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NOR RENT-42 OFFICES, q SLEEPING
rooms and q cottage; all on Main street.
W. "A. WHEATLEY, d
1913 aiQ Ag't for PIC. Bethel.
NOR ENT-STOREH0USE NO. 23S MAIN
street, second door above Jefferson, east
side. Apply TO =. McDayitt, No: ~ Madison
street; or s. H. Dunscomb, Desoto Bank.
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, An Irishman, on landing in New York,
witnessed a fight between a party Of
roughs and the police He at once en-
gagged in the difficulty, and was arrested
by the officers His excuse was that 'he
couldn't help it; he was always on the
side of the rebellion"
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R. u. Fort.

A TToRNEY AT LAW, Bellevue, Bossier
IA parish La. v6nI6
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SrAEDESG TEEAT.--A trav-
eleF may go all over the conti-
neut of Europe, of Asia and
Af.ica, without seeing any
man, cxceptan American, Of
fer 10 'treat,' aud tho French
men-arc cutie social enough,
bat when they turn into a cafe,
10 sip their vine and branded
coffee together, each man pays
for his OWE. When two Ger
mans, Ioag separated, meet,
they viii be very likely to en-
I GRACE, and then turn into a
beer cellar, sit down and drink
lager AMI eat pretzels, and
chat, but when they par! again,
each man settles his own score
independ .ntly. So in Italy.
The Italians are proverbially
; mrrFy and generous, but every
man pays for his own wine, ci-
gars and Dacaroni. They nev-
; er 80 into each others pocket +
| BOOKS in the sacred name of
srienIslia. They would as
: soon tlli:.l Of transferring ia
5 each ether their washerwo-
/, mats bills.
The pIeposterous fashion OF
5 treating is responsible for tue
: terrible drunkenness in Ameri-
I ca. There would be as little
need OF temperance socIeties
aud like. work for the Good
> Tenpiars as there is in Germa
! ny, Frnce and Italy, if thi:
, pernicious and insiduous habi
J was abolished. 1t is, taken al
L III all, the most riIicuious. th;
} most unreasonable, and th'
Q most pei uIent custom that eve
I lai. IT'S tyrannfrai hands -ol
4 civilized liumafl beings.
IN the choice OF Il wife, prefe
= the person before the money; vi
81 tue before baaats; the mind hefoI
10 the body. Then hast thou wife,
r companion who wiit be.iT an eqa'
Of share iu all thy tolls and af1li
OF tons.
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=. sE. Dcr503ssie,


n See over Co r. IT Lindsqvs Of CO. one
~ door below the Brooks House. Milan
Street, Shreveport, La. yJnl7lF
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What Shall Young Men Do ?

NCl uldtEic1. DN oIl AAiSdilS'
That may be stated generally
as their first duty. OF course
the case presupposes that the
young man knows a particnI"-
somebody whom he wonla hEe
t. marry, and who is willing
TO marry him, but this, in a.
general way, is the only condi-I
ton needed oreuder the union
advisable. There are some
young men who have no occu-
patton, and no reliable means
of support. They have no
business getting married, and
no pretty young person has any
business getting married to
them. But these are eIcrg-
ti0ns. After i'll that people
say against young men, the,
are, on the average, very de-
serving fellows, quite as good
/ as their fathers were when thty
were young, and nearly as good
rs the old men who find fault
with them. They are good
material to make husbands Of;
and if they are not, they are
the emily material We haze,
adapted to that purpose. Each
Of them oaght to have another
Young creature, not a man,
hanging to bis arm, leaning hei
head on his arm, leapiug hei
head on his Breast, struhing
his beard, waiting for him t,
come home, Keeping his earn
ings, and sewing on his but
tons. II he gets married t.
that young creature, the chan
ces are, first that he makes he
a happy young woman, an'
himself a happy young man a
the same time; second, that, i!
time he becomes a happy ia
E ther and she happy mothei
third, that hy the time Il
reashes the climax Of life, h
finds hiInSclfin the centre Of
happy family grown uptocom
} fort and bless him and that foI
: mer young creature, GA th
" down grade OF lie; and fuurtl
that IA considerable stock {
, happiness and usefulness b.
been added to the world. 0
the other hand, If he conclude
ID not to marry, he hecunes a
irritable and refractory ol
= bachelor, and the fair y0uu
creature d resigned OLD inai
both perhaps Iamenting Il
loss Of the happiness which OF
wonld not, and the other con
e; not have, while the family al
d children and happiness ard is
: fitness that sionid have f
lowed a marriage, never ha'
an existence.
IS Ifyoung men decline n N;
- ry, the cause usually Is tn
- they are not able to; their sal
,r ry is too small; they can Il
: afford to maintain a i.oGsehc
and support a wife; a.,d th
prefer Il bachelors easy fr'
, dom to the life ofhard toll ii
- would follow a marriage on
limited salary. Allthts IS gia
ed sible; but it is snot satiSfacto
Il II
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Does Her Own Work.

