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The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1884-05-10
MAY 9Th. 1884

Police Jury met pursuant 10 adj
tournament. Members present, same
as on yesterday.
On motion fhe following accounts
were approved, viz:
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1884-05-10
Proceedings Of Cftinens, Eda.
ca1sonas Hzeeting.

Pursuant to a call. tho meeting was
called 10 order aud on motion, J. w.
Bryan was called 10 the chair. and NJ.
n. Singleton, appointed Secretary.
On talsing tho chair, Mt. Bryan stated
the object Of the meeting and pre-
sented communications from the Off
Gers Ut the Louisiana Educational So
ciety, followed By the actions and
resolutions If Parish School Beard.
4 motion 70 90 into permanent
organization was carried. and The
name Of the Auxiliary Educational So
ciety Of the parish Of Calcasieu was
adopted. with the following members
F. A. gallagher, G. A. Fournet. S.
o. Shattnek, L. v. Touchy, S. d.
Read, Rev. I. C. Kellis, ]. w. Bryan,
Henry Offers, N. N. Singleton, E. c.
Hawkins, Julien Richard.
A motien requesting the Secretary
to communicate with the Parent So
ciety, in New Orleans, and ask for BY
Laws and information as to what is
expected Of this Society, was carried,
and upon authorizing the Secretary to
add the names Of all persons 10 the
list, who may wish to become mem
bers Of the Society, adjourned to to-
day, Saturday the 10th inst.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1884-05-10

IRIS. Halls Ice Cream Parlor will
opened next Sunday evening, May
], and viii continue the same three
lings in each week during the sea
viz: Tuesdays, Thursdays and
bays. may1O-lt.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1884-05-10

The great remedy for Kidney and
Ri diseases, sold by sNM. MEYER.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1884-05-10
STEAMER NETTIE.

HAVING again resumed the ferry bust
IL ness, Is ready now, new and complete.
VIII safely carry you to and from West Lake
Charles. fapr-19lS4.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1884-05-10
DEPUTY saERIFF OF ELEcrIoN.
MAr 7th. laa4.

On motion this body adjourned nm
Ill Tomorrow morning at Q o'clock.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1884-05-10
J. Ben. KlRx1As,
Clerk Police Jury.


! am in Lake Charles and am stop
ping with John Mccormick.
JAMES STEWART, Dentist.
apr-5s's4-tf.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1884-05-10

y n ~ ~ III EIMN5 77
a. sheriff GalesFia4 parish, Ia.
s9ai1aa gfileej Lake Charles. Ia AVN
Ia A7et lapg la.tds.
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EsostsaI Namtters.

