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The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1883-02-03

Planters have done but little so far in
preparing for this years crop, though one
month Of the new year is gone. A number
of gins along the river are still running,
and we have heard Ct some planters who
still have crtton unpicked. The weather
has been favorable for repairing fences.
opening bitches, blowing, etc.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1883-02-03

The new drug store of Sandel & Ably,
next door south of Ribs bookstore, will
soon be in process of erection. 1t will have
a front OFFS feet by 60 feet in depth. The
front will be imitation OF iron, having one
door set back feet, with large show
window on either side. Mr.. Carson is the
architect and contractor for the wood work.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1883-02-03

and we presume that both did Leave. though
it is not improbable that they deferred
their departure to Thursday. Both may,
however, be looked for up to-day or to-
morrow.
Navigation at ST. Louis is still suspended
and heavy ice blockades the lower Ohio
river.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1883-12-21
Mothers Turn.

1T is mothers turn to be taken care
of now
The speaker was wiusome young
girl, whose bright eye, fresh color and
eager looks told of light hearted hap
piness. Just out of school, she had
the air of culture which is an added
attraction to blithe young face. 1t
was mothers turn now. Did she know
how my heart went out to her for her
unseltish words?
Too many mothers, 10 their love Of
their daughters, entirely overlook the
idea that themselves need recreation.
They do without all the easy, pretty
and charming things, and say nothing
and the daughters do not think there
is any self-denial involved. Jennie
gets the new dress and mother wears
the old one, turned upside down and
wongside out. Lucy goes on the noun
tain trip, and mother stays at home
and keeps house. Emily is tired of
study and must lie down in the after
noon; but mother, though her back
aches, has no time for such recreation.
Girls, take good care Of your moth.
ers. Coax them to let you relieve them
of some of the harder duties which,
for years, they have prtiently borne.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1883-12-21
A Question for Lawyers.

A rather curious case is pow before
the Lexington (Ky.) courts Some
weeks ago capias was issued to a
sheriff, who was a very small man,
commanding him to bring the bodJ
OF good old minister who was very
large and fieshy and weighed $50
pounds. He was found working out
in the woods on summer day. He
did not want to go, and yet he was
punctilious observer of the law. So
he went and lay down flat on his back
in the shade and solemnly said, In
compliance with the law, | hereby SUR
render my body to be taken by you,'
and he lay there until the little man
got tired and went away. Now the
question is, did he resist an officer?
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1883-12-21
One He Hadn't Met.

One day pompous little fellow at
a dinner-table was boasting of the
great men with whom he was on init
mate terms. He had been in constant
correspondence with Longfellow, had
lunched with Tennyson, was in friend
ly relations with the Prince of Wales,
and in skort, knew everything and
everybody. At length quiet individ-
ual at the further end of the room
broke in on the conversation with the
question: My dear sir, did you hap
pen to know the Siamese Twins when
they were in this country:' Our hero,
who evidently had a talent for lying,
but no real genius, at once replied !:
The Siamese Twins, sir? Yes, sir
| became very intimate with one OF
them, but never had the good for
tune to meet the other.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1883-12-21
The Use of Tobacco.

1t is rather singular that Anne leans
are the only civilized people who hab
itually chew tobacco, although sailors
of every nation are addicted to its
maslication. 1t is singular, too, that
We, probably, employ tobacco in other
ways less than other countries. Snuff
fling is rather rare here, common as it
is in Europe, e-lecially on the CONT
nent. We do not smoke any more
than. if as much as, the English and
the French, Italians, notably the Ger
mans, Dutch and Spaniards exceed us
in smoking. But AS tobacco eaters We
occupy the field alone, having, it is to
be rcgretted,' Il monopoly of one of the
most unwholesome and obnoxious OF
practices. The national mastication is
known over the world, and does ample
service in all conceptions and carica
lures of brother Jonathan. TO see a
landsman chewing tobacco anywhere
abroad is to know him Tor an Ameri
c,n, native or adopted. Perhaps We
stick TO the worst Of the thr, e customs
because tobacco is to 20 large an ex-
tent an American plant. Europe knew
nothing of it until the discovery by
Columbus of the Western World.--
The sailors he sent ashore at Cuba
found the natives smoking, and seeing
them emit smoke from their mouth
aud nostrils, imagined them to be OIL
fire. All the natives from the north.
vests coast at Patagonia used tobacco
and to chew it is one of our inaliena
bic and aboriginal rights.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1883-12-21
Learn to be Brief.

