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The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-10-12
QUE YOUNG FOLKS.
little GoIdenhair.

Golden hair climbed upon gr ndpas knee,
Dear little Goldenhair tired was she
All the day busy rs busy could be.
I'm in the morning as soon as twas light,
Ont with the bir4R and butterflies bright,
Sklpp!ns about till the coming Of night.
GRANDPA toypd with the curls on her head,
That has my darling been doing" he said,
"sinCr she arose with the sun from her bed -
"pntv much - answered the sweet little one,
81 cauuot tell so much things have done,
Played with my dolly, and treded my Bun;
And then jumped with my little jump-TOpej
And made out of some water and soap,
BoOtiful worlds, mama's castles Of hope.
Rfterward readed In my picture book;
And Bella and we went down 10 look
For smooth little stones by side OF the brook,
And then coined home and Gated my tea;
And climbed up on grRndpapa's knee
And Jess as tired IS tired can be-"
Lower and lower the little hean pres sed,
Until II dropped upon grandpapa's breast
Dear little GOldenhaiT, sweet be thy rest
We are but children. The things that we do
Are as sports of the babe to the infinite view,
That marks all our weakness, and pitleS II 100
God grant that when night o'ershadOws our way
md we shall be called to account for our day,
He NAV find us as gull less as Go denhair lay.
And oh, when aweary, may we be 80 blest,
AS to sink like the innocent child to our rest!
And feel ourselves clasped to the infinite breast.
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THE METHODIST CHURCH.
Chicago Tribune.

Six years ago there were 6,528,2OO
Methodists in the United States, of which
number the Methodist church south en-
braced the following:
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WEEK PAST.

Iris rumored in London that Disraeli's
reason for occupying the peePage he had
formerly refused, is that he is about to
again enter the matrimonial state. A
few years ago he was reported to be en-
gagged to the countess of Chesterfield, and
his present fancee is said to be a friend
of hers. The new peer was born Dec
81. 1906,
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NDISPTTARLE nyTDESCE.

ST. ELMO, H., July s, 1874
r. V. PIERCE, NJ. D., Buffalo, n. VI
wish TO aud my testimony to the wonderful
curative properties of your Alt. Ext, or
Golden Medical Discovery. / have taken
great interest in this medicine siuce | first
used it. / was badly afflicted with dyspepsia
liver deranged and an almost perfect pres
tratiOn OF the nervous system. So rapid and
complete did the Discovery effect a cure that
it seemed more like magic and q perfect
wonder to myself and since that time we
have never been without bottle OF the Dis
covery and Purgative Pellets in the house
They are 81 solid, sound family physician in
the house and ready at all times 10 fly to the
relief of sickness-wIthout charge. We have
never had doctor in the house since we
first began the use of your Pellets and Dis
cOvery. l have recommended the use of
these medicines in several severe and COM
plicated cases arising from, as | thought, an
impure state of the blood, and in no one case
have they failed to more than accomplish all
they are claimed to do. | viii only mention
one as remarkable, Though | could give you
doZens). Henry Roster, furniture dealer, of
this place, who was one of the most pitiful
objects ever seen, his face swollen out of
shape, scales and eruptions without end, ex-
tending to his body, which was completely
covered with blotches and scales Nothing
that he took seemed to effect it a particle.
finally induced him TO try a few bottles of
the Golden Medical Discovery, with daily
use of the Pellets, assuring him it would
surely cure him. He commenced its use
some six weeks since, taking two Pellets each
night for a week, then one each night, and
the Discovery as directed. The result is,
to day his skin is perfectly smooth and the
scaly eruptions are gone. He has taken
some seven or eight bottles in all, and con-
siders himself cured. This case had bafled
the skill of our best physicians. Messrs.
Duusford & Co., druggists, of this place, are
selling largely of your medicines and the
demand steadily increases, and they give
perfect satisfaction in every case
Respectfully, w. II. CHAMPLIN,
Apt Am Exn Co.
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THE COTTON PROBLEM.

