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The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1875-11-04

never been carried ont, and It Is
now rare to see any attention
whatever paid 10 silk culture IN
this State. an old lady Who lives
in Meriwether county, brought
some beautiful silk thread to Co
lumbus few months ago, and
when it was told that she raised
the worms and spun the silk with
her own hand, it vas looked upon
as something Of D Curiosity. Oc-
casionalIy old ladies bring IL into
the city, but there IS nothing like
general raising of silk worms in
the State.
The silk interests Is getting 60
be one of very great importance
in this country. Ten years ago
not a yard of this beautiful and
costly fabric was made IN The
United States. Now there are one
hundred and seventy establish
ments engaged in its manufacture,
and American made silks are now
considered equal, il not superior
to the imported. The maBufao-
tories in this country consume
about 10000 pounds of raw silk
per diei8. The raising Of silk
worms is quite profitable and can
be carried on in our climate as
we'll as anywhere in the world. If
il received proper attention it
might become q new and very
profitable branch Of industry in }
Georgia. II Columbus Times.
The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1875-11-04
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The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1875-11-04
The BENEFIT OF Slavery AbOIi-
A@ tIOm.

| George wv. Adair, OF Atlanta,
says: Before the war / kept
four negroes on my lot-- WASH, a
man -of-all-work, valued al $500,
Sarah, Q No / cook, Sl400 Har-
| Iriet, q house girl. $1,000 and
Nancy, . nurse, 5000. The legal
Interest fseEen per cent On the
value of these slaves was $3.50 per
annum, and I had "a feed, clothe,
pay doctors bills. etc. Now I have
the same service performed az
$500 per annRm. / feed these
hired servants, but farnish no
clothing nor pay DOCTORS bills,
and get The same service per
month for less money than when
I owned slaves and iflhey die i
lose nothing. Now, when i acquire
my capital I can put il III other
property, instead Of locking it up
lin slaves.
This, 4 think, illustrates the
whole question. The land owner
can avail himself of negro labor
To-day M less cost than when lie
had 10 pay f0E the slave and take
care of him, This labor can not
Be controlled 80 absolutely as
slave labor, and more al less ir-
regularities grow ont of III still il
ls available and susceptible of
being used 70 great profit by tho
land owner. Planters who owned
slaves, who now remain on their
land and give persoaal attention
No the crops. can make more clear
money from tile coil than Rnder
The old system. The Sonth is ba-
coming every year more familieF
With trea labor and il understands
better bow eo manage IN. Sheis be- |
coming more salf-Eeiant aud self
sustaining, Courier Journal.
The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1875-11-04
Health 81 tlae saddle.
- LIs Fh.Iaaslphl. oaaaeaasaIah.

4
From ths Philadelphia CommonweaRh.
All 20 years Of age, nov more
than sixty years ago. Francis r.
Blair, Srs was proDpunced by bis
physicians an incurable consump-
tive. All remedies had been tried
and failed, and his doctors told
him that the only thing which
could keep himlfrom his grave was
the saddle. 4Stady, oyerwork. or
inherited c0nsnmptive tendencies
had given him 4 cough, which vas
causing him rapidly To waste
away. He accepted the advice Of
his doctors, and took tosthe sad.
die. He started off on a long
horseback journey, which has not
ended yet. When he began riding
be had to be lifted to his horse, as
he hes had to be for the last ten
years. as be tries tu keep On riding
now at 86, From that day horse
has been his constant companion,
and during that long course Of
years many q horse has served bis
old master faithfully and gone to
the " horse heaven"
All these years, until his recent
increased feebleness, those who
passed by Silver Springs could
every morning see two horses sad
died near the old mans door. One
was for the young woman, now
come 70 be more than three score
and ten, whose runaway accident
so many years ago resulted III the
purchase of Silver Spring farm. |
The other is for Mr.. Blair himself
An immense stone, ascended by |
easy steps, constitute the mount |
ing block, from which the faithful |
body servants assist the aged feet
to the scarcely less aged stirrups. |
The old gentleman and lady seem
to start off with as much pleasure,
though. scarcely with the same |
Vlgor, as they did half q century |
ago. They always ride for two
hours not, To be sure, at the speed /
1f the steeple chase, but at a com
'ortable, health-giving, old folks
gait, Moralists and physicians
,an find q good deal for reflection,
md draw very wholesome lesson
or prudent living. from the course
If life of the Blair family at Silver
Springs, and perhaps one ID that
here IS more health i'd the horse
back rides than ID All drugs.
The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1875-11-04

