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The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1879-03-08
Women Who Don't Talk.
Montreal Letter to Detroit News.

Montreal Letter TO Detroit NEWS.
Another subject of conversation here is
the, leaking out of certain facts connected
with the establishment of Carmelite nuns
of Hochelaga. There has been q little Carr
melite colony in our ancient suburb for
several years, but no one has ever heard
much of them. These nuns are subjected
to the severest discipline of all the orders.
They wear but one garment summer and
winter, coarse serge gown reaching to
the feet, with hood almost completely
covering the face. Their feet are shoed
with sandals, and they are not permitted
to wear hosiery. As special favor, they
have been allowed, in our severe winters,
to wrap pieces of serge around their feet
and ankles. They never touch meat,
poultry, fish, butter Or eggs. and eat only
one meal a day OF bread and boiled vege-
tables. Their couches are bare planks
with square block of wood for pillow,
and they sleep without other covering
than their daily dress. Their doors are
jealously closed, even to women, the
priest or the doctor. They pass their lives
insilenee, even their prayers being said
under their breath. Their singing oftne
church service is conducted in whisper
ed monotone. Such acceptation of the
vows of poverty, chastity and obedience
has proved regimen too severe for the
constitution of the ladies, and several of
them have died. Others are at the point
ofdeath, yet the lady superior and the
nuns themselves steadily refuse to make
any changein their method of living,
declaring that all is in Gods hands.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1879-03-08
The Perils of a Mild-Goose Chase.

Davenport uowa) Gazette.
A couple OF young men from Rock
Island had very perilous adventure in
the river above the government bridge
couple of afternoons since. a flock OF
ten geese flew from the Davenport and
Northwestern railroad track over to the
middle of the river, and landed amid the
thick masses of floating ice; they seemed
unable to rise from the ice, and reused
thepity of the youngimen aforesaid, who
hurried to the guard-house on the island,
procured skiff, and set out to rescue the
geese. There was clear space of water
from their starting place to q point above
that where the geese alighted on theice
and making that place they turned down
stream for the geese, which were now
passing under the bridge between piers
Nos. 4 and 5. In five minutes the
youths were surrounded by ice go thickly
that they werelhelpless, and were obliged
to float with the ice and current. They
cried to persons on the bridge for help,
and men in the engine. house on the draw
ran down with ropes and threw them to
to the imperiled navigators, who clutched
hem eagerly, But ropes could not hold
their craft great while in that current,
with the ice passing against it power
fully; so they tied the ends of two lines
to the bow and stern Of the skiff, and tine
men on the bridge took hold of the other
ends and pulled the skiff, with its
occupants, clear out of the water, and
held them for several minutes until the
masses of ice had foated under the boat
and another clear sheet of water was
presented; then they were lowered again,
and they made for the island shore with
all their strength, to escape new field
Of ice that was fast approaching them.
AS for the geese, the entire flock went
below the bridge and persisted.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1879-03-08
Debts of Southern Cities.
New York Letter.


Unfayorable advicas are coming from
many of the southern cities that have in
terest to pay on their bonded indebted.
ness on or about the first of January
Their creditors are largely in this city
and naturally there is nolittle anxiety
in consequence. Up to this time there
is no insurance that even New Orleans
will be able to raise the less than Eve
hundred Thousand dollars to meet the
January coupons on the State debt, while
from Charleston, Savannah, Macon
Memphis and other points there are init,
nations not less disconraging. Mean
while there lisa great deal OF telegraph
ing between here and there. One of the
leadiag hanks in this city is understood
to be a large holder Of the New Orleans
obligations alluded to, and it has about
given up the hope of seeing the money.
The bad effect of this loss of credit by
these southern communities will be a
serious drawback to their prosperity for
for long while to come. In some cases
it is feared, creditors willshave to submit
to runions sealing down of their obi
cations, or run thearisk Of losing eyery-
thing by Republication.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1879-03-08
Reconciliation.
yieksburg tMiss, j Herald sDsn.,

