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II. w. Fort,

A ttorney and Counselor at Law.
"A Bellevue, Bossier parish, La,
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R5ch'd W.. Turner,

A ttorney at Law, Bellevue, La.
IA Will practice in the parishes of
Bossier, Caddo and DeSoto. All busi-
ness entrusted to him will receive
prompt and energetic attention. II
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B. r. Fort.

A ttorney at Law. Bellevue. Bos-
IA sier parish, La. v6nl6
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u It is calculated that if q
human being could make as much
noise in proportion to his size as a
locust, he could be heard to sing
from London to st. Petersburg.
It'll merciful provision ofnature
that he can not.
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NUMBER Al.

throughout this whole land,
gold that now rules at 14O
would be atpar with our green
backs in less than eighteen
months"
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Does Wealth Corrupt P

not IN a majority OF cases. 1t
is a common and favOrite theme
to inveigh against those who
have had the energy and thrift
to amass fortunes. It is quite
as common for certain ministers
OF the gospel and really pious
people, in a mistakenE fervor,
to warn Others against the fear
full tendencies of wealth to the
vices of avarice, gluttony, de-
bauchery and all the varieties
Of the cardinal sins. One would
suppose almost that to be rich
meant to be either mean or
prodigal, dissipated or penuri-
GUS, and certainly to merit and
receive the disrespect of every
respectable community. The
universally of this outcry
against rich men amounts al
most to a depreciation of all eff
forts to acquire wealth. In it's
influences it would teach the
young man rather to avoid
riches than encounter the tenn
tations that are incident to
them.
tits true that there are num-
bers of people, who have come
into fortunes by some lucky
chance or questionable means,
that give themselves an air
which is highly unbecoming,
and who deserve to be regard
ed contemptuously as parcenuS.
1t would be well if we had an
American Thackeray whose
pointed satire would thin out
the ranks of this class. But,
after all, the class is compara-
lively a small one, and the ad-
vantage of distinguishing its
members at once, is such as to
materially lessen its disagree
able characteristics. On the
other hand, the wealth of a ma
ton, which is but an aggregate
of individual wealth, is too
powerful an influence to be de-
cried indiscriminately.
In the outcry against wealth,
which we are afraid finds its
source in the sin of envy, one
does not stop to consider what
rich men do for the general
good of community. They
build the churches; they endow
the colleges; they supply the
capital for the great and vital
business of a nation; they main
tain the commerce and provide
the ships; they push the rail-
roads into the most distant
quarters of the globe, and
thereby develop all the sources
of prosperity; they contribute
to the public charities; they
are chiefly instrumental in pro-
noting all the great enterprises
which make up the progress of
a people. 1t is only just that
all this should be taken into
consideration, when the condi-
tion and deeds of rich men are
canvassed.
No young man should allow
himself to be discouraged nor
his ambitirn to be dampened by
the common cutlery against
wealth. The corrupting ten
denotes alleged are totally I'M
founded except in imagination
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Talks With Young Men.

