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The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-03-25
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n36 ST. J. II, MOORE.
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women who cannot stop TO learn
trades or professions, because If they do
they will starve in the meantime. Our
women have nearly all learned that
hard lesson for women 80 tenderly ana
richly reared as most Of them were, that
the best pride of all is the pride of
labor and of honest Independence.
There is urgent need for some organ
lied means OF, helping our women to
help themselves, and it will be great
pity II more of our rich people do not
awaken to the fact that they must prac-
tice little self-denial, and give their
influence and their time, as we'll as
their dollars, to promote the welfare of
the needy. It is the old cry, only
louder and stronger and bitterer. of
plenty of workers, but no work for
them to do. Thevgiving of money
when called upon is not the only duty
that is required of the rich. They
should now, in this present exigency,
feel that it is- their duty as citizens to
give such of their duty as citizens to
will result In opening up new avenues
Of work for women. ..
5c believe that at some day, I hope
not far distant, the Carrollton society,
of which have told you, will be the
stepping stone to independence for
many of my sex. y" Hs@
can tell you, it makes my heart
sick when think of the harassed,
sable robed women who sometimes
come to talk over their troubles with
me-for the simple sake of the SYM
pathy one woman always has for
another in distress.
Oh, my dear, / hope you do not
know the desperate, intense agony of
feeling that sssomethiug must happen
to-day, some bit of good luck must
come," and to live on day after day
possessed with a despair like that Of
the ship-wrecked sailor waiting for a
sail. But, there 1 am growing posi-
lively lachrymose-a condition I de-
test. Fs ..+
Well, hope if ever anything is
started in this town again it won't be
charity. AS general thing, with
the necessary exceptions of course, the
charity of the purse is an insuIt-a re-
proach to those who give it as we'll as
to those who are forced to accept it.
The Lord knows we don't want any
more charities, but our wants for our
women and children are, as we'll as
can figure it OUT, q Woman's exchange
that shall accept and dispose of on
com missfon any article q woman can
make from a pan Of corn bread up to
an oil painting. Then we want a free
industrial school, where girls and
women may learn how to do anything
that will enable them to make a liv-
ing, from the making of pan of bread
to the trimming of a bonnet.
And then we want the people of the
city to have a patriotic pride in the
success of these institutions to buy the
products-and in every way encourage
the producers-but oh, fiddlesticks /
wonder if it is the millennium or ITO
pia am crying for. L am afraid you
wish L would discard this Chinese tid-
die of mine, and get one with more
strings, but PHI tell you, Safa, there
isn't enough playing upon this Chinese
fiddle. I wish the monotony OF its
cry, "more work for women and new
work for women" would sound from
Carroliton to the Barracks, and then l
would begin to hope that those who
have ears would hear to some purpose.
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The imperial family of Germany is
quite able to support itself. If the
Grown Prince were deprived of his in
heritance he could easily win bread
and butter by his skill as II turner,
while his eldest son, Prince Wilhelm,
is an excellent amateur artisan. On
the Emperor's cabinet are several sam
pies of his dead grandson Waldemar's
prof cheney as a book binder. This ac-
QUESTION of trade isa Evolutionary
custom in the royal family, which
prescribes that every prince of the
blood shall learn some useful handicrafr,
so rs to strengthen his spirit of indie
pendence and make him wise through
actual contact with the material
world. ear ass.
The Cincinnati Enquirer suggests
that Sam Randall, since he lost the
speakership, has passed into tho con-
dition ola dead planet.
Mrs. Mackey's ball in Paris at the
close Of last month was unprecedented
ly splendid. Rumof went that the
cotillon cost go, 900.
The doctors in the West are in dis
tress owing to the anticipated failure
of the fruit crop.
Buffalo Bill is given as living IL
Illustration OF the advantages of dime
novel literature. ~
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-03-25
Court OF Appeals.
SECOND CIRCUIT.

