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Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1878-01-30
Louisiana State Crane.

The Louisiana State Grange com.
menced its annual session on the
1lth Dec, aud completed its labors
on the evening Of the 14th.
The attendance was as large as
could be expected from the very
backward condition of the crops,
necessarily OBTAINING many dele.
gates at home. The session was
harmonious, practical work was eff.
iected, in the interests, not Only of
the Order, but of the State at large:
and the delegates evinced the full.
est determination to give new life
to the order in every parish.
Resolutions were adopted to give
all the influence of the Grange to
the Agricultural College at baton
Rouge, and develop its usefulness
to the fullest extent.
The subject of education was
fully discussed and the subordinate
Oranges urged to do all in their
power to advance it.
The Legislature will be asked TO
encourage, by enactment, co-opera.
tive associations and manufactur-
ing industries; also to establish q
State Agricultural and Manufactur-
ing Bureau.
"A petition was unanimously
adopted asking the Legislature to
encourage immigration.
"A committee was appointed to
prepare memorial to the LegisIa-
ture for the adoption of measures
facilitating the introduction of live
stock and new seed cane into the
State.
"A committee was also appointed
to prepare a report to he presented
at the next animal meeting, upon
the holding of State fair under
the auspices Of the Grange.
A standing committee ON trans.
portation was appointed, consist
ing of j. +. Smith, j. McGrath and
A. Delavigne.
Temple 5. Coons & Co. were ap-
pointed sole and permanent Agents
in this city.
The Master was especially charg.
ed with the duty Of visiting all the
Parishes, and otherwise lending his
efficient aid to the advancement of
the Order.
The newly elected officers are a.
follows:
Master, Il. X. Branch, Avoyelles;
Overseer, II. w. L. Lewis, Taugi.
pahoa; Lecturer, Prof. Nicholson,
Claiborne; Chaplain, p. H. Harbour,
Ascension; Steward, +. NJ. Hagood,
Avoyelles; Assistant Steward, E.
NJ. Hooper, East Feliciana; Secre.
tary, John McGrath, Baton Rouge;
Treasurer, w. A. Brainard, Orleans;
Gate keeper, A. Delavigne, Orleans;
Ceres, Mrs. +. Branch, Avoyelles;
Pomona, Mrs. II. w. l.. Lewis,
Tangipahoa; Flora, Mrs. j. p. Smith,
Orleans; Lady Assistant Steward,
Mrs. Blount, Orleans; Executive
Committee, ii. w. l.. Lewis, McKin-
ley Gibson, X. II. Day.
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1878-01-30
Why Some People are Poor.

Silver spoons are used to scrape
kettles.
Coffee, tea, pepper and spices are
left to stand open and lose their
strength.
Potatoes in the cellar grow, and
sprouts are not removed until the
potatoes become worthless.
BrOoms are never hung up and
are soon spoiled.
Nice handled knives are thrown
into hot water.
Tho flour is sifted in a wasteful
manner, and the bread pan is left
with the dough sticking to it.
Clothes are left on the line to
whip to pieces in the wind.
Tubs and barrels are left in the
sun to dry and fall apart.
Dried fruits are not taken care OF
in season, and become wormy.
Rags, strings and paper are
thrown into the fire.
Pork spoils for want O. salt aud
beef because the brine wants scald
ing.
Bits Of meats, vegetables, bread
and cold buildings are thrown away,
when they might be warmed, steam
ed and served as good as new.-f&.
Louis Republican.
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1878-01-30
DIR. =. R. RICHARDSON,
CARRIAGE AND BUGGY PAINTING.

AN now prepared to re-paint and var
1 nish Carriages, Buggies and Wagons at
short notice. Satisfaction warranted. Sam
Piles Of my work can he seen in Homer. ]
will also yarnish OLD FURNITURE and
REPAIR CANE SEATED CHAIRS. My
terms are reasonable tn suit the times.
Call and see me at the old stand of High
tower & RuHfner, S-E. cor. public square.
W. {. LILIES.
Aug. y. 1877. l:y
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1878-01-30
THE MASQUe OF MONTHS.

