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The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-07-11
BEAUTY AT THE BATH.
PHILADELPHIA Itcm,1

philadelphia Itcm.]
A funny incident befell one of Phila
delphia's bellies last week, which hap
pened in this wise: In certain fash
iOnable residence upon a fashionable
street, the bathroom adjoins an apart
ment which Is used as Il family sitting
room. The charming Miss H, hav-
ing concluded her abiutions, rose from
the bath tub as fresh and beautiful rs
Venus from the waves of tho sea. Into
the sitting-room she fiuttered for an
article of toilet she had left hanging in
the closet, with but one scant garment
covering up tho shapely form, the
dainty feet also guiltless of shoe or
stocking. What was her surprise and
horror rs she stood within that closet
to hear the voice of a servant ushering
a live man through the very dool of
tho sitting-room? Here was a dilem-
ma and no mistake. The young lady
hastily closed the closet door, and,
peeping through, discovered, to her
great horror, that it was a young man
who had come to tune the piano, and
that the servant had gone and the gen.
tleman, sole poesessor of the room, had
opened the instrument and settled
down to business. 10 add to her dis
comfort, the window in the closet stood
wide open, through which the after
noon breeze came in crisp and chilly
gusts. All unconscious and alone the
young man worked steadily on, thump-
ing the keys and tuning the wires,
while the lady peeped and listened in
an agony of suspense and intense dis
comfort. A long mortal hour passed
by, and the piano-tuner worked away j,
when, as good luck must have direct
ed, the young lady's mamma entered
the room, and going to the closet,
ssopened the door," The man at the
piano was startled by low cry of as.
tonishment, and the next moment was
mysteriously invited to step into the
next room for a moment. AS no rea-
sonable excuse was offered him he re-
turned to his work, wondering what
kind of a skeleton that closet contained,
which had evidently caused the re.
markable and seemingly uncalled for
proceeding on the part of the lady of
the house. When he reads this he will
be able to solve the mystery.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-07-11

The big Berkshire hog took the chair
and when the barn yard was quiet he
asked "Is there any business OF i'm
portance before this souse?" And then
the long, lean, sandy pig, nearest the
gate, replied that sstherc was nothing
but routine business, he believed"
Whcreupon the convention adjourned
and went around the farm, trying to
get ut the bottom of things.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-07-11

A young lady will take a bashful
beau out in the garden on Il moonshiny
night and do more in five minutes to-
ward convincing him that he. is nearly
froze to death to pop the question, than
the old man can in the parlor in week,
arguing about what a smart gal Jemi-
ma is for business.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-07-11

The bill taking the duty off of quin-
Inc, passed both Houses of Congress.
and Is now a law. The following is
the text of the bill:
Be 1t enacted, etc., ssThat from and
after the passage Of this act the impor.
tation of salts of quinine and sulphate
of quinine shall be exempt from Gus.
toms duties, and all laws inconsisten,
herewith are hereby repealed"
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-07-11

"A little girl was asked by her moth
er on her return from church how she
liked the preacher. "Didn't like him
at ALL" was the reply. "Why?" asked
her mother. "Cause he preached till
he made me sleepy, and then hollored
so loud that he wouldn't let me go to
Sleep"
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-07-11

tic medicine that can be employed: cleans
ing the stomach and bowels, and even the
blood. In small doses of one pill a day,
they stimulate the digestive organs and
promote vigorous health.
AYERS PILLS have been known for
more than quarter of q century, and have
obtained worldwide reputation for their
virtues. They correct diseased action in
the several assimilative organs of the
body, and are SO composed that obstruc-
tons within their range can rarely with
stand or evade them. Not only do they
cure the everyday complaints of every
body, but also formidable and dangerous
diseases that have bafled the best Of
human skill. While they produce power
full effects, they are, at the same time, the
safest and best physic for children. By
their aperient action they grippe much less
than the common purgatives, and never
give pain when the bowels are not infiamed.
They reach the vital fountains of the blood,
and strengthen the system by freeing it
from the elements Of weakness.
Adapted to all ages and conditions in
all climates, containing neither calomel
nor any deleterious drug, these Pills may
be taken with safety by anybody. Their
sugar-coating preserves them ever fresh,
and makes them pleasant to take; while
being purely vegetable, no harm can arise
from their use in any quantity.
PREPARED ny
DR.. J. C. AVER T. CO., Lowell, Mass,
AL ADJ Sh1 4Ea1zi's"1
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-07-11

