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Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1881-06-15
Naming Her Baby.

On tho Bay City train the other
day was woman with baby
about eight months old, and in the
next seat back was All old man who
counldn't sit still until he had ssid:
"That's . baby you have there,
isn't it"
AYES, SIR"
"About year old, isn't her
"Mercy, no! He's hardly eight
months old yeti"
. "Isu't chi Well, Pm the father of
nine children, but It's been 80 long
since I've seen baby that I've
forgotten how they onght to look.
Is he giri!'
"So, sir; he's hoy
"Just me, agin. never can tell
one from ''tother. Is he purity
healthyf'
"Oh, yes.'
"Squall much mghts!"
"Never squalls at all"
tDon' ch' That's the kind of a
young 'un like To see around. Ny
Samuel did nothing but howl Tor
the first two years. Sarah was
allus sick, Moses fell ont Of the
cradle and broke his arm, aud some,
thing or other allus allied every one
of the lot. Have you named this
baby yeti"
mo, sir
"lIaven't, ell. SayI"
AYES, sir"
"Sposrn yon call him arter mel
My FIRST name is Jefferson. and they
JED the for short. I've got twotl0
gold pieces here for him If you want
to call him Jefferson"
M'Il do it.T promptly responded
the woman.
That's business. Here's the
cash and the boy is named Jefier.
sou, arter me. Lemme kiss him
about four times
The baby was duly kissed aud
congratulated, and at the next sta.
ton he left the train with his moth
err The old mau WAS ucklcd half
to death over the matter. until the
conductor. came Alohg aud asked:
"Did you pay her anything TO
name that baby after youi"
"ies--twcnty dollars. He's n
clipper, aad don't yon forget it,
"And 40 is his mother She's
down in tho Detroit Honsc OF Cor.
rection, and the woman who had
him takes care OF him tor two dol.
lars week"
IN o.a,"
"Faut."
The old mans jaw fell. his eyes
remained fixed Oh the ceiling for
minute, and then he fell back III his
seat with the exclamation:
"Chaw me, Everybody has call
ed me n tool tor the past twcutY
years, aud now | know they were
right. Conductor"
Yes"
please mop the door with me
and break my neck, and step On me
a thousand times, aud then throw
the mahgled wt,ck into some
swamp, tor won't be no more good
in this wurld!'-De detroit Free Press.
Don't grow old and rusty and
cross, afraid OF nonsense and fun.
Tolerate the foilies and crudities Of
youth. Gray hair and wrinkles You
cannot escape, but you need not
grow old III feeling unless you so
choose. and so long as your age Is
only Oh the outside, you will win
the confidence of the Young and ind
Your life all the brighter tor contact
with theirs. Rnt you have too ma.
ny grave thoughts and too many
anxieties and duties. too much 10 do
to make this tritllng possible, you
say. The very reason, my friend.
why you should cultivate fan, non.
sense hghtness OF the heart is tie
cause you need them so much when
You are "weary Of thinking Then
do try to he young, even If You have
TO be foolish in so doing. One can
not be wise all the time.
NAt,oR A<>0n a l.
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1881-06-15

The youngest son ot the late Sec
letary Stanton has married the
daughter OF Mrs. Phillips, the lady
who was sent TO Ship Island by
Ben Bntler for insulting Union
soldiers.
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1881-06-15

When a bee, wasp or hornet
s,ngs. 1t Is nearly always nj til,
expense q! It's HE.
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1881-06-15

Responsible" corresponding agents want
cd ht all points, 10 whom liberal compeu.
sa'ion will he paid.
FOR further information. write clearly.
giving full address. Srud orders hy cx-
press or Registered Letter or Money order
10y mail, addressed only to
VI. A. DAUPHlN.
New Orleans.
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1881-06-15

81 had rather have newspapers
without government, said Jcfttr
son, ethan government without
newspapers"
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1881-06-15
Christian .

