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The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1886-01-30
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Respectfully submitted,
GEO. f. Lyons,
Eo,ctahla

Constable.
Report of Treasurer.
To the Honorable, the Mayor and
Aldermen of the Town of Able.
vile, La. The following is the
report Of the Treasurer to date.
General Fund.
10 balance at last report 1925 0S
To amt reed oh taxes 1885, l25 81
10 aint reed on licenses" 43 As
1894 o.
Credit.
By amt tranferred to to
street & bridge fnd $4,000
by amt paid ls2 1922 so
Jan Is, '86, to balance 1911 81
Street and Bridge Fund.
to bal at last report 5 8 IS
amt from Genl fund 100 90
amt coll on taxes. 1885 25l Oh
1850 y
Credit.
By amt paid out 40 80
Jan IS. to balance 1920 %
Sinking Fund.
Jan 10, to amt On hand 1903 SO
Respectfully submitted,
W. B. WHITE,
Town.Treas
Report Of Attorney.
To the Honorable, the Mayor and
Aldermen Of the town of Able
vile, La.
Gentlemen Ill have on hand the
following licenses due the Town of
Ahbeville for the 1885, to wit:
Henry Crawford, coffeehouse, 5000
same ballroom, 10 90
" D White, physician, 500
$500
Respectfully submitted.
w. B. WHIrE,
Town-Attorney.
On motion, the Mayor appointed
Il II Mills, Solomon Wise and Cor
poration Atty. W B White to draft
a License Law for the Town Of Alb
oevliie +; said committee to report at
the next meeting of the Council.
On motion the council adjourned
to mex. Monday, Jany Is. 1886.
W. B. WHITE, j. j. ABADrE.
Secty. Mayor.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1886-01-30
JURY LIsT.
State Of Louisiana,
parixh nf Va..r

!, Pafish Of yetpils.
Abbcvil'e, Dec. 8, lsss'
List of Jury drawn i =. !,
The next term Of tie Dis,ir. ~
to begin on the iii naea,. ]
January 1888.
Grand and Petit JorY III i. /.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1886-01-30

We are in receipt Of the Times
Democrat almanac for 1886, the
front part of which is neatly and
beautifully illustrated. also contain
ing very interesting reading matter.
The latter part is filed with valu'
able statistical reports, also other
important Information that every
reading person wonld, no. doubt
take pleasure 10 giving a perusal
1t is a good companion for any
household, and we feel sure that il
our readers could see a copy Of it
many of them would not be long
without one. It is sent gratis to all
subscriber to that paper.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1886-01-30
W. learn that there is great ex

We learn that there is great ex
element in Hancock country. w
Va, over natural gas development
More than a dozen wells are being
put down. People are flocking there
from all quarters and leasing lane
at high prices. Wellsville, O., jus
opposite, is sharing in the excite
ment. If all turns out as we'll as ex
pected, gas will be piped tt
Cincinnati and Cleveland. 1t il
said the Standard Oh Company il
securing all the territory it can il
that region.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1886-01-30

We are in receipt of a pamphlc,
from W. ". Duson, ESQ.,, of Rayne,
La, giving a description of that
section of country: also the price of
lands in that parish. Rayhe is stu
ated in one of the finest sections OF
this State, and is noted for it's good
health, quiet and enterprising citi.
zens. Mr.. Duson, We learn, is one
Of the shining lights Of that flourish.
ing little city, and is a live and
wide-awake man, and if we had more
such in southwestern Louisiana, it
would not be long before the vast
territory now lying idle in all this
section of country would he filled
up with a good class of thrifty
farmers. Persons seeking homes in
southwestern Louisiana can get all
necessary information by addressing
Mr.. Duson as above.
Ostrich farming has become Gnite
an industry in California. They
hatch the young ostrich by an
Incubator. What a disappointment,
it must he to the ostrich who has
accustomed himself to be Matched
in the hot sands of Africa to find
himself being Matched by hand, as
1t we're. 1t most be a source of dig
appointment to the young bird tc
find his foster mother a bearded
mac.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1886-01-30

pOrary.
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-06-18
Discourse ON woman's work.
Standard Magazine.

