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1T wasn't so when l was young,
We used plain language then:
we didn't speak OF them "galoots.''
When meaning boys and men.
Then when we met good old friend
We hadn't lately seen.
we greeted hin-but didn't say
Hello, you old sardine."
The boys got mad sometimes and fought.
We spoke of kicks and blows;
But now they "whack him on the
sn0ot," -
And "paste him on the nose"
Once, when youth was turned away
From her he held most dear.
lie walked off on his feet-bnt now
lie "crawls off on his ear" :.
We used to dance when | was younp
And used to call it so;
But now they don't-they only "slins
The light fantastic toe"
Of death we spoke in language plain.
That no one did perplex,
But ~ these days one doesn't die
he "passcs in his checks"
We praised man of common sense
"His Judgments good, 1--WE said;
But now they say, "Wcll, that old blum
Has got level head"
It's rather sad that children now
49, Are learning all such talk;
they learned to ''chin'' instea,l Of chat.
And "waltz" instead of walk.
10 little Harry yesterday
MY grand, aged two
said, lyon love grandpa PSI said he |
You bet yonr boots l do.'' sg
Then children bowed to strangers once. |
: 1t is DO longer So p
The little girls, as we'll as boys,
NOW greet you with 'hello!''
Oh, give me back the good old DAYS.
:: When both the old and young
Sonversed i'll plain old-fashioned WAYS.
ana slang was never slung.
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"A little boy was toldlby his grand
mother to turn down leaf in the fam
lily bible every time he told a lie. At
the end of q week the old lady asked
him how many lies he had told in the
seven days. He silently handed her
the holy book. She turned over page
after page aud at length said augrily,
"Why, you little brat you've lied all
the way from Genesis to revelation.
and half way through the Psalmst.,,
tie couldn't help it. He was an Ohio
boy Courier. Journal.
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}NO.45..
"A KNOCK Down ARGUMENT.
now GOOD BAPTIST BROTHER sE.
CURED A SUBSCRIPTION
FOR HIS CHURCH. -@aS,' :

as# a. ss -
When people set to work to raise
money for church, there are many
and wonderful pleas that an earnest
solicitor can urge. The ladies Hea-
ven bless them) have their fairs,
concerts, ice-cream soirees, saw-dust
sociables, grab bags, spelling bees,
etc. ETC., but the sterner sex have to
come doEp 70 more practical .srgu-,
ments-ahd sometimes they use
queer argument, on the principle, no
doubt, that the end sjustifies the
means. For example, there is our
friend, Brother J-d-n, one of the
best citizens in Waco and an exem-
pIary member Of the Baptist Church.
Brother J. was out day or two ago,
soliciting money contributions for
his church. Among other places he
visited was wholesale liquor house,
on Austin avenue. He stated his
business frankly and eloqueptlyJl
The proprietor hesitated a moment,
like men will do, even when they
fully intend to give something--they
always want to read the list, you
know, and see what Smith, Jones or
Brown has given. A drummer stood
BY, while the, wholesale liquor man /
scanned the paper. FINALLY up
spoke the drummer {drummers are
never overly bashfal) aud said:
sWhy do you ask money from a liq.
uor house for a church, Churches
are always trying to pull the liquor
men down." Brother J-d-n awas
equal to the emergency. He raised :,
himself to his full height and faced.
that drummer. And then in a voice
Of earnest eloquence he replied: "Do
you know, sir, what church I am So
Letting for7 it's the Baptist Church;
and / can tell you sir, il It WASN'T for
some of my Baptist brethren these .
liquor houses would have to shutup
in less than no time. They couldn't
make expenses" The drummer vii.
ted. He said no more, the proprie-
tor Of the store had flushed scan
ming the subscription list, aud q
minute later brother J--d--n walked s
out Of that house with q twelve dole,
lar cash subscription added to bis q
previous gleanings. The story was
90 good to keep. The Baptist bre-
.hren laughed when they heard it, q
md hence the Telephone ventures to z
ell it in the same innocent spirit
hat brother Jaudon talked to that
rlnr. Waco Telephone.
