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The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1878-08-15
Amen.

/. Its Origin. Amen 10 Hebrew
word, Of Hebrew origin, Prior TO the
time OF Christ 1t was found In no other
language but the Hebrew. Pagans did
not make use OF 1t in their idol worship.
But with the introduction of Christian
ity 1t has found Its way into the Ian
gusges OF all nations who have received
the Christian as their religion. In the
Greek, Latin, German and English
tongues, it is the same In photography,
h Specification, and, with very slight
deyiations, also In pronunciation. 1t
has been left untrsnslsted, and has been
transferred from the Hebrew just as it il
found there, because there can not bs
found in any language any single word
that expresses it, precise and complete
sense and meaning.
2. Its Sense Luther, ip his Smaller
Gatechism, defines it thus: "Amsn,
amen, that Is, yea, yea, II shall be so"
oru'ien says Of ": "Amen in Hebrew
sigaifies true, faithful, certain Itisused
in the end Of every prayer in testimony
Of AZ earnest wish, desire on assurance to
be heard amen, Ne II sol So shall it BE-"
Webster says: "Amen, ~ noun, signs
fies truth, frmness, trust, confidence rs
verb, TO conform, establish, verify; ~
an adjective, firm, stable. In English,
after the Oriental manner, il il usedst
the beginning, but more generally At
the end OF declarations and prayers in
the sense Of, be 1T firm, he II established
All these definitions agree IN making
amen to mean /" Verify, true, certain,
be it 70, shall ii boz Some ancient
forms Of ritual have rendered II into
English, namely, 4 SO mote IL be-"
II Is used in address by man 70 his
Maker, and by Him To VS., aud accord
ingly, a. used By either, differs some
what In application, ~ must be evident.
For man makes fayors, and God bestows
them God makes promises, and man
pleads them. When man says amen, he
claims tho divine assurance; when God
says amen, He confirms it,. Lutheran
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When an Indian gets mad ana ready

When an Indian gets mad and ready
to fight, be would Al sooD Ratchet q
baby - an Indian trader. That's the
one great fault Ia bis make up, and he
will never stand A in society until he
learns to go for the traders frst. Il De-
troit Free Press.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1878-08-21
Shell Mound Grove.

containing $50 acres richest hammock land.
fronting ! miles OH the beautiful Withla-
cOOchee river. Upon this place are 1890
orange trees that h&ve ust commenced
bearing and will yield the present season
at least 5000 oran @eS. and certainly over
100, 600 next year Also 900 six Wear old
sour seedlings already budded. and one
acre set i'll Bananas. | propose to bestow
Oh this place , 800 more banana plants.
offer the whole of this last mentioned place
for $12, 900 cash.
The locality of both these groves fully
insures ;tgainst liability to injury from the
seveTest changes of temperature, and re-
gard this section OF country rs the very
best in the State for the successful cultiva-
ton of semi-tropical and tropical fruits
north of the Caloos;that chez river First,
on account of the luexhauStible fertility
of the soil, it being deep, vegetable mould
undeTlaid with shell mari aboupdine III
bhosphates. Second. Immunity from frost
on account of the large bodies of water Oh
the north and west for many miles The
uuTTlcrous freeze of 1885 did not kill down
the Wild trees III this locality as the large
stocks plainly Indicate, and the freeze Of
1876 did not jure the most tender leaf Of
the Lime. On account of this oranges can
be- permitted. TO remain OIL the trees until
March or April thereby insuring u higher
price than if compelled to seek Il market,
earlier. W lille the strength Of the soil in
surcs Il full annual crop of fruit. Third,
safe aud sure transportation via the With
lacoochce TO Cedar Key, II distance of 50
miles and, ere long. the Railroad from
Waldo to Tampa will pass through or near
these lands.
As u home. this region is desirable. on
account of healthfulncss and of the great
abundance of game and fish,. 1t is also one
of the besr stock ranges in the State. The
land is high and rolling and the soil is well
adapted TO track farming.
Title perfect. Address, for additional
information.
A. l.. EICHELBERGER.
10 n ocala, Marion Co., Fla.
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Idlewild Grove,