ELDER W. +. BRkEDLONE Pres.ns,
at Union Grove, six miles north OF ~,
on the Minden and Eldorndo fosa sal.
second Lords Day of each month anu
urdav before.
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1881-06-15

u is stated that Robert Lee Long
street has declined IN appointn Ell
from Georgia To "a cadetsh,pat West
Point.
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1881-06-15

The people of the tnited State
pay S26.Utt, 600 Il year tor the dai
~ newspapers.
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1881-06-15

Song of the postage stamp
"Gpm, oh gum with me"
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1881-06-15

He had been thinking over the
difficulties and disappointment in
life, and said: Ills hard to part
from those we love-and sometimes
1t is even more difficult to get away
from those We don't love"
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1881-06-15

Il is more honorable 10 acknowi
edge our faults than Ia boast OF our
merits
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1881-06-15

\ vessel arrived 1T New York %
the 18th inst. with six hundred ton,
OF ten millions pi bananas,
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1881-06-15

\ put up Job-lIanging II
clothes.
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1881-06-15

4 SPLENDID OPPORTUNITY
"A To- WIN 4 FORTUNE.
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1881-06-15
Regular Monthly Drawing,

Jnly ~. Glass G.. Capital Prize. ga. 900.
Whole Tickeis a. Halves y
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1881-06-15

Nsvsr doss a man portray his oUu
character SO wildly as IN his man
der Of portrayinS ano,hcr's.
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1881-06-15

Grca,s TAN Remover al tac,oa's
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1881-06-15

GRAND DISTRIBUTION, CLASS F,
At New Orleans, Tuesday, june Il, l--l,
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1881-06-15
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY
state 0mcers:

United States Senator, II. NJ sPOFFoRD
b. +. JONAS
Representative, 5th Dis, J FLOYD KING
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-07-09
YOU CAN BE CURED
Testimonials from the People.

Testimonials from the People.
JUDGE BUCHANAN, Lawyer, Toledo, o.,
saws: ''One of Prof. Guilmette's French Kid
ney Pads cured me of Lumbago in three weeks
time. My case had been given up by the best
doctors as incurable. During all this time |
suffered untold agony and paid out large sums
Of money"
GEORGE VETTER, j. P, Toledo, o., says:
81 suffered for three years with Sciatica and
Kidney Disease, and often had to go about on
crutches. was entirely and permanently cured
after wearing Prof. Guilmette's French Kidney
Pad four weeks"
SQUIRE y. c. SCOTT, Sylvania, o., writes:
! II have been a great sufferer for 10 years with
| Bright's Disease of the Kidneys. For weeks at
| a time was unable TO get out Of bed; took bar
| rels of medicine, but they gave me only tempo
rary relief | wore two of Prof. Guilmette's
Kidney Pads six weeks, and now know l am
entirely cured''
MRS. HELEN JEROME, Toledo, o., says:
''FOr years have been confined, great part OF
| the time TO my bed, with LeucOrrhRa and Fe-
male Weakness. wore one of Prof Guilmette's
| Kidney Pads and was cured in one month.
| H.B. GREEN, wholesale grocer, Findlay, o.,
writes: Il suffered for IS years with Lame
Back and in three weeks was permanently
cured by wearing one Of Prof. Guilmette's Kid
ney Pads "
| d. F. KEESLING, NJ. D., Druggist, Logan =
| port, Ind, when sending in an order for Kidney
| Pads, writes: 81 wore one of the first ones we
| had and received more benefit from it than
ANYTHING ever used. In fact the Pads give
better general satisfaction than any Kidney rem
| edy we ever sold"
| RAY Il SHOEMAKER, druggists, Hannibal,
| Mo: ''We are working up lively trade in your
Pads, and are hearing of good results from them
every day."
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-07-09
Blight On Fruit Trees.

Lucian Chamberlain, Shelby Cen
tire, n. Y, writes: Il propose TO show
how fire and lime may be used so as
To remedy blight on fruit trees and pre-
vent wormy apples. First, whitewash
the trees with a strong wash made
ofquick lime, just as the buds begin to
start in the spring. The wash can be
applied with an old broom. Next,
during the last days of May, plow
four burrows in the center between the
rows of trees both ways, so as to leave
a square plot of ground around each
tree. Then thrO-- straw in piles of
about ore hundred pounds TO each
tree spread it thin under each tree to
within three feet of the trunk. Let
the straw remain thus spread about
ten or twelve DAYS and all manner of
insects will hide under it Some
evening take ore tree at time, set
fire to the straw, and be careful not to
have il so thick as TO burn or scald the
limbs of the trees. All insects that
can be will be attracted by the fire,
and a general destruction of them
will take place. Repeat this two or
three years, and the orchards will be
free from blight and the fruit is sound
and good. | have tried it,"
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-07-09
Whipping an Editor.

