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The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1884-02-09
LAKE CHARLES CALCASEU FEBRUARY 1884
THE NEWSPAPER ENGLISH OF THE
FUTURE

Picked up paper here to-day,
And, by my conscience, must say
That they DO write in the funniest way.
Some time ago, over my cup,
Went sound asleep-iust woke up;
Must have been-well, let me see
Eighteen hundred sixty-three.
Cows came alOng-bells would tinkle-
Reused me up-a second old Winkle;
Fell asleep by their say-sO,
Nine and thirty years ago.
About that paper l was struck
All in heap, sir Just my luck;
Miss Susan Smiller will etOcHto
Next Thursday yening." | stood mute
Never, in all my life, had heard
OF such an Outiandish, barbaFous word.
ElOcuteg ElocuteS declare
! bit my whiskers and pulled my hair;
Looked in my Webster, It wasn't there.
Gave the thing up in wild despair
Said to myself" It's mighty QUAR-. d."
Pretty near chOked myself with rage;
Paper set forth on another page
Wonderful piece of local news
"PeOple up town are going to eHthHse."
And then this thing gets worse and worse
Tomorrow the citizens dnniUeTSe."
July FOuftn, nhppy u btaLe
Folks are all going to dcctdrate."
Think I'd better shut up shop
Mr.. A. B. is pltildnthrOp"
And then look here, why bless my eyes,
What in the world is " bisniGrekizef"
Eyes of mine, can you be trusted
"COaI-oiI factory all cO1lbusted ~
" CIrc.ss.treRch your faVOrite fruits !"
Mexican Empire resOlateS"
And since the days | went to school,
What sort of things perpendicular"
Reading along. why, bless my fate,
Here's a man who is going to 0rdte.
Why, what On eaTth's this paper about :
III go stark mad If don't find out.
Must be French, and yet vow
e never heard Of the word till now.
Folding the paper, undecided,
Bless me, some ones hOmjcided.
Oh my cOeVals, show to ME
The good old English of 63.
Laid down the paper right away,
For by my conscience, ] must say
That they do write in the funniest way.
" Y. GFdphic
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New York sun. t' ''s
The South! 1t is spoken as flip
PANTY as you might speak of a little
pocket borough lilse well, like Rhode
Island. 1t is q vast empire. Steam,
cracking its cheeks for power and
speed to bear you from New York TO
southermost boundaries of that EN-.
Pirt, can barely do it in a little less
than a week, and by latitudinal rails
you cannot cross it in less than four
nights and three days. All the petty
kingdoms of Europe might bestowed
away in it and their presence be hardly
known. New York and New Eng.
land might be hidden in it's effectu-
ally as to require an explorer to find
them. It could be made to produce
enough food and cotton to feed and
elothe the entire l,400,O00,00O in
habitants of the globe. It is an un-
developed. empire. But the wand of
progress has been waved over it, and
the generous soil is beginning to yield
its fruits, and cities are, raising on
the cotton ,telds.r Steel,. rolled out in
the form Of rails, is doing the great
work of developing this immense ter
ritory, and to the resident population
look for the untold wealth that the
future has in store for them and the
millions who will come after them.
Gigantic railroad enterprises have
been projected, and the sagacious
financiers who are to lay the rails are
prepariRg TO divert the. hosts.-of, inls
migration from their march to the
great Northwest. Southern railroad
companies as we'll as Northern, are
about to employ resident agents in
Europe to point ont the invitingness
of the balmy, fruitful South. Nor
folks q lmost Incompatible harbor
offers easy access to- the army of i'm
migrants that will yet cut up the Old
Dominion's thousand acre farms and
make Virginia rich, and the steel rail
from Norfolk will carry another army
of immigrants Westward and South
ward.
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Machine Cams in War.