viekrburg tMiss,) Herald lDeml
Since we have read the list Of donations
sent by northern people TO yicksburg,
TO relieve the distress caused by the
yellowieyer, we have firmly determined
never to call northern man ugly
names again. We now call MIR. Blaine, a
citizen of Maine, Brother Blaine; and
We never intend to call Mr.. Butler, of
Massachusetts, that old Beast, that old
SpoonsThief, again. We intend to refer
toths New York Times and otherbloody-
shirt organs, as our wayward cotempo-.
raries; and, when Mr.. Wendell Phillips
tells a real big one about the south, We
design to remark that he is indnlging in
a little onghtless. but to him agree
able, preyarieation. Weare worse licked
now than when Lee surrendered.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1879-03-08

destination. She will remain there until
next year. when she will return to
Europe. We, continuing our course in
the Vega, hope in few months to hail
.Japan and successfully accomplish the
long.desired and hoped-for discovery
of the northern passage from the Atlantic
to the Pacific Ocean.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1879-03-08

Ara dinner recently given by Q Wen
known English peer, enc OF the gnes.s'
q very young man, made himself 90
nozious by persistently laying down inc
lazy on every possible subject. and talking
long and loudly. Atlength he expressed,
in no measured terms, his hatred o. 2
class OF people whom he called fniiis.
tines. An elderly gentleman, ntLins
opposite to him mildly Inquired, j, Is,is
pray, sir, how do you define Fnilis'
tine?" The host interposed, SAYING
Z I will give you the explanation. rnn.
istines are persons who are lnconSsn-
fenced by the jaws of an ass"
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1879-03-08

In an article on the first page en-.
titled Walking in New Jersey" will be
found the sentence, @whitewashed Dutch
mansion with It's overhanging caves and
rOomy porches" but, when FIRST proof
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1879-03-08
WAITS AND wHIms

SONG OF THE BrEs
The hive is our home;
On days fair and sunny
We're out making hossy,
Thrsugh gardens we roam
We find something swee.
In the cup Of each flower.
We toll every hour,
And mind not the heat.
"Bnzz, huzzl" pretty mssas.
Is the tune we are singing
As home We are winsing,
With honey well laden.
Come, look at our labor,
And we viii mot sting Jos,
But by-and-bye bring you
Some honey, sweet neighbor.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1879-03-08
A DREAM OF THE YEAR.

ST saw vision in my sleep,
Mat gave nay spirit strength TO sweep
Adswn the gulf Of Time /"
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1879-04-10

where there are young children, fitted up
with simple gymnastic apparatus; kept
clear of furniture, so that all sorts of live
ly games and indoor sports may be in
dulged in, and open to the boisterous lit
tie folks whenever they want ''spree."
But it is not much to give up an early
evening hour in the sitting-room for some
one of the many pleasant ways in which
people can entertain each other when they
set about it. Don't save all of your good
times, any more than your good manners,
for company" There are two months
more of Evenings a. home" If the read
ing has Jagged, or the old games grown
stale, devise new methods of amusement.
What would you do if dozen friends
were coming in for an EVENING" Can't
you do as much tor the children9 Don't
be afraid of fun. good people, even if it
be little noisy, and prize it enough to
plan for it-GoZden RuEe.
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1879-04-10
THE SHINING LITTLE HOUSE.

1t hung in the sun, the little house,
1t hung in the sun, and shone;
And through the walls could hear his voice
Who had it all for his own.
The walls were of wire, as bright as gold,
Wrought in pretty design 80;
The spaces between for windows served,
And the floor was clean and fine.
There was plenty, too, to eat and drink,
In this little house that shOne; @N
Alucky thing, to be sure, you'd say;
"a house like this for ones own. av
But the door was smut, and locked all tight,
The key was on the outside;
The one who was in could not get out,
No matter how much he tried. A SOS
Twas only prison after ALL E
This bright little house that shone;
All, we would not want house like that,
No matter if'twere our own!
And yet, through the walls heard the voice
OF the one who lived inside;
To MARBLE Il sweeter song each day,
1t did seem as if he tried
To open the door, he never sous ut,
Nor futtered in idle strife;
He ate, and he drank, and slept, and sang,
And made the best OF his life.
And /, to myself, said every day,
As his CHEEKY song | heard,
There's lessen for US in every note
3 Of that little prisoned bird.
saas
We all OF us live life like his,
We are walled on every side;
We all long to do a hundred things,
Which we could not five tried.
I'VE can spend our strength all fooIishly
In a discontinued strife;.
Or we can be wise, and laugh and sing,
And make the best OF our life.
H. H, st. Nicholas for February.
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1879-04-10
Evenings at Home.

