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VOL. 1.
LAKE CHARLES, CALCASIEU PARISH, LA., SATURDAY, JULY 9, 1881.
NO. 1.
Stories *f Aadrpw Jutm
\
[Cincinnati Gazette.]
When Jack sort was president,
jimmy O'Neil, the Irish doorkeep
of the Whit« House, was a
marked character. He had his
foibles, which often offended the
fastidiousness of the president'«
nephew and secretary, Maji- Don
jon, w ho «.»need his dismissal on
„„ average of onoe a week. But
m , appeal to the higher eonrt the
verdict was always reverse by the
pood nature of the old general.
Onoe, however, Jimmy was guilty
of some flagrant offense, and being
mimmoned before the president
himself, was thus addressed :
"Jimmy, I have borne with yon
for years in spite of all corn plaints ;
but tuis goes beyond my power«
of ettilnranee."
"And do you believe the story ?"
asked Jimmy.
"Oe.it.ainly," answered the gen
eral; "I have just heard it fror#
two senators.""
"Faith," retorted Jimmy, "if I
believed all that twenty senators
say about, yon it's little I'd think
you was fit to be president."
"Pshaw, Jimmy," concluded the
general, "clear- out, and go back
to your duty, bat be more careful
here, after."
Jimmy not only retained 1ns
place to the close of Jackson's
presidential term, but accompan
ied him back to the Hermitage,
and was with him to the day of his
death.
Gen. Jackson had very little
love or taste for jroctry, his favor
ite author being Hr. Isaac Watts,
from wliofie "Psalms and Hymns"
he used to make his selections for
the inscriptions in the ladies' al
bums which were onee so fashion
able, when they were sent him
with a request for his autograph.
It is said that while president lie
never drank any ardent spirits.
This was corroberated by his ne
gro servant who said that "Massa
Jackson no dr ink rum, but den he
drink his coffee strong euougk to
kill de debbil."
The H altz of a Bishop.
The Mormon Church looks with
disfa vor on the familiarities of cer
tain styles of modern dancing, and
the bishops have sought to regu
late this matter among the young
and giddier saints. At a dance in
Salt Lake recently the bishop ex
pressed liimself as highly dis
pensed with round dancing. He
said that it was condemned by the
priesthood, and if the saints could
not get along without the round
»lances they had better go home.
Tlie young folks remonstrated
with him, but all to no purpose.
"Ifyou must waltz let me show
you how to do it," said he, ahd he
got on the floor with a 133 -pound
Monde, The baud struck up the
"blue Dauulte," and away they
Mid. Down the hall glide the
approved arm's length waltz. Soon
tiiere was*it slight contraction oi
hie arms, and space between grad
ually decreased. Presently one
ui'iu encircled th« fuir form. The
Monde was the first- to give way,
uud her cheek looked like a sun
flower in a tulip field ail it rested
°n the shoulder of the man of H od.
bound and round they went, and
the fascinating, weired-like strain
floated like heavenly music to his
soul. Forgotten was the round
dance dogma of the church, and
h.T the calm smile that stele across
his face we knew that the theology
" as defeated, and one man at least
utte.il y indifferent te a future pun
Mhiuent.—[Grajduc.
bishop aud the Wende ; the tips of
their lingers touch, aud cruel
sace is between them. This was
the oftqreh method—the priestly
If does not always follow that
»»u is a sculptor bee*M« lM '
Mscls his tailor out of a 8«i< ,,f
hdhes.
\ Diamond Rinç in a Homs Hoof.
[Richmond (Ky.) Register.]
A wealthy physician of Murfrcs
boro, Tenn-, bought a «»1,500 dia
mond ring for Ms daughter. About
three years since, while riding out,
the ring was lost. It was adver
tised and liberal rewards offered
for its recovery, but nothing was
ever beard of it. A few weeks
ago a child of a blacksmith was
taken sick, and the physician re
ferred to called to see it. While
at the bedside he had occasion to
mention his daughter's name. At
this the child's mother took fra in
her finger a ring, lianded it to the
physician and asked him if his
daughter had recently lost a ring,
for the ring contained the name he
had just pronounced. The physi
cian said she had not, hut that
some years ago she lost a diamond
ring, and as Ms eyes fell upon the
sparkling object he recognized Ms
daughter's loug lost, treasure. The
lady said her husband had found
it hi the bottom of a horse's foot
only a few days before that -while
cleaning out the hoof for the pur
pose of shoeing Mm. One small
diamond was missing.
