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The Lake Charles echo., 1881-06-18

The REVISED NEW TESTAMENT, of
which SO much is now being said and
written, has reached us, through the
courtesy of Rev. w. II. Robert, at
present visiting Lake Charles. The
revision contains 80 many changes as
to make its perusal very interesting.
The Lake Charles echo., 1881-06-18

CoSKLiSe is now no nearer 30 a re-
election 10 the United States senate
than when he resigned. The feeling
between the stslwarts aud the half
breeds in his own party is as bitter as
it ever was between his party and the
Democrats By forcing the fighting
Conkling has got himself into posi-
tion where it is equally hazardous to
advance or retreat. The Democrats,
of course, can afford to look on and
wait.
The Lake Charles echo., 1881-06-18

TBE NEW IBERIA STAR shines with
steadily increasing refnlgence. 1t has
commenced its second volume, and
bids fair to become star of the first
magnitude.
The Lake Charles echo., 1881-06-18

AsY one needing good team will
aa we'll 10 call st orce on Mrs. Wee
den. Read her advertisement IN an
other colurnn.
The Lake Charles echo., 1881-06-18

AkswEa Tins QuxsrroE.---Why do
50 many people we see around us,
seem to prefer TO suffer and be made
miserabis by Indigestion, Constipa-
tiop, Dizziness, Loss of Appetite, Com
ing up Of the Food, Yellow Skin,
when for rs cts., we will sell them
Shiloh's Vitalizer, guaranteed TO cure
them. Wn. MEgER, Druggist.
Lake Charles, La.
The Lake Charles echo., 1881-06-18

TEE FoukrH or guIT viii be ceie-
bratcd this year with unusual enihu-
siasm in several Southern cities
The Lake Charles echo., 1881-06-18

WIN. c. FRIeKE received to-day
o schooner load of choice cabbages
and onions, which he is selling very
cheap. B
The Lake Charles echo., 1881-06-18

a RArLRokD ExcuRsIoE from New
Orleans to Galveston, on the 2d of
July, TO return on the 5th, would be a
good investment for the railroad com
panies, a capital chance for the bnsi-
ness men of beth cities 10 meet each
other by the sad sea waves of the
Island City, and afford a pleasant Op-
portunity TO the excursionists TO cele-
brate the 4th of July in one of the
loveliest cities in the South. An ex-
cursion from New Orleans TO Calves
ton has been talked about ever since
the railroad was caInpleted.
The Lake Charles echo., 1881-06-18

WANTED, one thousand more sub
seribers 10 the EcHo.
The Lake Charles echo., 1881-06-18

The DERBY RACE, time out of mind,
has been the greatest of all the annual
English horse races. Though open TO
the world, it is remarkable that it has
never been won by foreign horse
except on two occasions; first by Glad
istor, French horse, q few years ago,
and secondly, a few days ago, by the
American horse Irsquois, owned by
Pierre Lorillard, of New York city, a
millionaire, and noted tuvflnan.
Iroquois won the Derby by half a
length. As usasl, great number of
horses started, aad just before the
finish the race was conceded TO the
horse Pcrcgrine, but when archer, a
jockey, called on Iroqaois, at the last
moment, for all his strength, and the
noble animal forged his nose ahead Of
Peregrine's until they passed under
the wire with Peregripe's nose at
Archer's knee, twenty thousand throats,
representing The royalty, nobility and
commons Of old EDglsnd, rang out
the most prolonged and dsafening roar
Of appliance for the American horse
that over WAS heard on that famoua
race course. Assoon ~ I,osilIard, who
WAS in New York, received the cable
telegram announcing the result, be
cabIed back ~ order to pay Archer
$3.50.
The Lake Charles echo., 1881-06-18
MORE ANON.

The first pile for the railroad bridge
across Berwick's bay was driven last
Monday. 1t will take nearly year to
complete this work.
The Lake Charles echo., 1881-06-18