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INu How DELIGHTFUL THEY
VII ! RUN! is the exclamation of
all who use the WHITE and PEER
LESS Machines. For sale by FERGU-
son s. SCHNACK.
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SUCCESSION sale.
sOG e 9 aes,o or No. s4l. 7 1s
Probate Docket-Parish Court--Parish
Of Rapides, State of Lou
4-4ict q. isinnn- % 20.
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1T wasn't so when I was young,
We used plain language then;
We didn't speak OF them igaloots.n
when meaning boys and men.
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Oh, give me back the good old days,
When both the old and young
Conversed i'll plain old-fashioned WAYS.
And slang was never slung.
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) UCC r. SSlON y ALE.
s s0G E. sas..s se No. s4l. e.
Probate Doeket-Parish Court-Parish
Of Rapides, State of Lou
s,.'"3 Z isiana.
PURSUANT TO AN ORDER OF
L sale issued by the Honorable the
Parish Judge of Rapides Parish, Lou
isiana, in the above entitled and mum
hared Succession, commanding me as
Sheriff and ex-officio auctioneer, to
sell for the payment Of debts, and for
cash, the hereinafter described proper
ty, shall offer for sale at public anc-
ton at the late residence of the de-.
ceased, situated near Pineyille, La,
between the hours prescribed By law,
OH 80 -"'
TUESDAY, the 18th day of JUNE,
az Jt'e A. d. 1879, atta
the following described property be-
longing to hesaid Succession, to-wit:
One ~ Flat Boat-opan :.
One tH small covered Flat Boat.
Three (3} Skifs. u -
One ~ Wilson Sewing Machine.
One III Chest Carpenters Tools.
One ~ Mare.
One ~ Old Buggy and Harness.
Shot Gun and Rifle. .t
Lot of Kitchen and Household Fur
niture, consisting of Cooking Stove
and utensils, Bureaus, Armoir, ETC.,
ETC., as per inventory on file in said
Succession. ~
And on same day I shall offer for
sale at Public Auction, between the
hours prescribed by law, at Marsh's
shop 10 Alexandria, the following de- |
scribed property belonging to said
Succession
One Q} Engine, Boiler and Machin-
And in pursuance further Of said
Order of Sale, ! shall offer for sale at
Public Auction, ip front Of the Court
House door-in the Town OF. Alexandria,
La, between tue hours precribsd by
law ON : sr,Iauasts Is. O.
SATURDAY, The 5th day of JULY,
70 :" : - a.. ID. 1879, asnert ~!
the following described property be-
longing to said Succession, to:wit;< |,
A certain tract of4land tsla i "
ing and being in. the Parish aofy Rap
ides, State of Louisiana, Tohtihg on
Red River, bounded above by lands of
Francois Barber, below b., lands of
Jarret and Barber, and ia rear by
Public Cemetery, together with all the
buildings and Improvements thereon,
and containing the quantity of about
two arpents of land.
Terms-Cash.
D. C. PAUL, !,
Sheriff and Elk oficio Auctioneer.
June 4-5t.
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I
STRUCK DEAD. -One of the most
terrible instances Of a scooter struck
down in the moment of his blasphe.
my was revealed before Mr.. Carter,
at the Rose and Crown tavern, East
street, Lambeth walk, recently. The
deceased was an engineer, named
Thomas Hudson, aged 81, who resi-
ded at "a Saunders street, Lambeth,
and had been employed at Messrs.
Maudelay's for 25 years. He re-.
turned home at a quarter past s
o'clock on Thursday evening, and
asked his daughter-in-law 10 get him
az egg from the fowl.house. On
proceeding into the yard he became
excited, and after using friehtful
oath in reference to his death, he
ran into the parlor, vomited blood,
and fell dead in the arms of a female
who had been nursing his daughter.
Mrs. Fail stated that deceased did
not say, "God strike me dead" but
he used words Of a similar charac.
ter. The jury found verdict of
"Death from excitement" and the
coroner's experience enabled him to
narrate a parallel case. A number
Of persons had assembled in tavern
at Patney, when a man charged an
other with taking from him two
pence. The man, after being &C.
sused, said, "Msy God strike me
dead if ! did it." and he Immediately
after fell dead. On: being picked up
The missing two-pence was found
armly clutched in the deceased's
right hand. He would strongly adj
wise men against taking such wicked
baths. Lloyd's News.