Long visits, long stories, long essays,
long exhortations and long prayers sell
dom profit t1ose who have anything
to do with them. Life is short. Time
is short. Moments are precious
Learn to condense, abridge and inten-
sify. We can bear things that are dull
If they are only short. We can endure
many an ache and i'll If it is over soon,
while even pleasures grow insipid and
pain intolerable if they are protracted
beyond the limits of reason and con-
venience. Learn to be short. Lop off
branches; stick to the main facts in
your case. If You pray, ask for what
you would receive and get through
If you speak, tell your message and
hold your peace boil down two words
into one, and three into two.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1883-12-21
Lamp Chimneys.

The most noted oculists recommend
blue, blaishgray or smoke colored
glasses as a protection for weak eyes
against the unpleasant effects of red,
orange and yellow light. On the same
principle, remarks scientific paper,
the trying reddi h yellow light of cam
dies and gas may be pleasantly modi-
fed by the use OF chimneys or globes.
Shades coored in light marine blue,
may also be used for the same purpose.
A remarkably near approach to light
agreeable as daylight is said to be pro-
duced by apetroleum lamp with round
wick and light blue chimney of twice
the usual length, the latter causing
so great drouth that the petroleum
burns with nearly white flame.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1883-12-21
Volume XL.---No. %,
Happy Every Day.

Sidney Smith cut the following from
a newspaper, and preserved it for him
self: sWhen you rise in the morning,
form the resolution to make the dav
a happy one 20 some fellow creature.
1t is easily done-a let-of garment to
the man who needs it, kind word to
the sorrowful, an encouraging express
sion to the striving-tritles in them
selves light as air-will do it at least
for "A hours. And if you are young,
depend upon it, it will tell when you
are old: and if you are old, rest assur-
ed it will send you gently and happily
down the stream Of time to eternity.
If you send one person, only one, hap
PLY through each day, that is $50 in
the course of the year. If you live
only 40 years after you commence that
course of medicine, you have made A.
600 beings happy, at all events for
time
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1883-12-21
z:elerf Reaning,
Shaved by a Ma chine.

There is quiet little shop in a side
street down town which displays a
modest sign bearing the words:
Machine shaving done by lady ope.
rators.'
Lace curtains veil the interior from
prying eyes. A reporter opened the
door yesterday and walked in with a
look of confidence and a three days
beard on his face. AS he entered two
young women and patient-looking
man rose from settee and stood by
three BARRIERS chairs. The patient
man looked at therep p'rter with passing
interest. The young women looked
into the mirrors in front Of the chairs
While the reporter Was hanging up
his hat and coat he chose the smaller
of the two women because she had
ceased to stare at herself in the glass,
and was much palmer than the other.
There was chance that she would
pay more attention to the victim than
her prettier companion. The repor-
ter sank into her chair, leaned his head
back and elevated his chin. The op-
orator passed small and smooth hand
over his chin, and asked with liberal
smile, as she tucked towel into his
neck:
Did you want shave, SIR
Yes very light, please, 60 over it
once
She passed her hand over the repor-
ters face again. She got the lather
cup and gently smeared him while she
looked into the glass When her at
tention was called to the matter she
smiled TRANQUILITY and removed the
lather from his mouth, nose and ears.
We make it point, Sir, never to
talk TO our customers, she said as she
brushed u stray lock back from the re-
porter's forehead with one hand and
began to rub the lather into his chin
with the other. 1T not only interrupts
US while working, but also. as I'm sure
you We bad experience enough to know,
becomes at times somewhat tiresome.
| mean to the customer, because there
are always times when one enjoys a
little repose, don't you know, and ma
ny gents seek barber on that account,
which was what made me resolve to
remain perfectly silent at all times,
for, says to myself, If gent
Pardon my interrupting you, but
there is no hair under my ears, where
you are now rubbing me-
No; | know it. | just do that from
force of habit. Let t-me-see. What
wS | saying: Oh, yes, | says to my
Any gent can be talked to until
nSis that put a out that he feels as if
he
What sort of machine do you use
when you shave a man.
AS if he dian't want to come any
more and so it is
Does it run by steam:'
Its best, according to my mind, to
preserve strict silence. Besides, what
lid you say about the machine? Oh,
here it is-'tisn't new, you know; that
is, 'tisn't very new, because-er- because
it's simply razor with steel comb
screwed on. 1t is impossible to cut any
one with it. 1ou lay it on the face,
you know, and then just pull it along
the cheek like this
Very. Let go. It's against the
grain.
'Oh, is it? Why you don't say? |
thought it was with the grain, but
that's just like ME. I'm always max
ing mistakes. Last Chewsday-
Ten minutes later pallid man e
merged from the quiet shop and hur
ried toward the corner. The patient
man looked after him with an express
sion of sympathy on his worn fea-
tures.-New York Sun.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1883-12-21
Worry.

