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GLAIBORNE QlUARDIAN.
VOL. tI. - HOER, LA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER31, 1877. IOM, IL
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Anug. , 1877. 1:
TEMPERANCE MEETINOS.
The Oran Coesell U. F.f T. North Lia.,
W ILL hold its next annual meeting at
SIOMER, commeneing na Thuday,
July leth, kitd.
.L. Oasklna. Or W P; MiLMattlesMas
Or W A; Adam II Davidson, Or C; Miss
Th nci McFarld, Or AV; Max Feade
OrS; Allen larkadale, Or A 8; John W'
McVarland, Or Tr; V Fannio Parker, Or
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Or Sest.
Punt-ome. of Orand,cribe,Vienna, La.
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eamer Conaell I. 1, U. F. of T.,
Mrle at tk CoerwlMeo eemry PHIday 1N t.
T. S. 811ih, W P Mrs. Adell 81ighb, W A;
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J. BI. OItt, C oad Miss Kate lmmona, A C;
J. A. l'rker, Chap, E P. Harwell, sr
I. T. Vaughn, FP ; H. W. Kirkatrick TFr;
A. C.alou, 0 Dy.
Aug. 9,:1877. 1:I
aOIm yOUeN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
HOMER, LA.
W ILL praetie il the Courts of Cll
borae, Jackson, gBlenville, Lneoln
anad Union, and i the BSupreme Coast at
Monroe. Aug. 50, 1877.--:y
Judge J.. . Young. Jae. A. lRebardson.
roUNG A uCneANsas,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
HOMER, LA.
IDA~RTNBBHIIP lImited to the parish of
I Clibra egal besiaes attended to
by ither parter ia Jaukon, Unloe, Bien
lille and Linooln r ad behe thb
supreme Court a6 ; na
Aug. 9, 187?. 1:y
RIATTON 3. MATie,
ATTORZNEY AT LAW,
HOMER, LA.
'ILL practiee In the Courts of Clai
borne, Bleaville, Jeeksee, Union,
sod Webster, and the preme Courtas
Montor.
Aug. 96, 1877. 1:y
D3. L 3. gICEAR3UE,
HAVING resamed the practice of Medi.
cine oes bhe servies to tbe citisens
SCIiborne sriah, in the varies braes
of hin profession.
mice at the Drag 8rte of Je Shelbma.
Aug. t, 187n . 1:y
. 5. c oL. AN,
PARISH 8URYBTOR,
--- r ree .0., Hmier.
*Fat 3r &'n IeaUsT AlM rN,
ILL a men p en d Wes. I
!a M ru.essea .t..em.I S ..- tis
Aug.s 9,16. Iby
b.,.t -i- 1r7 (U
UkL~r~L
TU argr PLr
DY PAUL IL. ATII* .
rWe ha gad the luday summit,
We have left the aedytet,
Al daow the hillide sloe
DeseeUd er wie4m bi
To i l . . ..And Y eti . T e at.
Yet, a. sm twoeL
d otr trosatson ad mow,
Ly wlthevi hog agae
And eove the Sewe . e a ,tumn
arsia or ra tied isnmh
Le the tender twilight weather
Wer the toil det ha e ls
AlmW hebliss io uitgr
dr eonttaan.thearts have won
Whothe vespr pimee bluer,
Kinsed by the o dyig re
do fils that treaquil am,
Dew like, a sail a td *Ight;
Faith's lvery stard ble saded
With memory's unsetI light,
Wherein lie pauses softly
Along the verge of ligat.
DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND
A OGANDPATEas's SOerT.
About sixty yeas ago I was is
Paris for the Brt time in my lift.
Bonaparte still lingered at 8t.
Helena; and the adventurers, good,
bad and lidliferent il onah ter
who had served in his armies, had
not yet lost all hope of the return of
their idol, ad consequently had not
yet thought it worth whie to maettlet
don luto thorough peace and quiet
anes.
Young Paul errnod, whom I bhe
quently met at the asfe, and who
bad served a a captala at Water
lo, was are that the Little Cor
poal would come back again soon.