Standard Magazine.
Nothing is more thoroughly mis-
taken than the idea that a woman
fulfills her duty by doing an amount
of work that is far beyond her strength.
She not only does not fulfill her duty,
but she most signally fails in it; and
the failure is truly deplorable. There
is no sadder sight than that of a brok-
en-down, overworked wife and moth
era woman who is tired all her life
through If the work of the house
hold cannot be accomplished by or
der, system and moderate work, with
out making life treadmill OF labor,
then for the sake of humanity, let the
work go. Better to live in the midst
of disorder than that order should be
purchased at so high a price
the cost of health, strength, hap
istence endurable. The woman who
spends her life in unnecessary labor is
by this very labor untitled for the
higher duties of home. She should be
the haven of rest to which both chill
dren and husband turn for peace and re-
freshment. She should be the careful,
intelligent adviser and guide of the one
and the tender confdant helpmeet of
the other. How is it possiblefor wom-
an exhausted in body, and, asanatur-
al consequence, in mind also, to perform
either of these? 1t is not possible.
The constant strain is too great. Ma
ture gives way beneath it. She loses
health and spirit and hopefulness, and
more than all, her youth, the last
thing that woman should allow to
slip from her; for no matter how old
she is in years, she should be young In
heart and feeling, for the youth of age
is sometimes more attractive than
youth itself To the eoverworked wom-
en- this green old age is out of the
question. Her disposition is often
ruined, her temper soured, her very
nature change by the burden which,
too heavy to carry, is only dragged
along. Even her affections are blunt
ed, and she becomes merely amachine
"a woman without the time to be
womanly, mother without the time
to train and guide her children, wife
without the time to svmpathize with
and cheer her husband, a woman so
overworked during the day that when
night comes her sole thought and most
intense longing are for the rest and
sleep that will probably not come,
and even if they should, that she is
too tired to enjoy. Better by far
that everything 60 unfinished and live
as best she can, than entail on herself
and family the curse OF overwork.
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-06-18
How to Keep Eggs.

To keep eggs.--1. Three gallons
water, one pint freshly slaked lime,
one-half pint salt. Use perfectly fresh
eggs with sound shells. Put them in
carefully. Ii morelime is put in it eats
the shell; if more salt it hardens the
yolk. If the recipe is strictly followed
the eggs will keep good for a year or
more. 2. Hold perfectly fresh eggs in
boiling water while counting six. A
wire basket can be used for this pur-
pose. Be sure to have water enough
to entirely cover the eggs. Let them
dry and cool, then pack in oats. Put
a layer OF oats on the bottom of the
keg or barrel sufficient to support the
eggs; pack them closely small end down,
cover with layer ofoats and proceed
till the barrel is full. Shake it gently
to settle oats and eggs firmly. This
method has given eggs a year alter
packing in as good state of preser-
vation as when first placed in oats. =
New York Tribune.
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-06-18
Farm and Household.
Farm Notes.

DR.. Greenfield, of Guthrie, KY, re-
Gently sold g hog weighing 1929 IL
pounds, which is probably the largest
hog OF which there is any knowledge.
1t is being exhibited
The United States imported in past
nine months 17O,O69 pounds of but
ter, valued at $25, 1892.
Mr. A. J. Wilkinson, agricultural
editor of The Whitewater Register,
who attended about one third of the
winter series OF farmers Institutes of
Wisconsin, remarks that "'Theory'
was in light demand. What are you
doing?' and How do you do it?' were
the questions which man was ex-
pected to answer"
Fhe cough of an animal is always
suspicious, indicating disorder of the
respiratory organs. When cough is
started or increased by pressure on
the throat it indicates bronchial dis
order, which often p~ecedes or accom-
panies disease of the lungs. The cough
of bronchitis is short, sharp and hack
ing, while that of lung disease is deep
and hoarse. In purchasing any ami
NAL, the presence of acough should be
a serious objection, as there is great
risk OF fatal ending.
Prof. P. d. Penhallow concludes that
the annual rings" OF growth in trees,
In cold climates, are an approximately
correct but not always certain index
Of age. In warm climates, however,
the rings are ofno value in this respect,
as the growth is more likely to mark
period of rainfall than the yearly
hot season OF summer.
The kitchen garden cannot be con-
sidered complete without at least a
few rows of sweet corn. 1t is notvery
many years ago that few messes of
green corn from the field were consid-
cred great delicacy for the dinner
table. That time has passed and now
the farthest backwoodsman scarcely
thinks of doing without sweet corn
during its season. By planting those
varieties that will ripen in succession,
it can be had fresh from the garden
from the first of August until frost.
Let your sitting hen come of the
nest daily. Allow her to roll in dust
box near by. Give her food and drink
regularly. In cold weather see that
she goes back before the eggs chill.
Cover her sitting box with coarse bag
ging, if she seems inclined to give up
her work. Mix little powdered char
coal with the soft feed and it will as
sist digestion and prevent disease.
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-06-18
Picturesque and Artistic.
New York Post: The pretties