Cont OF Appeals.
SECOND CIRCUIT.
Judges........Oren Mayo and w w Farmer
Clerk ..:...;Austih UIee
Parishes and times of holding court in
Ouachita- Mondays in January and
Richland-Fourth Mondays in January
Frankiin-First Mondays in February
Catahoula-second Mondays i'll February
Concordia-Fourth Mondays in February
Tensas-Second Mondays in March and
October.
Madison-Tourth Mondays in March and
East Carroll-Second Mondays in April
: West Carroll-Tourth Mondays in April
and November.
Morehouse-First Mondays in May and
December.
District Court.
FIFTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT,
Composed Of the parishes of Ouachita and
Richland: Terms Of Court:
0aachitaJ9ry rermn1ss Monday Mom in
days in February and July.
Richland--Jury term-lst Monday in
term-2nd Monday in March and lst Mon
day in September.
r w Richardson ............."........Judge
EG Hudson. ................ District Attorney
Clerk ..................AustinG Green
Twcnty-Third Senatorial District,
Comprising the parishes of Ouachita,
Rich1and, Caldwell, Franklin and Jackson.
Senators-E Il Kidd, of Jackson; II Y
Ably, of Ouachita.
Parish Of Ouachita.
Observation-Disclosures. ------
CLERK OF Austin Green
Sherif ........J ~ McSiulre
Ireasurer......... ....".."...........O Stitiman
Surveyor. 900. N Polk
Coroner ........................Dr S g Murphy
<ASSesSOT II y
Official journal. TELEGRAPH
~ Police Jury.
Ward l........................ d Russell
2...........................JW Scar borOu.,h
3........"....W q Kennedy, President
...........-.............F III Cam
Observation-Disclosures. Uriah MillSaps
6......... w " Fatrlck
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Green Dunn
S....................- ..............A Wyatt
S...... lnOIuaS
Clerk Hanna
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Buffalo Bill is given as living IL
Iustratfon OF the advantages of dime
novel literature.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-03-25

The doctors in the West are in dis
tress owing to the anticipated failure
of the fruit crop.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-03-25
Ward Officers.

Ward !. Justice Of Peace. G Phillips
's l. Constable......-"....W y Theobalds
6 2. Justice of Peace....Wm McQuiller
2. Constable. ............... J X Heron
3. Justices Of Peace-D B Trousdale
and II III Endom.
3. COnstables-T Larkin and J +
Vinson.
g 4. Justice of P eace.....J NJ Anderson
q. COnStaOlC ....... ........J Is ROSSltcr
5. Justices of Peace-G w Bolton and
j Moore.
ss s. Constables-M II Parker and d
Pickering.
" Q. Justice Of Peace......Taylor Anders
's g. Constable ......... ........J G Goodson
Sc 7. Justice of Peace. H Coats
{. " - kay
sc 8. Justice of Peace. Il II Wilmington
8. Constable...... .......J G Dowdy
f" .. Justice of Peace......A w Hendri X
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-03-25
Parish Of Ouachita.
Parish School Board.

Parish School Board.
+. Endom, President; +. G. Standifer, w.
G. Head, Secretary; d. Il. Trousdale, Rich
ard Darlington, K. J. Wilson, DR.. Il. j.
Brooks, A. Myatt, X. Dunn. S. Meyer,
Treasurer of the Board.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-03-25

City of Monroe.
Mayor and Chief of Police. Err Endom
Councilmcn--J G Sanders, ID Nj Sholars,
s Meyer, w p Renwick, Il Garrett, c G
Lewis Il w Darlington Co.
Secretary and Treasurer.......O d Stillman
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-03-25

Twcnty.Third Senatorial District,
2 Comprising the parishes of Ouachita,
Rich1and, Caldwell, Franklin and Jackson.
Senators-E Il Kidd, of Jackson; II Y
Ably, of Ouachita.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-02-17
Obituary Gems