DoeS sue " i'' u Il
!. d "'Ss'"ee |" heL = S"e
'"' ,'S' d 'i"0 "''''"',' ',S
""'.AS VI ieSt'e'' '"'''' S',0 " ~
s'sS ~ > = anu SUN ''''N - "'''
o' ,, -, -,
50 w
'' "
,'''''
= nc. 49, y !" s'-'S' e ."
% ''''.,''' ''''o' ''''O'' 80 3'S
80 80 & 49, ''''o I''""
- /" l,o.'~ '.''' = ''''' -. va
- - - - - '
-
.;' 'I,:,:. rl
genuine nobility. 1t showed
i:
lisa; a caste whose sole touEda-
non IS nlonPy, ana 50 the medn-
tSf NiHd OF rank known TO
eNilzatioh' Athh' hiithheTs'
'l"'"iS' dii 'h"' eH'ef ih'" Il
t"'''' ''i','''c 'o'' ''i0 "a iio az
10'''' IN tli's0 Soo''i S''''''
position III '"e!t Sti''eH rank Is
oo0slI "i,l s"i"' aha eacl az :
ai'loiiai ooiiaf IS aiiotneF roam"
!, = N 'he laddef Oy "Aicn e.e'a-
, 'toh lS gaHie'i.
III 'hat'eE Oh iacI' IS IL '"hoSe "
'''','i -''' >'' = A"' 90 = ~ ~ ''.'S :
VIE u d" h'F own WORK tiAn
i'r tl3 merchant 20 'to H's? ioF
her to i''oN aLteF Fh3F mouse 'hah
for hIm to i"ok alter his store
VI Is woman iof nothing only
% ''e 'ie'>ieu VIII i ie''''o' S'',''
i''e"S7" VIA d Stt"" L
seems 70 oo 'llc i1l o' "Ai'
"''ioh ~ so'ii0 '''eie' - 't' y
= 'iol''s 80 % no' o'''' 'o''1 :
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Z. e. EEsgsEilss.