Half the burdens Of life are caused
by worrying. And more than half
our worrying is about the future. AS
We know nothing of the future, not
even one hour beyond the present, but
We can only surmise and imagine, it
follows that by far the greater part Of
all our worrying is simply about ina
ginable things. Hence the folly of it.
The great difficulty, however, is that
We cannot help it by any direct effort
of the will. There is only one cure
for worry, and that is to work so bard
and so earnestly at our present task
as to have no time for aught else: and
to leave the future to God.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1883-12-21
Wasn st a Liar.

What is your name:' asked the
United States attorney of an old
'squa ter, who had been summoned be-
fore the court as witness
Which name, Squire p
Your right name of course.
/ 4 amt got none
What, you don't mean to say that
you havn't got a name
{ oh, no sir.
This summons says that your name
is AnaniaS Peters. Is that so:'
Reckin it is.
Thought you didn't have a right
name =
i aint';.
Look here. sir. Don't trlie with
this court. Your prevar;cation will
not be tolerated here. Why did you
say that Ananias Peters was not your
right name
Case 1t wan right to name IA boy
Auanias. therefore II ain right name.
The Bible, | believe, sorter called Ana
Mas liar
w hlch, interposed the judge, makes
it peculiarly applicable to your Csc.
Look here. jedge, don't want to
progic with you, case you've got the
upper hand f M. but | don't want
YOU to hit me with the Bible. A
mans in bad enough fix when yer
ding the law at him, but when yer
ding the law an the gospel both, he
amt got no show.
Where do you live" asked the at
torney.
AT home
But ~hvre your home'
In the ueighborho u o whar live.
The judge turned away u conceal a
smile. and the attorney, giving the
'squatter' look OF extreme severity,
said DO you know where you are,
sir =
'les, sir I'm here
You won't be here much longer,
unless yuu answer my questions
I m answerin yo6r questions, squire.
Go on with your rat killin'.'
w here were YOU when Mr.. Jasen.
the defendant, cut timUer from govern
meut land =
w hen did he do the cuttin':'
That's what want TO find out. !
think il VAS sometime in October
Wal, some times in October | was
in one place an sometimes in another.
Did YOU ever See him cutting gov
ernment timber
Il believe did
w hen :
'Durin' the war when he was in the
army :
None Of your foolishness now
Didn't you come along the road one
day in October and talk to the defend
ant while he Was chopping down a
tree :
No, sir
Remember that you are under oath.
So you didn't see him while he was
ehorping down tre,: :
Didn't say that, squire, for | did
see him chopin the tree
Did you stop and talk to him:
'Ges. sir
hought you salu You uluh stop
aid talk to him.
Didn't say it
You did
Didn't say it,
w hat did you say:
Said didn't talk to him while he
was chopin, fur when | came up an
spoke, he quit choppiu' Ef thar any
thing else you wanter know, fire a
way. = .drkHHSdw 7rareler.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1883-12-21
0woods-like NIn1rotl