cont:LinIrg 23s acres of choics hammock
land, fronting = Of mile on the beautiful
Lake Pansoff' kee. Upon this tract there
are about 4000 buddied trees in position. L.
001 of which number bloomed the present
season and will bear this year from $4,000
to 2q,Q01 oranges. BY next wear at least
800 additional trees win bear. and the in
CREASED Weld will probably exceed 100000
1900 Trees will commence hearing and by
that date will unquesfionahlv produce over
1000. 900 oranges. This grove also embraces
% 900 sour seedlings, now five vearsold and
already budded. which is more than suffi-
cient 10 get the balance of the land. Ten
acres Of This place is set in the prolific ever
nearing Lemon. ripening continuously the
year round. and two acres are planted in
Bananas that are in a fOurishing conditions:
and | propose to beStUw upon this grove
5000 more banana plants from my Home
grove. | offer half interest IN the above
described property for Sl000 cash.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1878-08-21
WESLEYAN FEMALEINSTITUTE,
sTAUNToN. VIRGINIA.

This time honored Institution opens
September 10Th. 1873. Among the first
schools for Young ladies in the United
States European and American Teachers.
Surroundings beautiful. Climate unsur-
passed. Patrouized by seventeen Stltes.--
AMONG THE BEST TERMS IN THE IN
ION: Board. Washing. Lights. English.
Latin, French. for each halfof the Scholastic
year, -lSll5, Music dc. Very. low. For
E:ltalogiirs, address Rev. WM, AsHARRlS,
ID II President. Staunton. Va
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ORANGE GROW Els
FOR SALE.

Couture n Florida is one of the most relia-
HE and best paying interests i'll this highly
favored region, presenting as it does, the
strongest Inducements to capital seeking
profitable investment, relieves the subscrib-
or Of the necessity 81 entering into detailed
statements as though it wert, & mere exper-
imcnt of questionable results. From long
experience and close observation / am
thoroughly satisfied that the leading con-
sideration essential to success in this rap
idlv growing business is the special adap-
fStlon of soil and location, guided by pTac-
tical knowledge. j am now able, without
curtailiug my extensive operations beyond
what is desrTi bic. TO offer for sale. either a
half or an entire interest in two of the most
promising groves in the State. which ] will
now proceed to describe. viz:
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THE FARM BOY AND HIS FIR
RANDS.

There are 50 many bright spots in
the life of a farm boy that / some
times think should like to live life
over again | should almost be will
ing to be girl if it were not for the
chores. There is a great comfort 10
a boy in the amount Of work he can
get rid Of doing 1t is something
astonishing how slow lie can go on
an errand-he who leads the school
IN q race. The world is new and in
teresting to him, and there IS so much
TO take his attention off when he is
sent to do anything. Perhaps be
could not explain, huhself. why, when
he is sent to a neiehbors after yeast,
he stops to stone the frogs; lie Is not
exactly cruel, but he wants 10 see If
he can hit EN-, No other living
thing can go'as slow as boy sent
on an errand. Ills legs seem to be
lead, unless he happens to espY a
woodchuck in an adjoining LOT, when
he gives chase like deer; and it,is
. curious fact about Boys, that two
will be great deal slower about do
ing anything than one, and the more
you have to help on piece Of work
the less is accomplished. Boys have
a great power Of helping each other
70 do nothing and they arc 50 limo
cent about it and unconscious. II
vent as quick as ever / could, says
the boy. His father asks him why
he didn't stay all night, when lie has
been absent three hours On & ten
minute Grand. The sarcasm las no
feet on the boy.
Going after the cows was a serious
ching in my day. | had to climb 4
bill which was covered with straw
berries in the season. Could any
boy pass those ripe berries And
then, i'll the fragrant hill pasture there
we're beds Of wintergreen with red
berries, tufts of columbinc, roots Of
sassafras to be dug, and dozens of
good things to Gator to smell that l
could not resist. 1t sometimes even
lay in my way tofclinib a tree TO look
FOR q crows nest, or to swing in the
top, and try if l could see the stdcple
Of the village church. 1t became terv
important sometimes for me to see
that steeple, and in the midst Of my
Investigations the tin horn would
blow great blast from the farmhouse,
which would send cold chill down
my back in the hottest days. | knew
what it meant. 1t had a'frightfully
impatient quaver in it, not at all like
the sweet note that called ns to din
ner from the hay field. 1t SAID,
Why on earth doesn't that boy
come home, it is almost dark. and
the cows amt milked ?" And that
was the time the cows had to start
into brisk pace and make up for
lost time. wonder if any boy ever
drove the COWS home late who didn't
say that the COWS were at the farther
end Of the pasture, and that "Old
Brindlc y was hidden in the woods
and he couldn't find her for ever so
long The brindle COW is the boys
scape goat, many q time.-CnAELEs
DUDLEY WARNER, IN Bcing u Boy.
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+ D. ROSS,
BLACKSMITH
AND
WAGON MAKER,
ORANGE CITY, FLA.

