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Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1878-11-19

the same may be said of sunlight, and
even OF moonlight, as compared with
gas. We need not look at the source
OF light, unless we choose, any more
than we look at the sun at noon; and
scientific authority assures us of fact.
which any man can verify for himself
by walk along the Strand, that the
electric light is singularly pure and
colorless. As to the cost, that is a
question which may and must be left
10 the future. M. Jablochkoff has de-
clared that the proprietors ofthe Maga-
sins du Louvre, in Paris, have realized
saving OF 30 per cent. by the use of
electric lamps, giving a considerably
greater light than the gas they super
seded. Light for light, therefore, we
may assume that electricity is already
as cheap as gas; and if we demand more
light, as we certainly shall do, we must
be content to pay more for it. The
game, in fact, is worth the candle, and
the public Will not be slow to recognize
the fact as soon as it has the oppor-
tunity. The Metropolitan Board of
Works certainly deserves great credit
for The alacrity and enterprise with
which it has taken up the question. It
Is one OF the advantages of the existence
in London of such a body that it can
undertake the experiment on scale
adequate to its Importance in spite of
the very natural resistance of powerful
interest. The very fact of the expert
ment being seriously made will stimu-
late the ingenuity of inventors and
men of science. They will be encour-
aged to work for an authority which
has shown itself ready to profit BY their
labors, and thus the problem of electric
lighting will cease to be one Of mere
scientific curiosity, and will become,
what the improvement Of gas has long
been. one of practical economy. More
over, If the experiment succeeds, the
Board of Works will be enabled to re-
cover for the public, and toretain in its
own hands, an important department
of enterprise which, to say the least,
has not always been worked for the
public advantage. Those of us who
have not been fortunate enough to hold
gas shares have not always been so
content with the gas supplied, or with
the price charged for it, as to feel very
tenderly towards the interests of the
lucky monopolists who have ministered
to our necessities. We are very far
from believing that gas will suddenly
cease to be profitable commodity, but
we certainly hope and believe that
electricity will soon share its functions
as means of artificial illumination.
We shall bid farewell to gas without
regret, while remembering it's service
with gratitude, if, as now seems likely,
it can be superseded by purer and less
injurious ight.-Loqsdo1s Times w
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1878-11-19

Wedo not realize that all our actions of
to-day afford food for memory to-mor-
row.
Then try to live Alright. In youth,
as we all remember, hope was our
guide, anticipation and expectation
were the animating sentiments; the
mind looked constantly forward, plans
and purposes were its chief activity.
In mature years, as most Of US know,
realization takes the place of hope; the
mind concerns itself more with now.
Clearly there must be, as years accumu-
late, a gradual turning of the mind to-
ward the past; memory will become the
chosen companion; we shall live more
and more in what we recollect. Youth
dwells in the future; manhood in the
present; age in the past. To ponder
upon former years enters into the heart
life OF age just as does the hope and
prospect of years to come into that of
youth. Each person is forming that
element for his age by his life now.
The hastY words, the foolish deeds, the
neglects and omissions, the transgres-
sions of to-day are the seeds for so
many notifications and sorrows to
grow rank in the white-haired years.
Whatever is wise, right, generous, self
sacrificing, honorable in the life of to-
day is plant which will ripen thick
with peaceful and pleasant memories
IN the days when memory is chief factor
in happiness.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1878-11-19

came, IN great part, routine work,
regular daily grind'' that kept their
minds in full activity without undue
strain. 1t is not the steady pace that
wears out the horse, but the s'spurts''
which call for sudden and exhausting
expenditure of muscular force. A we'll
constructed machine, kept in steady
use at uniform speed and with the
strain to which it was adapted, will
last longer than one suffered to lie idle
at times, and then subjected to sudden
and unequal strains. 1t is the same
with the human mind as with the
horse and the machine. M .s3
The great value Of the daily grind is
seen in periods Of bodily suffering or
mental distress. Work, steady, un-
ceasing work, labor that must be per-
formed, is frequently in such cases the
salvation of the. sufferer. Through
force of habit, the mind, almost me-
chanically, bends itself to the accus-
toned task, and in performing it the
pain is partly forgotten, the mental
agony dulled. No better anodyne for
mental distress exists than steady work
of an accustomed character. Without
its saving influence many man has
succumbed to dull despair, or sought
relief III excitements that result in
physical and mental ruin. Although
Charles Lamb uttered his impatient
protest against the desk which exacted
of him the daily grind of routine work,
that daily exaction probably kept him
from brooding over the sad tragedy
which had darkened his home and
made his life one long sacrifice and
continuous painful anxiety. He was
but one Of the many who, under the
continuous strain of anxiety and men
tai distress, found their greatest help
in the "daily grind" Of unremitting
labor. Cleveland Herald. assa
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1878-11-19
THE DAILY GRIND.

