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WORDS OF WISDOM.

Method is the very hinge of business,
and there is no method without punctu-
atty.
Experience does take dreadfully high
sfRhool-wages, but he teaches like 10
other.
A little praise is good for a shy temper;
it teaches us to rely on kindness of
others.
Compliments of congratulation are al
ways kindly taken, and cost one nothing
but pens, ink, and paper.
Whatever you would have your chill
dren become. strive to exhibit in your
own lives and conversation.
He that blows the Goals in quarrels he
has nothing to do with, has no right to
complain if the sparks fly in his face.
IT'S an ill thing to be ashamed of ones
poverty; but much worse not to make
use of lawful endeavors to avoid it.
Good nature and venness of temper
will give you an easy companion for life;
virtue and good sense an agreeable
friend; love and constancy a good wife
or husband.
The best rules to form a young man
are to talk little, to hear much, to reflect
alone upon what has passed in company,
to distrust ones own opinions and value
others that deserve it.
Try to be something in the world and
you will be something. Aim at excel
fence, and excellence will be attained.
This is the great secret of success and
eminences II cannot do it." never ac-
complished anything. II will try" has
wrought wonders.
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Mrs. Garfield has recently denied the
report printed in the newspapers that
she was preparing u biography of her
husband, but says that ever since his
death she has been collecting the ma
terial for such a work. A good authority
states that it is, not improbable that a
biography Will appear before very long,
written with Mrs. Garield's authority,
and for which she will supply many let
ters and important documents. Colonel
Rockwell, it is also reported. will be the
editor of the work.
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A New Sort of Jewel.

The fashionable gem of the day in
Paris. is the oudja. The oudja is simply
a charm the virtue of which lies in the
fact that it is as old as the pyramids.
The oudja is made of a delicate parallelo-
gram of gold or silver, in which is seen
an eye, elongated in form, from which
falls a tear and divides into smaller drops.
It serves as an ornament for charms,
brooches, pins, and especially bracelets.
Al strange and inexplicable symbol, the
oudja was nevertheless at once adopted
by people of taste and elegance. In
London 1t Is creating q furor.-JepeEer's
Wesklg.
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A FOE TO FAT.
HOW TO REDUCE ONES SIZE
BY THE BANTING SYSTEM.
The Kinds of Food to be Avoided
Not Quantity but Quality the
Cause of Corpulence
i'm People.

New York is a great place in which to
have friends and not see them for months.
A Tribune reporter realized this the other
day when he ran across a friend whom he
had not met in a year. But the fact of
not meeting did not strike the newspaper
man SO oddly as the change in the others
appearance. The friend was nearly five
feet nine in height, about 30 years old,
and apparently neither fat nor thin. He
was a man whom one would call simply
in good condition. That was singular
enough, for only a year Or So before the
reporter had noted that his friend was
~unpleasantly and ungracefully stout.
His fat seemed to settle in his waist
and cheeks. Now he was plump-nothing
more. :
"Changed?" the friend repeated after
the reporter. eyes, I should think so.
Decent looking kind of. spectacle now,
although not pretty, of course! I'll tell
you how | did it. I. made up my mind
l would no longer be so ungracefully fat,
and determined to try banting. | had
half starved myself before this, but it
had done no good. | concluded, there
loIt, tildG III was HUI UI1G dIiOuuG Vi 1OOu l.
ate, but the quality, SO I changed my diet
and here | am"
"What is the process2"
II gave up sugar and all sweet things,
bread, potatoes, beer and sweet wines,
milk, butter and parsnips. That is,
did SO at first. | ate dry toast, under
done beef, or any other kind of meat;
any kind of vegetables except potatoes
and parsnips, salads, fish, and, in fact,
anything l pleased except what was for
hidden. It was hard at first, of course,
and I don't believe l could have had the
nerve to give up sweet things and milk
entirely, but | compromised. I took
just enough milk and sugar in my coffee
at breakfast to make it palatable, and
that little indulgence did not seem to
hurt me. lost flesh rapidly. Here are
the figures which / have in my pocket
memorandum-net weight, for l weighed
myself in a Turkish BATH
This was the table:
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were cheaper to deal with. She said the
dressmaker looked closely into the char
acters of her customers and sold and
made up dress goods at ''only" ten per
cent more than the cash price. She told
me some shocking stories of the extrava-
gance of poor girls. For instance, her
landlady's daughter had just bought a
sealskin cloak for $500, which was prob
ably worth 1926, agreeing to pay four
dollars a week down and getting her
mother to give, as security to the dealer,
a chattel mortgage on the household
furniture. Her mother incurred the risk
because she thought the bettenh Ter girl
was dressed the better husband she
would get. I learned, also, from the girl
that there are jewelry stores whose trade
is all carried on on the installment plan
at a profit of about 200 per cent.
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How she Managed.