With bright OF sombre gear,
With smile or frown or song,
In masque the months 90 gliding
Perpetunlly along
First January is here,
With eyes that kcenly glow
frust-mailed warrior striding
shadowy steed of snow.
Then February, form
Pale-vestured. wildly fair
One of the North Winds daughters,
With icicles in her hair.
Then March, black-robed in storm,
The dread Of h"me-bound ships,
Who flies over lands and waters
With trumpet ut her lips.
Then April, gloom and shine.
Sad, merry, wiltul, meek,
With crocus IN her trrsses
And with tears upon her check.
Thrn May, the nymph divine,
With shoulders white ~ pearls,
Oercauopicd by car-sses
Of butterflies aud of birds.
Then June, whose beauties vie
With the roses richest shade,
80 sweet as to set us dreaming
iha' I"Hc mas grown lnalu.
Then passionate Young July,
That proud. hot-tenpercd lord
Who hears, though of genial seeming.
\ lightnil-- fash for a sword.
Then August, grave, serene,
a dame of stately grace,
With the touch of time laid surely
On her lovely dimpled face.
Then soft September. seen
In nun-likr veil of mist.
With lashcs that hide lcmurely
Two glimmcrs Of amethyst.
Then flushed October. she
Whose joys with pain are blcnt,
Like queen whose soul is aching
Amid pomps magnificent.
Then duh November. free
From hope. desire or care.
Having done with all heart breaking,
Being simply cold despair
And last, December drear.
With pitcous, low-hrooped head.
In n voice of ,lrsolation
Crying ont, The year is dead
And 80. with changeful gear.
With smile or frown or song.
The months, in strange variation,
Are ever gliding along.
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1878-01-30
Washington Correspondence.

! WAsHiNGToN, ID. e., Jan. 90, les.
Congress has again dropped into
the old routine of business. The
opportunity to visit their constitu-
ency during the vacation and thus
he brought into immediate contact
with the wants and sufferings Of
, the people, the utter loss of conf
dence, and the prostration of bust
ness, it might have been supposed
would have aroused these lcgisla.
tors to return to their labors deter.
mined to settle some of the finan.
cial questions that now more than
anything else the country demands.
No such results are likely to follow.
y score of Investigations have been
authorized as the first important
business. with authority to send for
papers and persons, and nearly a
million dollars will be spent for
what amounts to nothing. This
sum by suitable legislation might
he made the means of furnishing
bread to the starving poor. Were
it possible for a truce to he agreed
to, between the two parties, for say
sixty days. and let the partisans
rise to the dignity of patriots, aud
use their energies in honest work
on the two great problems, finance
and labor, they would be blessed
by the whole country.
Secretary Sherman has asked
Congress to allow him to use some
loose funds which he has OIL hand
to pay nearly hundred women
who are temporarily employed and
to whom a discharge means want
and misery. If Congress does not
allow it, it will be q good time to
show up certain members who talk
economy on the floor of the House
and practice anything else outside,
at the expense of the people. Econ.
omy is one thing and meanness
quite another. Congressional econ.
omy means to fasten up ones own
pockets tight and take everything
out of Uncle Sans.
Prof, Baird, of the Smithsonian,
is using his utmost energy in fish
culture, and in stocking depleted
streams. Eastern species of the
finny tribes are being sent west and
vice versa. Four millions of sal.
mon eggs we're sent in October to
eastern Matching houses, and As
many shad sent west. A great pre-
vailing want has been suitable food
for the young fishes. European
carp has been found to be adapted
for such purpose, and two shipments
have already been received and de-
posted in the lakes at Durid Hin
Park, Baltimore. The lakes around
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1878-01-30
Upholstery and Mattress.
Making.

THR Undersigned announces to the people
L Of Claiborne parish that he is engaged
"a the UPHOLSTERY business in all it's
branches. Furniture repaired, cleaned and
vanished. MATTRESSES made TO order;
NJ ones repaired and worked over.
shop on North Main street, in rear Of
'" BsYrov's Store.
JULIUS I.ANGHELD.
s"pt ia, 1877. A;em
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1878-01-30

