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Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1878-08-14
PLAYING BIRD.

KATE
Let's all play bird little while,
Now all our tasks are done;
I'm tired of playing our other plays,
Aud this is the pretticst one.
ALL.
o, yes! we will play it grandly-
Let's fut our books away
We haven't played this for ever-so-long,
80 we'll play it again to-day.
III be thrush of tho meadow,
Aud sing you my sweetest song,
Aud have my nest where the lilies blow,
Aud the brooklet glidcs along.
And I'm suciI little creature
o, Iii bc fIttlr wren,
Aud sing all day till the sun goes down,
Aud the world gets dark again.
JENNY.
And I'll lie a crow in the corn field,
And the farmers corn I'll pull,
Aud that will let some of the mischief out
For of mischief am full.
JOHNNIE.
I'll lie great proud eagle,
And my home shall be in the SKY,
And III go soaring and sailing
The clouds aud the mountains by.
And I'll be al owl in the night time,
And sit on the old oak tree;
And all the fest of the little birds
Shall be go afraid of me!
JULIE.
I'll he lark in the morning,
And sing at the break of day.
GEORGE.
And I'll be u hawk that higher flies,
And frightens the lark away.
FRANK.
| I'll he y man, you children,
| And man is the finest sight;
| And man knows moro than all the birds
Now don't you think I'm right
THE EAGLE.
| III there il a man among us,
Lark, owl, crow, thrush, wren,
I think we'd better all fly away,
For birds are afraid Of men.
All make dying motions with their arm
and scampcr away, the MAN running aftt
them.-Good Things.
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1878-08-14
A Touching Incident.

Not many years since certain min.
ers, working far underground, came
upon the body Of q poor fellow who
had persisted in the sufiocating pit
forty years before. Some chemical
agent to which the body had been
subjected-an agent prepared i'll
the laboratory OF nature-had eli.
fectually arrested the progress Of
decay. They brought it mp to the
surface, and for awhile, till tho.
roughly exposed to the atmosphere,
it lay-the image of fine, sturdy
young man. No commissions had
passed over his face ia4IeatnES1e
features were tranquil; The bAsQ
black as jet. No one recognized
the face, Q generation had grown
up since the miner went down in
the pit the last time. But a totter.
ing old woman WHO hnrried from
her cottage on he1ring the news,
came up, and she knew again the
face which through all these long
years she had not forgotten. The
miner was to have been her husband
on the day after that on which he
had died. There we're no dry eyes
when the grey headed old pilgrim
cast herself npon the youthful
corpse and poured into the deaf
ear many words of endearment
unused for forty years. 1t was n
touching contrast-the one 20 old,
this other 80 young. They had
both been young these hong years
ago, but time had gone on with the
living and stood still with the dead.
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1878-08-14
How to Avoid Sunstroke.

The New York Board of Health
has issued the following circular:
"Sunstroke is caused by excessive
heat, and especially if the weather
is 'muggy.' 1t 10 more apt to occur
on the second, third, or fourth day
of a heated term than on the frst,
Loss of sleep. worry, excitement,
close sleeping rooms, debility, abuse
of stimulants predispose to 1t. 1t 10
more apt to attack those working in
the sun, and especially between the
hours of IL o'clock in the morning
and 4 o'clock in the afternoon. On
hot days wear thin clothing. Have
as cool sleeping-rooms as possible.
Avoid loss of sleep and all unneces-
sary fatigue. If working indoors,
and where there is artificial heat
laundries, etc.-see that the room 10
we'll ventilated. If working in the
sun, wear o light hat, mot black, az
it absorbs heat, straw, etc, and put
inside of it on the head a wet cloth
or a large green leaf; frequently
lift the hat from the head and SCI
that the cloth is wet. DO not check
perspiration, but drink what watel
you need to keep it up; as perspira
ton prevents the body from beinl
overheated. Have, whenever pos
sible, an additional shade, % thiI
umbrella, when walking, Q canva
or board cover when working in tn
sun. When much fatigued do no
60 to work, but be excused fror
work, especially after IL o'clock j
the morning on very hot days. If th
work is in the sun. If o fesling {
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1878-08-14
st. PauI's Prison.

