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The Osceola times., 1885-01-17
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

During the last ten years six school
houses have burned in Somerville, Mass.
Boston Post.
Church property will be taxed in
Washington Territory. The recent cleo
tion decided the question.
The number of candidates for the
ministry in the Southern Presbyterian
Church is PA. against l44 three years
ago.
The teacher who is content to keep
pupils quiet and ask questions from the
textbook must wake up, or leave the
profession.-Iora Teacher
The children in an Ohio Sunday
school are raising money for missionary
purposes by gathering waste paper and
selling it, Cieueiand Ledder.
DIR. Taylor, the Bishop to Africa.
proposes, instead of teaching his assist
ant missionaries the native languages,
to teach the natives English as the short
er method.
Education is better safeguard of
liberty than n standing army. II we
retrench the wages of the school-master
we must raise those of the recruiting
sergeant-EcereH.
-Tarsus, the birthplace of st. Paul,
now boasts of Young Mems Christian
Association vigorously at work, and of
a native Bible woman successfully en-
gagged in teaching her sex from house
to house.
The school superintendents Of Mas
sachusetts resolved at Boston recently
in favor of opening the schools of the
State for night sessions, it being shown
that 10000 persons can not read and
write-Boston Globe.
In the public schools of Greece the
four Gospels of the New Testament are
used as a reader by the children of the
most advanced classes Of the primary
department, and the new Minister of
Education proposes TO extend their use
into the higher schools.
A medal has been struck in COM
memoration of the one hundredth ami
versary of Methodism in this country,
and is sold in duplicates by authority
of the Bishops. The case opens like a
book, and in the central portion, sur
rounded by velvet, the medal is so fixed
that both its sides are exposed when the
cover is opened, A pastor reports that
he lately found convert kneeling be-
fore it in alteration, using it for an idol.
He has heard that such perversion of
the object is common among the ne
groes of the South, where the medals
are held in awe rs possessing SUPER
natural qualities. - Chicago Times.
The school for printers apprentices
at st. Petersburg has been opened with
appropriate ceremonies. There will be
taught on three days every week, not
after working hours, but during the
daytime, religion, Slavic languages,
arithmetic, history and geography, the
reading of the Greek and Latin Ian
guages, technicalities of the graphic
trades, drawing, singing and gymnas-
tics-altogether it will be a complete
school. Twenty-three st. Petersburg
master printers have agreed to pay an
nual subsidies amounting to 1,55C
roubles (about $500, and every pupil
will have to pay one rouble per month.
The Osceola times., 1885-01-17
Origin Of a Slang Term.

One who has studied up says that the
word ''sndc," which has come into
general use, like many slang words.
means more than the nearest English
word in its meaning. There is the
''snod," from the provincial English,
which means "sly, cunning,n and is
derived from the word mood" used
in fishing tackle and in the way artful
young misses tie up their hair so as to
tie the young mans heart within.
The word ''schnide," from Pennsylva-
MIA Dutch. means the cut as applied to
a tailor, who is called schneider, F"
and probably cuts the cloth too short.
"Snide" is now applied TO almost ev-
erything manufactured which is under
quality. A "snide" buggy is one
oosely-constructcd and painted up to
look well. but out Of which the spoke
will fly driving round the turns. A
"snide" piano is one which has we'll
vanished case and brass fixings, but
with harp like that in Tara's halls,
and which will soon be mute.-Iroy
IN. T. Times.
The Osceola times., 1885-01-17
CHAPTER III.

