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Year: 1874

The Baton Rouge .idroca,e is very small
sized paper. but it has room enough to
publish the two following extracts in the
same issue. The first is section eight Of the
platform Of the ''white peoples conven.
ton, which met in that town on the twenty.
fourth Of August:


That We extend to all Of our race in every
cline the right hand Of fellowship and a
cordial invitation to come and settle among
Us, and unite their destnies with ours.


The other is a resolution adopted by the
Baton Rouge White League No. on the
fifth of September. They read well together.
and convey their own moral:


That all the members of this organization
compose committee, with the secretary as
its chairman. and that it be the duty of
every member of said committee to re port
to the chairman the names of all white
men who. through Indifference to the future
welfare Of the white race of Louisiana, have
failed to register; and that list of those
names be kept for publication after the
election together with the names of all
white men who voted the Radical ticket.
Year: 1874

I. would be we'll for the United States
authorities to consider what risks they are
running before sending troops to the parish
Of Franklin. Doubtless the stout hearts Of
the boys in blue will quail when they read
the following f:om the Franklin Sun Of the
fifth:


onacbita to- and Morebouse m ar are to be- firs;
served with them. and aid from Fran kiln
against them has already been asked for,
and that it will be given who can doubt


God send that Governor Kellogg will pa use
before he resorts to the terrible and ins ane
expedient Of sending troops into the co un'
try. The temper of the people is not i n a
condition to submit to it. It will not be
submitted to. Bloodshed will certainly
follow the advent Of troops in any portion
of North Louisiana. Thelamentable res ult
must rest on the head OF him who sends
them.
Year: 1874

The race may not always be to the swift.
The race may not always be to the swift.


Nor the battle to the strong.


Nor the battle to the strong.
But to the purchaser of a lottery ticke.
But TO the purchaser Of a lottery ticket
There is open the way to a golden fortune.
Il may. therefore be incidentally men.
toned that the Louisiana single number
n'ciaciS.
Year: 1874

BY reference to our advertising col
umns it will be seen that a mass meet
ing of the citizens of Los Angeles and
San Bernardino counties has been
called by our Chamber of Commerce,
to take place at the Courthouse here
on Saturday, December 18th. The
object of the meeting is to con-
slider the best means of aiding
the construction of the Los An
geles and Independence Railroad.
Prominent citizens will address the
meeting, and Mr.. Crawford, the Com
pany's Engineer will be present with
the maps showing the proposed route,
and other information bearing upon
this important undertaking. We are
clad to see that this project
has been taken hold of in earnest and
will probably be brought to some def
mite conclusion. The question is one
of vital importance to Los Angeles
and San Bernardino, as every thinking
man must know, and it cannot receive
too warm support from those whose
interests are involved in the develop
ment of our portion of Southern Cali
fornia. Let there be q rousing re-
Spouse to the call, and q meeting that
means business.
Year: 1874

"There is more for the mother to do
than to see that the children get off
in time in the morning; more for the
father to do than simply pay his school
tax. Teaching is not to be left alto
gether to the teacher; parents must
help. This they can do at home, by
taking an interest in the lessons to be
learned, and they can accomplish fur
ther good by visiting the school. The
teacher is but the assistant Of the
parent, and it must be seen that both
are working in the same direction.
The father may not find time to do
much, but the mother can. She may
have forgotten her French or arith-
metie, but shd can tell if her children
are surrounded by good influences, if
they are taught conscientiousIy or
specifically. The teacher, too, is en-
conraged to kpoW that hnahd hb fba h@ nuns Ills
are proud to show the progress made
sinco the last ~ieit.n
Year: 1874

The experiment of teaching sewing
in the Boston public school generally,
is to be tried. Since last December
sewing has been taught to 200 in the
Winthrop school, and with great sue
cess.
Year: 1874

Rather than wear q collar that
don't fit, or neek-tie that looks
isslouchyn throw the Inferior article
away and call on Cohen & Davis at
the Identical where you will be sup
piled with the best in the market.
Year: 1874

There are those who would be- sur
prised to be assured that Life Insur-
ance is Science; yet il it were not,
the successful prosecution of the busi-
ness would be impossible. If it were
nothing but game Of chance, as some
foolish persons imagine, 1t would share
the fate of the great majority Of gam
bling devices, which lead to inevitable
ruin.


