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The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1883-09-29

The Los Angeles. California, Her
aid says: The ostrich ranch is now
the object of special interest since the
chicks commenced to hatch, which is
at about the rate of one per day.
These little fellows are about as large
as a half-grown duck, and start out
with a good appetite and grow rapidly.
1t was feared that, owing 10 the long
voyage the birds had made, the first
eggs would not hatch, bnt fortunately
that fear was groundless, aud the eggs
are Matching on time. The birds have
LAID about u hundred eggs, and they
are going through the incubator in the
usual way.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1883-09-29
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The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1883-09-29
Giants and Little Giants.

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JUST WHAT THEY REPRESENT.
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IT HAS THE EAsE AND DURABIL-
ITY OF AN ELLLP-.c. AL
STYLES AND PRICES OF BUcoIEs
AND CARRIAGES IN STOCK AT
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The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1883-09-29

In Florida the sugar cane, ground
pea, field pea and potato crops have
been badly damaged By the dFouth.
Only a half crop, If that, will be made.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1883-09-29

The farmer should be punctual with
his cows. They are creatures Of habit,
and learn to be at the bars At about
the same time each night. If they are
not driven up soon after they come to
the bars they soon get to feeding and
straying away. Punctuallty should
also be observed in milking, 80 it may
be done about the same time each day
Also mixers should not be changed
oftener than can be helped No harsh
treatment should ever be practieed or
loud talk be allowed while the milk
ing is being done,
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1883-09-29

The following ingredients make an
excellent homemade fertilizer. 1t has
been tried for several years and has
proven a cheap and efficient manure,
adapted to large number of soils !:
Acid phosphate, 600 pounds; ksinite,
200 pounds cotton seed, 600 pounds,
and stable manure or rich earth or
mold, 600 pounds, making one ion Of
1000 pounds. Put down, best under
shelter, or SO that the heap will not he
leached, layer of manure or earth, a
LAYER of cotton seed well soaked in a
solution of kainIte, a sprinkle of acid
phosphate, manure OF earth, again,
etc. The heap shonld be thoroughly
muIst, but not run. Cover over with
earth. Watch 1t that it does not heat
too much and pour more water in the
top of it If it does. Let the heap lie
six or eight weeks. Then cut down
across the layers and chop together.
Can use according 10 desire, 500
to 1000 pounds per acre.-Dr. CAas.
". Do6ney, Jr., Raleigh, ". C.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-02-14
A Touching Story.

We are indebted to DR.. Cuyler
for the following touching story: A
friend gave me, lately. the expert
enee of a skillful professional M an
in about the following words; my
early practice" said the doctor,
was successful, and l soon attain
ed an enviable position. l married
lovely girl. Two children were
born to US, and my domestic happi-
ness was complete. But l was in
vited often to social parties where
wine was freely circulated, and /
soon became slave to its power.
Before | was aware of it l was a
drunkard. My noble wife never
forsook me, never tainted me with
a bitter word, never ceased to pray
for my reformation. We became
wretchedly poor, so that my family
were pinched for daily bread. One
beautiful Sabbath my wife went to
church and left me on "a lounge
sleeping off my previous nights
dCOduCu. dS dIOuScu Wy uedT-
ing something fall heavily on the
floor. | opened my eyes and saw
my little boy of six years old
tumbling on the carpet. His older
brother said to him, Now, get up
and fall again. That's the way pa
pa does. Let's play we are drunk.
| watched the child as he PERSONAL
ed my beastly movements in way
that would have done credit to an
actor, arose and left the house,
grooming in agony aud remorse. l
walked off miles into the country,
thinking over my abominable sin,
and the example l was setting be-
fore my children. | solemnly re-
solved that with Gods help | would
quit my cups; and I did. No lect-'
ure ever heard from Mr.. Cough
ever moved my soul like the spec
tacle ofmy own sweet boys playing
drunk, as papa does '"-E1.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-02-14
The Stepping Stones.