Parsons Purgative Pills are PRICE
less boon to the people of the South
and Southwest. They effectually pre-
vent fever and ague and all malarious
diseases, and cost only 25 cents q box
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-07-11

The Pope is in very much better
health than he was n year ago, takes
long walks in tho Vatican gardens and
works somewhat less at night.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-07-11

Bob 1ngersoll says the black man
must go North, where there is fresh
air. That is about what he will have
TO live on If he comes Boston, Posi-.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-07-11

Weston was born in Providence. His
father was Il man of restless brain, full
of Utopfan schemes. His mother was
an intellectual woman, and after her
husbands death she wrote number of
creditablo books for children. After
these were printed she sent her son
Edward, tho present walker, sout into
tho world to sell tho product of her
brain. He travelled not only all over
Providence, but also all over Rhode
Island and parts of Massachusetts and
Connecticut. He thus early acquired
the habit Of Iong-continued walking.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-07-11
ADVICE TO A YOUNG MAN.
rBurlineton Hawkeye.l

Burlington 11aEkoye.J
Remember, son, that the world is
that for thousands OF years it has been
SO full of smarter and better young men
than yourself that their feet stuck out
of the dormer windows; that when
they died the old globe went whirling
on, and not one man in ten million
went to the funeral, or even heard of
the death. Be as smart as you can, OF
course. Know as much as you can
without blowing tho packing out of
your cylinder head shed the light of
your wisdom abroad in the world, but
don't dazzle people with it. And don't
| imagine Il thing is so simply because
you say it is. Don't be too sorry for
your father because he knows SO much
less than you do; remember the reply
of DIR. Wayland to the student OF
Brown University, who said it was an
easy thing to make proverbs such as
Solomon wrote: "Make few" ter5ely
replied the old man. And we never
heard that the young man made any.
Not more than two or three, anyhow.
The world has great need of young
mon, but not greater need than the
young men have of it. Your clothes
fit you better than your fathers fit
him they cost more money, they are
I1OIO SVyA1Su yOui A1uSl1ClC II ACttlCI
the cut of your hair is better, and you
are prettier-oh, far prettier than tspa."
But, young man, the old gentleman
gets the biggest salary, and his home
ly, scrambling signature on the bust
ness end of q check will drain more
money ont of the bank in five minutes
than you could get out with q ream of
paper and a copperplate signature in six
months. Young men are useful, son,
and they are ornamental, and we all
love them, and we couldn't engineer a
picnic successfully without them. But
they are no novelties, son. Oh, no,
nothing Of the kind. They have been
here before. Don't be SO modest as to
shut yourself clear out, but don't be so
fresh you will have to be put away in
the cool to keep from spelling. Don't
be afraid that your merit will not be
discovered. People all over the world
are hunting for you, and if you arc
worth finding, they will find you. A
diamond isn't so easily found as Il
quartz pebble, but people search for it
all the more intently.
The death of Baron Rothschild will
be a profitable event to the British
Exchequer. The probate duty will
amount to no less than 9ss, 500. The
duty is Ella, 500 on the first million, and
s15, 900 for every million afterward.
1t is payable, however, only on person
atty within the English Jurisdiction.
Baron Rothschild was the father of his
family in the strictest patriarchal sense.
ssNot a tree" it is said, "could be
felled, a bedstead renewed, or a coat of
paint put on q cottage door ON property
nominally owned by his sons, without
the express sanction of the Baron. The
sons occupied houses and estates by
themselves, but the property was the
fathers, and he did not forget it.''
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-07-11

The silver excitement is still raging
around Hot Springs, Ark.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-07-11

Are the mOSI C1~
fective and congo
NAL purgative ever
discovered. They
are mild, but ef-
fectual in their
operation, moving
the bowels surely
and without pain.
Although ge mile
in their operation,
they are still the
most thorough and
searching cathar-
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-07-11

