or ALMSHOUsEs.

There is a prevalent idea that the
almshouses, for the most part, shelter
the unhappy and guiltless poor, whom
uumerciful disaster has followed fast and
followed faster until it has chased them
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Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1884-09-30
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The Osceola times., 1884-07-05
A CAVE HUNTER.
What a Western Editor Does When He
Secs . Cyclone Coming.

What Western Editor Does When He
Secs . Cyclone Coming.
Abe o. Welshons, editor of the Green
field. (Ia.) review, but a native of Penn
sylvania. was in the city day or so ago
visiting friends. "Pittsburgers know
nothing about wind" he said, referring
to recent gust that had tangled up the
telegraph wire hereabouts.
Everybody out our way has cave on
his premises. When they see black
cloud coming the whole family bundle
into the cave. and then in an hour or
so the old man comes out to see if the
house is still standing. You have no
idea of the terrible nature of these cy-
clones The first thing you notice is a
dense black cloud with ragged edges.
Then the base of the cloud turns a green
ish-yellow, and you hear an indescriba-
BILE roar which grows louder until you
can hear nothing else and the storm is
upon you. Most of the houses are con-
structed of wood, many of them with
substantial cellars. It's funny to see the
mothers gathering up their children and
hurrying them into the cellar or cave,
but this proc mon has saved many a
life. I've hLH, Il cave more than once
when | saw black cloud and heard the
storm coming and you don't stand on
ceremony, either."-Plttsburg Dispatch
The Osceola times., 1884-07-05
a Confederate Chaplain.
Arkansaw Traveller,

Among the first confederate troops
that went out from Arkansaw was Par
son Geesmore who enlisted as "a chaplain.
He was devout christian, and his pray
ers were regarded by the men as utter.
ances from a higher power. Just before
the battle of Jenkins Ferry, the old man
in a sermon, said:
"My dear boys. / have decided to 90
into the next fight with you. don't
think that a man can properly preach
about the evils and sensations of war un-
less he has experienced the feeling of
going into battle. Now, the next fight
in which we engage, shall have me num-
bered among its participants"
The old gentleman rode large gray
hcrse, and when preparations for the
battle of Jenkins Ferry were being made
he appeared on his snowy charger.
Some Of the officers begged him to keep
out of danger, but with an expression OF
heroism, he replied that he would en-
gage in the battle. The first artillery
fire from the enemy shot the horse from
under the old gentleman, and by the
time he settled himself on his feet a
bullet came along and took off one OF
his fingers. He attempted to be calm,
but Just then ball carried away his
right thumb, and wheeling around, the
old man struck determined trot for the
rear.
"Hold on, parson !" called some one.
Hold on, HIP he replied. ASK a
man to hold on, when the whole id
universe is shooting at him. Take care
of your body, and the Lord will take
care of your SOUL"
The Osceola times., 1884-07-05
A Great stone.

The largest artificial stone in the world
is the one Just finished and which is to
form the foundation for Bartholdi's Stat
ue of Liberty on Bedloe's Island in New
York Harbor. The stone is made of
broken trap rock, sand, American and
foreign cement mixed with water.
Twenty thousand barrels of cement were
used. The mixture for the stone was
emptied into the Jacket or mold, and
then the surplus water squeezed out.
The stone rapidly hardened, and will
now bear one hundred tons to the square
foots 1t is only expected to bear up five
tons to the square foot, but it will grow
harder for the next two years. 1t has
the color and grain of coarse gray sand
stone. 1t is sunk fifteen feet below the
floor of the front and rises thirty
feet above it. has base ninety -one feet
square, is sixty-seven feet square at the
top, and rs fifty-two feet aud ten inches
high. On top of this will be erected the
granate pedestal from which is to tower
in oil its magnificent proportions the CO.
lossal work of the great French sculptor
The casting of this mammoth monolith
evidences the extent of modern progress
in signal way, especially wheu we i'm
agine how. by this concrete process,
Cheops could have so much more easily
nodded his pyramid, and the Russian
Emperor spared the great undertaking
of removing to st. Petersburg the mon.
ster rock which supports the equestrian
effigy Of Peter the Great.
The Osceola times., 1884-07-05