prepared for breeding purposes
Millions of fish are being Matched
by steam and are found to be
healthy asthose brought into being
through the natural process.
Don Piatt, of the Sunday CAPT.
tai, came ont yesterday i'm n two
column editorial in praise of Presi.
dent Hayes. Piatt is the man who
published over his own name on
March 4th, 1877, an article in which
he said that if Hayes was allowed
to enter the White House alive the
Democratic party were not what he
took them for. For this he was ar.
rested and indicted, and now with.
i'll ten months he dimes with the
same President and writes two col.
umn editorials in his praise. There
must be a foreign mission or some
other fat place in the near future.
This is the time when everyone
PUSHES frantica!ly into print. 1t
seems to be the paDacea for all sorts
of passions and disorders. Men
hunger after renown 'as the dead
sea for ghosts and the immense
number of passengers who are anx
iously taking seats in the stage
coacn bound for fame are something
enormous. The newspapers here
are overrun with articles concerning
this or that man.
The women of the land have been
convened here i'll their annual suf.
frage convention. They undertook
to force the Senate into passing the
bill to allow them to be heard at
the bar of the chamber. They
crowded the lobbies, sang hymns, and
prayed for the wicked senators but
all to no purpose. They were re.
terred for a hearing to the Commit.
tee on Privileges and Elections.
Little attention here is paid to
the cry of practical reform that is
issuing from the Bureau of Public
Printing. The New York papers
are praising DcFrees for his success
in running the Bureau on reduc.
ton of 100000 over previous
years. The truth is it was "IIob.
sons choice The appropriations
would not allow of his spending
more.
Assistant Sccr'y Hawley and AS.
sOciate Justice Harlan have each
taken their accomplished families
to Mrs. Rines' famous house. 1t is
one Of the institutions of Washing. |
ton. She has for years enjoyed F,
the reputation of keeping the finest
boarding house here-the majority |
are abominable places. Imagine !
a family composed at one time of
Schuyler Colfax, Henry Wilson. !
the late Vice.President; VIM. A. !
Wheeler, the present incumbent;
Jno. a. Logan, and fifteen senators
and members. 1t is considered the !
thing to spend the season at Mrs. |
Rines', whose house contains every
thing to add to comfort in the way |
of billiards, balls, rooms, art collec-
tons &c. FAX.
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1878-01-30
The Fair Grounds to Lease

THE FAIR GROUNDS belonging to tho
l. AGRICULTURAL and MECHANICAL
FAIR ASSOCIATION will be LEASED for
the term Of Five Years, and sealed
bids will be received for the lease of said
grounds until the FIRST DAY Of FEBRU-
AIRY, 1873. Specifications can be seen by
calling at the Post-of6ce in Homer, by those
wishing to make bids.
Done by order Of the Board Of Managers
of said Association.
r. P. WEBB, Prest.,
j, w. sHERARD. ----
+. A. HILLEY,
J. FERGUSON,
d. W. HARRIS. Secy.
Dec. ~, is77. 1877
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1878-01-30
One Form OF Rudeness.

A fragrant breach of politeness,
and one which is most annoying to
refined and sensitive people, is the
very general practice of interrupting
ones conversation. The impunity
with which this is done has degrad.
ed rational conversation, which
ought to be the greatest charm of
social intercourse, into a provoking
farce. A man or woman who has
anything to say that is worth saying
desires to say it in his or her own
way; and those who have brains to
appreciate it will be equally desirous
OF bearing it without interruption.
Yet it is common thing for q parlor
conversation TO partake more Of the
babble of Babel than conversation
among rational beings, who are sup
posed to know and appreciate what
each other says. One beginning to
relate an incident and before he has
finished two sentences some parrot
In fine clothes chimes in her sense
less gable, breaking the thread of
discourse, and compelling the mar
rator to begin again, or abandon
the attempt to instruct Or entertain.
This is the grossest impOliteness; ii
is as common All occurrence as coll
versation itself 1t is not too much
to say that niue out of every ten
people who indulge in this habit are
incapable Of carrying on rational
conversation on any useful topic,
and indulge in these breaches OF
etiquette by way of covering their
retreat and hiding their ignorance.
We suggest to Young people, and
old ones, too, for that matter, that
here is q promising held for social
reform. Never interrupt Q CONVEX.
sation by interfering remarks how
ever appropriate aud witty they
may seem. All ssnsible people wiz
respect you, and conclude that you
have good sense and know bow to
use it to the best advantage u
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1878-01-30
Terms Of Svbsc rlptlon:
Tsrms OF Advertising:

One square, of one inch in space or less,
first insertion, 81 90; each additional iuser-
ton. 80 cents.
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1878-01-30
Haynesville, La.

A young colored lady Of Philadel-
phia, wears sAses seventeen inches
long, End there 10 % much Of her
% the groand that she never gets
the danpness ont OF her system.
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1878-01-30

Professional and business cards, of ten
lines or less in length, <ij per annum; for
six months. $40; for three months, 81
Business advertisements of greater length
will be inserted at above rates.
Legal advertisements will be charged at
legal rates, where fixed by law; otherwise
at special rates as published above.
rF'Epecial. notices 81 cents per line.
Funeral notices Of less than ten lines.
and marriage and religious notices inserted
gratis.
.Ioh-work executed in the neatcst style,
aud al reasonable prices.
August -, l-T.
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1878-01-30