How II WoRks IN VERaILIoE PAR
IsH.--0ur able Democratic contempo-
rary, the (Abbeyille) Meridional, in
speaking of the good effects of the
so-called Sunday law in Vermilion
parish, while it intimates that it was
somewhat Objectionable on account of
its operation only in those particular
localities where police juries availed
themselves of its provisions, comes out
squarely in favor of general State
Sunday law, and calls upon the press
of the State to unite in endeayoring
to secure its enactment. 1t also gives a
graphic account of the baneful effects of
free whisky in the town of Abbeyille, on
the first Sunday after it became known
there that the Supreme Court, by its
recent decision, had made the Sunday
law dead letter. 1t is gratifying to
know that bnt very few Louisiana
Journals have expressed pleasure at the
Judicial abrogation of the Sunday law,
and that a great many of them have
mentioned it with evident disappoint-
ment and regret.
A State Sunday law, rigidly en-
forced, viii be the greatest boon to
Louisiana, even in a purely business
sense, that it has known for a century.
The Lake Charles echo., 1881-06-18

The EARL OF MAYFIELD, by Thomas
2. May, is a novel of unusual merit.
Its popularity is attested by the fact
that seven editions have been ex-
hausted, and the publishers, T. b.
Peterson d. Brothers, Philadelphia,
Pa, have just issued the eighth edi-
tion. The scenes open in the sunny
South, shift to Italy, and close in Eng
land. The descriptions are graphic ;
the dialogue has sustained interest,
and the whole book is a pleasant
healthful story, admirably suited to
summer tourists as well as To the mem
bers of the Can't-get-away club. The
volume is square deodecimo, with
paper covers, and can be procured for
seventy-five cents, directly fIom the
publishers, or from booksellers and
news agents, and on railroad trains.
The Lake Charles echo., 1881-06-18

SfSeULAR FATALrTT.-Some months
ago we mentioned the death, in rapid
succession, Of three prominent Profes-
sors IN the Keachi Female College, a
fsw miles from Shreveport. One of
them, if not two, committed suicide,
and another was killed by tornado.
On the sIst ultimo the president of
the college, ReY.J. II. Hhcker, died,
after an illness of some months. All
these gentlemen were distinguished for
mental and moral excellence, and the
college is one of the best in the State.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-11-24
The weigh Of the Transrress.

By almost universal consent, the light
weight championship is conceded to deal
ers in coal. As water unto milk, and
glucose to the lager beer, so are the
platform scales to the coal cart. 1t
would be unjust to large numbers of
honest and reputable dealers to say that
their coal is like the fellow who said that
when he was mad he weighed o ton, but
the conduct of disreputable and dis
honest dealers has a tendency to throw
suspicion upon all of them. According
to the statement of one who has tried it,
it requires the spirit of a martyr to be an
honest dealer, at least in New York.
He tells a doleful story of the difficulties,
not to say the dangers, he encountered
in trying to deliver 1000 pounds for O
ton to his costumers. He began by an
nouncing that any one buying coal Of
him could test its weight at any of the
public scales. The result was astonish-
ing. Orders came in from all directions
and not more than one in ten ever
wanted to test it. When cartmen came
from other yards he had to enlarge their
carts. For these offenses he was sci
upon by q member of the Coal Associa
ton and beaten /; his cartmen were gol
away from him they tried to prevent
his vessels from landing /; broke his der
ricks, and he had good reason to thini
that they either shot at him or had hin
shot at. So that it is not the weigh o
t~ransgressor, but the other mans, tina
is hard.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-11-24
Home.

DR.. Holmes says: I never saw a gar
ment too fine for a man or maid /; there
never was a chair too good for a cobbler
or a cooper or a king to sit in never a
house too fnet to shelter the human head.
These elements about us, the glorious
sun, the imperial sun, are not too good
for the human race. Elegance fits man.
But do we not value these tools a little
more than they are worth and sometimes
mortgage a house for the mahogany we
bring into it? L had rather eat my din
ner off the head of a barrel, or dress
after the fashion of John the Baptist in
the wilderness, or sit on a block all my
life, than consume all myself before I
got to a home, and take so much
more pains with the outside than the in
side which was hollow as an empty nut.
Beauty is a great thing, but beauty of
garment, house, and furniture are
tawdry ornaments compared with do
nestle love. All the elegance in the
world will not make a home, and I would
give more for a spoonful of real hearty
love than for whole ship-loads of furni-
ture and all the gorgeousness all the
upholsterers in the world can gather.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-11-24
A Rule That Works Both Ways.

"That must be a false rule" says the
Interior, requiring virtue, cleanliness
and good temper and conduct in women,
while many men may go Oh to any
length almost, and society n and all
wink, if not blink, at our faults. What
ever degrades % woman also degrades a
man. Take some of the vices and hab-
its of the day. A man smokes a filthy
cigar, or carries about a half an ounce of
tobacco in his cheek, and yet expects
his wife to preserve a clean mouth and a
sweet breath. Again, a young nan
starts out to spend the evening with his
adored Evelina. Should he find her not
at home, but in the neighboring saloon,
however genteel it might be, that would
be his last visit. In his estimation she
would have sunk below his level, and
yet that young man himself is a daily
visitor to that same saloon, and engages
in all its exercises"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-11-24
The Pleasures of the Table.