For a little while no one spoke. The
minds of the three men were occupied
with the same subject, but each of them
was looking at it from his own point of
view.
You were my fathers friend, and
you must be mine in this matter, Mr..
Gimp" said Frank, at last. 1t shall
be nothing out of your pocket to humor
me in this whim."
"But it will be so unprofessional so
utterly unprofessional.h urged the lit
Tie lawyer, with a look of comical dis
tre3s.
81 do not ask you for any active as
lsistance in the matter; all ] want is
your passive connivancc," urged Frank.
" hate impostures of any kind, Mr..
Frobisher
" Not more than do, as a rule. But
this one can not harm anybody"
"Onc never can see how things will
end. Besides. Mr.. Drummond's looks
and general appearance are SO different
from yours.
That does not matter in the least.
Neither my uncle nor aunt has seen me
since ! was twelve months old. My
cousin Clunie, any my other cousin
Elma Deenc, have never seen me at all.
am not n bit like my mother, ! have
been told; features, eyes, hair, are all
my fathers"
81 do wish most sincerely. Mr. Fro
blsher, that if you must carry out this
scheme, you could do so without in any
way duplicating me in it,"
Il must really claim your passive as
slstance, my dear sir. Without that,
down"
Mr.. Gimp lay back in his chair. with
sigh of resignation, and began to pol
>sh his double eyeglass Mr.. Frobisher
was evidently most determined Young
man, and some concession was due TO
me whims Of client with eight thou
sand year
Dick.
They are of the simplest possible
KIND The mom9nt my uncle is an
hounced. you become Frank Frobisher
and become Dick Drummond."
I'm other words, become you and
you become me--for the timepn
Yes, till ! give you leave to resume
your own identity"
ITO hear, my lord, is to obey"
Frank turned to the lawyer. Have
You confidential clerk. Mr.. Gimp.
whom you can place at my disposal for
week or two
Certainly, Mr.. Frobisher. Our Mr.
Whiiiles, although young, is discretion
itself, and by no means devoid of intel
ligence. l shall be happy to place him
at your disposal
"Be good enough TO send Mr.. Whit
Hes to me at ten O'clock tomorrow, and
advance him fifty pounds before he
comes.'
"Beg pardon; but any instructions
laas can give Wbiiiiss from you
The Osceola times., 1885-01-17
The Ascetie idea of Family Life.

should be very sorry for the peopls
! live with to discharge their home
duties in the spirit of martyrs. God
preserve us all from wives. husbands,
children, brothers and sisters who go
about the house with an air of celestial
resignation There are homes in which
i think / have caught glimpse Of peo-
ple:of that kind. They perform every
duty with faultless eXactness--an ex-
actness precise enough to irritate a
saint. They submit with exemplary
patience to every Inconvenience, and
are rather grateful than otherwise for
the disappointment and vexations
which sometimes disturb the smooth
currents of life in the happiest families.
But they regard the claims OF Others
as aflording opportunities for acts Of
sclf-denial which take the place of the
hair shirt and the fasting and the
scourgc of the monastic life. a panacea
to be endured for the discipline of their
perfection. The lines rest on a poor,
mean unchristian conception of self
denial which l cannot stay to discuss.
They also set the home life in false
key. Self-denial! This is not what we
ought to think of in connection with
wife or husband, parent or child,
brother or sister; but the joy of ailec-
tionate and hearty service for others.
1t is no sclf-denal for man towear an
old coat little longer that his wife
may have a new dress, or for a mother
to go on wearing an old bonnet that
one of her children may have new
pair of boots. Where there is the kind
of love which ought to bind all hearts
together m a home the happiness OF
life comes from giving our own pleas
ant things to those who are dear to US.
-R. W. Dale.
The Osceola times., 1885-01-17

The new Schuylkill Valley Railroad
in Pennsylvania is remarkable for the
number and costliness of its bridges.
Besides thirteen large iron structures,
it has many others which span small
streams and ravines. The largest
bridge, that at Manayunl, is |, 400 feet
in length, has five spans with plate
girdcrs, and stands eighty-live feet
above the level of the water. The
bridge over the Union canal at Read
ing is 700 feet in length. with through
truss. In addition TO the expense of
the various bridges is that of the tun-
mel near Phnnxvillc, which, with its
approaches, was formed out of the
solid rock. The tunnel is 800 feet by
twenty-sevcn feet widc.- Philadelphia
Times.
The Osceola times., 1885-01-17
Heavy Defalcation.

81 understand" said a man to an ac-
quaintance, ''that you are no longer
postmaster at Hornvile."
That's fact"
"Did you resign?"
"No; they showed me out"
"What for?"
"Misappropriation of funds, they
said"
But you are not guilty, are you?"
'Well, came out fifty cents short"
THAT all? They should have made
no complaint about so small an amount.
Only fifty cents?"
That's ALL"
That's strange. What was the total
amount of receipts during the entire
year?"
Seventy-fye cents" - ArkansaW
7fareler.
The Osceola times., 1885-01-17
Another Life Saved.