From Mrs. A. Lewis's elbow to Live in Winter: :"
Not only are religion and science not OPP
posed, but they complete each other.
It's a great mistake to eat half raw steaks
on cold winters day. Half raw meat
yields much less nutrition than we'll cooked
meat.
It is impossible to get warm in cold
weather with undigested food in your stom-
ach.
The stew is the great dish Of the future.
Bread is the principal stay Of life. But
it is not the only stay and developer of life.
Where much bread and heavy flour dump
]ings are eaten without due admixture Of
animal food or vegetables, we shall find the
people of rather an imaginative, sullen,
logged temperament, prone to drinking
habits and likely to be led away by excess
sive means Of religious and other excite.
ment. :
The want of warm meal in the middle
of the day is to people who have had per-
haps but slight breakfast and have been
in the cold winter air the cause Of disease
and want Of vitality.
If meals are kept irregularly in youth
something creeps up in adult age which
shows diminished vitality. Loose meals
are one cause of loose morals.
Boston pork and beans are delusion and
snare. ..,-
Exclusive diet on peas, beans and lentils
do not develope the brightest and quickest
tone of mind,
Food with herbs, condiments, spices and
cur1ies is an exhi]arating medium, the sup
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-02-17
Cleansing Gold Coin.

From the London Telegraph.
Lord Palmerston defined dirt as merely
matter in the wrong place: and We are not
aware that the general soundness of this
comprehensive dictum has ever been seri-
ously disputed. Now, if there be one place
where more than another it can be said that
dirt has no business at all, many will say it
is on the surface of gold coins. They are
smooth, bright and carefully looked after as
a rule, and also as rule are in the hands of
clean people, since they are not employed,
like coppers, in the daily traffic of poor per-
sons of squaid industries. Yet they man
age to absorb on their shiny surfaces good
deal of dirt. A mint report calls attention
to the loss which the washing of gold coin
involves, and the statement is certainly
curious enough, whether the dirt is sup
posed to arise from circulation or from the
process of coinage. To wash /, O0O, 900 SOW
ereigns costs G311 in loss of weight and the
half -sovereigns suffered more in proportion.
If careful cleansing releases all this amount
of gold, it follows that the ordinary user of
coin must, without knowing it, dissipate in
the course Of a lifetime little fortune in
rubbed, "sweated" and dirtied gold. Fol-
lowing up the ingenious calculation Of the
American as to the buried. plates from the
dentists it might seem that much more re-
fined gold has returned to the earth than
remains to be extracted from it by the work
Of the miner at the native ore.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-02-17
The Old Whittier Homestead.

Mr.. John G. Whittier has written the fol-
lowing interesting letter to one of the ladies
engaged in an Authors Carnival" now be-
ing held in Cleveland, Ohio:
OAK KNOLL, DANBURY LIST Mo-, 26, 1881.
To Mary Vincent Helms: Dear Friend: I
certainly never dreamed, when writing
"Snowbound" and making pen-picture Of
the old house at Haverhill, that it could
ever be deemed worthy of counterfeit
presentation" but if it can aid good cause
have no objection. To the inquiry in re-
gard to it, would say that the mantel-piece
was at least 10 feet long, and fire place wide
enough to take a tive-foot log. There was
an oven with wooden leg on one side of it,
The andirons were tall, quaint, and wide
legged. A brass warming pan shown like
setting moon against the wall of the kitchen.
Nearly opposite the fireplace stood the
great cupboard, with it's pewter plates and
platters. In one corner was the old desk
with drawers and slanting cover let down
to write upon. The old bull-eyed watch
hung over the mantel. The characters men,
toned were all in Friends garb save the
school master and the guest, Miss Liver.
more, whose Spanish looking face and black
eyes we've conspicuous in the freight.
How plainly can see it all.
With good wishes for the success of your
enterprise, I am truly thy friend.
JOHN G. WHITTIER.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-02-17
A Conscientious Girls Sacrifice.
From the Boston Traveller.

From the Boston Traveller.
The following story is told of two-story
brick house, in the suburbs of Boston,
whose doors and windows are nailed up,
and which has never been occupied: "Near-
~ 80 years ago a young man built it for his
bride, intending to mortgage it and pay for
it gradually, as his worldly goods increased,
to all of which she agreed. When the we'd
ding day was appointed the trousseau ready,
and the house finished, he took the lady
out from Boston to inspect it. After going
over the house he presented her with
deed Of it for a wedding gift. Knowing
his circumstances she Was astonished that
he had actually paid for it. He explained
that, buying ticket in lottery, he had
drawn the first prize, which just covered
the cost of the house. The Puritan maiden
protested she would not take a home OBJ
tanned by gambling, and refused the deed.
His arguments we're of no avail; she re :
NAMED obdurate. When they left the
house he locked the door and threw the
key into the brook near by. The next day
he boarded upthe windows, and only the
spiders and mice have ever occupied it.
The man never married; he became rich.
but is wanderer on the face of the earth
The woman never married -she is still iv
ing, poor and an invalid.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-02-17