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a-THE "sTEWARTn New Family
Sewing Machine, for sale by FERGU-
SON & ,SCHNACK.
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Washington Bores.


There is always an inevitable token
that you have arrived at Washington.
Your bosom friend may MT know OF
YOUR coming, but the De'er do well has
found it out. There are more ne'er do
wells 10 an acre in Washington than you
can find in the same space ia any other
civ on this continent. Here they mus
ter and concentrate. It is not strange.
Here only are the grapsries of the gov-
ernment, at whose over flowing cribs they
hope for a chance to feed. The people
who have nearly but never succeeded, and
hope for the one more foal chance the
paople who have tailed utterly and are
seeking a last covert; the people those
feathery brains culver with mighty
schmes, which. in their Judgement, leeds
nothing but influence and an appro-
priation % 10 act them q tie for the whole
WORLDS benefit, and they all come here,
and soon or late they come to You At
the end of SIX months you surdeDly ask
veur befogeed b ain what Is the mstter.
- ia tired with study. with taking q
mental treasure, with giviDg out intel
Iectual stories 10 Teplentish mankind I
Nothing of the sort. You have not
added one iota to the worlds riches. nor
are YOU likely to, till you can brsath in
a clear and hig CHER atmosphere. You are
simply worn out listening to misersble
reoI,le's miseTable wants-waDts that you
can, in the final jarl, neither help nor
| hinder. Ire one veIB' OF scripture THAT
ven never forget i "The wi oe creation
! roapeth and trayail.th tosetber until
low" You are sure OF that because yCu
| live in Washington
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A Hfnrrnnafic Wife.

A good mary OF the American tourists
in Ssain ard PORTUGAL sre returning to
France. General Grant being now ri
Pau on his way back 10 Paris. One o.
the Dewiy-retuTned wanders told me
some interesting facts relative 20 the
simplicity of manners that pregail at
the court OF Portugal. The you u King
and Qneen 60 out driving hsbitually in
a shabby landau drawn by four blacE
mu es, snd when they are at the lovely
Palace Of Cintro my member of the court
can call upon them in the must in ormsl
manner. King Luis is said to be an ex
ceedingly intelligent and accomplished
gentleman. The Queen, who Was the
daughter of the lste Kirg OF Italy, is a
lady OF great Intellect aud force OF char
acter. The morgspatic wife Of the
Kings father, Don Fernsnd, the Coun.
tess of Ella. was formerly Mi-s E u
Hensley, Irfnla-donnG at the New York
Academy OF Music l heard her sing
there some twenty two years ago. She
was then very beautiful, with large,
lovely eyes and a graceful figure. she
has grown very stout. but is still fine
looking woman She enjoys degree o.
public consideration and deierence that
| is seldom accorded to the moTganatiC
wives of royalty. ~he accompanies Don
Fernsnd TO the opera, where they occupy
the box directly opposite to that OF the
reighipg King and Queen. When hel
brother came from New York to visit hel
he was received with the same honori
that would have been accorded 70 the
brother OF the acknowledge wife of ths
Ex-KiDg. The portrai, OF the Counties
OF Ella was exhibited at the Paris sailor
last spring, side by side with that of be
royal spouse. and in semiregal guise, will
| the broad ribbon of an order across tn
corsaee of her velvet dress.
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CHARLES A. DANA, editor of the New
York Sun, receives sll 900 year. White
law Reid, of the Tribune, gets $4,000.
Charles Nordhoff writes when he plesses
for the Herald and receives $4,000 a
wear. The editor of the Boston Herald,
NJ. Haskall, is on a years absence in
Europe, and draws $4,000. Henry
watterson, Of the Louisville Courier
Journal, ear rs $1,000 The editor of the
Chicago Times gets $4,000. George w.
Curtis, of Harper's Weekly, draws s1o,-
900, and Hurlbsrt, OF the World, like
large sum.
