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The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-08-19

The Hindoo idea of hell Is different
from those set forth in the Confession
of Faith and creeds OF most of the
denominations of Christianity. Pun
ishments for the most part are in the
way Of transformation into uppleas.
ant creatures. Those who heve been
drunkards on earth are in the next
changed into frogs. This ought to be
regarded as an improvement rattle,
than punishment, for the frog is q
cold water animal of commendable
habits, and never goes staggering
around with a red nose or a bloated
face. Dissenters from the true faith
are turned into snakes. Backbiters
are changed to tortoises, and misers
to cranes, which seems infelicitous ms
the crane is one of the few creatures
that can conveniently bite its own back
and the tortoise, with its ability for
shutting up, would serve as a fit en-
blem of the miser's strong box. Flesh
caters are to be eagles; thieves are to
be deprived of the power of hearing,
and debtors are to be hullocks. The
last transmogrification probably has
reference to the way. in which poor
debtors are sometimes slaughtered by
their creditors in this life. The Hindoo
hell does not include the notiuons of
and continuous combustion,
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-08-19
PATENT FLOUR.

Almost every body knows of this
-four but not every one understands
what 1t Is. Stripped OF technicalities,
this is about the story of its manufac-
ture: The best flour used to be
made of winter wheat. Spring wheat
yielded either much less in guam
tity, or else so much of the bran
20: into the flour in its manufac-
ture that it's color was intolerably dark
The wheat would be ground and then
bolted. In the refuse-the brand and
middlings-would be included large
propagation of weight of the spring
wheat, anu this would sell more par
ticularly tor feed for horses. Now the
best flour, and the most expensive,
Is made of this very refuse OF
the old-fashioned process. 1t all
came out of the discovery of Il
way to draw out tho bran,
Under the new process tho wheat
is ground about as before. The first
is an ordinary flour sold for exporta
ton. Then the remainder is taker
and put upon great horizontal sleeves
and while agitation is going on there
Is an Ingenious system of draft rushing
up through and carries off the bran
What Is left is the glutinous portion o
the wheat, most the nutritious and mos
productive, and out of this, purified b,
the drawing Off of the bran, we ge
our new process flour. The result O
the discovery of the process has been t.
make the poor spring wheat of Mime
sofa and upper Wisconsin the mos
valuable kind Of grain.-Americo,
1ltller.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-08-19
uY BRuDDER SAM AN 1.

NJ BRUDDER SAM AN /.
ryrnoMAs JEFFERsoN JEROME.
n. h.ppiest niggers on de farm
WI brudder Sam an );
We nebber thought to do no harna-
we nObbor wouldn't try.
w. had to work 80 hard all day,
OBJ which we was not found
But sds der; n tTs IN De T pond na' our play
At night. before we went to res,
No briddor Sam would sing,
All would pat, while Bob and Jess
Went round and round de ring.
Wa danced dc double shuttle, den;
we made de welkin ring;
va made do kitchen tremble when
we cut do "pijin wing"
Old massa he'd step in de do,
or ia DO winder thrust
* Az is9 til he'd aImos' bust.
ole mis.us she was funny too.
An ofFon, when'de play was through,
Would AZ anoder song.
Ant dat good time has done and fed,
twill nebbor come no more;
FOR brudder Sam is done gone dead
e gone to de odder shore.
Nv brudder Sam was black as tar;
His eyes was big an white;
He went, wild massa, to de war
ne axed him If he might.
An, I remember we'll de hour
Dat came for US to part
His parting words fell like shower
OBJ snow upon my heart.
.soh, brudder Sam, lub you So
'Tis thus would begin;
But massa said couldn't go,
An den cried agin.
We all did cry. an cry. an cry;
thought ole missus sure would die
To see old massa go.
"But wen come back" ole massa said,
"We'l come again some day"
An den ho left US, duty led,
To wear the Southern gray.
watched 'em passin down do lane
Where many times we played;
Dey nebber passed dat way again
On de battle field dey stayed.
Ono day dere came letter back,
Which mlssus quickly read;
She said de thing had gone to rack,
An brudder Sam was dead.
At Last de cruel war broke up,
Dey hushed de battle roar;
But still dere's bitter in my cup,
For brudder Sans no moro.
Orc field an hill, an on de shore,
In sadness, still, I roam;
But brudder Sam see no more
He never does come home.
His grave Is on the Georgia plain,
oh, miles an miles from here;
Dere falls the gentle summer rain,
An flowers am bloomin' near.
Some day dc Lord will say to me:
'Come up, come up, to home;
Come up, an all my Rlories see,
No moro on earth you roam"
oh, don I'll rise on snowy wing,
Up to de distant sky,
AM ere will Join once more an sing,
My brudder Sam an I.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-08-19