It is q bad sign when husband does
not spend his evenings at home. Some
mems business duties will not permit
them to do sso,C and they are, excusable,
but are nevertheless most unfortunately
placed in life for enjoying the sweetest
and best part of home happiness. It is
even.a worse sign when the wife and
mother prefers to spend her evenings
elsewhere than in the home circle of
which she should be the center and the
light. Bad, likewise, is it when the young
folks find their enjoyment away from
home, or are kept in at night only by an
authority from which they long be free.
BetN cen lawless freedom and stern
restraint for children there is not much
to choose. Each course sends thousands
to their ruin every year. It is pity
there can't be play-room in every house
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1879-04-10
NIGHT.

Slowly the sunset fades;
Nights shadows fall;
The pale moon glimmers thro' the shades
about the poplars tall:
The rivers waves amid the reeds
Like wan gray serpents crawl.
A hushing wind doth 60 ......st
In secret, where
The rushes bend with the waves flow,
And the reeds twist like hair
Slowly stealing, till it takes the ashen
boughs
With sudden gusts of air.
Somewhere, a too-late bird
Makes shrilly sound
Close by, the marsh frogs are heard
Upon the weedy ground;
A white owl fits on ghostly wing,
And the bats swarm around.
The quivering planets shine
Through the black night;
They seem TO hang like tire-tiies on
The tree-tOps all alight;
The rustling topmost leaves all CLEAN
With silvery white.
The pale moon grows apace
A warmer hue;
It draws a veil across the face
Of night, which looketh through;
1t floods the hills and hidden dells
With misty, yellow dew.
Like pale gold dew it lies
On half-seen trees;
With broad and yellow sheets it clads
The sloping flowery leas;
Its misty smile in the fair skies
Lights up the restless seas.
A hushing wind doth go
In secret, where
The reeds within the rivers flow
Wave like long twisted hair,
And dies in silence on the lips
Of lilies lying there.
-Hon5 LVn1.1e
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1879-04-10

thought of but the valse, for which the
long trained dresses are found extremely
inconvenient, both to the wearer and her
partners, esnecially the latter, who &C.
casionally find themselves more mex,
tricably attached to a lady than is at all
consistent with the trois temps. To
avoid these difficulties. many ladies have
a cord from the end of the train, and
loop through which the gentlemau's arm
goes, and by which he holds up this
troublesome appendage, but this at best,
is a clumsy expedient, and not elegant,
to say the least, while short costume,
just showing pretty foot beneath, is both
becoming and infinitely more convenient.
Can the hesitation of our fair friends
about adopting this fashion be caused by
the non-existence of the pretty foot9
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1879-04-10

Briggs possession, Mrs. Strickland has
utterly denied it as the work of her late
husband. The married nieces, however,
insist upon its authority, laugh at the
idea of its being forgery, and a very
pretty lawsuit now threatens to b. car
ried on for long period. 1t is said that
both contestants will have what lawyers
call fair case, though there is no Goubt
of Strickland having been long known
as skilled ventriloquist, which is, of
course, point against the cause of his
irate widOw.-N. Y. WeekLV.
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1879-04-10
THElNEW MOON.