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Air Freaks in Mines.
Gold Hill News.

A representative of the News yester>
terday fell into conversation with Hugh
Lamb, who for nearly seven years has
been foreman OF the Consolidated Vir-
ginia mine, and from him learned some
queer things in relation to the ventiis-
ton of that mine. He says that about
a year ago there was period of six weeks
that the air changed from a downcast to
an upcast, at the G. and @. shaft, and
from an upcast to downcast at the Con-
solidated Virginia shaft. During that
period the heat in the mine became in
tense. A somewhat similar but worse
change has recently been effected, by
which the G. and G. shaft has an upcast
of air without the corresponding down.
cast at the Consolidated Virginia, except
in the sodth compartment of the shaft,
which has been cham bered off from the
ther compartments, or "boarded up
as it is called. In consequence of this
change the heat in the mine is intense
He carried thermometer all through
the 1880 level, and not a place was
found below 10S degrees Fahrenheit.
The 1850 level is as hot as the 1,75O-
Lamb is OF the opinion, however, that
this will last but q few days longer, and
that when the connection is made be-
tween the 900 level and the 1,940 of
the California, the air currents will be
restored to their usual and normal con-
dition, and the bonanza mines will be as
they ever have been, the best ventilated
mines of the Comstock. Mr.. Lamb fur
ther SAYS that when the wind shifts from
its accustomed southern quarter into the
north, ventilation is always bad in the
mines, and that we have had a grea
deal of north wind within the last two
weeks. II is because of the impossibility
of men working on the 1850 and 1850
levels that they have been discharged.
was necessity, both as humanitarian
S-e and for the interests of the
'.of the mine. When better
- ocured they will be re-
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desertion. Let the clergy and laity
unite in going before God to ask that his
ministers may be given the boldness to
preach the precious mysteri es OF the
gospel, and that their hearers may be
given The grace to receive the same,
believing that it is message from God
and not the delivery OF man.
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us Your's
country elty ,,5ty,, Ss -"
nyes 7 told s, !.
- - "as new ou' u
"As .ne on - X sa''',' apu accofdineiy
go mo ~ - = - 80 wess Gays apke'
mo.HdI o,,1d 90, co.. 49, ps'''es N ~ ana II
sSsyT sera ysais oiu.
. y saiu' come down
In '-l1 - = is's oi antiquity.
:.
7 80 - pr-.assh ~ y WASH pleasant
- - anu ~ e>ss-
a;a.w y 'Hen. -
- 80 I-. pus ~ spoiieo the
f-oS, -
:. L ~, 20 SAG esme over
us yVoesjs..s'--f
;, -s.1 -, IF Tw{g-
aItr;la sIa,.;r, .,,s -. :
sr.ssm 5,,ss,a r,;.sea fra
"sYor,r snca.tors take Il, said The
mer ala NOT cona ovs, IN ,ha NJ
soworo,
And then 1 turned upon him. Sir
remarked, this Mayhower, take it,
was a sailing ship?'
." Sac was he said, vainly endeavcr-
ing to stIte his emotion, she was q sail
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The Barroom Bell Punch.
N,vYork H.rald Riobmopd rsleer,m.

New Iork Herald hlchmond IeIegram.
The returns of the Mofet system OF
liquor taxation, embracing the whole
State, and covering the first fiscal year,
have just been made public. They show
that the registers and licenses combineA
only produce ss3.669 more than the old
system, great disappointment. 1t waS
claimed for the registers that they wouH
yield at least 5000 per anpum.
many localities public opinion has be
against the law, and in eonsequs1
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ANOTHER application OF electricity is
to be noted, of importance in its relation
to mills, Warehouses, stores, shops, yes
sells, etc. BY q simple and ingenious
arrangement, and small button placed
outside the building, it can be sscer-
tanned, after the premises are shut up,
that every partition iron door is closed !;
If any one OF these hss been neglected,
the omission is at once detected. The
saIae-arrangemento or system is likewise
applicable to ships, enabling the COM
nander to know. at any time, if all the
bulkhead doors are closed, and if not,
which one is open.