An kinds of wagons, buck boards, carts,
plows. cultivatOrS. &c.. made To order on
short notice.
Is Having located permanently at Or
auge City and completed u large and con
venient shop, am prepared to do all kinds
nf work in the hest manner aud at reasNIi-
able rates }. j.. ROSS.
MAY 30 1875. '-11
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THE FLORIDA AGRICULTURIsT.
GARDEN SEEDS! FIELD SEEDS!

900 BUSHELS COW PEAS embracing the varieties in store and
for sale very low " 80 "
Our crop of Celery Cabbage seed will be received from
the middle OF June the middle will he able TO unnIv
all demands for the latest varieties and reliable seeds of all kinds
Our Catalogue, with reduced prices will be out by the first of
August. $3.50 w. " 0"O :! uieNs' Oh
have always on hand large and complete
reliable Garden and Field Seeds, Bird &c 1888
Aso State Agents for the celebrated
upersedng all other
Send for catalogue. HART BENHAM B. co
o-oZ-3 SEEDsMEN, JACKSONVILLE. Fla.
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GEO. M. BIRD.

w. A. SHAW. Master.
viii leave Enterprise AIellonvilleand San
ford every Wednesday and Saturday at
ia. NJ. and Lake Beresford at A. NJ.
Making close connection with Charleston
and Savannah Steamship Line and with
Warren Ray line of schOOners from New
York sO connecting with all railroad
trains for the North and West.
Returning will leave Jacksonville every
Monday and Thursday, after the arrival
of trains
Freight for way landings must be prepaid
Tickets can be had OF Colcord & Felt,
Lake Beresfotsi. ie2s-Iv
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-03-29

The YEAR WITHOUT A SUMNER
The year 1916 is what is known as the
''year without a summer" Old New
England farmers, refer to it as ''eighteen
hundred and starved to DEATH" January
was mild, as was also February. with the
exception of a few days. The greater part
of March was cold and boiSterous. will the
opened warm, but grew colder as it advanc-
ed, ending with snow and Ice, and winter
cold. In May, ice formed half an inch
thick, buds and flowers were frozen and
corn killed. Frost, ice, and snow were
common in June. Almost every green
thing was killed, and fruit nearly all des-
troyed. Snow fell to the depth OF three
inches in New York and Massachusetts,
and ten inches in Maine July was accom-
panied with frost and ice. On the 5th, ice
was formed of the thickness of window
glass in New York, New England, and
parts of Pennsylvania and corn was nearly
all destroyed in certain sections. In .Au-
gust ice formed half an inch thick. Corn
was so frozen that a. great deal was cut
down and dried for fodder Very little
ripened in the New England and Middle
States. Farmers were obliged to pay four
or five dollars a bushel for corn Of 1915 for
seed for the next springs planting. The
first two weeks of September were mild :.
the balance of the month was cold, with
frost, and ice formed a quarter of an inch
thick. October was more than usually
cold, witt frost and ice. November was
cold and clustering, with snow enough for
good sleighing. December was quite mild
and comfortable.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-03-29

