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Year: 1878

The Syracuse Standard says: "Bish-
op Coke, well known in this vicinity,
and of the western diocese of New York
speaks as follows of professional temper
ance tramps:


1T is not reason that irresponsible
men should come into our villages, ad-
vertise their plans, and then demand
that the clergy should suspend services
of the Lords day, or some other solemn
festival-even the solemnitles of holy
week and Good Friday-and send the
people to listen to their harangues,
often vulgar and full of false morality
But above all, we can never subject our
selves for an instant to their despotic
laws as to measures, or their narrow
views of the whole subject of moral OBJ
legations, and their frequent denials of
mans infrmity and the need of Divine
grace. Nor can we submit to see many
4thfr thf 1qf7 ferns ned Of i4iaHit
nence. Nor can we send our children
to listen to the reformed drunkard, as if
his return to decency-often, alas SO
momentary-were sufficient quali6ca-
tion for a public teacher of propriety
and virtue. Too often this class of pub
lie speakers "glory in their shame" " and
magnify their abstinence by detail of
their former degradation. Such are not
the men and measures we can counte-
nance but so much the more in our
way, let US teach temperance as the
duty of all and abstinence as the duty
of all who cannot be temperate. and in
general the duty of youth /; the privilege
and the glory of those who need neither
stimulant nor tonic-who possess both
in that joyous health of their young life
to which all artificial excitements are as
poison and blight.
Year: 1878

EVILS OF GossIP.-We have known a
country society which withered away all
to nothing under the dry rot of gossip.
Friendships once as firm as granite, dis
solved to jelly, and then ran away to
water, only because of this; love that
promised future as enduring as heaven
and as stable as truth, evaporated into
a morning mist that turned to days
Year: 1878

The subject of the employment Of women
is as vital to the rich as to the poor. Mr..
Emerson's remark with regard to the regu-
lation of the body holds equally for the
soul-he who is rich, and would be well, let
him live as if he were poor. We talk of the
lazy poor because they are burden to the
community are not the lazy rich, after all,
the rottenness at the core Every woman,
from the Queen on the throne to the little
Pippa who passes every day to the filature,
has her work to do, and is responsible for
the due performance of it. All service ranks
the same with God. All are servants equally
in his sight" What picture would the
life of the average woman of Fifth Avenue
or Beacon street present to us if we should
lay it down without exaggeration on paper
Her schooldays over, it is her habit to walk
into the breakfast-room at nine o'clock, just
from her bed her front hair twisted over
pins or bits of silk. She lounges, reading
the newspaper, chatting with others as pur-
poseless as herself, warming her feet or gaz-
ing out of the window, until eleven then
she retires to arrange her toilet for the even
ing, perhaps to examine clean clothes from
the wash, or perform some other household
duty-duties not to be omitted, but which
the economical woman Zone who has learned
the value of time) would have completed
before the day began; then she dresses for
afternoon calls, aud list in hand, descends to
the lunch table. Here nearly another hour
fades away before she begins her afternoon
round, fitting from house to house, cheer
fully chatting of the Shaughraun, Nilsson,
Kellogg-of everything, in short, which con-
Germs the shows of life but careful as one
walking over pitfalls to avoid every subject
of vital interest either TO herself or others.
Then, the visits or drive ended, she hurries
home in season to dress for dinner, and go
somewhere afterward, as if to exhaust to the
last drop her own vital strength and the
hours of the day. This little record is not
overdrawn. With certain notifications, this
is the substance of the life of wives and
daughters of well-to-do merchants in our
cities. These days are varied by certain
mornings given to music, and others to
painting. But how small the average of
those who achieve anything worth doing
A man to be a painter must not paint with
half his mind. The same law holds good
of the woman. Let every woman apply to
her own life the doctrine of selection. The
man is bred to do this. What is your son
going to be 4? parents are asked, aud boys
in the public school comfide to each other
the profession of their choice, No one asks
the girl what is to be her employment, what
she is preparing for. The days of her pleas
ant school life glide by one after another;
frequently no accurate scholarship has been
required of her; and when the routine stops,
she is without rudder and without aim
Hdrper'S Mdgosine for March.
Year: 1878