The essential characteristic Of scien-
tiic truth is that it may be verified
Astronomy, for instance, cOmmends
itself as a science to the most uneulti-
waited, for the reason that the astr0no-
mer canpredict with anfailing accuracy
the occurrence of an eclipse, the re-
turn of comet, or any similar eeles-
tial phenomenon.


Life Insurance may be tried by the
same test, and will not fail to demon
strate its claim 70 be called science.
Nothing, il is true, can be more uncer-
tain than the duration Of a single life !;
but the aggregate duration of large
number OF lives, say thousand, and
hence the average duration Of each,
may be foretold with uufailing certain
ty.


Amid the many contributions Of
scientific research to the comfort and
happiness of the masses none is more
important than Life Insurance. He
who refuses the aid and the security
that it offers him ought, in order TO be
consistent, to reject the railroad, the
telegraph, and the thousand products
of mechanical ingenuity which science
has rendered possible. The destItu-
tion to which the sudden death OF the
poor man once inevitably exposed his
family may now be avoided with as
much certainty as charaeterizes the
prevention of smallpox by thorough
vaccination; and it is just as absurd to
neglect the one means of security as
the other.
Year: 1874

In view of recent events at Wash


ington, it is proper to refresh our mem


ories occasionally, and show how brave


ly We are moving onward and upward


to perfection. Since Abraham Lin
coin is the great exemplar of Republic
eanism, and Douglass Of Northern
Democratic Craftsmanship, we repro
duee what these men were accustomed
to say:


L hold that this government was
made on the white basis. By white
men, for the benefit of white men. and
their posterity forever, and should be
administered by white men, and none
Others. l do no: believe that the
Almighty made the negro capable of
elf-gOvernment.-StepheR A. DoH--
glass


L am not, nor never have been. in
favor of making voters or Jurors of ne
gIoes, nor qualifying them to hold
office, nor intermarrying them with
white people; and | will say in addi-
ton to this, that there is a physical
difference between the white and black
races, which, / believe, will forever
forbid the two races living together on
terms of social and political equality
and, inasmuch as they cannot live,
while they do remain together there
must be a position of superior and
inferior, and /, as much as any other
man am in favor of having this supe
rior position assigned to the white race.
Lincoln.
Year: 1874

The c. r. and Boys desiring sufficient
balance due and become their building have determined



make this the most enjoyable entertainment given
The
possessing full confidence the
made securing perfect dcoum throughout the
the Hall
to tissue
Year: 1874

PRINCE Jerome Napoleon terms him
self "the only member of the Napoleon
family who has frankly allied himself
to the popular cause" His opponents
describe him as a man "feebly strug


Cling against the 0bseurity in which
circumstances have submerged him.
Year: 1874

After the donation (Which will be made the und 81
the Hook and Ladder Company there will which
will distribute themselves according the following Each
donating s. 90 will be entitled ticket admitting lady
together with three each of which
holder the awarded the number


the free distribution cash gifts $500 which will be db
uted by committee selected by the donors.
Year: 1874