There are two pecularities about
Rome and all other Italian cities.
The ancients built very high up and
they built very low down. You
mount up hundreds of feet to the
skies-you descend in the same
manner hundreds Of feet below the
surface. We visited the ancient Jail
where st. Paul is said TO have been
imprisoned. 1t is near the ancient
forum, about half way between the
Capitol and the palace Of the Caesars.
The building is at present occupied
as a shrine or church. AS VIC enter.
ed it on a Monday morning there
were number of worshipers. A
guide, with a torch, took us down
q series of intricate and winding
steps, until at last We reached a
dark dungeon, where st. Paul is
said to have been imprisoned. The
staples and chains by which he was
bound we're pointed out to us. Near
by, in an adjoining dungeon, We
were shown garrote in the wall
where the Catalina conspirators were
strangled. We were also shown a
miraculous well far down in the
depths of the prison, in which st
Paul assuaged his thirst. Ofcours<
there is . shrine at every SACRED
I place, where once year at leas1
every good Catholic worships. W.
Waited the ancient church of st
John Lateran, and the museum ad
Joining. They are both very inter
, esting. The museum contains
large collection of busts and has re
liefs of North American Indians ant
Indian scenes, such as the rescue o
D John Smith by Pocahontas, treaties
A etc.-Cor. Reading Times.
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1878-08-14
SLEEPY PETE. "
He Communes With Big Horn Smith
Virginia City Enterprise.l

Virginia City Enterprise.l
A few evenings since a wild.eyed
Individual, of the Buffalo Bill style
in hair, entered North & Street
saloon, and introduced himself in a
general way as Big Horn Smith of
the Goose Creek Mountains, and a
real Kentucky gentleman. lie said
no was becoming moldy for want Of
congenial exercise. The ComstOck
range pleased him sufficiently well,
except that the people were too
good to afford him any amusement.
They agreed too readily to any and
every proposition. What was the
utility of his announcing himself
as being dangerous and ugly to
handle when nobody disputed the
assertion! On the frontiers men
were true men. There the souls Of
men were not cowcd by civilization.
There each man declared himself
and passed for what he was worth.
There on the frontiers, man would
not agree with you if you told him
white was black and black was
white. On the frontiers could at
all times he found spirited and in.
structive argument supplemented
with invigorating exercise.
"Now,n said the apostle from the
Goose Creek Mountains, "when l
tell you that l think you are the
biggest set Of white-livcred ours
that have ever encountered in my
travels, ! don't expect any of you
to dispute the assertion; when l tell
YOU that believe there is not one
among You but would shed tears
were ! to spit in his face, do not
expect q man among you to show
that he is aware Of my presence;
when | tell you that the man who is
saying these things is right here and
easy to be found, ! have not the
least fear that one among you viii
come to hunt himw
| Having concluded this speech
the long.haired being sneeringly
surveyed those in the room. NJ
one said a word, as no one felt it t
be his duty to engage in a rough
and.tumble fight with q man to-
whose opinion, good or bad, he die
not care a straw. A man is no
obliged to turn scavenger and un
. dertake TO abate every nuisanc
. that comes in his way, though h
may encounter some that are yer,
offensive.
al see that l have estimated so
at your true value,n said the Coos
Greek mountaineer. "Now, If
; would be any credit to me, I'd jus
haul you all mp here by your nose
and knock your heads together"
/, Somebody ought to teach tn
windy fool lesson said one
those in the saloon to his neighbo
- 81 do not feel personally aggrieye'
but it's work that should be dol
for the good Of society at larg
g He is evidently all wind, Q bubb
- that would be easily pricked, b
even in prlcking bubble you mu
Z, come in contact with foul air."
Said the neighbor: "Sleepy Pc
want into the card room, back,
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1878-08-14
HOMER MASONIC FEMALE INSTITUTE.
IN Ann nal Session begins s"pt 4th, 1877

I,rrtrfENT TEACHERS will fill every
+, department.. Especial attention gwen
10 Mt SIC.
BOARD per month of four weeks, 'nelud-
INK washing, lights, &c, SO
Tnitinr. -, 81 and s.. N"rxtravaganceT
allowed.
The Institution il strictly non-Sectatiah'
Send for Catalogue,
r. :. SLIGH, A. NJ, Prcst.,
Homer. Claiborne parish. La.
july IL, les. '7'H
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1878-08-14

fatigue, dizziness, headache or ex.
haustion occurs, cease work imme.
diately, lie down in n SHADY ana
cool place; apTny cufsf -ciortss:rorya
pour cold watsg,0ysS ksad and neck.
IL any one is OvesSUine 10y the heat,
send Immediately for the nearest
good physician. while waiting for
the physician give the person cool
drinks Of water or cold black tea. Or
cold coffee, ii akas 0sSEalJow. If
the skin is hot ap1 o. p60e with
o. pour. cold water over the bNdy
and lisRlIss. aud apply to the head
pounded ice wrapped in towel or
other cloth. il there 10 no Ice at
hand keep cold cloth-oa the head
and pour cold water on it as we'll as
on the body. If the person pale,
very falat, aed pulse feeble, let him
inhale ammonia for q few seconds,
or give him a tcaspoonful of aroma.
tic spirits of ammoniafn two table
spoonfuls of water with little su.
gar.
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1878-08-14