The fly that walks on oleomargarine
Il not the butterfly.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-08-19

CITY MOhFOe.
Mayor and Chief of Police. Err. Endom
Councilmen--J G Sanders, ID NJ Sholars,
S Never, w Renwck, T. Garrett, G
Lewis, + w Darlington (c.)
Secretary and Treasurer.........O d sStillman
city Observation-Disclosures Il. Ninson.
Richland beacon., 1881-03-19
HOW INDIINS RETURN GALA


A party Of Sioux Indians were guests
at leading Milwaukee hotel, says
PecRs San, and the ladies had great
deal Of amusement with them, studying
their customs. That is, they all did ex-
cept one lady. The ladies called upon
the Indians and the savages returned
the calls almost before the ladies got to
their rooms. One lady called on
chief, and then went to her room and
retired, and pretty soon there was a
knock at her door, and she found that it
was the chief. She told him to come in
Ike morning. The lady unlocks her
lOor in the morning so the porter can
come in and build fire before she gets
up. She heard Q knock in the morning,
and supposing it was the porter, she
said. "Come in." The door opened and
in walked Mr.. Indian. She took one
look at him and pulled the bed clothes
over her head. He sat down on the side
of the bed and said How" Well, she
was so scared that she didn't know
How" from Adam. She said to him
in the best Sioux that she could COM
mand, "Please, good Mr.. Indian. 60
away, until get up" but he didn't
seem to be in hurry. He picked up
pieces of her wearing apparel from the
floor, different articles that he didn't
seem to know anything about where they
were worn, and made comments on them
n the Sioux tongue. The stockings
seemed to Iaralyze bis untutored mind
the most. They were these long, 80 de-
grees in the shade stockings, and they
were too much for his feeble intellect
He held them up by the toes and said
"Ugh!" The lady trembled and wished
he would go away. He seemed to take
great delight in examining the hair ON
the bureau, and looked at the lady as
much as to say, "Poor girl, some hostile
tribe has made war on the pale face and
taken many scalps." He critically ex-
amined all the crockery. the wash bowl
and pitcher, but he was struck the worst
at a corset that he found ON chair. He
tried to put it on himself, and was so
handy about it that it occurred to the
lady that he was not so fresh delegate
as he seemed to be. Finally she hap
pcned to think of the bell, and she rung
it as though the house was on fire, and
pretty soon the porter came and invited
The Indian to go down stairs and take
drink. The lady locked that door too
quick, and she will never leave it open
again when there are Indians in town.
She says her hair, on the bureau, fairly
turned gray from fright
Richland beacon., 1881-03-19

