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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-12-29

For tine radical cure Of an obstinate case of Ecze-
ma Of long ftandiDg, give entire credit to the Gu
TICURA kEhEDIgs. Il. Is RICHARDSON,
New Haven, Conn.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1886-08-21
Fourteen Mistakes OF Life.

Somebody has condensed the mis-
takes of life, and arrived at the con-
clusion that there are fourteen of
them. Most people would say, If
they are told the truth, there was no
limit to the mistakes of life; that they
were like the drops in the ocean or
the sands of the shore in number, but
it is well'to be accurate, Here, then,
are fourteen great mistakes at is a
great mistake to set up our own stand
ard Of right and wrong, and judge
people accordingly to measure the
enjoyment of Others by our own to
expect uniformity OF opinion in this
world to look for judgment and ex-
perience in youth to endeavor to
mould its dispositions alike ; to yield
to immaterial trifes to look for per-
feetion in our own actions to worry
ourselves and others with what cannot
be remedied ; not to alleviate all that
needs alleviation as far as lies in our
power to consider everything impos-
slblo that we cannot perform to be-
lieve only what our finite minds can
grasp to expect to be able to under
stand everything"
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1886-08-21
NO. 25.
The LocaI Newspaner.

Under the above heading, says the
Shreveport Journal, the Marshall
Messenger tells some home truths, and
which have been forced upon our in
ner consciousness for these many
years. Our sprightly young eontem-
porary will in time learn that ho will
in the end get no credit whatever for
his gratuitous labor-for the romances
he may indulge in Hwriting up" Mar
shall and her business men. This is
regarded as his bounden duty, how
ever terrible the strain upon his con-
conscience. So long as he does not
run counter 10 the pet prejudices Of
the people they will graciously accept
his labors in their behalf, but if he
chance to rub but single hair the
wrong way they will turn up and rend
him without compunction. Such is
human nature, and it will so remain
until the millennium happens along this
way.
One of the unexplained mysteries of
business is the amount Of work the
local newspaper is required to perform
gratis and not only gratis but at a
heavy cost. The local paper writes
and prints without charge and at an
actual cash cost for paper, type-setting
and press work, obituaries, marriage
notices, puffs of every variety, and for
all classes of persons, and ten thou
sand personal matters that are only
important to the person puffed and
about whom the information is given.
Why should obituaries be written up
and published without charge2 The
undertaken is well paid. Why should
weddings be written up and published
free ? The clerk of court is paid
for issuing the license; the preacher
is paid for performing the ceremony,
and the printer must rack his BRAN to
say something complimentary and
have it printed without pay, and SO of
all the rest. There is no question that
the editor of a local newspaper does
more gratuious service than any one
in the community. He does more to
build up a city than any one in it.
The local paper writes up and puffs a
town or city and, largely the indiyid'
ual citizens, and as pay, he sometimes
gets a thank you, but is more fire.
quently censured like the artist, be-
cause he did not make more beauti-
full picture, when the original was any
thing but attractive. Now we ask,
why has this custom grown into fa-
vor2 We believe in all kinds of re-
form, and this is one we would like to
see adopted-"Pay the editor for his
work and let him feel that it is ap-
and he will be able to do
more and better work" -....a.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1886-08-21
LAKE CHARLES CALCASEU PARISH LOUISIANA SATURDAY
POETRY.
BREAKFAST, DINNER AND TEA.

What do I want for breakfast. dear2
MY wants are all in my mind quite clear.
You, with your cheerful morning smile,
And pretty dress, my thoughts to begufle
Into thinking of flowers an earnest word
That will all through my busy day be heard,
And make me sure that my morning lights
Beam strongly true, e'en while dancing bright;
Be certain to give me these, all these,
And anything else that you can or please.
But dinner-what will have for that
Well, dear, when enter, doff my hat,
And turn to the table, 1 want to see you
Standing Just as you always do,
To make me lose all the forenoon's fret,
And cheer for the afternoons work to get;
Tell me all your news and III tell mine,
And with love, and joy, and peace we'H dine.
Be certain to give me these, all these,
And anything else that you can or please.
And what for tea Have any choice
Yes, dear, the sound of your own sweet voice,
And your gentle presence. l always feel
The cares Of the day, like shadows, steal
Always from your soul-light, and evening rest
Come just in the way love the best.
So, when you are planning our twilight tea,
With a special thought In your heart for me,
Be certain to give me these, all these,
And anything else that you can or please.
--J5midta Stafford, IN Good housekeeping.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1886-08-21