as an article of food is fallacy. Taking
DIR. Edward Smiths figures, 760 grains of
carbon and "a grains ofnitrogcn are con-
tanned in one pound of potatoes; y
pounds of potatoes are required to sup
ply the amount of carbon contained in
one pound of bread and 81 pounds of
potatoes are necessary for supplying the
nitrogen of one pound of bread.
With bread al half pence per pound,
potatoes should cost less than half pen
ny per pound, in order to be as cheap as
bread for the hard working man, who
requires an abundance of nitregenous
food.
My own observations in Ireland have
fully convinced me of the wisdom of
VIM. Cobbett's denunciation of the pota-
to as a staple article of food. The bulk
that has to be eaten, and is eaten, in or
der to sustain life, converts the potato
feeder into a mere assimilating machine
during a large part of the day, and rem
ders ] in u tit for any kind of vigorous
mental or bodily labor.
Ii were the autocratic Gar of Ire
land, my first step toward the regenera-
ton of the Irish people would be the
introduction, scclimatising and dissem-
ination of the Colorado beetle, IN order
to produce a complete and permanent
potato famine.
The effect of potato-feeding may be
studied by watching the work of pota-
to-fed Irish mower or reaper who comes
across to work on an English farm where
the harvest men are fed in the Arm
house, and where beer is not excessive.
The improvement of his working pow
ers after two or three weeks of English
feeding is comparable to that of a horse
when fed upon corn, beans and hay, af-
ter feeding for a year on grass only.
The Osceola times., 1884-07-05
What to Take ON u Journey.
Wide Awake,

To be helpful give you one lady's list
of inevita bles for the overland tour, eX-
pected to last two or three or four
months:
Three papers Of crimping pins, five of
hairpins, five invisible front nets, five
elastic cord, three papers of pins, three
spools black sewing silk, six spools sew
ing cotton, the same of mending cotton,
two dozen boot buttons, one half dozen
tape, two dozen linen and pearl buttons,
skein linen thread for boot buttons, wax,
three ounces vaseline, the same of car
Donate of ammonia, dry, one ounce gum
tragacanth (fer mucilage and bandoline)
four ounces gum camphor, one ounce
permanganate of potash, the same ofpurs
carbolic acid, the same Of citric acid, one
half dozen of toilet soap, one. half pound
powdered borax, two bottles lavender
water one bottle shoe dressing, one box
ink-pewder, one of elastic letter bands,
one ofmouth glue, two p Junds thin note
paper, envelopes half as many, one half
dozen pencils, two small boxes pens.
This locks like an odd mixture but it
is all wanted The ammonia and borax
are to soften the hard water on the Plains
for washing hands, the permanganate Of
potash dissolved in water will soften the
skin, heal cruptions and neutraiize bad
odors, which grieve to say are too of
ten found about the bedrooms of first
class hotels, or what pretend to be such.
You cannot always get lemons, and a
tiny chrystal of citric acid in glass Of
water will give you morning lemonade
which Will keep off the biliouness
which steals over one in the long jour
ney with its changes of water and food.
OF course it is troublesome TO take care
of ones self, but il is also vexing to be
left at the hotel with tearing headache
while all the rest are going up Cheyenne
Canyon, or to find Yourself half blind
with malaria when you want to he en-
joying yourself between the orange
groves and drives at Los Angeles. Ofall
wretched things, TO be sick on a pleasant
jo" rney is the most out of place and un-
happy.
The Osceola times., 1884-07-05
HIS wIFE's MOTHER.

