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LAKE CHARLES, CALCASIEU PARISH, LA., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1881.
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PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
AßKIEL A. FOITSKET, Attorney
T at Law, Lake Charles, La., office
if.irmerlr oncmned by LouIn Lereque, tm
lonrt Roane Saar*
July », 1881.-ly. _
I 1EOHGE H. WELLS, Attorney at
\ t L»vr, Lake ("Lnrlee, Calcasieu Par
all, La. Practices in Calcasii.u, Camer
>n and Vernon parishes, and in Orange
ml J offer non counties, Texas.
J uly i), 1B81 . -tim.
A. GALLA I' GH ER, Attornev at
. Law, will practice in this ancl ad
joining parishes, and before the Supreme
t'onrt. at Opelousas.
Sep., 8, H#a.-4y.
A J. KEARNEY. District Attorney,
14th Judicial District, practices in
the several parishes of the District.
Office, in Lake Charles, at the Haskell
Mouse.
I Wee, in Leesburg, at his residence.
July », l«81.-ly.
J. C 7 MUMMY. M D-,
rçcon, Puysit UB «ni Obst.rtrir.iai,
VONTXNUEN to practice his profes
sion and cun be consulted at iris
rug Store, on Rvan street, at all hours.
Lake Charles, La., July », 1881.-ly.
FRANK MAIS E « ,
TONSOBIAL ARTIST,
yao St.., Lake Charles.
AIR Gutting, Sharing, Sbumpoon
ing and Hail' Dyeing done in the
test styles.
July », 1681.-tf.
IKEMIAH O BUIKS.
JAMES BLAU!.
O BRIEN & BLAIR.
Mitracton* and Builders,
LAKE CHARLES, LA.
July », HWL-lv.
IIIVDLER A HLIKRDE
suit* IJ r I L D I X G
ASU
REPAIRING.
Contractors, &c.
i>u South Bauk of Lake Charles,
'.«jit. 8, 1 HH *.
''ni'M.it'u.re Repaired.
1NG permanently located in the
town of Lake Charles, J am pre
ed to repair all kinds of furniture, at
ort notice, and on reasonable terms.
H'lmnklul for past patronage, J solicit
on-tin name au the same.
'uruit ure revariiishud at the house of
e < > wner.
Slnunou Kirby stauet, near Ryan, Tou
v building. C. H. BULGE.
' ug. 18, l&L-ly.
D. B. LYONS.
EALEK iu Fresh and Pickled Beef,
Pork, Mutton, &<•., west side of the
die square, on the Lake shore.
ME DEUVEBT to regular customers
oughout the town.
'Thanks for the liberal patronage here
ore extended to him, he solicits a con
uauee of the same.
Uly II, 1881.-|y.
I. C/fc
JO X« IX IT I-DON'T OKI MBI.K !
JUST IN TINE TO SATE MONET !
itud J Jwur found Uw liytd uuw in tlw.
it/Id j/lucefw Good and Cheap Wurif
?' you want any work done in the Mue
of Hoofing, Giitteriug or repairing, or
►od assortment of iiis own manufae
d Tinware, oftauv old stoves repair
, you go to 408. YOLTZ'S Tiu Shop,
ik on Ryan street, between Hill and
■ streets, opposite F. A. Gallaugher's I
i deuce. Sign of tlie Big Coffee Pot.
uly », 1881.-1 V.
YULIY BKLLO((J,
—WITH—
;L»iidt & Ziegler,
'HOLESALE GROCERS
—ANI>—
IMPORTEKK,
, 49, 61 ft 66 Iitan St., 89, 41, 48 ft 46
Fulton St., Now Orleans.
ally », 188L-ly.
H C U E 1> U L E
—or tuk—
TEAMER NETTIE.
JM and after J ul v 1,1881. the Steam
er Nettie will nutke regular trips Ue
n Lake Charles, West Lake diaries
Bagdad, yin. :
: Lake Ohark» for Weit Lake Okarloo,
•ti.iö .........
... A. -Vjft
U .........
■ • * A
1.30 .........
6.16 .........
! Okorles for U*f
8.30 ........
8 ........
Æe eoti
*«* Wwt hak« CWiss for
• ■.......... 7 .....
........ U.46 .....
............ 4.46
............ 41
Loaves Bagdad for Lake,
............ ».40
jm
1 i. U. NJGJii
July hi. ithti.-tf.
t*M5
and #
oue-ha-lf
it.Juei' conti
dry and stocl
New Orleans
at
^
I
CBEIP tlSII STORE.