EXERCISE for POULTRY and
scratching are the principal forms of exer-
else for domestic fowls. Flying is not pop
ular in the view Of the owners of the birds
or OF the birds themselves. The wild
species do not take wing unless in an
emergency, and their domesticated repre-
sentatives have powers of flight still fur
ther lessened through disuse of the wing
muscles and increase of size and weight
OF their bodies. But their legs are kept in
almost constant motion through the day
when they are allowed the bent of their
inclinations. Nature has designed that
they should scratch for living. Then let
'em scratch. We all believe that physical
exercise is indispensable for men, horses.
dogs, and other animals. But birds are
by nature more active in habit than even
horses and dogs. It will not do to thwart
them. The eXertion of scratching soil,
straw, leaves, or rubbish must be pretty
severe work, and calls into action most Of
the larger muscles. Then of course arti-
fetal deprivation of such efficient exercise
must tell upon the health and thrift. Who
has seen dozen hens at large in garden
ing time, with freshly raked flower beds
near by, and not learned what the pre-
dominating instinct of the animal is
Philosophers have tried to define man as
a cooking animal, tool-making animal,
or laughing animal. There need be no
doubt whatever that hen is scratching
animal. We believe scratching place
should be provided winter and summer for
fowls. 1t not only keeps them in good
condition, but the fun OF seeing them work
at it is worth more than it costs. Fresh
earth is Of course the cheapest in summer.
and if not abounding in choice morsels,
bury some in it artifieially. In winter give
a pile of leaves, swamp hay or straw.
The keeper who does not give his fowls a
chance to scratch ought not to have any
fowls.
Year: 1874

To Keep Butter Ter Winter Use.


Make the butter into small balls, Or
rolls if desired. Wrap each one in a
piece of cotton cloth to kee it free from
dust, pack them closely in q jar or fir.
kin, put plate on the top, and cover
the whole with good strong brine. The
brine must be boiled and strained and
stand until it is perfectly cold before it
is poured over the butter. This is some
trouble in the beginning, but person
will appreciate it when they come to use
it. It is all ready for the table in nice
shape, at = moments notice, and the
last pot will be as fresh and sweet as
the first, because it cannot come in con-
tact with the air if kept covered with
brine. A FARxER's WIFE.
Year: 1874

tried 70 aid her. And there is relish IN all
this freshness which may be practically re-
ferred TO a gratifed optic nerve. AT this sea-
son. in q neighboring State, the red soil OF the
roads contrasting with the deep green OF the
berbage is perpetual pleasure, especially
when ram comes to intensity both hues. Why,
tbouch we are immortal, should we be ashamed
of these mortal eyes of Oursf In this world of
pap why should we not welcome the c0nsOla-
tons of sense7 There may be immortality and
even ruin in bad breakfast.


Nature is very good to us and more careful
of our comfort than we deserve, considering
the silly rhymes which we write in her praise;
and in nothing is she kinder than in her self
adaptation to our infirmities. When our years
have become many and our vision dim, we
may sit upon the hillside and see the sun go
to rest in his gorgeous pavilion, and catch
warmth and light and strength from the spec
tace. So it is with the flowers. They are an
old mans blessing. They make him inde-
pendent for a moment of the patent, double
convex, perscopc diamond lens spectacies-
those optical succedaneums which the travel
ing vender has swinded him into purchasing
And he may have these charmers not only III
the pretty vase itself a nice bit OF Color, puC
reproduced in the table cloth, the dressing
gown, the carpet, and the wall paper. Ills
daughter may tell him that his taste Is grow
inc had. and that he is becoming too fond OF
gaudy and meretricious hues-Dut theSe are
not less a comfort and a stimulant. lie signs
for the time when he wore red walStcoat'
and buys a big bunch of his beauties OF the
fat old lady 1T the corner, who cheats him IN
his change. Happy shall we all be II our love
of the beautiful survive our love oil cash
and especially of the dirty small cash with
which the Government furnishes us.
Year: 1874

1t is sad to think how little of the vast
amount of legislation done at Washington has
any sensible effect upon the prosperity of the
country. The first session of the XLIIId
Congress has lasted between six and seven
months. If it has not been crowded with
business it has at least been filled with debate


and as the result of the expenditure of noise


passion, intrigue, labor, and money, we have
a long list of Acts and Resolutions, whereof
those of public consequence might almost be
checked off on mans fingers. Perhaps it has
been no worse in this respect than most of its
predecessors. Indeed, among the few things
Year: 1874