Prepared for the Comet.
From the annual report of the Post
master General we takethe following
Expenditures of the postoffice de-
partment Tor the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1884, SAC. $50, and the
revenues $43.S3S,127,
The amount of postage collected on
second class matter was 81 $3.50, ,592 IA,
an increase Of $lS4, ,41461, or, 1882 pr.
cent. over the previous year. Oi the
receipts from this source, 24-90 per ct
was collected in New York, OIL per
cent. at Chicago; 6.42 per cent. at
Boston; sos per cent. at Philadelphia /;
467 per cent. at st. Louis 3.53 per
cent, at Cincinnati; 1-s2 per cent. at
San Francisco; and LIS at Washing
ton, d. c.
The number of letters and parcels
sent through the registered mails dur
ing the year was ll,246,5f5. The
amount OF registry fees collected was
$957 ,057.3 an increase Of S30,509.G0
3-3 per cent over the previous year.
The actual losses during the year
WAS SIG, or one in every 2l,795 letters
and parcels registered, This is a small,
er proportion m loss taan III amy pre-
yious year.
The gross receipts OF articles OF un
delivered mail matter during the year
were 4,751,S7 In opening the letters
it was discovered that 1887 contain
ed money.
20,2G1, contained drafts, money or
ders, notes, etc.
34,399, contained receipts, paiC
notes, etc.
s4,0sS, contained postage stamps.
i 3S,34s, contained photographs.
All letters and articles OF value ar
carefully registered.
Total number Of postoilices, 50,0l7
Number established during the yeal
3,H4
Number Of employees in the ser
vice, 1851.
The surplus, over the cost OF the FIRE
delivery during the year, was 81 l,273
o1S.
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same or u similar disease attacked a
man and his wife on Dry Fork, in this
county, when both died, and two years
ago one or twocases appeared with re-
coyery.
The Judge has kindly offered to as
sist in forwarding samples Of water for
chemical analysis from different sec
tions where the disease has prevailed.
| willduplicute each specimen to in
sure against loss by breakage. ltmay
he a week before they can reach Wash
ington.
expect to cross the Kentucky line
on the Cumberland Mountains tc- lay
and to be in kentucky tomorrow,
turning south through Leslie Harlan
and Bell counties and Cumberland
Gap to some station Oh the n. & W.
Railroad. This will require from one
one hundred and fifty to two hundred
miles travel without means of tele-
graphic communication. There has
been plenty OF food and no destitution
Of any kind save lack of proper mcdi-
cal attendance.
7. B. HrpnELL, NJ. D.
To General Field, Agent American
Association OF the Red Gross, Wash
ington.
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After nearly twenty years consider
alton | have come to the conclusion that
tie easiest forgotten people in the worl
are the dead, gravely said Mr.. Council,
81, erintendent of iho Mount Nor, h
ccme,ery. You'd he astonished 10 inoy
how soon and how ca lily the dead hr
obliteratcd ilom the memory. lis tl,
4 Instant rubbing about in tho world
dccs it, l.supl o,e. have Known women
o como TO The cemetery and forget the
;tte Of their husbands death. OF only
hat, but tn y viii forget the position
his grave, and when asked for the dat
sill often place it three OF TOUR years
alter than it really occurred. There is
ometh ng suggestive in that, to my
III nd, OF the time when they began to
o. o7tr'their loss, and in some way or
,;der obtained a COM ensat.ou."
"Do hustsnas forget their wives IS
uickly"
20 dear, YES, that is the easiest
b ng N the world. The wife is buried
htudstt NJ is placed over her, Gni we
re paid 10 keep tie grave green, Iut
only for a time. On Of the QuanteSt
. Is in our cemetery congs to gen
itman who has burit three wives an
: nowsliving with the fourth. He has
sreat care taken Of the lot and there is
enty OF space i'll it yet. There are
thrte fno monuments IN it, one for cac
i lis dead wives, and each the exact
0 ntcrpalt Of The other. The same um
with The weepcrs and the same kna
words in memory OF the departed. Ht
wished, presrmr, to show his impartial
fondness for all.
stliildron are class of dead WHO.
strange to say, are les forgotten than
any others. A motEer will rcmemtel
he day Of week, month and year of hel
itll one S death, and after years hay,
passed away will walk straight to ,
I 3rot where h.r darl ng S remains are de
roSited. This even though she ma,
have had several childrn lorn s.nc,
This ones death. 1t is strangt that ,
woman sho ID retain the memory 9
her child's death so retcntiyely and ye
forget the year of her hyst and S. ("
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Ancestors of the American Indians.


The fact is we 10 not know who The
Indians are, or who were the old b i'd
ers of Palenque, OF xmal, Of Tahuan-
uco, and numerous other I'D cities from
Mexico to the eastern side of the Andes
in South America. ntil we awake 10
the fact that America has an interest
ing past, and can arouse ourselves to
the effort Of making out TIE ancestors
and descendants OF al tileSe peoples " o
have left us such marNed differences in
their architecture, th,ir works o. art,
their customs and their languag 5, VIC
at the part OF amateurs, when FROM Il
little knowledge Of q few Of these ,.!iissssef differ
cnt conditions, and from superficial or
very general resemblanccs, we draw
h,lSty concl isions
tnly the most thorough explorations,
conducted ly lncn who have Droad views
aud careful methods of work, men
who are Above being lei by theories to
be maintained; who will look at facts In
the same manuer as a geologist or a bi-
oiogist looks ct his facts, letting them
lead him where they will will solve for
US the great problems of American Ar h.
ology, Tic days OF collectors OF curi-
osities and hasty writers are o cr.
Archaeology is ience, and no longer
in the hands of the mercenary dealer
and theequally avar.ciouS collector of
curiosities Give the proper institutions
the support they ask for, and tho near
future will bring valuable results.
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A Novel Library of clippings"
GTarfners' IolrnAl