There are times when every man
whose life is devoted to a single occu-
patton tires of it, and utters impatient
protests against the ''daily grind'' that
is wearing out mind and body. He
sighs for anything but the treadmill
upon which he performs daily march
on the knowledge that tomorrow and
for many lnorrows, probably until for
him the wheel revolves no more, the
same steady tramp, the same daily
grind, will continue. The hod-carrier,
whose life Is perpetual march up
ladder and down again, the mechanic
at his lathe, the clerk at his desk, the
merchant at his books, the lawyer at
his briefs, the journalist who has
scarcely time to glance at the paper
just issued whilst working for the paper
to come out next morning-all per-
forming the labor of Sisyphus in rolling
the stone to the top of the hill only
that it may roll down again-each has
his moments of weariness and disgust
when he sighs for escape from his
monotonous toll Poor Charles Lamb,
standing for long and weary years at
his desk in the India House, cried in
moment of impatience not frequent
with that patient, self-sacrifcing spirit,
that ''the wood was entering his soul, .
and the feeling has been shared by
thousands under similar circumstances,
though they may not have given it like
expression. m@FFs@sE9#s
But, after all, the daily grind is not
wholly an evil. In the majority Of
cases it is not an evil at all There
are occasions where it proves positive
good. With few exceptions the human
mind works best in harness. The man
who has fixed occupation, and who
devotes himself faithfully to it, is. in
ninety-nine cases out of hundred, on
the safest road to material success, and
certainly pursuing the best course for
his mental health and comfort. It is
not the monotonous daily grind that
wears out a man so much as the excite
ment and anxieties of a more unequal
life. In the former case the faculties
may be kept in full play, and yet the
work is performed with but little strain.
because the mind by long use has be-
come trained to perform much of the
labor unconsciously. The hardest men,
tai workers have lived to good old age,
and preserved their physical and men
tai strength to the last by recognizing
this fact and acting upon it. Their
labor was systematized, 50 that it be-
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1878-11-19
A SIMILAR CASE.

Jack. hear you've gone and done it,
Yes, know most fellows will;
Went and tried IL once myself, sir.
Though You see, I'm single still. - sr
And you met her-did you tell me?
Down at Newport last July.
And resolved to ask the questions
At a soiree? So did
suppose you left the ballroom .t kNf y
With its music and its light
For they say loves flame is brightest
In the darkness of the night.
Wei, you walked along together
Overhead the starlit sky,
And IN bet-old man confess it
You we're frightened. So was T.
So you stroled along the terrace.
Saw the summer moon pour
All its radiance on the waters
AS they rippled on the shore:
TIL ct length you gathered courage, FgN
When You saw that none were nigh
Did you draw her close and tell her
That you loved her? So didI alH.
Well. Ineedn't ask you further.
And I'm sure wish you joy,
Think IN wander down and see You -. 49,.
When you're married-eh, my boy ~
When the honeymoon is over
And you're settled down, we'll try
What? The deuce you say. Rejected,
You rejected? So wasI.
Aa -Acta eolumbfama.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1878-11-19