What gold hued shallop in the western skies =?
Sinks to the distant hills when day has fed
1t is the new moon; and to paradise
1t bears, with bellying sails, the last month,
dead!
. "A. B. SGTtOn. IN April Scrtbner
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1879-04-10
Gverythtns Goes wrong

In the bodily mechanism when the liver gets
out Of order. Constipation, dyspepsia, con-
tamination of the blood, imperfect assimila-
ton, are certain to ensue. But it is easy to
prevent these consequences, and remove their
cause, by course OF Hostetter's Stomach
and regulates its action. The direct result is
disappearance Of the pains beneath the ribs
and through the shoulder blade, the nausea,
headaches, yellowness of the skin, furred look
of the tongue, and sour odor Of the breath,
which characterize liver complaint. Sound
digestion and o regular habit of body are
blessings also secured by the use of this cele-
brated restorative of health, which imparts a
degree of vigor to the body which is its best
guarantee of safety from malarial epidemics.
Nerve weakness and over-tension are relieved
by it, and It improves both appetite and sleep.
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1879-04-10

DR.. r. v. PIERCE, having acquired reputa-
ton in the treatment Of Chronic Diseases re-
sulting In professional business far exceed
years ago induced several medical gentlemen
to associate themselves with him, as the Fac
ultyi of the Worlds Dispensary, the Consulting
Department of which has since been merged
with the Invallds' Hotel. The organization
has now been completed and incorporated un-
der statute enacted by the Legislature of the
State of New York, under the name and style
of the "WoRLp's DIsPENsARY MEDICAL Asso-
CATION"
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1879-04-10

At Lake City the other day Andrew
Woods, under the assumed name of Charles
w. Moore, undertook to pass forged note
on the Lake City bank. He was arrested
and is in Jail.
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1879-04-10
We clip the following from the Buffalo En-.

we cHp the IO1lOWlnR from Inc DuHdlO liz
press:
A branch of the "World's Dispensary Medi-
cal Association" is to be established in London,
Eng, a step which the continually increasing
European business of the dispensary has been
found to warrant, and next week Dr. b. L.
BEDoRTHA will sail for the great metropolis
named, to superintend the organization of the
new Institution. This gentleman has been for
some four years associated with DR.. PIERCE
in position of responsibility, and is well
qualified for the duty now entrusted to him.
Heretofore the foreign business of the
Worlds Dispensary has been transacted
through the agency of prominent druggists,
but it has assumed such proportions as to re-
quire more direct care. DR.. BEDoRTHA will
no doubt successfully carry out his mission,
being gentleman of excellent business abil-
tiles and most pleasing address.
the E.hys casa PsaradOx.
1t has been said That "the blood Is the source
of life" 1t is as truly the source of disease and
death. No life that is 10 say, no healthy tissue
can be generated from impure blood, no organ
of the body can normally perform its functions
when supplied with impure blood. The fluid
that should carry life and health to every part,
carries only weakness and disease. Blood is the
source of lfe only when it is pure. If it has be-
come diseased, it must be cleansed by proper
medication else every pulsation of the humaa
heart sends wave of disease through the sys-
tenn. To cleanse the blood ofall impurities, use
DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and
Pleasant Purgative Pellets the most effectual
Alternative, tonic, and cathartic, remedies yet
discovered. They are especially efficient in scrotu-
touS diseases.
The professional Endorsement which has
been accorded by leading medical men in va
riOus parts of the country to DR.. VIM. Halls
Balsam for the Lungs, is sufficient guarantee
OF its efficacy in Graduating diseases of the
breathing organs. These gentlemen have thor
Oughly tested the remedy and their concurrent
testimony is to the effect that it is a positive
specific for lung, bronchial and throat atfee-
lions OF every description, and most reliable
preventive of that dreaded scourge, consump-
ton. Druggists sell it.
Franz Liszt is among the most distin-
guished OF musicians in the world. He uses
and prizes a Mason & Hamlin Cabinet Organ,
and provinces it mat HESS" "unrivaled,"
styling it "this magnificent and to me so
precious instrument" There could hardly be
higher prrlse,or from more eminent authority.
CHEW
The Celebrated
"Matchless
Wood Tag PluQ1
TOBACCO.
TIE PIONEER TOBACCO CoaPAY,
New York. Boston eui Cicaeo.
AEaVOrable NOTOriety.-Tne good repu.
tation of "BrooOn'S Bronchial Troctes'' for the
relief of Coughs, Colds, and Throat Diseases,
has given them favorable notoriety. Is cts.
box.
Smoke Pogue's Sitting Bull Durham Tobacco.
Chew Jackson,s Rnst Sweet Nouv Tobacco
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1879-04-10
TUE NEW
improved Patent Baxter