An English physician relates that on
the 18th of February his wife, after
mixing some corn meal for feeding the
fowls, missed her wedding ring from
her finger, and after a fruitfess search
gave it up for lost. On the Sth of April,
while engaged eating an egg at break
fast she felt the cggspoon crate against
something hard at tho bottom of the
egg below tho yolk, and on further in
vcstigatiOn found the lost ring firmly
fixed by membraneous ADMISSIONS to
the bottom of the egg. The egg was Of
large size, and was laid tho day
before,
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-07-11
MISCELLANEOUS.
Ayers Cathartic Pills,

ead 1es sassn Scsaaxssns::s;Ss HS 4saaSs
HeSdache, EFysipelass Rheunnat1sn.
Eruptions and ektn Dise111s: 81
Neuraleia, as Q Dinner F11s
Ior Furifyiu1 tho Blood
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-10-16

ACCORDING to the plan Of the conven-
tion," says Alexander Hamilton in the
Federalist, No. 32, "the State Govern
ments would clearly retain all the rights
of sovereignty which they before had, and
which were not by that act exclusively
delegated to the United States" James
Madison, in No. 45 of the same work
says: "The powers delegated by the
proposed Constitution are teoO and defined.
Those which are to remain in the State
Government are numerous and indefinite.
The former will be exercised principally
on external objects, as war, peace, and
foreign commerce. The powers reserved
to the several States will extend to all
the objects which in the ordinary course
of affairs concern the lives, liberties and
properties of the people," In the State
convention of Ma sachusetts, sitting in
January, 1888. and deliberating upon the
propriety of adopting the Federal Con-
stitution, the celebrated Fisher Ames
delivered the following: "Too much pro-
vision cannot be made against consolida-
tion. The State governments represent
the wishes, and feelings and local inter.
est of the people. They are the safe.
guard and ornament of the Constitution.
They will protract the period of our lib.
critics, they will afford shelter against
the abuse of power, and will be the nat
ural avengers of our violated rights"
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-10-16
THE PENSION SYSTEM.
CHICAGO,
90 Lake st,

Commissioner Of Pensions, J. A. Bent.
ley, delivered an address the other day
at Philadelphia, on the pension system
of the Government, in which he pre-
sented some interesting statistics. At
the outbreak of the war in 1851 there
were only 1885 pensioners on the rolls,
involving an outlay of but little more
than 100000 for their payment. The
exhibit now is vastly different. On the
Both of June last there were 244 548, re.
quiring for their payment $50 000,0
The number Of separate payments for
year is nearly 5000, or 5000 day, and
the average for the first ten days ofeach
quarter 15 600, Since the consolidation
of the fifty'eight agencies into seventeen
the machinery has become very perfect,
and there is no part of the public bust.
ness better performed. At The Office in
Washington not less than $50, 600 claims
of all classes have been filed since 1861,
excluding those for increase Of pensions
and for arrears. These latter aggregate
fully 100000, making the whole number
of all the claims not less than than 1000
600, There are now lying in the Office
upwards of 10000 unsettled original
claims. OF these, 10000 or $4,000 have
been rejected by the Office, but have
been revived by or called up since the
passage Of the arrears act of 1879, These,
with the receipt Of 400 new claims day,
makes the number much greater than
the Office is able to settle from day to
day. The Commissioner advises a new
system for the adjustment of pension
claims which will facilitate prompt and
just decisions, protect the Government
from fraud, and decrease the expenses
of claimants. He proposes to divide the
country into districts, and have COM
mission consisting Of lawyer and ply
siCian, to visit each county seat and 9th.
or principal towns and cities within its
limits twice each year, and there person.
ally examine such pensioners and claim
ants as may be ordered by the Commits
sioner of Pensions to be examined, and
receive the testimony offered in support
of pension claims, and cross'examine
the claimants and such of their princi.
pal witnesses as to the facts to which
they testify.
This project would involve an increase
of ofiCeholders, and thus increase the
patronage and power of the administrs.
ton. An unlimited commission of this
kind would involve heavy expense, and
open the way to increased opportunities
Of fraud. 1t looks to us like a willy
scheme for more public plunder.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-10-16
REPUBLICANS DIsTRUsT sHER-
MAN, ..