Mr.. Hayes is reported as speaking about
his daily lie as President " There is SO
much variety in the life of this building
that get wonder, instruction and amuse-
ment from it. All kinds Of people, on every
conceivable errand, think that if they can
only see the President, their troubles are
ended. don't mind those who merely want
to shake hands. This is pleasure and a
relief They often help me out of a di-
lemma. For example | may have some
persistent, obdurate oflice-seeker or office
manager. lie will press his point, perhaps,
until he has put his knees against mine aud
demands yes or no. 1t may be that
feel rising temper at his aggressiyeness'
Then think OF the people outside They
are always let in on presentation of card,
respects only see some of them at the
instant, desirous TO shake hands. So | turn
from the unpleasant caller, and while talk
minute TO the people, have chance to
calm my mind and prepare to answer the
question"
Year: 1878

There should never be guest in the
house whose presence requires any consider
able change in the domestic economy. How
ever much the circumstances of business or
mutual interests may demand in entertain
ing a stranger, he should never be taken into
the family circle unless he is known to be
wholly worthy of a place in the Sdnctum
sdnci0rum of social life; but when mau is
admitted to the home fireside he should be
treated as if the place had been his always.
The fact of an invitation gives neither host
nor guest the right to be master of the others
time, and does not require even temporary
sacrifice of ones entire individuality or pur-
suits. A man should never be so much
himself as when he entertains friend. To
stay at a friends house beyond the time for
which one is invited is to perpetrate a social
robbery. To abide uninvited in friend )
home is as much a misdemeanor as borrow
ing his coat without his permission. 1t is
debasing the coin of friendship TO mere
dross when a man attempts to make it pay
his hotel bills. The fact of two men having
the same occupation and interests in life
gives to neither a social right to the others
bed and board. A travelling minister has
no more right to go uninvited to fellow
preachers house than travelling shopkeeper
or shoemaker has TO go uninvted to the
house of his fellow-craftsman. Men are or
dained to the ministry as preachers, teachers
and pastors, and not as private hote[keepers
They who go into the country in summer as
uninvited guests of their farmer friend,
should be rated as social brigands and
treated accordingly These few social max
inns are by no means to be taken as a com
plete code OF laws. Others quite as impor
tant will spring up out OF the personal ex
perience of every reader of this article, anC
the justice and equity of all may be testeC
by that infallible standard of society-th'
golden rule. There can be no true hospi
tality that in practice is a violation of thi


rule; and you may safely rest assured tina
you have given the fullest and most perfec


measure OF entertainment to your neighbo
if you have done exactly as you would b
done by.-Sunday afternoon.
Year: 1878

go mother what dry breakfast |"
sighed poor Kate, as she sat down to her
meal OF corn-cake and water.


"If we only had bit of meat with our
bread how nice it would bel" said Robert.
Wouldn't you like nice slice of ham,
sissy, such as we used to have, or even
piece of crisp, brown pork ? don't believe
my toes would feel the frost half so bad
if we had


"Well, cheer up, children" said the poor
mother, +" we shall kill the pig next week,
aud then you shall have meat q plenty
He'll have his acorns all eaten up by that
time, and ! don't mean to buy any more
meal for him. You have both been good
children all summer, gathering weeds and
things for him now you shall see of what
use it will be to us all, indeed" And a
heavy shadow passed over her face. |
don't see how we could ever live through
the winter if it were not for that pig"


So the children's hearts We're comforted,
and they were through with their poor
breakfast before their father came staggering
out of the bedroom. One glance at him
gave the key to all their wretchedness. He
swore some about the breakfast, dashed his
plate on the floor, kicked over chair,
and then, TO the great relief of all, picked
up his torn hat, and walked off to the town,
a mile away.


Well, i'll about a week that pig was killed
and nicely dressed by kind neighbor who
promised also TO come in aud cut it up as
soon as his own pork was packed. But that
very evening man who kept a store in the
village drove over in a light wagon and
claimed the pig as his property. John
Cutiir had promised it to him for the whis-
key he had scored against him.


The poor mother wrung her hands in
helpless distress, and the half-famished chill.
dren cried aloud and begged the man not to
carry off all their food for the winter. But
| think his heart was turned into stone, foI
he would not listen to them.


at was his" he remarked, and he would
have it,"


He called on a man near by to help him
load it but the man refused with words aud
looks OF scorn that ought TO have withered
him. Not man in the neighborhood could
be found who would help him, so he wa,
forced to drive all the way back to town anc
get help there. often see that man, and
can not but think what fearful account be
will have TO render for robbing the wors,
than widow aud fatherless.


