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Louisiana capitolian., 1880-06-22

Man has science, woman has taste.
Man is strong, woman is beautiful.
Man shines abroad, woman at home.
Man prevents misery, woman relieves
it. Man has a rugged heart, woman a
soft one. Man has Judgment, woman
has sensibility. Man is great in ac-
ton, woman in suffering. Man is 4
being of justice, woman an angel OF
mercy. Man talks to convince, wo-
man to persuade and please. Man is
daring and confident, woman is diff
\ -..l
Louisiana capitolian., 1880-06-22

Somehow the ladies don't seem to
grasp the leap year idea as they
should. They ought to fly around
and spend their time and money on
the boys, who have to do that thing
three years On stretch. Leap year
was designed expressly to give the
bows a financial rest, as it were, and
they need it, too.
Louisiana capitolian., 1880-06-22

A Denver clergyman, on receipt OF
the usual half-far pass, wrote to the
superintendent: "Can not you en-
brace my wife also'" TO which the
railroad man said he did not know,
but he would like to sec the clergy
mans wife first, as he wasn't willing
to hug every woman that came along,
Louisiana capitolian., 1880-06-22

And now what is to be thought OF
the Plaquemine South? ltsays: South
ern negroes brought better prices in
Chicago last Sunday-notwithstand-
ing it was q sort of dies non-than
tl,ey ever did before tho war.
Louisiana capitolian., 1880-06-22


All. well do We remember 1861. 1t
was then held to be the duty Of cecty
man to march to the front of battle,
even those "wl,o have no property OF
educatiOn.' Was it to establish and
perpctuate q favored class in this
country? The poor conscript was lit
tie short of a criminal, while he was
being dragged away from his noun
tain or valley home, from his wife and
his little ones, to defend the property
and the institutions of the educated
of the South.
His blood belonged to the State that
Girls would have deprive him of the
right to raise voice in governing.
We believe that all men are born
free and equal, in this that the imbe-
cilc Or the corrupt sonsof the wealthy
and educated are no better than those
like him who spring from the humber
classes. The good and the virtuous
are found as we'll in the cottage US in
the mansion. A Democratic govern
ment recognizes these indisputable
facts and accords to every human be-
ing the same standing and the same
rights before the law.
The evils that Universal Suffrage
may bring, are in time cured by Uni
versal Suffrage itself.
1t Is the attempt to stifle its voice
that carries with it the abuses Of which
Girls complains.
1t requires force to maintain III the
hands of the minority the government
of the majority.
Was it not by the disfranchisement
Of those who had fought for the stars
aud bars. and by the ruthless inter.
Louisiana capitolian., 1880-06-22

The Chicago platform, says the
Shreveport Standard, setsupthe usual
claim of Republican credit for benef-
cial rains and good crops, but says
nothing about the cyclones.
Louisiana capitolian., 1880-06-22
By our Tri-Weekly Line

nRY MUSTARD. Finest English. Colman s.
DOATMEAL. Fresh Mlled, Pin Head.
CHOCOLATE. .Baker's Germans Sweet,
Fresh.
Cans.
SPLIT PEAS. Best English.
CANNED APPLES. 3 Pound Tins, Fresh
BAKING POWDERS. .Horsford's, II Oh.
Papers.
GUM DROPS. Rose, Lemon and Vanilla.
FANCY CRACKERS. Cinnamon Jumbles,
New York.
FANCY CRACKERS. Fancy Tea, mixed
New York.
FANCY CRACKERS Mic Macs, New
York.
SODA CRAKERS Choice Fresh Baked.
DRY SALT SHOULDERS Best ST. Louis
Received Yesterday. per Natchez aud Annie ?.
Silver, and for sale at Family Grocery of
iune.i JOSHUA BEAL.
Louisiana capitolian., 1880-06-22

General Bob Toombs says that elf
Governor Colquitt, of Georgia, was
put into room BY himself to count
$4,000, he would lose $4,000 Of it
before he got through"
Louisiana capitolian., 1880-06-22

The number of one-armed young
men seen driving out with young
ladies these summer evenings is truly
appalling. An old soldier at our ell
bow says that one arm is invariably
lost during an engagement.
Louisiana capitolian., 1880-06-22