A little girl was sent on AN err
rand one day to she neighboring
village. Her path lay throug h
beautiful fields. ON her way she
had to cross a wide but shallow
stream. The bridge was long
way off, but there were firm, tried
stepping-stones all the way over.
90, | am afraid,i" said the child
to lady who was passing.
"But you see the stones, my
child; they so all the way across
"The water rs so wider she
said, tearfully docking across the
stream.
eyes, but it is very shallow. See
how easily can cross it."
Sc carefully picking her way,
she went quite over and then re-
turned.
Very timidly the little girl be-
gan to cross.
Gust one step al a time lis all
you have to take, said her kind
guide.
So one step followed another
the first few were the hardest tc
lakeland soon she was safe on
the other shore, smiling at her
fears.
at was not so hard, after all,
"she said, looking back on the
watery way. Just one step at a
time brought us over
Remember this walk, dear
when you have other hard things
to do. Go forward, and the wa,
wall look easier and easier. When
troubles come-as they are almost
sure to do in this wor.d-don't lool
at the waters before you, but al
the stepping-stones Jesus places
for your feet. The thing that We
feared very often does not come up
on US, or if it does, Jesus sends
such comforts as we never coulc
have imagined Here is a strong
firm stepping-stone that has otter
saved me from sinking: AS thy
days so shall thy strength be-"
There came many times in hel
afterlife when Mary remembered
that days lesson, and it brought
cheer and peace to her soul.--Juu
e1ite Instructor.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-02-14

There is no reason why those in
the school-roonl should lock as sol
emn as they usually do. 1t has
been handed down from the past
that all smiling, all joyousness is
entirely out of place in the school
room. The pupil looks on the
school-roosn as a sort Of Jail; the
teacher fears has influence will
crumble away if he ,sllews cheer
fulness, smiling and fun.
But the sehocl-room must be
looked at as a place Of genuine en-
joyment. The child accumulates
knowledge on the playground far
more rapidly than in the school
room. Why? Because Joy is an
element of the child's aife; it is
put there for a purpose; that pur-
pose is to nourish the growing
powers.
The school room is place to
grow in. Hence sunshine, happi-
ness and enjoyment belong there.
When children are unhappy they
cannot learn, they are educated the
most rapidly under benign inhuen-
ces.
Of course all this is contrary to
old ideas. The little child has
been told by older brothers of the
sharp eyes of the schoolmaster, the
vengeance ne visits on those who
whisper, the fioggings, etc, and he
looks at the teacher as a monster.
How often has he been thus gazed
at as he visited the homes of his
pupils.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-02-14
BE Temperate.

Young man, you are starting
out in life; you have, as it were,
two paths before you; the one is
the path of virtue and happiness,
the other of misery and woe; it is
yours to choose which path you
will travel; if you choose the first
you may have a happy home and
be surrounded by many friends; if
you choose the latter, it may seem
a pleasant path at first, but at last
poverty and shame will stare you
in the face if you desire to travel
in the first path, abstain from what
can intoxicate and ruin you if you
desire to travel on the latter path,
frequent the dram-shop, drink the
fiery poison, and you have a fair
start on the road to destruction. 1t
is at the dram shop that men start
on the road to the almshouse, the
Jail, lunatic asylum, inebriate
asylum. and many to the gallows.
Young man, every dramshop is a
snare of Satan if you go there you
are in danger of being caught.
Shuna it
Some young men think that it
makes them look like men to have
a cigar in their mouth, and be
found spending their time in
(what they term) first-class sa-
looms. Mems.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-02-14
Look Out There =!

DON'T judge a man by the clothes
he wears. God made one and the
tailor the other.
Don't judge him by his family
relations, for Cain belonged to a
good family,
Don't fudge a man by his speech,
for a parrot talks, but the tongue is
but an instrument of sound.
Don't judge man by his fail
ure in life, for many a man fails
because he is too honest to succeed.
Don't judge man by the house
he lives in, for the lizard and rat
often inhabit the grandest struc-
lures.
When a man dies, they who sur
vive him ask what property he has
left behind. The angels who bend
over the dying man, ask wha:
good deeds he has sent before him.
-EGchanqe.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-02-14
The Difference.