Oh in that last great day.. | think al
dram-Selers will pray for the mountains anc
rocks to fall on them, TO hide them from thu
awful array of misery that will wind on be
fore them as the fruit of their traffic
Selected.
Year: 1878

TEMPERANCE is not a subject to be played
with. There is earnestness enough on the
other side. The rumsellers are earnest and
determined, the poor drunkard is terribly
in earnest in his appetites and in his re-
morse, the ruin OF those dependent on him
is overwhelming, the waste of resources is
devastating, the danger to the young is
frightfuli and all these to degree which
demands the most serious earnestness on
the part of those who would remedy this
state of affairs.
Year: 1878

1t is the duty of every one to take
some active part as actor on the stage
of life. Some seem to think that
they can ycngetatc, as it were, with.
out being anything in particular
Man was not made 10 rust out his
life. 1t is expected he should "act
well his part" He must be some-
thing, He has a work to perform
which it is his duty TO attend to-
We are not placed here to grow and
then die without having done any
thing for the human race. | is a
principal in the creed Of the Mahom.
etans that every one should have a
trade. No Christian doctrine should
be better than that. Is man to be
brought up in idleness? Is he to live
upon the wealth which hisancestors
have acquired by frugal industry Is
he brought here to pass through life
an automaton? Has he nothing to
perform as a citizen of the woTldH A
man who does nothing is useless to
this country as an inhabitant. A
man who does nothing is a mere
cipher lie does not fulfil the obli-
cations for which he was sent into
the world, and, when he dies, he has
not finished the work which was Civ
en- him to do. He is mere blank
in creation. Some are born with
riches and honors upon their heads.
But does it follow that they have
nothing to do in their career through
life? There are certain duties for
every ono toporform. Be something
Don't live like a hermit, and die un'
regretted.
Year: 1878

The mortality from the heat is,
with few exceptions, directly trace
able to intemperance and vicious
habits of living. The heat is not ir+
furious, and people who know how
to take care of themselves are not
apt to suffer from its effects. OF
course, there are cases ofillnesswhich
are aggravated by the heat, and the
infant mortality is always larger
when the thermometer is up in the
nineties. But an examination of
the list of deaths shows that at least
ninatx nor cant Of tha raartalitp iss
ss4en ner cent. Is due TO an unfcr-
tsnateimprndence. If we had no
.dfuIkards in the CITY the increased
mortality would not have been no
ticeable, and the lesson of the heat is
a lesson against intemperance in
eating and drinking. 1t has been a
dreadful and expensive lesson, and
its warning is worth needing by ALI
but it is a disaster so clearly and so
easily preventible that it ought not
to cause any apprehension or alarm,
but it ought to make us more tenn
porate and more careful.-S. Louis
Post.
Year: 1878

Recent instances of sudden death
while bathing should put every one
on guard against going into cold
water who is troubled with cramp,
though it may be only slightly. The
great shock to the system by i'm
morsion in sea water on warm day
is liable to produce very sudden and
fatal consequences. Persons who
have arrived at fifty years of age
should be particularly cautious
They can seldom venture on n sea
bath with safcty-at least we heard
this remark made by an eminent
physician.
Year: 1878

Because they are not always tame.
Because there is II great deal of
sport to be got out Of the wild ones
Because they may be captured


Because, as provided by the results
Of the public examinations, they may
be pluCked.


Because, we can see in the illus
tratcd newspapers, they may be
drawn,


Because they may be beautifully
done a good deal of, butter being u.s.
ually employed in the process.


Because they are often well basted.
Because they are always dressed
in some fashion for dinner.


Because they have long bills.


Because there are always plenty oil
them in the market.