New York Post: The prettiest fab.
RIGS displayed just at present are the
chine and glace silks. They are both
picturesque and artistic, many of them
in the style OF the gay Pompadour
sateens, only softer and more dainty
in coloring. Large flowers of delicate
tints are strewed rather far apart on
silk of exquisite texture, the edges of
the flowers shaded of into the silk.
The silks themselves are made in all
tints imaginable, faint, delicate colors
being in the majority, such as dove,
pale water green, tea rose, salmon
beige, creamy pinks with a dash OF
yellow in them, bluein various shades,
ecru in tones and semi-tones; in fact,
the silks are dyed to suit all tastes
and compilations, as there are also
chine silks with wallhower back
grounds. deep garnets, marine blues,
brocaded with dark red figures, etc.
What delightful fabrics for teas, gar
den parties, and the likel In a dove
gray chine brocaded with pink flow
ers, Tapping leghorn hat trimmed
with black velvet ribbon and blush
roses, and pair of buttonless pearl
gray undressed kid gloves, q pretty
girl may look as charming and pictur-
esque as Vatican sheperdess, or as
Dolly Warden herself, at an incredibly
small cost.
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-06-18
Farming a Noble Occupation.

farming is something beyond mere
hoe exercise" A good text that, from
the Rural New-Yorker. Farming is
more, far more, than digging, shovel
ing, hoeing, chopping, saving, plowing,
narrowing, planting and the myriad
of mechanical operations which 60 to
make up the routine OF everyday work
which often becomes severe toll and
drudgery. Farming is brains put to
use. Farming is the life with the most
healthful, most beautiful, most emo
bling surroundings. Farming is the
highest phase of manufacturing, for it
deals with life as the most potent fac
tor in the processes of the art. Farm
ing Il commerce, and the good buyer
and seller is the most successful farm
er, who must watch the markets OF
the world, the course of supply and
demand, and shape his operations ac-
cordingly. Farming feeds allth world,
and furnishes material for its clothing.
Farming may control the world in
commerce, politics, legislation, educa-
ton, social and moral status. for the
farming population controls the ballot
boxes and with it's health and good
blood added to educated brains, it's
pata TO power were easy. To the
farmer the best and greatestin life is
possible.
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-06-18

Mr.. j. w. Waywick favors earth
floors for horses, as preferable to
plank, which afford a harbor for
disease breeding secretions OF filth
none the less dangerous to health be
cause unseen. AS evidence o. his
position he cites the following facts, in
The Western Agriculturist:
"At many OF the stock exchange and
livery stables where horses are Kept
for sale or trade, part OF the floors
are nicely and purposely prepared Tor
the Improvement of the condition OF
horses that have been badly injured
in the feet. limbs and shoulders. What
is the remedy these men employ and
rely on2l The earth floor, that has
stood the test of all ages. 1t acts as
q preventive OF the many evils that
necessarily originate wherever the
plank floor system is brought into
use. 1t requires little more labor to
keep an earth floor in good condition,
than to keep the plank tioor IN re-
pair"
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-06-18
Lice ON Chickens.


The American Rural Home.
Thousands of young chickens die
annually simply because they are
lousy; and the cause is not apparent
ewing to the smaIlness OF the para
sites that bury themselves in the down
of the little chicks and are not seen,
and many times not even suspected,
even after the whole brood is destroy
ed by them. Various means have
been recommended for this difficulty,
some of which are more destructive
to the little creatures than the lice
themselves. Sulphur and lard mixed,
and applied to the hen, under the
wing, will destroy the insects, but
needs care in applying, else it will
prove fatal to the brood. 4 strong
tea OF wormwood, or tanzy, made by
sleeping either of these herbs in hot
water, ana when cool applied to the
heads Of the little chicks, and to the
breasts and under the wings of the old
ben, is very effectual. But perhaps
the best remedy, and the safest with
al, is a solution of carbolic soap.
Take an ounce of carbolic toilet soap
and dissolve it in one quart OF warm
soft water; with this thoroughly wet
the head and neck of the chick. 1t
kills the lice Immediately, and soon
dries off. leaving the chick all right and
free from the destructive insect. Old
fowls that are lousy may be thorough
ly and easily washed with this solu-
tion with marked benefit. Try it, and
be free from one of the worst evils oil
chicken breeding.
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-06-18
Thinks Love is Pay Enough.
A Wife. in Boston Globe.

