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St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1886-08-14
SCHOOL EXAMINATIONS.
How They Are Conducted In the Native
Schools of Asiatic Turkey.

How They Are Conducted In the Native
Schools of Asiatic Turkey.
Many boys and girls will be inter-
ested in an account given by an En-
glish traveller in Asiatic Turkey of his
visit to native school in that country.
In the school about two hundred girls
were being taught to read and write,
rare attainments for Turkish ladies.
The boys of the school were taught
arithmetic in addition to what was
thought suitable for girls. The trav-
eler was military man, and so his
experience in the school was amusing.
perhaps you would like to ask the
boys some questions" said the priest
who accompanied me through the
building.
Now if there is one thing l dislike,
it is being turned into an examiner.
There is always chance of the boys
knowing a great deal more than the
amateur setter Of questions But, as
the clergyman pressed me, tried to
remember some of the sums which
had once learned under the tuition of
my highly esteemed old master of Har
row.
The herring and half sum If a
herring and half cost penny and a
half, how much will three behring's
COST would have been too easy. I
bethought myself of another.
"Well. said the priest, little impa-
tiently, "they are waiting for YOU
There was dead pause, and | gave
the worthy divine the following ques-
ton: eff one man can NOW field in
three days, and another man in four,
how long will they be doing the work,
if they are both doing the work to-
gether?'
Come said the divine, 'you have
set them very easy sum, and he duly
translated it into Armenian.
at is hardly worth doing" said one
of the schoolmasters, ''for of course
the answer is three days and a half
''Of course; three and half said
the priest.
No" replied.
We soon after left the school, neither
masters nor pupils being at all certain
as to how they ought to set about do
ing the sum.
l breathed more freely on arriving in
the open air, and blessed my old mas
er,who had once sat me this catch ques-
ton, for my reputation as a profound
mathematician is established forever
amidst this generation of school boys
in Yuzgat.
After saying goodbye to the senior
pedagogue, who had accompanied me
to the steps of the threshold, l asked
him to give the lads half holiday. He
very kindly acceded to my request,
and cheer from the boys inside, when
the good news was impaired them,
made me aware that they, if not their
masters, were in no way dissatisfied
by my visit YOUTHS Companion.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1886-08-14
WASHING The DISHES.

She stood upon shady porch
Before a milk white table,
And DER her head rose-yine wrsathea
The brown old-fashoned gable.
a pretty cotton gown she wore,
With sleeves rolled up displaying
Her lovely arms, and on the breeze
Her curfs were lightly straying.
This side a cage of song-birds hung,
And that globe of fishes,
And butterflies flew in and out,
And lowered lovingly about
The maid that washed the dishes.
AT first she dreamed not 1 was near,
And never ceased her singing,
While through the shining bubbles fast
Her dainty mop went swinging.
But soon she spied me, end l heard
A little rill OF laughter,
And straight my heart sprang to her side,
And sprang quickly after.
And in moment more I'd told
My love, my hopes, my wishes,
And marked her bright eyes brighter grow
And then-work must be done. you know
She washed, wiped, the dishes.
-Mo'Gdret Eyt1nge. in Hdrper's Bdzdr.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1886-08-14
EFFECTS OF COFFEE.

What New York Doctor Thinks of the
Great American Breakfast Drink.
New York has doctor who has
busted himself lately writing pithy ar
ticles on some of the baptized and in
dorsed evils of society. His latest
manifesto is on "How Coffee Affects
People," and the aim of the papex
is to show that coffee is one Of
the most powerful drugs in the
list of medicines. The proof of its
power as drug is shown by the
fact that it is used to a greater extent
than any other as an antidote for
poisons, both animal and vegetable.
He urges that he does not desire to
reach the ear of the public in general,
but those who have pains in the region
Of the heart, oppressed breathing and
irregular pulse; those who are exceed
ingly nervous and unable to sleep at
night; those who have full feeling.
dizziness and pains of neuralgia
character in the head; who have nausea
and sourness of the stomuch without
having transgressed the laws of life;
who have pains in the liver, a yellow
skin, with eyes of the same sort, and
lastly, who have hemorrhoids. If the
doctor supposes he has left out one OF
two of all creation from this
list he may be right, but he
certainly is moving a wide swath,
and may honestly say he is after the
ear of the public. To these he Offers
one suggestion. Omit coffee for
time, throw physic to the dogs, and
find out if the trouble after all is not
in the drug used as a beverage. In
moderate doses coffee raises the blood
pressure and accelerates the heart
Now, says the doctor, heart disease 10
in the main an easily prevented disease,
and it is very frequently due to the ex-
cessive use of coffee. He enumerates
several instances where he had called
to prescribe and had found his patients
given up to die, but there was really
nothing the matter but the breakfast
drug. He wisely suggests that in this
day of sudden deaths we are called
upon to review our methods OF eating
and living, in order to get at the cause
or causes. ''The heart and brain re-
the body If the vessels in the brain
are kept distended we have, as a warm
ing, dizziness and pain, and, if the
warnings are unheeded, apoplexy. So
with the heart. So short are its inter-
walls of rest when beating at seventy
two to eighty-four, that we can hardly
conceive it. Add to this the stimulus
that sends it up to ninety, and we must
produce disease. He concludes that
for our regular meals and at evening
parties we should substitute the SIM
pier cocoa or bouillon and escape dam
ger.-B0st071 Transcript
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1886-08-14
WOODEN SHOES.
The Awkward But Lasting Foot Gear Worn
by Belgian Peasants.

