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Year: 1874

There is something very disgusting
to Democratic office-holder, in the idea
of wanting Office for the sake of the mon
ey there is in it. They can see very clear
ly that it is not for the public good that
the Independents of this county have
nominated full ticket, and the Republi-
cans have in convention endorsed it az
fit to be made. Now, it is very clear to
the mind Of a Democratic ofRce-holder,
or expectant. that Democrats accept Of
fee for no other purpose than TO prevent
others from doing the same thing. You
could not induce one of those pune mind
ed chaps who are inside of the ring, to &C.
cept an Office Is a means Of money max
ing.


THE price Of admission to the State
FMr and Exposition, now open atludians.
polls. INCLUDING TIE WEEK or TIE
STATE FAIR, has been fixed at IwENTV-
FIVE CENTS. On all Railroads, psss-
engers will be carried at half fare.
Year: 1874

Never did great moral victory seem
to awaken a more Commendabie spirit
than that which is being manifested in
all portions of the South at the present
time. Press and people in every State
accept The results, not as bringing great
er license or opportunity to make return
in kind for the wrongs and hardships
they have undergone, but as intrusting
TO them new duties and requiring of
them greater responsibility. Between
the whites and the blacks the era of good
feeling seems to have commenced. Says
the New Orleans PicdyuHe THE past
should be forgotten. Abundant expe-
rience has shown the negro that there is
no right or interest he has which will not
be better guarded by the honest white
people, with whom he has maintained
relations of amity and intimacy, than by
the fugitive class of political adyentu-
rers who have for few years past ruled
and controlled him. On the part of the
white race of the South what nobler
mission could they have than that of
bringing about this result, and by their
superior intelligence conducting the ne
gro race toward full realization of
their duties and capacities?' This sounds
little like a reign of terror, and as for
treason, the Eufala (Alal Times indorses
the remarks of distinguished Southern
politician of that section who says of
the old flag" We believe that to-day the
best and manifest OF our Northern coun-
trymen, those least disposed to SANDER
and oppress us, are to be found among
the brave men who belong to the regular
army, and we cannot hate the colors they
carry. The flag of the Union army to-
day represents nothing that we hate"
Such sentiments as these constitute the
rule only proved by those few exceptions
magnified by Republican politicians to
promote strife and sustain Radicalism-
Boston Post
Year: 1874

Lord Bohngbroke, in his Reflections
Upon Exile, says: Our natural and real
wants are confined to narrow bounds


while those which fancy and custom
create are confined to none" Young
men who are jusl entering upon life, and
forming the habits which are likely to
adhere to them to lis close, will do well
to treasure up in memory these true and
instructive words of one of Engand's S
finest writers and most philosophic
statesmen Our natural and real wants
are confined to narrow bounds" 1t is
surprising how little it is that is abso-
lutely essential to mans existence, and
if he will take an intelligent and consid-
crate view of life, 20 his comfort and
happiness. Intellectual enjoyments are
comparatively cheap. The cultivation
of the mind, which affords the highest
and the only enduring satisfaction, can
be pursued on an income quite insignifi-
cant for the supply of luXurics. Our
physical wants are very few if we pre-
serve our tastes simple AS they are by
nature. To eat, to drink, TO exercise, to
sleep, to keep warm and to be sheltered; /;
small sum will supply all these neces-
sites. The pleasures which are pure,
and which tend to our improvement, are
WltnlH lnc GedCn Ol almost every one.
But the wants which fancy and custom
create, as Lord Bolingbroke well says,
are confined to no bounds. 1t is against
these that young men on the threshold
of life should sedulously guard. Be
ware of luxurious and expensive habits.
The qualification of them may cost you
much of the labor and time which, if
given TO intellectual cultivation, would
be far more conducive to happiness. 1t
is easy TO do without that which you
have never INDUCED in. 1t is hard to
leave of habits, however eXtravagant and
absurd. When you are to decide about
adopting mode or style OF living, con
slider well whether it is certain that,
without inconvenience, you will be
always able 10 preserve it. The only
safe rule is to keep your wants within
narrow bounds.-Pen and PtOU.
Year: 1874

HERE are useful suggestions from a
member of the British Parliament, Lord
Derby, who is "a robust, manly man. He
says:


Take two men, if they could be
found, exactly alike in mental and bodily
aptitudes and let one 90 on carelessly
and idly, indulglng his appetites and
generally leading life of pleasure, and
let the other train himself by early hours,
by temperate habits, and by giving to
muscles and brain each their fair share of
employment, and at the end of two or
three years they will be as wide apart in
their capacity for eXertion as if they had
been born with wholly different constitu-
tions. Without a normal healthy cOndi-
ton there can, as rule, he no good
work; and though that qualification can
not absolutely be secured or preserved
by any rules, little common sense and
care will go a long way both in securing
and preserving it. On that point ] would
give you these hints: First, That it is not
mental labor that hurts anybody, unless
the excess be very great, but rather fret
ting and fdgeting over the prospect of
labor to be gone through; so that the
man who can accustOm himself 10 take
things coolly, which is quite as much a
ndlicF Ol ulSClpllnt as vi hatuIe, anu
who, by keeping well beforehand with
what he has to do, avoids undue hurry
and nervous excitement, has great ad-
vantage over one who follows "a different
practice. Next ! would warn you that
those students who think they have no
time for bodily exercise will sooner or
later have to find time for illness. Third,
when an opportunity of choice is given,
morDinp work is upnprallv better than
night work; and lastly-a matter which
| should not stop to alude to but that
know the dangers of an over-driven exist
ence in a crowded town-if man cannot
get through his days labor, of whatever
kind it may be, without artificial sup
port, it should be a serious considerable n
for him whether that kind OF labor is fit
for him at all"-From Me PtrenOi0gicdi
T1ytyn1L fo,, Tyqrey,Let
Year: 1874

1t is now more than half a century
since there resided in large and popu
lous seaport town in the North of England
a much respected and eminent attorney
who was ever on the qui Uice for fun and
good humor. His jokes were frequent
and he was noted all over town for his


eccentricities and habitual pleasantly
Being a wealthy man, he frequently CON
tributed to public and private charities,
and was a welcome visitor to the abodes
of the poor as well as the rich.
well remember the time when this
facetious gentleman filled the office OF
sheriff, and when he INDUCED his pencIant
for the humorous by the summoning of
four remarkably queer juries to " well and
truly try" persons at the Court of Quar-
ter Sessions for the town and county in
which he then resided.


And first, at the spring term, our face
tious Sheriff summoned a fat jury-twelve


of the most portly, ponderous men he
could find-and when they were called


on by the clerk OF the court to take their
seat in the jury-box it was found almost
impossible to cram them into it. And
when, after much hard squeezing and


grinning, they were shut up in the box


they became literally a packed jury, and


no mistake.


The second jury summoned by this droll
official was the very reverse of his first
panel-twelve of the leanest and lankest


men he could find all over town-men
with long legs and long faces, who


seemed as though they had been fed on


water-gruel and never tasted roast beef
in the course of their lives.


The third jury summoned by our
facetious Sheriff for the September term
consisted of twelve BARRIERS, whose shaw
ing shops were near the Court House
and in so placing those BARRIERS on the
jury all the barristers who attended
court that day appeared with their wigs
undressed and uncombed-a funny spec
tacle for the officers of the court, the
learned Recorder, and all others who
happened to be present on that memo


rable occasion.


But in his selection of a jury for the
| December term of the Court of Quarter
Sessions our good-humored Sheriff


capped the climax of his official Groilery
! by summoning twelve men who sqUinted
! so awfully at the learned Recorder " hen


he attempted to make the first charge to
them that the learned Judge could not
help joining in the general laugh, and
/ eXclaiming, in seeming anger:


This is, indeed, too bad, Mr. Sheriff
| But the latter only remarked, in very
| serious and amusing tone:


Twelve good and lawful men, your
Honor"


And here let me add that rever heard


of The Facetious Sheriff" serving


longer than one year.-Erehange.
Year: 1874

A FABLE: Once upon time there was
a turkey whose owner suddenly ceased
20 regard him with Indifference, as was
his wont, and instead of permitting him
70 wander around all day 10 scratch the
ground for his living began to feed him
with the daintiest of food, and, indeed,
seemed never firing of stuffing his crop,
even after it was full to bursting The
poor turkey could not understand such
sudden kindness, until one holiday morn
ing, when too late, he discovered hat his
master had only been stuffing him that
he might stuff himself Moral: Don't
let anybody stuff you.
Year: 1874