W ullC oSO. iiC NOulu tiluA ~ w
hardship to come out and abate the
nuisance-he would do it for a dol.
lar
The two men left their seats and
went toward the card room.
~ have always observed coyotes
leave the plain when the grizzly
bear comes down from the noun.
tains,' said the Goose Greek man,
following the pair with his eyes.
The two citizens made no reply.
They found Pete with his head on
a card table, sound asleep. They
awoke him and told him that man
outside was spelling for a sound
thrashing, and q dollar was ready
for him as soon as he had finished
the job.
Yawning till the top of his head
seemed coming of, Pete said:
"Yo.o.aw hoo oo. yaw, yum! a dol.
lars small to be walked up for
va aw oo.yum-but reckon III take
it. Ya-oo- yum!--Pve got nothing
else to do just now.
AS Pete walked into the bar.
room his eyes fell upon the long
haired stranger.
"This himi' was all he said.
An affirmative nod from one OF
the men was his answer.
Pete slouched forward, lazily
stretching his brawny limbs and
yawnlng in the strangers face,
said: "Well, let's (hOO. yaw-yum)
Begin
Pete's arms shot out two or three
times, like the pistons Of double
cylinder engine, the apostle from
the Goose Creek mountains went
to the floor and was kicked under
a table against the wall, like a wet
dish.rag.
Pete held ont his hand for tho
dollar, and muttering: "Smal
money (yaw 90 YUM, small money!
retired TO the rear room to ilnisf
his nap.
Big Horn Smith, the apostle o
chivalry from the Goose Creel
mountains, presently recovered hi
consciousness, crawled out from
under the table, blew and wipet
his nose, got his hat and placed i
on his head, hauled up the waist
band of his pantaloons, shook him
self into shape, then turned u
those present and said: "Gentle
men, l humbly beg pardon for an
disparaging remarks | may hav
let tall iu regard to the people {
this town. | find there are place
in it where man who is pining TO
those comforts TO which he ma
have become habituated on tn
frontiers may meet gentlemen VIII
arc both able and willing to mini.
, ter to his wants. Gentlemen, 20
have among you good SanitarianI
. How call you the gentleman wit
whom I Just now held very satil
2 factory and instructive colloquy'
ale is known as SLEEPY Pete
D said some one.
"Think you 'Somnolcnt Pete
! likely to be inclined to partakc {
I something in the way of retresl
b. ment after his exerciscT
| "Iie is doubtless asleep ere now
!. was the reply, "but should you s
4 any time during your sojourn
n our town find yourself wasting ava
s for the comforts of the frontier "a
t round, and for your benefit we wi
!. awake SLEEPY Pete
d "Thank you, gentlcmen!--than
YOU; but feel that | shall not aga
9 desire to commune with your SLEEP
l friend, except at very long range
n AL &no a-aetln p-onAarnl forth
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1878-08-14

Who shtands der shtrssts aud gOoers round,
Nit sefrel axes to be ground,
Und shmiled md bowed und never frownedf
Der Candidate.
Who holds your hand ven you would start,
Und told you you vas mighty shmart,
Und how he Logged you NIT his hearti
Der Candidate, ....
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1878-08-14
Thin CuticIes.