The announcement that an Ameri-
can officer has received permission to
inspect the British machine guns at
WOolwiCh has called attention to their
advantages and disadvantages in war.
A writer in the Pail Mall Gazette
thus criticises the employment of ma
chine guns on the field of battle: 'If
the range is correct and the mark re-
mains steady great execution will be
done, but the slightest error will throw
every bullet out, except at short range.
Thus the French found that their at
tempts with the mitrailleuse, even at
such Distance as 1900 yards, were
perfect y futile, and that their new
weapon had not the slightest chance
against the field artillery of that time.
Since then the German field artillery
has more than doubled its efficiency.
Against their shrapnel, thrown with
the present velocities, the mitrailleuse
would have less chance than ever.
The reply of the German army to the
question, What is the place of the
machine gun in the field Of battle!' has
been. 1T has no place, and whatever
additional men and horses can be
given should be devoted to increasing
the field artillery Accordingly, ma
chine guns have not been largely in
creased in proportion to the other
arms. Exactly tho same course has
been pursued by the French and by
every other great continental power.
None have adopted machine guns for
the field; all have increased and devel-
oped their field artillery. When we
remember that France, Germany, Aus
tria, Turkey, Russia, have all lately
passed through the furnace of war,
and had most of their crochety dross
burned out of them, their unanimous
opinion ought surely 10 outweigh the
theoretical ideas of a few partisans
who still cling to the notion Of find
ing the machine gun weapon worthy
the cost of the men and horses re-
quired for its use. They admit that
it cannot face field artillery at artillery
ranges, that its projectiles have no
power whatever against walls or build
ings, or earthgorks, but they believe
that, when two hostile bodies of in.
faRtry are closing, the machine guns
can be brought from cover, where
they have remained till then, aud viii
exercise a great influence over the re-
ault Of the combat. No doubt they
would IN such case, provided the IN
fantry fght happened to be where
they could 60.
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swept into the stream.

ONE THOUSAND ACRES OE LAND AND
"RIGmT SMART OF BEARS"
On the deck OF a big Mississippi steamboat
stood all aged Southern planter. Indicating
by sweep Of his arm the waters the boat
was passing over, he said to passenger from
the North "When was twelve years old
! killed my first bear Oh new plantation my
father was then cutting out of forest that
grew directly over the waters of this bend.
That was d mighty good plantation, and
there was right smart Of bears there, too
But that one thousand acres of land went
into the Mississippi years ago"
1t l. putting no strain upon the figure to
say that great forests Of youthful hope, wO-
manly beauty and manly strength are swept
i'll the same way every year into the great,
turbid torrent Of disease and death. Yet it
should not be So. That it is 50 is i digraCG
as well as a loss. People are largely too
careless or too stupid TO defend their own in
teTests-the most precious II which is health
That gone, all is gone, Disease is simple,
but to recklessness or ignorance the simplest
things might as well be complex as a prOpO-
sitiOn III Comic Sections. AS the huge Western
rivers, which 50 often food the cities along
their shores, arise in u few mountain springs
So all our ailments can be traced to impure
blood and small group Of disordered organs.
The most effective and inclusive remedy
for disease is PAR II ER'S TONIC
it goes to the sources of pain and weakness
In response to its action, the liver, kidneys,
stomach and heart begin their work atresh
and disease is driven out The Tonic Is not,
however, all intOXiC4ut, but cures 4 desire
fore strong drink, Have you dyspepsia,
rheumatism. or troubles which have refused
10 yield to other agentSf Here is your help.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1884-02-09
The Editor.

The "oditor" is the dupe of des-
tiny. His lot was knocked down to
him at bargain, and it turns out to
be fraud. His bed of roses is a
high-backed chair stuffed with thorns.
His pleasures are heavy penalties,
his laurel wreath garland of nettles
He seems to govern opinion, and is in
reality victim to the opinions of
others. He incurs more than nine
tenths Of the risk and responsibility,
and reaps less than one-tenth of the
reward and reputation The defects
Of his work are literally assigned to
him; the merits of it are magnani-
mously imputed to his correspondents.
If bad article appears, the "editor"
is nnsparingly condemned; if brilliant
one, anonymous" carries of the Gu
logium
If the editor is abused for what he
inserts, he is twice abused for what
he rejects. Accepted articles may be
bad; rejected articles are invariably
good.
Week after week, month after
month, the editor succors the op-
pressed, raises up the weak, applauds
virtue, exalts talent; he promulgates
the praises of books, pictures, safety
lamps and steam paddles; but from
the catalogue of names his own is an
eternal absentee.
His life is spent in ushering clever
people into deserved celebrity; he sits,
is charioteer, outside the vehicle in
which prodigious talents are driven to
immortality. His career is in this life
tale of mystery, 'tto be continued"
in the next,
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1884-02-09
Notice to Saw Mill BIeR.

II AN PREPARED to hammer saws, at
J. Perkins Il Miller's saw mill, or will do the
work at the different saw mills II preferred
] guarantee perfect satisfaction and solicit
the patronage of the public. ...,,
R. II. ARLINGTON.
sep-29-6m.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1884-02-09
STATIONE ERY
OF every desI nPtion.