The Shreveport Times of the twenty


ninth does not approve the latest murder


committed in that parish. Perhaps it fears


this .'red-handed work. is being little


overdone, so far as it's effects upon the next


election are concerned:


In noticing in our issue of yesterday the


killing of an aged negro man by unknown


parties, we stated that the crime had been


committed in the neighbOrhood of Summer


Grove. We have since learned that this


was an error. The old negro resided twelve twelve


miles below this city, near Bayou Pierre,
and it was there that he was killed. The


brutal affair is still veiled in mystery, but


the impression in the neighb0rhOOd is that


he was killed by some of his own race.
Whether this be SO or not, it seems to have
been foul and brutal murder, and the pre-.


petratOrs of it, white or black, should be
ferretted out and the severest penalty of
the law visited upon them. We are ready
to uphold and defend any extraordinary
measures our people may find it necessary
to adopt in this crisis to protect society.
but we also say that acts Of wantOn out
rage by vicious and Incorporate men
should not be tolerated. We know that
this act was not committed by any of our
citizens, and we earnestly hope the wretches
who murdered poor old negro over sew
enty years of age, stone deaf and home
less, may be brought to justice.


There has been some red-handed work
done in this parish that was necessary, but
it was evidently done by cool, determined
and Just men, who knew just how far to 60,
and we doubt not if the same kind of work
is necessary, it will be done. But let it not
be understood that acts of wantOn killing
are to be permitted, or that hOt-headed men
are to be allowed to interfere with or reck-
lessly wrong the colOred people of the par
ish We admOnish all such characters to
stand back.


The fact is this poor old cOlored man
lived in the vicinity of the place where poor


Munos lost his life three weeks ago, and
there is reason to believe he was murdered
by the same gang of White League assas-


sins whose action in killing the Spaniard
the Times still commends. Upon this sub
.ject the Times OF the twenty-ninth says:
The Kellogg organ of this city yesterday
evening published q proclamation from
Kellogg, offering q reward of $1,000 for such
evidence as shall lead to the conviction of
''the murderers" of the Spanish desperate,
Manuel MunOs. who was recently killed in
this parish. Kellogg speaks OF the dead
| desperate who had been sent here to arm
| the negroes against our people as an indus.
| triOus and deserving Spaniard. We shall
next hear of naturalists describing tigers
| and wildcats as gentle, harmless and do


mestic animals. Kellogg in this matter
| constitutes himself accuser, judge and jury,
| and prOnOunces that murder which all
| the facts known here 60 to prove was an
| act of self-defense.
Year: 1874

The following is from the Shreveport
Southwestern Telegram of the thirtieth
ultimo:


We have been shown a postal card ad-
dressed to and received by Mr.. Purnell,
cashier of the Freedman's Savings Bank,
notifying him to leave the town within
twenty-four hours, and signed l. 0. U. If
this sort of thing is being done by some
shallow fool as joke, we can assure him
that it is a very poor one and is regarded
by the respectable portion Of the cOmmu-
nity as damnable outrage. If on the
other hand the card was sent with serious
intent by any hot-headed fanatic we tell
him that it is the act of q cowardly assas-
sin who has not manliness enough to meet
his foe in open day. The community is
heartily sick Of these disgraceful outrages,
and steps will be taken to ferret out the
perpetrator, who, when discovered, will be
taught lesson to heartily sicken him o.
such actions. The reputation Of the city Of
Shreveport is too valuable to be destroyed
by such craven, underhand, cowardly work
and we feel authorized in the name Of al
good citizens to denounce it and its author
or authors.
Year: 1874