A pretty New York shop-girl who
dresses unusually we'll on a salary of eight
dollars a week, was asked how she did
1T by Clara Belle, the Cincinnati En-
Quirer correspondent. The shop-girl re-
piled; my wages are $416 d wear; my
board, at $3.50 q week, is $2s2; and last
veal I made at extra work at night about
$50, which IL $484, which left me $44
for the church plate, car fares, candy,
thread and d sedIes and the Ledger. The
Grst year T bought on installments; I
bought too much, and was part Of the
next year paying it up; but now I've got
1t al figured down, as you see, and /
keep within my means.
Installmentsl the secret was out, con-
tinues Clara Belle. That little shop-girl
told me more in five minutes than / had
found out In all my life with regard to
how the poor dress. She told me that
there Is one large dry goods dealer whose
position In the church gives him q high
reputation with women, who supplies
nearly all the shop-girls and half the ser
yant girls with fine clothes on INSTALL
ments. He expects ~, d At. = week
from them, charges so muchf for his goods
that the first payment of one-tIird down
nearly 81 quite compensates him for the
kpss of the goods, and then looks on the
weskly payments Dis almost clear profit.
lSa sells everything-shoes, stockings.
Ealfal, dresses, hats, iewelry, fnrs, and
M st exorbitant rates, and seems 70 be
RssaIering greatly. He asks for no
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San Francisco claims to have a popu-
lation of 52a5, OOO-a gain of 80, 900 since
the taking of the census of 1880. The
claim may be an exaggeration, but tbs
progress the city is actually making
lnder adverse circumstances is really
wonderful. The completion of the over
land roads took away an immense amount
Of trade from that city. Still, she has
gone along building houses and making
Improvements and increasing in popula-
lion as if nothing had happened.
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Fashion Notes.

IL 4NoOSSs
Zebra stripes are popular.
Clasps of wood are richly carved.
Brown has the lead in popularity.
Jackets are the craze of the season.
Silk tape trimming is made in all
shades.
The craze for fur rugs continues with
out abatement.
Brooches are in fashion, but lace-pins
are also popular.
Plomb gray and sapphire blue are a
pleasant combination.
Chantilly lace is being revived in new
patterns of rare beauty.
Tulle ball dresses have the ~iounces run
with narrow satin ribbon.
Manufacturers are contemplating util-
izing feathers and fur in lace.
Silver necklets of Indian workmanship
of silver are curiously wrought.
Among recent importations are Jersey
cloth costumes, trimmed with fur.
Russian blouses are made of JERSEY
cloth and worn with a wide leather belt.
Beaver hats are trimmed with loops
of ribbon arranged in front on the left
side.
The colors in kid gloves are endless,
and anysshade- can be had to match cos
tunes.
Pretty house~sippers are of tan-col-
ored, undressed kid. They are beaded
with steel Or gilt beads.
The forty-two inch seal paletot is the
luxurious in the market.
Jerseys are in every style and color,
and for winter are fleece lined and almost
covered with embroidery.
Black lace toilets, as popular as ever,
are made dressy and effective with fine
jet bead fringes and jet embroidery.
Baskets to hold wood for the open fire
are now made of brass, and cost about as
much as a cord of hickory, sawed and
split.
Short sealskin jackets are newer than
the long sealskin sacques, hence the latter
can be bought o at comparatively low
figures.
Some of the newest imported dinner
china is plain white, with simply a single
flower painted on some part of the plate
or dish.
Black astrachan jackets have triangu-
lar pieces of seafskin set in at the front
and back. The high collar is also of
seal fur.
Sleeves run the whole gamut of styles,
without let or hindranee, now close, now
long, now short, now pulled, now open,
now none.
Among the bordered woods are almond
colored cheviots, with a border repre-
senting a series of small lacings set with
the points meeting.
No matter what the age, beauty or
LONELINESS, grace or uncouthness of q
woman, the hair is, at present, worn off
the neck and high on the head. The
effect is sometimes beautiful, but more
frequently frightful.
An odd toilet of bottle-green velvet,
faced with apricot faille, has panels of
brocaded flowers woven in their natural
colors upon white ground, and over them
waves of jetted net, which subdues the
colorings and obviates what might be too
violent a contrast.
Grandma's fashions are all coming in
this winter. The pumpkin hood, the
calash, the quilted skirt and the capa-
cious, beaded bags with the impossible
bead houses and trees. If you have one
stored away, bring it out and attach it
by ribbons to your arm; if not, make
one, but not of the modern beads - it
must be as.ugly as those of old or it will
not pass muster.
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FOR FEMININE READERS.
The Origin of Scandal.