The simplest food will not suffice to
maintain a community in mental and
physical health, and to produce the
highest form of efforts. A people who
live on rice will usually be found unfit to
do anything better than grow rice.
M~onotony in food, as in other things,
begets dullness. For all classes there
must be something in life to look for
ward to if men are not to become soured:
and, constituted as we are at present,
the pleasures of the table must continue
to form an important element among the
pleasures available for man. But if the
use of luxurious food be defensible on
these grounds, absolute waste of food,
at any rate, produces the i'll effect
pointed out, without any compromising
advantage. The dinner at every glut-
tonous city feast contributes his quota
to the already existing distress in some
other part of the community. So does
the guest at a charity dinner. The
money he subscribes to the charity is
merely a transfer of wealth which leaves
the world neither rich moi poorer the
dinner he eats or leaves increases the
poverty OF his neighbor.-zne Fort
nightly ReUieaO.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-11-24
Carving His skeleton Outside.

The tortoise has not accomplished the
feat of ticking off its flesh and sitting in
its bones, but it has done the next thing
to it. It is the first example OF q skele-
ton brought to the surface /; the back Is
incapable of movement, and he scales
with which q less ambitious reptile Is
content have developed into the horny
shield which covers it, while the bones
of the breast have developed into q box
capable of containing the creature, head
and legs and all. In fact, If we belonged
to a past generation when inane plays
upon words were takenfor wit, we should
have most probably said that the chest OF
the tortoise is a box to hold its trunk.
The horny integument of the Schitd-
krote, "shield-toad," as our Teutonlc
brethren so graphically call him, Is
scarcely less rich in associations than
his family name, suggesting, among a
crowd of other memories, the high tor
toise-shell combs, short waists, whist and
pump-room manners of the beauties OF
the Regency. The arrangement for
wearing the skeleton outside, and pack
ing the whole body away in the case
formed by it, is convenient, but not an
absolute protection against foes. The
1.-the and willy panther, for instance, has
a habit of inserting his paw into the
opening left for the protrusion of the
head, and thus extracting the animal.
The turtle, moreover, is at a disadvant-
age when turned over on its back, which
is a favorite method of securing those
which come ashore to lay their eggs.
Against ordinary dangers the thick shield
is a very useful safeguard; but the i'm
possibility of receiving any impression
through the skin of the body must have
its disadvantages, too. How, for instance,
does a tortoise manage in those cases
which a COW provides against by a rub
bling postP Surprising it to be possible
for him to suffer from any such inconve-
nience, he would be even worse off than
a medieval Knight armed cap-d-pie,
beneath whose steel panoply a specimen
of the domestic puler had secreted it.
self.-Saturday ReUieW.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-11-24

"FoR two years I was q great sufferer from
Kidney Compl iints. I was unable to attend to
my business, and was comfortable only when
lying down, at times being in so great dis
tress that I could rest neither night nor day. !
had several doctors. but received no benefit
from any. I tried about all the medicines adj
vertised for Kidney Complaints, but expert
enced no relief. Having heard of the wonder
full effects of Mrs. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound in Female Complaints, and knowing that
it was advertised as a remedy for Kidney Com
plants, I tried it and began to improve before
the first bottle was taken. I continued the use
of the Compound, and in less than three months
I was p~erfectly well, and havenot been troubled
since. ! consider it the greatest remedy for
Kidney Complaints ever yet discovered. ]. P.
HowARD, No. 20 Park Street, Lynn, Mass.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-11-24
The Modest Father.