Poots has his own ideas about decor.
ting his parlor. He insisted on hang
ing the motto Touch not, taste not, han
die not" Immediately underneath the
picture of his wife's mother.-Cincinnati
Saturday Night.
A circus clown recently dropped dead
in Ohio while getting off an old joke on
his mother-in-law. Thus you see that a
man always gets the worst of it when he
didn't know the blamed thing was load
ed.-Paris Beacon.
Bob Burdette has come to the defence
of the mothers-in-law. This enly goes
to show what influence mans wife's
mother can exert over him, when one of
them forces paragrapher to defend his
enemies.-Boston Times.
"The mother-in-law of the new Comp
troller of the Currency has place in his
bureau" A good many other men would
like to put their mothers-in-law in their
bureaus or box them away somewhere
Roxbury Advocate.
The Paris Beacon says: at is no.
ticeable fact none but hald-headed men
have ever had the courage to marry their
mothers-in-law." Ii is somewhat singh
lar, for most of them would never have
been bald-headed but for having moth
er-in-law.-Boston Times.
The Osceola times., 1884-07-05
PAPER PLATES
An Innovation at Berlin that is to 10
come General.

An Innovation at Berlin that is to 10
come General.
The latest application of paper is the
adoption of plates by some of the great
restaurants and cafes in Berlin. The IN
novation was first introduced during the
summer of last year by the adventurous
landlord of much frequented open-air
restaurant. Every customer ordered
bread and butter, rolls, cakes, buns, or
similar articles, had them served to him
on little paper plate, made of light pa
per mache, adorned with pretty border
in relief and having at the first glance
great similarity to porcelain. Guests,
walters and hosts were all pleased with
the novelty. II saved the WATERS many
deduction from their wages on account
of breakages. which the very deftest and
cleverest can scarcely avoid when he
handles hundreds of pieces of crockery
during a single afternoon and evening
The paper plates were so cheap that the
landlord did not care to assert his own
erhip over them, and his customers
were allowed to carry then away like
the pretty serviettes Of thin paper used
in SO many restaurants in Holland.
There was also considerable saving on
the time lost and the chance of accident
incurred in the cleansing of earthenware
pottery. The success of the experiment
has been so marked that the new species
Of plates is likely to be introduced into a
great number of restaurants.
The Osceola times., 1884-07-05
CHERUBs CHATTERs.

What does baby say when it smiles
for the first time at its mother? IL be,
lieve ! know KENTUCKY State
Journal.
A certain cure for spring fever is to
have cross baby in the house. They
will prevent everybody from becoming
lazy.-Buffalo Express.
Every man must sleep according to
his temperament" says prominent ply
sician. That physician does not know
much. Every mans sleep depends on
the temperament of his baby, or the
babies next dOor.-Philadelphia Call.
The New York Morning Journal says
that babe is the oasis of married life.
There is nothing green about him, how
ever, when he makes his father, in a
ballet costume, walk up and down the
room with him in the dead of Winter
Boston Budget.
Mabel married about three years and
mother of two babies. Miss Blank, of
New York, got the funniest wedding
present from her father. II was Texas
ranch.
Pa with whom she is visiting) We'll,
hope for old Mr.. Blanks sake she will
take the hint.
Mabel-The hint? What hint?
Pa-To keep her nursery in the middle
of the ranch until her BABIES get old
enough to sleep nights.-Philadelphia
Call.
The Osceola times., 1884-07-05
KISSING CASES.

The woman who is going on the stage
must never object to taking 'bus.-Bos-
ton Budget.
II is the custom among the French to
kiss the forehead and not the lips. Not
much fun courting in France.-Burling-
ton Free Press.
A contemporary publishes an article
headed "Stage Kisses Unpleasant" 1t
does seem as though the jelting of the
vehicle Would be annoving.-Boston
Post.
A contemporary in a half-column ar
ticle discusses the question, "Why Do
Women Laugh?" Well, many of chem
laugh because wise fools write half-col-
umn articles on such subiects.-Boston
Star
A Brooklyn woman now in Jail for big
amy used in writing to the tenth man
she married addressed him as my "own
darling baby" Great Scott that's
enough to give all of us the Group and
cholera Observation-Disclosures News.
A contemporary publishes an article
headed "Stage Kisses Unpleasant" It is
not surprising to learn that If stage
kisses at all it kisses unpleasant. ys it
ANYTHING like the kissing Of billiard balls?
Boston Star.
A contemporary publishes an article
headed "Stage Kisses Unpleasant" Ref
erence is probably made to the celebra.-
ed Emma Abbott stage kiss. But "un.
pleasant" seems mild word TO USE
Philadelphia Call.
The Osceola times., 1884-07-05
The Language OF Umbrellas.

