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Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-05-14
The Old Canoe.
BY ALBERT PIKE.

ALBERT PIKE.
Where the rocks are gray and thessshofe Is sVeep'
And the waters below look dark and deep,
Where the rugged pine, in It's lonely pride,
Leans Qloomily over the murky ude;
Where the reeds and rushes are long and rank,
And the weeds grow thick on the winding oank,
Where the shade is heavy the whole day through
Lies at the moorings the old canoe
The useless paddles are idly dropped, I,
Like sea-brd's wings that the storm has topped
And crossed on the railing. one er one.
Like the folded hands when the work is done;
While busily back and forth between,
The spider stretches his silvery screen;
And the solemn OWL with his dull too hoo,
Settles down on the side of the Old canoe
The stern half sunk in the Shiny wave,
Rots slowly in its living grave,
And the green moss creeps DER its dull decay,
Hiding the Wondering dust away
Like the hand that plants Ger the tomb mower
Or the ivy that mantles the falling tower;
While magy & blossom Of lovelest hue
Springs up DOR the stern of the old canoe.
The currentless waters are dead and still
But the light wind plays with the boat al WILL
And lazily in and out again,
It floats the length of its rusty chain,
Like the weary march OF the hands OF tiine'
That meet and part at the noon-tdie chime,
And the shore is kissed each turn anew
BY the dropping bow of The old canoe.
MANY a time with a careless hand,
] have pushed it away from the pebbly strand;
And padded it down where the stream runs qni OK
Where the whirls wild and the eddies are thick
And laughed as leaned DER the rocking side,
And looked below in the broken tide,
To see that the faces and boats were two,
That were mirrored back from the old canoe.
But now, as lean DER TIE crumbling side,
And look below in the sluggish tide,
The face that see there is graver grown,
And the laugh that hear has a soberer tone,
And the hands that lent to the light skif wings,
Have grown familiar with sterner things;
But love to think of the hours that flew
AS rocked where the whirls their white spray
threw,
Ere the blossoms waved, or the green grass grew
Or the Wondering stern of the old canoe.
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-05-14

1t is pleasant to see that the new style
of spring pants is, SO to speak, little
more humane than it's predecessor. 1t
is less tight than the skin, and enables
gentlemen to take a full breath with
out disrobement. The former style con-
stituted sort of corset from the waist
to the ankle. The ladies may readily
infer what miseries fashionable gentle
men have experienced for nearly a year.
-Neto York Express.
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-05-14

Figaro's Dictionary has the following:
Gngratitude the pride of the next day;
ngeniousness-the effrontery of limo
;ence; -Impertinence-a quality mostly
used by its owner when in the wrong;
Intolerance-a tyranny which convic-
ton breeds.
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Be a w oman.

Oft I've heard gentle mother,
As the twilight hours began,
Pleading with son on duty,
Urging him to be man.
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Tho with loves word quite as ready,
Points she out the other duty
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Like the fancy rings and chairs?
Is it one that wastes on novels
Every feeling that is human?
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lis not this to be woman.
Mother, then, unto your daughter
Speaking of something higher far
Than to be mere fashions lady
woman" is the brightest star.
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Urge your daughter no less strongly
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Virtues fair and radiant bow,
Leap thy influence to each effort
That shall raise our nature human;
Be not fashions gilded lady-
Be brave, whole -souled, true woman.
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The best thing to give your enemy is
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Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-05-14

Among tue two millions of people by
whom Yeddo, Japan, is inhabited, there
is not a beggar in the streets, not man
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ard, not ruffian. An example that puts
to blush the boosted home civilization.
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-05-14

A cheerful heart paints the world as it
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Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-05-14

Seven thousand, seven hundred and
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Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-05-14

Said an Irish Justice to an obstreper-
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of you but silence, aid darn little OF
that"
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-05-14

One million nine hundred and seven
teen thousand and thirty-eight bales of
cotton, of four hundred pounds each,
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At a recent wedding in Ohio the
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cake, and then charged them fifteen
cents each for supper.
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-05-14

A Texas paper announces that the vii
Iage doctor has prepared night bell,
and that one pull of the wire will bring
him out.
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-05-14

A man in Maine drinks pound of tea
a week, in the belief that it is u sove-
reign cure for bad memory.
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