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St. Landry democrat., 1888-07-07
Civilization Artificial.

A civilized society exists on an arti-
fetal level. The domestic animals
which we use are not the ones which
nature gave us. They have been
brought by the labor and ingenuity OF
man SO far away from their original
type that we do not always know what
the latter was. The grains, fruits and
vegetables which we eat are not any
which nature gave US. We have trans
formed them out of all semblance to
their original types. The clothes
which we wear were never given to us
~ nature Between any thing given by
nature and the shoes, hats, coats and
dresses which we wear, lies history
of thousands of years of laboc, expert
ment, ingenuity and caprice. Our
houses were not given to us by nature.
A modern house has history thou
sands of years long when we call to
mind the steps of invention and expert
ment, and the thousand converging
lines of discovery and invention Of de-
tails which have gone to make it. The
whole environment of civilized man
is artifcial.-Prof. Ss1maaer.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-07-07
PRIMITIVE AZTECS.
Wild Tribe Which Still Offers Human
Sacrifices to It's Gods.


Sacrifices to It's Gods.
A party of Catholic missionarie pro-
pose, shortly, leaving the City of Mex
leo with view to converting the La
condons, a wild tribe of Indians,
twenty-five thousand in NUM-
Der, scattered over portions OF
the States of Campeche, Tobasco and
Yucatan. They are reported to pre-
serve the religious and social customs
of the Aztecs in their primitive purity.
1t is said that they still offer human
sacrifices to their gods. The country
which they inhabit has never been ex-
plored, but there is a popular legend in
the State of Tobasco that in the heart OF
it's forests the Lacondons possess city
with temples and bazars, such as were
found by the Spaniards in Aztec cities
on their first landing in Mexico. Few
white men have penetrated this region,
and none have ever returned. The
Lacondons were never subdued by the
Spaniards, and few attempts have been
made to subjugate them. Since Mexico
became independent they have held
themselves absolutely aloof from all
intercourse with Europeans. The en-
terprise of the missionaries is con-
sidered extremely perilous. The
government favors the conversion OF
the Indians. Catholicism will render
them more amenable to civil jurisdlc-
ton. The party is composed of Pas
sionist and Jesuit fathers, and their.
mission has the direct sanction OF the
College of the Propaganda at Rome,
as we'll as of the Archbishop and
Bishops in Mexico.-N. z. World.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-07-07

and primitive, solid wooden wheels.
One of the mosS docile and best
natured elephants was selected for the
trial. The cart was brought up to
him, the mahout meantime fondling,
and coaxing him, and calling him pet
names, at first with no promising re.
suit. He at length permitted the rope
harness to be adjusted to his huge
person, appearing very much aston
ished and foolish all the time. He kept
swinging his trunk about, and could
scarcely be held quiet and in proper
position. At last all was fixed, some
heavy stones being placed in the
cart as ballast. The mahout tried to
coax him to go forward, but he would
take few steps only and then sudden
ly turn off to the right or left trying tc
reach the cart with his trunk. He did
not like the rumble of it at his tail.
which latter appendage he kept down
close to his body like a frightened ca
nine. At length, by dint of praisine
l1lul h1uu i1O I'll etSs So
the cart a few PAGES onward. AS this
was thought enough for one day, he
was released. Every day for about &
week he was ''put through his PAGES
until he was pretty perfect, and made
no objection to having the handy har.
messed to him, nor to drag the car,
whenever wanted. Then all the ele-
plants were brought out to witness the
performance. They looked critically
at their brother in harness, walked
around the concern and felt it with
their trunks. When he started to
travel with the handy creaking behind
him, they seemed triae startled, but
after awhile appeared reconciled to the
look of the thing. After this exhibit
ton little difficulty was experienced in
inducing the rest of the government
elephants to draw these special bandys
when it was requisite to do SO. They
had seen how the thing worked with
one of themselves, and therefore &C
cepted the situation as a matter OF
course.-AUa (Burmaah) Cor. Sa.
Francisco Chronicle.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-07-07
MAMMOTHS IN SIBERIA.
Buried Hecatombs of Elephants Abound
ing In Asiatic Russia.