The awkward But Lasting Foot Gear Worn
by Belgian Peasants.
Many Of the shonest citizens wear
heavy wooden shoes. which render
their gait laborious and ungraceful. A
number of the bellies of the lower
classes drag these heavy shoes along
with them. The children seem to be
able to manage their wooden shoes
much easier than the grown people.
When dozen or more little urchins in
dulge in a romp in the street they set up
a clatter which can be heard for blocks.
The mother who wishes to find her
naughty child who has left its task for
street play, does not at first use her
eyes in the search for the juvenile de-
linquent. She quietly sticks her ear
out of the window, and when she hears
loud clatter which suggests the tear
ing down of houses in the neighbor.
hood, she rushes to this sound, guided
by her ears. When at length, breath
ing forth threatenings and slaughter.
she leads home her shrieking Offspring,
the cries of the latter are drowned by
the music of its companions footballs.
The great advantage of the wooden
shoe is its staying powers. Every one
does not require new pair of shoes in
his or her lifetime. When the honest
citizen is informed by the blooming
daughter that she would like to have .
new pair of wooden shoes, he frowns
and says: ''My child, what is the mat
ter with that pretty pair which you-
grandmother received as her wedding
gift? They are still neat, although
not gaudy. You must remember that
times are hard, and that family ex-
penses must be kept down." The
common people seem to understand
how to live cheaply. Many of the
laboring men earn but fifty cents day,
and yet manage to support families
and at the same time lay up enough
money to give decent burial to those
members of their families who find
themselves unable to keep up the task
Of trying to ive.-Amtscerp Cor. N. z.
Times.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1886-08-14
MUCK FOR MANURE:
An Excellent Way to Make Big and valu-
able Manure Pile. !

An Excsll ent Way to Make Big and valu-
able Manure Pile. i;
But by careful management large
addition of manure-the richest resource
of the farm-may be made at the cost,
of some labor and little money out Of
pocket. A considerable bill for fertil-
izers is an eye-opener and sets one
thinking how he can save the large lot
of money for so small lot of manure.
An excellent way to make big manure
heap is as follows: Dig from the swamp
and if the farmer is so unfortunate as
to have none, let him offer his more for
tunate neighbor to dig drains in his
swamp for the muck he throws out; but
in some way get a lot of swamp muck;
two or three hundred loads. Make a
heap-a big one, in field; spread foot
in depth OF the muck, roughly, whiten
it all over with fresh lime from the kiln,
add more muck and more lime and So
on until the heap is five foot high. I'd
will soon get hot and keep hot, and in
the spring will be sweet, dark. rich
mass of valuable fertilizer, having from
twenty to fifty pounds of nitrogen,
worth fifteen to twenty cents pound
in artificial fertilizers, in every ton of it.
More muck may. be put in the COW yard;
in the stable cutters; and especially in
the pig-pen along with the horse ma
nure, which will all be turned over and
over and worked up to a rich compost
with the refuse of the pig-pen. Making
manure is fine art far too little studied
by farmers. Where swamp muck can
not be procured, leaves, straw, chat
and any or all other vegetable matter
may be gathered for this purpose.-Cor.
N. r Tribune.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1886-08-14
BLASTED HOPES.
How Cruel Fate Blighted the Hopes OF q
? Loving Connie.