In this country it has been only
too common, when a man of high
standing and large business inf1u-
ence committed crime and be-
trayed confidence, to find ways to
palliate the crime and to rescue the
criminal from suffering just punish
ment. In France, on the other
hand, a different tendency, which
shows mercy to the community
rather than to the criminal, is seen
in the sentence of the president
and manager of the collapsed Union
Ge@eraIe to five years imprison-
ment each, and heavy fine. Nor
is there any likelihood over there
that justice will be weakened by
the process of "pardoning out. "
"Let no guilty man escape" is the
only rule of safety in a nation
which holds as fundamental prin-
ciple that all men are free and
equal, and to be treated accordingly
in law as well as in citizenship
Examiner.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-02-14
Temperance and the Churches

The Advance, of Chicago, in
late issue makes an earnest plea
for greater activity on the part Of
the Christian churches in the SER
vice of the cause Of temperance, in
which it says:
"We want-we must have-a
public sentiment that will uphold
vigorous temperance legislation.
How are we to get it? Largely
through the churches. They are
Gods appointed medium for reach
ing the worlds disorders. They
can not afford to look on while out
side reformers do the work that be-
longs to them. They can not afford
to allow any man even pretext
for believing that he has outrun
them in any benefcent work and
no one form of evil to be compared
with intemperance confronts the
churches. How are they to build
up a sentiment SO high that legis-
lation, planting its guns upon it,
will command the enemy.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-02-14
THE TREATMENT FOR A COLD.

HE TREATMENT FOR A GOLD
The Monthly Magazine Oondon)
reports DR.. Graham as saying that
it is not a correct practice, after a
cold is caught, to make the room a
person sits in much warmer than
usual, to increase the quantity OF
bed clothes, wrap up in flannel,
and drink large quantity Of hot
tea, Cruel, or other Stops, because it
will invariably increase the fever
ishness, and, in the majority Of in
stances, prolong rather than les
sen the duration of the cold. 1t is
we'll known that confirming inocu-
lated persons in warm rooms will
make their smallpox more violent,
by augmenting the general heat
and fever and it is for the same
reason that similar practice in
the present complaint is attended
with analogous results, cold being
in reality slight fever. In some
parts Of England, among the low
er order of the people, & large glass
Of cold spring water, taken on 60
ing to bed, is found to be success
full remedy, and, in fact, many med
zeal practitioners recommend re-
duced atmosphere and frequent
draughts of cold fluid as the most
efficacious remedy for a recent cold,
particularly when the patients
habit is full and plethoric.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-02-14

School House TO DEcIDK.-The
journal of Education believes that
E!n the end the "school-house is to
||eecide the temperance question.
The people-the children must be
taught just what it is, what It will
Pc to them if they drink it, and
What it will make them do. For
fhis, as all other reforms, to be sue
fesstul, must have its base in the
anatelligence ofthe people. 1t says +;
The false idea now so prevalent
Plat the abuse and not the use of
alcohol is the cause of the trouble,
nust be dispelled by a universal
Knowledge Of the truth about this
thlng.-Er.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-02-14
Apply to the Rumseller.