A young man boasted that he had a
wcll-stored mind, whereupon ayouug
lady murmured: what q pity we
can't find out where he stored it,
Louisiana capitolian., 1880-06-22

Her mother said the little creature
lived on love, but one mouth after
marriage, when the grocery bill came
in, he saw that he had made the
greatest oversight of his life by not
asccrtaining. what that particular love
was for.
Louisiana capitolian., 1880-06-22

On Saturday the Kellogg case was
laid aside, probably for good. No
benefit has resulted from the discus
sion gift. Mr.. Kellogg is an admitted
interloper and nuisance, but, says the
Philadelphia Record, it costs more to
abate him than to tolerate him.
Louisiana capitolian., 1880-06-22

How to scratch presidential ticket
is the most depressing puzzle that the
reform Republicans have attempted.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1880-11-04

Sitn,hous Liver Regulator
For Dyspepsia, Constipation. .Jaundice. Miiial:s
attacks. Sick Headache. Collie. Depression ct
Spirits. Som stomach. HraFt J:art. &c,
1t Has No Equal.
This unrivaiet Southern rep.edy il warranted
not tn confirm Il single particle OF Mercury, or
any injurious mineral substance, but ,s
Purely Vegetable.
II you feeiairowsy, ,ieDiiitated. haze frequent,
headache. mouth tastes badly, poor appetite and
tongue %enatcsl, You are strife ring from torpid liver
or .biiliousiless, = and nothing will cure yott so
speedily and permanently as to take
Summons Liver Regulator.
1t IL given with safety and the i~tappiest re-
suits 10 tlie. most delicate infant. II takes the
pitee of uuiiiine and bitter, d every KIND. II is
the cheapest. pitres. aifl best family medicine In
the weird.
j. FL zEILIN 4 Co. Philadelphia. Pa.
Sold by all Druggists.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1880-11-04
Change Of Firm
MEAT MARKET!
SOUTH SIDE OF souA1E.

Having bought the entire stock of
Ferguson Il Co., will continue to
carry on the Butcher business at the
old stand viii constantly keep on
hand all kinds al Fresh Meats, and
viii rnheavur to accommodate the
public in the best possible
rc. p sctfully ask a share of the public
patronage.
i3-6m JOHN II. RTNKEL.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1880-11-04
Ague Cure

Is a purely vegetable bitter and power
fui tonic, and is warranted a speedy and
certain cure for Fever and Ague, Chills
and Fever, Intermittent or Chill Fe-
Periodical or Bilious Fever, and ali
malarial disorders. In miasmatic dis
tricts, the rapid pulse. coated tongue, thirst,
lassitude, loss of appetite, pain in the back
and loins, and GOODNESS of the spine and
extremities, are only premonitions of
agre paroxysm, succeeded by high fever
and profuse perspiration.
j. is a startling fact, that %quinine. arse
mic and other poisonous minerals, form the
basis of most Of the Fever and Ague
PREPARATIONS" Specifics" "Syrups,'' and
"Tonics, in the market. The prepare
tons made from these mineral poisons,
although they are palatable, and may
break the chill, do not cure. but leave the
malarial and their own drug poison in
the system, producing quinism. dizziness,
ringing in the ears, headache, vertigo, and
other disorders more formidable than the
disease they were Intended to cure.
AYERS AGUE CURE thoroughly eradicates
these %ncxious poisons from the system.
ami always cures the seyerest cases. 1t
contains NO quinine, mineral, or any thing
that could injure the most delicate pa
tent; anc its ROWING excellence, above
its certainty to cure, is that it leaves the
system as free from disease rs before the
attack.
For Liver Complaints, AYERS AGrE
CUnE, by direct action on the liver and
hillary apparatus, drives out the nelson's
which produce these complaints, and slim
ulates the system to a vigorous, healthy
condition.
We warrant it when taken according to
directions.
Prepared by DR.. j. c. Aver & Co.,
Practical end analytical Chemists.
Lowell, Mass.
SOLD BIZ ALL DRUGGISTS
Mexico weekly ledger., 1880-11-04
IT IS NOT NARCOTIC.