AaaA#e4 ss8# y "
A writer Id the Springfield Re-
publican has had pleasant inter
view with the real Mary who bad
little lamb, and who related To
him the incidents on which the
immortal poem was based. The
lamb was q twin, thrust ont of the
pen by its unnatural mother. Ma
nv took it home and nnrsed ie
until well, and il naturally grew
into great pet. One morning
when it was 10 60 as usual to the
pasture il could not be found, and
when Mary went singing on her
way to school it followed her at
the school-house door she picked
lit mp and managed to carry 1t &C.
cretly to her desk, where She cor
cred il up With her shawl.
/. But when called mp to her spell
ing class the lamb rot up too and
came pattering after her, which
made the children laugh 70 see q
lamb at school. 1T happened that
morning that . young man named
John RoWston, the SON of a riding
master III Boston, who was fitting
himself for Harvard, was in tie
and in d few days after
wards produced three garsesof the
poem, How ID ever came 10 be
published Mary did not knoW, for
the young man died soon after,
ignorant of the immortality Of bis
verses. But the lamh lived ana
had Eve hmbkins before ID met its
death by an angry cow, Aside
from its memory, there vet re-
mains of IL tine residue of i ohild's
stocking, which, il gradually un-
roveling to furnish mementoes for
The many friands of Mary and her
little lamb, Ex.
The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1875-11-04

The foreign trade 81 Great Bri-
tain and ireland has jumped from
S68.05 per oapita ID 1850 ID s99. lisa
per napita i'll 1874 This ii valid
Increase of business in fifteen years
of 58 per cent, equal ~ 4 per
cont. per annnm. It's an increase
which has been effected with free
trade aad hard money, and i'll
spite 0f cotton faSnines and Gnan-
Cial crises, strikes and lock -ouss.
Id Che same period tho inciease of
wages of British operatives has in-
creased an average oE about
per cent, while ths cost oE living
has NOS been augmented in any
way by direct Indirect taxation.
[Ex
The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1875-11-04

The richest man lid Indiana ia
MIR Channoy Rosa, 81 Targahaate.
lie has never married, nor indie
Gated any 6esias to snter GIG a16trf-
moniai state, and erea little loe
society, though ha ~ pRsslonataIy
fond 0t playing euehr a
nothing 6ut newspaper and HAS
heveE entered chnfch noe
The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1875-11-04
81 sEIa. II aear.Ia.

Georgia Was originally Intended
70 ha ! ailk.grOwing country For
The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1875-11-04


FOUR MILLS ARE SUBSTANTIAL,
W fly built, expressly for the purpose
of Rice Milling, with all the new i'm.
provements and appliances, with suffi-
cient warehouse capacity to meet any
demand for receiving and forwarding
RICE, centrally located To railroads,
shipping, ferry and steamboat landings.
We will guarantee our milling and
yield, both as TO quality and quantity
to be unsurpassed by any rice mill ia
this State. ..a .
Our turn out" has always been from
10A TO ia lbs. cleaned Rice TO the bar.
rel Of rough, which is about twenty
per cent over any mill fn this city
and country. A H.
We viii pay particular attention 10
the separation of all lots of rough Rice
received by us. r a aE
Our charges for milling are as follows:
1c per pound, cleaned, for Nos, ] and 2
re U No. 81
slSe for polishing horse mill
No deviation on the above prices un-.
der any circumstances.
Sacks furnished free of charge.
GIEWERD N KIP,
6 Address, Lock Box 9s6,
augsy1 New Orleans, La.
The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1875-11-04
"a CIR AFT IL y
attachment in each Piano Forte.
TO THE PIANO TRADE.
We can commend the
- @ il. M pr ~ E,.,

ING being most desirable and attractive instru,
msnt to Ill its Low Price snd tae quality 81
remaining In good order, make the eE MPIREe'
Piano an especial fayorite with dOalers.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-11-03
1. O. O. +.
Los Angeles Lodge No. a5, L. .. o. +.