Choice Selection of Fancy Goods, Auto
graph Albums, Scrap books, Books of Travel,
Books of History, Bound books for children,
All the latest Magazine and Periodicals con
stantly on hand. Subscriptions taken for all
the leading News aud Pictorial publications.
Orders from the country respectfully oOli-
cited. Call and examine stock No trouble
TO show goods. noy-3' S3-tf.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1884-02-09

The relation of pauperism to crime
has been for some time a subject of
discussion in some of the Reviews and
newspapers, and they make out a
pretty clear case, too. They have
been collecting statistics and BY them
they make it appear beyond question
that crime is in direct proportion to
the amount of abieet and thriftlsss
povsrty-the poverty that springs mot
from inability and misfortune, but
from idIeness and bad habits. OF tho
number of criminals examined of all
nationalities the proportion of those
who had trade OF profession by
which they could make an honoFabie
living was very small Nay, more than
that If after contention they succeed
ed IN learning q trade or other COM
petent occupation, the chances were
ten TO one that they would not return
70 70 their habits OF vice and crime.
mus 1t Is seen by actual statistics that
the best safeguard to the peace as well
as prosperity Of the community, is a
plenty OF paying employment
II was at one time thought that
education, IN the general sense of the
Wora' that IS book learning, was the
pest PEST protecslon; but this idea has
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1884-02-09
Pistols Les Then be Abolished.

L. = H. Ill ~ " U"''S'iSn Au'oeo'e'
we nave laws IN most OF The states
torOlddlng men to carry pistols con
ceaIed' But Is not such a law almost
necessarily Intellectual! How Is tito be
known that a man has a co"ceaIed
PIstolf II he EXHIBITS 1t. that act and
It's accoInPahimentS usually constitute
graNer oHehse Ihah that OF carrying
concealed weapon 30 that the laws
!iPo" our statute books against carry
ing concealed weapons are almost
wholly nugatory' BESIDES the form
or The plslol Is intended to facilitate
ITS conceaIment on one IS person. 1t is
also primarily intended to be used IN
killing men. All other uses Of the
pistol are iHcidentai' 1t Is an InYen-
t'on Designed almost exclusively to
facilitate the AlIIing OF human beings
me e'll OF pistols Is immensely great,
ana Is almost without mitigating con,
conItants. 1t may be safely affirmed
lhat II pistols were totally abolished
Inc DESTRUCTION OF human lIfe by hrc-
arms IN times or peace would be di.
mlnlshed by at least one-haIt. 1t
Ootn pistols and drinking saloons were
aOoi!shed we may reasonably estimate
tn"t uh I"StlhaOle homlCides would be
diminished oy hlne-tenths OF the mum
Der now uaiIy occurring IN our land,
r'SIoIS nave scarcely plausible ex-
cuSe ior thclr existence AS a wea'
pom OF ueiehse they are at once a sham
ana snare. one pistol mas rarely, II
ever, Oee" kho" TO carry the ball OF
anotheF' whl'e a pistol IN one mans
mana mas III thousands or instances
PROVOKED or excused a deadly nre from
d P'Stoi III tHe hand OF 4hG'her II
ca" ScarceIy Oe questioned that IN the
large majority OF ueaths from pistol
sro's tnc r9al Or supposed possession
OF Pist0l Oy the person Shot Is the
cause OF MS oelhg Killed rev men
VIII shoo' " pefSSh known 70 be un-
armed
Inc existence ol pistols under our
present la%s Is q Sreat wrong 70 go9d
anu Id" -aDiuIns oit'~enS' Slnce Inc
hDerty ana litc OF every man VINO
ooeys the Ia" loFDludiPg the carrying
OF conce"ieu weapons are al inc mercy
oi any VINO choose 10 carry them IN
violation OF law mus the law works
aGt"al lhl9stice 10 the Oest cltlzens,
Inc Plstol Is a daStaraiy weapon, IN
vented iof Gohcealneht ana murder.
Lei IL Dc driVeh from the Pales OF
cl'lllzaEIo"' Let " DC ao9IlsGed Tor,
ever NO man ought 10 DC blamed
man may have one. Let every man
having one be fined one thousand
dollars or imprisoned six months, or
both, at the discretion of the court,
and let ten dollars reward be paid to
any one pointing out a pistol and its
owner. Let the shortest lawful fire.
arm be three feet long, The pistol is
a reproach to our civilization and an
enemy to the lives and liberties OF our
best citizens. Let all good men unite,
by all proper means, to drive it from
the earth.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1884-02-09