A0 ohfSih u oS"huais
Said Mrs. A.
To Mrs. J.,
IN quite a confidential way,
=" It seems to me
That Mrs. B.
Takes too understanding in her tea
And Mrs. J.
To Mrs. K.
That very night was heard to say,
She grieved to touch
Upon it much,
But " Mrs. B. took-such and suchp
Then Mrs. G.
Went straight away,
And told a friend the self-same day
"'Twas sad to think
Here came wink
That Mrs. B. was fond of drink"
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Curious Iron .IeWelry.

But few who have admired the beautI-
fully finished steel ornaments-buttons,
bracelets, brooches, clasps, etc.-some-
times worn by ladies, have taken the
trouble to ascertain that they seldom con-
Bist of other than cast iron, or to consider
what a very superior class of metal must
be employed in their manufacture; yet
after d moments thought on knows not
which most to admire, the elegance of
the finished work, the intricacy of the
pattern and the consequent skill of the
molder, or the fine quality of the metal
that may be induced to assume such
elaborate and intricate forms. Some of
the articles, as brooches, have a beauty
of network almost rivaling Italian fligree
III gold, yet it is nothing but cast iron.
The polish is perfect, and, unlike either
gold or silver, it is not easily furnished,
even when exposed to the action of the
carbonic acid Of d crowded, ilI-ventilated'
room. The lustre has not the trying yell
low Of orange of gold, nor the glaring
white of silver, but q clear, blush, almost
transparent sheen from which the light is
reflected as from the diamond. And
when cut into facets, as are some of the
ornamental buttons for ladies' dresses,
they almost rival the sparkle of the bril-
liant. The polishing of the facets is per-
formed upon an ordinary buff wheel
dressed with crocus. Berlin iron is also
largely employed in casting statuettes,
electro-plated or lacquered to resemble
bronzes for which they are frequently
sold, and to which they are nowise infe-
rior, except in the intrinsic value of the
material, as the popularity Of the iron
used isits capacity for easy flowing when
ID q fused state, and thus perfectly fill
ing the most minute portions Of the mold.
Public Opinion.
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BROWN
IRON
B/TZERS
WILL CURE

WILL CCRE
INDIGESTION
BILIOUSNESS
DYSPEPSIA
NERVOUS
MALARIA
CHILLS AND TEVERS
TIRED FEELING
GENERAL DEBILITY
PAIN IN TIE BACK & SIDES
IMPURE BLOOD
CONSTIPATION
FEMALE INFIRM1TlES
RHEUMATISM
NEURALGIA
KIDNEY AND LIVER
TROUBLES
FOR SHE BY MI DRUGGISTS
The Genuine has Trade Mark ard crossed Red
Lines en- wrapper.
TAKE NO OTHER.
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Not Extensive,

Servants arc no expensive in Japan as
compared with the California price paid
o the single Chinamau who is cook,
louse-boy and general factotum to a
mall family, but it takes about four Jap
tncse to do what one of these inimitable
cinnamon will do. From So to $l2 a
month are paid for ordinary servants in
Japan, and $50 will get "a blue-ribbon
:ook, with an assistant or apprentice
brown in.
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About thirty years ago a prominent physician by
the name of DR. william Hall discovered, or pro
duCfl after long experimental research, "A remedy for
diseases OF the throat, chest and lungs, which was OF
such wonderful efficacy that ii soon gained a wide
reputation 10 this country The nan" of the medicine
is DIR. WIN. HALLS EAlSAM FOR Tue LUNGS,
ana may be safely relied ON as a speedy and positive
cure for coughs, colds, sore throat, etc.
Notified plush makes q nntty wrap; gay, but
not too gay.
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Dr.. R. v. Pierce, of Buffalo, n. Y, whose
name has become known over the world
through his success as a physician, and espec-
tally through the reputation OF his Golden
Medical Discovery" has done a good work in
preparing an especial remedy for the many dis
tressing troubles classed as female weakness
es." It is known as the "Favorite Prescrlp-
ton" Under its administration all the pelvic
organs arc strengthened, and the woman be-
comes that I'm bodiment of health AM beauty
which God intended her TO be.
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TAKE TIE TESTIMONY of seven ont OF
every ten men you meet, and they will
all complain of annoyance from 'consti.
patton" and its attendant lassitude,
heada. he, fatulcnce, &c. WALKERS
VINEGAR BfTTEns is a specific for this
ailment. 1t acts gently, but surely. and
will regulate the system, cultivate a
natural appetite and digestion and insure
rel EFF.
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Adcse of Red Star Cough Cure will pre-
rent you disturbing The congregation and
out you in a right frame of mind to enjoy
he services. Twenty-Five cents a bottle.
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I iiNEGAR BirrERs