4 TTORNEY At LAW. Iiudrn, In. VIII
"A practice in the 10th and Iith District
Courts. Prompt attention given to al legal
business entrUst ii 10 his care. v1n-3
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Of purse and dancing school
.politeness. When that happy
day shall dawn when the true
woman and he true man are
in their proper position in tho
social world, in the highest
scale will lie thousands who
know how to work, and when
necessary, are wiling to work,
while the brainIess and purse
FIJI snoh5 Of both sexes will sink
by tie weight oftheir Of their
own coppers.
fla man ora woman, a "sen-
tleman" or Il ''lady," is able to
live without actual labor, let
them be thankful; it is Il pleas
ant position to occupy; but to
be ashamed Of knowledge suffi-
cient to manage the shop or
the Kitchen, the store or the
house, to b. ashamed to work,
and to sneer at those who do
w5fli-thi5 is evil and only
evil, and today is an abomina-
/ tiun in "our best -society."-
Vain woman, was ycur mother
ashamed of work, and are you
ashamed oi her that she did
work I? Aad young man in
kids and clover, did your faith,
erget his competence on which
you live by idleness We hon
or the woman, who, when nec-
essary, "doas her own work" !"
and despis5 those who sneer.-
ETdtehmaa end Reflector.
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ability to do this, but on the
contrary, will be apt to make
him more industrious, atten-
tive, faithful aud energetic,
and therefore Ct more value to
his employer. II he is cou-
scious of his own good prinCi-
pie aud capacities, therefore,
he may safely venture to get
married, with q cheerful trust
in the future to augment his
salary. and provide for all the
reasonable wants Of his new
condition. There i; IL greater
danger tagea enel TO the young
nan wha has banished frum
his miu,l The i,Iea Of a wi5,.
family and children, than tLat
impli Il in IN adequate Income
to the married man. 10 live
a single life QeAus to live al
most without an object or an
incentive; aud il means, too, -
live withUutt.le moral restrain,
that propriety demands. Mar
lilgo Involves earnest dutis.
anl i-npose2 restrictions; bat
beth are wholesome and saIUta-
rs; while the li3eyty Of baehe-
lorhood to3 often means d Ii
: cense thai ends in moral r,iin
No industrioIs young man, ot
average capacities, need fill o
r 4 respectable livelihood, be
cause he has Il wife to ShtI>
) his iuc0.he; for that were to i'm
: peach the Divine wisdom Waicl
= has made the sexes to be ina
} ted. Married men, in general
get along in the world IS wei
I rs those who are not married
l \ good wife, besides being ;
t helplnate, is the greatest earth
a Iy blessing a man can possess
: and experience teaches not on
) ly that young men ought t
9 marry, bnt that they shonl,
g marry while they are >oung.-
q TSt. LoEis Home Journal.
EATING AT NIGuT-AS th
day closes. We all beeom
weary, and the body yearnsfa
- he repoSe and rest wLich OIL
= the quiet chamber can fu.l
. give. Tie whole system
{" weaI1-feet, fingers, arms, e.
" erything. There is hot a MA
= Gle i'll the body which does II;
- participate in that tiredne>
: The stomach is a collection
- MUSCLES, and these are calll
" to work at each meal: and
:, dispose Of that meal is Il woI
- of fonr or five hours. II
~ more that is eaten, the Elo
work has to performed. ~
- one can Sc, t!len, he striki,
: ahsUr,yii y-nl ri. i = ;sa s.reai
weak St0in.t.l ! df.'. ave hHH
"" "" work 10 ,Io Al ihe Close of +,
day, nf giving fess TO The bH'
by sleep, ;ehi yet keeping t
stomach hard 1T work TIA
near daylight. It's rel'oSe;th
is tiie repose ofexhaastian, a
il does not wake up for brat
fast any more than THE 10
would il kept ont Of bed 10
- ,iast midnight. Not being ~;
= ed Rp, il does not call for t,
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p. ". Eyes 8. Co.,

Dealers in
Drugs, Family Medicines,
Glass, Paints, Lamps, GTashcs,
STIrT0FER FANCY IR RIlCEE, &c
GAtlDEy AND FtELD SEEDS.
we viii ,urthi.Se from FIRST ..'a~S Seed
w lIoaS.s in Fliila,dcipltia, New York
and keitncs 2. .nd warrant all To lie fresh
agssl iil,s.t gg...Iity, aIghout regard OIalne or
rlace nl growers Sold BY the pound d IL
papers, She.es,le 81 r. al.
4GE7rr-" t;0R. SEiVITG- IJCHTNES
We will s..si y.9'sleos. s. e nb's ths.hiues
ono-thirtl SsAf. 1ire balance IN monthly Ir-'--
rientS All Machines warranted.
We aise sci the Wheeler K wilson, Home
Shuttl- md the Howe.
- CoF;.tr M.am and Spring streets,
Shreveport r aaSly
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The siau IN ..nu.CA vestIbu.es,
"YOung ladies' viii Please not eat
clIestnutS daring service IS peCu-
liar to Chicago. MS
Weekly Trinity journal., 1871-09-30
" YOU KNOW now 1T Is YOURSELF,