How Cruel Fate Blighted the Hopes Of
Loving Couple.
Together they stood in the gray dusk
which settled over the earth like the
filmy mist which marks the course of
the ashman's chariot. He fastened his
eyes upon her peach-blow countenance
and would not, could not, unfasten
them. He looked in vain for one reas-
surfing sign, but her beautiful lips were
as cold as restaurant coffee. She
turned her eyes upon the ground and
would not turn them off. He felt that
his suit was hopeless.
For three long months he had been
burning the midnight coal at her
fathers mansion.
"Why, why am 1 thus cast off?'' he
cried at last He had about run out of
original inquiries, and was getting
down to stock conundrums. But to
our story. "Why, why am | thus
sent off?h he cried at last. IN. B.
He only made that remark once, in
reality.)
George" and as she opened her
coral lips, and gave an extra suck at
her teeth, his face lighted up with
pleasure, 81 will tell you. l hate to
give you the cold bluff, but times is
hard and ma is doing the wash" Here
gigantic culver seemed to have quave
through his entire system.
"Alas!' she went on, in tones of
grief, scattering here and there a semi
tone for melodic effect. ma says that
II 70 a11
summer or you will have to get your
seersucker coat washed, one of the
two,'-and here she wept anew-'I
think we had better part.
Thus were two young lives severed
by a cruel trick of fantastic fate
Merchant Irdgsler.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1886-08-14
DiSGRACED HIMSELF,
g. Texas Colonies Opinion of tho Realistic
Music of the Day.

d. Texas CoIonePs Opinion of tho Realistic
Music of the Day.
Colonel Sumpter Mcbride, of Aus
tin, Tex, is in New York, on visit to
the Clamwhoppers of Fifth avenue, of
whom he is a distant relative.
One day last week he accompanied
Mrs. Clamwhopper to Central Park,
where they listened to the open-air
concert given by Cappa's band.
Mrs. Clamwhopper is somewhat of a
crank on the subject of music, while
Colonel Mcbride cares for no music
whatever, unless, perhaps, it is the
dinner bell. Mrs. Clamwhopper called
his attention to u particular piece on
the programme, 1.-The Blacksmith in
the Woods" After the applause had
subsidized Mrs. Clamwhopper turned to
her guest and said:
''This composition is descriptive OF
the daily routine of blacksmith in the
woods. 1t commences with the bab-
ling sound of brook close by. The
notes of the cuckoo and other birds an
nounce the approach of day. The
clock strikes five. The regular morn
fires his forge and enters upon the
noisy labors of the day
You don't say so!'' calculated tho
Texan.
81 suppose you recognize how true
to nature were the mimic melodies
produced by the various instruments?
''Well, y-a-s. You say that when
the fellow with the flute made sound
like tootle, tootle. tootle, that it was in
tended to represent babbling brook?'
queried the Colonel.
Eyes, and how natural it wasv'
"Humph! l thought the blacksmith
had got out of bed and encouraged his
appetite with snifter from demiiohn.
That tootle. tootle, sounded Just like
it, but what was that regular see-saw
sort Of a noise?"
"Why, Colonel, that represented the
family at their devotions. Those soft
cadences represented the sound of the
lit did. ehe Well, I'll be dog-goned
il l didn't think the blacksmith had
turned in again and was cnoring like
house atire. I'll swear that was whas
it seemed to me to be like"
Mrs. Clamwhopper sighed, and sew
eral persons who were on the bench
behind them snickered right out.
"What was that hammerin' and
poundin' ~ asked the Colonel.
"Why, Colonel, that was the black
smith at work at his anvil
That's what l thought, but then
again it occurred to me that perhaps
he had done something to annoy his
wife, and she was taking it out on him
with rolling-pin. didn't hear any
thing in the music that sounded as il
the blacksmith had had any breakfast.
If was running that band I'd have
one Of the musicians burn piece Of
bacon 50 that the smell would make the
audience understand that the poor
blacksmith actually did get some
breakfast anyhow. I don't see how no
can do any real hard work on an empty
stomach. You wouldn't let Mr.. Clam
whopper 60 to his work on an empty
stomach, would you?'
The giggling on the bench behind
Mrs. Ciamwhopper and her guest from
the flower-bespangled prairies was SO
excessive that, complaining of the heat,
she requested Colonel Mcbride to escort
her home. When she takes him to
hear some realistic music again he will
know it.-Tezas Sytinqs.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1886-08-14

The price of tobacco in England is
extensively enhanced by inscriptions
dealers who increase its weight by max
ing it excessively damp. In some sorts
of smoking of the cheaper brands, fifty-
five to sixty per cent. of water has BEEN
detected
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1886-08-14

The camphor laurel, from which
the camphor gum of commerce is OBJ
tanned, has been successfully intro
duced into California. It is native Of
China.-San Francisco Chronicle
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1886-08-14

Katie Coed, eleven years old, car
ries ladder aud lights street lamps in
Lancaster, Pa. She says she does it to
help her pop"
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1886-08-14

One factory in New Jersey keeps
two hundred men in steady employ
ment the year round making Roman
candles.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-03-25
Order of Publication.