and she had heard all. She glided from
her seclusioD. y4 81
what was that went by?' asked
Agatha. ga ghost?n
II saw nothing. LIT us go and
speak to your mother, Agatha y ~
Arm-in-arm they re-entered the daz-
zling rooms-both flushed, triumphant
faces telling the whole story.
cit is settled, by Jovel He is master
here" he heard Tom whisper.
But he did not hear the response of
the young mans mother-Mrs. AL
mont-who had known Agatha and
her mother from the girls childhood.
''Sold his birthright for mess of
pottage, Tom.''
He heard nothing but congratula-
tions. He was the centre of whirl of
excitement when it became known
through the thronged rooms that he
and Agatha were already married.
He saw, ''by looks and wreathed
smiles" that his place in society was
now assured. He had wealth and
prestige with his handsome wife.
Who missed Sylvie? No one.
Early in the morning, maid came
trembling to Mrs. Mordaunt's door.
Miss Sylvie-she had not been in
her bed all night, and no one knows
where she is.'' -1.
But in few moments she came glid-
ing in from the damp garden, her
white, dew drenched garments clinging
close upon her chilled limbs; pallid as
death, but for the two fever spots on
her cheeks; silent, but for the in
coher mt murmurings of delirium.
They put her to bed. and kept the
matter hushed from the bridegroom
for already the preparations for a
splendid wedding reception were com
menced.
But before they were finished little
Sylvia lay stilled forever in the gray
dawn, and they dared not go on, with
death in the house, and Joy must needs
be told.
"Sylvie -Sylvie?''
His face frightened his wife.
''She has been sick, you know, for
two days"
II did not know. You know / know
nothing. Sylvie--Sylviel Great heavensl
how must have been entrapped -
Such tears and groans ever her life
less clayl t
They dared not go near him.
Sylvie, poor, harmless little thing,
was laid away in the family tomb.
But from that day Joy Eggleston was
a changed man. He was harsh, fierce,
reckless man of pleasure, or, rather,
of exciting changes. He sought the
most dissipated company and squan-
dered his wife's fortune, until, in two
years, beautiful Locust Lawns went
under the hammer.
sYou took me for better or worse, y
he cried to Agatha, ''and it has been
for worse.''
1t was indeed. -
But suffering disciplined the selfish,
thoughtless girl. Still she clung to
him, and, as he went down, ministered
to him. And when their money was
all gone, and they stood together on the
brink of starvation, he realized that
this pale creature, too, had suffered.
He laid hand on her bowed head.
''We have both been punished" he
said. s1a -
He pitied and came to love her now.
And then together they ate the bread
earned by the sweat of his brow.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1878-11-19
-Tivino in Paris irrosnoctiv vo Of +ho

Living i'll Paris, irrespective of the
Exposition, is dearer than it used to
be- Comparing prices in 1877 with
those in 1872, it is seen that in the
period of five years game and poultry
have risen in prices 33 per cent; meat
has advanced from to 6 per cent. /;
butter, 8 per cent; eggs, s per cent,
and cheese, fruit and vegetables pro-
portionately. Fish is half a cent a
pound dearer than it then was. The
consumption per head of population
has positively fallen in the case Of every
article Of food. except meat, of which
the average Partisan now eats Two
kilos more per annum than he used to.
His economy amounts to per cent.
in the item of game and poultry, per
cent. in fish and butter, and IL per
cent. in eggs. s
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1878-11-19
Mrs. Partington SAYS the only wa,

Mrs. Darlington says the only way
to prevent steamboat explosions is to
make engineers bile the water on shore.
In her opinion all the Dustin is done
by cooking the steam on board fle
When a Hartford woman patted
her friends seven-years-old youngster
on the head and said: ST should like
to have such little boy as you are, =
he looked up into her face and replied:
wen, guess you can; l don't b'lieve
Gods lost the pattern of me. = f
-Mexico has an import trade amount-
ing to S76, 900, 900 annually, of which
England supplies $50, 100000.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1878-11-19

Among the literary treasures pos
sessed by the late Archbishop Dupan-
loup is said to be hitherto unpublished
tive-act tragedy By Lamartine,
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1878-11-19
PLEASANT MEMORIES.

Wedonot realize that lour actions Of
to-day afford food for memory to-mor-
row
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1878-11-19
Eariefes. T

What gals man who has neither
employment nor fine clothes is to have
some one present him with a smoking
gown worth eight dollars.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1878-09-12
LAKE CHARLES LODGE

No. 1856, F.. and A.. M.
HoLns IT'S REGULAR f0MMUNICA-
III tiops at the Ma onic Hall on SATuF-
DAY before tue flll moon # each NINTH at
; O'Clock .. NJ. from the lst of October 90 ene .
LIST Of April, and at a P. NJ, from the IS, OF
April to the LIST of 0ctob r. All fansient
brothers in gooa standing are invited 70 at,eao.
GEO u. WELLS, w. M.
c. p. HAMPros. Secretary. f
Lake Charles, La, January, ISIS. as
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1878-09-12

Time waits for no one.
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Attest: THAD. MAYO, Secretary.
TUESDAY, Sept. 3, 1878.