GUM, La, Aug 5, 1886.
Editor Lake Charles Echo;
Messrs. Hamilton, Hsrgrove u Co.
have transferred their entire business
to Messrs. J. NJ. Dear & Co., of Sugar
town. w r. Hargrove, manager for
H., &H. Il Co., will very likely return
to Calcasieu, as he has sent in his res
iguation, both as postmaster and mem
Der of Rapides School Board. The
patrons of the Mercer school have re-
quested Mr.. Hargrove to remain and
teach for them, but he has not as yet
accepted, but may do so.
Mr.. AL. Mercer, the man Mr.. Padget
used so roughly at the preaching
house, continues to improve, and may
yet recover. a|
Considerable sickness in our eoun-
try. Some caterpilars.
L. ?. Harper, young Nj, D. from
the only doctor at Gum,
has large and growing practice. He
has been very successful.
Yours with best wishes,
UucLE FULLER.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1886-08-21

st. Louis Republican.
Mrs. Sehweickhardt, an aged lady
from Harrisonville, whose husband is
one Of the largest farmers in tuat To-
cality, tells strange story of young
hen in her poultry yard. Up to July
4th the hen in question had made no
effort to lay an egg, though all the
rest of her hens had done their duty
well. She thought perhaps the worth
less hen might be little choice about
her nest and to satisfy her henship's
whims she took some moss from an
old buggy cushion and placing it in
convenient place called the hen up,
She flew into the new-made nest and
in ten minutes had deposited six eggs,
in size about halfway between a quaiPs
egg and that of an ordinary hens egg.
Mrs. Schweickhardt's astonishmont
can well be imagined. Removing the
half dozen eggs from the nest she
went into the house. In brief time
she heard the hen cacking at the nest.
Going out she saw her hen fly off the
nest, leaving six more eggs of the
same size as the first six. Taking
them from the nest she bore them in
triumph to the house and related the
strange affair to her husband who had
just arrived from the field. The hus-
band and wife repaired to the poultry
yard and found the hen again upon
the same new-made nest.
The aged couple waited in won
der but a few minutes when the
hen left the nest with six more eggs
like the former ones in the nest, max
ing eighteen eggs laid in something
less than an hours time. The hen has
made no attempt to lay since, though
the nest is at her disposal at all times.
This strange occurrence, though
sounding little 6shy, is vouched for
by Mis-. Schweickhardt, who is not
only one of the most prominent ladies'
of Monroe county, but is a devout
member of the Catholic Church, and
her word is not doubted by any one
who knows her. The hen is a Cross
between the Leghorn and Plymouth
Rock, and is held as natural curiosity
to all the country around.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1886-08-21

The distinguished orator of Mississ-
ippi, S, S. Prentiss, was one day walk
ing in the city Of Cincinnati, when he
met a stout looking boy staggering
under q basket of peaches. Mr., Prem
tiss put a few Of the peaches in his
pockets, and gave the boy two bits,
He walked on a short distance, and
noticed that the boy was following
after him, but thinking it was only
accidental, he went on without paying
any attention to it, The boy, however,
still followed with the basket of pea,
ches, and Mr, Prentiss, seeing that the
boy still kept at his heels, stopped and
saidl
"My boy was it not Of You
bought the peachesln
"Yes, sir"
"And did | not pay you for themp
g Yes, sir, and | want TO know where
to carry them for yeu,"
All al once tho tFath flashed upon
him, and he found himself the owReI
of i big basket Of peaehesi which,
however, he prevailed on tho boy to
retain as his individual property,
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1886-08-21
A Subject for she WOnan's
CluAb.