The people of South Carolina and
Georgia are comparing notes, in order
to arrive at some plan by which the
raising of cotton can be made profitable,
instead of entailing upon the farmer an
actual loss. If the planters will unite
and act in concert, they can accomplish
something. In regard to the proposition
to produce less cotton, the Charleston
Courier and News says: "The order of
Patrons of Husbandry, for example, has
been unable, with its huge membership
and compact organization, to accomplish
that reduction of the cotton crop te three.
million five hundred thousand bales,
which will insure the producers remu-
nerative prices, or, at least, save them
from the loss consequent upon excessive
production in times when trade is stag
nant and the consumption of the staple
diminishing. And the fear is that a
protective association, working through
state conventions, will be even less eff.
cient than the powerful order of which
we have spoken. That order did succeed
in lessening the acreage planted in cot
ton, but the diminished area did not
produce a smaller crop. Such was the |
use of fertilizers and the more intelligent
working that there was a greater Weld |
per acre, and an equally large crop upon
the decreased area. This is not encour-
aging, we grant, but under the pressure |
of stern necessity, with poverty staring
them in the face, the farmers may be |
ready to join hands, as never before, to |
save themselves from impending ruin.
The trouble is near at hand With such
prices as now rule, the farmers cannot |
live. They cannot control consumption:
they can control production. Unless
they do this of their own accord, their
inability to obtain money to plant with
will do it for them. In that case tbev
will be past helping. But if the reduc-
ton of production be voluntary and svs
tematic, accompaniedsby larger crons &c
corn and small grain and a SAVING n
working expenses, the farmers will roo
the full benefit of better rates for cottos
next year, and will be in condition =
increase the acreage of cotton, witbon.
embarrassment, whenever the STAFF -
the. market shall justify it."
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sENEG4MBL4N MARTTRs.
Chicago Times.