is the great blood Purifier and Life-giving
Principle; q Gentle PutgaIive and Tonic; II perfect
RenoTatcr and Inyigorator Of the system.
En- Vinegar Bitfcrs there is vitality but
no alcoholic or mineral poison.
Diseases @f tEae Sit Ras4 of whatever name
or nature, are literally dug ~ and carried out of
thesystem in q short time by tne use of the Bitters.
Vinegar E~sittcrs allays feverishness. 1t re-
lieves, and in time cures Rheumatism, Neuralgia,
Cont, and similar painful diseases.
Vinegar fsttteEs cures Constipation and
prevents Diarrfsna.
Never before has n medicine been COM
pounded possessing the power Of VINEGAR BIT
TIERS to heal the sick.
Send for either Of our valuable reference
hooks for ladies, for farmers, for merchants, our
Medical Treatise on Diseases, or our Catechis:n
on Intemperance and Tobacco. which last should
be read by every child and youth il the land.
ANY two of the above books mailed free o n
receipt eff four cents for registration fees. .
R.H. Mcdonald Drug Co. $40 Washir"tonS NV.
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For coughs, colds, sore throat, hrnnchitis'
laryngitis, and consumption in its early stages,
nothing equals DR.. Pierces Golden, Medical
Discovery 1t is also & great biood-purifieT
and strength-restorer, or tonic, and for liver
complaint, and costiye condition of tho bowels
it has no equal. Sold by drusg'5:s.
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neglected, often becomes ctrangulateh and
proves fatal. We employ a new method and
guarantee a cure in every Case or no pay. Send
10 cents in stamps for pamphlet and references.
Worlds Dispcnsary Medical Association, G3
Main street. Buffalo, n. Y.
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No one should delay when they have a cough
Or cold, when a 30 cent bottle of Bigelow's
Positive Cure~will promptly and safely cure
them. Dollar size cheapest for family use or
shronic cases.
E.yen Tho most ;nveterate to.er objects to
The Opelousas courier., 1886-02-27

A Dayton item disrcspcctfuHy aEludvs TO
groom as Il s'frisky cmlger of 49,"
The Opelousas courier., 1886-02-27

Tick Neck" is the name of a certain suburb
in New Jersey,
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More than I'LL other Lung Remedies" Is
what Z. w. Fairman, drug list, Dayton, ind,
for eight, wears. aud it gives satisfaction in all
Eases. 2c., SOC. 81 81 per bottle, Druggists.
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The Chinese name for the Old Scratch Is
II Ching. This is remarkable.

The purest, sweetest and best Cod Liver Oil
in the world, manufacture from fresh, healthy
livers, upon the scaShsre. 1t is absolutely pure
and sweet. Patients who have once taken it
prefer it to all others. Physicians have de-
cided it superior to any of the other oils in
market. Made by Caswell, Hazard q Co, New
Work
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Greatest Discovery since 1892.

A pie festival al Atkinson. N. II. disclosed
4S varieties of the article.
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The Latest society Whim.

The latest craze which has struck the
Washington belle, says a letter from the
national capital, is the carrying of canes.
A few weeks ago a young leader in So
ciety returned from England and the
next day she surprised her friends by APP
pearing upon the street with a cane. It
wasn't the ordinary dude cane, but a nice
little stick with a shepherds crook of
hammered silver. Sometimes she swung
it and at other times she struck the
ground with a sharp rap. There is no
question that this created a sensation, but
there is a great deal of difference of opin-
ion as to whether the erase will strike in
or not. So far not more than half a dozen
girls have mustered up courage enough
to appear on the street with canes. The
probabilities are that the craze will not
extend to that point where it will inter
fere with the ordinary everyday happi-
ness Of the modern dude.
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/ Invigerate, renew. snd beautify the hair by
the use of Halls Hair Remover.
For sick and nervous headache, constipation
and liver troubles, take Ayers Pills.
The Opelousas courier., 1886-02-27

CHAPPED HANDS, face, pimples and rough
skinc cured by using Juniper Tar Soap, made by
Caswell, Hazard IL Co. New York.
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A Clyde, n. Y. miss went 1000 feet up in o
balloon and rode 6 miles.
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A virginian Lady of the olden Time.

