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Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-03-23

, IT will pay TO paint the farm wagons
before they are used ia the spring. A
cheap grade OF ready mixed paint can
he obtained. and the farmer can easily
brush IT on. The cost ewill be slight,
and the wagons will not only be i'm
proved IN appearance. but will also last
much longer than they will If the paint.
~ j. neglected. 1t u also a good
plan 10 paint the wood work Of ploWs.
harrows and cultivators, which are often
lett for daNs or wee&E. exposed to the
destructive influences Of the weather.
CHHcrheH Farmr.
Crude oil will answer quite IS well,
aud probably better than any "cheap
grade Of mixed paint" that can be
obtained, and is much cheaper. Mr..
Joseph Harris, Of "Moreton Farm, ;"
will back us up in this.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-03-23

~ printing done In the best style, on
short notice and 1T the lowest rates.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1882-02-25
Press Association Of EIOmf STA m a
SECOND ANNUAL SESSION.

MONROE, La, Jan. 30, 1882.
The Second Annual Session Of the
Press Association of Louisiana will be
held at Alexandria on Monday, the
Goth day of March, next. to which
place and time the Association ad-
journed at Baton Rouge in September
of last year.
Appointments for the approaching
session are as follows:
Orator-Ex-Chief Justice T. C.
Manning of Rapides; Alternate-Geo.
w. Cable, Esq, of New Orleans.
The annual poem is assigned to Mrs.
Mollie Moore Davis, of New Orleans,
who was prevented by i'll health from
favoring the Association with q poem
at its September session. =
The President renews his request to
local historians who have not forward
ed their manuscripts to iona c. White,
Esq, General Historian, to proceed
without delay to comply with the du-
ties which they have assumed.
The attention of the Executive
Committee is called to the necessity
for action upon the subjects given to
the committee for deliberation at the
meeting in New Orleans and upon
which no report has been made. The
committee is composed of the follow
ing members: l.. JastremskI chair
man; 1. J. Vaughan, Mrs. NJ. r.
Fields, Z. A. Burke, Samuel Lambert.
The business of the Association will
be greatly facilitated and its advance
ment more speedily attained by a
thorough interchange of views among
members of the Executive Committee,
and the careful preparation of such
measures as may be submitted for
final action.
A full attendance of the members of
the Association is desired at the APP
preaching session, at which, it is pro-
vided, there will be the annual election
of officers for the twelve months en-
suing, or until their successors are
elected and installed.
Officers of the Association are re-
quested to forward by the LIST of
March, proximo, synopsis of their
annual reports, to the President at
Monroe.
Alexandria, besides being centrally
located, is easy of access either by rail
or by river from all points of the State,
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1882-02-25
Waverley Magazine,

'HIs popular periodical has sixteen large
i pages, size II by is inches, set In small
type, and contains double the reading of any
other weekly literary paper in the Country
IL VIII contain no Advertisements. but 6e
hlled with Stories, Music, Poetry. Anecdotes
thems, Songs. Dances. and Marches. Which n
one year will be worth at least sI2 90 n is
the cheapest and best Family Paper In Amer.
lea. Terms--one year, 81 90: Six montbs
S2W; three months, sl.0o. Sixteen back
numbers, all different, will be sent, post paid.
to any address for $l.0O. Try 1t, il oply for
three months. Address
WAVERLEY MAGAZINE.
Feb. %, 1882
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1882-02-25

tory hands and working people, thus
permitting every one, no matter how
poor, to contribute to the monument.
Terrebonne Times: The Berwick
bridge was completed on Saturday,
the 4th inst As test, three en-
gines coupled together were run
over the bridge, and on the Monday
following the first passenger train
was run over, and will continue
hereafter. A new schedule will
probably go into effect soon after
Mardi Gras. The bridge is COM
posed of nine spans of 1873 feet each
in length, and 200 foot draw
bridge, making the total length Of
the iron work $40 feet.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1882-02-25