No doubt sensitiveness is a mark |
Of refined temperament, but in |
view of the roughness of every day |
life, we can but think that too
much Of it is a positive misfortune.
The sensitive man is never tho
roughly happy. He is too thin
skinned to bear with equanimity
the temperature of the world ut
large. He is always getting slight
ell BY somebody. He is always
having his feelings hurt. Some
wrong is being continually done
him. He ia always left ont when
he should he counted in, and vice
versa. 1t Mrs, A., who is near
sighted, and would not recognize
her own grandfather three doors
of, meets him in the street and
does not bowie is slightcd-Mrs.
A. has cut him! II Jenkins has Il
party and invites n dozen friends,
and leaves our thin skinned man
ont, he feels himself aggrieved. II
his next door neighbor has an at.
tack of dyspepsia, and wears long
face in consequence, our sensitive
man is sure there is something
wrong. Somebody has been mis-.
representing him. He is always
in trouble. As q child, his nose
will he perpetually ont of joiut, as
a young man his teachers will he in
q conspiracy against him to pre-
vent him from gaining the first
honors, and when it comes to fall
ing in love and going counting,
heaven preserve him! for il there
is a manageable man within ten
miles of his "belovcf,' he will be
sure to think she tavors him. Your
thin. skinned man is always taking
hints.
The old adage says, "If the sad.
die fits you, buckle the girths.n
He is continually buckling girths,
If anybody laughs behind his back
they are laughing at him. If he
has a long nose, and noses are men.
) toned, he is sure to be attacked
, If he comes from a poor family, and
anybody mentions poverty, he is
sure to fare up-they are INVITING
him with his humble origin! Hit
friends are source of unhappinesi
, to him, for they must talk of some
}. thing; who can manage converse
= ton 30 skillfully as not to rur
G against some Of the angles of TIT
f sensitive mani The minister meant
s him, he is sure, when he is preach
r ing against special sinners, ant
y consequently he refuses to sub
Q scribe fifty dollars to that worthy
0 salary. Almost every newspape
!. article hits him, and he is ready t,
Il beard the editor and challenge TIT
). author in behalf of his wOundet
h feelings. In short he leads lifi
!. of it, and every humane person
n must pity him. Time will, in SOM
y measure, wear away extreme sen
sitivcncss, but it is a long, hart
r process, and if any of our reader
# are born with thick skins let hin
!. thank fortune for it. For it is
fact that this world will 60 on jus
y as it has gone on for ages, total
It unmindful of individual feelings
n needless of crushed spirits AM
y broken hearts, careless of lost haE
II piness, Indifferent to the joys an
II sorrows of its inhabitants. An
the man who is never sighted, VIII
k is never dOwncast because of ev
IN doors, who can go on secure in hi
" own sense of right doing, and n
;" ceive no wounds of feeling or sens
bility, is the man whose days wi
be happy, whose sleep will be quie
Haupy individual.
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Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1878-08-14

All day long on Wednesday, un.
til late In the afternoon, n war,
fierce and deadly, was going on at
the north end Of the Semi. Tropic
Office, and many thousands Of the
combatants on both sides persisted.
About Q o'clock our attention was
attracted by a swarm of what was
at first thought to be bees perched
on the gable and flying about in
close proximity. "A closer examina-
ton showed them to be small wing.
ed ants, some red and some black,
who were waging a war of extermi.
nation with each other. They
would wheel and dart, now advanc.
ing, now retreating, until at last
dozen or two would make a dash,
and, graphing in q last embrace,
the whole bunch would fall to the
ground together, there to continue
the combat until one or the other
was stung to death. All day long
the fight was Kept up, until the
ground was strewn with the slain.
There must have been fully a quart
of dead bodies left to tell of the
sanguinary struggle. What caused
the fight, or why twas 30 bloody
and relentless, will have to be told
by some more skilled "bugologist-
than ourself, but We saw the battle
and pointed II ont to others. II
was q very singular affair, and VIC
would like a rational explanation
of it.-ColtoN Semi. ITopic
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-01-07
MERCHANTS
FIRE AND MARINE
Insurance Company
OF MEMPHIS,
No. 20 Madison Street,
eHios formerly occupied By DssOtO Bank.
Capital Stock. . $500, 600
OFFICERss
II. L. MEACHAM +: President
A. N. MCKAY, Vice President
WIN. GAY, Secretary
Capital Stock. $500, 600
ROARn on nIRECTORn,
RAILROAD TIME TABLE.

MEMPHIS AND LOUISVILLE RAILROAD.
Arrives. Leaves.
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Louisville and Great Southern R. R

1880 pm. Night Expression Saturday
this train runs only to Milan Connects at
Milan for ST. Louis and Chicago; at Nc
Kenze for Nashville. Chattanooga, Atlanta
and the Southeast; atHuthrie for Hopkins
vile, Henderson and Evansville; at Louis
willie for all points North and East.
lE0O am. Day Express Connects for St.
Louis and Chicago. at Louisville for all
points North and East.
4;40 pm. Brownsville Accommodation
Daily except Sunday.
arrival Of Trains.
Express D. m
10 a. m
Pullman Palace Cars on either train to Louis
Vile, and on Night train to Nashville.
For tickets or Information, apply at Ticket
Office. 287 Main, Northwest corner Madison
street
JAS. MONTGOMERY, Sup't Memphis Div.
JAMES SPEED, Ticket Agent.
624t
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A HUMAN BODY PETRIFIED.
Turned 60 stone After Lying in the
Grave Forty Yeatp.
Correspondence Raleigh Observer.