In a recent address delivered in Boston,
on his return from South America, DR..
BENJAMIN A. Gould said "The glory
of the Southern sky in the region near
the cross is indescribable. There, where
the thick stream of bright stars which
skirts the Milky Way crosses the river of
light, its briliancy is wondrously increas-
ed and it exhibits magnificence une-
qualled in any other portion of the heav-
ems. There glitter multitude of bright
stars more thickly scattered than in any
region within our Northern view, while
the background is gorgeous in its splend-
or. Often on some clear night when it
has suddenly been brought to my view
in passing some edifice or turning some
street corner, have stood amazed at the
food of light which it diffused and
often, too, after leaving the observatory
in the early morning hours, after a night
wearying labor, / have felt reluctant to
abandon the magnificent spectacle, to
seek the much needed repose. In close
proximity are the rich consultations of
the Centaur, the keel and sails of the
ship Argo, and the Wolf, and the glory
reaches through the altar even to the
southern portion of the Scorpion. There
are large tracts which rival the Pleiades
i'm the profusion of their stars cleaning
upon background of nebula. Elsewhere
the southern heavens are not so brilliant
as the northern, nor do they contain so
many stars as bright as the faintest
which we can discern but there is moth
ing between the two poles to compare in
beauty with the tract to which / refer"
Year: 1874

What spectacle more pleasing does the
earth afford than happy woman con-
tented in her sphere, ready at all times
to benefit her little world by her ex-
ertions, and Transforming the briars and
thorns of life into roses of Paradise by
the magic of her touch? There are those
who are thus happy because they can not
help it = no misfortunes dampen their
sweet smiles, and they dffuse cheerful
glow around them, as they pursue the
even tenor of their way. They have the
secret of contentment, whose value is
above the philosophers stone; for with
out seeking the baser exchange of gold,
which may buy some sorts of pleasure,
they convert everything they touch into
Joy. What their condition is makes no
difference. They may be rich or poor,
high or low, admired or forsaken by the
tickle world; but the sparkling fountain
of happiness bubbles up in their hearts,
and makes them radiantly beautiful.
Though they live in log cabin, they
make it shine with lustre that kings
and queens may covet, and they make
wealth fountain of blessings to the
children of poverty.
Year: 1874

A BRIGHT little fellow twelve years old
was recently brought before city judge,
charged with stealing revolver from the
store where he was employed. The mag
istrate speke kindly to the boy, and asked
him what Induced him to steal the pistol.
His sobs almost choked his utterance,
and it was with difficulty he replied that
he did not take the pistol with the in
tention of keeping it, but to raise money
with which to get something to eat for
his parents and three smaller children,
who had been for nearly three days with
out food. The seventy-five cents which
he obtained on the weapon from jewell
er's clerk on First Avenue he gave to
his mother to buy bread with but he
intended to redeem the pistol the next
day when his weeks wages were paid to
him. Such case is full of sadness.
Year: 1874

INV VI sAN AOi6SA AiAO Va


The comet is in the sky, and we are to
enter its influence.


am not one of those who believe fully
that science has yet shown comets to be
of SO immaterial a nature as to do us no
harm. know that such is the accepted
theory; know of the ENHANCEMENT and
retardation of the comet among the
moons of Jupiter, upon which, for a
long time, was based the theory of their
almost spiritual lightness. Yet what the
scientists who told us of this seem to
have overlooked is the fact that when
near the moons of Jupiter the comet was
also within the influences of the mighty
Jupiter himself---the king of all the
planets. That the comet ever escaped
that influence, after three months of
dallying with it, shows its immense
power. Latterly it has been common 10
say that the whole matter of the largest
comet could be condensed into the size
of cubic inch." What does this prove
Newton himself said he was not sure
that there was cubic foot of solid mat
ter in the entire universe? The cubic
inch thus becomes vast amount of mat
ter---how many cubic inches are there in
a cubic foot? Even the ether, says
Prof Cooke, urging his objections to the
wave theory of light, if of the density of
air, would weigh or exert a pressure of
fifteen million pounds to the square
inch; so that it is not wonderful
to have Helmholz say that, instead of
being the rarest of all existences, ether
is the densest of all, as it must be it, as
must philosophically be held, it is un-
particled and yet exists. The theory of
the density of ether will explain the
rapidity with which forces such as light
traverse it; motion has not to be COM
municated from particle to particle, but
the whole is moved en- masse. But l am
straying from my subject.