About two years ago, prominent citi-
zen of Chicago was told by his physicians
that he must die. They said his system
was so debiitated that there was nothing
left TO build on. lie made up his mind to
try "new departure" He got some Of
DR.. Pierce's "Golden Medical Discovery"
and took it according to directions. He
began TO improve at once. He kept up the
treatment for some months, and is to-day a
well man. lie Gays the Discovery" saved
his life.
The Osceola times., 1885-01-17

THE statement Of DR.. Samuel K. Cox,
Practical and Analytical Chemist, Wash
ington, ID. c., reads: Red Star Cough
Cure Is entirely free from all opiates, poi
sons and emetics. 1t is an original combi-
nation of the best remedial agents, and Is
as harmless us it Is effective"
The Osceola times., 1885-01-17
WrccIxcd Health.

Victims of youthful indiscretions suffer.
ing from nervous debility, lack OF self-con.
fidence, impaired memory, and kindred
symptoms, should send three letter stamps
for large illustrated treatise, giving means
of certain cure, with numerous testimo:
mails. Address Worlds Dispcnsary Medical
Association, Duralo, n. y.
The Osceola times., 1885-01-17
"A lad entered n box In a theafer

A lad entered box in a theater at
San Antonio, Tex, where he drank
freely during the performance. As the
curtain fell on the last act he shot him
self through the head. dying instantly.
The acting in Texas seems to be worse
this year than usual.-N. Y Graphic.
The Osceola times., 1885-01-17
Home Items and Topics
-sAr your own fault
n you remain sick when you 0qD
Get hon bittcrs thS. n6vor-Tuu

-sAll your own fault
n you remain sick when you Co
Get hop bittcrs that nevcr-Ial
The weakest woman, smallest chilA,
and sickest invalid can use hop bltters with
safety and great good
-0ld men tottering around from Rhsu'
matlsm, kidney trouble or any weakness
will be made almost new by using hop bitterh
.E-My wife and daughter were mado
healthy by the use Of hop bitters and rco.
ommend them TO my people.
Clergyman.
Ask any good doctor n hop
Bitters arc not the best family medicine
On cazthl!l
Malarial fever, Ague and BillousneoI
will leave every neighborhood IS soon ~
hop bitters arrive.
MY mother drove the paralysis and
neuralgia all out Of her system with hop
bitters. ED. Oslcego SUM-
B-Keep the kidneys healthy with hop
bitters and you need not fear sickness"
Ice water Is rendered harmless and
more refreshing and reviving with hop
bitters in each drau.at
The vigor of youth for the aged and in
firm in hop bitters!!.
(-"At the change of life nothing equals
4 Hop Bitters TO allsy all troubles incident
Thereto"
-"The best periodical for ladies to take
monthly, and from which they will receive
the greatest benefit Is hop bittcrs."
Mothers with sickly, fretful, nursing
children, will cure the children and bencm
themselves by taking hop bitters daily.
Thousands die annually from some form
of kidney disease that might have been pro
lx.. all <,f hrv,
INDIGESTION, weak stomach, irregulari-
ties of the bowels, can not exist when bog
bitters are used.
A timely use Of hop
Bitters will keep whole family
In robust health ayear at little cost
TO produce real genuine sleep and
child-llke repose all night take little bog
bitters on retiring.
The Osceola times., 1885-01-17

IAN seized with DISGUST, said the darky
whose hat was blown away by the wind
lIQterlOO OJserrer,
The Osceola times., 1885-01-17

TAiLoRs ought always to be able to
please their customers, because 1t Is their
especial business to sui; people.
The Osceola times., 1885-01-17

No SAFER REMEDY can be had for
Coughs and Colds, than "Brolcn's BroR-
chidi Troches." Sold only in boxes. 25cts.
The Osceola times., 1885-01-17

EVERYTHING is adulterated. Even boys
OF sixteen ere adult t-he-rated.- WhitehdlI
Times
The Osceola times., 1885-01-17
"Frailty, thy Name Is Woman"

rnat she Is frail, often In body.
"'Tls true It's true, tIs pity.
And pity It's It's true
DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescription" Is
tae best restorative tonic for physical frail-
ty in women, or female weaknesses or de-
rangements. By druggists. Price reduced
10 one dollar.
The Osceola times., 1885-01-17

WITH umbrellas, like mon, IL Is generals
Iy the poorest that gets left.-N Y. Jour
nal
The Osceola times., 1885-01-17