In the Circuit Court of Iron County, Mo-, in
vacation-March 1st, 1886:
The State of Missouri at the relation andt O
the use of VIM. A. Fletcher, Collector OF
theReyenue of Iron County, Mo-,
against
s. P. Miller, Mrs. s. P Miller and the I'M
known heirs of s. P. Miller, and Peckham
Iron Company, and David Fisher and all
unknown heirs.
faction to Enforce Payment of Taxes.l
Now at this day comes the plaintiff. Vim.
A. Fletcher, collector of the revenue of Iron
county. Missouri, apd files his petition and
affidavit, setting forth among other things,
that the defendants are non residents of the
State of Missouri and can not be summoned
in this action by the ordinary process of law
lie is therefore, ordered by the clerk of the
circuit court of Iron county, Mo-, in vacation.
that publication be made, notifying said de-
PENDANTS that an action has been commenced
against them in tie circuit court of said coun-
ty, the object and general nature of which is
to enforce the len of the State of Missouri
for back taxes for the years 1876, 1873. 1879,
1880, 1881, 1882, and 1884, on the following
real estate, belonging to said defendants, to
wit:
South half lot one of southwest quarter of
section Z: south half of southeast quarter of
section z; southeast quarter of southwest
quarter and southwest quarter of southeast
/, quarter OF section s; north half of northwest
quarter of section II, south half of lots l and
9 of northwest quarter and northeast quarter
! OF section IS; ali in township 81, range four
east.
IAN itemized statement in the nature of a
ia * BILL showing the amount of taxes now
due on said real estate, for the years afore-
said amounting in the aggregate to the sum
of S21.24, is filed with said petition IS provd-
ed by law And unless they be and appear
at the next term OF said courts to be holden
for said county of Iron. aud State of Missouri,
at the courthouse in said county, on the
fourth Monday in April next QSS6). ane
on or before the sixth day thereof (f the
term shall so long continue; and II not. then
befoSe the end of the term), and plead, an
swer or demur to said plaintiffs petition, the
same will be taken as confessed, judgment
rendered in accordance with the prayer of
said petition, and said real estate, or so
much thereof as may be necessary to satisfy
said Judgment, interest and costs. be sold un-
der special fieri facias to be issued thereon.
1t is further ordered that copy hereof be
published according to law in the 'sIron
County Register weekly newspaper pnb-
lished in said county o. Iron. and State of
Missouri.
true copy: JOS. HUFF. Clerk.
Attest, with seal, this 1st day of March,
TsEAL 1856. JOS. HUFF, Clerk
Iron County Circuit Court.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-03-25

For SALE.-Number One Farm, contain
ing 200 acres; $50 in cultivation; dwelling
houses, out house, fine springs, good or
chard, splendid range. Convenient to church
and school. Will be sold cheap; one-h half
cash, balance on twelve months time. APP
ply to j. I. AXE, Ironton, Mo.
STRAYED.-From the undersigned, lin Iron
ton, on the 22d of February, dark bay mare
mule, rough shod all round, about IA hands
high, heavy built, 3 years old; rope round its
neck. Very gentle. A liberal reward will
be paid for its return to me, or for Informal
ton concerning it.
PERUVIAN JOHNSON,
Warren's Store, Reynolds county, Mo.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-03-25
aron County geglster

For sALE-At bargain, the property re-
Gently occupied by G. A. Moser and family
as a residence, and also the property on the
southeast corner of Main and Reynolds
Street, occupied by Drug Store, and the
building adjoining. For prices and terms,
inquire of JOHN L. BALDWIN.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-03-25
Assignee's Notice of Intention to ASK
for Discharge.

Notice is hereby given to all creditors and
others interested in the matter of the assign
ment of John NJ. Moore for the benefit OF
creditors, that I, James III. Clark assignee OF
the estate of John NJ. Moore, will at the next
term of the Circuit Court within and for Iron
county, to be held in the courthouse, at Iron
ton, on the fourth Monday in April, 1886, APP
ply to the judge of said Court for discharge
from my trust on the first day of said term,
or as soon thereafter as 1 can be heard, and
will then and there file my petition for such
discharge. JAMES IL. CLAIM,
March LIST, 1886. Assignee.
Daily Tombstone epitaph., 1886-04-20
Tn. ,;,asvow Parliament.