The real matter to be considered is that
under any hypothesis the fact of enter
ing the substance of comet must pro-
duce on the earth consequences which
will RESULT in the extinction of the human
race, and thus prevent mans interference
with the powers of nature. According
to received doctrines of development
which the whole geological and biologi-
cal history of the earth show to be true,
we are about to give place to that higher
being which we call, for lack of better
term, the "Coming Man."
Year: 1874

SORROW Strangely do some people
talk of "getting over" great sorrow |;
overlapping it, passing it by, thrusting 1t
into oblivion. Not 10. No one ever does
that--at least, no nature which can be
touched by the feeling Of grief at all.
The only way is to pass through the
ocean Of affection solemnly, slowly, with
humility and faith, as the Israelites
passed through the sea. Then its very
waves of misery will divide and become
10 us wall on the right side and on the
left, until the gulf narrows and narrows
before our eyes, and we land safe ON the
opposite shore.
Year: 1874

Girls ars often wild, ,wayward and hard
to govern. They give their anxious
mothers and fond fathers many serious
hours of thought and care. They prin-
cipally delight in having their own way;
they are inpatient under some restraints,
and they frequently fancy that they
know a great deal more than their
mothers do.


They giggle and act very foolish some
times, when anything happens to please
them. They pout and make up faces
when they feel cross and uncomfortable,
or when any one is unfortunate enough
to incur their youthful displeasure, and
they resort to tears and find great deal
of comfort in good cry when the world
does not move upon its axis exactly in
conformity with their wishes.


They are very romantic with regard to
their expectations for the future. They
have an uncomfortable passion for cheap,
sensational literature and they usually
entertain about as unreal and exagger-
ated ideas of life as they find pictured
and described in the startling narratives
which they are in the habit of reading.
They look forward to find themselves in
the same impossible situations as the
imaginary heroines, whose chequered
careers they follow with such thrilling
interest, anxiety and enthusiasm.


They condescend, sometimes, to flatter
and flirt with the tender-hearted and
confiding youths of their acquaintance,
who at an early age are so unfortunate as
to feel that


"The rosy boy with cherub wing
Has many shaft for his slender slins!"


The girls somehow seem to delight in
tormenting and teasing such boys, nor
appear to feel one atom of pity or COM
passion for what these tender youths
suffer and endure by reason of hopelessly
loving them.
Girls sometimes make old and gray
headed men say and do a great many
foolish and undignified things. Such in
stances are not uncommon, and who can
fancy a more ridiculous picture than that
of an old man, with hair and whiskers
freshly and ingeniously dyed, vainly en-
deavoring to conceal the fact that be has
the rheumatism, frisking around like a
young colt in a green pasture, in futile
endeavors to persuade some young girl OF
sweet sixteen that he is as young as ever
he was.


Girls are very communicative with
each other. They are in the habit of
talking over between themselves all their
Joys and sorrows, enjoining upon each
other the most solemn obligations never
to tell what they hear to anybody else !;
how we'll they obey these mutual in
functions is evident from their subsequent
course of conduct. If you would sow a
secret broadcast over the land, tell it to
young girl, and make her promise to
religiously keep it.


A girl becomes complete girl only
when she does up her back hair in mature
fashion, and gets her first long dress on.
Then she sails out into the beau monde,
with great many lofty and supercilious
airs, and fancies that she is full-fledged
woman.


But with all their failings and short
comings, girls are lovely, lively and in
teresting institution. The world we live
in is a great deal brighter, better and
more beautiful for their being in it.
When grown to perfect maturity they
make our best and lovelicst women, and
a noble woman is Gods greatest and
grandest earthly creation.
Year: 1874

WHY is it that the young man about
town always considers it necessary TO
grin when he talks to the other scxY
Why can't he observe that it's lovely
night, and ask for a glass of water with
out giggling like an idiot?
Year: 1874

ENCOURAGE YOU'VE CHILDREN
Encouragement works wonders with
almost anybody, no matter what his
occupation in life may be. A boy likes
to be encouraged so does girl; a man
likes it; also woman; and even the
old grandfather and grandmother has
Il relish for it.


Some parents often make mistake
in not giving their children credit
when they do a thing we'll; and some
unintentionally let a lesson that has
been studied very hard, of piece of
work that has been we'll done by boy
or girl, pass by without the least no
tice. This discourages a child, and
has bad effect otherwise.


Encouragement puts new life in a
child, especially if it be bestowed by
a parent. Yet there are people, who,
though anxious to have their children
do we'll, and continually, and in a dis
piriting way, tell them that they
shouldn't do SO and SO, and that it is