port of our nervoussystem, our aspirations,
our higher tendencies of life.
Stews should not be cooked too long, as
then they evaporate valuable particles.
Food is only coarse when coarsely cooked,
as the plainest material contains nutritious
and dainty elements. =
The uncertainty of meal taking brings
with it craving for stimulants.
Fish should never be boiled but steamed,
SO that no fine properties are desolved in
the water.
Vegetables are the life and soul of healthy
living, and should not be neglected at any
meal.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-02-17

paratively safe in the midst of his troops,)
but of that dependency and despair of
success which occasionally comes over the
bravest And Napoleon was then suffering
from the most cruel and depressing Of NAL
aides. His days we're already numbered,
and he died before thirty months were
gone"
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-02-17
SUMMER IN WINTER.

Winter is it? Summer splendor
Never was SO fair to see!-
All because maiden tender
Gave to-day her heart to me.
Heaven a happy lifetime lend her,
Long, and from all evil free;
For the graces that commend her
Make her life the life of me.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1881-02-10
The Danger of Absinthe,

The habitual arinker becomes at first
dull, la nguid; Is soon completely
brutalized. and then goes raVing mad.
He is at last wholly or partially para
lyzed, unless, as often happens, dis
ordered liver and stomach bring a
quicker end. The liquor is danger
ously seductive, because it seems, In
the beginning, to help the digestive
organs, when it really hurts them, and
very seriously. Many persons havelng
been induced to take absinthe for in
digestion, have thus gradually fallen
under it's baleful influence. The drinker
is in most cases in seeming good health,
having no thought Of his peril, until
the hour when illness has declared
itself. He is apt indeed, to believe that
he is remarkably well, and to con-
slider all the stories about absinthe
mere bugaboos. The earliest symp-
toms of ailment lead to an examination
and to the knowledge that his entire
system is deranged, usually beyond re-
stOration. His first illness is apt TO be
his last, and death is a welcome relief.
Absinthe mas not long been known; in
fact, it was not made century ago.
Some ninety years since a French
refugee, DR.. Ordinaire, settled at the
small village of Convert, Switzerland,
and acquired very fine practice in the
neighborho0d. He prepared his own
medicines, one of them being an ex-
tract Of wormwood, which he held In
high esteem and compounded with his
own hands. He prepared it from n
private recipe, and administered it to
his patients with excellent effect. Be-
fore his death he impaired the secret
to others, and the extract was extern
slvely made and sold to peddle-s, 1t
was prepared from the yellow flowers
of the common wormwood, and it was
gradually improved, or rather deteri-
Grated upon, until the present liquor
had been obtained. Iu the Val de
Travers, Canton of Neufchatel, about
10000 gallons Of this most alluring
poison are annually distilled.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1881-02-10
A Buried Forest.

1t has been recently discovered that
an oak Forest lies buried in the Valley
Of the Fulda, near Rosenburg, Hesse
Cassel, Germany, at q depth of from
six to nine feet below the surface. The
wood fiourished at very remote per-
lod. Tho great number Of the trees
discovered were in good preservation {;
but, owing to the action of the water
through unnumbered ages, they have
become thoroughly black in color ;
they have become very hard and close,
so that they would be good material
for carving and Ornamental cabinet
work. Some of the trees are OF great
size; one taken out of gravelly por-
tion of the bed opposite the village OF
Baumbach, and since sent TO the Geo.
logical Museum at Berlin, was SO feet
long, nearly five feet in diameter near
the root, and about 38 inches at the
top. 1t is reported that the furniture
and fittings of the Geological Museum
at Marburg are to be made from this
long hurled timber. 1t is not yet deCid-
ed whether these buried oaks belong
to species still existing or to an ex-
tinct one.