Editors, like other sllrewd men,
must live with eyes wide omen. A
good story is told of one who started
a paper in a western town. The town
was infested by gamblers, whose pres
ence was a source of annoyance TO the
citizens, who told the editor if he did
not come out against them they would
not patronize his paper. He replied
that he would give them a "smasher,"
next day. Sure enough his next
issue contained the promised smash
err and on the following morning the
redoubtable editor, with scissors in
hand, was seated in his sanctum,
when in marched large man with a
club in his hand, and demanded to
know if the editor was in.
NO, sir" was the reply; che has
stepped out, Take seat and read the
papers he will return in a minute"
Down sat the indignant man of
cards, crossed his legs, with his club
between them, and commenced read
ing a newspaper. In the meantime
the editor quietly vamosed down
stairs, and at the landing he met an
other excited man, with a cudgel in
his hand who also asked if the editor
was i'm.
"Yes, sir" was the prompt reply ;
'you will find him seated up stairs,
reading newspaper"
The latter, on entering the room,
with fearful oath, commenced vio-
lent assault upon the former, which
was resisted with equal ferocity. The
fight was continued antil they had
rolled to the foot of the stairs. and had
pounded each other to their hearts
content.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-07-09

ladder by which he climbed In liter
airy or other walks the human sponge
often swells up with the thought that
he has ''out-grown" his humble friends
of other DAYS. In private life the self
conscious soul contents itself with be-
coming more and more the centre of
its little circumference, taking none
within its orbit who will not consent
to revoIve- around it aud emit light
and warmth for its enjoyment There
have been many and noble definitions
of what a friend is. People of real in
dividuality. strength and sensitive
ness doubtless have fewer real friends
than they are apt to think, unless they
have been cherishing, unconsciously,
low ideals. But whatever a friend
NAV not be, certainly that sweet and
noble term is unmerited by one who
however generous in other directions,
is selfish as to himself.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-07-09
Willard Hotel Lottery.
a Drawing in Sight
Thursday, July 18th, 1881,
is TIE DAY FIXED.

DY consent of the commissioners the drawing
Oof this scheme has been postponed to Thurs
day, the 18th OF July next. in Order 10 make full
drawing II il believed that this short delay VIII
meet the approval OF all ticket holders ana even
tuate IN the rapid sale of the remainder of the
-.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-07-09
Tie Improve
EI,GIN POLISH,
OPIUM AND MORPHINE p sARIT

morphine or epiam being used in tho treatment
and the use Of both 10 entirely abandoned from
the time the first dose OF treatment is taken. 1t Il
the latest and greatest discovery kBswn 10 med
zeal scisnee. You feel as easy and comfortable
while taking IL as one in prime health. Cores
pondence solicited and strictly confidential. Ad
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-07-09

Have you noticed what awful
wether has prevailed since the revised
edition appeared?
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-07-09
LIST OF PRIZES:
AMOUNTING TO sses,s5o.oo.
Whole Tickets, So; Halves, 81; Quar-
tiers, So

Remittances may be made by Bank Check. Ex-
press, Postal Money Order, or Registered MAIL.
Responsible agents wanted at all points. For
circulars giving full Information and for tick
cts. address W, D. C. WHIPS,
Willard Hotel. Louisville, by.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-07-09
Potato Growing Under straw or Bagasse.

Potato Growing Under straw or Bagasse.
1t is not generally known that the
Irish potato may be grown success
fully either undeq straw or bagasse,
and when produced in that manner
requires no cultivation at all. The
soil should be well plowed, narrowed
and fortified, the seed placed upon
the ground and covered lightly with
earth; afterwards straw or a similar
material, such as bagasse, thrown over
the seed at depth of from four to six
inches. BY this method no cultiva-
ton is required, the mulch keeping
the soil clean and cool. When dug
which is simply done by removing
the straw-the tubers will be found
lying Immediately upon the surface,
from which they can be transferred
TO the baskets without any labor at
all. This is no new idea, but one
that has been practiced for many
years by farmers in the vicinity of
Covington, St. Tammany parish, and
elsewhere.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-07-09
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