The best poetry is that which will stand the
test of sober use and of practical value. The
absolute beauty of nature is proved by the
way in which it bears the trial of our insln-
cere admiration. Bad poetry would long ago
have made all the great little and all the glad
gloomy around us and above us, if we were
not superior to the Alterations of versifiers.
At this season. the nonsense which is written
in skies and eights about flowers alone, and
not only written but mailed for publication to
despairing editors, is almost enough to make
one forswear posies forever. The nomencla-
ture of this sad stuff is but too well settled.
Flowers are called "the poetry of earth,"
the stars of eartb,n the gems Of creation )"
they are smothered with pet names; they are
pressed out of all shapely beauty in albums;
they are sent lin decayed state) in love let
ters; they are accommodated, poor, dumb
things! with language of their own; and,
reproduced in many -cOlored chromos, they are
put into heavily -glded frames and stuck
upOn the walls just over the Family Bible
or Webster's Dictionary. The genuine hold
which they have upon lis is proved by all
this boarding-school Miss Nancy-ism. We
all pretend to like them, just as We all pretend





of our admiration is shown in both instances
by our perpetual resort to cheap adjectives-
"pretty,n "dear," "lOvely," charming"
"sweet,n ct al. If it be we'll sometimes to
give ourselves up to enjoyment, it is we'll also
to know why we are delighted. If our enjoy
ment be to certain extent sensuOus, let us
without any shame admit that the senses are
given to us to be gratited One can enjoy
fine pictures though utterly ignorant OF the
Old Masters, as one can enjoy fine beef
steak without knowing the names of the
butcher and cook. What we want in this age
of endless subjectivity is good wholesome
pleasure without philosophical analysis. We
improve the occasion of these June days
when flowers are offered for sale in all
| markets and at many street corners, to Illus
trate from these beauties of form and color
the value df instructive and unreasoning ad-
miratiOn.


We like bunch of flowers because it is
convenient and portable Ieminiscence of the
whole garden and of the personal plants in the
garden. We like it also because naturally the
eye loves color, and gets the same comfort
from it which the palate gets from fine fruit.
In each case the pleasure is sensual These
Door senses of ours have been SO preached down
by the mOralists that we are in danger of
doing them injustice; yet they are the gifts of
God, and it is irrelgous to renounce them.
As to coors especially, we find as we get older
and our eyes worn with much reading and
writing, that we must have the brighter hues
or the deeper Ones-strong reds and greens and
yellows. A woman coming up the street in
tat 81 ia n IN m nl ma uyI,
she may herself be old and ugly. We look
down upon the fine bloom of children-the
rosy cheeks, the coral lips, the golden hair, the
tender blue eyes, the bright Little ornaments
with which maternal love has aided Nature or
Year: 1874

Both Houses of Congress voted last night to
take new lease of life till o'clock this
afternoon to finish up the odds and ends of
the business absolutely necessary to be done.
The feeling of relief which will be expert
enced by the country when the gavels fall is
accordingly postponed q few hours.
Year: 1874

The proposed amendment to the Constitu-
ton doing away with the Electoral Colleges,
and providing for the election of President
and Vice President by votes of Congressional
districts goes over to the next session, with
leave to report at any time.
Year: 1874

Of late years it has been a noteworthy cir
cumstance that q high degree of religious toll
Grafton has prevailed in Turkey. 1t is all the
more strange, therefore, that the Government
should prohibit the circulation of the Bible
in the country. We mistake the spirit OF
modern civilization if the Porte is not sub
jected to a sufficient pressure to bring about
O speedy withdrawal of ihe prohibition.
Year: 1874

A bachelor says that if yon hand q
lady a newspaper with scrap cut out
of it, not line of it will be rsat. but
every bit of interest the paper possesses
is centered in finding out what the mis-
sing scrap contains.
Year: 1874

It is said Of the prihter-''He beats


the farmer with his Hoe. the carpenter
with his rule, the mason in setting up


columns. the lawyer in attending cases.


and the parson in tho management of
the devil.
Year: 1874

SHOOTING AFFRAY.-On Tuesday eve
ming, quite serious affray accured at a
house near the Snug Saloon on Wash
ington street. James Good and Charles
Wilson net at this place and began
quarrelling After some words had
passed, Good drew his pistol and fired
at Wilson. the ball taking effect in his
hip, ranging downward and passing
through both legs. After shooting him
he pounded him on the head with his
pistol. A crowd soon collected, but our
efficient police force did not put in an
appearance. While Good was beng
taken away by Mr.. Fitzgerald he drew
his pistol and fred again. the ball pas
sing very close to Fitzgerald's and
the powder filling his face.


