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The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-02-06

need constant direction as to treatment,

need constant direction as to treatment,
the laws of it are very simple.
Doctor cried the old woman, 'you
enchant mel Can have something
now?'
Certainly, said her precious adviser,
composedly; "a tender-boiled chicken,
a nice croquette, trifle of salad, per-
haps a cream tart, and glass-just one
of really dry champagne, would do
nicely
The old woman rang her hand-bell
violently. 'Catharine, you hear, she
cried eagerly to the maid, chicken,
rice, croquettes, salad, bottle of cham
payne. Bring the wine now. Doctor
you must drink with me to my recovery
Miss Culpepper was at once in great
spirits, and was most affable to her
medical adviser, who in turn told her
all the latest stories of society in which
she had warm interest. The young
scamp knew everybody worth knowing
she found, and valued him in proper
ton. And when at last he told her a
narticular piauant morsel of scandal
that had not got into the papers ABOUT
her girlhood's dearest friend, the wick
ed old woman waddled over to her Sec
retary and drew out check for $500.
That's your retaining fee. Such men
as you are always in want of money.
You must come and see me twice a
day.
'But 1 must confess to you, Miss Gull
pepper says Scallawag, hanging his
head, 'that am not yet admitted to
practice
'All the BETTER cries the old lady
delighted. 'Why, boy, you have a
genius for diagnosis. 60 ahead with
your studies and come to see me just
the same. You do me more good than
twenty diplomas, and if 1 choose to
employ you it is nobody's business but
my own.'
Two years afterwards the College of
Physicians and Surgeons graduated
Horace with, 1 fear, small credit to
himself. Acting the idea the old lady
unconsciously suggested, he entered in
the spring term of the college the day
after that remarkable first call, and
studied as hard as his constitutional in
frmities and social obligations allowed.
The old lady's untiring fancy supplied
him with a magnificent income.
He fell into good practice as soon as
he got his diploma, and though a uni
versal favorite with the ladies, married
Miss Kate Darlington, Miss Culpepper's
neice and heiress, the very next year.
To-day his income has climbed up into
five figures and his connection is among
the very best people only.
Miss Culpepper still lives. That as
founding prescription did not finish
her. For it happened that the self
willed, voracious old woman's troubles
began in a fit of indigestion after a 6 lut-
tonous dinner. The doctors cured that
by starvation, but upset it by spelling
her temper. With the satisfaction OF
spelling her bad humor, her hunger
disappeared, though she still pays Hor-
ace large salary to keep her we'll by
amusing her,
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-02-06

B9rA poet calls humming bird ga
flash of ruby in the southwark air"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-02-06
Old Hundred.
Half a bar, half q bar,

Half bar, half bar,
Half bar onward!
Into an awful ditch,
Choir and Precentor hitch,
Into mess of pitch,
They led the Old Hundred.
Trebles to right of them,
Tenors to left of them,
Bases in front of them,
Beloved and thundered.
Oh! that Precentor's look,
When the sopranos took
Their own time and hook,
From the Old Hundred.
Screeched all the trebles here,
Boggled the tenors there,
Raising the parsons hair,
While his mind wandered;
Theirs not to reason why
This psalm was pitched too high:
Theirs but to gasp and cry
Out the Old Hundred.
Trebles to the right of them,
Tenors to the left of them,
Bases in front of them,
Beloved and thundered.
Stormed they with shout and yell,
Not wise they sang, nor well,
Drowning the sections bell,
While all the church wondered.
Dire the Precentor's glare,
Flash'd his pitchfork in air,
Sounding fresh keys to bear
Out the Old Hundred.
Swiftly he turned his back,
Reach'd he his bat from rack,
Then from the screaming pack
Himself he sundered.
Tenors to right of him,
Trebles to left of him,
Discords behind him,
Beloved and thundered.
Oh, the wild howls they wrought /!
Right to the end they fought!
Some tune they sang, but not,
Not the Old Hundred.
-Andre's Journt
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-02-06

BarThat man has attained to wisdom
who can do everything at the proper
time.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-02-06

Ba Conscience is the voice of the
soul, the passions are the voice of the
body.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-02-06

B@ Mrs. Judge Peterby is very
spare woman. She is excessively thin.
A few days ago her husband said.
81 don't really think that you ought
to go out on the streets, Mariah."
"Why not2" she asked.
"Well, you know there is so much
danger just now from mad dogs. They
will bite at almost anything"
"But | don't think | am in any more
danger than anybody else"
go, yes you are. Dogs love to gnaw
| bones"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-02-06
n0Angry purchaser-''You told me
the horse wasn't balky.'

s@-By looking into physical causes
our minds are opened and enlarged.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-02-06

DaHO Olive oil is the best thing in the
world to use on boots or shoes. Glyce-
rine is an excellent dressing for kid
boots or shoes.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-02-06
Senator McCreery's Joke.