Lamar's treatment of the demagogues
contrasts with his associates as the meth
DDS of independent, or honest, journalism
do with party organs. Lamar, close
student of pOlitics-a master of the the
DRY and practice of public affairs, APP
proaches the question as a philosOphic
student, anxious only to adjust the known
with the unknown condition and gain
as a net result, data for the guidance of
the future, by prevention OF the causes
melting to outbreaks and defense, con-
templated by law, if the stage of proven
ton is passed and the actual evil takes
shape In keeping with their diabolical
methods the first and last thought of the
carpet-bag partisans is for troops If
negro is scratched, or in any sense held
to account for the rascalities, he is care
fully instructed to initiate from his
carpet-bag sponsors. The demand is
instant and constant-send troops to
protect us. We have failed to observe
that the recent Indian massacres have
1tAob4AONA oUN1 ACh IcAEC VI DGLLAOllC
fury either in congress or the mouth
piece of Grant-Hayes. The party or
gans which are infaming their turgid
columns with unread battle pieces de-
failing the South Carolina enormities.
have been neither hot nor indignant that
the lack of ample resources at the From
tier brought about the slaughter of
Custer and his three hundred. Are we
to understand that the lives of a dozen
or million thieving negroes, trained by
Moses and Whipper in robbery, piIlage
and rapine are more precious to the
nation than those of Custer and his
slaughtered companions? Plainly, this
is the obvious inference, since the men
in congress who speak for the party 50
declare, and the organs who reflect the
party sentiments so re-echo. The negro
has rights which in every well-governed
southern state the law respects. South
Carolina, which is as confirmedly a re-
publican state as Maine, is the only
southern commonwealth under any
danger OF disturbance. BY natural IN
ference, the republican methods must be
held responsible for the situation. OF
course sensible men see at once the
motive, and divine at once the machinery
by which these disturbances are brought
about. The carpet-bag system is wavering
to its long-merited end. To prop it up
for another season desperate means are
needed. What means more effective
than the embitterng of the negroes and
the firing of the northern heart? Hence,
you may expect from this until Novem-
Der vicarious sacrifice of Senegambian
martyrs, whose names go up as an offer
ing to proPitiate the gods of pillage and
rapine.
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are hopes even of Maine. AT all events,
blaine who holds his seat by the favor of
the governor, can be defeated, for the
republicans dare not make his election
for six years an issue in the canvass.
Massachusetts, will probably 60 republi-
can, but we do not believe that Boutwell,
will get back to the senate. Steps have
already been taken for the nomination of
some members of the legislatures in these
states. The friends of reform should be
on the alert, and make an end of Blaine,
Boutwell,, and Frelinghuysen. N Y.
SIN.
The northern papers almost without
exception approve the summary killing,
by a mob OF Infatuated people, of the
three rufians who were the other
day running amuck in the streets of
Newark, New Jersey. The Heard it.
self, which has been filled to Overlooking
with venomous indignation against the
south by the Hamburg fight, does not
censure the mob which bounded the
| brothers Thielhorn to their death And
vet the circumstances of the killing bv
the Newark mob were in every detail
quite as revolving to refinement and to
| the sentiment of humanity as were those
of the killing of the Hamburg mob. The
victims of the Newark affair were not
executed after capture as were the
swashbuckler outlaws at Hamburg
They were pursued into canal, and il
the muddy water where they had taker
refuge from the fury of their pursuers
they were remorselessly stoned to death
The story of the Newark lynching is re
voting in the extreme to refinemeE
and to the sentiment of humanity. %
is the story of the killing of the prison
ers at Hamburg The difference IS that
the northern press, in commenting upon
the Newark affair, does not indulge IN
sentiment of any sort whereas, in deal
ing with the Hamburg affair the Herald
INDUCES in nothing but sentiment, while
the republican papers mingle sentiment
and partisanship in the proportions
which they hope will be most beneficial
to the party. Charleston IS. c. Jour
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the conditions favorable to the disease
superinduced a sunstroke, II not iatal,
leaves the patient less able to endure
mental or physiA work ever after, ana
requires from hin constant care against
pulmonary diseases or second vista
ZION"
The American Journal of Medical
Science has the following in regard 10
sunstroke:
cit is not really a sudden stroke,
There are preliminary symptoms that, ID
they are needed, would enable one to
avoid the attack. The temperature rises
and the individual perspires, becomes
thirsty, and feels very much exhausted.
These symptoms increase until the tenn
perature of the body reaches one hundred
and eleven degrees Fahrenheit, the SKIN
becomes dry, the sufferer feels terrible
| oppression, undergoes violent palpitatlon,
and experiences an overburdening sense
of coming death. This condition OF sun
stroke, fatiguing, utterly prOstrating as
! it is, may be entirely recovered from, but
/ in the higher stages the brain is thought
/ to be the seat of LESSONS that may have
permanent effect on its functions These
are supposed to be inhammatOry, and to
! leave the sufferer liable to mental dis
eases afterward 1t Is consequently the
duty of whoever feels the promotions to
succumb at once, rather than fight the
| fatigue and depression, until it ends III
permanent injury. All persons working
in the open air will do well to remember
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from no such cause. Is it not better to
have plenty of pasture and raise a few
hundred head of sheep than to trust to |
our main crops and perhaps lose that by
wet weather? You will have the wool
to sell, which always commands money.
You will double your flock nearly every
wear, and can thus sell large number of
sheep yearly, which always commands
money. You will have nice, fresh meat
for the family-and mutton is healthier
and better diet than pork. You can
have your farm kept clean of weeds and
brush. and no other animal can fill their
place in this particular. 1t is true, you
may say the dogs will kill them. Well,
YOU must kill the dogs, or keep your
sheep in an Enclosure at night that dogs
can not enter. This is cheaply made of
pickets. The sheep will become wonted
to this inclosure, and boy can easily
attend to inclosing them at night.
But the pasture land that we have
spoken of will answer also for cattle, and
| mules, and horses, and hogs, and all
these or any of them can be raised, and
generally there will be found more
money in them than in putting every
thing to wheat, or corn or oats. Indeed,
mixed farming, where the farmer has
help in his own family, is the most
| profitable farming-not running deeply
into any thing, but raising little OF
every thing to which the farm is adapted
so that If there IS a failure of one thing
there may be success in other things
Where markets are available, good
orchard is valuable acquisition to {
farm, frequently bringing in more rr7tdy
money from few acres than all the res
of the farm viii make.
Intelligence and enterprise must g
hand in hand, and every thing must b'
done to increase the revenues of tht
, farm.-RuraL World.
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Marketing Iyheat.