The wounded man was removed to q
room above the Bank Exchange Saloon
where he now lies.
Year: 1874

A good specimen of the sort of leg
islation the Kellogg regime turn out
in Louisiana is found in a llw passed
by the last Legislature. Tt postpones
the time of holding the city election in
New Orleans two years, giving the
present Governor the power of ap-
pointing the necessary officers when
the present incumbents' time has ex-
pired. Gov. Kellogg has not signed
the bill, as lie is not obliged to do SO
until the next Legislature meets, if he
does not choose to, and he has given
the Democrat majority to understand
that he will not sign it at all if they
will nominate the kind of men he
wants. The Governor has evidently
taken his ideas of Republican form
of government from the conduct of his
superiors and supporters in Washing
ton.
Year: 1874

The Washington correspondent OF
the New York ITorld says,


Mr. Lamar, of Mississippi, again
and eloquent representative OF the
South and real statesman by deliver
ing a prepared speech on the present
political condition of the South. 1t
was the first full and fair statement of
the attitude Of the white people OF the
South towards the General Govern
ment and also the State governments
Of the South that has been made upon
the floor of Congress. With admirable
clearness he brushed away all the
sophistrY with which ti1a question of
reconstruction has been surrounded,
and, beginning by showing the abso-
lutte loyalty and submission of the
people of the South at the end Of the
war, he traced the history of recon
struction, showing how wholly help
less and severely afflicted his people
were under the reconstruction legisla-
ton. He showed how the machinery
of the Federal Government had been
used to inflict evils greater than con-
fiscation upon the South, and declared
that although there might be State
governments there, there were no
States. The question he put to the
Republicans was whether they had
not gone far enough with their policy
towards the South. The speech was
sequel to Mr.. Lamar's Grafton on
Sumner, and was listened to by every
member of the House present.
Year: 1874

The Fayetteville Gazette says:


We have been told that at public
gathering in Randolph the other day,
a dinner was given, where white and
black men ate together. The leading
Radical of the affair, Sheriff McMas-
ters, we think, would go out and make
proclamation for ten whites and ten
negroes to come in to dinner, the ac-
commodations being insufficient for
ali at a time. This is but beginning
of what we shall see from the Radical
party throughout the South.
Year: 1874

A very lively effervescence seems to
have arisen, of late, between the white
and black Radicals in Alabama upon
the occasion OF public meetings to ini-
tia the campaign. In all the import
ant towns of the State these meetings
have frothed over and burst off the lid
of the pot. Either blacks or whites
have seeded, and the Democratic
prints seem to think that they will not
amalgamate any more.
Year: 1874

The reform in woman's dress pro-
posed by some of the advancing wo-
men of New England is the use of an
undersuit that will keep the entire
body warm, and the weight of which
will be supported entirely by the
shoulders.
Year: 1874

While it IS an undeniable fact that
the lions share of honors and emolu-
ments have fallen to the lot of the
"old line Wing" portion of the Dem
ocratic- Conservative party in North
Carolina, we beg leave to assure our
Radical Raleigh contemporary that it
need not hope to take any advantage
therefrom. The devotion of the old
lire Democrats to the cause of good
government, the rights of the States
and the liberty Of the citizen is not to
be gnaged by the measure of spoils
that falls to their lot Their political
action springs from snse of duty
and if it happens that a greater share
of the honors and emolumen.s falls to
their old line Wing brethren than to
themselves they will none tie less do
their duty.


Our Radical friends will take moth
ing from their attempts to create dis
satisfaction in our ranks by appeals to
the selishness of ''old line Democrats"