Woman's journal.
"a little story" brings to mind
with renewed force the old proverb,
"truth IS stranger than fiction" We
were talking of what disposition to
make of kicking COW, when our hired
man said: ....
IL guess | can find customer for
her. There's an Fshman up the R.
who bought COW of one of our neigh
bors. He told the lrishman that he
must tell HIM one thing about the COW
before he closed the bargain-that the
COW would sometimes kick"
The tender "God-ordaincd pro-
tector " of our sex replied;
"That makes no difference; my wife
does tho milking"
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1886-08-21
EVERYTHING NEW TmROUGMOUT
CIIME EOR PILEs.

weight in the back, loins and lower part Of
the abdomen, causing the patient to suppose
he has some affection OF the kidneys or neigh
boring organs, AT times, symptoms of indt
gestiOn are present, aatuleney, uneasiness Of
the stomach, etc, A moisture like perspira,
tion, producing very disagreeable itching,
after getting warm is common attendant,
Blind, bleeding and Itching Piles yield at
once to the application of Dr. Bosanko's Pile
Remedy, which acts directly upon the parts
affected, absorbing the Tumors, allaYing the
intense itching and eifeeting permanent
cure Price 80 cents, Address The DR., Bo-
ssneO Medicine Co., Piqua, o, Sold by Nm,
MEYER.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1886-08-21

N, Y. Ledger,
We heard Of girl the other day
who was :" as wild as an INDIAN But
an Indian girl is not wild. No girl is
more submissive to the rules Of her
race and tribe than an Indian girl who
is not yet corrupted by the proximity
of the white man, She never goes
anywhere alone, and she never passes
a man on the highway without turn
ing away her head. If a man comes
into her wigwam she eonceals her face.
and she does not stand within hearing
distance Of men who are talking, She
lives up 10 her idea and her tribes
idea Of what is proper and becoming.
If she fails 70 Do 80, she places herself
beyond the protection Of her tribe,
There il no safe place in this werld for
the girl who knows 40 law but her
own will.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1886-08-21
Wagons, Baggies and Harness q
specially with j, w Bryan,

I'll, w, Davidson, of Evergreen,
Ala, says, for years | have been trou-
hled with Ague and Dumb Chills, my
whole system was impfegnatea with
Malaria in its most malignant form
three boxes Of Marse'a Agne Magnets
thoroughly cured me, at cost of fifty
cents per box, when / had expended
hundreds Of dollars with physicians, !"
For sale by WM- MEFER, Lake Charles
La.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1886-08-21

ANY one desiring bargain IN
town property located on. the railroad
near the depot between Ryan and
Cole streets, can be accommodated by
anplying to j. w, BRYAN.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1886-08-21
NIorse,s Asae sIagnels.

Gentlemen Please ship US at once
two more gross of your wonderful chill
aud malaria remedy, it gives universal
satisfaction and is the best seller we
have ever had, because 1t does all you
claim for it, Yours truly, u, W. TAY-
LoR, Jefferson, Texas.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1886-08-21
special Notice.

BEIeRApE. Texas. March 28, 1886,
On. ]. O. FLYNN Dear Sir-My
daughter whom you so carefully at
tended for the birth Of fine daughter,
and drnpsy, also, is now enjoying
tolerably good health, We grant you
our many thanks, for without your aid
we do not believe thai she wonld have
ever recovered, Yours truly,
MARY &c. MCMAHON.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1886-08-21

AMERICAN pork now enters Germa-
ny; so says an exchange. We wonder
if Mr, Cleveland wonF have to appoint
an Inspector of pork a 5erusaleas YET
Where ID that Congressman who pre-
septed the petition 10 tho Presideat
for the appointment of a friend q
that poaitian
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1886-08-21
A Aaughable Mistake.


Kingston IN "
Henry Smith, of sleightbnrg, is a
palace car conductor ON the Erie rail-
way. His run is between JeIsy City
and Chicago. He is well-knoyn in
Rondout and has extraordinary large
hands, He tells of a good story that
happened to him at the Chicago depot
one day recently, He hung one of
his hands out of car window, Short
ly after he felt some one pulling and
feeling Of first one finger and the
other He stuck his head out of the
window and saw man who saidi
asay, mister, how do you sell bananas
apiece 2"
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1886-08-21

The work on the Court House i
going on very steadily, aud is one Of
the most substantial Jobs We have ever
seen put up, The contractors, Messrs-
Haunon n Voss, are certainly expert
aud experienced architects and build
ers, aad are going beyond the require
ments Of their contract % order 70
make a building that shall stand the
test Of tune, aud at The same tune give
them a wellzdeserssd reputation as RY-
chileels ana builders, - Lalsayy
Deaeerat
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1886-08-21
PRIVATE BOARDING HOUSE,
AL. w. R. II. Depot.