Accidental greatness dies young;
and it knows no resurrection. It
is excited, boasting, egotistical I
and tyrannical. ALI the littleness
of its common childhood is lost in
the shadow of its present brief
loftiness. 1t Itassassinates poverty,
courts Goodness under the sun
and stabs it under the moon, fiat.
ters knowledge to keep secret its
own ignorance. m
Character never dies; 1t is born
to lire. 1t is never beyond i'm.
provement. Man makes his char
acter preserve him. Little prom.
ises, little debts, little words and
little acts are small in themselves,
but they are the very weights we
throw in the balance over against
a mans reputation. One noble
deed dOesn'testablish true nobility.
No man can be trusted with the
cares Of a high station until he
has proven himself capable and
honest in lower ones. Better see
him swim the brook before you
bid him try the river.
And yet, some men begin to rise
ouly when Fate seeks to pull them
down. Difficulties awake them;
and what to others seems certain
defeat, is all that nerves them to
win the battle. True bravery and
true nobility are shy, unassuming.
1t is the traitor who boasts of bis
loyalty, and the villain who modi,
fies his honesty! Honor '1yaunt-
eth not ITSELF" looks every man in
the face, fearing none; asketh no
advertising..and cannot be fatter-
ed. ,....s,t;A y. ha.l.
Boys, remember these little
things, and don't boast of your
honesty. Boast not at all! And
| think it poor philosophy to lend
a man four dollars by way of en-
ticing him to pay the one he
already owes you. Weigh your
promises well, and when you have
made; keep them no matter what
it costs. Judge others by what;
they haze done, not by what they
are going to do!
Don't keep your eyes on the
stars and stumble over nuggets.
Black your own boots and bid
every man to black his. Keep
your own hands in your own
pockets. Pay cash, take cash..
Never marry ian accomplished
lady," The latest meaning ofthat
word, accomplished" is ruin
The truest type, for you, of blessed
womanhOod, beneath the Home
of Love, is good, pure, educated,
working, farmers girl. Thename
of lady becomes her; calico brings
from her no sneer, no scream!--
Calico;-what host ofjewels and
treasures it covers! Starched or
1lnstarched, it's my favorite. This
girl will wear a hat tseice without
retrimming! Is she poor9 So
much the better, then commence
together, work, make, keep, en-
joy together. And when we may
talk together as old men she will
be with you.- Cor. Rural Ne,0
Yorker. bp1 g1
u It is calculated that if q
4. 4
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BELLEVUE, LA. SATURDAY, JANUARY g. 1869

WASTED TIME.-This is one
thing that the twilight of the
year should find earnestpeople
thinking about. With the
brevity of life written in the
mould Of graves and sounded
on every breeze from the belfry;
for the text, the sermon Tmay
be easily wrought from every
ones experience. Think of the
wasted hours! How many in
downright idleness-in the
leaden lethe of unneeded and
unwholesome sleep-in aimIess
lounging-in cold-blooded time
killing! How many in selfish
longing and bitter grumbling
at Fate /! How many i'll silly,
vain, injurious conversation |!
How many in unpleasant, un-
profitable, and peace-destroy-
ing reading! How many in
dizzy and blind pursuit of hap
piness in places where she new
er dwells! How many, thus,
in the glare and turmoil of fes-
tive halls, over whose thres-
hold sincerity and truth and
good desire are never taken;
at tests that foment passion
and foster pride and conduce to
next-morning anger and bitter
ness; at dreary ceremonials
over which ostentation pre-
sides, and not affection, fashion
and not feeling, at entertain
ments of coarse and degrading
tendency, where innocence is
+
made to blush and purity to
gather close her spotless robes !!
How many in utter prostitution
of the high faculties of Gods
giving! How many in stony
indifference to the pure beau
ties and delights of nature and
contemptuous disregard of her
many lessons! Every heart has
an account like this to settle.
Only fools will put off the day
of reckoning. Better rnow than,
by-and-by, when there shall be
no clean page in the book of
life.-[PhM. Mercury.
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or LII IHo envy OF QlSCOnGented
people. They are not any more
incident to the possession of
wealth than they are to abject
poverty-perhaps not so much
so. At all events, the oppor-
tunities which riches afford the
possessor for doing good in this
country are so numerous and
ample that wealth, properly
used, may be the means of
making up the most admirable
of characters, while those who
are inclined to depart from the
path of rectitude would do so
as quickly in one condition as
in another.
To save money and amass a
fortune, if it is done with a
proper motive, is not only a
laudable ambition but a duty.
1t is duty to ones self, ones
family and the community in
which one lives. Tt is providing
for old age, for calamity in
business or sickness, for the
means of helping the poor and
relieving the oppressed. There
can be no better instruction
given a young man than that
which impresses a true appre-
citation of the worth of money.
Such an early impression would
have saved many a man and
many a family from serious
misfortunes, discomforts, un-
happiness and even crime.
There is no schooling so eff
cacious in this respect as that
Ofa business education, no mat
ter how it may be obtained. 1t
is a system. 1t promotes Ger
tain regular habits which will
in time promote thrift and in
culcate energy. The making
Of money and saving of money
-as distinguished from that
love of money which is
said to be the root of all evil
should be the aim of all young
men who start out in life for
themselves. They include hab-
itsof industry that leap to con-
tentment and often ward off
dissipation, want and future
misery.-[Chicago Courier.
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u Idleness people can new
er be told too often, or think of
it too earnestly-is a positive
loss of money. Were the idlers
at present doing nothing put
to work, even if they made but
the lowest wages, in a few years
they would earn enough to pay
off the national debt. A Mich
igan writer makes the 1calcula-
ton for his own State:
"There are probably $4,000
women, boys and girls in this
State who are in no productive
or educational industry, but
who must necessarily live upon
the industry of these who labor.
Put these people at work, and
suppose they earn but 80 cents
per day, their earnings will be
s37, 500 per day, $225,OOO per
week, s11,7OO,OOO in one year,
s177,OOO,OOO in ten years. If
the citizens of this State could
look ahead with the positive
assurance that ten years hence
there would be added to their
actual cash capital S117,O0O,-
900 out of the now utterly val
ueless and idle elements in it,
they might well feel strength
ened in their financial hopes.
and, with such industry
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QUARRELING.-If anything
in this world makes a man feel
badly, except pinching his fin
gers in the crack of a door, it
is unquestionably a quarrel.
No man ever fails to think less
OF himself than before. 1t de-
grades him in the eyes of others,
and what is worse, blunts his
sensibilities on one hand, and
increases thepower of passion
ate irribility on the other. The
truth is the more peaceably and
quietly we get on, the better it
is for our neighbors. In nine
cases out of ten, the better
course is, if a man cheats you,
cease to deal with him; if he is
abusive, quit his company; and
if he lies about you, SO con-
duct yourself that nobody will
believe him. No matter who
he is or how he misuses you,
the wisest way is to let him
alone; for there is nothing bet
ter than this cool, calm and
quiet way of dealing with the
wrongs we meet with. ERE
turn not railing for railing.''
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II. B. Watkins,