E. KAISER & CO.,
-DEALERS IN
DRY GOODS,
CLOTHING,
BOOTS, SHOES, HATS, CAPS,
CROCKERY AND TIN
WARE.
ILL KIXDS OF STAPLE GROCERIES.
We are also Agents for the
New Home Sewing Machine!
i
-and- j
Walt bam Watches,
&& Jn order' to nutke room
for our Fall Stock, we will
close out our Summer stock
of goods at ten ]ter cent, less
than our former prices.
M)W IS JOI K TIME TO SFA1RE
BARGAINS !
Come and see for yourself!
LAKE (J HARLES, LA.
Aug. 13, DttU.-tf.
HASKELL HOUSE,
Ryan Street, Lake Charles, La.
i IA VING leased the above named
J 1. House, J propose to run it iu first
class style. The table will be kept on
tlie Restaurant plan, and no exertion
uill Ire considered too great, to render
guests comfortable.
TUGS. It. REYNOLDS,
aug ÄC H3.--41. laissée.
RidVrring totlie above, in retiring front
the Hotel, I dtsire to return my thanks
te/thuse who have so liberally patron
ised rue in tby P»»t, aud eouliaently re
commend my mend* to my smaiessor,
knowing that he sill give ample satis
taction, as a caterer to the traveling
public. W. fi. HA8KELL
§ 1 . LouL Type Foundry,
lis M 11 7 Pine 84.,
I'K.'.LKKS IX
'rùdiuy and Writing Paper*; Carde
u#td Card Hoard, Tag*,
Entdopru,
muting Ink«, bräunet, At,
.«gramme Gords, W<wMf4W ISh-vedope»/
Wedding Papers, l/c.
i m. j. rosteet,
-DEALZ2 IN
DR Y GOODS
CLOTHING, BOOTS AND
SHOES, HATS AND
CAPS.
GROCERIES,
-AND—
BR. 1 L MRCIMMIISE.
I ail.c G'lini'les, 1. 11 .
July», 1881.-ly.
JJ ]) NIX
i ' '
j GENERAL DEALER,
j^ 1 *'** Ouic-iuHe«*
lift vor« JL.fi.
I HAVE constantly on hand a large
and varied assortment of
STAPLE Alt It FANCY DRY
GOODS, AND READY
MADE CLOTHING.
Mv stock of Boots, Shoes ami Hats, is
not excelled by any in the country.
My KtiAcjk of Groceries is as complet,
as can be, and being replenished weekly.
From my long exnenenee in merchan
dising in this parish, I feel confident of
being able to satisfy all who will do me
the favor to give me a call.
First class, hand made
CYPRKS8 SHINGLES,
always on hand, iu any quantities,
Prompt and assiduous attention to the
F K U R V ,
day and night. 1 am specially preparci
for crossing droves of horse* and cattle,
and for taking care of them, having just
completed a
LARGE PAMTI'UE,
in which ute plenty of grass, water and
idtade.
iv*u Highest market price paid lor
to thou, Wool and Hides
Giycme.a caJJ, H. D. NIX.
Aug.48, mi.-iy.
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EDKATIOV.
[For the Commercial, by Mose.J
"Culture's han.i
Has scattered venture o'er the land ;
And smiles and fragrance, rule serene,
Where barren wild usurp'd the scene.
And such is man—a soil which breeds
Of sweetest flowers, or vilest weeds :
Flowers lovely as the morning's light,
Weeds deadly as an aconite ;
Just as his heart is trained to bear
The poisonous weed, or floweret fair.''
Education becomes day by day
an imperative necessity. Emile
Zola, writing of the French educa
tion, holds up a mirror, reflecting
that of America, when he asserts:
"There is not a concierge who
does not dream of having her 'de
moiselle' taught the piauo. Chib
dren are sent to the piano iu these 1
days, as at Sparta they used to be
sent to the gymnasium."
Solid information is the excep
tion instead of the rule. Ye of the
minority do not array yourselves
against me, unless ye have pitched
your tents outside of cities of edu
cation. It has been the misfortune
of the writer to have dwelt in com
munities, where parents and guar
diaus have urged the necessity of
Greek, Latin and Algebra, also
music, when the children scarcely
knew the alphabet of their own
language, and could not calculate
a simple sum iu additiou. It may
be a strange anomaly to advocate
compulsory educational laws for
Republics to adopt, nevertheless,
the Prussians are, iu this respect,
w ort hy of imitation. The masses be
ing educated, demagogues would
not be so powerful, and crime
less prevalent. Education, alone, I
is able to make the people thor
oughly appreciate our glorious Re
public, the land of promise, where
cities are built, without walls.