You have not yet beaten him,b he
woil m tell a lu ing. "You seat
him to Elba, but he returoned; yo
have seat him to at. Helen, and he
will return again. We shall seo
Perrand was an exceedingly nice
fellow; and although be professed
to cherish an aunquenchable hatred
for Eglandaad everything Bogliah,
he had, by some means or other,
become attached to Alie Bae, a
young English lady of my acquaint.
ane, and who had been lying with
her mother since the conelsi of
pence at Paris, not far from the
abode of the ex-captn. And he
as always very riedly with me
too. IHe would, it is true abase my
countrymen most unmeroeholly; but
he was always particularly good
natured, and whenever he found
himself maying a little too much he
would arrest himself and apologise
o beertily that I never could be
agry with him. I was alone in th
French caspil, and but few fMends
t dheroaexpt Mrs. ae, when ghet
AlUl sad Paur; ad so it dha ed
th I paeed a good deal d o
time in th soeiety of these three.
The mother, a woman still in the
prime of lie, and the widow of a
ing's messenger, was a sonneotion
of mine by marriage, and that fact
gave me a good excese for ofering
my services as escort whenever she
and her pretty daughter thought it
to go to the theatre or the opera.
At sooc times Paul always had a
seat in the stalls; ad between the
sots he would com up to my bar,
to the delight of Alies, who was In
love with him, and to the no small
sateihetion of Mrs. Rae, who herself
bad quite a maternal aseetiem ar
the young Frenchman, and did not
l the least diseounage hi attenties
to her daughter. If there were oa
formal engagemeat between the
two, it was at least perfectly ader
stood by all parties that as soea a
Paul should get an appotmt, for
which at the time was a mdi
date, he was to marry Alice; and I,
though only a few years her senior,
was to give her away.
One Night the opers-bous was
rowed morue than wel. A great
singr was to appear, and a new
wrkby a renowned composer was
toe pbeermed. Bet Paul Pr
rand, sitting Ia the stalls, mined
scarcely f IlIsteb to the muso or to
notice the acshig; and mnsh mere
often were his eyes terned ia ts
the stage. Alee ad her motper
w wtlh me, sad a the artala
fetl at the censlamimn ethe list set
Pult earns a a. ewa sa
uish spirB~it, hd rhead that
the anltd et, mid he expected
to hear in ais as
gb We ce.Mo him, en1
whispenred tohm "TetlU be a
-e matbeh Me ab e thbeend
ut stn eua tqide.p
approached tbo ror dw th: M
n actuaily I mid dot hea, r*
sted him to move. The lter.
opr did not delg to aswer, but
sneeriugly looked up at Ferand, a
tby to sk Md what h meat
hi ltr~s Pa pee to
the oper glases, but the streger
anethe repled nor ed but cor.
lued to appear th Ih h did
sa hear. Iswthat were
easdag a danensspo
for ia tie ae womer I =
and ce of the most calebmte
daellists a Pra . But what eould
I do,t I could at sit sl, me
inal y will, sa witnem tho e s.
oltablo umaou. th.:e.
.Aice would /iot when Isreque
In the aleast way rose before the
crowdedl aaembls and truck
Paul In the face wi his glove but
she relvered herue and like a
statue watehed her er pick up
hie o0mperw sse-bow to hi ion
sater, ad witout word, leave
the bui.die Thear.were some ex.
el t d tbol the audice; bs
the duellist again s, ad with a
thatrical air ad rund, meek.
lgl imitated Pal's p brtig bow,
and resumed his eat. Thi was too
much for poore 1ioe. 8e could not
remain anIy longer; she met go
homo; ad wo, with some dluialty,
I got her and her mother to my car.
ruige, told the coachman to drive
them home, jnd M walked
qukisck to Psaukloi . .
Bs ob arrirvl OWe was
already writing when I tered his
room. "Of course," e sad, as he
sw me sad ame towards me with
both hands outstretehed, "yo, my
dear frend, will asst me. It i
impossiblO to do athny but iht
Eves Alice could Uet m tse r a _
my eonvietion upou that point, the
innlt was so pbalc."
" Sppeeyou leave the eouatry P
- -I'abould have to give up
the appointment sad Alice too. No,
my dear fellow, am a Frenhman,
and I must ight; and you must ar.
range matters for me. If he shoots
me, t cannet belped f 1 shoot
him, I shall have shot the biggest
scoundrel in Paris. I beg you to
call upon aroquliere tonight. I
have already dscovered his addrees.