A residen, of Tombstone, of European birth, tells good story to illustrate the amazing ignorance cf the Demagogue Robinson: He was talking to the gen tleman in question about Europe and oo served that he had nowhere seen better parliamentary rules than in the parlia ment at Glasgow. His auditor mildly hnted that there was only one parlia- ment in Great Britain, which met in London and suggested that lingo must refer to the Glasgow City Council. The grand man," however, still stoutly maintained that it was the Scottish par lament which he had attended in Gas gov, although his friend assured him that, if the canny Scots had parliament of their own, i, would probably meet ir Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland.
Daily Tombstone epitaph., 1886-04-20
For Sale.

A Ten-Stamp Quartz Mill, new and complete in all it's depart ments, situated in the southeastern portion of the Huachuca moun- tains 25 miles from Tombstone. This property is in splendid condi- tion and will be sold at a great sacrifice. For particulars apply to Taylor & Kenney, Vizina build ing, Tombstone.
Daily Tombstone epitaph., 1886-04-20

thing "is," because !, must be;;" to give no proofs, but assert that things arc bare naked falsehoods;' to confound "primacy" and Supremacy to speak of both a "visible" and an invisible head" and oi two persons to enc and the same body these, submit, aie violations of both, as we'll as of ordinary sense. This is not a conflic, of faiths, bu, simply a question of fact within the Christian faith, in which everyone having eternity before him is de:ervedly interested.
 THoS. w. HASKiNS.
Daily Tombstone epitaph., 1886-04-20

Summer is near at hand and Harris, the tailor, has just received a nice lot of summer suitings, not samples, but summer suitings, which he will make up at reasona- ble prices. Come and examine his stock, Bothin block, Allen street, opposite the Fashion stables.
Daily Tombstone epitaph., 1886-04-20
Notice to Taxpayers.

An adjourned meeting of Tax payers of Tombstone is called to meet at Judge Richatdson's office, under Occidental hotel, on Friday evening, next, April 23d, to con- sider a matter of importance.
 l.. w. BLINN, apl7-td Chairman
Daily Tombstone epitaph., 1886-04-20
Ladies, Attention

A large assortment of hats for ladies and girls. Also feathers flowers, ruches, veilings, corsets ribbons, embroideries in silk che nille, etc., and millinery goods of every description, for sale very cheap. Orders for work on these goods tast&ully executed, at low prices. Mrs. Schwartz, Fremont street, opposite Everhardy's butcher shop. lOl-lm
Daily Tombstone epitaph., 1886-04-20
Healthy Exercise.

"Hello, Jones! How strong and healthy you have grown since last we met!'
 "Yes, Dick, I'm cultivating my muscle preparatory to becoming pugilist. Feel of that arm"
 "What are you doing"
 "I'm working in jewellers store"
 "Pshaw! How can you increase your muscle by such light work as that?
 Easy enough. Iwind all the Water bury watches in the establishment. ."-Tid Bits.
Daily Tombstone epitaph., 1886-04-20
Notice.

All members of the Tombstone Stock Growers Association are hereby notified that the one per cent per head assessment on cattle and horses becomes due March 20, 1886. A remittance is asked at once FRED HERRERA,
 Secretary.
Daily Tombstone epitaph., 1886-04-20

" Frank Kingsbury, the former telegraph operator at this place, arrived in town yesterday from San Francisco, where he has been located for a couple of years. Frank is one of the most popular men in Tombstone and his numerous friends are giving him royal reception.
Daily Tombstone epitaph., 1886-04-20

Judge Hubbard, the founder of the Chicago Inter-O Ocean and one of the ablest men in that State, is visiting Tombstone. The Judge is accompanied by his daughter, and comes presumably to visit some of the mining properties in which he is interested.
Daily Tombstone epitaph., 1886-04-20

There will be meeting' of the Cemetery Committee of the Tombstone Fire Department, at 7;3o p. m., at Rescue Hose House. The Committee requests all members of the Fire Department to attend,
Daily Tombstone epitaph., 1886-04-20
Administrators Notice.

All persons having claims against w. P. Lan. caster, deceased, are required to exhibit them with the necessary vouchers to me, at my resi- dence in Wilcox, Arizona, within four months after the first publication of this notice.
 MRS N. L. LANCASTER, Dated April 20, 1886. Administratrx