ICED FRUfT.-Finely favored apples,
grated fine and sweetened very sweet,
are delicious when frozen. Pears are
fine, either grated fine or stewed and
run through a sieve, then made very
sweet, and frOven. The flavor is bet
ter when the fruit is grated than when
ii Is siewcd.
PICKLKD EACHEs.-Take a gallon
of good vinegar and add to it four
pounds of sugar; boil for a few min
utes, and remove any scum that may
arise; then take clingstone peaches
that are fully ripe, rub them to get of
the down, and stick three or four
cloves in each peach; put them into a
stone jar, and pour the liquor, boiling
hot, over them. Cover the jar closely
and set it in cool place for a week or
two; then pour off the liquor and
boil il as before, after which return it
20 the peaches, boiling hot, which
should be carefully covered and stored
away for future use.
FLOWERS FOR THE DINNER-TABLE.
A pretty way TO arrange such flowers
as the sunfiower. large OX-eye daisy,
hollyhocl, or any of the old-fashioned
large common blossoms, is in basin
of some beauty in itself, not as a bou-
quot, but floating on the water as 1t
were, surrounded by appropriate
leaves. i saw such an arrangement
YESTERDAY, in Dresden china bowl,
standing on a plate like itself, filled
with clear water, and merely leaves
and few large "Marguerites" float
ing i'm il. / suppose these flowers
were forced, but i thought what a
pretty device il was for the fair daft
the yellow lanunculas, wood
iemone, the water crowfoot, water
iily, and a number o. other delightful
plants we shall have by-and-by.-Cdr-
diff Times.
PLANF-CULTURE FOR LADIEs.-There
is nothing better for wives and daugh-
tiers, physically, than TO have the care
of a gardcn-a fiower-pot, if nothing
more. What is pleasanter than to spend
portion of every day in working
among plants, watching their growth,
and observing the opening Of their
flowers from week TO week as the sea-
SON advances? Then how much it
adds to the enjoyment TO know that
your own hands have planted them
and have pruned and trained them
This is a pleasure that requires neither
great riches nor profound knowledge.
The advantages which women person
ally derive from the soil and shifting
the morning air are freshness and
beauty of cheek and brightness of eye,
cheerfulness of temper, vigor of mind,
and purity of heart.
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Treatment of Plants Infected With
MoRly Bugs.

MoaIy huge.
/ should turn the plant out of the
pot, plunge the ball Of earth in tub
of strong soap-suds, wash away all
the soil, and clean off every root. l
should then repot carefully and shade
the plant till it showed signs of growth.
If necessary would top-prune. If
the plant were not a valuable one |
would destroy it? There is no insect
pest so much to be dreaded in the
greenhouse as the mealy bug and
none so difficult 10 destroy. 1t must
not be supposed that you can drown
them. / have plunged plant to the
bottom of barrel of water and let it
remain there three days without kill
ing them.
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Forgetting Friendship.

Golden Rule: There are men and
women in public life whose pathway
is marked by the remains" of whilom
friends who they have squeezed dry
and dropped, like so many sucked
oranges. In politics it is said of such
a man that he has kicked down the
, 1881-01-29
N Z GUS.
(From the SPECTATOR.

The Irish Tories, and, indeed, it
may almost he said, all Irish land
lords, having now accepted the prin-
ciples of ixity Of tenure, free sale,
and far rent, and a considerable ex-
tension of the Bright Clauses, we
need scarcely say that the present
Government will hardly have a
chance with either party in the coun-
try, unless it is prepared to introduce,
OF the assembling Of Parliament, a
measure embodying these principles.
We trust that it may not be accom-
panied by & suspension of the Eabe-
as Corpus Act. 1t should surely be
possible so to strengthen the civil arm
of the law, by giving increased pow
ers-those for instance, Of the Peace
Preservation Act of 1S7O-to the
County-Court Judges and Resident
Magistrates Of Ireland, as to answer
all the purposes of the Government,
without resorting to this coarse and
cruel weapon, suitable in a period of
Instruction, but at no other time.
Whether, however, the llabeas
Corpus Act be suspended or not, it
will be considered absolutely essen
tial by all good Liberals that the
coercive measures suggested by the
Government, should be only sugges-
ted simultaneously with a full state
ment of their remedial proposals.
Otherwise, the Government run the
risk of alternating their own warmest
supporters, of being outbid by the
Tories, and OF making the condition
Of Ireland wen worse than it
now is.
, 1881-01-29