ing In Asiatic Russia.
The existence of ivory in Siberia in
subfossil condition, but still suffi-
GENTLY durable to be used for all the
purposes to which recent ivory is ap-
piled, has been known since the Mid
die Ages, and formed one of the earli-
est exports from Siberia to China.
The very name given to the gigantic
creature which produced it, mammoth
or mammont-probably a corruption
of behemoth-was introduced by the
Arab traders who initiated the traffic in
fossil-ivory in the tenth century. It
was not, however, until the middle of
the eighteenth century that the trade
became considerable. In or about
1850, Liachof, a Russian merchant,
discovered vast stores of elephant
tusks and bones in the northern dis
trict of Siberia, and especially on the
islands off the mouth of the Lena,
which have since borne his name.
The ivory brought thence, says the
traveller Wrangell, sis often as fresh
and white as that from Africa Since
Liachofs discovery it has been
computed that the tusks of at least
twenty thousand mammoths have been
exported, while an even larger number
are too much .decayed to be worth re-
moval, and others are so large that they
have to be sawn up on the spot where
they are found. These buried heca-
tombs of elephants abound throughout
the frozen soil of Siberia, but they are
more numerous the further we advance
northward, and most plentiful of all on
the islands above named and in those
termed New Siberia. More remark
able still are the mammoth mummies
several of which have been disin-
tered, whole carcasses not infrequent-
ly standing upright in the frozen soil,
with their flesh ''as fresh as if just
taken out of an Esquimau cache or
Yakout subterranean meat safe" The
most widely known of these is that dis
covered in 1906 by an English botanist
named Adams, and the skeleton, or
such parts of it as could be recovered
for in the interval between part of it
being laid bare and the information
reaching Adams wild animals had
preyed ON the flesh and carried off
many of the bones-is now in the
museum at St. Petersburg. Carcasses
of the rhinoceros have also been found
under similar conditions Saturday
ReUieW.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-07-07
THE QUAKER CLOAK.
A Hideous Garment That Was Never In
tended for q Street Wrap.

A Hideous Garment That Was Never In
tended for Street Wrap.
'.Now, don't growl about the fash
ions," said prominent modiste, as a
girl sailed by her shop with her Mother
Hubbard cloak Tapping in the breeze.
81 didn't" protested the reporter.
"But you were going to-" asserted
the modiste. ga man always does
when he sees one of those cloaks. But
the fault is not with the fashions"
mop" ,.a
1 ':No; certainly not. The fault is
with the wearer. That style OF cloak
was constructed for an express pur-
pose, and for that it can not be ex-
celed. It is meant to be worn with a
ball dress or some other costume that
must not under any circumstances be
mussed. That is the only use fashion
intended it for, and for that you must
admit it is an excellent wrap"
The reporter thought that much,
But" interrupted the modiste,
some girl SECS d PiO1nAACA0 SOO1C0y
woman going to the theater or ball
with one about her. She Immediately
makes up her mind that it is the
SWEETEST thing out, and she gets one,
which she wears all the time. Is that
the fault of fashion? Certainly not.
It was never intended to be worn on
all occasions. 1t was the same way
with the Mother Hubbard gown. That
was intended merely for wrapper,
never to be worn outside of a lady's
dressing-room. And by fashionable
people it never was. 1t all comes
from the desire of a girl or woman of
small means to keep abreast OF the
fashions. She gets something meant
to be worn only on certain occasions,
and wears it all the time. But it is
not the fault of fashion. II used only
for the purpose intended, the garments
men most laugh at and decry are par
ticularly appropriate. "-Chicago 1rid-
1ase.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-07-07
BURMESE ANIMALS.
The Fine Specimens Found in that
Tropical Country.
MistaI1ing . Native for SIoth-stories
Illustrating the Wonderful Strength
and Intelligence of the Ele-
phant-FaithfuI Workers.