VIE, IN Boston GloDe.
In all our marriage services, if I re-
member rightly, some such stipulation
is made that we shall Glove our hus
bands" 1t is, as / understand it, the
principal part of the contract. Let
those wives who are clamoring for pay
ask themselves ii they understand this
part of their obligation. Let them
ask their womans hearts ifthey know
what love is. If they do not they are
not wives, and if they do they will be
patient. Tennyson says in ''Locksley
Hail.
Love took up the harp OF life and smote on
all it's strings with might;
Smote the chord OF self that trembling
passed in musie out of sight
The vile who values her labors for her
husband at so many dollars and
cents has not lost self in her love for
him. She has not yet experienced the
holy Joy of giving all and asking moth
ing. When his mind and body are
alike wearied and overcome by the
toll and care, the disappointments
and injustice, the never-ceasing con-
ficts OF life, he will never be refreshed
and strengthened by the society ofsuch
a woman. He will have to turn to the
wineroom, the poolroom, or still worse
(having no one to remind him that he
is better than an animaD, he will
finally seek distraction in some form
or other, for there are very few men
who can quietly eat their heart out In
silence as we women do. The wife who
allows her husband to seek these dis
fractions will find they cost some
thing, too She will get less and less
money from him III consequence. 1t
will be wiser in every way to love him
out of them. Save him from his very
faults-it is easier than many think.
Be his better, nohler self. Even if she
cannot succeed--alasl there are men
whom an angel cannot reclaim-verily
she will have her reward, in that she
shall be an angel. In nearly every
thing | think we are the equals of
men, but let us remember that in our
capabilities OF serving and suffering we
are far higher. just ofone as women
become wives for any consideration of
money or ease, or anything less noble
than a pure love, just so long there
will be miserable, disappointed and
ill.paid wives.
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-06-18

1t is astonishing how much people
lose for want OF system. A girl rises,
dawdles about dressing, gets late for
breakfast, and then the best part of
the day is gone. A young fellow has
finished his work; ne idles about with
few friends, and before he knows it
it is half past nine o'clock, and the
first part of the evening is practically
wasted. Any quantity Of work can be
crammed into a lifetime if there be
only organization and application.
No matron or maid, sitting dawn, for
instance, to make counterpane,
could do the whole at one sitting; but
O quarter OF an hours work every day
would accomplish the wholetask, long
as i. is, in the course of o. few weeks
The minutes, too, have an odd trick
OF slipping away so swiftly that if they
are not caught and applied to good
purpose, they are wasted in manner
which leaves the years periodically
blank. Theyoung husbands who come
home in the evening and grow sulky
because their wives are untidy, and
find the fireplace with the days ashes
in it, and who aret told by their spcuses
that there has been so much to do
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-06-18

The Farmers Journal, in an article
on the care of swine, has some nuggets
of truth. Correct as to sanitary con-
ditions are those relating to the sleep
ing place. The article will llrepay perus-
al, and is as follows:
In the first place, hogs for successful
feeding must be strong in bone and
muscle, produced by grass and little
or no corn. We never feed green corn
to hogs, because we consider it un-
healthy, and grass is just as beneficial
and mich cheaper A full feed etcorn
shou 4 not be given before it is dry
enough to crib. Another very i'm.
portant matter is the sleeping apart
ment; in fact, it is of essential import
ance. Our hog house, a cheap board
shed without floor, the highest part
on the south, with boards hung to
raise and lower to make ap opening
for the sun to shine in. The rest is
composed of pure surface ground that
is soon worked into fine dust, which
will frequently remain so all winter
and needs no replenishing. Expert
enced stockmen have sometimes raised
their hands in horror at this-Nature's
bedding. In order to preserve the
bed well it is necessary that the hogs
should fill the house comfortably full.
This can be arranged by fencing of
part and enlarging as the hogs fatten.
The dirt should be replenished every
fall, and it is a good plan to have
some stored to add at times during
the winter. This kind ofbeddingnever
gets hot or cold and is conductive to
the health of the hogs.
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-06-18
vanderbilt's Greatest Trouble.