- & recovered
DtEi.ri'!i"-s. BiiiienS
Sufferers, Victims g..
Fever ;i:ti Agu". the
Nc F.irf~l Diseased
i'a,i.nt. how til', Ie-
cuye:e health, Iilccs
III Spirits ''nd Gs,oH,
Appetite they Val
Tell ,ou by taking
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-06-10
Ar.kan.saW or Arkansas

The true pronunciation of our State
is receiving that serious attention which
its Importance requires. A joint COM
mittee from the Eclectic and Historical
Societies have had the matter under
consideration, and will report at the
May meeting of the latter. While the
latter pronunciation, above indicated,
accenting the middle syllable and
sounding the final s, has the sanction of
some polite usage, it is understood that
the committees are largely and decided
ly in favor of. the original pronuncia-
ton given by the French, and will re-
port the pronunciation as nearly cor
rect, which is in use by the mass of old
citizens, giving the Italian sound of a
in each syllable, the final $ silent with a
slight accent on the first and last sylla-
bles. The only objection to what is
called the vulgar pronunciation is that
the final sase is too broad. 1t should
be sa, with the sound of a in father. 1t
is to be hoped that some settled pro-
nunciation will be established, which
photographers may intelligently adopt
"a thing which has never yet been
done.-Little Rock (Ark.) Gazette.
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Spasmodic Action.

The muscles are endowed with con-
tractile power. They tend of themselves
to draw their extremities toward their
center. The heart is double hollow
muscle, whose alternate contraction and
dilation constitutes it's =" beating" The
contraction throws out the blood into the
system, and the dilation opens the heart
for more. The working of this central
engine is so essential that its power to
dilate and contract is, to some extent,
provided for within itself. So much so
is this the case that the heart will beat
for considerable time after it has been
removed from vigorous animal. Ger
tain ganglia at the base of the brain
supply the force necessary to notion
the motor nerve-force., as it is called.
The supply is generated by the nerve
cells in the motor centers, directly from
arterial blood. Withhold the blood
from the motor cells and all motion at
once ceases. The same effect follows
when the blood is sufficiently vitiated
through the failure of the lungs, liver or,
kidneys to eliminate its constantly ac-
cumulating impurities. The motor
nerve-force acts by extending the mus,
cles; or, when they are in state of APP
parent rest, by simply counteracting the
contractile tendency. In the case of
the heart the motor and the contractile
force act alternately. If, through any
cause, the motor force is suddenly
checked, the muscles yield to their nor.
NAL tendency, and the result is spasms.
Hence spasnls in the dying do not gen.
orally indicate suffering, for the nerves
of sensation also, at the same time, fail
of their nervous supply. On the con-
trary, cramps in the limbs at night,
caused by an over use of the muscles,
which has partially exhausted the sup
ply of motor-force, are attended with
pain, inasmuch as there is no diminu-
tion of sensational nerve-force. The
arteries have muscular coat, by the
action of which the arterial blood is in
creased or diminished. In the case of
the dying-and often under, other cir J.
cumstanees-the lessening of the motor
force allows the arterial muscles to con-
tract along their entire course, thus
greatly diminishing the blood supply to
all the nervous centers, and lowering
the power of sensation. Hence the act
of dying is ordinarily painless. Hence,
too, the pallor OF the face YOUTHS
COMPANION.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-06-10
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The Howard Cclored School at Co
lumbia, S. c., has 700 pupils.
Boston University has $40 students
-397 young men and 1l3 young women.
The Methodists have forty colleges
and three theological seminaries in this
country.
An effort is being made to raise
$25,000 for scientific building for Dick
inson College, Carlisle, Pa.
There are now three departments
in operation in the University of Gin
cinnati and the total number of students
is larger than at any period in its his
tory.
Glasgow, Scotland, has the best
ventilated University in the world. The
central steeple rises to height of POO
feet, and 100000 cubic feet of pure
air are forced into the building every
hour.
OF the S130,OOO required to put the
Harvard Divinity School on proper
basis, S1O6,000 have been subscribed,
and the committee now make an earn
est appeal to the Alumni, and to all
ministers interested in unsectarian
theological education, to aid in making
up the remainder.
The University of Michigan has
sixty-five instructors, with ten assis-
tants. The total number of students is
LAZY. The work and the organization
OF the School of Mines are dropped. A
new chair--that of the Science and Art
OF Ieaching-has been established, and
instruction in Sanskrit is now provided.
Archbishop Purcell said, in a recent
sermon at Cincinnati: 81 now solemnly
declare before Almighty God and this
congregation that not one dollar of the
money that was entrusted to my care
was lavished in luxury by myself or
agents, or expended in any manner for
our personal benefit; and no matter how
unworthily | may appear in your eyes,
l humbly ask that you pray to Almighty
God for me-" His health has been very
bad since the financial disaster in his
diocese.
The college book of Harvard gives
statistics showing that out of 943 Har-
ward students who graduated between
1869 and 1875, inclusive, $50 were
Unitarians Or Liberals, PIT Episcopali-
ans, 126 Orthodox Congregationalsists,
forty-six Baptists, twenty-five Presby-
terians, sixteen Methodists, twelve
Swedenborgians, eight other Trinitari-
ans, two Quakers, fifteen Catholics, two
Jews, one Mormon, and 113 undecided.
Seats are furnished the students at the
expense of the college at any church of
their own election.
h The Western Church Building So
ciety is new Protestant Episcopal or
ganization, whose President is Bishop
Whipple. Its mission is the building of
churches and parsonages in the region
between the Mississippi and the Rocky
Mountains. Its plan is to help churches
which show disposition and ability to
help themselves. 1t stipulates that a
ch urch shall raise three times as much
as it asks for from the society, and that
no help will be furnished to q church
on which a debt is to remain The de-
sire of the promoters of this society is
to encourage needy churches in build
ing with economy and to secure con-
venient houses of worship rather than
very gorgeous ones.
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Notes and Why's Of Travel.