PORTABLE ENGINE. owned and manufactured ex-
lively by j. o. TODD at Paterson, n. j., and sold at
IL Barclay ST, New York, and by my agents in differ
ent cities This last invention is great improvement
the old STYLE being ped, and is sold at great
ly reduced prices, which follows, viz: A l. h. D.
engine and boiler compile ready to for s15 ~
p 1880 Larger sizes in oportion. Send for circulars
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1879-04-10
THE BEST MUSIC BOOKS

CANTATAs FOR SCHOOLS AND SEM
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Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1879-04-10

Richardson's NEw METHOD FOR
THE PKANONORTE. (@S.25), is the most popu-
lar sued proved positively by the sale of hum
dreds of thousands of copies Examine It,
Any book mailed for retail price.
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1879-04-10

AEaVOrable NOIOriety.-Tne good repu-
tation of "BrooOn'S Bronchial Troches" for the
relief of Coughs, Colds, and Throat Diseases,
has given them favorable notoriety IS cts.
a box.
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1879-04-10

The present number of the WEEKLY MUSICAL REQ
ORD Is full of Easter Mn@ic. Send cents for IL.
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1879-04-10
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MASON 4 HAMLIN GARNET ORGANS.

Children often need simple nourishment rather than
medicine, and how to afford this when the child has
little power to assimate, is fully met in Ridge Food.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-08-07

IN THE WRONG BERTH.-It was
Pullman Sleeper" between Albany and
Buffalo. Among the passengers were
middle-aged couple, evidently on their
first journey, and sour-faced old maid,
rather desiccated in her general effect,
who was travelling alone. The couple
had an upper berth, and the "maidon
we'll stricken in years" the upper berth
in the adjoining section. In the same
car were q couple Of frolicsome youths,
ready for any sort of mischief Bed time
came, and all hands retired. But the
husband could not sleep. Whether it
was because the motion of the cars, the
noise, or Tie novelty of the aituation, ho
could not tell, but try as he would, he
could not sleep. At length it occurred
to him that he was thirsty. The moro
he thought of 1t the more thirsty he got.
So he called the porter, who brought the
ladder and helped him down. Now,
while he was gono for the water one of
the "boys" stepped out of bed and shift.
ted the ladder so that it rested against
the berth in which the ancient maiden
was sleeping, and then returned to his
bed to note the result. In moment or
two the husband returned and crept
quietly up the steps, anxious to make
as little noise as possible so as not to
waken his wife. The occupant of the
berth. thus rndalv intrnded iinnn, awoke
with start and screamed. The husband
suppcsiug it to be his easily frightened
wife, tried to reassure her and sail, "It's
only me-" "Only you, old scoundrell''
said the venerable maiden; "I'll teach
you al lesson" and with thatshe seized him
by the hair of his head and screamed for
help. Then he howled with pain. Then
his wife, awakened by the noise, Ga.
covered where her husband was, and
raised her voice in lamentation, heapirg
reproaches upon her faithless spouse.
Then the passengers all got up. and de-
; ccanded an explanation Of the commo.
.;;oii, aid foremost among them was tho
wretch VIII caused it all. Then the hus-
band, covered with confusion, ard utter
ly unable to account for what he had
| done, climbed down from his perch, and
skunk away to bel, where he was sound
| ly lectured for his faithlossness. Alto
| gether it was 3 most uncomfortable
though q iodicrous situation, aud the
glances of defiance that were exchanged
between the wife and the old maid all
through the next day were study. Tho
cause of all the trouble leaked out but it
never reached the ears of those chiefly
affected by it.-Boston Transcript.