The mystic letters written on visiting
ca.ds are source of bewilderment to
the congressman from rural districts
who cannot decipher their meaning.
Once, that stalwart Kentuckian, Sena-
tor McCreery, met foppish young
constituent, who had just returned from
Paris, and said to him:
Il received your card the other day.
l recognized your fathers name, which
is the same as yours, and l supposed
that it was his son, but what did the
letters E. P, written in corner, mean?
sWhy, Mr.. Senator, replied the trav-
eled man, 'it is customary in Paris to
write the initials of certain words on
leaving cards. For example, had been
going away, 1 should have written P. P.
c., the initials of pour brendre eonge-
to take leave. AS it was, calling my
self, 1 wrote E. P, the initials of en-
beysonne-in person.
'Oh!' said McCreery, Il understand.
A week or so afterward the two met
again and the young man said:
Senator, received your card, Dut
couldn't comprehend what the letters
S. B. A. N, in the corner meant. Pray
interpret Them
with pleasure said McCreery; his
eyes twinkling with humor. IS. B. A.
NJ, are the initials of Sent by Mig
ger!'
The young man tried to laugh, bu
really couldn't see the point of the in
scription. Others did.
sg~Angry purchaser-''You told MT
the horse wasn't balky.'
Seller-"No, didn't"
Angry purchaser-"You certainl,,
did. You said that when it came t.
pulling that horse was there every time.
Seller-sYes, that what Isaid. He
there, but the trouble is he stays.
used to build bonfire under him"
| s@rBy looking into physical cause
our minds are opened and enlarged.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-02-06
HAusohnId Hints

Very common bottles can be trans
formed into pretty ornaments for the
dressing table with very little trouble
or expense. This is just the kind of
work little girls like to do, as it is really
only dressing dolls. Cleanse the bottle
thoroughly, and have new cork fitted
to it. Procure little china head at
toy store, and fasten it upon the cork;
the cloak or shawl is fastened around
its neck, and little cap on its head.
The skirt is Sewed around the neck of
the bottle so that it conceals the whole
of that. The cork can be readily drawn
out by the head. The style of dress can
be very elaborate or quite plain; it is
pretty to have the dress correspond
with the color of the covering of the
dressing table on which the bottle is to
stand. A black silk or satin suit made
to initiate gossamer, with an umbrella
of black paper is quaint looking.
Take an English walnut, cut in half
and remove the insides, press tin foil
| into it, gild the outside and tie together
with scarlet ribbon. To make the
holes, use hot knitting needle.
Take strong lime water, and work the
butter over in it just as you would work
it if just taken from the churn, to get
the buttermilk out of it.
D'Oyleys for finger bowls are made
of fine linen with inch wide hemstitch-
ed hens. The designs, to suit the in
dividual fancy, are embroidered with
etching silks in Kensington stitch.
A London medical man says: 'Be
careful in your dealings with horse rad
ish. 1t irritates the stomach far more
than spice, and an overdose will bring
on an unpleasant sensation for days.
Cobs are good for smoking meat, as
they give good flavor. Keeping
small fire longer time is better than
quick smoking, as too much heat gives
the meat strong taste and injuries its
sweetness.
A useful paper-holder is made of
white slat splasher, at the bottom of
which is large cardboard crescent with
some appropriate design. Two peacock
feathers tied with bow of satin ribbon
is arranged across the top
When we feel unusually "torpid" and
heavy after meals, we may rest assured
there is indigestion somewhere. A tea
spoonful of lime water, taken in half a
tumbler of clear, moderately cold wa
ter directly after meals, gives almost
instant relief. A few drops of the clear
juice of lemon is also very effective.
PincuShion and toilet bottle covers
may be made of scrim with threads
drawn to forms squares. With shaded
silk, take stitch from the center of
. each square to each of its four corners,
and then fill in the intervening spaces
in the same manner; finish with bows
of ribbon, and fringe or buttonhole-
stitch the edges. Fringed edges are
: prettier.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1886-05-30
NUMBER 42
Z TY,e TEACHERS Institute.