S51e farmers are not content to wait
until the wheat has had time to thor
oughly cure, before they get threshing
con the brain" and thresh they must.
They viii not stack the wheat and let it
go through the ''sweat," but Will rush
along and thresh it out of the shock,
believing, no doubt, that they arc manag-
ing very economically. Most practical
farmers know chat the stacking of wheat
improves the color and plumpness Of the
grain, and adds materially to its market
value, yet suffer themselves to do other
wise, under false theory that needs no
argument to prove it such. Many are
now threshing out of the shock, even
while the wheat is little damp, the
weather very hot; so much so, in fact,
that neither man nor beast can stand to
do all the work yet the threshing goes
on the wheat is bulked in tight box
cars, more than three hundred bushels
to each car, and by the time the wheat
reaches the market it is smoking-almost
red1hot-and, of course, is almost worth
less This quality of grain is to some
extent, like a "twoedged' sword-it
cuts both ways. The owner realizes
very little for his work, time and labor;
yet this same damaged wheat has
tendency to reduce the price, and does,
to large extent, control the values of
all the better qualities. We have there
fore advised our readers to stack their
wheat. We again repeat it. Never
END wheat or any thing else, to market
before 1t is in prime condition. 1t will
pay not only to stack the wheat, but it
VIII pay to pass the same through a good
ian before sending to market. No
thresher that we have ever seen will
clean grain perfectly; while many of
them do good work, and while they
clean amazingly well, we are satisfied
from no little experience that it pays" 10
run even the best cleaned wheat through
good fanning-mill. One werd more.
Don'tsow your wheat as it comes from
the ihresher; screen it thoroughly,
's.-.&zlg out all the "cheat,'' and we are
satisfied, you VIII not regret following
this sort of advice.
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MANY who are suffering from the effects of the
warm weather and are debilitated, are advised by
physicians to take moderate amounts of whisky
two or three times during the day. In a little
while those who adopt this advice frequently in
crease the number of drinks and in time be-
come confirmed inebriates. A beverage which
will not create thirst for intoxicating liquors, and
which is intended especially for the benefit OF de-
bilitatcd persons, whether at home or abroad is
DIR. Schenck's Sea Weed Tonic. Containing the
juices OF many medicinal herbs, this preparation
does not create appetite for the intoxicating
cup The nourishing and the life-supporting prop
critics OF many valuable natural productions con-
tanned in it and well known TO medical men have
a most strengthening influence A single bottle
of the Tonic will demonstrate its valuable quail
ties For debility arising from sickness, over ex-
ertion or from any cause whatever, wineglassful
of Sea Weed Tonic taken after meals will strength
en- the stomach and create appetite for whole
some food. To all who about leaving their
homes we desire to say that the excellent effects
of Dr. Schenek's seasonable remedies, Sea Weed
Tonic and Mandrake Pills particularly evident
when taken by those who injur;ously affected
by change of water and diet. No person should
leave home without taking a supply of these sale
guards along. For sale by all Druggists.
E. J. HART x Co, Nos 70, rs and II Tchoupi-
toulas ST., New Orleans, Wholesale Agents.
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Hot Weather Advice.

"Do not get cool" is the Scientific
Americans hot weather advice, the
meaning being that a sudden cooling of
the body is likely to induce bad colds,
which are harder to cure in summer than
n winter. 1t also says that ice water
hould be drank slowly, with a pause
after each swallow. But tea is recon-
mended because " the debility and down.
ward progress of the system is arrested
by the warmth of the water and the
stimulating quality of the tea until
strength hegins to be impaired to the
system" Gauze worn next to the body
absorbs perspiration, and prevents colds,
but should be often Thoroughly aired and
dried. Persons who allow mental over
work to exhaust them are particularly
liable to sunstroke. at is a foolish pop
ular idea that this terrible malady is due
to the concentration of the suns rays on
the head. Persons are frequently struck,
as it is termed, in the night, but are
more apt to be so late in the afternoon,
when the system is depressed by the heat
and nervous exhaustion. The way to
avoid sunstroke is to order ones doings
SO that vitality shall not be lowered, and
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PRIMITIVE WARFARE.
Interesting Proposition by MOntene-
grin fO.n Wounded Russian officer.
London Daily News.