,s,.....h. Regular meeting held on WE'D
xEISiA NESDAY EVENING of each week
sSRse< at 7Is O'Clock. Sojourning brelh-
'ss'FPTVSS rem in good standing are cordially
invited. II. WARTENBURG, n. u.
A. FRANK. IL. =.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-11-03
PHYSICIANS AND CONS.
4 e. nAcE EE. MI. o.,

DHYS!CIAN & SU II GEON - OFFlCE,
No. IL Spring street, opposite Iempie,s
Bank. RE5IDENCE-Second collaee soutii
on - I'oI mrlS-tf
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-11-03
NOTICE.

AL PERSONS owning shares In the
~ East Los Angeles Pioneer Building Lot
at the ONCE of Barbee 4 Gates, sls CONNER
cial street. aull X
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-11-03

Or at the premises, thirteen miles North OF
Los Angeles,o the Santa Barbara stage road.
sealm I. LANKERSHiM.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-11-03
IIuPPQ. NJ. D..

GIGNORETiS BLOCK, NO. 10 MAIN 81.
Residence, Eternity street, No so, cor
ner High. Office houls-a to IL A. NJ, 2 to- p.
II. and q to p. NJ. acknowledgement, Espah99l' >
praneaise, Deutsch, itaiano. auzi u
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-11-03
Assessment Notice..
Farmers and Merchants Bank Of E0s
M Angeles. fl lfo. sfIt .

NOTICE is hereby given that at a meet
~ ing OF the Board of Directors OF the
Farmers and Merchants Bank Of Los Ange-
les, held on the 2lst day OF July, 1879, an as
sessment mo. ~ of fifty dollars $50 per
share was levied upon the capital stock OF
the corporation, payable Immediately, In
United States gold coin.
Any stock upon which this assessment
shall remain unpaid on the 4s.s.t +.
I1sh day Of October. 1875,
Will ho delinquent and advertised for sale at
public auction, and unless payment be made
be tore, will be sold on Monday, the first day
of November, 1875. to pay the delinquent as
sessment, together with costs of advertising
and expenses of sale.
JOHN g. DOWNEY,
septl2-td President
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-11-03
GRANGE Grove Encampment, No. 81, l. o. o. r.

,s.s.s... REGULAR MEETINGS held ON
SA: the Second and Fourth TUES
81 ~ DAYS of each month at IA p. NJ.
S7NFvSS' Soiourning Patriarchs in good
sanding are cordially invited to attend.
ii. WARTENBERG, Z. +.
T.. MARXSEN, Scribe.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-11-03
SOCIETY NOTICES.
Masonic Notice.
"a PENrALpHA LODGE. No. Q
Los ANGELES Chapter No. SO, r: A.. M:.

Stated convocatons on %
a Z; !
N I'm NMONDAY of each month at
MI NM IA =. NJ. at Masonic Hall. So
WN JTI journing companions in good
M(N(SN standing cordially invited. By
NNI order of the II. l..
W. III. \. KIDD,
III Secretary.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-10-14
Simple Remedy for Scarlet Fever.

The San Francisco Chronicle says that
Robert Christie, of the PrOter0, suggests a
remedy for the scarlet fever which he
AYERS has invariably proved successful.
1t is very simple, and lies within the
reach of those whose limited means pre-.
clude them from employing the services
of physician. 1t is this: Take an onion
and cut it in halves; cut out a portion of
the center, and into the cavity put a
spoonful of saffron; put the pieces to-
gether, then wrap in cloth and bake in an
oven until the onion is cooked so that the
juice will run freely, then squeeze out all
the juice and give the patient teaspoon
full, at the same time rubbing the chest
and throat with goose grease or rancid
bacon, if there is any cough or soreness in
the throat. In a short time the fever will
break out in an eruption all over the body.
All that is then necessary is to keep the
patient warm and protected from draught,
and recovery is certain. Mr.. Christie
says he has been employing this remedy
for many years, and never knew it to fail
when proper care was taken Of the patient
after its application. One family, in
which there were five children down with
the disease at one time, recently, used this
simple remedy upon his telling them of it.
and every one Of the little ones recovered
in a short time.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-10-14
ALI Holiday.