A LADIES MITE SOCIETY of the NJ.
E. Church South at Lake Charles. was
organized at the Methodist church last
Wednesday night, by the election of
the following officers: President, Mrs.
Sally Green; vice president, Mrs Dru-
silla Daniels; secretary, Mrs. Emma
Meyer; treasurer, Mrs. Emma B. Rid
dick. Every member of this church
is considered as a member of the Mite
Society, and is hereby notified and
cordially invited to attend, and assist
in making our meetings both pleasant
and profitable. Mrs. Florence Meyer,
Mrs. Mary Moss, Mrs. Elizabeth Han
sen, Mrs. Elizabeth SCHNEIDER and Capt.
o. NJ. Marsh, were appointed COM
mittee to arrange the order of exer-
cises for the first meeting Of the Mite
Society, and to fix the time and place
of such meeting, and have decided
next Friday the srd of March, at seven
o'clock p. m, to be the time, and the
residence of DIR. A. II. Moss the place
for said meeting. All that feel friendly
disposed towards our cause, are in
vited to bring their mite, and spend a
couple of hours with us socially.
We are very glad to see such an Or
ganization in our town, and sincerely |
hope that all needful efforts will be |
used to make the organization a sue
cess and benefit to those who attend. |
Let the members, however, of our diff
ferent associations, always remember
that In union there is strength"
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1882-02-25

He had been absent q year, the
youngest pupil at a boys school, aud
now his mother was expecting him
every day, and she went about proud
and happy, telling her friends Of his
improvement in his studies. and al
ways ending with his being such a
good boy. Then came a telegram
from Willie himself, the first real
message he had ever sent--how funny
it seemed, from that baby---and there
was just this simple form. "Meet
me in the morning. His mother
went about all day with it in her hand,
reading it over as if it had been in
the cbild's own hand writing. Then
she smiled to herself rs she pasted il
carefully IN o scrap-book, while some
body suggested framing it to hang
over the nantel.
But all the friends loved Willie
he was the only son Of bis mother,
and she was a widow---and he did not
come in the morning There came
instead, the dread news Of hasty i'll
ness, and his mother hurried 10 her
darling by, but it was too late! The
despoier had done his work-he was
breathing out bis little life in the
sleep from which he never would
awaken here. Only once, toward the
last, be Enclosed his eyes swiftly and
saw the dear mother face bending
over him, and murlnuroA with dry,
husky lips {" Meet me iu the morn.
ing, mamma"
Dear boyi It is morning with him
alyays---the morning light Of fairer
than Italian skies ! while We yet grope
among the shadows. But BY and by
We shall 70 home At evening
And and II morning there !"
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1882-02-25
SMALL POX
ERADICATED.

Contagion destroyed.
Sick Rooms purified
and made pleasant.
Fevered and Sick Per
sons relieved and re-
freshed by bathing
with Prophy Tactic
Fluid added TO the
water.
Soft White Complex
ions secured by its
use in bathing.
I'm pure Air made
harmless and puri-
fed BY sprinkling
Darby's Fluid about.
To purity the Breath,
Cleanse the Teeth, IL
can't be surpassed.
Catarrh relieved and
cured.
Erysfpelas cured.
B ur n 8 relieved in
stantly.
Scars prevented.
Removes all unpleas-
ant odors.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1882-02-25

On Thursday evening the Lake
Charles Literary Society met and
formed permanent organization. The
following officers were elected: Pres
ident, NJ. NJ. Singleton; vice president,
G. A. Fournet; secretary, A. M. Mayo
treasurer, DIR. G. Kann. An Elk
ecutive Committee pro tenn, consisting
of G. A. Fournet, DIR. Kann aud Judge
Kearney, was appointed by the chair
to prepare a programme. The CON-
mittee submitted the following order
of exercises for the next meeting,
which convenes at 1880 in the school
room of Miss Mollic Burt.
Reader: Essayest.
Observation-Disclosures the right
of suffrage to be given to women.
Two speaker on affirmative, and two
on negative. 1t will be observed that
the names of parties who will perform
the above duties, are omitted in this
publication. The omission is not an
oversight, but intentional, for reasons
thought best BY the society. Each
exercise, however, was, during the
meeting, assigned to some member Of
thu association then and there present.
We invite our friends TO meet with us
next Thursday evening at T:so.
M. M. SINGLETON, Pres.
"A. NJ. MAYO, Secretary.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1882-02-25