~
On Friday evening, mt s O'Clock, q
the Courthouse, there will bo 2 musi-
cal and literary entertainment In con-
nection with the Teachers Institute
now being held In this city. Il -
hoped The good people OF our city ,ooth
ladies and gentlemen, wtll encourage
by their presence at the daily sessions
OF the Institute, and particularly on
Friday evening, this new exper-
ience In our his,ory-reaching teachers
how to teach. We can assure all, who
have the interests of the children and
Of the State at heart, that their attends
ance will mcana greater appreciation
of the noble work being wrought--De>
cause each one who listens becomes
Impressed with the paramount neces.
sity OF training teachers 70 mould the
fu ture men and women who snail
WELD tho destinles 0t our beloved Lou.
isiana. Go, hear the lcctures.-th they
are brief and 10 the point. Attend
Friday evening, anyway, to near
! the musical part Of the entertainment
IProf. Blees has this In charge. Hon.
Warren Easton, State Superintendent
of Education will deliver an address,
Other gentlemen will give you views
and experiences.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1886-05-30
WEST MONROE DOTS.

s. WEST MONROE DOTS.
frRoM OUR REat'f.AR nEroisrEn..
Business was good In town yester>
day.
II our people will only he patient
they will In the next mouth, be able
to attend divine service In . church Of
their own, which will be quite cons
venience.ssssssssss .-s-ss-s ~
d DR., Traylor, representing the grocery
house Of Vaudeville, Bowling 4 Tray
lor was In town yesterday am, gaveus
almost agreeable call.
The OH Mills asnwt down operations
to-day. a 9,aw ss e
The OH Mills saved from tho, seed
ginnea this season $40 bales cotton
which we consider atolerabla fair crop.
Mira. Alice Henery, OF Union parish,
who has Just returned from Natchl-
toches, La, at which place she has
been attending school, was In il Town
yesterday. afsP s, t,,sas
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1886-05-30

The following is clipped from the
New Orleans City Item of Monday
last, The Item is in error as reg,rds
McCrauie. McC., is in the Fifth Dis
trict
Has it ever occurred to the Demo
cracy of the Fourth Congressional DIS.
trict that they owe Judge Michaei
RYAN a debt similar TO that which
their brethren of the First. at the last
election, liquidated in the case OF Hon
| Louis Si. Martin? There is McCranie
in the Fourth, too.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1886-05-30

Sam Jones and Sam Small il seems'
like other people less pious, are given
to paving hell with good Intentions,
In Chicago they renounced the use oi
tobacco, and said they would never DE
addicted to the habit again, but they
are in Baltimore now smoking as com
posedly as ever. Thus human res"'n-
lions often end in smoke.-ET.
parbaps it's the difference ia The weet
10 he found in Chicago and that 10 b'
| had in Baltimore, which is SO near 'h'
Virginia tobacco fields.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1886-05-30
THE MEETING OF THE LOUISIANA
PRESS CONVENTION.


The neonla of our citv should not
,, 49,. .ho S,oto press
49,. " $3.50 -
Association meets mere on Mouuays
August Cd, and they should begin
oyar nov, to make some kind NJ pre.
~. ,>. ,...,,;o,, of,na
P"A"'so" A0' ..-S P.op
"mOuiders OF Punlic OPINION. Inc
following programme OF exercises mas
been iormuiated:
PROGRAMME.
Address Of Welcome by Judge Thos.
a. aarle'' oi monroe. .,,.,, ~ ,..
CARROLL Damocrat
s.-The Power Of the Press-AIaj. e. A.
Burke of the Times Democrat.
anuslnoss M,snnsnea. !. s., % .,,' .n1 Nams'
p,i1a . ca,otte : -
5.-The Power OF tho Press to Purify
Politics-Gov. s. D. McEnery.
otno NO. na"y "...m .I"',o. na.:, " - ' "''
-~rho state press Associat;on-Hon.
Leon Jastremski of the Capitolian- Advo-
cate.
iue-Mss @ ,. isA'' ''
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1886-05-30

Mrs. Frank Leslie, the leading female
journalist of the world, was born in the
French quarter Of New Orleans. She
speaks several languages, lndus-
triously, superintends vast business,
but when in society, dresses tastefuily
and sparkles in costly jewels. She Is
very handsome and ATTRACTIVE, bu'
claims to be married 10 her noble pro-
fession.- VicA,sbrry Herald
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1886-05-30
AN INTERESTING LETTER ON THE
LlEN LAW.