The wild animals of Burmah are
formed on a large scale, and are finer
specimens than I found in any other
tropical country + have visited. The
elephants found in the country are OF
enormous size; SO are the tiger tribe,
especially that monarch Of the forest,
the royal Bengal tiger. There is one
curious little beast in the country
called the sloth, which is a common
object seen hanging from the branch OF
a lofty tree. TWAS formerly thought
that this animal existed only in South
America It is of q brown color, very
dark, with thick furry coat, and
about the size of a retriever dog, being
much larger than the American
!. species. It is what naturalists call a
tardigrade, edentate, mammal quad
ruped. Every school boy" knows
this means 8 slow-moving, four-footed
animal, without front teeth, that
suckles its young. It Is a harmless
creature, feeding on fruit and vegeta-
bles. After making q hearty meal, it
retires to the topmost branch OF q high
tree, where it remains pendent, hold
ing on by its fore-paws, armed with
strong claws, and apparently fast
asleep. It remains in this position,
quite motionless, until it has digested
the food it has swallowed and feels
hungry again.
Once a young official out on the hunt
for game thought he saw a fine speci-
men hanging from the top Of large
teak tree, and took careful and cor
rect shot at the sloth, his gun being
loaded with buchshot. He hit hts
mark, which rapidly descended, but
turned out not to be q sloth at all, but
an irate and wounded Burman, who
had climbed the tree on the lookout
for wild bees The shot cost the young
official dear, q heavy penalty being ex-
acted by law from white man who
wounds or injuries a native. He was
glad to get clear by paying the man
one hundred rupees as a solatium for
the wound, which, fortunately, was
slight.
The elephant holds the first rank
among beasts for size, strength and in
teiligence, although he is not by any
means SO courageous an animal as is
generally supposed. He won't fight
unless he can not get out of scrape BY
any other means. He will, when
travelling with load OF humans in q
forest, start ct any noise il the jungle,
and II not soothed by his mahout is
ready to bolt into the forest, quite
St. Landry democrat., 1888-07-07
THE CORE OF THE. HOUSE.

The core of the house, the dearest place, the
one that we all love best
Holding it close in our heart OF hearts, for its
comfort and its rest,
Is never the place where strangers come, nor
yet where friends are met,
Is never the stately drawing-room where our
treasured things are set.
Oh. dearer far as the time recedes in a dream
of colors dim,
Breathing across our stormy moods like the
echo Of hymn, TtTT"''
Forever our own and only ours, and pure as a
rose in bloom
Is the center and soul of the old home nest, the
mothers darling room. @
We few to its arms when we rushed from
school, with a thousand things to tell;
Our mother was always waiting there, had the
day gone i'll or we'll
No other pillow was quite so COOL under an
aching head,
AS soft to our fevered childish cheek, as the
pillow on mothers bed.
Sitting so safely at her feet, when the dewy
dusk drew nigh,
We watched for the angels to light the lamps
in the solemn evening sky.
Tiny hands folded, there we knelt, to lisp the
nightly prayer,
Learning to cast on the Loving One early our
load Of care.
Whatever the world has brought us since, yet
pure as rose in bloom, a7t.
Is the thought we keep of the core of the home
the mothers darling room.
We think of it oft in the glare and heat of our
lifetime's later day,
Around our steps when the wild spray beats,
and the mirk is gathering gray.
AS once to the affairs foot they ran whom the
menacing foe pursued, 5ts
va t1rr1 tn "a az and nIa rrho a
foe may never fntrude, @
And there, in the hush OF remembered hours,
our failing souls grow strong,
And grid themselves anew for the fray, the bat
tie of right and wrong, ,a
Behind us ever the hallowed thought, as pure
as rose in bloom,
or the happiest place in all the earth, the
mothers darling room.
We've not forgotten the fragrant sheaves OF
the lilacs at the door,
Nor the ladder Of sunbeams lying prone on the
shining morning floor.
We've not forgotten the robins tap at the ever
friendly pane,
Nor the lit of the little brook outside trolling
its gay refrain.
How it haunts us yet, in the tender hour of the
sunsets fading blush,
The vesper-song, SO silyery clear, of the hidden
hermit-thrushi @-..5 a@
AL sweetest of sound and scent is blent, when,
pure as a rose in bloom,
We think of the spot loved best In life, the
mothers darling room.
Holding Us close to our best in life, keeping US
back from sin,
Folding US yet to her faithful breast, Oft as a
prize we win,
The mother who left us here alone to battle
with care and strife
Is the guardian angel who leads us on to the
fruit Of the tree of life. 6
Her smile from the heights we hope to gain is
an ever-beckoning lure;
We catch her look when our pulses faint. nerv-
ing us to endure.
Others may dwell where once she dwelt, and
the home be ours no more,
But the thought Of her is q sacred spell, never
its magic DER:
We're truer and stronger and drawer yet, that,
pure rs a rose In bloom, Z
Back OF all struggle, heart OF peace, is the
mothers darling room.
--Magydra u. Sangster. In Hoyper's Bazar.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-07-07
Prepared for Peace.