Gather, were you in the WARP"
"Yes, my son."
"Was it awful?"
eyes"
"Lots of dead and wounded men ?"
eyes"
"Did you kill many ?"
"Well, 1 shouldn't like to answer that
question"
care you very modest, PAP"
'"I hope I am too modest to brag."
"That was what Mr.. Smith meant,
then. when he was telling the men down
at the drug store that you hadn't any
war record to brag Of"
"He did, Ell? Smith is a liar !"
"That's what I thought. He told the
men that you run SO fast he couldn't
catch you OF horseback, and any boy
knows that a horse can catch a man with
a stiff knee"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-11-24

THEY were standing just by the front
gate of the old farmhouse, Farmer
Robinson leaning on the gatepost.
Well. Miss, I hope you've enjoyed
yourself this summer. We hain't put
on much style for you, but we've meant
to treat you all right" "Don't mention
it, pray" replied Miss Fitzroy. "Its
been the most delightful season I ever
knew. Why I've learned so much about
farming that I really believe I shall set
out a small watermelon orchard in our
garden next Summer and will start a
pumpkin patch in our conservatory in
the winter"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-11-24
HOUSEHOLD HELPS.
From the Detroit Free Press Household

lfrom the Detroit Free Press Household
REMOVAL OF STAINS AND SPOTS.
STEARNE.-In all cases strong, pure
alcohol.
Gum, SUGAR, JELLY, ETo.-Simple
washing with water at a hand heat.
MATTER ADHERNa MEoHAN1oA1nY.-
Beating, brushing and currents of water
either upon the upper or under side.
LIME AND AIKA1IEs.-White goods,
simple washing. Colored cottons.
wooiens and silks are moistened, and
very dilute citric acid is applied with the
finger end.
ALIzARNE INKs.-White goods, tar
taric acid, the more concentrated the
older the spots. On colored cottons and
woolens, and On silks, dilute t~artaric
acid is applied cautiously.
SooRoHNa.-White goods. rub well
with linen rags dippedin chlorine water;
colored cottons. redye if possible, or in
woolens, raise q fresh surface ; silks, no
remedy.
On CoLoRs, VARN1sH AND RESINS
On white or colored linens, cottons or
woolens. use rectiied oil of ~turpentine,
alcohol, I've. and then soap /: on silks. use
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-11-24
Practical Arithmetic.

"You can't add different things to-
gether," said an Austin school teacher.
eff you add a sheep and a COW together.
it does not make too sheep or two COWS"
A little boy, the son of an Austin av-
enue milkman, held up his hand, and
said:
"That may do with sheep and COWS,
but if you add a quart of milk and q
quart of water, it makes two quarts of
milk. I've seen it tried"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-11-24

LYDIA E. PINKHAM's Vegetable Compound
cures ali female complaints. The following is
the sort Of testimonials which Mrs. Pinkham
receives: I q been troubled with female
weakness for seventeen years. The three last
years 1 was a great sufferer, fourteen months
of the time not able to leave my bed. Many
remedies from many physicians were tried by
me but to no avail. I am now well, and work
at my trade, dressmaking. I was cured by
taking six bottles of Mrs. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound. Mrs. L. T. DUNBRAcK. corner Pine
and Boynton streets, Swamscott, Mass.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-11-24

THE physical ills which are peculiar to women
are seldom mentioned, either in conversation or
through the press, through false modesty, and
yet the percentage of these diseases are on the
increase. Thousands of women TO-DAY cherish
grateful remembrance of the Vegetable Com
pound which is prepared by Mrs. Lydia E. Pink
ham of this city. We learn that more of this
preparation is sold in this city than is sold Of
any other medicine; and all the world should
know of its curative effects. See advertise
ment in another column.-Lynn Transcript.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-11-24

A REMEDY that will successfully relieve fe-
male weakness cannot fail to be popular with
women, and when q meritorious article is
placed on the market it meets with q ready
sale. Among the most reliable Of this class is
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound,
which is guaranteed to cure all diseases Of fe-
male weakness. This preparation is fast taking
the place of all others as q sure and reliable
remedy, and is endorsed by druggists and 9TH
ers wherever it has been Observation-Disclosures
(In.) Argus. See advertisement in another
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-11-24

CONSUMPTION in its early stages is readily
cured by the use of DIR. Pierce's Golden Medi-
cal Discovery . though, if the lungs are wasted
edy possesses such soothing and healing in
fuence over. all scrofnlous, tuberculous, and
pulmonary affections az the Discovery" John
Willis, of Elyria, Ohio, writes 1.-THE Golden
Medical Discovery does positively cure con-
sumption, as, after trying every other medicine
in vain, this succeeded" Mr.. 2. 7. Phelps. of
Cuthbert, Ga, writes "The Golden Medical
Discovery has cured my wife of a bronchitis
and incipient consumption" Sold b~ydruggists.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-11-24