Ii you are anxious to lose YOUR
health and shatter your constitu-
ton, and happen to be in doubt
which is the shortest and easiest
way-apply to the rumseller.
II you are anxious to ruin YOUR
character by the speediest method
apply to the rumseller.
Ii you are DESTROYS of becoming
an inmate of the poor house-ap-
ply to the rumseller.
if you want to know how to-
change a good husband and father
into bad one-apply to the rum
seller.
If you require to learn how to
quickly transform loving wife
and affectionate mother into
worthless specimen of humanity
apply to the rumseller.
1t you wish to be informed of the
most successful method by which
your sons can be ruined for time
and eternity-apply to the rum
seller.
If you are troubled about the
question, How is it that your rates
and taxes are so heavy T-apply
to the rumseller.
If you wish to know how it is
that SO many of our best workman,
who receive the highest wages have
the most w.etched homes-apply
to the rumseller.
If you would like to know why
so many husbands beat their wives
apply to the rumseller.
If you want to know why it ia
that we have so many murders
suicides and sudden deaths-apply
to the rumseller.
If you would like to know how
it is that our churches are so often,
thinly attended-apply to the rum
seller.
If you wish to learn the secret of
so many professors of religion fall
ing-apply to the rumseller.
If you have spent your last cent
in drink, and wish to be repulsed
when you want to borrow dime
to buy a loaf of bread-apply to the
rumseller.
If, when you get into trouble,
you want to be told, You should
have taken care of yourself apply
to the rumseller.
If you want to lose everything
that is manly or womanly-apply
10 the rumseller.
you wish to become an outcast
in society, and part with all that
is worth having--apply to the
rumseller.
If you wish at last to be buried
in drunkard's grave, and wake
up in a drunkards hell apply to
the rumseller.-En.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-02-14
What aLittIe Girl Sa i'd to.Iunibs
BY MRS. JENNIE MARSH PARKER.

oh. Jumbo, big Jumbo from oyesr the sea,
wish / could make you as littksas me,
For Jumbo, poor Jumbo, wouldn't be yoE
For all of the goodies you had at theZoo.
You're too big for muffin. And ia nbo. i think
You'd give ZIP the circus as quick a wink
To be mere midget or something like nae,
Accounting canary, or chick-a-de-dee.
You couldn't be funny. 1t musi.be so sad
To be bigger than anything else 40 be had.
To big for whipping, too big for aplay,
And then Won can never try running away.
And oh, just to think, If you wanted n slice
of cake or, of pie, or anything nice.
1t would take, oh, SO much, for even a smack
Big bushels of pie! and oh, such a stack
OF candy for nibbles. Yes, Jumbo, L see
It's sad toIbe big, as big as can be,
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-02-14
Never Get Angry.

"Well, Teacher never gets ang-
ry," said Lewis Gray to his elder
sister, Mary, who had been trying
for half an hour to teach him the
names Of the mountain ranges III
Asia, and who had at length thrown
down the book in a fit of vexed de-
spair.
"What does she do then, when
you're so stupid r"
Why" she says :-"You must
take this lesson again tomorrow
Lewis" Then / know there's no
getting off till | get it. But she
does it so kind of pleasant that
try ever SO hard, then just to please
her.
When it pleases scholar to
please his teacher, she is enthron-
ed and wears crown more envi-
able than that of Bourbon or Bruins
wick. A word can never be I'M
spoken, and she is unfortunate who
utters in a passion what, afterwards,
she would fain recall.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-02-14

SUNDAY IN ToRoNTo.--Toronto
claims to be the quietest city on
the continent on Sundays No
street cars or cabs running; no
bootblacks at work ; no telegraph
offices open except the central one,
and that only for important mes
sages; drug stores only open at GER
tain hours, and then for the sale of
medicines exclusively; liquor sa-
looms closed from seven o'clock Sat
urday evening until five Monday
morning. We wish that the To
ronto notion of keeping Sunday
might prove contagious over the
whole continent.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-02-14
Ages of Noted Men.