There is a language Of umbrellas az OF
flowers. For instance, put your umbrells
in a rack, and it will indicate that j,
will change owners.
To open it quickly in the street mean.
that somebody's eye is going to be put
out; to shut it, that hat or two il goinl
to be knocked of.
An umbrella carried over woman
the man getting nothing but the drip
pings Of 'he rain, signifies courting.
When man has the umbrella and the
woman the drippings it indicates mar
riage.
To punch your umbrella into person
and then open it means Il dislike you"
To swing your umbrella over youl
head signifies II am making nuisance
of myself"
To trail your umbrella along the foot.
path means that the man behind you ID
thirsting for your blood.
To carry it at right angles under your
arm signifies that an eye is to be lost by
the man that follows you.
To open an umbrella quickly, 1t is said
will frighten mad bull.
To put cotton umbrella by the side
of silk one signifies Exchange is no
robbery"
To purchase an umbrella means 81 am
not smart, but honest"
To lend an umbrella indicates 81 am a
fool"
To return an umbrella means--well,
never mind what it means, nobody ever
does that.
To turn an umbrella in a gust of wind
presages profanity.
To carry your umbrella in case signi-
fies it is a shabby one.
To carry an umbrella just high enough
to tear out mems eyes and knock of
mems hats, signifies a am a woman"
To press an umbrella on your friend.
saying: "Oh, do take it; had much
rather You would than not" signifies ly-
ing.
To give friend half of your umbrella
means that both of you will get wet.
To carry it from home in the morning
means ut will clear off"
The Osceola times., 1884-07-05

sometimes part Of jaw, sometimes a
portion of the vertebral column. The
caravans leave behind them every ami
NAL that can not keep up, and the jack
ais do not carry all the remains away.
And for several days we continued this
monotonous voyage, always in the saddle
always behind the same Arab, almost
without speaking.
Now, one afternoon, as We were ap-
preaching Bou-Saada, | saw afar off be-
fore us great dark mass, made larger by
the mirage, the form of which astopished
me. At our approach the vultures flew
away. II was carcass, still Shiny in
spite of the heat, glossy as though warm
ished with putrid blood. The chest alone
remained. The limbs bad doubtless
been torn off and carried away by the
voraciors devourers of the dead.
"Ab There are travellers ahead of u.s."
said the Lieutenant.
Some hours later we entered a ravine,
a sort Of defile-a frightful furnace, Dor.
dered by high rocks, toothed like saw
sharp, pointed, raging, rabid, in revolt
as it were against the implacably fero-
cious sky Another corpse was lying there
and jackal that had been devouring it
fled away.
Then, as we passed out of the ravine,
gray heap of something before us mov-
ed; and slowly, at the end of dispropor-
ately long neck, | saw the head of an
agonizing camel rise up. He was lying
there--had been lying there for
three or four days perhaps-on his
side, dying of fatigue and thirst. His
long members, that seemed inert. broken
all mixed up together, were stretched
upon the fiery soil. And, hearing us
coming, he lifted up his head like a
lighthouse. His forehead already gnaw-
ed by the sun, was but one wound, a
great running sore, and his resigned gaze
followed us. He did not utter moan
did not make the least effort to rise. One
would have thought that, at hi had seen
so many of his brothers die in their long
voyages through desolatien, he knew too
well the mercilessness of man. Now it
was his turn; that was all! And we pass
ed on.
But when | locked back long time
! saw still rising up from the
sand the lofty neck of the Abandoned
beast, watching to the end the last living
creatures he could ever behold. passing
beyond the horizon.
An hour later it was a dog, crouching
close to rock. with jaws wide open and
fangs glittering-incapable of moving a
paw-with eyes fixed upon two vultures
who sat not lar of, pluming themselves
while waiting for his death. He was so
possessed with terror of those terribly
patient birds waiting for his flesh, that
he never turned his head, and did not
even feel the stones that spahl flung at
him.
And suddenly at the outlet of another
detile, saw the oasis before me.
1t was an apparation never to be for
gotten. One has traversed endless plains
climbed mountains all craggy, bald, cal
cined, without ever seeing a tree, a plant
A single green leaf; and 10. right before
you, at your very feet, is an Opaque mass
Of soInbre verdure-as it were, lake OF
foliage extended upon the sand. Then,
further on, the desert recommences.
infinitely to the indefinable
horizon, where it mixes with the sky.
The Osceola times., 1884-07-05
TINE PRINTER.