New York Times: William HI. Van
derbilt had a big sorrow in his life. He
told bluff, good-hearted Capt. Thomp-
son,of the steamship Germanac, about
it one afternoon, when .he sat enjoying
smoke in the captains office There
isn't much fun in having people believe
you are very RICH said Mr.. Wander
biIt. ssPm willing to take your word
for it, assented the captain. Now,
do you know what is thegreat trouble
OF my life?" went on the millionaire.
The captain confessed that he had
never suspected that there was any
great trouble there at all. "Well,
there is, insisted the railway mag
nate. "There is-a great trouble. !
am bothered and worried to death by
people who want to make me rich.
They seem to think / want all the
money on the earth, and they allhave
schemes to help me get it, That's the
great sorrow OF my fife. Idon't dare
turn to this side or to that but some
man is Offering to take me into part
nership and make me another million
or two It's very tiresome-very tire
some,' and the Havana went back to
lips that nursed contemplativeIy as
whiffs OF the tobacco fioated through
the captains cabin window.
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-06-18

We take the following practical sug-
gestion of Prof. John Chiene, from the
Edinburgh Medical Journal: In per-
sistent bleeding from the nasal cavity
plugging the posterior mares should
not be done until an attempt has been
made to check the hemorrhaqe by
firmly grasping thenos with the finger
and thumb, SO as completely to pre-
vent any air from passing throughthe
cavity in the act OF breathing. This
simple means, il persistently tried,
will in many cases arrest the bleeding.
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-06-18
Partisan Women.

The beauty of Partisan women seems
to be result OF intellige nee if not OF
genius, says a writer in the London
World. An English woman is beauti.
full by nature or not beautiful, and
there is an end Of the matter. A Par
lsienne can rarely compete with the
beautiful Englishwoman in feature or
in complexion and purity OF skin, but
she exerts such an effort ofwill in MAX
ing herself fascinating that she often
surpasses her rival in spite of natural
disadvantages. Take Rachel, for in
stance. Nature gave her a thin face,
with large and prominent forehead,
deep-set eyes, sunken mouth, a point
cd chin, O scraggy body, and lean arms.
Out of these natural materials the
little Jewess by dint of genius, will,
passion, love, andgold spent on beau
tiful objects, made the Rachel
that men will ever remember
q woman of Corinth or of Syra-
cuse, with the caressing gesture Of O.
statue by Coysevax, the intensity OF
water-color by Gavarni, lips that
ARRAYS caught and reflected the light,
and in her sombre eyes the subtleeyes
the subtle flame ofintelligence. In the
Parisienne, from the SHOP girl to the
grande dame, there seems to be an in
nate cutie of her person, a respect of
her flesh, a pride in her silhouette and
bearing, and, withal, constant effort
to re-fashion and remake herself in ac-
cordance with marvellous ideal of
beauty, grace, elegance and youth; to
take from antiquity, from the east,
from all ages and all countries that
which has constituted their peculiar
elegance, and then to reduce those ele-
ments ofelegance to the Partisan for
mula. Every Parisienne is living
work of art, the product of q mysteri-
Gus collaboration of surrounding in,
huences, some stored in the galleries
of the Louvre Museum, Others active
and living in the sculptofs, the paint
ers, the poets, the Aspasias and Phry-
nes of the day, and nthe edevelopment
of that refined and immoral ma
terialism which is the privilege OF the
Latins. The creation of a Parisienne
is miracle, and mir9ele ofinstinct.
There is no other explanation. Rachel
could never have passed an examina-
tion at Girton College. Sarah Bern
hardt, who is leaving US inconsolable,
never knew much about the history of
the great queens whom she has personi-
fed. have even heard that, when
she was rehearsing Phedre for the first
time she said TO o friend one day:
'Raconte moi done un peu ce que
c'etait que ce Nj. Thesee.v And yet,
it Is Parisiennes like Rachel and Sarah
who recreate the heroic humanity Of
the past with force OF illusion, and
with accents, attitudes and gestures
such as the painters, the sculptors
and the archmologists could never
imagine, and who remain, as an en-
thusiastic admirer Of Sarah said the
other day, among the most graceful
apparitions that haveeverf fitted over
the changing surface OF thie world OF
phenomena for the consolation of hu-
manity.