Because they can't climb Il rope
Year: 1878

The man who comes to the depot
two minutes behind time, and sees
the railroad train scudding out at
the other end, derives no satisfact-
ion from the proverb, Better late
than never"
Year: 1878

an exhaustive examination OF English and
American precedents. decided that legislator
was not exempted by virtue Of his Office from
arrest under criminal process. BULLARD was
recommended to mercy by the jury perhaps in
view OF the fact that more dangerous and sue
cossful practitioners of addition. division. and
silence are still Mt large and in the enjoyment
OF il-gottcA opuence.
Year: 1878

1t will interest our National Guardsmcn
to learn that medical journal Of London takes
the ground that the military drill has a ten
dency to produce heart disease. Tho large
amount of the disease in the British army has
frequently attracted attention. but only now is
1t attributed to tho source pointed out by this
authority It is very doubtful. however. whether
our militia do enough drilling to hurt their
hearts. while whnt they do 20 through unques-
tionably improves their carriage and furnishes
them u valuable athletic exercise
Year: 1878

WAsHINGToN, Dec Officers of the army
now III this city express q very favorable
opinion Of the bin offered by Senator Burnside
yesterday to provide for the reorganization of
the army II Is not exactly what the officers
would like to have, nevertheless it is regarded
upon The whole rs good bill and no opposi-
tion Will be made to its passage by the officers
stationed in this city. If there is any opposi-
tion made from the army it will be on the
part OF those officers whose soft places are
trenchod upon


In conversation this morning with promi-
hent officers Of the army the opinion was ex-
pressed that as infantry is much more ser
Vlceable IN defending the frontier settlements
and lighting the Indians than artillery, it
would have been better If the bill had pro-
ylded Tor twenty regiments Of infantry and
three regiments Of cavalry and five of artI-
lery.


The provision of the bill providing for the
reorganization Of the present retired list of
the army, as we'll as all other features in re-
to he eyppiIpnt
Year: 1878




The unfortunate subject of this notice
died last evening about half-past seven
o'clock. The public can not soon forget
the startling surprise, the appalling
shock, produced few weeks since by
the announcement that Henry S. Moss,
a prominent Main street merchant, was
known to have forged the names Of
many men, some of them his best
friends, to many pieces of commercial
paper. No event for many years has
produced a greater sensation. Mr.. Moss
was native of Glasgow, KY, and had
lived in Louisville quarter OF a CEN
tury. He was we'll born, well raised,
well connected with an extensive kin
dred of most worthy and respected peo-
pie. He had been for years past elected
and reelected to the Board of Alder
men of the city of Louisville. His hold
upon his constituency was their CONT
dence in his integrity and courage. He
possessed none OF the arts OF the dema-
gogue, and his career as alderman was
in advocacy of economy and hostility to
extravaganza and waste of the public
treasure. His standing, both in Louis
vile and his former home, was that of
aman of sensitive honor and courageous
truth. His habits were those OF perfect
sObriety and abstemious simplicity.
That such man, at the age of fifty
eight years, should commit great
crime aturally produced the great
felt by the public few weeks since.


But the case has now assumed an un-
alterable new phase. When all other
friends had fallen away or stood ap-
palled at the enormity of apparent
crime, a faithful wife, warmed by public
denunciation and moved to greater ex-
ertion by her loneliness, declared that
her husband was not dishonest man,
but afflicted with diseased brain that
what seemed to be crime was the irres-
ponsible act of lunatic; that he had
not been sane or responsible for a year
past. She demanded an inquiry, and on
Saturday last it was holden in the JET
ferson Circuit court before Judge jack
son and jury, and it was then estab-
lished and placed of record that Henry
S. Moss was a lunatic, and had been for
a year last past. This Judgment was
based upon the testimony of leading
physicians and learned experts in men
tai diseases, such as Drs. Chipley and
of Cincinnati; Rogers, Hewett
and Bell, of Louisville; and Forbes, of
the Anchorage Asylum. They said his
brain had been long diseased, and that
he was tt len dying Of the malady. AL
ready the cOnsummatiOn has been
In all this sad affair we are
glad we find this one point upon which
we can congratulate his family and
many fosmer friends; that it is now es-
5ablished beyond all dispute-nay, be-
yond all wish to dispute-that Henry s.
Moss leaves an honest and vindicated
name to his posterity-a name over
which they may weep for his misfor-
;unes, butneed not blush nor be ashamed.
Year: 1878

We have since our first issue been
advocating the organization of some
action on the part of our executive
committees, which would insure a call
for all Democrats in the parish to meet
in convention.