A LIBERAL OFFER.-The Galveston
News of the 10Th instant contains the
following libcraI offer by Mr.. J. M.
Brown, citizen of that place:
"Hon. S. NJ. King, Philadelphia
am informed that vessel with fifty
Jewish families on board, which left
Russia on account of persecution, is
expected to arrive in Philadelphia. /,
through you, offer one hundred acres
of land in Motley county, Texas, to
each family that will settle on the
same"
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1882-02-25
elected.

THANKS TO A. Rignaiden & Co., of
Lake Charles, Joe Chaumaut, of China
postofic, CaIcasieu parish, S. A.
Thompson, Dry Creek, and Julins
Duwe, of Vernon parish, for new
subscriptions to the Echo. Also to
ID. d. Andrus, of Mermentau, and G..
w. Heard, of Dry Creek, for renewal
Of their subscription.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1882-02-25
GREAT GERM DEsTnovp.
DARBY'S
PrOphylactic Fluid,

FITTING of SMALL
Pox Prevented.
Ulcers purified AMI,
healed.
Gangrene prevented
and cured.
Dysentery cured.
idly.
Scurvey cured In
short time.
letter died up.
1t is perfectly harm
less.
For Sore Throat il is
a sure cure.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1882-02-25
A. M. MAYO, Secretary.

CIR your hats, boots and shoes,
spring coats, white aud eolorcd shirts,
aaddlery and harness, smoking and
chewing tobacco, dried apples, canned
goods, such as okra and tomatoes, fresh
canned apples, baked beans, sardincs
in mustard, Lima beans, cooked corned
beef, fresh mackerel, jelly, etc, ctc.,
at j. wv. organs.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1882-02-25

We ARE in receipt of two numbers
of volume / of Louisiana Biographies.
This is good work and win be valu-
able when completed. Success to the
energetic author and publisher.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1882-02-25

The various mail routes in this
State have been awarded to the for
tunate bidders. The first on the list
is from Lake Charles to Cameron, and
was awarded to Jno. Miller, at $4,000
per annum, etc. These contracts are
for four years, subject to such changes
as are prescribed by the postal law.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1882-02-25

The Congressional Convention held
at the Senate House, New Orleans, on
the goth of Feb. 1882, unanimously
nominated Hon. Joseph II. Acklin to
the XLyITIth Congress. There being
NO other candidate the nomination was
unanimous, and the nominee will be
pierfed
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1882-02-25
I'm MEMO RAM.
j OH N d L M i T r Y

j o H N D / MI T r Y
OF NEW ORLEANS,
of the Epitaph Gen1 Albert Sidney Johnston.
This Monument,
The Gift of Friends in England
Was brought Across-Sea and raised
In the City of Richmond
In the State of Virginia,
His Mother,
To the Memory
of
THOMAS JONATHAN JACKSON,
Who
Living in an Age of Principle,
Chose what a Losing Cause;
But to that Cause,
lie gave Faith SO true-a Spirit pure,
A Genius grand a Mould so
That his Countrymcn revered him.
Even his Enemies honored him,
And distant People, reading Lofty Nature in Lofty Works.
Called him Great!
His Life one of many and sharp Contrasting;
Yet the Meek Simplicity that marked bis Character,
Welded these into Harmony.
devout Chrisian-he the less bold Soldier;
In Peace tender of the humb-in Battle, his
Conjured Victory!
Strong the Qualities that shine fifty Civil
mild Teacher gathering the peaceful Youthful
In War approved of Conscience he lowered Prayeu Giant
And on Historic Fields, rvaed the Choicest
Most Famous Predecessors
In every phase of his stainless Career
In his Home-among Men--wth his Pupils;
In his States brightest hour--in her darkest.
He stood, Himself
The Type of a Noble Races Nobet Teachings;
And his Fame,
founded in ALL guarded from Wrong by the Verdict Coemporarie
hail. when Mems Places to be fixed by the Generation
Stand before its Judges, Firm like
STONE WALL
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1882-02-25

hAN n to serve for the LIST and I'd weeks.
- commencing April "a, 1882, of the regu-
lar April term Of the 18th Judicial District
Court in and for the parish Of Caleasieu,
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1882-02-25