MEALS, 25 Cents; BED, rs Cents.
lNl HARD WOOD,
Of all kinds Oak, Ash, Etc.-delivered on
short notice. =. N. MATERNE.
marco, 'S6ly PROPRIETOR.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1886-08-21

Remember Mprse's Ague and Ma
larial Magnets cures Billiousness, Sick
Headache, Fever and Agne, Dnmb
Chiils, and Malaria. Wa MHRRR, Lake
Charles, La,
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1886-08-21
PATIENTS,

PATIENTS,
Caveats. Trade Marks and
Copyrights
Obtained, and all other business In the U 4,
Patent Office attended TO for MODERAIE
BLgES,
Our office Is opposite the U, .. Patent Of
fee, and we can Obtain Patents in less time
than those remote from WASHENaTON
Send MODEL or Dl94 WING, We advise
as to patentability free Of charge and we
make NO OAARGE UNLESS WE OBTAIN
P41ENT,
We refer here to the Postmaster, the sgpt
Of Money Order Diy'i and to OFFICIALS q the
terms and references to actual clients in your
own State or county, write to
g, Al, SNOW A. co..
Opposite Patent 0fiee, Washington, p Y
-24-'S5-6m,
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1886-08-21

ri, M. RRgAg sells q better Bug
gy for the money ghan is sold By any
retail dealer
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1886-08-21

phe great remedy for Kidney aud
Liver diseases, sold by VS., MHYHa'
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1886-08-21

lf you have means, live within themI
il yoa have not, live without them,z-
baltimore Nelos,
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1886-08-21
DENTISTRY.

HR. l.. G. ANDERSON, Dental sur-
liz xeOsl, q graduate of the PennsylVa-
|pia College of Dental Surgery, has opened
|sn Office upstairs In the New Mailer
stHIIdInG, corner of Ryan and Division
'streets. Ladies entrance, through Mrs,
Nuller's millinery store gentieman's en-
france on Division street. Oetl0-tt
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1886-08-21

Thimble skqin Wagons, a in,,
$b5, at j, w RRYAa's
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1886-08-21

sassoTlbo for the Hoao,
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Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1886-05-05
Southern Trade-Chamber Of Commerce.

The city of Roanoke and the interests
South on the projected line of the Roanoke
and Southern Railway are actively at work,
as the SPECTATOR has repeatedly reported,
in carrying forward this enterprise. Au-
gusta county and all the Valley hay and feed
producing industries have direct interest
in the shorter. and, Of course, much cheap
er route which the completion of the Val
ley railroad to Roanoke would give By
the Valley and the Shenandoah Valley lines
the connections at Roanoke with farther
southern lines would be complete for all
our section of Country. The shipments
south of hay from Augusta county alone
over the Shenandoah Valley railroad for
the year ending first of July, 1885, was
five-hundred tons more than it was the
previous year. Augusta hay, though the
routes are now circuitous, supplies de-
mands in Columbia, S. G., Charlotte, N.
c., and at the Southern towns all along the
Central North Carolina railroad.
The proceedings Of the Chamber of
Commerce Monday night are on the right
line. 1t is aiding an important interest
which, when successful, as it will be ulti-
mately, will greatly promote the agricu!-
tural interests of Augusta county and all
the Virginia Valley.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1886-05-05
Progress in the Southwest.