The Hebrews, during the Mosaic
Period, not being educated, were
incapable of appreciating their re
publican form of government. The
invisible King was not sufficient
for minds that required the acces
sories of pomp and worldly splen
dor, therefore they considered an
earthly king an actual necessity.
Saul must have been a wise poli
tician and sent his demagogues to
stir op the people and make them
dissatisfled with the existing state
of affairs. We all know the sequel.
The world lias grown much wiser
since then, many centuries ago,
yet it has not arrived at the acme
of wisdom, since the world still
contains so many ignoramuses.
Farmers ought to be among the
most intellectual of the world's in
habitants, because they have Na
ture's great book, opened for their
daily inspection, Tlie evidence to
the contrary is given in this anee
dote, tlie truth of which can he
proven by witnesses of unimpeach
able veracity :
There is a beautiful island in one
of the states of the Union, its trees
being principally composed of
grand old oaks. The broad branch
es of these trees have cast their
shadows centuries before the pale
faces knew of their proximity, the
Indians shot the deer iu these ma
jestic forests, and wild game in
tlie marshes. The red man's suc
cessors are fanners, hut, being
w hite, has not made them more
educated, or half as intelligent.
Scarcely an individual iu this com
munity can read. A gentleman
went there with the intention of
establishing a school. The almost
universal reply received, when so
liciting patronage, was :
"We want no schools. Our pa
rents lived, like us, without them,
and so must our children, after us.
We don't want to make grand ras
cals of the children just now, but
when we do, we will educate them.
The priest reads and writes our
letters and wo want nothing more."
No place being exempt fron dis
ease, tlie people of this island was
visited by sickness, occasioned by
iguorauee of bygieuie Jaws. Bev
I
1
.
era! of the burners were attacked j
by slow fevers, caused (tmu ex
1
I
posure, latigue and innutritions
food. The regular practitioner af
fording them no relief from their
disobedience, they sought the ad
vice of faith-doctor. An unedu
cated negro-man proved to be the
faith-doctor, who informed hi#
equally intelligent white brothers,
that they were bewitched by von
dotts. The witch or wizard would
be discovered in the first visitor,
after their return home. Their
doctor mumbled some unintelligi
ille jargon over them, and dismiss
cd them with the assurance of be
ing cured for seven years. The
invalids returned to their homes
and work, turning ignoininiously
out of their houses, their first vis
itors that inquired about their
health.
Why Waste time iu legislating
against drinking and gambling sa
loons t It is tlie lopping off of poi
sonous trees, the roots remain,
consequently no death-blow has
been given. The Osage orange
makes a beautiful hedge, but the
gprdener must begin pruning al
most as soon as the plant aippears
above the ground ; neglect makes
it an ungainly and useless tree.
Educate the children, and there
will be no necessity to enact laws
for the suppression of dens of iui
quity.
Weak minds require the strength
of a thorough education, else they
become infidels, atheist, or worse
than pagans. Such people reminds
one of Pope's lines:
I "A little learning; is a ilangcrous tiling,
Drink ileep, or taste not the I'icriau
spring,
For shallow draughts intoxicate the
brain,
But drinking largely sobers us again."
Weak minds are oddities and
they love to attract attention by
sounding an uumelodioiis trumpet.
The majority like harmony; the mi
nority, as well as the ignorant fan
cy discord.
The world would never have
heard of Fraukliu, Morse, Eads or
De Lesseps, and many others, if
they had been ignorant men. Ed
»cation enabled them to increase
their ten talents an hundred fold, i
and mankind is benefited and ew- 1
nobled by their lives. {low con-1
temptihle are the atheistical lives, 1
whose sole purpose is destruction,
when contrasted with the actions
ot such men.
It is surprising that any intelli- :
gent person would condemn edit- j
cuiion, nevertheless Ouida proves
to be such a Rara Avis. There is
a lntin maxim "A'« tutor ultra era- j
pidam " translated; "Let not the
shoemaker go beyond his last" j
which is applicable to Ouida when j
writing an appendix to her "Village
Commune." is it right to condemn
education because a few people,
capable of reading, commit crime?