Hero it is."
"But must yo really fight It
ls suicide to fight with paIsewonal
daeliast.
"Ab," he sold, shaking his head.
"I a afraid It is slelde but I munt
fight c pese doea try and pe
sede me that I eed at And I
will fight, too, as 'soon as possible
Yeeu arrange everything hO to
mrsew mesrina. I must have the
matte ver. In a day or two I
mighrt be a eownr"
By his looks he implored oe to
tg o laroquler, d coaituted as
Prnoh socety ~w ae that time,I
had no other course eper to me
than to do as he wished.
"I Monsieur come fem M. Paul
Ferrad," said a manaservaat whea
I inquired whether I ceuld ee hbl
master, ". Laroquiere has Mnt to
sy that be has not yet left th
oper. He ha, however, sent this
peailedl note, whieh I am to doe
to th gentlemea who comes m
N. Ferand.
I tore open the missive. It cou.
taned two cards, one bearing the
name of the duell aod-tbheeuoh d
that of M. Delerate, Bus
Vlvleine 18. Certsialy it was an
o".hand way of aegqalating ma with
the same and whereabeats et lass
qu.res secnd, bet as I wihed to
Sno qurreI walked on to the
e Viviena, and is a ow lmasts
was ushered the preueesa ot M.
Desle hiMesl This westhy was
i yfusg nass aged about thrmee-d.
twety, and dresed in the very ex
trem et ofasie. His suet were
mm saem mela t eaemwmaly
lsea ee h ms
h ia elea m o o his Ov
nsed wei va tbl-s ies ahs
hs fobas mUe h eay s'd
beN au4 Ife didesia-m ae as
me ne me Smeke blea
of tmy viel, aes Pre I ht
m tea Ms nlu·tes Ia M em
had mgid to meet hmmd
odusue MI th eS t m m
hfaImeat mu aslu b
"Cououmd tl ow!' I mid to
myr Iaft theboat ad soI
the midmew eto my own maced
mew. arim lid peer lmadis
met ma a -a emma amr dear a
Alt e r U rya i n s , t o w ho d
beet to mah  de h r who
"Ain0a going fto btalrrbs
asked ma
"My di e Ate," I Mid, "they
aem I bss doe miybet to
wade Paul, but b eras sadI a
obliged to a that be muut t.
ane eae abd a cWm'r Hea a- h
bk right en side. The ether
man is a scoundrel. Ai eou mouest
remambe that per Pam is anr
nagila hmm. if I wer be,I would
atS lght; ut Its ia, matter
emsuet be ovleoked, n ad Indeed
everythl ariaged.'
ATo ale to be with bhmP msid
r. Rae, looking as whit a ia
"Yes they are to meet to-morrow
mornlog, and by breeskst time
AýMs upeense wUl be over. be
mSt beer u.'
"You as" DeUVa It dinah
-obbd the h ilitbmkoa
"Cannot Pawl let Iasult paugrt
But no, It was so le'
al o a eusLb I isa. "I
will .e ya Is theorolnng; but
now I mut go back to him and am
that he asoe Hloop.*
am i aedlo4 A All, "that it
he is kleod I "ala di Coeme bee
diesty leis ever. Oee eve it bn
ills; yo mast toell me aboua it I
must hear er tig.ng e burled
e bee I h·er h badp a d
lag bm the ms appy girl,  hued
to Paul.
Hle was till writing and his hair
was in disorder d L thi ee pal
-whn be t;dQ- trowmar s m"I
am no eer" h, sd, "but I AU
saylg goodblre to her, fer I shall
die tobw row.
"My dear llow,' I avexlatmed,
"you will shot Iroquiere, sad be
married mxt mouth. You snat
filsh our writing a_ once and go
to bed: I will here tonight,
ir I muet mse you turn u in
tim tomerew maringlo; be as
quick as poseile.'
He wrote for another halt hour,
addressed the document to Alloo
Lae, plaeed a lock of hisbhair within
it, and fter sealing it up, gave it
to me.