The «fcuecB of Home.
Honor the dear old mother,
lime has scattered snowy flakes
on her cheeks, hut is she not sweet
and beautiful now? The lips are
thin and shrunken, but those are
the lips wMeh have kissed many
a hot tear from the cMldish cheeks,
and they are the sweetest lips in
the world; the eye is dim, yet it
glows with the soft radiance that
can never fade. Ah, yes, she is a
dear old mother- The sands of
life are nearly run out, but, feeble
as she is, she will go further and
reach down lower for you than any
other person on earth. \ou eau
not enter a prison whose bars can
keep her out ! you cannot mount
a scaffold too Mgh for her to reach
that she may kiss and bless you
in evidence of her deathless love
when the world shall despise and
forsake you; when it leaves you
by the wayside to perish unnoticed,
the dear old mother will gather
you in her arms and carry you
home and tell you of all your vir
tues until you almost forget your
soul is disfigured by 'ices. Love
her tenderly, and cheer the declin
ing years wit h hol y devotion.
«hat They Said
[New York Tribune.]
IA confirmed misogynist in Bos
ton has been jotting down frag-'
mentis of conversation which he
lias heard wlieu passing young
women on the streets of that city.
His note-book contains 1,666 «*
these «craps. Out of that number
780 liegiu with either "And I said
to Mm," or "He said to me " jr
"She told me that he said; m
referred to hate or dresses that
either "perfectly lovely, or
a!,i e ndid " and the remainder
J u ,, I—1„ divided be
were pretty evenly divided be
tween comments on other girls,
who wore "horrid," or "stuekup
and hateful," new novels studies
the summer vacation, the Gieek
t>lav at Har vard and the latest am
P ^ . • Wivur Lit tbllS
entitle discoveries
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census of the
marks made about hunscM l too»*
one thousand luckless victims
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«opted an offer from a ».«■*>>*;
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replied : "Look here! I've been
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Professions and Trades.
[Galveston New«.]
Tapers from every quarter are
filled with accounts of exercises
in colleges and the grad nation of
young men who give promise of
brilliant careers. It is sad to think
how few will realize the high hopes
and honorable ambition of their
entrance on the field of active life.
Hie laborers arc too many for the
harvest. Too many young men
seek the learned professions, es
pecially the law. The late report s
of college graduates furnish some
interesting statistics. Of eighty
nine graduates just turned out
from Yale College, forty-nine are
to be lawyer«, eleven physicians,
five preachers, three editors, eight
teacher#, six manufacturers, five
bankers and brokers, eighteen
merchants, and one planter. It is
stated that eight hundred lawyers
have been graduated from differ
ent colleges since January 1st.
What is to become of the high
toned young men who have souls
above buttons and productive la
bor? West Point lias heretofore
offered an opening for many of
those who had a turn for study,
while the navy took in those dis
posed to be idle and dissipated.
Now the Ban Antonio Time# says
West Point i# turning ont too many
officers for the limited number of
vacancies to fill. Only fourteen
of the present graduating class of
thirty-three can get commissions.
The proportion of officers to pri
vate citizens in civil life will soon
be almost as great as that of colo
nels and other military magnates
to privates. Just now New York
is the Mecca of the office-seekers.
Besides the armies of municipal
and State officers, running up into
thousands, the Collector of Cus
toms reports that in April there
were 953 persons employed in the
Custom-house, of whom 313 were
clerks, 49 messengers and 10 dep
uty collectors. In the Naval office
83 employes; in the Surveyor's of
fice 36; in the Appraiser's depart
ment 368. A giand total of 1340
in the Custom-house, exclusive of
laborers and temporary appoint
ments. It requires some effort to
find places for all the elegant gen
tlemen who scorn to work with
their hands. Their numbers are
constantly increasing, at a greater
ratio than the easy places they
seek to fill. There is much mis
sionary work to be done in teach
ing people the value of skilled la
bor, and the superior rewards it
holds out to young men. Old Pe
ter Cooper, one of the wealthiest
and most public-spirited men of
New York, says : "I learned three
trades. I learned to be a brewer,
a eoachmaker and a machinist. I
determined to give the world an
equivalent in some form of useful
labor for all that I consumed. All
the money I ever made was made
in mechanical business, and not lu
speculation."
Too Mad to Answer.
[Steubenville Herald.]
Topwody was wad when he went
out this morning to do Ms choree
and found somebody had scattered
everything forty ways for Sunday.
"Mrs. Topnody," he growled,
"what is this ?"