FOOLISH old saying that is, "Better
rub than rust" That depends a great
deal on what you are going to rub. If
you have it in mind to rub yourself with
a fly-wheel on a circular saw, or if your
only chance is to rub up against the
after-guard of a cynical and embittered
mule with a live back, you had better
rust, if it takes you a thousand years
and runs you in debt to do it.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-11-24

THE old Cunarder Persia, in its day
the finest vessel ~afioat, took six tons Of
coal to carry a ton of freight across the
Atlantic ; the Arizona, a new steamer
about double the size of the Persia.
takes a fifth of q ton. Changes like this,
as we'll as low land rates, are swapping
British farmers with Western grain.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-11-24

The Boston Star knows of O servant
girl who has remained in q family for
thirty-one years. We presume she is
married to the head of the family. MANY
a wife is little better than a ~servant-girI
after marriage. She has to work harder
If ANYTHING.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-11-24

DIR. PIERcE's "Favorite Prescription" is q
most powerful restorative tonic, also combining
the most valuable nervine properties, especially
adapted to the wants of debilitated ladies suf-
fering from weak back, inward fever, congestion,
inflammation or liberation, or from nervous
ness or neuralgia pains. By druggists.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-11-24
. rcAis-s. Ias-oss.Al
PERlLS OF THE DEEP.

During my trip down the River Tagus, in
OF this Journal in a recent Conversation by the
sea shore. II had to shoot los waterfalls, the
largest being about eighty-five feet, and innumer-
had three ribs broken in a fight with sharks; and
coming down the Somane, a river in France, L
received q charge of shot from an excited and
startled huntsman. Although this was not very
pleasant and might be termed dangerous, I fear
nothing more on my trip than intense cold for,
as long as my limbs are FREQ and easy and not
cramped or benumbed / am all right. OF late ]
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-11-24
ON Thirty Day, Trial.

The voltaic Belt Co., Marshall, Mich, win
send their Electro-Voltaic Belts and other
Electric Appliances on trial for thirty days to
any person afflicted with Nervous Debility,
Lost Vitality, and kindred troubles, guarantee
ing complete restoration Of vigor and manhood.
d as above without delsy.
P. S.-No risk is incurred, as thirty days
trial is allowed.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-11-24

The Babylon q. l. South Side Signal
quotes from a Missouri paper: Mr.. VIM.
+. Quinlan, Crystal City, No.. suffered
occasionally from rheumatic pains in his
knees, for which he successfully tried
st. Jacobs Oil.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-11-24

PURE Con LIVER On made from selected
livers, on the sea-shore, by Caswell, Hazard 4
Co., New York. 1t is absolutely pure and sweet,
Patients who have once taken it prefer it to al
others. Physicians have decided it superior te
any of the other oils in market.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-11-24
NOW no SECURE nEALrB.

1t is strange any one will suffer from arrangements
brought on by impure blood, when sCovILL'S SARSA-
PARILLA N sTILLINGIA, or BLOOD N LIvER
SYRUP will restore health 10 the physical organic ttion.
It Isl Strengthening syrup, pleasant to take, and the BEST
BLOOD PURIFIER ever discovered, curing s~crofuia,
Syphilitic disorders, Weakness Of the Kidneys, Erysipe-
las, Malaria, Nervous disorders, Debility, Bilious COM
plants and Diseases of the Blood, Liver, Kidneys,
stomach, Skin, etc.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-11-24

A MAN apparently frozen to death in
the neighborhood of Solothurn, Swizer-
land, was placed upon the ~dissecting
table, and giving indication of remaining
life was restored by the efforts of the
| physicians.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-11-24

RECORDS show that in thirteen Sep
TENDERS in the past thirty-one years no
rain fell in San Francisco. The rain
in the remaining eighteen Septembers
ranged from .02 of an inch to LOB
inches.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-11-24

NEVER try to raise q family without a good
newspaper, provided it contains the advertise.
ment of DIR. Bulls Cough Syrup ; for this val.
liable medicine is necessary to keep your chill
dren in good health.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-11-24

AN EXCHANGE speaks Of ga male
train" The sex of trains has always
been matter of some doubt; but a train
should not be called a male because ii
smokes and "choos."
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-11-24

E. L. LowEREE, ESQ, cashier of the
Cincinnati Southern Railroad, says the
Cincinnati Enquirer, was cured by st.
Jacobs Oil of a stubborn case Of rheuma-
tism, which wouldn't yield to physicians
treatment.-Brooklyn Eagle.