We trust before our next issue some
action will be taken by the committees.
The Democrats of st. Landry demand
and intend to have this year one con-
vention composed not Of rival politi-
clans, but of delegates fairly elected
from the entire Democracy of the parish.
We trust both committees will unite
and carry out their wishes, and thus
prevent a recurrence of the disasters of
the last campaign.
Year: 1878

We had the pleasure of meeting in
our town, during the present week, Hon.
Robt. M. Lusher, State Superintende Mt
of Public Education. Mr.. Lusher is
making personal inspection of the
schools throughout the entire State.
He carefully examined the books of the
President, Secretary and Treasurer of
the School Board, and those schools
now in session. He expressed himself
as we'll satisfied with the energetic
efforts made by our officers in behalf of
the public schools of the parish and
last but not least as agent of the Pea
body fund made an appropriation to
one school from that fund and promised
similar appropriations to all graded
schools in the parish with all average
daily attendance Of over one hundred
pupils. Mr.. Lusher left us On Wednes-
day on the steamer Minnie for Simms-
port, from WHICH point he will con-
tinue his inspection through the Nor
ern parishes.
Year: 1878

"We have got to practice the most
rigid economy at such time as this"
remarked man the other day to q
crowd on the sidewalk. "Thave stopped
all the papers for which l formerly sub
scribed, and don't buy candy toys, and
such trumpery for the children; times
are hard. Come in boys and take q
drink"
Year: 1878

PART u.-How THE TRUST WAS FULPILLED.


When the combined guardians of La
grange first practised to deceive, they did
not forecast the tangled web whose pleas
ant intrcacies and sinuosities they were
presently to weave. And when Captain
calmly announced 10 his gentle confeder-
ates his intention OF writing his first letter
tn loco parentiS-to the orphaned girl
with bis left hand, explaining to her the
thereby changed chirography through the
ingenious fiction OF an accident that had
happened to his right-it was accepted
with reclamation. You see.' said the
captain, sententiously, "every man sings
ink with his left hand at about the same
Year: 1878




ohe was on the express train of the
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern rail-
road, and little boy six months old IN
tending to.haye a square meal, she could.
not afford to be bothered by the young
ster; therefore she left him comfortable
on the seat of the car while she went to the
dinning-room to refresh herself. She en-
loved the breakfast evidently, for she be-
came. so deeply interested in the work be-
fore her that she did hear the announce
ment of 'sall aboard, )" nor did she per
eeive that al the other passengers had left
the dining-room. She finally got through
and walked slowly out of the place, when.
to her horror, she found that the train
containing her baby had left. Her dis
tress was terrible. The agent telegraphed
at once to the next station to have the
baby taken off, as the mother would come
on BY the next train. Soon the repl'
came back that the baby was all right a
Otis, and that Conductor Kelly had actet
like a father to it while in his charge
The lady, somewhat reassured, took tn


next train, and great was her JOY WheI


her child was handed back TO her at Oti


sound and safe Chicago Tribune.
Year: 1878

II 2 well made man be extended zoazt1.
will Just take il the head, the finger ends
and feet.


The distance from top to toe is precisely
the same as that between the tips Of the
fingers when the arms are extended.


The length Of the body is just six times
that of the foot; while the distance from
the edge of the hair on the forehead to the
end Of the chin is one.tenth the length Of
the whole stature.


Of the sixty two primary elements known
in Nature, only eighteen are found in the
human body, and Of these, seven are
metallic. Iron is found in the blood, phos,
phorus in the brain, limestone in the bile,
lime in the bones, dust and ashes IN all
Not only these eighteen human elements,
but the whole sixty-two, of which the uni.
verse is made, have their essential basis
in the four substances, oxygen, by drogen
nitrogen and carbon, representing the
more familiar names Of fire, water, salt


petre and charcoal; and such is man, the
lord of earth spark OF FIRE, a drop d
water, grain Of gunpowder an atom q


charcoal l-Ha}Es Journal Of Health.
Year: 1878

Sir Isaac Newton, little before he
died, said: Il don i know what my
seem to the world, but as to myself, !
seem to have been only like a little boy
playing on the sea shore, and diyertine
myself in now and then finding a smoother
pebble or prettier she'll than ordinary,
whilst the great ocean Of truth lay all IN.
discovered before me-