The trial creates no apparent OK
element in Dublin, which, however,
is garrisoned by 5000 regulars; and
the proceedings hitherto have been
dreary, consisting mainly of lengthy
address by the Attorney-G General, full
Of extracts from the less. known ira
versers' speeches. His speech was
moderate in form, and mild in man.
ner, but is terrible in meaning; as
asserting most distinctly and repeat
edly that the Land League "preach-
ed murder,''-a statement he justifes
by quotations from their speeches.
No oral evidence has yet been pro-
duced, and it seems certain that the
trial will be exceedingly lengthy. We
regret to add that the opinions of the
jury are already commented on, and
that rumours are published, even in
English newspapers, which imply
that a verdict Of acquittal is ordained.
We do not believe one word of such
rumours, which are based on an inn
preston that the Catholics will not
DO justice, and are in their very cir
culation, fatal alike to Irish conf
dence in the Courts, and TO English
confidence in the use of juries in a
country where jurymen are thus ex-
pected to disregard their oaths. A
jury, once empanelled, cannot be
changed, and ought to remain uncri-
ticised until its verdict is delivered.
If not, who is to blame the national
journalists for addressing to it impas-
stoned %appeals9
, 1881-01-29

George Eliot"-Mrs. J. W. Cross
was buried on Wednesday (29 Dec }
in Ilishgate Cemetery, amidst q
crowd of mourners of all classes and
both sexes, though the day was one
of continuous rain. The authentic sto-
ry of her early life has been given to
the world by the Pail Mall Gazette of
Thursday. Mary Anne Evans was
born at Griff, near Nuneaton, on No
vember 22nd, 1920. Her father was
land agent and surveyor to five estates
in Warwickshire,-tho of Lord Ay-
lesforJ, Lord Lifford, Mr.. Newdegats,
Mr.. acknowledgements, andMrs. Gre
CORY; and, being a man of the highest
probity and great ability, he was
greatly trusted by all. He is, we
believe, certainly the original of
"Caleb Garth" in "Middlemarch."
Mary Anne Evans vas the youngest
Of his daughters by his second wife,
and lost her mother when she was ht-
teen. At the age Of twenty, her
father removed to Foleshlll, near
Coventry, and here her higher educa-
ton began. She learnt Greek, Latin,
French, German, and Italian, and
taught herself Hebrew and, in ls46,
translated STRAUSS "Leben Jesu"
from the German. In Mr.. Charles
Bray's family she saw a good deal OF
the R~ationalists of that day, and espe-
cially of Mr.. Charles Hennell, who
suggested to her the translation of
Strauss. Mr.. Evans died in 1849.
Soon afterwards George Eliot travel
led abroad, and after a stay at Geneva
joined the group then engaged on the
Westminster ReOsew, which led to the
chief connection of her life.
, 1881-01-29

1t is not quite easy to understand
what is passing in the Transyaal, the
bulIetin-makers obviously being de-
pendent on rumour, and excited by
stories of treachery and murder.
There is no proof of either yet,
though there is ample evidence that
the Beers are in armed insurrection,
that they have attacked her Majesty's
troops, aad that they intend a SAN
culinary war. A large body of Beers
on December 18th attacked $50 men
of her Majcsty's 9th Regimen, then
, 1881-01-29
The trial of Mr. Parnell and

The trial of Mr.. Parnell and his
thirteen companio s, accused of I'M
lawfully conspiring to prevent the
fulilment of legal contracts. "'with
intent TO impoverish the owners Of
land commenced Oh Tuesday, in the
Queens bench Division of the High
Court of Justice, Dublin. Twelve
jurymen were empanelled, without
the expected difficulty, and their
names, in accordance with a most
Objectionable practice, which ought
to be suppressed by law, are publish
ed in all the newspapers. At first,
three Judges, the Lord Chief Justice
May, Mr.. Justice Fitzgerald, add Mr..
Justice Barry, took their seats; but,
before the proceedings commenced,
the Lord Chief Justice read a state
ment, denying flat the language he
employed during the application for
d delay of the trial indicated any
want Of impartiality on his part
between TIE traverSers and the
Grown. lie admitted, however, that
it had "caused excitement" and hav-
ing regard to the Importance of the
trial and the state of the country, he
had decided, "With the concurrence
of some whose opinions [ highly
value" to take no part in the proceed
ings. He, therefore, retired. No in
cident could more clearly reveal to
Irishmen the new tone which pre-
walls in the United Kingdom, the
anxious solicitude of all who govern
there to avoid even the appearance of
caste oppression. Whether it will
have any effect upon opinion, excited
as it now is in Ireland, may be doubt
ed but the Lord Chief Justice is
right, and has shown, in effacing him
self, a certain high-mindedness and
true judicial feeling which will induce
all just men, doubly to regret the
original incident It is not easy for
a magistrate SO highly placed and SO
entirely independent to confess so
publicly that he hos been, however
accidentally, betrayed into a grave
error.
, 1881-01-29
TELE CIR A M s.

.9f St. Thomas Station.