A man in Illinois, having sent to q
Washington journal q photograph of
five of his children who were born on the
same day, asserting that ono other man
can show picture of five," the news
paper quiets him with the following
statistics:
"lnstances have been found where
children to the number of six, seven,
eight, nine and sometimes sixteen have
been brought forth at ono birth. The
wife of Emanuel Gago, a iaborer near
valIadolid, was delivered the 14th OF
June, 1899, of fve girls. The celebra-
ted Tarsin was brought to bed in the
seventh month, at Argenteuil, near
Paris, 18th of July, 1779, of three boys,
each fourteen and . half inches long,
and girl, thirteen inches. They were
all baptized, but did not live over twen-
ty-four hours. In june, 1893, one
Maria Ruiz. Of Lucena, in Andalusia,
was successively delivered Of sixteen
boys, without any girls. Seven of them
were alive on the 18th Of August follow
ing. In 1885 . Muscovite peasant
named James Kyrloff and his wife were
presented to the Empress of Russia.
This peasant had been twice married,
aud was then 70 years of age. His first
wife was brought to bed twenty-one
times, namely, four times of four chill
dren each time, seven times Of three,
and ten times of two, making in all fif
ty-seven childreA who were then alive.
His second wife, who accompanied him,
had been delivered seven times-once OF
three children, and six times of twins.
Thus he had seventy-two children by
his two marrisges."
Richland beacon., 1881-03-19
TOILET RECIPES.

To REMOVE PIMPLEs.-Two Onnces of
bi-carbonate of soda, one drachm OF
ENcerine, one ounce of spermaceti ONT
mont.
FACE WAsH.-Two grains Of bi-chlo-
ride Of mercury, two grains of muriate OF
ammonia, eight ounces Of emulsion Of
almonds.
CARE OF THE NAILs.-Brush them
carefully at least once n day, according
to ones work, pushing back the flesh
from the nail, thus avoiding hang-nails.
Under no circumstances bite them, but
trim with either scissors or penkniie.
DO not cut the nails shorter than the
fingers, or both will soon have q stubby
appearance; and clean them with
blunt, not sharp, point.
PURIFYING THE BREATH.-Foul breath
is usually caused by an unhealthy state
OF the stomach or poor teeth. If caused
by the first, the physician should be
called upon if the latter, apply to the
dentist. Ii from neither, take chlOrate
of lime, seven drachms /; gam arabic,
five drachms; to he mixed with warm
water to a stiff paste, rolled and cut into
lozenges. These will arrest decay in
the teeth and ncutralize acidity Of the
stomach, and will also remove all trace
of tobacco from the breath.
CARE OF THE TEETH.-They should be
brushed carefully after each meal, and
particularly after supper just before go
ing to bed, as what particles as may be
left on the teeth after eating very soon
destroy them. Brushing the teeth once
a day with pure white CASTLE soap will
keep them clean and white. Ifyou can
not remove the tartar that may accumu-
late by the use Of brush, take pow
iered pumice stone, and, with small
stick made into fine brush ut the end,
rub the teeth carefully with the pumice
stone. Once month will do for this,
because, if practiced too often, it is apt
to destroy the enamel.
RESTORING THE Color OF THE HAIR
When the hair loses color, it may be re-
stored by bathing the head in weak
solution of ammonia-an even teaspoon
full Of carbonate Of ammonia to a quart
Of water-washing the head with crash
mitten and brushing the hair thoroughly
while wet. Bathing the head in strong
solution of rock salt is said to restore
gray hair in some cases. Pour boiling
water on rock salt in the proportion of
two hcaping table-spoonfuls to a quart
of water and let it stand before using.
Ammonia, if used too often, makes the
hair lighter, and, if in strong solution,
burns and splits the hair.
Richland beacon., 1881-03-19