A simple, easy and inexpensive plan
for saving newspaper articles, one ti.at
has been found satisfactory under long
trial, may be thus described. A case OF
drawers, such as are used for holding
and exhibiting spools of silk thread, was
obtained for $j. In this cabinet were
ten drawers, each divided into spaces
about one and one-half by sixteen inches
by tnin strips of pine. Each alternate
strip was removed, thus making the
divisions two and one half inches wide.
These were divided by strip running
across the others, thus making in each
drawer sixteen compartments, or eighty
divisions in all, each wide enough to re-
ceiye ordinary newspaper slips and long
enough fOr convenience.
On the front of each drawer was fixcG
the title Of the general division or sub.
iect to which that drawer was devoted,
the titles in this particular instance be-
ing on one cabinet Cattle" the nett
drawer being LABELED THorses" +" the
third sheep" the ext Swine" and
the others General, "Statiscal," etc
On the top of the edge of tho divisions
in the cattle drawer tho labels read i'll
their order, respectively: Aberdeen
Angus, Devon, Galloway, Hereford and
Short horn cattle. Then came Dairy
Matters followed hy divisions for each
established dairy breed, in alphabetical
order. All the drawers were arranged
on the same plan.
Another cabinet is arranged in like
way for subjects relating TO husbanlry.
In each division on space is a strip OF
thick, white cardboard. on the back of
which is written the title Of each article
placed in that space or division. Two
/ light rubber bands hold this cardboard
and The newspaper scraps together, the
latter being thus kept straight AMI in
the order in which their titlei
appear ON the index card. ThC
work of filling such library
consists Of cutting the articles out, plac
ing them in the appropriate division
and writing their titles on the indie,
cards. No paste is required, and but ;
very little time, is used When inlor
nation is needed on any given them
but momeut is needed to find Ill tina
has been preserved OH the subject. Tn
matter is the most convenient shape 70
reading or for other use, and can he re
turned to its proper place in an. instant
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A COLOSSAL INDUSTRY.
Wealth Invested in Cattle-Sorthern and
Southern Cattle Men.

eouthcrn SNtLks men.
Chicago Joulnall
The people Of this country have but
limited notion Of the extent Of the cattle
industry, asitis partially represented by
the delegates composing the cattle con
yention, re emily in session in st. Louis.
There are corporations and firms engaged
In raising cattle Oh the plains whose
property is equal in value to that
of some of the great railroad corpora
tionS of the country. The TEXAS Live
Stock association is the name of cor
poralion owning land, horned cattle,
horses and sheep valued at $j5,U0U,O 900
I'd sum Of money which would luild
and equip in tlrst,c ass style stcel-rail
railroad 1900 miles III length Tho
number of corporations owning from
. ,010, coo to $lg, ,00A,9 worth Of land
and stock is quite large. and indlyidna
and firms are still more numerous. wnu
own from II, 100000 10 50, ,0Ot, 600 worth
OF property in ranches and cattle.
The most Of these vast fortaneS have
been accumulated within few years.
Some OF the richest cattle men of lhc lar
4 west were cowboys, working for monthly
wages, less than 4 decade ago. Tie en-
tire catto-raisiug industry is compara-
/ tiFclya new enterprise. AS recently as
the ost Of the eli il war, there WITS uoj
a dream in the human mind which com
/ pretended tho possib ! ties of wealth
which ay dormant andawsiting develop,
mcnt, III the vast plains extending from
The aSe Of The / ocky mountains 10 tha
east ward OH which The beef supply of
the world might be y. p.odueed.
1t was known generally that larg
herds Of cattle were paStired on The
Texas pfairies, that ownership in these
cattle was claimed somewhere by some
body, and thai they cost but little either
10 breed or keep as they glazed eNclu-
siyely on the public lands. II was also
generally known that a Texas herder
ailght own LOCO cattle without ever
drinking milk, or eating butter or beef,
and 1t was not supposed that all their
possessions in horns and hoo were
available as actual productive wealth
hat vast Resources OF wealth existed in
!. cattle and ranches was, twenty od
years ago, possibility as unknown and
as unmagnable as was the possibility
len years earlier tlat ,ounsle wealth
lay at the bottom Of TIE fountains OF
petroleum before they Logan to flow OF
their existence had ormcd the b4rdcn
Of human dreams.
There are ri, al classes of cattle mon.
Cne is southern, or the Texas crowd; tht
members of the other class own tht
uorthern herds reaching rs far as Mon
,ana. Tho st. Louis convention WA,
composed principally Of the southur
Ianchers ana dealers il southern cattle
These cattle are grass-fatted ana ready
Tor market in May. The northern cattle
which hardly begin to get good & am.
until May, are not fit for Leei INT
! autumn The conflict between Tie
! two classes is a vigorous one the notn
! err herders desiring to exclude south y
cattle from the market till the tim d
: year when their own come forward, in
the southerners, of course, resisting -.
, o,cnent.
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rhn Rnrial ofWhat,s no Moro.
VIZ, The Late Republican Party.