BY the error of Others the wise
u,ap correcIs bis own.
The Osceola times., 1885-01-17

PfKE's TooTHAcnr DRoPs cure in minute,25c
Glenn's Sulphur Soap heals and bcautifes. Zoe.
GERMAN Corn REMOVER kills Corns & Bunions.
The Osceola times., 1885-01-17

CONTEMPT Of court-The way the old
man feels when the daughters lover fingers
into the small hours.-Eos'on Stdr.
The Osceola times., 1885-01-17

tBr None genuine without bunch Of greea
Hops on the white label. shun AL the vie, pots
The Osceola times., 1885-01-17
A timely use Of hop
Bitters will keep whole family
In robust health year at little cost

To produce real genuine sleep and
child-llke repose all night take little bop
bitters on retiring.
, 1885-01-28

1t lmmaterial whether any notice be
taken Of it or not, and that some
speculative individuals in the trade
may possibly make it a vehicle for
advertising purposes, by giving away
so much sugar with SO much tea. 1t
further asks, what will our West
Indian possessions do during the
coming year or two? and clearly
demonstrates the hopelessness of ex-
pecting the British Government to
put on a countervailing duty to en-
courage even their home manufac-
lure, for although they do not like
to see their own Factories closed,
they look at the question above the
low platform of party benefit, and
consider that the matter stands thus :
a population of forty millions en-
joying the vast advantages of
cheap sugar, and an industry en-
ploying o"ly about twenty thou
sand men suffering from that very
chcupness; shall voices be raised to
plead for the forty millions, or for the
twenty thousand ? or in order 10 find
work for this small number, shall the
forty millions be saddled with denrer
sugar? They consider it would be
better for the nation to pay the TWEEN
ty thousand men their wages for do
ing nothing rather than adopt a coun-
tervailing duty for their special pro-
lection; which must in its nature be
inimical to the larger class-ihe great
majority,
Now a countervailing duty is really
the only rational measure that could
permanently benefit us, but as we
are pretty sure by this time that a
government suffering from "tree trade
on the brain" will never consent to
such an impost, and as we are told
besides that the piteous lamentations
OF twenty thousand E"nglishmen are
easily stifed by the lusty voices Of
forty millions of their W country
men, can we expect that those selfish
beings will ever be inclined to listen
to the tiny cries which echo from
these distant colonies
We may therefore abandon for the
present at any rate all hopes of q
counteryailing duty, but to prevent
total extinction which must surely
come sooner or later upon the manu-
facfure of raw muscol ado let us re-
form our process sufficiently to n Il
bic us to retain our position firmly
in the future rs sugar growing colo
nies, and until impediments can be
removed and matters set in motion
for the full development of a new
system, we say by all means hold on
in III present groove, and be bound
down tono promises and engagements;
AMI when our Planters are trying to
establish q commercial treaty with
the United States and Canada, it
may be deemed presumptuous to
question their wisdom, but we must
admit that as we are neither sufici-
emily gifted to remove the stumbling
blocks that obstruct our paths in
that direction, nor the grave objec-
tons we perceive to hal measure.
we can hardly be expected to extol
, 1885-01-28

ratOOn without extra tlllage, but 1t Is
quite impossible for these fields to do
we'll on heavy soils unless the banks
are ploughed or forked, and the
trenches deepened even in moderate
ly wet years if such operations are
not strictly carried out, the clay sub
soil retains a sufficient amount Of
surface moisture to retard growth and
prove destructive.
We may say we have always con-
sidered it special wisdom to remem-
Der the ration crops, from which at a
comparatively ihing outlay wenoton-
ly add to our numbers, but at the same
time materially increase the value of
our parcels, and in these days when
the expense Of growing sugar is of
such vital Importance, and means
nothing less than cultivation with
strict economy, or the total abandon
ment of our failing industry, we
think it a pity that a maximum re-
turn should not be sought for from
this less costly and more lasting
source. X X X \
Preparation of Land-has been
greatly reduced for 18S6-we think
not more than half the usual quantity
is yet open, and as there are no signs
of vitality in this direction, we may
reasonably presume that next years
crop will be small. W. therefore
warn our Planters not to render their
prospects more gloomy by so quickly
withdrawing their shoulders from
the wheel, or they must ultimately
suffer not only from bad prices, bat
from the short returns to which they
have SO readily consented. Desper-
ate as our case may be, we consider
it unwise so 500 to throw up the
sponge" to our continental adverSa-
ries, who are only themselves endea-
vouring to hold out until we are
crushed. 4
Labour for the past six months has
been sufficiently abundant to bring
down wages at least % q cen from
their former rates. We are not how
ever inclined to congratulate our
selves upon this reduction, as the
cause is 100 clearly the outcome Of
great depression in the sugar market.
AS usual, under the most trying in
cidents our Iahourers have displayed
a good feeling and willingness to
yield to circumstances, which could
not be surpassed by the peasantry of
any country, and while we are pic
turing certain ruin to the Planters,
we hope that sympathy may also be
extended to these people, who with
all their faults are more intelligent
and Iaw-abiding than many of their
fairer brethren. Indeed we know
from actual observation that they
have suffered great privation during
the past five or six months, and we
only trust that whenever the "silver
streak" appears to Tighten up the
Planters prospects it may at the same
time bring glad tidings to the heart
of the poor labourer.
The Grocers' Gin cular says that
before another year is over sugar for
nothing may be a common announce
, 1885-01-28
AmtiguG Agricultural Report.
1884.
(FrOm the Observer.)