Mr.. A. BELL, general manager for
w. F. Stuart & Co., Orange, Texas,
was 10 town this week.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1882-02-25

Black diphtheria is killing many
people in Bloomingdaie, d, .. The
patients tongue becomes black and
swollen, and protrudes from the
mouth. Death ensges IN about is
h9Ars after.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1882-02-25

A company has organized with
$4,000 capital to build pillow factory
in Chattanooga. The manufacturing
boom in Chattanooga seems to be a
permanent thing Atlanta Post-Ap-
peal.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1882-02-25
DYPTHERIA
PREVENTED.

Cholera e, dissipated.
Ship Fever prevented
by its use.
10 cases Of death in
the house, 1t should
q lw avs be used
about the CORPSE
it will prevent any
unpleasant smell.
An Antidote for Ami.
NAL or Vegetable
Poisons, Stings, etc
Dangerous efiiuyias
Of sick rooms and
hospitals removed
by its use.
Yellow Fever
Eradicated.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1882-02-25
G. w. McCRANIE,
Pres. La. Press Association.
/. 4. BENTLEY, Secretary.

STICK TO Ir AND SUCCEED. Per
servance is the the main-stay in life.
To hold on and out to the end is the
chief matter. If the race could be
won by squirt, thousands would wear
the blue ribbon, but they are short,
winded, and pub up after the first
gallop. They begin with flying, and
end in crawling backward. When il
comes to the collar work, many take
to iiLbing.
II the apples do not fall the first
shake of the tree, our hasty folks are
too lazy to fetch a ladder, and in too
much of a hurry to wait till the fruit
is ripe enough to fall itself. The
hasty man is as hot as fire at the
onset, and as cold as ice at the end.
He is like the Irishman's saucepan,
which had many good points about it,
but il had no bottom: He who can
not bear the burden aud heat of the
day, is not worth his salt--7much less
his potatoes.
We ought not to be put out of
heart by difficulties, they are sent on
purpose to try the stuff we are made
of. ana truly depend upon it, they do
us a world Of good. There's reason
why there are bones 10 our meat and
stones in our land. A world where
cvery thing is easy would be q nur-
sery for babies, not q fit place for men.
Celery is not sweet till it has felt frost,
and man don't come to his perfec-
tiop till sdisappointinept has dropped
half q hnndred-weight or two on his
toes.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1882-02-25
Agents for the Echo.

Hox. JosEpn ii. AcKLIE will be our
next representative in congress.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1882-03-18

me, Mr.. McGinniss," said Miriam, as
she left the wake.
Why not?'
Because my betrothed, Mr.. O'Brien.
has told me that you are lacking in the
'savoir vivre," which every truly cnl-
tured gentleman should possess; in
other words, that you are far down.
"If / had him here" hissed the young
man through his clenched teeth, 'sme-
thinks my wealth of box-toed boot
would toy with his custom made pants
awhile.
"Would it, indeed?" said voice from
the steps of a neighboring sour mash
emporium. 'sThen defend yourself as
best you may"
Each man spat on his hands and sailed
in. AS they rolled around on the side
walk, Miriam shrank in terror to the side
of the building. The men fought as
only those nerved by desperation can
fight. Suddenly they disappeared from
view, dull thud being the only clue to
their whereabouts. One glance, and the
gitl saw all.
They had fallen through coal hole.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1882-03-18