Via lit Law ihNHNhlt'"h A"iNNs
CourlcrJourual
Not Marshal was heard, not q two-dollarnote,
As it's corpse from the polls was fast hurried;
Not stalwart discharged hfs farewell vote,
vhiic the poor old party was buried.
We buried II darkly, at the dead Of night,
The sod with our "last anchor turning,
l,y the struggling starroutes misty light,
And the "Roman" candles burning
No useless coffin inclosed It's breast,
But IN Mnllgan letters we bound it.
And II lay like a Plumcd Knight taking its rest
with its "bloody shirt around it,
Few and short were the prayers we said,
Then Silent we were as q drummer,
And we stcadiastly gazed on the face of the dead
And we bitterly thought Off summer
W. thought as we finished It's narrow bed
Its poor strangled virtues lOrgiving
That the Democrats soon into office will tred-
And well have to work for n living
Lightly ttyll talk of the ghost that is gone;
collect and clerks win upbraid IT.
-, ---- twill rcck, if they1lle it sleep on
In the grave where minister laid it.
But hall Of our heavy task was 'lone
When the clock struck the hour of retiring;
And we heard the ratiRcatin gun
which the Democrats wildly were firing.
Sadly We now laid the old party down
On tho field where 1t loudes had huzza'd;
We carved not line and raised not a stone,
But left It alonc--to the buz2ard.
W. II. Bickers.
Anderson county, KY, Nov. 80, 1884.
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She Wanted No Food.
.lA1l,nnrn,r rrnrnlnr


step this way" said the Judge. She
aros3 and approached the railing. This
officer tells me that you have been ar
rested for vagrancy. 1t is, indeed, hard
TO enforce the law in case like this. !
She made no reply Lut elapsed the child
closer TO her breast. '"Iiayc you no
home2 mo, SIR "Whcn did you
come to this town." "&carly q
wtc6 ago Ny husi and came hero to
seek employment. Shortly aiterward |
heard that he was in hospital. Then |
came, as best ! could. When | reached
the hospital and asked for lin, an old
man pointed to a coin III wa son and
said: lie is in there | followed the
wagon OFT 10 the pauper burying
ground, and when the man drove away
! sat by the grave Through the long
night ! sat there in the stiffness that
seemed to come down from u great +
stillness above. The cries of my child
were the only soundscries that seemed
to come from ny own heart. VI hen
morning came | appealed for food at 4
house near by, and tic woman who gave
me piece OF brad told me 10 begonc.
80, said She There is something
wrong with beggar who seems to be so
well educated as you are / told
/ her my story showed her the graye-clay
pn,my ehild's hands, But she turnel i
her nose an; said that ! ought to write
stories. ] came into the city and ap
piled at the hospital, but they told me
that the place was full. tried to gej
work, but no one wanted me. Las
might was arrested for merely walk
ing along the street [ reat God, canno
the starving mother walk on the street.
DO you, sir, believe in a Rcdeemer1
Yes madame. " :Yes, so DO they all
| and if He WAS here, foot sore and wear,
as lie once was, they would arrest Hin
for walking on the street. have los
my rcason--I am mad, Don't turl
away. | asked you for food. All, y0l
believe in a Redeemer; and, believing
told me to move away from your gatt
Madame, | will give you food now.
'Too late, want no food, " "But you
child! She stretched forth her arm
and placed the child on the judges desk
II was dead.
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sharpsnoote,s before Fort Donelsan.



A little before dawn Perges sharp
shooters were astir. Theirs was pecu-
liar service. Each was preferred marks
man, and carried q long range Henry
rite, With sis.hts deli .ately arranged. as
for target raetice. ii action each was
erfectly independent They never ma
neuyered as 4 corps. When tho time
came they were askei "Canteens full =
Biscuits for all day Then their only
order, "All right; hunt yolr holes,
boys. Thereupon they Gis ersed, and,
like Ind ans, sought cover to pl ase
them selves, behind rocks and stumps, or
in hollow sometimes they dug holes;
sometimes thee climbed into tre S.
tnce in a good location, they remain d
there the day. At night they wouhi
.clawl out and report IN eainp.
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A Contest OF Acuteness.
l"S. R,N in BROOKLYN Eagle. |