"Oive that to her,' he mid, "If
Laroquire kils me outright--ad I
know he will. If t were noat r
Alee I declare that I should be
quit glad to meo him. New Sr
He nimred, whilst I lay dowa
on tho euh Ia the next mom aud lit
a cigar, for I oeeld not daed to
sleep myself. Soon all was quiet,
rand I stole in to see Paul, lying as I
qulot a a bild, with a smile on his
t Probably, nsy, assuredly; I I
paseed a maore unomfkbtable aight
than he dhl Onlywith the ratet I
pn e, rand t.he4 m ast
 fbreve. At lass, however, 1
dylighe dawned, anad I ealled Per.
d, whawoke refrhed and in
cqprutivel7 good spirits. Afterw
a Wrrio i dr we muffed our
slves ON I placed a lak of besady,
some powder ed bullets and a
brae e pistols Wa pokets, ad1
we ailed rth In the sold mornin -
air. Scarcely any e was abrd, I
except a bw sleepy watehmes, who I
eemed to ake veryabsrewd gnes
atthe clieot ofon anpeditioae ad .
through th clleat s ts we went a
Ir a ai t 'a , aml we sbelhed
the meetiL gsplee
me ha p ilwe" I
sat 1080 d. I
Dad thus tlhe wormea PI
Ma t a dista p ot ad s; o l
Si ~wdsg
o, miu with the som .-
on bL bL ad 0a M 1.
...t.o- t Suo ,. ey
et a the em 0 ee. y"
did dtim la wee ly, He r hes
did netmove a fe ba e emlad the
bustemilewith which be had lewid
ats wus ill hpa bi ewIst
vrms melmmthy er ent
WIeN A I had f bwiak hq
Mrs t and r motera ,d
er that I lea sd the heek wold
hav-mmI wmmsu e 4m o
theirt heaith. ner mys n  Was
~ob 0.ene to boge a.d m atea
hd Ptauel o da h th
rthen meef thead aaIverms blw
Pklept uepoedObeese wits
lhoc wh a, la erank tou --m
Kate as it s now, was Y Avrt
beart f hert, as llo mt pmdr
I Irdesny t up a hl
is wums an Iesee well- d
ead heath tr her aed l.
hI isus e bhormte of the
aqnstmca I told 4 wom pb -es,.
Fleet street.Th Mee" leheaes.
bwhich was Ia eer the sam
Iwate a it Lhi now,sm fas m vorite
ths lt mad therNO d a, asvied
t he wa at me. ent lsins
with m tle e awaer Imb tle ea
ope OotineetMl mdem n d ptar
Ill-_tr.stlge my bhorrnce of the
yaret I told my bdeio
Ho ached meot e a BM r
mbout thea dor te,
opier Ia thed ereb that Liaeembe
was a blackguard, bid m ped
night I wen boa to y rooms I.
_Ou a arivi s theshie y bend voa t
latoo moHe thand et word wit abe
of the warten t-hat urg bidem
had cvalleied away, but thast he
.,s ed u e paLaed"
hoped so na me ois so rlen.
Weeks pIed, ad the mots,
and sill Barie did net ea bash
arnd I c s that I had ehoe oa
,ei mo halte er,e en a e
evealg dro tppd He Uiner u O
though had motween theaaht ale
mere than a day or two.
"Wh eeothae yrt ou beau?' Ihed,
-ater I had ahert ly eha es
with him.
"I have been to Pans," dd
"On arrioving the se 1 d out
itt. mre thn you tol.d e t out
Larouo-tro ad when I had ther.
cughycevlmoed myself that he
was the blackguard you painted
him, I arranged he a aers of le
hor a more I west aod t
boarortwo, untLLolwas wgamines
to be able to a h yt e aa evwi
After__atsfy_ myself as tio y
petfloo I * a boxzat theoper.
It may hae bas the  e b that
yao used tI have, Losquie was
pointed out to m Hesat is the
sotalls, and btrween the at 1*
his emt inoor to rfhk a ladIt
in snoter pt o t s 1
ded eased as il as peis
.ted. I strack him. 1e68tM
sam. lele, l isten 1me.em
met hroto trile m you hut I
am Ms as yeu wene with
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