Why should so many second-class ho-
tells with the furnishings, structure and
general inconvenience of generation
ago rival the genuine first-class houses
only in their prices? 3n-Ht
Why is the American hotel breakfast
or dining table such silent, sad, seri-
GUS AFFAIR." Why dare no one raise his
or her voice above whisper? Why
does it SO often seem as if the corpse
was laid out in the next roomp
Why does every one prick up their
ears when you make an audible remark?
Why cannot we import little French
ease and gayety at our public tables?
Why have some hotels such imposing
"wine hsts'' ON the backs of their bills
of fare when the bread is poor, the cof-
fee chicorized, the tea feeble, the veg
etables over salted and the meats
greasy?
Why might not brakemen be drilled
in some preparatory school of railway
elocution and there taught so to enun-
ciate their syllables that the anxious
passenger shall catch some intelligible
sound? Why should "ville''. be the
only syllable heard of Bogusville," or
hannah the only Ineligible hearing
given OF SusquehannahP Why not make
the brakeman call the name twice rath-
er than that the perplexed passenger be
carried past his place of designation
once? .e .-.-. s1ieIt48s1 st
Why do not all hotel chambermaids
cleanse hotel bureau drawers of the re-
mains of odoriferous lunches, medicine
walls and general uncleanliness left by
former lodgersP ..4o..,.. j,
/ Why shouldthe hotel waiter keep this
guest waiting so much longer for his
dinner-and poor one at that-than
the man who slips quarter into his
dusky palm? lst sj fr.
Isn't it funny and sometimes tedious
to find but two walters at table to every
square acre of dining room in your $3
per day hotel? f0is1s li Hfrt Z
Isn't it amusing, yet withal exasper-
ating to see head waiter directing the
movements of these two walters and
looking on complacently while you wait
half an hour for dinner, and all at your
$3 per day hotel? a 1sgiiSJL d
Why do some landlords encourage a
chronic lot of town or village loafers to
dawdle about the front entrance to
stare every lady guest who comes in or
goes out?-N Y. Graphic. 3. hrelir =
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-06-10
A Primitive Brazilian Village.