tubs they go to the dye vats. We now
excel in this country the European
feather dyers in the delicacy and dura-
bility with another, tousling, hacking
and mussing them in such way that
their destruction seems inevitable. They
are then soused of all our colors except
the coral tint, in which the Old World is
still ahead. However, that tint has not
been much in demand by fashion.
s.When it is, our dyers say, I'VE shall of
course beat them in that too." When
thoroughly dried, beaten, redried,
combed and sorted, the feathers pass
into the hands of girls. The thick, un-
slightly stem of each feather is pared
down thin on the under side, and
in place of its stiff and ugly
quill tapering substitute OF wire,
covered with cotton and paper,
is firmly fastened on. By careful sort
ing, clipping, selecting out and match
ing pieces from different feathers, a
composite second feather is made, to
underlie the long and perfect one which
constitutes the top of each completed
plume, and these various pieces are Sc
curely sewed together, so that it requires
sharp eye to detect that the fine con-
struction, of double thickness. is not a
single feather. In exceptionally valu-
able plumes. the lower as we'll as the
upper feather is whole and not made up
of pieces, but in all cases the completed
plume is double. IF the stem of the
upper feather is discolored 1t is carefully
scraped.
After steaming, to soften The feathers,
they are next eurled and ''laid." In the
first process girl by passing the tibers
between her thumb and q dull knife
blade, gives them regular curl all along
both sides of the feather, and the second
consists in giving them series of dex-
trous little twists which throw the curled
ends upon the upper side of the plume.
All this work adds an average of ten per
cent. to the value of the feathers. A
pound of fine ones, suitable for plumes,
will contain $50 feathers, sufficient for
seventy five plumes, and costs, say $3.50.
The finished plumes command from 81
to SIS each, according to length and
quality, but the general average is low
cred by the small comparative value of
the lower grades.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1882-03-18

SUNFLowER SEED FOR PoULTRY.-A
correspondent, Mrs. NJ J. c., Otter
Iowa, gives her experience in raising
mammoth Russian sunhower seed fol-
poultry and for stock It is eagerly
eaten, makes the hens produce eggs
plentifully, keeps the feathers glossy
and elegant. Our correspondent has
grown it successfully on variety OF
soils, and even in fence corners, and re
CARDS the stalks to be used for kindline
wood as by no means unimportant. In
conclusion she adds: ''It q ows to double
the size of the common South American
variety, and far excels it in the large
heads of nice black seeds, if cultivated
like other grains and kept free from
weeds. I raise heads larger over than a
water pail, and very heavy. I plant a
patch every year for my chickens II
you plant near your barn the poultry
will live and grow fat, and one would be
astonished at the amount of eggs pro-
duced. It takes three quarts for an
acre, and plant as far apart as corn
Prairie Farmer.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1882-03-18
Dress In Paris.

There are in fact, but three sets of
women who dress a great deal in Paris
the mondaines, the dem mi-mondaines, and
the actresses. Of the second class there
is no need to speak further. The mon
daines as the fashionable set is called,
comprise a certain number of titled
ladies and the wives of prominent bank
ers There is an immense amount of
wealth in this set, and corresponding
passion for display. These are the in
ventors of wonderful costumes and mar
velous hats, of toilets compounded OF
half dozen costly materials, of stockings
with point lace insertion let into the an
step. They it is who have decreed that
lady's reception dress and dinner
dress, walking dress and driving dress,
morning dress and afternoon dress, bali
dress and soiree dress, shall be radically
different, the one from the other, thus
compelling any lady who wishes to keep
up with the fashions to buy twice as
toilets as she may need in season. But
it must be confessed that if they
carry things to extremes in the
matter of dressing they do
the thing to perfection. No woman on
earth understands the toilet art better
than your born Parisienne. The Ameri-
can lady has immense degree of Unborn
taste and of native refinement, which
keeps her from following the wild aber-
rations that distinguish the dress of even
the most carefully attired of English la
dies. But the American belle, unless all
her dresses come direct from Paris, is
much hampered by the lack of taste and
skill displayed by our resident dressmak-
ers. Such cutting and carrying of rich
brocade and richer satin. of velvet and
silk, of grenadine and gauze, as one
sometimes witnesses among the toilets of
newly arrived group of American la
dies is positively woeful to contemplate.
Nothing but the exquisite natural taste
of the American lady saves her from
being worse guy" than her British
female cousin; for the London dress
makers are very good, and can make up
charming things, if only they are per-
mitted to do SO by their customers
Paris Letter.