The Board of Health for the par
ish of Calcasieu met pursuant tO
! adjournment. Present: DR.. R. F.
Gray, President; DIR. w. I'll. Kirk,
man and DIR. }. &. Munday. A
The minutes OF the last meeting
were read and approved.
On motion of DR.. Kirkman, re-
solved, that amy person coming into
this parish, from points east of the
Mermenteau river, must be provided
with certificate from the Mayor,
or President of the Board of Health,
of the town from which he comes.
showing that there is no yellow fe-
vcr, or other contagious disease, at
that point, and that the person ap-
plying for such certificate has not
been to amy infected place within
the preceding twenty days; more
over, the geluineness of the sigma
ture of the Mayor or President OF
the Board OF Health, giving such
certificate, must be attested by the
Clerk Of Court, or of a Notary Pub
lie, with his seal, or Of the Record
er, with his seal, and any one com
ing into the parish without such
certificate, shall be considered as
coming from an infected district,
and treated accordingly.
Resolved, that all persons coming
into this parish, from the east.
whether for the purposes of trading,
driving beeyes, or travelling through
the parish, are hereby required to
report at the quarantine station, Oh
the public road, near Lake Charles,
and amy one failing to comply with
this resolution shall be deemed
guilty OF a violation of the quaran-
tine ordinance, and shall be arrested
and punished accordingly.
On motion Of DIR. Kir6man, re.
that the President of this
Board il hereby authorized to ap
point a suitable person to visit the
quarantine station at the mouth of
the Calcasieu river, established by |
the Police jury of Cameron parish,
to see if the quarantine is sufficient, |
ly rigid, and report to this body.
The President, by and with the
advice of the Board, appointed Mn.
Thad. Mayo. a}0 s'
On motion, resolved, that the
Presidents OF the different Boards
)f Health OF New Iberia, st. Mar
Washington and Opelou-
sas, La, and Orange, Texas, are
requested to report to the
President of this Board the moment
hat yellow fever makes its appear
lnce In their respective towns,
should it unfortunately reach them;
We hereby pledge ourselves to do
he same by them. ift 3ai itstlit
Resolved, that the President have
wo hundred copies printed, of the
ordinance, passed by
he Police Jury, and of the resolu-
ions hereunder passed by this
}Oand. HEsf a1# H6aA
Resolved, that the President is
ereby authorized to have a pit dug
i the rear of the Jail, to hold the
)ecal matter from the jail, to have
he Jail cleansed, disinfected, white
Eashed inside, etc, and see that it
! kept in cleanly and proper
lanller.
Resolved, that the Board adjourn
lbject to the call of the President. {
flss II. H.. GRAY, M. d., II
JHsfr'~r lh'8 President. IN
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1878-09-12

A man at Scarborough, after
waving his handkerchief for half an
honr or so at an unknown lady
whom he discovered ut q distant
point on the shore, was encouraged
by q warm response to his signal
to approach his charmer, IMag-
inc his feeling when on drawing
nearer he saw it was his own dear
wife, whom be had left at the hotel
but short time before. "Why,
how remarkable that we should re-
eognize each other at such q dis
tance," exclaimed both in the same
breath and then they changed the
subject.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1878-09-12

II was rich manufacturer OF
New Jersey who said TO hisguests,
Ladies' and gentlemen, aftber the
grapes ye sbill have beef shteak
as,A .aasharnons. and thin wa sl,;ll
hey seuisop staraightfrom Venice. !"
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1878-09-12

Attest; THAD. MAYO. Secretary.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1878-09-12
The State Census. for 1878.
LETTER OF SUPERINTENDENT LUsHER TO
THE UNITED STATES COMMISSIONERS
OF EDUCATION,