Emperor Francis Joseph-Is the
army in barracks, DukeP
Duke-Yes, sire.
''The ammunition obtained?"
PLENTY, sire.''
"The artillery?''
Cali tested, sire"
care the fortresses manned?"
Fully garrisoned, SIRE" .
'Then every thing is on war foos'
ing?"
Quite so, sire"
.''God be praised! Now ! an pse-
pared for peace. H-PWc6.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-07-07

A monster sturgeon, that meas
ured more than eleven feet in length,
and weighed $50 pounds, was caught in
a salmon net at Sauyie's island, Ore,
recently. 1t was the largest fish ever
seen in the State.
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AUCTION SALES.
A. ii. NicoIay. Auctioneer.

TILTON ST. VALUABLE RESI-
i dence lot near st. Peter street at auc-
tion-A. II. Nicolay will sell at auction, Wed
nesday afternoon, Sept. ~, 1888, at 5
O'Clock, sharp, on the premises on Iilton St.,
between st. Peter and Rice sts., that very
valuable residence lot known as Lot No. .,
block 3, Ramsey's addition to ST. Paul; south
facing, 40 feet front and IIS feet deep; the
location is all that can be desired for resi-
dence purposes, being very central and con-
venient of access, within walking distance OF
the business portion of the city; Central Park
is in close proximity, only one and onehalf
blocks from this property; the park is now
being beautiied by the city, and costly pri-
vate residences surrounding it in every direc-
ton: frst-cIass dwelling houses on Tilton st.
in this locality are always in demand, and
rent at good figures; no property has been
offered for sale in st. Paul in this favorite
residence district that offers greater induce
ments for immediate improvements, and can
be made to pay from 10 to 20 per cent on the
expenditure or cost of construction; capital
lists or investors that are in want OF an excel
lent, safe, reliable and profitable paying in
vestment should attend this important auc-
ton sale; terms LIBERAL and sale absolute to
the highest bidder; remember the day, We'd
nesday afternoon, Sept. ~. at 3 p. M, sharp.
For further particulars apply to Nicolay d
Co., Auctioneers and Real Estate Agents for
forty years; Office, 116 East Fourth ST., next
to Robert; our real estate auction sale No.
1919. 253-254
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Sansome's Co, Auctioneers.

CTEINWAY PLANO and entire contents
Ninth, corner OF John street. will be sold at
public auction, Tuesday morning September
the 11th, commencing at 10 O'Clock sharp;
read the following as a partial list only:
One Steinway piano, parlor furniture, oak
sion dining table, elegant cherrywood side
board, 2 chiffoniers, large parlor Stewart
coal heater, six-hole new Hub cooking range
with water connections, l Jewel four-hole
gasoline stove and oven, easy chairs, rockers.
ware, large lot of carpets, etc. etc. these are
all nearly new and should call for large at
tendance of parties in search of bargains in
clean household effects; remember. no re-
serve; owner leaving CITY, Sansome's Co,
autiODeers: c. j. Meilicke salesman. 252-56
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A. MI. DoIterty. Auctioneer.