| In Erere, a typical village of the semi
civilized Amazonian Indians, we shall
learn how it is possible for men and
women to live almost separated from
the civilized world; how single family
can provide themselves, not only with
food, but with house, furniture, utensils
everything in fact but clothing and a
| few coarse articles of iron and steel.
Wherever we go we will meet with
nothing but kindness and unostenta-
tious politeness. For instance, walking
across the weedy plot in front of our
windows we can call on old Joao Bap-
tista, the best hunter and the best fish
erman in the village. Joao rises to meet
us, offering his hand Everybody shakes
hands here, even more than in the
States), and inviting us to a seat on the
rough wooden bench by the door. He
is dressed IN coarse canvass trousers
and short jacket or shirt; the cloth is
stained dull red with murnchy. 1t is
soiled, for this is his work-day dres s;
but you may be sure that it covers a
clean body. The old man is busily
shaping paddle, using his clumsy
knife very cleverly on the harditauba
wood. He converses quietly, answer
ing our questions and asking few in
return, but he is not talkative.
The women of the house remain at
distance unless they are spoken to. The
code of social life here does not permit
them to intrude their presence on male
visitors. If the lady of the party is with
us they sit by her side, curiously ex-
amining her clothing and asking simple
questions about her country-the far
away, wonderful land, which, like Rome
and paradise and heaven, exists to them
only in name. The little ones, after the
universal child-greeting of extending
their palms for a blessing, stand watch
ing us silently.
Examine the structure of the house.
Roughly hewn logs of itauba and pao
d'arco for the uprights set in the ground
they will last for fifty years. Beams
and rafters are of other hardly less du-
rable timbers; the joints are secured
with pegs or with strips of bark. Roof
and sides are covered with excellent
palm-leaf thateh, tied on in regular lay
ers, like shingles. AS for floor, there
| is Mother Earth, with few mats laid
down under the hammoeks. There are
no windows, and the door-ways are
closed with palm-leaf mats. So you
see the whole house is formed of mate
rails which every Indian can gather in
the forest with no other tools than his
heavy wood-knife and clumsy, straight
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handled ak. Some houses have the
sides built up with Jumps of clay gath
! cred from the lowland creeks; walls of
this material, supported by a frame
work of poles and sticks, are durable
but very unsightlv. In the larger
places they cover the adobe with plas-
ter and whitewash the outside very
neatly.
The dwelling does not boast of much
furniture. Besides the reed mats and
cotton hammocks, there are only two
or three benches (the boards of which
have been hewn out of solid Iogs,) and
some green wooden trunks with pre-
posterous keys. These latter contain
the fiesta dresses; the coarser, work
day garments hang on lines behind the
hammocks. The trunks are rather ar
ticles OF luxury than of necessity; in
other houses we will see great balaio
baskets taking their place; but every
well-to-do-I Indian considers it incum
bent on him to have trunk, if he can
get it for money or credit. The last
items OF furniture are two low stools,
which attract our attention bv
their singularity. One is made of
the dry, hard skin of the alligator's
breast, curved inward so that the scaled
surface forms the seat and the incurled
edges the feet, the other is the shell of
large terrapin, common in the neigh
boring woods. Under the roof there
is gerat, or staging of poles, for man.
dioca baskets, dried fish and various
pots and kettles. The most of these,
however, are in little shed-like kitch-
en- back of the house. Every Indian
dwelling, no matter. how poor, has its
kitchen separated from the man struc-
ture. The primitive fireplace is formed
OF three large stones; for bellows there
is little mat-fan, or, very likely, the
pulling lungs of the brown cook. Among
the articles of cuisine we may observe
an iron kettle, or a tin coffee pot; but
these are by no means necessities;
most of the older women can manu-
facture their own cooking-ware of coarse
clay. s4. G.T !
Joao's wife is willing enough to show
us how the earthen kettle and jugs are
made; indeed, she was preparing for
her potters work when we came in;
the dried balls of clay have been soaked
IN water over night and are now ready
to be kneaded.
There are calabashes and turtle-shell
pans, and gourd bottles. and wooden
spoons; baskets, small and large; clay
lamps for burning fsh-oil and SO forth.
Joao's wife has a few coarse plates and
bowls, with knives, forks and spoons,
which she has purchased in Monte Ale
gre; very often the plates are replaced
by native earthen-ware, and the bowls
by calabashes, and it is no unusual ex-
perience for q traveller to be reduced to
the Indian eating implements
tingers.-From 9. Brazil," etc., by Hu-
bert H. Smith. ss rla