WAas the Choir SosS Abos~ the Nssc Bonnet.
fooish little maiden bought foolish little bonnet
With ribbon, and feather. and bit q iass upon
It; -
And that the other naidsns Of a. itaGs town might
know IL
She thought she'd 20 to meeting ~ .s1t Sunday
just to show It
But though the little bonnet was scarce larger Aaa
The getting Of IT settled proved 70 ~ swort 4
tine:
So when twas fairly tied, all the bells had stopped
their ringing,
And when che came to meeting, sure enough, tAs
folks were singing.
So the foolish little maiden stood and waited ss ~
door;
And she shook her ruffles out behind and smoctheA
them down before.
Hal eujah, halleujah :" sang the choir above hsr
Hardy knew you. hardly knew youi" weys ne
words she thought they said.
This made the little maiden feel 20 very. very eross
hat she gave her mouth little twist, her head .
little toss;
For she thought the very hymn they sang was an
about her bonnet
With the ribbon, and the feather and the bit Of lace
upon it.
And she would not wait to listen to the sermon or
the prayer,
But battered down The silent street, and hurried up
the stair,
Till she reached her little bureau, and In bandbo1
omit
Had hidden safe from critics eye her foolish little
bonnet.
Which proves, my little maidens, that each Of you
Will hnd
In every Sabbath se:vice but echo Of your mind
And the little head that's hed vitA silly little airs
wiz never get blessing from ssrmon or from
prayora.
Richland beacon., 1881-03-19
1LACK WALNUT 1oR TIMBER.

BLACK WALNUT HOR TIMBER.
Tho growing demand for black walnut
for timber. together with the acknowl-
edged scarcity Of this wood, opens a
road to profitable planting. There are
30 many uses to whica walnut wood is
being put, such as its use by sewing
machine and furniture manufacturers,
that there could hardly be an over sup
ply. No doubt many persons have
fields from which but little profit now
comes and on which the walnut could be
successfully grown. The nuts of this
tree grow easily, and could thus be
planted where the tree is wanted. Usu-
ally. seeding trees have first to be raised
in bed, and then transplanted when a
year or two old. But, if the nuts of
walnut be sound, they sprout easily,
and one to q hill, so to speak, will be
sufficient. Walnut trees grow very fast
and, when planted in rich ground, make
large trees, bearing nuts. in eight or ten
years. Ground should not be allowed
to remain idle. Be it ever 80 poor, there
is some profit to be got out of it by ju-
dicious planting Of trees.
Richland beacon., 1881-03-19
popped cleae cut Of The bsx ON the

it popped clear sut Of ths bel ON the
floor.
Then it was more fun than before, for
| Nan would catch him, put him back III
the box, and shut him up tight, and
then suddenly touch the lid. when he
would Jump maybe half s0Oss tins
room as briskly as If he were alive, and
looking 80 comical with his red face and
~taring eyes.
At last Nan broke the box. which
spoiled that part Of the play, but John
ny in day or SO invented new way to
use the little man. who was now to be
an ogre, if you know what dreadful
thing that is.
First Johnny and Nan would build a
tail, strong tower OF blocks, with Just
little low door at the bottom.
This was to be prison for the ogre,
whom they then bravely sought out and
captured, and, pressing him down close
TO the floor, they pushed him through
the low tower door.
As soon as he was in, and their hands
we're of. he would spring up to his full
height inside the tower, and peer at them
wildly through a crack, but he couldn't
get out, oh, no!
1t was such fun to play ogre that the
children did not tire of it for a great
while. but there came time when the
noor little Jack who hadn't any box lay
forlorn and neglected among lot OF old
toys.
Cousin Ted came in one day and spied
him there. 1t is long lane that has no
turning. even for broken Jack-in. the
box, and now there was to be more fun
than ever with him.
"Pass him up here, Johnny" said
Ted, who at the same moment unfolded
a handkerchief, and drew book toward
himself.
"What are you going to do with him?"
asked Johnny, wonderlnGly, as he
ODtNeu oTucTS, anu Niii iclt III IltT tOiiS
to run and see what was going on.
Cousin Ted put Jack ON his middle
finger, and dressed two of his other
fingers in the handkerchief. and then
'leid the book at a proper height before
hem.
The effect was that of an irresistibly
droll-faced man making speech over a
desk.
This is the speech he made, with great
holdings of his head and great wavings
Of his hands
Suppose the trees were all cheese,
The seas we're all ink
It's enough to mako An old man shake,
And scratch his head and sink.
With the last word down he sank out
of sight behind the book.
1t was so funny that Johnny and Nan
fairly danced up and down. and laughed
so hard that papa and mamma came hur-
rying in, and then, Of course, they had
to laugh, too.
Richland beacon., 1881-03-19
GOOD REPORTER.