TMPORTANT AUCTION SALE OF
l. Fine Oriental Rugs, Draperies and EN-
broideries-l will sell at auction at No. 30
East Third ST., commencing. promptly at 10
O'Clock tomorrow morning. large number of
choice rugs, consisting chiefly of Daghistan
Shirvan, Kiz-Kilim, Boukhara and other
rugs, Ferraghan, Gheordez, Teheran and
Khiva carpets, Turkish and Arabian en-
broideries, Djidjim and Kiz-Kilim portieres,
ETC., etc. these goods are the same that have
been on exhibition at the above number, and
the assurance is given that the goods are
without doubt the finest in quality ever
brought to the West; sale without reserve.
A. NJ. Doherty, Auctioneer. V.P. De Nlrian,
Turkish Agent. 203-O4
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Weber a Fairchild. Auctioneers

N anction-We will sell, commencing
Tuesday morning, Sept. IL, at 10 O'Clock, at
our salesroom, 81 East Seventh ST., a stock of
general merchandise, consisting of clothing,
mems youths and boys suits, overcoats; q
large, very fine line of pants; dry goods OF all
shawls, gloves, hosiery, ETC.. also large, fine
and we'll selected stock of furnishing goods
of all descriptions; also a stock of crockery-
ware. notiolls etc. This stock is consigned
with particular instructions to sell to the
highest bidders. commencing Tuesday morn
ing, Sept. IL, at 10 a. m. Sales daily until
entire stock is closed out. Weber d Fair
child, auctioneers, 81 East Seventh st.
253-55
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WHERE WANTS CAN Be LEFT
FOR INSERTION IN
"THE GLoBE.'

THE GLOBE"
LYONS & TICKNOR, Druggists, 7O7 East
Third street. corner Bates.
CONGER BROS, Druggists, $40 University
avenue, corner Virginia. i
MOUNTS & SAWYER, Grocers corner Ash.
land avenue and Dale street. I
A. P. WILKES, Druggist, 759 and 761 West
Seventh street. =
BERKMAN & CO., 422 Dakota avenue ,
e. FOX, 4S2 Rice street.
o. P. WILLIAMS, 64S Reaney street.
FRANK L. OsBURG, 17s Western avenue.
j. Fl. HAYES, AL West Seventh street.
F. VAN DUYNE, Druggist s2s East Sew.
enth street.
HIPPLER 4 COLLYER, Druggists, 1919 East
Seventh street.
JOHN FURLoNG GROCERY COMPANY.
40 Jackson street. =
WILKES PHARMACY, Seven Corners
M: d. MERRILL, Books and Stationery, 442
Broadway.
HELLER'S PHARMACY, corner Tenth and
st. Peter streets.
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WANTED TO BUY.
ADVERTISED.
List of Unclaimed Letters Re-
naming in the POstoffice, st.
Paul, Mimi, Sept. 10, 1888.