Under the head of shelters from the
People" the New Orleans States pube
fishes the following, which Will doubt,
less interest merchants and planters
alike. We publish the letter, leaving
the reader to draw his own deductions
therefrom: 'f
NEW ORLEANS, May IL, 1886.
DEAR SIR ;-In your Issue Of May
5th.. I notice DIR. Cunningham's oblee-
,ion 10 the lien law which Ia correct 30
far AS IL goes, and will call the nttcn-
tion of our legislature to a few more
facts AS they exist, in regard 10 the per-
nicious statute. Isl-s, i9'sQ
II is certain that tho law bent n's
only parties who are unreliable anu
without means Of support, and when
the party makes application for sup.
plies. docs the merchant let him hnVc
them on account Of his honesty cor
4 integrity? Most assuredly not, but
bccnuse the statute gives the merchaM
| n lien upon the debtors crop. .
rho merchants will tell you that
, minority of debts lost are against par
ties VINO gave mortgages under inns
! law. 1t is Il comm thing for worth
less men to get supplies under TINS
; mortgage and totally abandon tho
, crops, while they consume the suppiies
Now experience has taught the mefe
chants to make provisions against TINS
lloss. and IL can only be done by put
. ting IL larger per cent upon goous SOLO
+ 10 nar,ics who will pay. do not
mean to say that the merchant takes
I, advantage of customers who are sure 10
:, nav. by adding larger. per cent on
,. goods sold to them, Dut tho per cent IL
added TO all goods to mako up for
llosses occurring by reason Of this law
. 90 it is piain that the burden OF thi'
$ additional, per cent Is only horne by
re those who do pay. ~.
10 Another thing The, lien crentct
:. under this law Is superior 10 that O
any other Judgment, which frequent.
~ enables the party against whom thcr
III ia a Judgment TO ward off execution
Ir. indefinitely. He has but 10 give TN
MI lien aud be supplied extravaganza.
during the year and at tho END 'ur
'e over his crop u the merchant wh
ed suuulied him and with whom Srcate
lie debt has been contracted than woui
I'd hut for this law, and the judgmer
..s creditor thus goes from year to ycs
ga, uusatislied. 't
W. m''t We are experiencing the most disa
~" ,rous overflow that ever occurred her
The water came within eight inch
it, of 49,, aud at this season covered abo
=, throe.eigbths Of our most productt'
"e lands. AT this date the wafer n
lIy fallen about four inches. Our dai
di- mail TO this point has come only on
rat. within the last ten days, and then
80, skiff from Girard on the V. :. and
,so., X. II. r
ies' The buffalo gua,s are worse thar
ely ever saw them, and stock oil all KIT
IL to suffer from these terrible pests.
"WYKE.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1886-05-30

A special dispatch to the New Or
leans Picayune from Meridian, Mrs,
says that negro boarding house was
discovered there Saturday where
dogs were being served as meat. Inc
dispatch further says that the canine
.element is nearly all gone and that thi:
discovery leads to their whereabouts.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1886-05-30

A white convict was shot and Killed
and negro wounded Monday night
by guards near Quebec, some eight
miles west of Tallulah La. The facts
are as follows: Monday morning three
convicts escaped from the force em--
ployed on the Vicksburg, Shreveport
and Pacific railroad pear Talluiah'
They were hunted all day and about u
O'Clock Monday night two guards who
had been hunting for them met them
ON a railroad bridge near Quebec and
called on them TO surrender. Instead
of doing so, however, the three con-
v;cts rushed upon them. They were
all three knownas desperate characters,
the two white men having been sent
up for highway robbery from Cslcas'eu
parish. One OF them-John j. Cramer
was armed with an axe. me t"'
guards opened fire upon them WITT
Gums when Cramer fell and was captur
ed and expired in half an hour. I'M
negro is known to be wounded, but n
and tho other white man escaped
, holly pursued through tho swamps
, The coroner's jury justified the guard
in the killing. at
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1886-05-30
The Vicksburg Herald of yesterday

siys:
Capt. II. d. Vanhan, commandef
of the steamer ID. Stein, in Bayou Bar
tholomew this season, has been in the
city Cor some days, negotiating for 'be
Ike Bonham. The engines and other
machinery were not seriously injured
at the time the boiler exploded. 1t i
said 81 900 will put her in good order
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1886-05-30