JEFF. DAVIS ON THE LATE PoPE,-The
Cleveland (Ohio) 'Catholic Universe
quotes from personal letter to it's editor
from Jefferson Davis the following tribute
to Plus TX:
81 grieve with you over the decease of
the great and nobly good Pho Mono. In
common with all who honor true piety,
that which begets universal charity,
| feel the loss which the Christian world
has sustained in the departure of this
grand eXemplar but l have personal OBJ
legations added to the common cause for
mourning. YOU have mentioned many
characteristic acts of that sublime man.
Let me add one, of which you might not
otherwise Learn, for it was as privately as
it was graciously done. When our war
was closed in the defeat Of the South, and
| was incarcerated, with treatment the
most needleSsy rigorous. if not designedly
cruel; when the invention of malignants
was taxed to its utmost to fabricate stories
to defame and degrade me in the estimation
OF mankind; when time servers at home,
as we'll as abroad, Joined in the cry with
which the lgnoble ever pursue the victim,
a voice came from afar to cheer and CON
sole me in my solitary captivity. The Holy
Father sent to me his likeness, and be-
Meath it was writes, by his own hand,
The comforting invitation our Lord gives
to all who are oppressed, in these words:
pen1te dd me onanes Qui l0bordtis, ct ego re-
fciaq1 poS, dicjt DoNlinus' That the in
scription was photographic was attested by
al Cardinal Barnabo, December, 1867
under his seal"
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-03-29
A female domestic Of Ludpa

A female domestic Of Judge Gideon D.
Campbell. at Clarksburg, West Va, at
tempted to poison the whole family on
Tuesday, putting liberal supply of arse
mic in the tea. The large quantity ad-
ministered caused vomiting and saved
their lives. The girl was arrested.
A fair correspondent asks us if it is safe
to marry a man with red hair. Much
safer, we are informed, than to marry a
woman with red hair.-N. Y. Star.
d. P. Miller, son of VIM. Miller, of
Lynchburg, Va, took the gold medal over
a class of SO graduates at the Philadelphia
College OF Pharmacy, March 18th.
A resolution has been introduced in the
u. S. House of Representatives to erect
monument over the grave of Thomas JEFF
ferson at Monticello.
Isaac M. Powell, tried at Harrisonburg
for throwing off the train on the Valley
R. r. by which two men were killed, has
been acquitted,
Lightning burnt the stable of N, ..
Crosby, in Powhatan county, Va, last
week, killing four mules, and badly burn
ing two horses.
The new German ironclad gunboats
have very yenomous names-Wasp, Viper,
Zee: scorpion, Gnat,
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-03-29

SENATOR JOHNSTON ON THE STATE
DEBT.-While talking with Senator John
ston, of Virginia, Saturday, the 'Post"
asked him if the treasury of the Old Do
minion is really as empty as reported.
sob, no." he answered, s'Virginia IS not
so poor as she is represented. The State
has constant source of revenue from the
Moffett bell-punch, and the very day after
it was reported that the treasury contained
only about one hundred dollars, maybe a
hundred thousand Was turned in. There
is another feature, too, that needs explana-
ton. In Virginia the Treasurer appoints
certain days to visit different points and
calls on the people to meet him and pay
their taxes. All who don't pay at that
time are assessed S per cent. additional,
and the fact is a great many people choose
to put off and pay the S per cent It's d
mere matter of convenience, and persons
who are perfectly solvent often take that
plan. So the taxes that are not paid
promptly are not lost by any means. From
this source the State will realize consider
able, maybe a. million or So"
is the funding bill recently passed by
the Legislature a victory for the so-called
repudiationists?'
''Oh, no; not at all. It's measure that
the whole Conservative party can lndorse.
lisa bill to refund the debt. but it doesn't
force the creditors to accept. It just says
to them, Tits is what we can do and we
will lie glad if you will accept. But you
needn't take it if you don't choose to.''
Senator, is there any danger of this
division on the debt question dividing the
Democratic party so that it may lose the
State?"
Il don't think there's bit of danger of
that. The Conservatives will fight among
themselves, but when they see the enemy
in the field they'll come together again.
Their differences are only on local ques-
tons"
''Do you believe your party will carry
the State next FIJI? 20
mo doubt Of it. We will carry every
Congressional district, [ think; even that
nowFepresented by Mr.. Jorgensen. The
close districts are all united on the debt
question. It's only in The Democratic
strongholds that there is any division D
Wushinqton Post.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-03-29