Judas Ueiug a traitor is no reason
that Christianity does not exist.
Ouida's Virginia Humaine would
have been a murderess hud she
never couued her alphabet. "A lit
tle learning made her mad" not he
ilig sufficient to elevate an ignoble
mind, resembling
''The ■liicultuiM prairie that bears a
harvest
Heavy anil rank, yet worthless to the
world,
So mind and heart, uncultured ran to
waste;
These natures serving hut show
Thu denser growth of passion's deadly
The devil was subtly wise, ages
before tlie creation of our terres- j
trial sphere, hut the world soon
,, . l
iugthc soul with the noble aspim
lions unknown to the ignorant. |
"Wisdom erieth without, she ut i
teretli her voice iu the streets; she |
erieth in the chief piano of con
'courte, in the opening* of the gates,
detects and exposes bis saéit-ship.
Ouida asks, "Whatcan schools
give us that will equal wbut Nature
offers!" Let os dwell, as she does,
face to face with the blae sky, Hie
mountain solitude, the forest free
dont and we shall see as she does.
Bchools develops a more appreci
ative enjoyment of Nature, flood
j In the city she utteretb her words,
af- 1 saying, How loug, ye simple ones,
: will ye love simplicity! and the
ad
the
hi#
seorners delight in their seeming!
and fools hate knowledge!*
Where would Ouida be, if there
were no education!
Science is the advanced state of
education; religion the commence
ment day upon which we receive
our diplomas. Christ's words prove
' this truth when he bade his apos
! ties to go forth and teach, conse
j quewtly the truly educated are
be
sa
al
I Christians. Eusdeu speaking of
the iMieients, observes :
"The Christian education has the
advantage beyond contradiction.
Our ideas are so infinitely enlarged
by revelations, the eye of reason 1
has so wide a prospect into eterni
ty, the notions of a Deity are so
worthy and refined, and the ac
counts we have of a state of happh
uesa or misery, so clear and evi
dent that contemplation of such
objects will give our education a
noble vigour, an invincible force?
beyond the power of any human
consideration."
The secular pres*, conducted by
men of noble minds, is thcprofOs
J sor's host coadjutor. It is more
powerful than even the religious
periodicals, because it has more
readers, many of whom are scof
fers, therefore the responBibilty
for the people's salvation is Very
great. Addison justly observes,
when writing of newspapers;
"They are calculated to diffuse
good sense through the bulk of the»
people, to clear up their under
standings, animate their mt-Ads
with virtue, dissipate the sorrows
of a heavy heart, or unbend the
mind from its more severe em
ployments. Knowledge, instead
of being bound up in books and
kept in libraries and retirements,
is thus obtained upon the pub
lic; when it is canvassed in ev
ery assembly, and exposed upon
every table."
I conclude with a reiteration;
good newspapers are the educators
i »'<>8t valuable coadjutors.
1 Level Heluled.
1 \ level headed young woman in
Montreal found her way out of u di
leinnm the other day, and the ex
ample ought to be of profit to the
: young and fair elsewhere. Sho
j roused an uncontrollable pas
nion va the breast «fa young lawyer,
whom, however, She did not care to 1
j W ed. He grew gloomy and morose,
took a trip to Europe, returned 4»
j Montreal, fell into lax ways and
j W as going generally to the dogs,
Mictinc the voumr woman on the
Meeting the young womau on the
street oue day she resumed the
old acquaintance with warmtli.
Encouraged by the smiling recep
tion the yoiuig man suggested u
drive. This beiug refused he pro
posed u walk instead. To this
tlie lady consented. They walked
far, he telling (htfatory of his trip, #o
which she listened with interest.
Finally arriving in the limits of
Mount Royal Park, «here thefe
was no possibility of iaterfereace,
the lover drew a pistol, grimly In
forming the astonished girl that
unless she consented to go atouco
with him to a minister an4 get
married he would blow her brains
out and then his' own. Bhe seems
j to have been quite equal to the
emergency. Assouting to visit the
minister they set out at ouoe and
on arriving the clever girl placed
herself nuder the minister's protec-
tion and the lover retired, embit-
tered and vowing destruction up-
on himself for trusting a woman'«
word even Ot the altar,
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A rtew device for a bride's ÿves
l entisa*ilve»»rro«lviththo'inl
tjul(j |(ridô mû mm iu
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| To know that a thing is right
and not doit is weaknass.-^Confti^
eins.