SAYS a writer: can illusion of travel is
the fancy that you have entered the realm
of perpetual holiday. Looking at the sur
face of things as you pass along, you re-
fuse to look below the surface No SOM
Der shadows fieck the gay scene. Your
mood resembles that of the fine lady who
did not know that poor people existed and
who regarded aged paupers in the light OF
picturesque specks in landscape which
required to be enlivened by red cloaks.
To you all places and people seem in fes-
tival. Some magician has gone before to
create an Arcadia along your path, like
that with which Potemkin gratifed the
eyes of his imperial mistress in her jour
ney to the Crimea. You flash by hamlets
which seem to you like the painted villages
of child's toy-box. The groups of peas
ants belong not to the gross race of horny.
handed, Weather-b beaten sons of toll. They
are idealized into Elvinos and Masettos.
and it would hardly surprise you to hear
them burst into recitative, or to see them
ioin hands in rustic dance. An air of
almost operate levity envelops them.
They are actors in a prearranged pageant
And the same delusion haunts you in gray
old cities, redolent of the middle ages. 1t
never occurs to you, as you thread their
quaint alleys, that business, in all its ram
ifications, is going on around you, with
the same prosaic routine which attends it
in far-off England, or that within stones
throw of you clerks are docketing ac-
counts, tradesmen selling their wares.
clients consulting their attorneys, attor-
neys revolving bills of costs, farmers
putting their samples, doctors going their
rounds, priests tending their flocks, stu
dents assembled in their classes. profess
sors enlightening them from the chair
and, above all, hundreds of artisans en-
gagged in all the varieties of manual labor.
To the holiday-maker all around him
seems holiday; his own contentment is
contagious, and infects all his surround
ings. His capacity for realizing the fact
that the new world into which he has
strayed has its .labOrs, its cares and its
sorrows is temporarily suspended. In a
| few weeks his sympathies with workadav
humanity will revive, and he will re.
awaken to a proper sense of his response
bilities to his fellow-men. But for the
present he contemplates them as the pup
pets of a theatric show, Of which he is
| the spell-bound and impassive spectator"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-10-14
Self-FOrgetfuiness.

MOST of us who find ourselves in the
habit of complaining of this world as
dreary abode, a dark pilgrimage, sad
place of graves, a mere halt between ante
natal gloom and the gloom of the tomb,
would find it a very different thing if for
any portion of the time while we are in it
we could but forget ourselves.
Forget ourselves? That is, to remem-
Der other people till their trials, if they
do not crowd out personal trials, occupy
equal place with them till their identity
looms up and corresponds with our own !;
or simply, and in better words, to love our
neighbors as ourselves. Without doubt
we are privileged to take our choice of
the neighbor, the point being only to
make sure of the neighbor at all odds
the neighbor whose benevolent conduct
ing power leads away from us all that
surplus introspection and brooding, all
that energy for sympathy, which, directed
only upon our own affairs, work havoc
there.
1t is not to be supposed that in phase
of existence where good is still TO be
wrought out of evil on its upward way,
and where so many various elements are
still clashing, that any individual condi-
ton can be perfectly and permanently
happy. The little child surrounded by
love, without a care, the young person
lust pausing on the threshold of maturity,
to whom the future lies wrapped in a
golden haze of hope and expectation, are
the only ones to whom life seems bright
and faultless; are the only ones who, il
YOU ask them, would be positive and alb
solutely sure that life was something to
be thankful for; the only ones filled with
satisfaction through the "mere JOY OF lIy
ing" But to some even OF these young
beings the little cloud upon the horizon
overshadows that heaven of theirs: the
apparition of the multiplication-table
rises and shakes its hOrrid hair, in its train
along procession of evils-the fearful ter
to be carried, the awful mystery Of the pos
sessive case, the necessity of learning
how to spell phthtstc, and eventually me
tempsgcb0sis, the deprivation of daintie:
with which elder people provoke younger
palates, the obligation to work when sun
shine invites to play, to go to bed just a:
the lamps are lighted and everything i:
bright as fairy-land wn-stairs, the sub
lection of the will to another's in all re
spects and at all times, the reaching for
ward to that haven of rest, the condition
of the grown up''-too soon do thes
troubles, and such as these, adulterate tn
happiness with which the child opens it
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-10-14
Wet Versus Dry Feed for Horses.