Perhaps, however, the most mischiev.
GUS part of Mr.. Sherman's Columbus
speech, is the effort TO obtain for the Re.
publican ticket the support of Green
hackers. Mr.. Garfield recently attempt
ed the same thing, and the whole tone
of the canvass has been marked by a
similarly degrading surrender of princi-
pie to the demand of party expediency.
But Mr. Sherman is not obliged to par.
ticipate in the canvass. He might with
propriety refuse to exchange the Treas
ury for the stump, Certainly he should
have refused, except with the under
standing that in the treatment of the
financial question, he would not sacrifice
sound principle to win the favor of dem
agogues. AS the case now appears, Mr..
Sherman desires to outstrip competitors
in the race for Greenback favor. 1t is
bad enough that with the constitution.
ality of Government notes still undeCi-
ded, he parades the greenback as some
thing of which Republicans should be
proud, and which should endure indefi-
nitely. But the avowal that under the
present law resumption means imitation,
and is to be applauded because it produ.
ces initiation, is worse Such an avowal
is made by Mr.. Sherman. Remember, he
is pleading for Greenback votes. He
fatters the GreenbaGkers, and calls them
men of principle. He notices their OBJ
lection to RESUMPTION on the ground that
it implies contraction: And then he
asks triumphantly, "What has been the
result of resumptionP" We quote his
answer: "The result Of resumption has
been INSTRUMENTATION of gold, iDAa.
ton Of silver, imitation of bank bills"
After quoting official statements to show
that the amount Of currency in cirCula-
ton, which on the the first Of January
was $4,000 900, has increased 70 81, ,107.
552 1O2; he reiterates the declaration
that the first effect of resumption has
been imitation, and he boasts of 1t as
something that should bring the Green.
hackers into an alliance with Republi.
cansI 81 claim to be better Green
backer than any of YOU" he declares,
and if forgetfulness of the fundamental
principles of finance constitute a valid
claim to the title, we suspect that he
speaks truly. How he proposes to har-
monize his boastful reference to imitation
at one stage of his speech with the con-
sequences Of former initiation as depict.
ed at another stage, is question easier
asked than answered. Sober.thinking
people will be likely to ask other ques-
tions, affecting unfavorably Mr.. sher
mans hold upon the confidence of the
greatest portion Of his party.-New York
Times, Rep
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-10-16
THE OHIO IDEA.
Its Present View and Purposes Defined By Sen.
at0r PendletOn.


But is this resumption permanent ?
Win it enduteP We have been told by
the Secretary of the Treasury time and
again, that hard times will periodically
come on us-that either our faults or our
misfortunes will surely bring them again
that overtrading, or excessive produc-
ton, or undue expansion of credit will
surely bring on a crash-that the balance
of trade, or foreign wars, or intestine
commotion will drain our specie from
us. They cite in proof the hard times
which we have 80 often suffered. Ineyer
met thinker of that school who did not
hold the same opinion. 1t may be true.
Every nation has experienced the mis-
fortune. But if it be true, and we shall
not be exempt, as we have no reason to
believe we shall be exempt from the
common fate of nations, and our specie
shall at intervals be drained from us by
circumstances abroad, over which we
have no control, what are we to do? Are
we to go through the weary round of
suspending specie payments, Of reducing
our currency, of disturbing all values, of
bankrupting a generation, of years OF
depression in order to set out again on a
similar round OF laOor and temporary
success and ultimate failureP Is that
system right which, when circumstances
beyond our control deprives us of specie,
compels us to deprive ourselves of twice
as much paper CURRENCY The Secretary
saws that $l50000 600 of coin enabled
him to maintain specie payments on
$346 900 600 of greenbaCks and 1920 600.
600 of bank currency. That is one dol
lar of coin for five of paper. / use
round numbers for illustration. When
he loses forty milllons of coin, as we'll he
may, will he reduce the paper currency
two hundred millions, or will he sell
bonds on declining trade and suppress
ed market and supply the loss2 No in
dustries can stand such contraction. No
resources can supply euch recurring ex
phnulJuT0. uhb Lu6 uumhu lnJoll6Ct CA
hausted itself to leave US in such pitt
ful dilemma2 Can political science in
vent no relief from this distressing cycle
of inevitable struggle, apparent success
crushing failure? / will not believe it
The demand on the craftsmanship Of
every nation to-day is to invent the rem
edy, to produce a currency which wi
maintain its volume and value at home
Notwithstanding the political or CONNER
cial convulsions of foreign nations, anC
at the same time bear its proper relation
to the currency which affects the ex
changes of those natons-which shal
sustain home industries, and exchange
their products, notwithstanding "warl
and rumors of wars" The greenbacA
was an effort in that direction. "ThC
Ohio Idea" is to continue our efforts un
til this demand which industry makes
on scientific statesmanship shall be fully
satisfed-until the possibility of main
tanning specie payments permanently
shall be fully established, or relic
from the evil of recurring suspensions
and assumptions shall be found.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-10-16
BURIED For FIVE HouRs,