A ttorney and Counselor at Law, Min
II den. La. Will practice in the
10Th and 18th District Courts. Prompt
attention givetl to all legal business en-
rusted to his care. u2}
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OLD DIR. WILDER

|TONTINUEs TO TREAT ALL
~ PRIVATE DISEASES. Syphilis, all
forms, rGonorhGa, elect, Stri .turc, 80,
completely orssdicated. That numerous
classes Of cases, resulting from self.
abuse, producing unmanliness, nervous
debility, irritability, eruptions, seminal
emissions and finally impotency, per-
|manently cured. Persons afflicted with
delicate, intricate and long standing
constitutional complaints are politely
invited 20 call for consultation, which
costs nothing. Experience, the best of
teachers. has enabled him to perfect
reVedies ut once efficient, safe. perma-
nent, and which inmosr cases can be
used without hlndrancc to business.
Medicines prepared in the establish
ment, which imbraces office, reception
AID waiting rooms, also boarding and
sleeping apartments for Patient re-
quiriEg daily personal attention, and
vapor and chemical baths, thus concen-
trating the famed Mineral Springs.
Both sexes, married or single, suffering
from indiscretiens, iudnlgences or ex-l
posare, may apply aud be cured. No
matter who have failed, state your case.
Read what he says in his pamphlet, sent
to any address for two stamps. Thou
sauds CT cases treated annually, ut Of
fee and I'LL over the country Consulta-
tion free, personally or by mail, GIG
Washington Avenue. St. Louis, Mo.
Hours 8 a. m, to Up. III. Sundays 8
u. m. to liza. m.
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A Book for the Million,
EzEl;s;{ES: :5LE{SI5