The recent death of Thurlow
Weed, at the age of 80, recalls the
ages of public men in our country,
as follows: Patrick Henry, at Ga ;
John Jay, "a; John Adams, 81 !;
Thomas Jefferson, SO Jas. Monroe,
70; Aaron Burr, 81 Andrew Jack
son, rs; John G. Calhoun, 68; Hen
ry Clay, Is; John Quincy Adams,
81; Daniel Webster, 70; Martin
Van Buren,, 81; Zachary Taylor,
"a; Lewis Cass, 80; Edward Ever
EFT, 80; Thomas L. Benton, rs.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-02-14

No TRADE.-Here is a hint for
"our boys" A visitor at a State
prison was looking over the list Of
names in the prison register and
noticed that under the head of "Oc-
cupation," the words, "No trade"
were written against nine-tenths
of the names contained in the reg
lister. DR.. Watts evidently knew
what he was writing when he said,
"Satan finds some work
For idle hands to do.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-02-14

The home of Robert Toombs is
close by the spot of his birth at
Washington, Georgia, and he has
never lived permanently elsewhere.
"Fifty years ago." he said, 81
brought my wife to this house a
bride, and here we have lived all
these years. We have been blessed
more than the most, and [ thank
God for it,"
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-02-14
Cid HickOry's Wife.

When Gen. Jackson WAS cam
&idate.fcr the Presidency in 1926,
not only did the party opposed to
him abuse him for his public acts,
which, if unconstitutional or vio7
lent, were a legitimate subject for
reprobation, but they DETAINED the
character of his wife. On one oc-
cssion a newspaper published in
Nashville was placed upon the
Generals table. He glanced over
it, and his eyes fell upon the arti-
Gle in which the character of Mrs.
Jackson was violently assaulted. So
soon as.heih had read it, he sent for
his trusty, old servant, Dunwoodie.
Saddle my horse" said he to
him in a whisper, "and put my
hostlers or him"
Mrs. jackson watched him, and
though she heard not word, she
saw mischief in his eyes. The
General went out after a few mo-
ments, when she took up the paper
and understood everything. She
ran out to the south gate of the
Hermitage, by which the General
would have to pass. She had not
been there but few seconds, when
the General rode up with the coUn-
tenance OF a mailman. She placed
herself before the horse and cried
out
"Oh, General, don't go to NASH
vile! Let that poor editor live"
Let mealene," he replied; chow
came you to know what l was go
ing for?"
She answered: 81 saw it in the
paper after you went out; put up
your horse and go back"
He replied ifuriously: "But I
will go-get out of my way"
Instead Of this she grasped his
bride with both hands.
He cried to her: II say let 60 of
! my horse. The villain that reviles
my wife shall not live!''
She grasped the reins the tighter
J and began to expostulate with
him, saying that she was the one
that ought to be angry, but that
she forgave her prosecutors from
the bottom Of her heart, and prayed
dor them-that he should forgive, if
be hoped to be forgiven. At last,
by reasoning, her entreaties and
her tears, she SO worked upon her
husband that he seemed Modified
to a certain extent. She wound
up by saying:
mo, General you shall not take
the life of my reviler-you dare not
do it; for it is written: Vengeance
is mine, [ will repay, saith the
4 Lord "
The iron-nerved hero gave way
4, before the pleading Of his wife, and
replied:
Il yield to you, but had it not
been for you and the words of the
Almighty, the wretch should not
4 have lived an hour"
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-02-14

DEATH OF PRINCE FREDERICK -
On Sunday Prince Frederick
Charles Alexander, brother to the
Emperor of Prussia, died in Ber-
lin, aged 49, He was four years
younger than the Emperor, and
was the father Of Prince Freder-
lex Charles Nicholas, who won
great distinction in the war be-
tween Prussia and Austria in 1866,
and also in the Franco-German war.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-02-14
A cigar contains acetic, formic.

A cigar contains acetic, formic,
butyric, valerie, carbolic acid, am
monia, sulphureted hydrogen, py-
ridine, virodine, picoline, and ru'
bidine; and boy just after hav-
ing smoked his first one will think
there's some more and worse things
in it besides.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-02-14

Every day a little knowledge /;
one fact in a day. How small a
thing is one fact--only one. Ten
years pass by. Three thousand
six hundred and fifty facts is not a
small thing.