An exchange remarks: "a good 70
porter is always first cousin to necro-
mancer, and can introduce himself to
you in such q genial way that, for the
time being, he seems like your long-lost
brother, who is anxious to show you the
strawberry.mark on his left arm in
proof of his identity. You talk with
him about the inner secrets Of your life
in profuse sort Of way, give him your
opinion about the resumption Of specie
payment, and, as the conversation flows,
freely unfold yourself on various other
matters. He sits u silent and admiring
listener, encouraging you by nod when
you are hunting for the right word, or
possibly supplying it himself, and gives
you the impression that he wouldn't dis
close what you have told him-no, not
for worlds on worlds. The next day You
take up the paper, and, while carelessly
looking over its columns, see your OVID
name in capitals which seem to your as-
tonished gaze as long as Bunker Hid
Monument. Every word you have said
is there. That man with the strawberry.
mark ON his arm was the small end Of q
speaking trumpet through which you
unconsciously told the whole world all
about yourself. He had no pencil or
paper, and didn't evince any desire to
write in shorthand Oh, no; that is
the clumsy way in which beginners
work. His skill is not in his fnger-tips,
but in his memory. He memorized
every word you said, and reproduced it
with perfect accuracy. The accom-
plished reporter is as nearly ubiquitous
as a merely human being ever becomes.
and is beginning to be regarded as q
moral restraint in many respects superior
to the Decalogue. A man in the olden
time might possibly break the Decalogue
and hide the pieces, but nowadays the
moment . law is broken the quick ear
of the reporter catches the sound, and
his persuasive lips compel you to tell
him all about it. He is an animated
interrogation point ahuman oorkscrew,
who gets . deeper hold on your secret
every time he turns round. His mission
is summed up in the Short but tsrzible,
ssutsuce. If you do Il. III tell'"
THo4R niffa ara AxAr fhA H8osf Accent.
Richland beacon., 1881-03-19

The salt district Of Saginaw, Mich,
has about ninety-five companies at work,
with an annual capacity Of 2.6O0. 900
bushels. The first we'll was sunk only
twenty-one years ago, and in 1859 the
Legislature encouraged the enterprise
with q bounty Of 10 cents bushel on
Ill sat- r.sr2tactursd, and an exemption
from taxation for Ill engaged in the
business.
Richland beacon., 1881-03-19
APHORISMS.
ARE We not formed, - notes Of music ars.
For one another, though dissimilarf

ARR We not formed, - notes Of music ars
For one another, though dissimilari
NEWSPAPERS are teachers of disjointed
thinking.-Dr. Rush.
LISTEN to conscience more than to in
tellect.-E. W. R0bertson.
FALsEHooD may have its hour, but it
has no future.
The symbols of the invisible are the
loveliest of what is visible.-Byron.
LIFE is 80 short that it is the worst Of
stupidities to waste AN hour of it-Gus-
tdrc Dorc.
II is great misfortune not to have
wit enough to speak we'll, or not
enough judgment to keep silent-La
Bruyere.
PERSONS DON'T make their own faces,
and it's no moro my fault il mine is
good one that it is other peoples fault if
theirs is bad one.-Dickens.
No MAN 10 born into the world whose work
IL not born with him; there IL always work,
And tools to work withal, for those Who win,
And blessed are the horny hands Of toll.
-LoreU.
With malice toward none, with charity
for all, with firmress in tho right, as
God gives us to see the right, let us
strive to finish the work We have begun.
-Lincoln
THE FATAL BUCKET.
"It is much easier to get into quar-
rel than to get ont Of it." In the year
1905 some soldiers Of the common
wealth of Modena ran away with buck
ct from a public we'll belonging to the
state of Bologna. This implement might
be worth 1 shilling, but itproduced quar-
rel which was worked into long and san
culinary war. Henry, the King OF Sar-
dinia. assisted the Modenese to keep
possession of the bucket, and in one OF
the battles he was made prisoner. His
father, the Emperor, offered . chain OF
gold that would encircle Bologna. which
is seven miles in compass. for his sons
ransom, but in vain. After twenty-five
years' imprisonment, he pined away. His
monument il nov sxtsnt in the church
of the DominicanA This fatal bucket is
still exhibited ip Tie tower Of the Caths-
dral Of Aodepa, inelossd in an iron
cage.
Richland beacon., 1881-03-19
DIED OF WATER ON THE BRITy