"What's what, Topnody ?" came
back the response from that lady
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if the fool-killer came to this house
if lie wouldn't get a good haul."
"You are mighty right he would,
Topnody, mighty right; and when
he went away, if he did Ms work
with any sort, of accuracy and j udg
Pri he u widow, too: wo'riilirt
meut, I'd be a widow, too: wouldn't
I, Topnody P'
But he refused to answer, and
finished up his chores in a worse
humor than e »er.
The purest Administration we
ever had, as the Hayes regime was
called, has left lots of «caudal* be
hind it. The United States Mar
sliid of NvrtJu Carolina was recent
ly asked to approve# bill of «<3000
for some shelving and pigeonhole
cases which a local mechanic of
fered to enter into bonds to con
struct for $66«. At the same place
a person aimed with a contract
from the Government, issued at
the Treasury, arrived to fresco the
ceiling of the court-house for *15,
0«0. The marshal, who w ould ha ve
to approve the bill, informed the
contractor that he would not ap
prove any such expendit ure, be
cause it was not necessary to do
the work, a,ud if it were necessary
>(;■,<) would be a sufficient price.—
New York F..\ press.
The Body of an Indiana Honan
Tuned into Stone.
[Logansport (Iml.) Special 1o the Cin
cinnati Enquirer.]
Sixteen miles west of this city,
oh the State line division of the
Pan-IIandle Railroad, is situated
the village of Ida ville. Near this
place is located a cemetery, and
in this silent city of t he dead a dis
covery has just' been made which
can, indeed, be characterized as
strange and sensational. A fow
days ago a stranger named Sam
uel Wilson desired to remove the
remains of his wife, who died six
years ago, and those of his father,
whose death took place thirteen
years since. Accordingly he pro
cured help, and the work of exca
vating began. The grave in which
the father's remains lay was first
opened, when it was fouud that
nothing except the bare skeleton
remained. Then the wife's grave,
which was less than two feet dis
tant was excavated. Upon reach
ing the bottom the startling dis
covery was made tlxat the body
was petrified. The arms and limbs,
however, had withstood the effect
of
do
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an
of whatever element in the earth j
had caused the petrifaction to oc- !
cur, and nothing remained of them
but the bones.
The trunk of the body was as
hard as flint, and upon beingtaken
from the grave was found to weigh
about 300 pounds, while the woman
during her life weighed about 140
pounds. The case has caused a
good deal of interest to be mani
fested in the matter, and although
the wise men of the neighborhood
have put their heads together in
counsel, they can study out no sat
isfactory reason why the woman's
body should thus be turned into
stone, and other remain#, located
bo near, should be in no way af
fected by the petrifying influence.
Another strange feature of the
case is the fact of the arms aud
limbs turniug to dust, while the
remainder of the body hardened
into stone. The woman whose re
mains are thus attracting so much
attention was once a resident of
Harrison Township, this county,
and it was tiiere she and Mr. Wil
son were married. She was a
daughter of John Small, a respect
ed old farmer, and herself and hus
band took up their resilience near
Ida ville about the year 1867. This
case of petrifaction is the only one
ever known in this section of In
diana, and, as a natural conse
quence, a large number of people
have taken the pains to see the
strange sight.
Keeping the Head denn.
to
be
on
Keeping tlie head perfectly «lean
is a great aid to health. A distin-______
guished physician, w ho has spent ;
much of his time at quarantine, |
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mud that a person whose bead was :
thoroughly washed every day, I ,
rarely took contagious diseases,!
but where the hair was allowed to!
entirely leaving the eyes and nose
after one thorough washing of the
become dirty and matted ijt was
hardly possible to escape infection.
Many persons find speedy relief
for nervons headache by washing
the head thoroughly in weak soda
water. We ha ve known eases al
most wholly cured in ten minutes
by this simple remedy. A Mend
finds it the greatest relief in cases
hair. The head should be thor
!
oughly dried afterward, and avoid
draughts of,air for a little while, 'in
—[Golden Buie.
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An Eleoibic Fence. Dr. J.
H. Connelly, of Pittsburg, Pa-, lias
applied to cattle the old device
employed by country druggist# to
keep loungers from thrusting el
bows through their show-cases,
namely, a wire fence charged with
electricity. The electricity is to
take the place of the barb* now
used on wire fences, the aim being
to repel the cat tle by a slight shock
instead of by pricking with the j
risk of sever« laceration. It is to
be presumed that the doctor is
uot» practical former.—[Scientific
News._
"There is no disgrace in feeinf
I
poor," we are told, and we're howl
iug giiWi of it, for there are enougl
otherdisad vantages about it, with
ut (bat one.
iug glad of it, for there are enough I
How to Drive a lieu.