1t is thought that Capt. III. p. Wells
of Richland parish will soon announce
himself a candidate for Congressional
honors in tho 5th District. - Cutdho1o
NLoacc
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1886-05-30

The fashion of wearing bustles will
make it very difficult for girls to climb
fences during the picnic season.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1886-05-30

The Franklin, (Winnsborr0 Sun, OF
Saturday says that bayou Macon was
falling at the ratio of two inches in "a
hours.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1886-05-30

The following from the Times
Democrat will be read with interest
and will doubtless be Experimental
with by some of our farmers:
The expressing of oil from lndtan
corn Is new industry that has been
commenced In st. Louis. and the pro-
duct promises to be a successful rival
to the best vegetable oils: From q
bushel OF corn, costing So cents, .
gallon OF clear amber oil is obtained,
worth IS cents, and the solid substance
| remaining is said to be better article
of animal food than any Of the OF
cakes now on the market, Ifanticipa
tions in regard to the business arr
realized, the farmer will be enabled L
obtain good price for his corn an'
| feed it to his stock afterward. #
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1886-05-30

A Washington special to the New
Orleans States of Monday says that
Speaker Carlisle in an interview sa'o
that he expected the three Louisiana
members to vote against the tariff bill
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1886-05-30

stephen Pearl Andrews died Ia New
York Friday night aged "A years. He
was born In Massac achusetts and went to
New Orleans when quite q young man.
He was the first counsel retsined by
the late Myra Clark Gaines In prose-
cutting her famous suits against the
city Of New Orleans. He was an out
and out abolitlonist and did all In hIs
power towards overthrowing slavery
He was also a spiritualist; the tnven-
tor of "Alwato," or the universal Ian
guage which he fondly hoped would
supercede all other tongues and spoke
several languages and understood the
philology of more than thirty Ian
guages.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1886-05-30

@. J. poATNER. j. >. ho1 '
G.. j, T. J. s. BOATNER,
rroRNEYs AND CoUNSELORS AT
"A Law, Monroe, La, will practlce IN AZ ~
Smnreme Court at Monroe, the Fedefai
Courts, and in tho Land Olfice Department.
ofthe General Government.
,,aro July Is, 1855.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1886-05-30


Nothwithstanhing the fact that many
obstacles were placed in the way ot the
Compress Company, all OF whic" u
was necessary to remove before any
thing could be accomplished, we are
pleased to say that the Compress CONS
pany has come out victorious and that
the privileges sought have been op'
tanned. The press was ordered some
weeks since and payment OF ~ QUO
cash made on it. The Board OF Dlrec-
tors. consisting of the following gentie-
| men, all responsible parties, VIII see
tina, everything, to uss a techinchal
phrase, is carried out 10 the letter, ana
that the compress will be ready for the
coming crop of cotton. The names O
lAe gentlemen are
VI. p, Stubbs, Ii. Kjnderman, ID. y
Gibson, T. q. Hudson, >. Meyer, ,
i w. Saunders aud DR.. A, Il. Sholars.
=.-----
Al about 4 O'Clock this morning III
sto,ehouse on the Mrs. Nj. a. Levy
place at the mouth of the Chepier
was burned. Mr.. Il. Fudickar mas 10
place rented and has Mr.. y. -. Ne"
y man TO manage the place for him, WI
was, ut the time, together with his sc
n a small boy, asleep in the store. M
: Newman lost his entire wardrobe al
C had very narrow escape rom bei'
e burned himself. His hair was sing
,r and one side OF his face scorched. j
d does not know how the fire originate
is but he is almost positive that it
r. inccndiary. The total loss VIII =
amount to more than 5000, on VIII
st there is no insurance.
90 Ia the furry and worry of WI
of ing up the Teaches Institute aud
be attendance yesterday we inadvertan
ey mentioned Mrs. NJ. l.. Garner, as q
u tres OF the Ess, Carroll Democr
whereas ii should have read II
ea Carol! Banner. II il perhaps, usei
he TO beg pardon, as that would be IRE
he epiendcti. hence we continc oursci
correcting tho error made.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1886-05-30

Under the head Of .sLetters from the
People," the New Orleans States puD~
fishes the following, which Will doubts
less interest merchants and planters
alike. We publish the letter, leaving
the reader to draw his own deductions