Then there are many reportecg whose
stock in trade is adaptability 70 circum
stances. Each person they are sent to
interview needs different treatment on
ac cunt of di position or indispoSition,
or the circumstances surrounding the
case. These adaptatiye reporters arc
naturally quiet, Suaye men, with keen
eyes and tenacious memories. They
viii stand anything or 50 any place, as
long as they get the interviews they are
seeking. They go at candidates frankly,
telling just what they want to know, be-
cause they are aware that the candidate
will be willing TO talk, but when inter
viewing the PRESIDENT Of lank or com
pany the matter is different. II any
thing crooked has been done at all the
officials bend every e,iort TO conceal the
facts. They don't want to talk anl will
deceive to as great an eXtcnt as poSsibl'.
The interviewer therefore Will have to
arm himself with II lpt of information
from Official statistics and also from
those who are familiar with the way in
which the corporation il cue ton d d
business and in what tral sactions 1t has
been most largely involved. Putting
this and that together The interviewer
approaches the gentleman TO be inter-
vi we'd witha toel@bl} thorough knowl-
edge OF just low the company or corpor-
alton stands When thcyasit down and
talk it is like game Of chess Each
| question is move to be met by an an
swer walch viii lie \ reply and yet not
I give any in ofmau0n. .his is very en-
/ ioYail le, Geeauso Il IS eycitng and slim
ulatng; 1t is Il confess OF acuteness
The interviewed must answer tie cues
TONS. If lac refuses to do this he knows
his la lisal will be printed an. the public
will weigh it against him, while i lac
lies he will he founl Uut.
Some men if placed in this position
throw themselves on the mercy Of the
reporter and til him all they know,
,acttlatng every few minutes the state.
ment hat all i5 said IN confidence. Thin
is an in ustice to the reporter, whose in
formation is being gathered, not fof hS
own ediiica, ion, ut for the inSlrlclio
OF tho readers OF his papers and, oi
course, tho ad iuratioh 10 secrecy is dis
regarded Another kind OF men will ut
teriy rcfu TO be interviewed at all, an
still another viii siJ down and begin til.
iamond-tut- diamond fight, which com
)rises the inter lew with u sharp buai
ness man VINO is talking against his will
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1884-12-13
Beaton's ravorite Dish.

Senator Benton OF Missouri, was
mighty funny man about his eating, "
continued ntle Steve. II was at the
National Lo,el for long time while he
boarded there, and can say that he was
about as fussy a man as you ever saw.
lie could talk more and pay his walters
less than any congressman | ever waited
on. In tho morning he would say to
me: steve, you black rascal, bring mo
Missouri cocktail. That would mean
whisky strai'.ht, two drinks in one. He
would cal for pretty much everything
on the bill oil fare, Tut he didn't touch
much Of it. What do you suppose was
his. fasori'e dish lacon and molasses,
as sure as you are born Tie would have
!, big di b Of bacon fried crisl, with the
gravy al the bottom. Then he would
pour a pint OF molasses over it, and |
tell you, when he got through there
WASH anything left but the dish. That's
tho reason Mr.. Benton had his meals
mostly ia bis room. lie did not want
people to know that he was so fond Of
baton aud nioiasses."
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1884-12-13
WI J Ncgicps ire Black.
IlndianmIpii icatinel.l

Surgeon MAJ. y Altock has con-
tributed 10 Nature a interesting com
munitation as 10 NY the tropic,il man
is lack, in which he suggests that as in
the lowest animals ! gluent-eells placed
behind u Transparent, nerve termination
exalt its vibration 70 The highest pitch,
the reverse takes rlaees when, as in the
negro, the pigmcnt.e,lls are placed in
front of the nerve examinations, and
that the black pi-ment in the skin
serves to lessen the intensity of the
nerve vibrations tEat would be caused
in naked human ody by exposure to
a tropical sun; that. in fact, the pigment
plays the same part as piece of smoked
glass held letween tic sun and The eye
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1884-12-13
Crippled His Resources.

A New YORK reporter accepted a posi-,
tion on the stall OF large and flourish
ing daily paper in Houston. Alter he
had been at WORK for short time, some
body asked him how he liked Texas.
= am very MUCH pleased with every
thing ut the climate.
whats the matter With the climatcg
IT is too thapgeal le Ono tay it i
cold, and need ms ulster, Next day
it i, hot, and have to wear my dusfer
That sort OF thing sets me lac, in my
finances. It clippie' my resources
How SC"
u ca make up my mind which oI
them ats &c take to the pawnbro Or.