A TRACT OF LAND consisting OF lAo
N acres, about oEe-half timbered, the bal
RBcs IN 3 pasture and farm, under good fence
residence, large barn and other outhouses
The place is surrounded by Az excellent cat
tie and hog range and is located on the op-
pOsite aide of &aElish Bayou from Lake
Charles. Abundant MAter ior stock ~ all
seasons of the year. On the place il 100 Pc
can trees, planted sixty feet apart, and the
same number OF orange trees from three TO
four years old. Also plums, grapes and other
variety Of fruits.
Terms, $1,000, ons-third cash, balance In
one and two years.
For further particulars, apply to
KIEINPETER & BRYAN.
sept-s9- -S3
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1884-02-09

Practices iu the DiAtricts Courts Of Cnleu-
81. 4, Cameron aud Nsrnun parishes. 0.lce
. Lns Courthouse, up stairs.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1884-02-09
pFnES tsiOnat Cards.

L,w~CnAKLks, LOUISIANA.
Otler FroHt room Commercial building,
RYAN street. IHUV-SW
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-06-23

Our County Commissioners board
is composed of three Democrats and
two Republicans, elected on the fusion
ticket last fall. All appointments of
County Officers by our County Com
missioners heretofore have been made
at meeting of full board. A few
days ago, when only three members
were present--two Republicans and
one Democrat-this quasi majority
went to work and appointed a Re-
publican tax collector for the LIST dis
trict of this county, in the person Of
Mr.. Thos. H. Ditty. Upon meeting
of full board few hours thereafter
Mr.. Ditty's appointment was recon
sidered and new appointment made in
in the person of Democrat. Mr..
Ditty now claims that his appoint
ment was legal and is binding on the
board and the people, and proposes to
contest his right to the Office.
This is beautiful state of affairs in
which our county board has placed
the taxpayers of our county! Does
it not show how careful our tax pay
ers, and voters generally, should be in
the selection and election of proper,
wise and discrete persons, to repre-
sent them and their interest in their
county Legislation. This latest ac-
ton of our county board certainly pre-
sents the glazing spectacle of fusion
becoming confused, and confusion
worst COMPOUNDED
The people are becoming interested
In these matters and will be heard
from not great while from now.
Our comments have no reference
to Mr.. Ditty, personally, but are dr.
rected to measures and not to men. y
AS journalist we shall always con-
ceive it to be our duty to condemn
the acts of public officials when they
deserve it. The action of this quasi
majority of the board was both unfair
and unjust to the absent members and
to the people at large
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-06-23

Our "hebdomadal" neighbor, the
Record, gratuitously bestowed on the
CAPITAL last Saturday, an editorial
comment in the nature, somewhat, of
a burlesque. If we had received
Sullivanian thug" we could not have
been more astonished. The grotes-
que and ridiculous, if not nonsensical
effulgence ofitsrhapsodical utterances,
Is not at all commendable in our
neighbor. If, however, the Record
has been living in "sepulchral' bewil-
derment and nebulous regions for so
long a time as to have been sud-
denly aroused from its Rip Van Win
kle slumbers by the latest and fresh
est news that the CAPITAL has sound
ed into its "hebdomadal" ears, we
can but believe that we have at least
tended to ill part of the void to
which it refers We are fully aware"
that such weeklies as the Harper's
Weekly, the Baltimorean, and other
journals referred to by the Record,
shave lived and thrived an seventh
day edition" But does the Record
wish to be understood as drawing a
comparison between itself and those
leading "hebdomadals? ?" And as for
the spirit influence and circulation Of
the weeklies here' well, we do de-
clare I!
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-06-23
|. N. RICHARDSON,
7 he I ailor,
8 Francis ST.
FOR SALE
ffaAfAHENDSOME LITTLE COTTAGE
IN TIE CITY OF ANNAPOLIS.