Dear Nellie, Sunday night, you know,
hadn't much to say,
And yet twas twelve o'clock or so
Before l went away;
You say that half the time watched
The clock upon the shelf;
Oh, Nellie how l wish you might
See how it is yourself.
I wanted so to tell you
What I've waited long to say,
But my heart and spirits failed me,
My courage died away;
Now, Nellie, only listen,
You rougish little elf
I'm you'd pity me, at least,
If you knew how twas yourself
Excuse me, Nellie, darling,
I've loved you long and we'll;
Then let me keep this little hand,
Nor all my hopes dispel;
love you more than all the world
Can give of power pelf
But words are weak when hearts would speak
:" You know how it is yourself"
Her lips but family quiverng,
Her shy glance upward thrown,
l gently drew her to my side
My beautiful my ownl
We sat there all the evening;
"Twelve" came from the mantel-shelf;
The rest you may imagine, for
You know how tits yourself"
Weekly Trinity journal., 1871-09-30
SHIPS ON THE SEA.
BY HOOD.

launch'd a shaliop on the sea,
wrote "Ambition" round the prow
1t sped before the breezes free
White broke the wave beneath the bow.
The calm, gray sky of early morn
Was fleck'd and barred with golden cloud.
As onward that small bark was borne,
While fresh'ning breezes shrll'd the shroud
But Ger the sun mid-heaven clomb,
The storm wrack mounted up the sky,
The madd'ning sea grew pale with foam,
And lurid lightnings leapt on high.
Back, back my little boat was driven,
The cordage reft, the canvas rent;
Till on the shore its timbers riven
The breakers scattered as they spent.
And yet another tiny boat
ventured on the hungry brine;
And "Hope" about the prov | wrote;
Twas launched at evenings dim decline.
hung lantern on the mast;
glow-worm spark which family burn'l,
That by the slender rays it cast
My shallop's course might be dscernd
Night closed around the tated bark;
l saw the cleaning cresset brown;
For in the silence and the dark
OF middle night the Hope" went down.
And now 1 sit upon the she re,
The jest of all that wonder there;
And on the sand, foreyermore,
l write the single word Despair"
Weekly Trinity journal., 1871-09-30

LITTLE THNGs.--The preciousness OF little
things was never more beautifully expressed
than by B. F. Taylor in the following "Little
words are the sweetest to hear little charities
fly farthest, and stay longest on the wing little
lakes are the stillest little hearts are the full
est, and little farms are the best titled Little
books are the most read, and little songs the
most loved. And when nature would make any
thing especially rare and beautiful, she makes
it lttle--little pearls, little diamonds, little
gems. Everybody calls that little which he loves
best on earth"
Weekly Trinity journal., 1871-09-30

GIRLS, DON'T TALK SLANG.-Grls, don't talk
slang fit is necessary that any one in the
family should do that, let it be your big brother,
though would advise him not to adopt pigeon
English when there is elegant, systematized
language that he can just as we'll use. But don t
you do it. You have no idea how it sounds to
ears unused or averse to it, to hear young lady,
when she is asked if she will go with you some
place, answer, " not much p or, if requested to
" can't see it -
Not long ago heard young Miss, who is ed
ucated and accomplished in speaking of young
man, say that she intended to ego for him y
and when her sister asked her assistance at some
work she answered " not for Joe p
Now, young ladies of unexceptonable charac-
ter and really good education, fall into this hab
it, thinking it shows smartness, to answer back
in slang phrases and they soon slip hippantly
from their tongues with saucy pertness that is
neither lady like nor becoming. 81 bet " or
"you bet " may be we'll enough among men who
are trading horses or land but the contrast is
startling and positively shocking when young
man is holding the hand of his lady love to hear
those words issue from her lips. They seem at
once to surround her with the rougher associa-
tions of his daily life, and bring her down from
the pedestal of her purity, where he had placed
her, to his own coarse level.
know the bright-eyed girl who reads this,
will think the matter over, and do what is right,
and discard slang and unladylike phrases.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1871-09-30