Turned 60 stone After Lying in the
Grave Forty Yea,s.
Correspondents Raleigh Observer
AsHEvILLE, N. O., December %.
1t is fact not generally known
that the cemetery of the Methodist
Church in Hendersonville, N. g.,
contains a petrified human body.
About the year 1886 Miss Adelaide
Byers lived with her father, Francis
@. Byers, fifteen miles south of this
place, in Henderson county. She
was a bright, sweet girl, much loved
by all who knew her, and her hand
was sought in marriage even before
she was Of manageable age. At
last she was won by William Pink
ney Murray, whom she had known
long and well. Soon the nuptials
were duly celebrated, and the
bride and bridegroom set out in
search Of a new country, following
the setting sun to the Mississippi
valley. There they located and be-
gan the journey Of life together in
real earnest. Prosperity aud hap
piness came to them, until in an
unexpected moment death cut down
Mrs. Murray in the very prime
of life. The disconSolate Wild
over, consigning the body of his
deceased wife to the dust, as be
supposed, sought "surcease of sor-
row" in the wilds of Texas. A few
yeas afterward, DR.. Josiah johnson,
intending to return to North Caro-
lima, whence he had removed with
his brother.in-law, Mr.. Murray,
disinterred the body Of Mrs. Murray
for the purpose of carrying it back
with him. Imagine how amazed
he was to find it in the coffin Just
as he had seen it three years before.
The same featureS-almost the very
same expression. But what he saw
was not fesh-it was solid stone.
The whole body had petri6ed. In
that condition he carried it to
North Carolina, and delivered it to
the aged father, Mr.. Byers, who
could hardly doubt that his daugh-
ter had come home to him asleep!
Tho news spread that Adelaide's
body had "tarned into a rock, and
great was the desire of everybody
70 see it. Attempts were made, it
is said, to steal it out Of the cellar
where the old gentleman had care
fully concealed it, but they were
unsuccessful. All through the war
it was guarded by the father as the
most sacred trust, but few persons
being allowed to see it. About six
years ago, however, it was quietly
buried in the Methodist Cemetery,
at Harrisonyille, where, it is hoped,
it will be permitted to rest until
the resurrection morn"
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MONDAY EVENING. JANUARY I, 1878.

painted in a manner more than
marvellous /! A voice, musical,
grave and sonorous, Saluting us by
name, invited us to be seated. Then
the apparition gilded down the
whole length Of the scaffold to the
ground, and advanced, or rather
rolled toward us, and with a bound
established himself on the sofa at
our side.
We watched him with interest,
and had long conversation with
him. He told us he had been born
without arms, and had been a
painter ten years, and was now
making money by his art. He used
his feet with almost as much ease
as people do their hands. He wrote
his name with great rapidity, and
well, and told us he shaved himself.
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MaeMahon ANA WnshInrton.

Gath" in the Cincinnati Enquirer.l
Meeting in the street yesterday
the Marquis de Ohambron, whose
wife is a descendant of Lafayette,
he said: "Well, how are they get
ting on with Mr.. Hayes?"
80, ! suppose about as President
MacMahon gets along in France (;
conflict with the legislative depart
ment."
"Tbere is no conflict in France.
| have just come from there"
"Who will be elected President
after MacMahou, provided the re-
public lasts?"
81 think MacMahon himself. He
possesses the sound brute elements
which insure safety, and he prob
ably has more of those qualities
than any other available man."
"Like Grant?"
"Well," +" said the Marquis, 81 re-
member that many years ago l asked
old Jared Sparks: Sir, what con-
clusion do you come to about the
character of Washington. You have
given him the greatest study of any
man since his day. Jared Sparks
looked little at loss what to say,
and finally answered: THAT is a
question not easily replied to. ]
can answer it, however, as John
Adams answered it to me about fifty
years ago. He was sitting under q
portrait Of Washington at the time
Pointing up to the strong-iawed
warrior, Mr.. Adams said: young
man, if that blockhead up there
had not held his tongue he would
never have been the great man thai
he is"