us to CONSIDER II a wet year , a reCOtu
of the rainfall however at once dis
closes that the moisture was partial
and unevenly dispensed, and AS we
really had no regular wet season,
unless an unusually favourable spring
follows, the Crop which is now to be
reaped must necessarily be smaller
than it was last year. The rainfall
varied between 70 and 81 inches, as
far as we can yet ascertain.
Plant Canes-With a liberal sup
ply of arrows giving an appearance
Of length which they do not possess,
are no where forward or luxuriant,
and although on certain Estates there
NAV be some fine canes, we do not
notice the run of rich and heavy
growth usually seen at this season.
But if we are inclined to be at all
skeptical let us for a moment recall
the appearance OF the crop in 1884
and we shall 0 be convinced that
there is now little else than a fair
promise; we observe no Iength Of
reed in our fields, nor have we any
thing to depend upon for a return
but these canes, the general appear
ance of the ratoon crop being poor
and badly cared for.
We need hardly enter into the
cnu>e of our failure, rs irresl ectlve
of the absence of heavy rains with
which we decidedly had to contend,
we must remember the very imper-
feet and hurried preparation these
fields received during the wet season
of 1888, when, as already pointed out
in our last report, ploughing and cross
holing might have been more bene-
fcialIy postponed for a later and drier
period.
There are few fields in any part of
the Island that we should be inclined
to pun down at three hogsheads per
&C re.
Rutoon Canes-On very few places
up 10 the usual standard, and on the
heavy soils their appearance is lamen-
table; the faiIure of this crop is no
doubt greatly to be attributed to the
scarcity OF labour during the reaping
season of the past year, when the
energies of the Planter were chiefly
exeried in making sugar, and when
we are sorry to say the ratoons were
not sufficiently looked after.
But as some of our friends may
possibly be inclined to blame the few
wet weeks in October and Novem-
Der for their short comings, we may
as we'll remind them that although
heavy soils naturally retain moisture
longer than lighter lands, and suffer
more readily in consequence, we in
no way yield to the opinion that
there was such an unusually heavy
fall of rain at any period in the past
year as to prove destructive to this
crop, indeed we know if the lands
had been in the first instance proper
ly prepared and drained, that the
canes which have been more or less
water logged for the past three
months would have had even in the
wettest year an appearance of vitality
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1885-02-14
Ch1cOt, La.
Special to the Times-Democrat.


cola, La, Feb. 9.-1ntelllgence has
just been received of horrible murder
committed near ChiGot, parish OF St.
Landry, supposed to have been perpe-
trated about Z o'clock, Thursday even
ing, the 9Th instant. The victim, Rance
West, white man about fifty years of
age, went to Chico5 early Thursday
evening with the intention of making
some purchasers and return at night.
Not Appearing at the appointed time his
family became alarmed and instituted
a search for him which resulted in the
finding of his body Saturday morning
in the woods about two miles west OF
Chicot. He had been shot in the back
and his brains beaten out with the gun
stock. The object of the murderer
seems to have been robbery, as Mr..
West left home with small amount OF
money. The perpetrators of this horri-
bic crime are as yet unknown, although
d diligent search is being made to bring
the guilty parties to light.