lace .of the earth-and prepared a
quarter OF yeuIson. neatly wrapped IN
u linen cloth. for his share OF the do
nation party; but old Mrs. Peek, bis
grandmother, had tshed jar Of APP
pie SaGce cut of the cellar, and dressed
some tender chickens.
I'm past gong 10 church myself,
SAID Granny Peek, But | always Was
one to believe in the dissemination Of
the Gospel. 50 ! don't grudge -
chickens and apple sass. BE sure
carry em careful, Peter. and
Granny" suddenly burst in the
honest young giant, ho was tying his
cravat before the glass with laborous
iingeFs. how many years Is 1t since
grandfather courted YOU
Co d land o Cos hem said Granny
Peek, ~ hat is the boy taIkin' about:
Because won't 10 know what he
said, I'm goin courtin' myself, gran
ny. and am I had no experience, and
| don't know how to 20 to work.
We'll never" sand Granny Peek.
Try to remember, there's u good
soul, urged Peter.
Its so long ago, said Granny Peck,
with sympathetic moisture beginning
to suiluse her bleareL eye balls. Times
is charged now
But human uatur' is human natur',
just the same, said Peter. How was
1t granny
lie took me out ridin', said the
old lady, assisting her memory with q
goodly pinch OF rose colored snuff.
That's it ezactly,' said Peter I've
harnessed up Red Robin and washed
off the buggy wagon, and calculate
TO ask her 10 ride home with ne fiom
the doratIon party.
And it was dreadful moonshiny
night refectiyely added the old
| lady.
Moons at the full exultingly NUT
I, red Peter. Il believe there's fate
I III it.
And he set up close to me, and
squeezed my hand with the hand he
wasn't drivin' with, and he said |
was the prettiest gal he'd ever seen,
and could | be contented to come and
live at Hawks Farm. And | said !
didn't ex; city know, but he might ask
father. And We were married the
next fall. All, dcary ne, deary me
Lov long ago all that SEEMS
1T sounds easy ,Lough,' said Peter
deSpondently. But d rather cleal
of Il wLole pate h O hickory woods
Don't be afear, Peter said the ole
lady, laying kindly hand on hn
shoulder. If she's gal wuth havin'
ste II know you're IL good lad Ant
| j bet IA cookey she'll say Yes
Il only wish | could think so gran
ny sand Peter, with sigh.
is ii Kate Lanney:' said Mrs. Peck
or Mary EIsley:'
'Taln't neither one, said Peter
sheerishly. Its Jessie Field
Land o massy" sald Granny Peck
cleyatlng her withered hands. 'Wha
OH airth is pretty pink and white
piece Of china like her to do in vile
place like lhIs:'
She's as smart as Il steel trap, sal,
Peter. Don't you worry, 9anny
Once get her here, you'll see tina
she'll be all right
SO Peter piled his venison, an,
: chickens and jar of apple sauce int
the back of the roomy old buggy, ant
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1883-12-21
Granny Peck looked doubtfully

Granny Peck looked doubtfully
around.
Well said she, I'm glad you've
succeeded, P~ter. But I'm little
aleared all these homespun things
won't be fine enough for Miss Jessie
Fiend.'
Jessie echod Peter, with an excel
lent imitation of surprise. 1t amt
Jessie at all. Jessie is going to marry
that Jeller fellow. It's Miss Bessie
Field, lhe Squirc's sister, as I've pro-
p sel to-
We'll, | never" said Granny Feck.
How could | have be n so mistook =
I'm sure | don't know said Peter,
stolidly.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1883-12-21
Howard ) Bros.
ap 2O-uS
By Universal Accord.

.-YER'S CATHARTIC PILLS are the best
of all purgatives for family use. They
are the product of long, laborious, and
successful chemical Investigation, and
their extensive use, by physicians in
their practice, and by all civilized ma
tions, proves them the best and most
effectual purgative Pill that medical
science can devise. Being purely veg
etable no BARN can arise from their
use, and being sugar-coated, they are
pleasant to take. In intrinsic value
and curative powers no other Pills
eanu y gessfar asiis uthssaa-:: s.ssst every
Z. &c ttesfs ,:cs, -
employ them, when needed. They
keep the system in perfect order, and
maintain in healthy action the whole
machinery of life. Mild. searching and
effectual. they are especially adapted
to the needs of the digestive apparatus,
arrangements of which they prevent
and cure, if timely taken. They are
the best and safest physic to employ
for children and weakened constitu-
tions, where a mild but cficctual
cathartic is required.
For sale by all druggists.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1883-12-21
The Value of Manner.

We have heard it said that you can
do every thing, however unpleasant it
may be to those around you, if you
only do it in the right way; and the
instance given to prove the truth Of
this assertion is taken from humble
life. A cat walks daintily into room
on cold winters day, and with a be-
nign glance at the company and mel
odious purring sound she walks lei
surely round, selects for herself the
warmest place in the room-perhaps
the only warm place, right in front of
the tire-curls herself up and goes
serenely to sleep, sure that no one will
be so unreasonable as to question her
right to sleep wherever inclination
prompts her to sleep. No one calls
it selfish, no one is annoyed because
she has done it so prettily and grace
fully. Indeed, every one experiences
an excess Of warmth and comfort ia
themselves from beholding pussy's
blissful repose. Now, imagine the
same thing done in a different and by
less -self-possessed Individual. If it
were done hurriedly, or noisly, or
clumsiy, or diffidently even, or in any
way obtrusively, what storm of in.
dlgnation it would excite in the boz
SONS of all beholders! How thought
less, how inconsiderate, how selfish!
No, it must be done as the cat does it.
without a sound or a gesture to pro-
woke criticism, or it must not be done
at all. -
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1883-12-21