Free delivery of letters by carriers at the
residence of owners may 'be secured by OBJ
serving the following rules:
First-Direct plainly to the street and num-
Der of the house.
Second-Head letters With the writer's full
address, including street and number. and
request answers to be directed accordingly.
Third-Letters to strangers or transient WIS.,
itOrs IN the city, whose special address may
be unknown, should be marked III the left
hand corner, transient" This will pre-
vent their being delivered to persons Of the
same or similar names.
FOurth-Place the postage stamp on the
upper right hand corner and leave space be-
tween the stamp and directions for post
marking without defacing the writing.
Persons calling for letters in this list will
please say they are advertised; otherwise
they will not receive them.
WILLIAM LEE. Postmaster
bbott Geo d Anderson Miss Alma
n brahamson o 7 Anderson Miss Laura
Adams + Andrews John
Adams Nellie Archibald j NJ
Anderson Miss Fran Armstrong A L
kie Armstrong Abraham
Anderson Miss Ida Arp Miss Dora
Anderson Miss Lu- Austin Jno S
giece
Dachelder M Berte Adam
Dackup w II Betty Geo l.
Baehr Ernest Bewar Mr.
Baker Mrs Ida Binny q Smith
Balmat Vernon Bird j L
Bar J m Blagg Capt
Barnes Frank Boesken Albert
Barrow Joseph Bonnaiyne A II Jas
Bart Miss Annie Borgess. Bessie
Bestalfce d Polk Born Jacob
Bebar Christ Boyd Master J
Behrens CD Boyd a J
Bell Benz G. Boyer Gust
Belach Albert Brewer j w
Benjamin j + 9 Brewster n A
Bennett John III Brown Miss E
Bennett Joe buchanan W VI
Berwitt Lemel Bugbeer Miss N
Benson Geo Burnes Mary A
Berggren Adolph
Ctalmony Miss Ada Clark Hill & Co
Nampbell ClarkSOn James
Carlson Jno IL Clause Miss Adelaide
Carlson NJ Z Clementson Carrie
Carlson Gust Cole Robert
Darlington Colon Ada
Cartons A Il Combs Adline
Carver Samuel Conlen NJ
Cay Lizzie j Connal Mrs Anna
Charood Mr. Conner
Chatter j G Connolly Tom
Cheney Hubbard Continental Hotel
Chichester W L Cooke Miss II
Chapman Edmund Craft Lizzie
Clair Joseph Cressy Almira
DAN Miss Jessie Donovan Miss Kate
Darling J H Dull Al
Davidson Edwin Durand Euphemia
Davis Butler Durbin Frank 2
Downing d. Fuller Dusenberre Miss
DonOhue j j
ENanles + II Erickson Johan
Lchart A w Eshelman
Eckers X X Evans L CO
Eckles Clara Evans Mrs David
Egbert Harry Everson Louis
Ellison Mrs Eta EVE August
Emery d. Shore Eyjen II S
Engberg ALI Ewing Geo
L'acil W C Foley Mrs NJ
l. airbanks L W Frank Joseph
FAITHS John Franklin NJ
Felsky Edward Fray Mary
Fiering Paul Fuller II w
Fish Mrs James Furber
Fiemming P 4 Furguson Jennie
CaFey A II Gould L Rollin
Oarrigan A F Grady Michael
Geiger Englbrecht Grant Mrs
Gentry Miss Mary Grant Miss BERTHE
German Thomas Graves Lille B
Gobeille & Greene F
Golden Frank Grove La Rue
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GIRLS-Wanted, twenty-five girls to sew
VI on steam power sewing machines; make
mGckinaws and overallS; steady work to eX-
perienced hands guaranteed. Guiterman
Bros. 253-54
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BOARD WANTED.

pOARD-Wanted,b by a travelling man, a
ID comfortable place with a middle-aged
widow 10 make his home when in the city.
Address at once, A. J. Clifton, sherman
house, city. 254
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100000 WANTS

Were printed in the GLOBES Advertising
Columns in 1887. This is the best evidence
that the GLOBE is the PEOPLES PAPER.
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INSTRUCTION.

UITAR lNSTRUCTION-Ins
VI selected for purchasers free of charge
Malcolm L. Nichols. 507 Grand Opera Block.
1919
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MISCELLANEOUS.

EEFiNG-Books opened. closed.
ID posted. expert work, etc. Z. SpraSue,
room %. Drake block. St Paul. 1928
ENIkNiTt Kr:-Elegant household furm-
L ture. but little used, at private sale
CalIat 81 lslehart st. 1913
BOWERS A SPANfOL, the Tailors. or
! fer great reductions for thirty days
Call and see. 15S West Seventh St, Seven
corners. 253-14
DROF. j. +. BALDOSER. the phrenolo-
! giSt. Is now at 2I7 East seventh ST.
where he daily makes chronological eXami-
nations. and teaches the science; sadsfac-
ton or no uay. 253-54
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4 MEAL for loo and upwards; fresh
n oyster stew i5c; beefsteak and pota-
toes, with coffee, Toe. Central Restaurant
and Oyster House, corner Sixth and Jackson.
254-60