A PRIVATE COUNSELLOR TO THE MAR
~ RED or those about to marry, male
female, in all that pertains to the physiological
mysteries and revelations If the sexual systcM,
with the latest discoveries In producing and pre-
venting offspring, how to preserve the complexion
in all its attractiSeness and beauty, &c, &c.
This Is an interesting and important work Of over
two hundred pages, written in plain language, with
numerous engravings, and cont aims all that valua-
bile information that every person who Is married or
contemplates marriage OUGHT to have yet, which
SO few really possess. 1t unravels m, stcries and
discleses secrets that everybody should know stih
It Is a book that ought to lie kept under lock and
key. and not laid carel@ssly about the house. II
embraces everything the sutjsct of the genera
tive system that is worth lnowing, and much that
is not published in any other work.
This inv auabie work will he sent to any one
(free Of postagr) on receipt Of Fifty cents.
Address: DR.. Butts Dspensa,y, N. W., corner
Fifth and Market streets, ST. Louis, Mo.
Nohee to tn dN cted and Unfortunate
Before receiving treatment from any Of the no
torious QuAcKsof this or any other place who ad-
vertise in the public papers, or using any Of the AL
most nun',efless CUAcK REMEDIES, carefully peruse
DR.. Butts work. No matter what yosr disease is,
or how deplorahe your condit on, remember that
while It costs You Fifty cents to have 1t with its val
liable infarm tion, 1t may cost YOU, as it has many
life Of hopeless misery, and regret not TO have it.
DR.. Butts can be consulted personally or Ivy mail
on any Of the diseases mentioned in his work.
Office N. w. corner Fifth and Market street, Top
posite Court House, 81. Louis, Mo. t3slo
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Spirit Wrappess--Bottlcs,

Spirit Wrappe.s-Bottlcs,
Health Bills-Doctor's charges.
Feed stores-Public Offices.
Pail Cscatures-Dairy- maids.
hooking Birds-Whistle vendors.
Receiving Tellers--Rewarded in
formers.
Account Currents -Tide-tallas.
Golden Fruit--Calfornia products.
Manufacturing Perfumers Co.
Bone boilers
Hobby Horses--The favorltes Of
the course.
Boarder, who gets his lodging on
credit, terms it Bcl-tick.
"A city magistrate who goes to work
with a .rik--The Surrogate. .....
A knotty Question--What style
Of ties will be worn next season?
I'VE agree with him who sayetl
that swearing is in order during the
heated terms.
Some Of the journals are defending
the Annual Government Tax--We
have proofs that it S IScoMEMoDloUs.
70 the general inquiry-,where is
Byron's character now ? We beg to
answer that it s Stowe-len.
1t is suggested that Tennessee must
be a large State as it's Senter is in
New Ierk, while its border is On the
Mississippi. .a- .......'.s
1t is thought the President must
carry good deal Of luggage With
him. as he is generally accompanied
onhis travels b. a Porter.
Preisdice.-The President is re-
ported to have declined the present
If .1otsin Bricksburg because it was
the land Of Clay.
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From the n, Y. Commercial advertiser.
q TaEHEaaaRy r!aN Legislator.

Prom the n, Y. Commercial advertiser.
a TaEnalaRy san Legislator.
Bad as rTammany Hall is, she
brings forth occasionally some good
fruit. Nearly twenty years ago Tam
many sent to the Assembly, from
one of the districts in this city, a
II young man named John Brown.
lie was quite unassuming and COM
panionable, and Il fovorite with every
member Of the Legislature. He rare
ly had any thing to say on the floor
Of the House. Tut when he did it was
lrief and to the point. The Lcgis-
laturc was Wing in both - branches,
and, in view Of the approaching
Presidential election Of 1852, was
exercising i severe economy. refus-
ing to make appropriations absolute
ly necessary to carry on the govern
mont. The supply bill, or annual
budget, which contained items af ap-
preparations to public charities and
contingencies coming up for consid-
Grafton were sharpcly discussed and
kcenly 'strn'inizcd. Quite an cx-
tended debate took place on an ap-
propriat ion of S., coo to, the Juve-
nile Orphan Asylum Of the city Of
Now York, which item was striker
from the bill by a large majority
Holm Brown, the individual VIC are
rsfurrlng to, as soon as the vote was
announced, roseiu his place and .ad-
dressed the speaker in an excited
maEner. *iHc seemed for the moment
hle!to giYe utterauce to his feel
ipss. Recovering himself, he. pro-
cecded to say: II rise, Mr.. Speak
or, under great embarrassment, for
the purpose Of saying word in favor
of the Appropriation just stricken from
the supply bill, and move recon-
s;deration' There was a slight
pause here, and the members began
to be- attracted by the feeling mani
Tested by Mr.. Brown. He resumed {:
mo man can regret the action Of
ho House on this matter as l do. No
member of the House holds the re-
la;ions do to the institution which
you have so craelly injured by your
last vote. Mr.. Speaker l owe all
that | AIN to this institution. |, sir,
had tile misfortune to lose both my
father and mother when almost an in
FAINT That institution was a fathc T.
and a mother TO me lit nursed and
educated me 4: ittaught me to fear
God. anl.do unto others as l would
be done by Sir, / am proud Of the
opportunity TO. stand here in the pres
ence ofthis, Assembly as one of the
children Of that institution to say. =
worl in its behalf: ! appeal, sir. in
behalf IF the orphans who need this
appropriations, !; | appeal in the nam c
Of humanity that you reconsider your
action in striking out this item
c;ad will bless, | will bless, !" and
John Brown took his seat. Tears
moistencd many cheek unused to
tears. Speaker Heartt was moved
Ivy the appeal, that it was some time
before he put the motion to consider,
which. Eas carried unanimously, and
the item ofappropriatlon restored to
the bill 1t was n great triumph for
John Brown, the orphan boy, and
tile same identical John Brown is re-
turned to the Legislature this fall by
Tammany Hall, from the Twentieth
.issenply District of this CITY,. to
look after the interest of the Asylum
OF Juveniles.
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WALTHAM WATCHES.