A pert little girl in Troy boasted to
one of her young friends that her ia
ther kept carriage. 'Ah, but was
the triumphant reply, my father drives
Il street cal.'
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1883-12-21
4 sflfrt Etory.
THE DON ALTON PARTY

1t was the evening of the donation
party at Rev. Simeon Slides.
Jessie Field had retrimmed her
white muslin dress with apple green
ribbon, and even Aunt Betsey had
washed and ironed her French caar-
brio dress, which constituted toe
cream of her wardrobe, and bastetf
fresh frlings into the neck and
sleeves; while the Squire himself,
blacning his boots on the kitchen
porch, congratulated himself, in a
complacent sort of IA way, on til : con-
tents of the box gon, which stood
ont under the shade of the old apple
tree.
IF every body takes as creditablcA
load to the parsons as that said the
Squire, i guess they won't starye
there. \ ham, IA bag o mixed chick.
en- food, firkln o first class buttsS>
Y dressed fowls, a bushel o russ
apples, and loaf o plum cake, ma! !is
arter Grandmot her Fields Revolutid4 l
AIRY receipt; and besides all that X.
Good gracious, pa; said Jessie,
who was tucking away her curls un7
der the strings of her split-straw
gyEsy hat, how are Aunt Bets and !
ever going to ride with all that load =
We'll, said the Squire, with :sft
oleoginous little csucSIe. you'll have
10 coutrIye it somehow. One Of you
can sit on the butter tirkln, and sort q
study it. and there's penty o room fUA
the other along side o me on the sea-
and hold the plum cake on your lap
And coming back. amt noway dis
turbed that you'll get plenty o beaux
Gals always do. The moon will be at
Its full, and Peter Peek and Hiram
Jellifer IS holhto be there and
Don't talk nonsense, pa, said Jes-
sic, laughing. aud looking provoking
Iy pretty, just as Aunt Betsey, glanced
ever her shoulder luto the glass, saH
The reflection of her own lace, and
>ished softly.
Alb, the sd, sad difference bel
Is aud 80.
Il was pretty, too. vixen was u
girl, said Aunt Betsey to herself; i
don't suppose am positively i'll loo.:-
ing Tow. But the dimples are gore,
and the smooth velvety curves Of
cheek and chin; and there are ineipi.
ent crows feet around my eyes, and-a-
wrinkle On my forehead aud when |
ga..G | am left to sit among
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1883-12-21

Here, IL all out now
oh, Mr. Peek" faitered Miss Fled.
'po you pose, said honest Peter.
with dim rcmrmbrarce Of his eraud
mothers lesson, 'yeu could be happy
1t Hawks FARM
oh. Mr.. Peck"
.But say y,s or no. ul,ad.d P.teI
.WIll Won be my wife, Hiss Fie!d:'
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~ a,annI p.,ar saa s,,,;,a;nn rrnr,
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Was il ui,chcrarts Nothing of the
sort for there, close to hlm, smiling
and blushlng IN the moonlight, with
her veil thrown aside. was Miss Bet,
sew. And 1t Was Miss BetSev to whom
he had proposed, and Miss Betsev who
had accented him.
Peter Peck IA gave convulsiye casl
for breath; What was he to 10 !:
Should he tell Miss Betsey that il
was a mistake-that he had taken heI
for her niece or should he
Rut at that instant ba can,I,,
Geeting plimpse of Je.sir's radiant
face turned mn to .yellifar'. and il ua.
like a revelation To him
HANG il alIr oroane5 ps,sr r. him
seIr. tbst o,L.r f,9IIow Los tsan ahaa,
If me, And don,t cara - come,
| cent she's only feather headed ii
tie coonet art-r ali and Miss Rs,sa,
i woi,h ,ua of har a,I Ia;o,, :,
verv young mvself onI ,hara rar.,
- -, - ;.
,h;n" II' " h. orce M 'a: ha:a % sa;% -, ''N "
n ~ ~ ~ ~
90, 'ahihS MISS betseyS ann teno
cry unuer his own he proceedt,
sallall.'s in'o 'he rouse 10 ASK 'h'
squire : Gohsen' anu anu o''ssIng'
AS ,or Jessie she fingered '|ns unae
tue 'Iees I'D tne ihoonilSht' taking
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1883-12-21

There is no greater delight than to
be conscious of sincerity on self exam
ination.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1883-12-21

A little boy whose sprained wrist
had been relieved by bathing in whis-
ky, surprised his mother by asking
'Did papa sprain his throat when he
was boy?