The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1854-09-06


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q4STEaEsrrSa 70 You've LADIEs.-She stood
eeslda tbe altar, when she was sixteen. She
@fas ia love: her destiny rested on creature
fashionable clothes, viii III an empty poeket.
e came of q good faa1ily, and blood you
.Haaw ts something Sho looked lively as she
pronounced the vow 1r4fu auburn hair, dark
eyes, pouting lips, only sixteen years old! She
stood beside the WaSh-tub when her twenty
18th birthday arrived, The hair, the eyes,
aad The lips were lot ScaIoulated to excite the
heart Five cross young ones are about the
roon1s some crying, 4Bd &ome breaking things,
and ole urging the necessity of an immediate
supply Of the tactical secretion. She stopped
In despair, and sat down. and tears trickled
s down Her once plump and fuddy cheek! Alas!
Nancy, early marriages ne not the dodge
Better enjoy youth at hafaa, aud hold lovers at
y distance, until you have muscle and heart
III face Che froWnjnE world and family If
i chap really cares for you, he can wait two
- gu Three years, make pr sents, take you to
concerts and 40 ON, until the time comfs.--
Early marriages and earIT cabbages are ten
der productions
4 KNOW Norfusc.--A man of this county,
and who does not live more than five or six
miles nom town, CHANGED to fall in our Office
few days since and seemed to be amazed at
finding himself In a printing office among the
types After locking around, he said he did
not know there was such g. ching" in town.
Fbis man takes NO paper, yet he owns lands,
mules and "nisgeEs" We guess thai be
knows but little out side of his fence-and not
much inside. fen he plows his corn and cotton
rows straight up and down the hills; and in
dHlges In The hope that the heavy rains will
eventually wash down to much richer and
more productive soil than the original surface
soil. aud thus save him the labor and trouble
81 deep blowing. We Intended to spring the
eastern war question with him, but before We
avaiied oursetf Of the moment, the very sounds
OF tho craft, and sight Of genius and literature
frightened him Of, IF he has heard of the
eastern war; and ever thinks-reckon he thinks
thai # general Pierce lad O. hung ole Sanity
Amy when he cotch i'm at the Allendzes, be
wouldn't % now be in co-hoot with the Brit
tIshesin robbln tbe Greek of his Turkeys
Sommerville Reporter.
ToAsrs by TIE TRADEs.-From list Of pro-
fessonal toasts said to Lave been made at the
New England celebration at Milwaukee, we Sc
lect the following:
BY e. baker--f'Ehe storm of libertY:'' it
rose in The yeast, may it continue to give its
light until il has ieavered the whole world and
prepared for the last great baking.
by dry goods merchant--"Our national
flag inlay we never measure it by yards
10 sell it without reasonable advance on its
- cost, adding transportation and insurance 5
N by apriHter,-~"PIymouth Rock"-The i'm o
posing Stone on which The form of our lber- o
t}oS was made up, may it be type Of their Q
perpotuity. a
By q taiIor-"Tae American Union''-but- il
toned up by tho patriotism of our ancestors: r
May It's needle Of virtnous indignation prick the
goose that attempts to rip it asunder.
hy mier,-~"The Mayfower' - Ground
from tbe grjst Of oppression: it turned outno a
Short.
u 8T torwarder,~-"The Boston tea parity
My lis memory be stored away by all who at
tempt to exact illegal commission. Il
by 6anker.~"The pilgrim stool" above a
par In every market.
Women are called tue softer SEX" because
they are 50 easily humbugged. Out of one
hundred girls, niDety-fve would prefer ostcn- If
tation TO haPptnoss-a dandy husband to ,
mechanic, o.
"Pa, DO ships have Iogs?', mo my dear. re
Why do You ask such q question:" BE b
cause the newspapers say ship is going 10 b
run fFom Boston to Lrcrpool!'' II
Without woman The rosebud of affection ,r
would never grow nor the flowers of eloqucncc p
germlnate, in short she is the steam engine of
life, Tho great motive power of love, valor and o.
IN proof Of Ghis truth, all history
speaks trumpet tongued.
II you wish 10 know on how small GUAM
tlty oi meat you can suhsjst, put up at two
dollar boarding house, there is an establish :
menu of this kind up Town where one sausage " Y.
does for the whole hou&ehold-the landlord J
rails thu sausage, and The boarders smell off "
His breath. A
"hT son." said q somewhat irascble pa =,
.ent, obey yauf father, aad you'll find roses T
iFaYs IN your path ut life.'' "Dont know
my thing about the roses, - answered the iu+ c,
emile addressed; 'but I've always noticed 81
hat when | dom obey Won, daddy, there's an ,r
ldar blow soon after" i pair of tongs iust -""
,razed ths youths head as he went through of
he door way. M
The farmer whose pigs wcre so lean that ii IL
oa4 Two Ut them 10 make a shadow, was beat ad
Y another who had several so small that thew
oula crawl through the cracks in their pen; 1 pc
Y finally stopped their fun BY tying knots in 81,
heir tails. sa
Lei Toa be eFer ~ nure, you cannot associ-#
tie with bad companions without falling into =
I'D oder, Evil companions is like tobacco II
aoke-7aa cannot BE long in its presence 81
ltholt carrying away faint Of it. Of:
The man WHO took it for granted, found it cot
1meshing else. s sut
Wanted 70 know-the velocity of s.run me
ag account tifu
4 Nonaan's heart il like fiddle. It re- for
1fes boN ~ play Hnon it. An'
Tho mar who Was 'thehind the times. pro- n nf
Sc IL get III front a,f
II Utah, man tina. mas no more than two u
ives, is rated bachelor. -
United Americans Yankee and his wife t}G
The san does not wait f5r hin lot wafer ~ ~
II boots, w. CTS Hi 81 once. H@Es
Az Old maid was heard ID aaslaim. vbit. kers
ting IT heT toilet the other day ean ben r
fers!ty, car encounter hardship. and will, IL
sad the changes 81 iekIe fortune, hut %. Mo- |o4t
y droop. ard wilt, and Die lie single AsEf
aa't endure Il, and what's more. }a@E