A WRITER in the Lige Stock Journal
states that feeding dry meal has been
highly recommended, and 1 have tried it
faithfully, but am not satisfied with the
results; I had rather put the meal in a
pail and mix it with water. When horses
are obliged to work very hard it is not
only right and just but for the pecuniary
interest of their owners to see that they
are we'll fed. Horses ought not only to
have good food and plenty of it but also
it should be given to them wet. A great
MANY horses are permanently injured by
being kept in the summer, when they
work. upon dry hay and meal Just what
injury will result from this course of
feeding cannot certainly be foretold.
Whether it will take the form of derange-
ment of the digestive organs or affections
of the throat and lungs will depend some
what upon the natural tendencies of the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-10-14
Mr.. Warner Tries 1t.

Mr.. WARNER, respectable and law
abiding citizen of Baker street, rode home
in an express wagon the other day, having
a hand flre-eXtinguisher and the driver for
company.
whats that thing?" asked his wife,
in contemptuous tones, as she opened the
hall door,
whats that? Why, that's fre-ex-
tinguisher-best thing you ever saw
meant to get one year ago"
Jacob, you are always making fool
of YOURSELF" she continued, as she shut
the door. Every patent-right man gets
around you as cat lays for a mouse"
Does, Ell? Ifyou knew anything at
all you'd know that every store and office
in Detroit has one O. these. They've saved
lots of buildings, and may save ours"
"You throw it at the fire, don't you ~
she asked, in sarcastic tones.
He carried it upstairs into a closet
without replying, and she followed on and
asked:
"Does it shoot a fire out?''
eff you don't know anything III learn
you something! 1t is full of chemicals
you strike on this knob on top and she's
all ready to open this faucet and play on
the fire.
She grinned as she walked around it,
and finally asked
"Do you get a horse to draw it around 90
"No, / don't get a horse to draw it
around. You see these straps? Well, |
back up, put my arms through them, and
here it is on my back"
q see it is, she sneered.
"And can't / run to any part Of the
house with 2" he demanded. "See -,
see -?"
And he cantered along the hall, into
the bedrooms and out, and was turning
the head Of the stairs when his foot caught
in the carpet. He threw up his arms and
she grabbed at him, and both rolled down
stairs. He yelled and she yelled. Some
times he was ahead and then she took the
lead, and neither Of them had passed
under the " string" when the extinguisher,
humping and jumping, began to shoot off
its charge of chemicals.
"You old -r' she started to say
when stream from the hose struck hel
between the eyes, and she didn't finish.
"What in-O-u-c-h!" roared Mr.. War
ner, as he got a dose in the ear.
They brought up in heap at the bot
tom of the stairs, the stream playing into
the parlor, against the haIl-door and up
stairs by turns, and she gasped
CPL have you sent to a fool asylum!''
Who's fool?" he rOared, dancing
around with his eyes full OF chemicals.
"I'm fainting!" she squeaked.
"And I've broken my back!" he shouted
1t was a sad house when those two
ighly-respectable old people got so tina
they could use their eyes and discuss mat
tiers calmly. And she doubled up her tis
and hoarsely said:
Take that investigator, or distinguish
En- or whatever you call it, back down
town and tell everybody that you are {
lunaticr'
And he said:
BLAINE it!' [ know more than all your
family put togetherr'- Detroit Free Press