AT confirmation IN Emanuel Episcopal
church Brooklyn last Sunday, Bishop Lit
tlejohn passed Ada Lattim a colored glrl
because she laughed as he approached her.
1t turned out afterwards that her laugh
ter was an affection.
TIE baby hippopotamus that was exhib-
tied with Barnum's circus and menagerie
through the country, died suddenly IN
New York last week,
Mr.. Bass, the English brewer, who is
the largest tax payer in Great Britain, is
dangerously i'll. He is 70 years old. y
High-bred women III Europe never wear
iewelry, except when in full dress.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-03-29

KILLED BY A PUFF OF TOBACCO
SMoKE.-On Sunday afternoon, while
John Connoly, of 206 Van Buren, street,
Brooklyn, was playing with his little son,
aged "a months, who was in his lap, he
playfully blew puff of tobacco smoke in
to It's face. The child coughed, gasped
for breath, and fell back unconscious. In
a few minutes it died from suffocation.
The physician who was summoned said
that the child had probably sucked the
smoke into its throat aud had been unable
to discharge it. The father became almost
wild with grief.-Ne.o York Sun.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-03-29
FRIDAY MORNING. MARCH 20, 1878.
THE STATE OF FAIRS IN
EUROPE.

England stands to-day in the most peri
Ions attitude of any nation in Europe. She
is standing by herself, but using the same
tone as when she had hackers in the Euro
pean field. She is rich and plucky, but she
oyerrates herself, and her people are as
pulled up and noisy as the French were
when they insisted on fighting Germany.
or the Turks when the Sultan was mobbed
because he wouldn't hurry into a war with
Russia. Her people mob GLADSTONE
when he breaches peace with Russia, and
clear peace meetings out OF Hyde Park ON
a run. They forget the history of their
former wars, and only worship the English
her who fought in them, utterly ignor-
ing their allies. Their faith in their navy is
absurd, and is almost equal to believing
that the ships can 60 by land over the Cars
dominion, forgetting that to-day Russia
holds six Of their ironclads in check with
one torpedo boat. Theypoint to a possible
English army of $50 900, forgetting to look
at the classes, and see that when that
tight little island sends away that many
troops she has cleaned up the population
as well as the Southern Confederacy did
in sixty-three. She talks of the millions
she can muster in India, forgetting that
if one Englishman has whipped and can
whip fifty of them, one Russian won't fall
far short of it. She talks Of her eastern
possessions and the route to them as if tie
whole of Europe had contracted to keep
for her an eternal right of way to them, no
matter how the political map may have
changed.
Divested of all superauities. the difficult
ties in question stand thus: Russia has
whipped Turkey, paid eighty thousand
men for doing it, and has concluded
treaty of peace with the Sultan, which
makes them allies, and we should not for
get that an alliance with the head of the
Mohammedan Church pretty effectually
estops England's expectations from her
Mohammedan subjects in India. All the
great powers of Europe have consented to
a conference at which the effects of this
treaty can be discussed Russia, of course,
to be present. England demands in effect
that matters shall stand as if there was no
treaty at all, and the Conference shall
make up a treaty to which Russia, as a
participant in the Congress, shall be bound
to assent, thus putting all the fruits OF her
victory in the hands of other powers for
distribution. England says she won't en-
ter, nor be bound by the Conference il
Russia does not assent, and has asked that
power the direct question. Neither Ger
many nor Austria make the demand, and
England makes it alone. 1t Russia re-
fuses there is nothing for JOHN BULL
having gone so far, but to go to war, and
then he goes down to the fifth rank. Eu-
rope is tired Of his pretentiOns, and wants
nothing better than to see him go foot o.
his class, after centuries of being head.