The Commissioner of Education
a. Washington City, ID. c., having
requested Superintendent Lusher
to send him. a census of the popu-
lation for the yearl875, Mr.. Lush
er, after 4 good deal Of trouble in
hunting for ]. ptinted report of the
same, was favnrrd with clipping
of the New OrIeaps Republican,
which shows tie census for 1875,
compared with the United States
census Of 1870.
| The following letter, accompa-
MED 10y the cehs,is, was forwarded
by Superintendent Lnsher:y
Office Of State. Superintendent of !
~" Public Education.
New Orleans, La, Ang. IA, 1873.
DR.. Chas. Warren, Acting Commission
er of Education, Bureau of Educa-
tion, Washington City, ID. c.:
MY Dear Sir-I ipclose the only
vestige of the census [ can find,
being indebted for IL sight of the
original publication to u Repub-
llcan friend, who has preserved it
in his scrap, book of Radical effron-
teries and political curiosities. The
exhibit" is sent to you with hints
appended to it. because it was, and
is, well known to every respectable
or intelligent citizen of Louisiana
that this census of 1875 WAS fraud
connected 10y the Radicals, who
diminished the number of whites
and exaggerated that Of our col
ored population on basis of au
appottionment of Senators and
Representatives. The general pub
lication of the census was suppress.
sed by the Executive in 1875.
p Ii is to be hoped that the gov
ernment will cause o correct and
complete census to be taken in
1880, so that the whole country
may understand exactly what the
population of Louisiana il, and
what tho trne percentage Of in
crease since 1870.
Very respectfully,
RoBT. M. LUsHER,
Superintendent Public Education.
CENSUS.
The census of 1875, as appeared
in the Republican, made total of:
White, 4O0.97l; coloTed, 1852;
total, S52. l55.
The United States census of
1870 showed: White, 362,065; col
ured, 364,2l0; increase in colored
population, $40; total, 726,915.
According to the enumeration
Of educable youth in the State (6
10 2l years made in 1877 with
more than usual care, the popula-
ion in that year must have been
about as follows, estimating the
lumber o. white persons at three
lines the number OF white youths,
md that of colorpd persons at three
md quarter times that number
If co)ored youth, which is deemed
! liberal and equitable average;
In parishes other than Orleans:
Whites, 273,5O7; colored, 366, $3.50;
10Th, 64O,l38. Orleans: whites,
AS. .423; colored, SO, 200; both, 207.-
;23. Total: whites. 42l.93O; col
red, 426,030; both. 847, $3.50. ar,b
The United States census, to be
AIKEN in 1880, II accurately taken,
an alone determine the probably
rue population Of Louisiana for
875. '9h fHf'} F.l'
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1878-09-12
Proceedings Of the Parish
Board Of Health.
MONDAY, Sept. 9, 1875

oA'DA NoSl'c =, loso'
Pursuant to an ordinance of the
Police Jury of the parish of Calca-
sieu, adopted August Both, 1878,
the Board of Health for the parish
met at the Court House for the pur-
pose of organization. Present: DR..
X. F. Gray, DIR. j. M. Hilliard and
DR.. w. I'll. Kirkman.
On motion. DIR. Kirkman was ap.
pointed temporary chairman, and
declining to be elected President OF
the Board, Oh account of pressing
business engagements, DR.. II. i.
Gray was unanimously elected Pres
ident. .,~uH yw ,sGF1at
On motion, the Board adjourned
until tomorrow, at 4 o'clock p. NJ.
II. F. GRAY, M. D.,
President.
Attest: THAD. MAYO. Secretary.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1878-09-12
NIX'S FERRY
AND STORE.
One mile above Lake Charles on the
fa Calcasieu River

Calcasieu River.
The undersigned wishes to Inform
tAetraveling public and Stock Droyers
that he mas put bis Ferry and beef pens
in good repair, and is ready TO accom-
modate all who may wish to cross With
him, with everything that is generally
requiredby stock men and trayelers.
He has large safe Flat, suitable for
crossing any kind Of stock; also two
chain hooms forswimming. Pasturage
on each side OF the river, free of charge.
Keeps aenstantly en- hand full sup
ply of Groceries, Provisions and For
age at the very lowest pflcesl
mY9-tl IL u. NlA;
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1878-09-12

In 1877 John Mcdonald, d foot
man, earri ID the first umbrelle ever
seen in England, and strapgely
enough, il wasn't his own. @9
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1878-09-12

NOR SALE:rTwo hundred and fifty
IL three and q half acres OF land, on
the Bayop Nez-piqHe, in this parish,
in Sec. 43, n. 3, $, r. 3 W., La,
Terms Cash, rs cents per acre, or
equivalent III lumber sawed to order.
Address lake Charles EcHo.
feb II, 1875.