He was a Swede, who had AngiCised
his Swedish name into s. P. Lewis. He
had worked for some years for the Cen.
tral Branch, but latterly had been well.
digging The we'll had caved in from
the rains and was being walled up again.
He had gone down to remove the curb.
ing and the fatal mass of sand had fallen
in and crushed him. There was no
doubt that he was dead, and, poor fellow,
he had wife and two little children.
There was some discussion as to wheth.
er it we're better to send word to his
wife that he was dead or leave her hope
for while. So the people talked and
occasionally some one would look down
the well, and shudder to think of the
livid corpse crushed under the heaped-
up sand. All this time the man in the
we'll was alive. He could hear every
stroke of the hammer of the men who
were making the curb, but he thought it
was the carpenters across the street. He
could even feel the earth vibrate little.
A board had fallen over against the side
of the well. There was water about
him, he could hear it drip, and mixed
up with the sand were rocks and pieces
of boards. He was cold as death, and |
the mass above him reached he knew
not how far. He thought, however, he
would work his way up the side, and
30 he did, inch by inch, wearing bis fin
ger nails almost off. Life is dear to a
man with wife and children, and so |
poor Lewis worked and pressed the sand |
back, and kept getting on and up. Then
there was another fall of sand, and he
was almost in despair. He mounted in |
this way for six or eight feet. In the
meantime the people had got aroused |
and began to hope it was live and not |
a dead man in the well. Fifty men re.
lieVed each other in digging, and a crowd
Of sympathize5s stood about. At last
they could hear the buried mans voice. |
Then he was almost uncovered, but the |
board which he had at his back all the |
way up, reached over his head. He
called for saw and cut it off, and at 2 |
O'Clock in the afternoon over Eve hours
from the time the sand fell, he was taken |
out alive, without broken bone or a
bruise or scratch, only stihened with |
cold, and worn out with digging like a |
mole for his Liberalization Kan Cham.
,nso,a
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-10-16

JUDGE BLACK says it is unspeakably
bad to reward men for corrupting elec.
ton returns, but to do it, as Hayes has
done, with money taken from the public
treasury, Is such an infinite outrage, that
it casts common bribery or ordinary
stealing into the shade, and yet this man
lifts $50 600 year out of the Treasury
belonging to another, rolls up the white
of his eyes at Sunday schools, speaks
pieces at Agricultural Fairs, talks about
the danger of Democratic rule to pure
elections, is afraid bad men like Tilden
will insist hereafter in taking possession
of Offices to which they have been elect
ed, which he can bet his bottom dollar
will be the case if it costs more lives than
Grant sacrificed in the Wilderness. This
is the model President of the Republican
party, and this is the model party that
claims further extension of power.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-10-16

BY recent statements of Director Bur-
chard of the United States Mint, within
the last three months our importations
of coin and bullion have amounted to
$94 Sl2 745, and there are at present
more than SIS 500 900 on the way, max
ing an aggregate Of about $40 900 900 for
three months. This is at the rate of
$l6OOOO,O0O per annum, or more than
three times our average expectation Of
gold since the largest yields Of the Cali.
fornia mines. This country being the
largest producer of the precious metals
should be, in any ordinary condition of
trade, a heavy exporter and not an i'm.
porter. The present great influx of gold
must, in the nature of things, be tempo.
rary, but the Director Of the Mint thinks
it may continue for six or eight months
The tendency, while it lasts, will be to
an expansion Of our circulating medium
and q general enhancement of prices,
with danger of new era of specula-
ton