The New River Branch of the Norfolk q
Western Railroad is to be extended seven
miles farther into the Blue-stone coal fields.
Col. Geo. NJ Evans, of Roanoke, has the
contract.
Roanoke City will vote on the 25th upon
the proposition to subscribe 800, 900 to the
capital stock of the Roanoke & Southern
Railroad Co. The Leader is of opinion
that the proposition will be carried for that
sum, and more if necessary, with proper
safeguards thrown around the interests of
that city ia consideration of the aid it will
contribute.
The ores mined for lead at the Wythe
Lead Works have a large percentage of
zinc. The Company have for several years
thought of erecting zinc works at that place.
The Norfolk & Western Railroad Company
offer to make a branch from the Cripple
Creek extension to the Lead Works if this
is done, as the additional tonnage will JUS
tify such an expenditure.
The management of the Norfolk & West
ern is cooperative with all local industries
and developments.
Mr.. D. S. Forney, of Pulaski county. who
has iron works and large resources in ores
on the line of the Cripple Creek extension
of the Norfolk q Western Railroad, has
leased his ore-beds to the Grocer Iron and
Steel Co.. at Roanoke, upon royalty of
fifteen cents per ton. The estimated mini
mum annual income to Mr.. Forney is ST.
500. The Company advanced SO, 900 as
beginning under the contract.
The Baptist high school, to be known as
the "Alleghany Institute" has been estab
lished at Roanoke. Fincastle, Buchanan,
and perhaps other points, were also liberal
bidders for it. The Rorer Park Hotel prop.
erty has been secured, and the first session
will open next Fall.
The chapel Inn'' hotel, erected some
time since at Pulaski City, after the style
of the Luray Inn, and the ''Hotel Roanoke"
will be opened this Summer. Pulaski City
is at the junction of the Cripple Greek
branch with the Norfolk & Western Rail-
road. 1t was formerly known as "Martin's
Station" 1t is leading manufacturing
and commercial centre. The large Bertha
Zinc Works, owned by Mr.. Geo. W. Palmer,
of Saltville, are located there.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1886-05-05

s'Treason and traitors" these be pleasant
words in our piping times of peace. And
yet the thought of poor, harmless Mr.. Davis
addressing ex-confederates at Montgomery
is more than the sensitive people of Albany,
N. Y, can stand. They gathered in mass
meeting Thursday night and there was
volcanic eruption of bile and spleen, of in
dignation and resentment. How exceed
ingly ridiculous their fears are. How un-
worthy their cutlery! Mr.. Davis cannot
hurt anybody, gentlemen of Albany
cannot influence man in the south to rebel
against the national authority. He is sim
ply an old man indulging in "reminiscences
and "reminiscences are not armed soldiers.
Out upon you, gentlemen. Your linen in
buckram' do not exist, and your language
would indicate that You are as timorous and
spiteful as old maids "Treason and trail
tors' Is this the language of reconstruc-
ton, of peace and of amity p nde1.Ap.
peal.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1886-05-05

CHARLOTTESVILLE GOES ''wET." 1.-The
local-option election last Wednesday in the
district comprising the town of Charlottes-
vile and one county precinct, resulted in a
victory for the license or "wet" party by a
majority of TIA votes. There were 1,610
votes polled. The large colored vote was
nearly solid for license. The profe ssors of
the University of Virginia voted solid for
local-option.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1886-05-05
MEETING IN BEDFORD COUNTY
Hon. J. r. Tucker and the Constitution

From recent speech in Congress by
Hon. j. R. Tucker we make the following
extract in which he defines aud contrasts
British and American liberty -
"It is questionable, l know. to sickle
for the Constitution. 1t is an idea too pre-
valent that we have outgrown the written
Constitution of our fathers, and that the
will of the people expressed through the
Government is the Constitution of our
future II is sometimes said that the Brit
ish Constitution has grown-why should
not ours? The answer is obvious. The
constitutional monarchy of England has
been evolved by centuries of popular strug-
gle with inherited prerogative; and Liberty
has at last emerged from the precedents of
its victories through the centuries, and has
erected the trophies of its triumphs on
every BATH field as at once the monuments
and the muniments of its organized power.
The freed IN of England springs from its
institutions, as organized forces in the me-
chanism of the government itself-arid We
have but embodied in our written COnsti-
tuition the institutions of freedom our
fathers brought with them to the New World
British liberty is institutional; American
liberty is constitutional. To violate the
Constitution by usurping power is more
disastrous to the public good than all the
possible good the usurpatiou can promise
to the people. When labor Or capital,
when private or personal interests seek to
obtain benefit through unconstitutional
methods, they obtain it at the expense of
the surest guaranty that any can have for
right and justice by destroying the in
tegrity of the Constitution as the safeguard
of ALL"
That, says the Wilmington IN. CO. Star,
is very profound passage. Only singu-
larly able student of the Constitutions of
the two countries could have so mastered
the distinctions as to present them in the
elegant and lucid style conspicuous in the
massage quoted.