You can't tell q mans character
BY the way he shakes hands. He
may be annoyed at the tightness
Of his suspenders, and hardly grip
at all.
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1878-01-30

Anear-sighted hen that ata NV.
dust, supposing 1t 10 b cord WV
then went and laid Q NJ 6yk
bureau knobs, Get on Dr. oDtA
weeks, and hatcbed ont 5 G6np1ooD
Get Of parior furniture, v1s s1sek
IT, fair hen. NJ
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-02-09

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Hon john ID. Townsend. Chairman.
l.. A. Qmntard Nieecls.rman,
Xnh II. Gmon, Nicecharman.
Hon John NJ. Pinkney Vice chairman
Is. Waite. Treasurer.
Henry Z. DEWITT secretary. ,x
Thomas IL Marine, Juhus ,. hious
Innis m Rrhards Ed Sellcck,
Wm Par.naIl I'd. NJ. Brown
tay,d pbiips NJ d. Iisiee A. Hopper,
Ed w. Hougnton, Mal" j.; ~. buhoy'
me- uas. 80 Benz. Ilchtenstein.
80, a nred war-f,y Geo. W. Blunt jr.
nnn Samuel A. Leyir. Is. Odel.
FOXES tND TICKETS
he Windsor Hotel the Headquarters %
The Executive Committee, and from the managers
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-02-09
Gelp Uante0

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w lett subscriptions for "CHu RciS MUsIoAh nisi
TOR" LADIES' viii mud this femuneatve EN-
ploymtnt. Outnt 81. J. CHURCH n CO, $40 DroadwB.
IAA MORE LADIES, OF good appearance
HUI and respectablity will be accepted Tor GREAT
INTERN ATIoNAL EXHIBITIOS, at GILMOREs GAR
DEN open Monday for one week They WIN DE paa
salary each aud allowed compete for premiums of beauty
dyixe department and ous Also ivo
wanted salesadies In valentino ana music departments
ApplS once a Office. 4th ave- ana 2tth'st -
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-02-09

j. b. LIPPINCO1T & CO.,
Publishers Phla
Agent for New York. C. r. PELToN, 25 Bond.st.
THE RISING GIANT-WHAT SHALL WE
i DO WITH HIM
By the Editor Of prominent New York journal
TIE LABOR PROBLEM IN THE UNITED STATES,
With introduction by Thurlow Weed
VIII be productive great benefit David a. Wells
EXACTLY the Kind treatise need"t.lr ScriIng eom,
for the NOrEingmCn.
Fmnently calculated provoke inquiry in Great Britain
tinted Estates Should be widely CIRCULATED
IKight Hon. John Bright. Every voter viii read IT.
Paper covers 25 cents.
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CHEAPEST BOOKSTORE
IN THE WORLD.
LIBRARIES AND BOOKS BOUGHT
AN IMMENSE LIBRARY JUST RECEIVED.
LEI S92 miscellaneous Books on hand at any price
IEGGATT BROS.
Beekman-st. opposite Poet Office
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-02-09
Nnsiral 1nstrnmerfS

Glnsiral 5nstrnmerfs
Il RANCH g. BACH, 243 East 23d st, near
IN 2dave have beautiful assortment OF me panooioss
and which they onerng very io"'
Pianos lent and sold on insallments
I IGHTE e. ERNST, old house OF Llghte ~
IL Bradbury offer their splendid La ~ low
plces on easy monthly payments ~ IL Ast lsthst
ALSO Smiths AMERICAN Ok0ANS.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-02-09
6itnatioue nantco--M alrs

RETIRED MERCHANT of this city (mid-
~ die ace) retaining all hs former ACTIVITY ana enttgy
having offers his services a. u quanea
Ia responsibility or trust IN eh,f com
mission jobbng retail mercantile honse hnansa ihst.
ton, company, ana ch1 w nsi Wv 'l
doubted references Address MERCHANT 1rDuhe uptown
Office, No. |, 1913 Broadway.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-02-09