1guess none O you fellers ever heard
o the winter O 1776, or you'd keep
leetle mum on the weather question, >"
said the old settler, who had come down
from Wayne county for little visit.
"Pve knowed some snortin' old winters
in my time, but my grandfather's expert
ence in the winter Of Is beats anything
o mine.
My gran'father were great hunter
an Injm killer. He tt in the Revylu
ton, all long the Del'war valley. The
winter O. 76 was terrible cold. Ev'ry-
thing in these parts was friz up tighter'n
. snare drum. On one o the coolest
days my gran father struck the track o
some 1njins Oh the hills jest above here.
He follered 'em, an killed couple on
'em, an then started back over the ridge
fur his cabin. My gran'father lived to
be 100 years old, an to his dyin' day he
stuck to it that what I'm goin' 10 tell
you were ez true ez preachin', an l
b'lieve it. He started back fur his cabin
over the ridge. He hadn' gone fur when
he shot wolf. He hadn't much more'n
fired his ole flintlock when he hecrd
yell off to the left, an lookin' that way
see big painter comm for him. Paint
ers was a picnic for the old man, an he
rammed down big charge o powder
an reached fur his bullet potch, when
10 an behold We it were gone. He lost
it somewhar in the woods. Fightin'
painters without bullets want 50 much
of picnic. Besides, the old man had
got cold while standin' thar, an he didn't
care to tackle an able-bodied painter
while his hands was all stiff The paint
er come creepin' up with his fangs n
shown an his jaws redder'n round O.
beef an his tail a switchin' like cows
in fy-time. Cold ez it were, my gran
father said the sweat started out on his
forri1 an rolled down his cheeks big
germ hoss ches'nuts. They dropped on
the ground in big balls, fur they friz ez
fast ez they fell. They piled up at his
feet, an the painter KEEP creepin' up.
Suddintly an idea hit my gran'father
plumb in the tOp-knOt. He grabbed up
a han'ful O the sweat ez were friz i'll
balls an poured 'em in his muskit.
"If l kin git these in on that painter
fore they melt, he thinks to hisself,
'mebbe they'll settle his hash
carter crammin' the sweat o his brow
in the muskit, my gran'father blazed
away. But the heat O the gun-bsrl had
melted the ice. balls, an they went out'n
the gun like . stream O. water out'n a
hose. But the cold weather want fool
in round there for nothin', an fore the
stream O. water had gone three foot it
was friz inter . solid chunk, an went
kerplinkerty inter the painters skull.
But my gran'father said he owed his
life to natur arter all, fur the charge O
ice never would made the painter give
up tho ghost, an it never would had no
effect on him at all only there wasn't
force 'nough to drive it clean through
bis head. That saved my gran'father
from Q chawin'. The chunk O ice
stopped in the skull. The animal heat
melted it, an fore the painter could re-
cooperate an git his work in on the old
man he died of water on the brain. I
was allus sorry my gran'father didn't
have that painter stuffed an handed
down to the family" concluded the old
settler, as he adjourned with the boys
| for refreshments.