[Mobile Register.]
When a woman has a hen to
drive into the coop, she takes hold
of her skirts with both hands,
shakes them quietly at the delin
quent, and says, "Shoo, there !"
The hen takes one look at the ob
ject to eonvirtee herself that it is a
woman, and then stalks majestic
ally into the coop. A man doesn't
do that way. He goes out doors
and says: "It is singular nobody
can drive a hen but me," and pick
ing up a stick of wood, hurls it at
the offending biped, and observes :
"G et in tli ere, you thief." The hen
immediately loses her reason and
dashes to the other end of the
yard. The man straightway dashes
after her. Sho comes hack with
her head down, her wings out, and
followed by an assortment of stove
wodd, fruit cans and clinkers, and
a very mad man in the rear. Then
she skims under the barn, and over
is
■
a fence or two, and around the
house and back again to tlie coop,
and all the while talking as only
an excited heirean talk, and all the
while followed by things conven
ieut for handling, aud a man whose
coatis ou the saw-buck, and whose
hat is on the ground, andjvbose
perspiration bas no limit. By this
time the other hens have come out
to take a hand in the debate and
help dodge missiles, aud the man
says every lieu on the place shall
be sold in the morning, and puts
on his things and goes down the
street, and the woman has every
one of those hens housed and
counted in two minutes.
A Novel Dispatch Boat.—A
sMp which sailed from England for
Australia recently took a four-foot
"life" boat, designed not to save
the passengers but the records of
the ship in case of accident at sea.
TMs would seem to be a decided
improvement on the conventional
bottle, since it will carry more in
formation and be more likely to be
seen and picked tip. The boat,
carries a sail, and is expected to
make four or five miles an hour in
favorable wjeather.
[Scientific News.
A Danbury bootblack was in
South Norwalk when the train
went through there on its way to
Hartford with the nation's military
dignitaries. "Did you see General
Sherman Î" asked a citizen this
morning while having a shine.
"No; was he looking for me ?" was
the response. The citizen was
shocked.—[Danbury News.
He was a bachelor, had traveled
extensively, and could speak any
language, dead or alive; but when
he returned home tlie other day,
and talked to Ms sister's baby, and,
when it cried and was pacified by
mother saying. Did »
naughy wauty uncle wuncle come
WOI11 / y m d searey warey
, )iy yttie putsey wutsey," he just
leaned over the back ot the chair
«ad w ept,
Tt was their first night aboard
the steamer. "At last," he said
tenderly, "we are all alone, out
upon tlie deep waters of the dark
blue sea, and your heart will al
ways beat for me as it has beat jn
the past V' "My heart's all right,"
she answered languidly, "but my
stomach feels awful,"
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There is notliiuglike being pro])- '
happy condition of tlie Irishman j
who sent a letter to a friend saying
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! that while he was writing he had a
pistol in both bauds and a sword
'in the other.
The London Time#, in its naval
intelligence column, says: Flans
ar< , preparing at the Admiralty for
the construction of an iron-clad
approaching in b»dk and armament
the great Italian ships, to be of
13,000 tons and I0,000 horse power
engines, with a speed of eighteen
knots an hour. The vessel will
possibly be built at Ohatain.
A census report gives statistic#
of the Pacific coast fisheries. Fifty
three vessels and 5,547 men are
employed in the business. The
j capital invested is $2,748,383, and
the annual production is a follows •
Fresh fish, 178,048,93« jiounds;
era«)*, shrimp, etc., 2,500,000
j )0UlK )«; oyster«, mussels, etc.,
. - . «or
1 "5,000 pounds ; whale oil, L)iH,o8.>
I gallons; whale-bone,61,000 pounds, j
,060 feet ot logs are yearly made
into shiugiett in the L'uitetj Stet
It u «taW ah ..».uegl
I he twee* 800,000,000 aud !
Mutually Disappointed.
[Youth's Companion.J
When General Lafayette visited
this country', he greatly enjoyed
meeting the friends he had known
in the revolution, and With whom
ho had shared roffy hardships.
But sometimes he Was sorely dis
appointed. , The changes which
time works in all men were such
that now and then, he could scarce
ly reedgniafe his old associâtes. It
equally amusing, howevef, to
know that occasionally his formet
friends were equally disappointed
in him.