For few months past We have advcr.
tised the above Watches mt EXTREMELY
Low PRICES, and the result has been most
satisfactory. Our plan has been to sell
the genuine WALTIAM warren, in Solid
Gold or silver Cases only, at very small
profit. ;-giying the purchaser every oppor'
tunity of examination End comparison
and with the understanding that if the
Watch does not prove satisfactory, it can
be exchanged or the money refunded.
These Watches are, without exception.
the most perfect specimens of fine mechan'
ism ever produced in any country. Each
and every part is made by machinery OF
the most delicate and elaborate construc-
ton & - HA ,s
Compared with foreien watches, they
possess many advantages, excelllrg not
only in principle and finish, but still more
in their reliability as time-kecpers. AS
an indication OF the prices we submit the
following:
Silrer Hunting u atches 49,. $ls co
Gold Hunting Watehcs, Is karat
Gold Hunting iTatehss, Ladies'
sac, ........ Z" W.
We often receive orders direct from our
advertisement, but prefer that eyery one
should send first for eur descriptive price
list, which explains all the different kinds
tells the weight and quality of the cases,
and gives prices of each. This we will
forward to any one ON application, and it
will be found very, useful in making a
selection - 80 Il
Every Watch IS war,antcd bv speria
certificate from the Amerteas IYateh. Co,
Wesend them by express to any adj.
dress. Allow the purchaser to open the
package and examine ithe Watch before
paying, and if af crwards it docs not prove
satisfactory, it can be exchanged or the
money will be. cHEERFuLLr refunded.
Please state that you saw this in the
Iowa Plain Dealer. -
Address, in full, HOWARD & CO.,
No. Gl9 Broadway, N. Y.
Our establishment is we'll known to the
residents Of New fork and vicinity, but
that those ut distance may address us
with confidence, we invite attention to the
following editorial notices
From The N. Y. Evangelist, May aSth 1865.
We had occasion some time since to re-
fer to these celebrated American Watches
which are well known rs reliable time
keepers. We cannot do better now than
to call the attention of our readers to the
card Of Howard 4 Co., by which it will be
seen that persons frolA tt di.tance can or
der any OF these watches by express. ut
greatly reduced prices.
From the N. Y. Independent, June IL, lsGs.
We invite special attention to the adyer-
tiscment Of Messrs. Howard & Co., who
offer the celebrated Waltham Watches not
only at the lowest prices, but will. send
them to any part Of the country by express
and give the purchaser the purchasrr the
privilege to examine the Watch beford
paying for it. We have known Howard
4 Co. personally for years, and cheernl-
ly commend them to the confidence Of our
friends throughout the c, ATTY 1910.