He stood by his accustomed place
With aching limbs and weary brain.
The hues of death were on his face
He thought that he had lived in vain.
Lfe's little day drew near its close,
Soon all his hopes would be forgot
that long sleep, tn graves repose
Hard, hard indeed had been his lot.
But little longer could he strive,
His health had failed and he was poor,
His scanty wages scarce could drive
The hungry wolf from out his door.
Long years his hands had served him well
In tangled words and complex thought,
but what twas for he could not tell
What smallest good had all this brought
Fashion and wealth both met his view
With ever cold and naughty heart,
but II the printer only knew,
He still had played the strongest part.
Careworn and pale might be his face,
His passing power was over all;
Those little types when in their place
The oldest wrongs may well appall.
Oprinter, cease thy life To scan
Sttll do thy duty in thy place,
The noblcst art that's known TO man
Is TO uphold and aid his race.
cleveland Sentinel.
The Osceola times., 1884-07-05
FEW ORATORS AT TBE BAR.
A Judge says II 10 Becauss too Many
Young Lawyers Are Dudes.
Philadelphia Times.

Philadelphia Times.
Hardly q young lawyer now cult
Yates the art of speaking to a court or
jury" said common pleas judge yester-
day. "When Daniel Dougherty and
one or two others shall be gone, there
will be no lawyer to whom it will pleas
ure to listen. Mr.. Dougherty is, in fact,
almost the only man in practice who
has made oratory study. In my youth
Philadelphia lawyers were among the
best forensic takers Of the day"
"How is the change to be accounted
for?"
"In degree to the fact that every
lawyer now han DIS up an epitome of his
argument in the shape of a paper book,
to be read at the courts leisure, and so
in part does away with the necessity of
being entertaining and impressive in his
speech to the judges"
"But what about his speeches to
juries?"
Lawyers now are bad jury takers,
chiefly because they have deprived
themselves of the best field for the cul-
tivation of that branch of the art"
"What is the best fied?"
THE court of quarter sessions, the
court. in which we deal with crime,
with liberty, with the hearts of men.
There you may acquaint yourself with
the intricacies of human nature and
learn how best 10 persuade the soul.
When first came to the bar every law
yer appeared in the quarter sessions. l
tell you | have heard some splendid
speeches there. Now the sessions are
left for the most part TO men who would
laugh at any exalted notion of the advo-
Gates Office as mere sentimentalism.
There are some good men, however, who
still 90 into the quarter sessions and they
deserve all honor"
"Why do 80 many stay ort of that
court7"
Because they are dudes. They don't
wish to have anything to do with men
charged with crime. A young man
comes TO the bar with the fixed and
foolish resolution never to go into the
sessions. He fances that to break that
resolution would be to lose caste. Some
of these young dandies are the sons of
men who did splendid work in the Grim.
inal court. These dudes will take very
shady civil cause, but they would starve
to death rather than bury their false
pride and 90 into the sessions. When |
put one reason and the other together |
think see why oratory at the bar is be-
coming a memory only"