VISITING GOVERNESS.-TwO hours daily
tuition; thorough English course with french ana
pnsic Difdent delicate children. Terms moderate Al
dress VisIrINQ COVERINGS. box = Tribun Omcee.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-03-22

was none-except at bars. A states
man was selected who was thought
competent to swing the door. He did
more. He swung pretty much the
whole Government. He was "a bigger
man than old Grant" His name was
Fitzhugh. His career rs Doorkeeper
was brief, but no door was ever kept so
much in so short time as the door of
Congress while he swung it. Then he
stepped down, and a Mr.. Patterson sue
cecded him. Patterson showed talent,
but one day the door swung the wrong
way and left him on the outside. Then
came in Polk-Col. Polka large
hearted, whole-souled Doorkeeper from
Tennessee. Col. Polk had a large num-
ber of acquaintances and friends who
had been under the heel of the oppress-
or, and his first step, naturally enough,
was to put them on the Government
pay-rollsjn his department. Congress,
which is very mean about some things,
objected to Col. Polk's liberal construc-
ton of his duties AS Doorkeeper, and
ordered an investigation, which is now
in progress. 1t is singular fact that
all three of these Democratic Door
keepers have had to be investigated,
and all have come to grief. The De-
mocracy cried out to the country for a
long time; "There's deviltry in the
bookkeeping; let us in to overhaul it. !"
At last the country let them in as far as
the door, and before they have had any
one man there six months there's devil
try in the bookkeeping, and that has to
be overhauled. If the party's book
keeping is no better than its doorkeep-
ing it would hardly pay to turn the
books over to it. Meantime there has
been one opportunity to test its actual
capacity in bookkeeping. The last
Democratic bookkeeping on a large
scale was in the Confederacy. There
was small overhauling of that in the
House, the other day, in connection
with some claims against the Postoflice
Department. 1t isn't necessary to say
more, at present, than that their book
keeping and their bookkeeping seem to
be about on a par.-N Y. Tribune.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-03-22
A Bid for a Christian Husband.


A gushing damsel in Illinois, who re-
ceived letter from the Dead-Letter Of
fee lately, bearing on it fdc-siD1ile of
the autograph of Mr.. A. ID. Hazen, the
Third Assistant Postmaster-General,
was so struck by his eminently Chris
tian signature that she felt acquainted
Immediately, and addressed u letter TO
"Mr. Adstazen, at the Dead-Letter Of
fice," in which, after few prelimina-
ries, she confesses that she and her sis
ter "would like to find some good
Christian men to marry" She goes on
to say: ." / thought perhaps you would
Get A couple OF good Christian young
men to correspond with us" Please
excuse me for writing this TO you, but |
felt more Acquainted with you than
others Living far off," "Being tired
of living A Single life we now wish to
settle down" Mr.. Hazen has not yet
made any recommendation, his ac-
quaintance among "good Christian
young men, being limited. Applica-
tions for appointment, by persons hav-
ing the necessary characteristics, will
be received for a few days Washing
ton Star.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-03-22
WE'RE Always BorS AT HoNE.

Dear brother. have wandered far,
Far from the old roof-trce;
And miles, by mountain, cliff and scar,
Have parted you and mol go
Though storms may drive us where they VIII
Ger land or oceans foam,
Ono happy thought an cheer us still;
We're always boys at home!
Though time may set his signct mark
On heart, and hand, and brow;
Tho clouds may rise and skies grow dark,
Zen as they're growing now;
Far from mothers love and PRIDE
Our steps can never roam-,
Though men to all the world beside,
We're always boys at hOmel
You're sitting by the dear old hearth
Tonight with all it's joys;
Our mother, mid the scenes of mirth,l
Ia talking of her boys
And oh, no happier spot is ours
Beneath heavens shelterlng dome,
Where youth renews its golden hours;
We're always boys at home.
The tabled fount by Leon sought,
This side the stormy main,
Lay like fond dream, fairy wrought,
In his own isle of Spain!
In vain the dreaming chemist turns
The leaves of many tomb:
The alembic. where the Yulc-log burns,
Is only found at home.
Dear mother, in this world of woe,
Though tickle friends may flee,
And though thy children's children grow
In clusters round thy knee,
Safe anchored in a mothers heart,
Thy grown-up boys may come,
And, claiming childhoOd's dearest part
May still be boys at home.
A mothers homcly sunshine spread,
sisters trust and truth,
A fathers bcnediotion shed,
Rcncws immortal youth!
There, safe from every toll and care,
selfish werld and cold
Well meet in other years, for there
We never more grow old.
@. b. NJ, IN Washington Capital.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-03-22
Household Economy.

The housekeepcr or cook who studies econ
omy in the kitchen, can do so in one direction
by always using DoOLEY's YEAST POWDER. II
will be found truly economical and valuable
assistant in baking biscuits, rolls, bread, cake
of all kinds, waiilcs, mullins, and most all ar.
ticlcs prepared from flour; and why! Because,
in using the DoOley Powder, you save in eggs
in shortening, in patience, in everything; and
when the baking is done, it is turned out light,
palatable and wholesome, so that every morsel
is eaten up and 10 waste.