He paid a visit to John Adams,
at Quincy. The expectation# of
both parties wore high, and they
counted on ii joyful day. But the
changes of time were not allowed
for, and the reaction was therefore
great.
Lafayette said to a friend, as he
was lea ving the house :
f'What a sad change in Mr. Ad
ams ! I can see scarcely a trace
decay, aud then, 4 ...u.d ..... u. «...
been kept active and recipient by exer
ciae, there is nothin« left to live, and
of the man whom I used to admire
and honor."
Mr. Adams' comment was equal
ly striking s." I was asking myself
continually, 'can tliis be LafayetteP
He is wholly unlike thç general
whom I loved in the revolution.
It is unpleasant to misB the old
friend."
Both expected too much, and as
usual, both were disappointed.
Usb or the Eyk*.— The man who avoids
oxcesseg of every description has a fair
chance of retaining hit» eyesight until
old age sets in. A time come« to every
one when the physical powers begin to
en," unless the brain has
the inan perishes. Wo say that he died
of gout, or oveneating, or of heart, dis
ease. or kidney disease, or of the failure
of the particular organ which was the
first to exhibit symptoms of the ap
proaching end. In reality ho lias died
of stupidity, artificially produced by ne-i
gleet of tlie tulents with which he was
endowed. That which is true of the or
ganism ns a whole is true, also, of it#
parts; and the eyes, among others, are
D& î * ü — '
iest treated by an amount of systematic
use which preserves the tone of their
muscles ana tlie regularity of their blood
supply. Acuteness of sight is aided by
the attention bestowed upon objects
within the vision. In people who can
not read, the sight is far more acute. I
have even had reason to think, says a
writer, that the wivos of such men wore
indebted to their household needlework
for the maintenance of a higher stand
ard of vision than that of their hus
bands; and 1 ha ve no doubt that idleness
of tlie eyes, if I may use Biirh an expres
sion, is in every way hurtful to them.
and that proper and varied employment
eminently conducive to tlimr preser
vation in beauty aud efficiency.
Tlie H'ny to Look ut It.
In all Inlior tlicrp ia poetry, if we can
bqt find it, containing its deepest mean
ing and its truest realities. One mo
e.hanie sees nothing beyond Ids tools
and their dully use; another behold» tile
civilization and refinement which his
work is daily spreading. One merchunt
measures his business only by his yearly
account of profit and loss; another sees
it in the cxtciision ot commerce, the em
ployment given to labor, the triumph of
honest principles. One physician looks
at Ids profession only as a ladder for his
own advancement and popularity; an
other beholds suffering assuaged, diseasu
sanitary habits enforced,
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healthful living secured, hupnitiosH in
Ouu woman sees in her house
creased, j— MUVM .freHHH
only an arena for hard work and physical
comfort; another sees exquisite pictures
of tlie possible happiness, honor, devel
opment and Value which may he cher
ished within it, and may Issue from it to
bless society usd strengthen tlie nation.
It is only as these higher truths of labor
become vividly pictured in the imagina
tion that lulxir itself can rise to its trim
position. Its poetry is its host reality
and ennobles «11 its prose of until work
«(dry detail». ___
How H» MftdeJHl* Moiiey.
-p], t . patir of Ava retired from the
«tiow business several years ago with a.
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fol ium!, ill* was a good slcight-of-liami
IMü'forniar, but hi» great succès» was in
inventing the attraction of gift». Ho
was the first showman to give prizes 10
hi» audiences. He was on a tour in tin*
South in I857, and burine» was very had
indeed, "i happened to attend ail aim
lion »ale," ho says, "and I. was aston
jbhed to sec how colored people bought
the « heap jewelry that was put up. I
thought the matter over, umf tlio more
1 thought the morn i could see money in
it for mo in my business. I <711110 North
and went to a friend of mint! in Hie jew
elry biirtiness. He said he would sell
me a bushel of sleeve hiittous, studs,
Moodies ami car-rmgs for so much— a
few dollars. It was mighty nice-look
ing—all brass, of course. I figured that
my sloe ye Initions eost me tlireu cents a
pair, my broodies and ear-rings seven
emit« a sot, and so ou." Thu bait \va
easily bitten by the npople, and tlie
Fakir, whose name is Hughes,
worth tltohOO,
is now
They were at a dinner purty, and ho
•marked that he »apposed site was fond
of ethnology. Hire said she was, but she
Will not very well, and the doctor had
no( ^i e«t anything for desert
hut oranges
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an apprentice to bis
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