A Virginian Lady of the Olden Time.
But what is the Virginian lady doing
all this time? It is not hard to see, when
one thinks of the great house, the many
servants, the hospitality shown to stran-
gers, and the absence of towns. She is a
housekeeping body. She has to provide
for her household, and as she cannot go
shopping to town, she must keep album
dant stores of everything she needs.
Often she must teach her children, for
very likely there is no school near, to
which she can. send them. She must
oversee and train her servants, and set
one to spinning, another to mending, and
another to sewing; but she does not find
1t easy to have nice work done; her black
slaves are seldom skilled, and she has to
send to England for her finer garments
There is no doctor near at hand, and she
must try her hand at prescribing for the
SICK on the plantation, and she must
nurse white and black. In truth, the
Virginian lady saves the Old Dominion.
st. Nicholas.
The Opelousas courier., 1886-02-27

GET Lyons Patent Heel S%titfeners applied
to those new boots and they will never run
The Opelousas courier., 1886-02-27

Boston is to have a new granite court,
house of Foreign design.
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An 1'ndOubted BlcsSpr.

A bucket-shor should be managed by q pale
m IN
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WALLACE LYNCHED.
The Suspected Murderer Of the Logan
Dies Protesting Innocence.

The suspected Murderer Of the LOEans
Dies Protesting Innocence.
ST. LOUIS, Oct. Or. P. Wallace, the muir
derer of the Logan family OF five persons,
father, mother and three children, was taken
from the jail at Steeleville last night by mob
and lynched.
Friday morning, Oct. LIST, q mob took Wallace
from Jail and strung him up. He was cut down
after being allowed to hang for a short time, In
or0er that u confession might be forced from
him. He refused to own up to the crime. and
before the crowd could hang him up again the
sheriff gained possession OF him and hurried
him back TO his cell.
Last night masked mob of about 100 men
quietly gathered around the Jail, battered down
The doors dragged Wallace out, and
asked him II he had anything to
say. He responded by strongly protesting his
Innocence, still adhering to the story that it
was the negro, Vaughan, who was guilty. This
angered the mob more than ever, and with q
shout they proceeded to hang him. The prls.
oner still protested his innocence and appealed
for mercy, but without avail. Strong hands
grasped the rope, and Wallaces body swung in
the air, and in a few minutes his body was a
corpse.
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Nominated for Congress.
CANDIDATE SELECTED AT DAYLIGHT, AFTEl


AN ALI-NIGHr CONTEST.
PITTsBURG, Oct 5.-The republican conferees
of the twenty-first Congressional district nomi-
mated w. Mccullough, OF Greensburgh, at
g O'Clock this morning, after an all-night ses-
sion.
DETROIT, MICH, Oct. 5.-The joint conven-
ton of democrats and greenUackers, at Flint,
continued balIoting until 3 o'clock this morn
ing, when the fOrty-iourth ballot stood: John
backer), SO, thus nominating Fedewa.
LYNCHBURG, VA, Oct. 5.-Joseph B. Page,
nominated by the Knights Of Labor, has de-
clined, and Samuel /. Hopkins has been nomi-
mated instead. He will oppose samuel Griffin,
the regular democratic nominee for Major John
w. Daniels seat in Congress.
WORCESTER, Mass, Oct. 5.-The Democrats OF
the tenth Congressional district nominated
Jnnn h. Russell. of Leicester, tor Congress to-
day by reclamation.
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PUBLIC SCHOOL CoMNIrfEEs.
Appointments Amnouncsa ~ PResiaeat
Dar1lngt0a.

Mr.. J. ]. Darlington, president OF the board OF
trustees OF public schools, has appointed the
following committees for the ensuing year:
Rules-Messrs Clark, johnson and Curtis.
ways and means, supplies and accounts
Nessrs. johnson, Fish ana Clark.
Buildings, repairs aud furniture-Messrs.
wilmer, Fish and Gregory.
Normal and High schools+Nessrs. Ross.
Curtis and Francis
Teachers and janitors-Messrs. Gregory,
Clark and Darlington.
lions, 6c.-Messrs Fish, Ross and Gregory.
tenmanship and music-Messrs. Francis,
Wilmer and Ross
Industrial education and drawing-Messrs.
curtis. Johnson and Darlington.
Library and annual report-Messrs. Darling.
TON, Wilmer and Francis.