You pay shilling to see the house and the
museum. The fireplace of the kitchen, occu-
pied up to the last half of this century by q
butcher, is of enormous capacity, and not un-
like those of the miners in the Sierras There
is nothing in any of the four or five rooms, up
and down stairs, that is worth seeing, save the
name of Walter Scott cut on the street window
of the room above the kitchen, where Shaks-
peare was born. l looked out of this broad
window, made of little six-inch lights, and saw
that the post-office of the town was opposite.
also saw old woman with a gray little
donkey hitched in the shafts of cart of vegeta-
bles. She was talking to shoemaker, who
sat in his door and listened with uplifted ham,
mer. A red-faced baker passed by with bask-
ct of bread on his head, singing to himself, and
that was all could see or hear in Henly Street
Stratford, as looked out of the window through
which the light first came to Shakespeare.
All the walls are dark with confusion OF
names. In room below hangs card, on
which are Transcribed the four lines written by
Lucien Napoleon on the wall. The original was
whtewashed over by the butcher, or some of his
ilk, and is barely visible now. In the acre OF
ground belonging to and back of the building,
are planted all the shrubs, trees and flowers
named by the poet, and they look very well, in
deed, considering that many are not of English
growth or kind
In the museum but little else of interest is
seen than some beautiful modern busts and pict-
ures, and splendid editions of Shakespeare
works. Let me here confess that in all the
buSts, from those adorning the doors of shop
keepers to the pointed one above his dust, that
came to my notice in England and they are le
gion, have seen no feature or reflection of Ham
let or Macbeth. The great gold ring, taken from
the dead mans hand, had for me strange at
traction. 1t is much like the fat-crowned spec
men-rpgs worn by miners of the Pacific Coast
and has " w. 81 cut deep in the surface. Herr
is also seen the only letter preserved that wa
written to Shakespeare. 1t asks loan of f30-
an enormous sum in those days. There arr
many law-papers exhibited, in which the poe
appears as plaintiff, and show that he had
pretty keen eye to business, particularly whert
he sues man for thirty shiling's worth of malt
Perhaps the modern young rhymer, who cult
Yates contempt for money, had as well stick
pin here, and question with himself whether o
not, after all, the scorning of practical things il
not sign rather of weakness than strength o
mind. Passing out to the street, and turning tt
! take last look at this house which most of thu
greatness of earth of the last two hundred year
have entered, read on the door the time an,
terms o! admission, and over the door that a re
ward of fl would be paid for the apprehension
of any one caught defacing the building Over
land Monthly.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1871-09-30

A MAN broke a chair over his wfes head a
week or two ago. When he got to jail, and the
clergyman undertook to talk to him, he displayed
good deal of penitence. He said he was sorry
he had permitted his anger to obtain the mas
terry of him, and to suffer him to do such an act,
because it was good chair, one of those good
old-fashioned Windsor chairs, which was an
heirloom of his family, and he knew he could
never replace it.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1871-09-30

Too BAD.-A little girl dressed in bloomer cos
tune, who had been seated between her elder
sister and her beau, during drive to the coun.
try, on her return accosted her mother thus
Z" Ma, ma, | won't ride with sister Jane and
Thomas Smith any more, for he keeps a-hug-
ging and a-kssing her all the while. Now, just
see how he mussed up my bloomer hat" at the
same time holding up to the astonished mothers
view dilapidated looking boomer. I" Susan
Susa how can you talk so p was the mothers
exclamation. " 1t cannot be possible that your
ties - " Yes, but it is possible" was the re-
ply of the mischevous little mink " and, moth
er, she liked it, for she leans up to him just like
brother Jacks Guinea pig when he scratches
his back"
Weekly Trinity journal., 1871-09-30