l-ouuOu Ddlly news.
The Montenegro method of making
war is very primitive. 4 Russian off
Ger, who visited their country, and
studied it, tells us that a MOntenegrin
never sues for mercy; and whenever one
of them is severely wounded, and it is
impossible to save him from the enemy,
his own comrades cut off his head
When at the attack of Ciobuck, n small
detachment of Russian troops was COM
PEELED TO retreat, an officer of stout
make and no longer Eyoung, fell on the
ground from exhaustion. A MOntene-
grin perceiving it, ran Immediately to
him, and, having drawn his vatagan,
said: You are very brave. and must
wish that | should cut off your head.
Say a prayer and make sign of the
cross" The officer, Mortified at the prop
ositiOn, made an effort to rise, and re-
| joined his comrades with the assistance
of the friendly Montenegrin. They con-
! slider all those who have been taken by
! the enemy as killed. They carry out of
1 the battle their wounded soldiers on
| their shoulders. Arms, a small loaf of
/ bread, a cheese, some garlic, n little
/ brandy, an old garment, and two pair of
I sandals made of raw hide, form all the
/ equipagQ Of the Montenegrins. On their
march they do not seek any shelter from
rain or cold. In rainy weather the
Montenegro wraps around his head the
/ stro0ka Ga shawl of coarse cloth), lies
down on the ground and, putting his
rifle under him, sleeps very comfortably.
I Three or four hours of repose are suite
sufficient for his rest and the remainder
of his time is occupied in constant exer-
/ ton. 1t Is impossible to retain them in
the reserve, and it seems that they can
not calmy bear the view of the enemy.
| The tactics of the Montenegrins are con-
fined TO being skillful marksmen. A
stone, a hole, a tree offer them cover
/ from the enemy. Firing usually in a
PROSTATE position on the ground, they
are not easily hit, while their rapid and
sure shots carry destruction into the
closed ranks of n regular army. They
have besides a well practised eye for
( Judging of distance, and thoroughly un-
deCstand how TO take advantage of the
ground. OF course it Will always be
difficult to employ such warriors against
regular troops.
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Course of the Cotton Market.

There has been rather more spirit and
interest displayed on this market during
the past week, and not only was the
downward tendency of prices checked,
but reaction took place which brought
values up considerably on the speculative
line, and especially for early-maturing
thee has been a noticeable absence o:
what could be called a healthy, buoyant
zone; no really new general point of a
stimulating character was developed, and
the whole base of the improvement seemed
to found in well executed manipula-
ton. 1t had become patent to certain
operators that buyers on English account
were "short" pretty largely on the
"other SIDE" and dependent mainly for
supplies to be picked up here to meet
their engagements, and it was resolved to
give them a little twist. First working
Liverpool into responsive condition, the
programme was commenced and appa-
rently carried out successfully, the cul-
minatiOn being found in the purchase by
shippers of some ten thousand bales or
more of short notices" at IL 11-16c. and
a fraction better. After this matters
quieted down at once, and the tone has
since been more or less feveTish, but APP
parently lacking elements of positive
strength. Some few hints of prospect
i've corner have been thrown out, but
such an event, from present appearances,
is rather doubtful. During the recent
advance, not only large number of the
small fry, but some of the principal ope
rators covered freely, and the existing
short" interest is thought to be too
light to warrant any serious attempt at
a squeeze. General influences shown
since our last have not been encouraging
to sellers, and though the antipathy to
selling on the ruling line of prices re-
mains, we find a goodly portion of the
trade still clinging to the idea that there
is nothing to prevent cotton going lower,
and fair proportion say much lower.
Our home consumption does not increase
to the extent it should at this season;
the advices from Manchester by mail
Just at hand have all shown a more or
less discouraging tone, the crop accounts
thus far have continued as favorable as
could be wished. and the speculative ele-
ment on the market grows smaller and
affords less support than heretofore. OPP
posing arguments are few, and the only
operators just now hopeful of an upward
turn, are those who can give no reason
for their expectation other than that they
feel it in their bones" A sort of skel-
eton chance, probably. The first bale of
new cotton from Texas was sold on Fri
day, at twenty one cents.