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liAle real earnest effort has been made
toJenforce it. Dealers have in MANY
iDssnces neglected to ring the bell upon
tfs sale of drinks, and have not been
reported because their customers re-
gstded the law as.oppressive, ,inquisitorial
- unjust. In Richmond, where the
Is was certainly active enough in
cutions, it is conceded that only
half of the drinks are now regis
for taxation that used to be when
egister was first introduced. This
ore especially the case with small
series. Now. as some Offset to these
lraging symptome.it it should be said
he law is susceptible of amendment
Fill increase its efficiency, and that
" fss a much better register THAI
: now in use, but as Che liquor
AErs are clamo.ous for repeal Of the
land will undertake to prepare a
that viii raise more money by the
pie license system, it is doubtful il
n Moffet plan will be much longer
~inued. Dr. Mofet Is a leader of the
adjusters He is just now in an
ward position. He would like to see
ystsm success, but it is the policy
is party n0 to put money into the
SEte treasury. Between these conflict
ing interests he is thought to waver;
and, in the meantime, the enemies OF
the bell>punch, rdying upon TIE years
results to prove its failure, are urgently
its repeal
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IT will be remembered Engineer Col
lins, of.the Lake Shore railroad, who
was on the fated train which met with
such disaster at Ashtabuls, was charged
with having made away with himself
from remorse at his supposed RESPONSE
bility for the accident. rne result OF
an Investigation, however, goes TO show
tha. he was killed by hired ruffians in
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EVERY approach to the Ameer's do
minions is over a road that would call
out the enthusiasm Of a tourist, and the
employment of elephants and camels
give to the invading army an Oriental
cast that has at least the charm of now
city TO Europe and America.
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of Jews and Gentiles AgS1
teries of the gospel the bishop said ~
the stewards of Gods word were to-day
similarly circumstanced. To-day the
mysteries of the gospel, which were to
the Jews a stumbling block and to the
Greeks foolishness, having come down
unchanged through all the ages, offend
alike men who have creeds ard men who
have none, because of the absolute and
exclusive supremacy of the truth which
they teach. The opposition of to day is
founded in the sect spirit, which is the
child of intellectual conceit. This
spirjt,n said the bishop, "has made
schism 90 fsmiliar a presence that 1t has
practically dropped from the catalogue
of the possible Sins of the nineteenth
century. When we see how the body OF
Christ is torn and divided in this genera
tion by differences of opinion, how
earnestly should we not pray to the
Head of the church to send thousand
Pauls to preach the mysteries OF the
gospel. 1t is impossible for any man to
preach these mysteries and not preach
against the sect tendencies OF the day
Much of our christianity has fallen into
fraements-no, not fragments, for those
might be gathered, repaired and put
together again-but into ruins. If the
gospel has any right to a hearing it must
be dogmstic OF nothing. It must offer
truth to the human mind and heart by
authority, or it is nothing. When reason
can follow it it will be in accord with
reason, but when it branches off reason
must yield to the guidance of faith,
which is the substance o; things hoped
for. Now, partly on the ground of
reason and partly on the ground of faith,
the gospel demsnds belief in s person.
This is the great question OF the day.
But lust this is an offense to what is
called the liberal and advanced thought
of the times It is the fashion of the
hour to sneer at dogmas and disparage
all truths uttered in the form of 'Credo
Il believe And with this fashion as
an essential goes the general disregard of
moral and spiritual truths. The age is
becoming materialistic, and the ten
dency is to revive the old forms of pagan
pleasure-worship, and to plunge the world
back into that dark gulf of sensuality
( from which it was rescued eighteen
hundred years ago by the cross. oh,
let us cling to the catholic fullness OF
the love of God and TO Gods truth in
all its dogmatic preciseness. We as
ministers are compassed about with sore
temptations. We are tempted to please
rather than offend men; tempted to feat
with the current; tempted to preach
morality rather than religion. Already
these temptations have told sadly upon
the morals Of some OF US. Net a few
pulpits in the land have yielded. Say
not coldly and harshly. brethren of the
laity, that we should easily rise superior
to these ,temptstiops~ninl: y
this day as It waa