TIME undersigned offers for sale for the
owner. handsome COTTAGE, STU
ated upon Charles street, upon iot
fronting AZ feet on the above named street
with a uniform depth of 100 feet, and IN
Guiding a st ible-yard and carriage drive.
The garden is well stocked with grapes,
fruit, shrubbery, &C., good well OF pure
ice cold water right at the back door -
Cottage has g roo rs and bath room, front
and back veranda. Pa~lor heater, heats
the whole house, gas pipes through out the
house, but gas not in.
Cottage is new, trimmings alone cost
1885: all windows best French plate-glass
with inside ard outside shutters; large
handsome bay windows in parlor; prop,
erty is now leased TO a good tenant ana
pays $3.50 per year or per cent. on 81, OOO
per annum, and is insu ed in the London
and Globe Insurance Co for 81 800 and
the policy paid up for years. Altogether
this is one of the best investments ever
offered, and is one of the best little homes
in the city. viii be sold for 81 500, SOU
cash. the balance in four years and SIX
months. For owner and particulars,
E. C. CAN'T,
ANNAPOLIS, Md.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-06-23

REPRESENTATIVE LYMAN, one of
the Republican Congressman from
Massachusetts, is thus precise: / shall
not vote for Blaine and Logan If bet
ter candidates are nominated for
whom / can cast my baIlot.-Boston
Journal.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-06-23

MARYLAND's New SENAToR.-In
the U. S. Senate on Friday, Hon. j.
y. Groome presented the credentials
of Hon. Ephraim K. Wilson, u. S.
Senator, elected from this State for
the term of six years beginning March
Ath, 1885.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-06-23
D. R. MAGRUDER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Prince Erederick. CalOert Go. Nd.

I7'17lc6 EF60eTEcks Jdt1eTt %. Ma.
Practices ia The Court of Appeals, and
also in the Courts of Calvert, Anne Arun-
del, Prince Georges, Charles aud ST.
Mary's Counties, and of Baltimore and
Washington Cities.
OFFICE AND ADDRESS:
Cor. West 50. and Church Circle,
ANNAPOLIS, ND.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-06-23
TIL L

The EUeHing Capitals for sale at all the
book stores in the city. where subscrip-
tons may be left, and the paper win be
delivered promptly every evening at fire
o'clock, by careful and reliable carriers.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-11-19
Profitable Fowls.

A correspondent writing of Plymouth
Rock fowls, says: | have enjoyed this fine
modern and thoroughly American breed
very much. 1t has been fashionable, and
is still so, but that does not hurt it. In
fact, the only disadvantage is that il
makes very fine birds very high priced.
The plumage is that of the old Dominique
the skin is yellow, the legs are clean.
the body well shaped and the fowl
heavy. The hens are early layers OF
large brownish eggs, and the chickens are
hardy, bearing the cold well. growing
rapidly, showing more fat as broilers
than most, and being solid and weghtv
for their age. The pullets lay early
enough. and make good winter layers
1t is disadvantage that when crossed
upon barnyard fowls of no particular
breed. and often when crossed with estab-
lished breeds, we get good many black
chickens. on account of the reverson to
the Java-one of the breeds used in the
formation of the one we are considering.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-11-19
WHY ! AM A REPUBLICAN

history of the republican party, defence Of its
policy, and the reasens which justify its continuance
in power. By Geo. $ Boutwell,. The contents ar,
as follows, in "A chapters -
The provisions OF the constitution of the United
States in relation to slavery and their fore. in the
country. The Missouri Compromise and its repeal.
The organization of the republican pArty,th contest
in Kansas and the elections of 1850. The senatorial
contes; Of SIS in Illinois, and the election of Mr.
Lincoln in 1850, The Inauguration of Mr. Lincoln
and the political and military questions then forced
upon the country. The proclamation OF emancpa.
tion and the sms ntments to the cons tuition. The
election of 1854 with view Of the position Of the
d. mocratic and republican parties. The financial
policy of the republican party and its results. The
protective party of the repuhh an party, and its
Effects upon the wages of lsborers aud upon the
prices of commodities. The policy Of the republican
party in regard TO public lands The policy Of the
republican par in favor Of universal education
The increase OF the country in population ard wealth
since 1860. The questions al sue in the pending
contest. The influence Of the United States in the
affairs Of the world due 10 the administration of the
government by the republican party.
Following the above Is Lineolnis speech at Spring
field Ill.,. June y. 1858. his inaugural addresses
proclamation of emancipation oratioa al Gettysburg
Now 49, 1885, republican platform from 1856 to 1854
democratic platform 1864, and public services of
Blaine ard Logan.
CLOTH COVERS Price SI2S.
Copy of this book sent to any address post paid on
receipt of price. Address
Kennebec Journal,
octl7dn Augusta, Me.