Pork AND BEANs.-Beverly, Massachusetts,,
says correspondent, is known as Bean Town"
No vtuous citizen of that place thinks of passing
Sunday morning without baked pork and beans
for breakfast Formerly they went TO the differ
ent bakeries on Saturday night, each man with
his bean-pot. Each pot was numbered with a
check as received, and the number given to the
owner, and crowds would gather around the
bakery door on Sunday morning, each man call
ing his number and receiving his pot. But now
they have pottery in the town, and each man
has had his bean-pot made to order, with his
name or initials baked into the sides, and the
plan works beautifully. The bakers charge six
cents for baking beans, and it is a valued source
of revenue.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1871-09-30

A FARRIER in the country made out a bill late
ly for a farmer, whose Christian name was Ja-
cob. The doctor, puzzled to spell the word ia
cob, achieved the object, after many hours deep
cogitation, by putting together five letters, none
of which appeared in the world, but which made
it sound Gekup.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1871-09-30

SEPARATING THE SExEs.-The Western colleges
are taking the initiative in breaking down the
barrier of separation, and propose to show, by
experiments in wide sense, that no division is
necessary The New York Tribune says that in
one of these colleges, attended by both sexes,
there is but one staircase to the building and no
more division is made in the domestic arrange
ments than in any large family. Wherever this
experiment has. .been tried and reports have been
made the testimony is that the presence of
young ladies has had most salutary effect up
on the young men, making them 'more manner
ly, tractable and ambitious" DR.. Welch is the
President of Ames' College, Iowa, where fifty
young ladies are in attendance, and he declares
that =" they are most valuable adjunct in the
management with which he would not willing
ly dispense"
Weekly Trinity journal., 1871-09-30

A CAT licked the face of young lady in New
York, and died in few minutes thereafter from
the effects of the paint it had gathered on the
rosy cheek. Let all young men take warning by
this sad catastrophe.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1871-09-30

Nor THE FELLow.-The other morning ell
derly gentleman started to walk up the @. & P.
railroad track from Bellair to West Wheeling.
IN the neigh oorhood of Whisky Run he came
across three rough looking young men who were
sitting on the ends of the ties of the road taking
consolation and fusi oil by word of mouth out
of gallon jug. AS our friend passed them, a
youth of about eighteen hailed him with
Here daddy, come and get drink"
He was informed that hysting benzine was not
one of the old mans accomplishments, but he
was not to be put off in that way.
Advancing with a volIey of oaths flying from
his mouth, he informed the old gentleman that
he must drink or take whipping. Just as the
rutian got in striking distance of our old friend,
the latter drew "a revolver which he cooked and
held full in the face of the drunken rowdy. To
say that the rough stopped doesn't half tell it,
He could not have stopped more suddenly il
lightning had struck him.
"Don't shoot, old fellow" he stammered, as
he recovered from his astonishment. ~ mean
it all in friendship"
"Frendship p shouted the old fellow, now
thoroughly excited. @ Go get that jug and
bring it here, or I'll blow you to kingdom come
in minute"
The completely cowed rutfian obeyed.
"Now break it on that railroad tie. Break it
Break it quick, or" before the old man coulC
finish his sentence, the jug was in Thousand
pieces
"Now, you mean coward get down on youi
knees and apologize, or I'll make your head like
a pepper-boX top"
The fellow hesitated but looking into the old
mans eyes, saw that he meant business, drop
ped on his knees in the snow and abjectly apollo
gzed for the outrage.
Thinking him sufficiently punished, the old
man walked peacefully on his way. As he went
up the track he heard one of the fellows call ou
to the other:
81 say, Bill, that ain the man you were look
ing for, is il ?'
Weekly Trinity journal., 1871-09-30

THE old time bonnets we're wora so large that
one had to peep under to see the face; now-a-
days you see the face and Fl r some difficulty in
discovering the bonnet.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1871-09-30
Soeietv Autiees.

TrfHfIy Lodge, No. ~, r. n n. .u.-IIod their
regular communications Masonic HAIL, Weavervie,
the Saturday of each MONTH Hour of meeting
o'clock P. NJ. W. j. TINNIN, W. NJ,
NJ r. GRIFFIN, Secretary. 1v14.