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Year: 1873




"Breathes there q man with soul
so dead" who has never swung on a
gate with pretty girl? If there is
such an unfortunate, pity him from
the innermost recesses of my heart
l pity him as one who has missed q
sensation, and one of the best Of our
imperfect natures


Coming home from church of a
':moony' night, bathed in the mellow
light, a little hand clinging confding-
ly to your manly arm, and pretty
face bewitchingly close to yours !;
bright eyes looking an unutterable
sweetness at you ripe-red lips mov-
ing to enchanting small talk-celes-
tial music to a man in loye-you
reach that well-remembered gate.
You open it for her to pass in, but
before she does that, something un-
said must be remembered, and she
stops to retail that petty gossip.
You are hardly conscious of her
words, but you are in that stage of
the tender passion when her voice is
the soul of music, and all you want
is to keep her talking as long as you
can.


The lamps are out in the house in
front: the "old folks have retired TO
roost." and you have the field all to
yourself.


At last she passes in after a GER
tain conclusive sound has taken place
under her bonnet. You dream of
your first stick of candy, of maple su-
gar, of Charlotte Russo, and all sorts
of liquid and solid sweetness, and you
think them stale, fat, and unproit-
able, compared with that kiss.


Is she going to leave you, now that
the gate is closed? Not if l know
anything of female nature. and |
have had something to say to con-
iding females. of all classes, and
they are alike IN this respect, that
they delight in the company of a pass
able young man by moonlight; and
in that they show their good taste. l
have heard it said that there are fe-
males differently constituted, but /
never met them. and am glad of it.
/ hope I never shall.
Year: 1873

How many people are there who
really know how to make q mustard
plaster? Not one in hundred, at
the most, perhaps, and yet mustard
plasters are used in every family, and
physicians prescribe their applica-
ton, never telling anybody how to
make them, for the simple reason
that the doctors do not know, as a
rule. The ordinary way is to mix
the mustard with water, tempering it
with little -four, but such a plaster
as that makes is simply abOminable.
Before it has half done its work it be-
gins to blister the patient, and leaves
him finally with a painful, fayed spot,
after having produced far less effect
in beneficial way than was intended.
Now mustard plaster should neUer


make blister ut all If a blister is
wanted, there are other plasters far
better than mustard for the purpose.
When you make mustard plaster.
then, use no water whatever, but mix
the mustard with the white Of an egg.
and the result will be a plaster that
will 'draw" perfectly, but win not
produce blister even upon the skin
of an infant, no matter how long 1t is
allowed to remain upon the part.
For this we have the word OF on old
and eminent physician, as well as our
own E1ckaa9e.
Year: 1873

A farmer and his wife called at a
certain photograph gallery last week
to order some photographs of her,
and while the operator was getting
ready the husband gave the wife a
little advice as to how she should
act :: "Fasten your mind on some
thing" he said, "or else you will
laugh and spile the job. Think
about early days-how your father
got in Jail, and your mother was an
old scolder, and what you'd been if
/ hadn't pitied you! Jest fasten
your mind on to that - She did
not have any photographs taken.
Year: 1873

A Tale Of California Mining Camp.


Some incident in its early career
had given Loggerhead Gulch its
name. just what that incident was
did not live in the traditions of the
rough miners who dug and delved
in the gulch. Certain it was, how
ever, that the name was no misnomer :;
for no other mining camp in the ter
ritory was so rough, quarrelsome and
pugiIistic in the nature of its inhabi-
tants. EVERYBODY seemed at logger
heads with everybody else. and ready,
upon the slightest provocation, to
lynch everybody else.


The digging had not, Of late, been
very productive of profit, and that
fact did not add to the kindly spirits
of the miners, who were disposed to
revenge their luck upon anything
that presented itself as q possible
scapegrace.


No mining camp can exist, or at
least ever has existed, without a
drinking saloon, and Loggerhead
Gulch had it's shanty devoted to the
retailing of drink. It's proprietor
was Jack Jeptha, and his dress and
demeanor indicated that he had seen
better days-had been a faro dealer
or q barIzeeper in a big Eastern ho-
tel, or something of that fashy ma
ture Even now some traces of loud
dressing hung about him; but the
brim Of the felt hat was battered,
and there was something the matter
with its crown; the flaming red tie
failed to harmonic with the almost
equally flaming and shaggy red beard
Immediately above it; the shirt col
lar was wofully time-stained the
velveteen coat was much smirched,
and had grown white at the seams,
and at least three buttons we're lack
ing to the vest.


The only other occupant of Jack
Jeptha's shanty at the moment that
the reader is introduced to it. except
ing the customers, was a young
woman-Jack' wife, and Mollie by
name. And, with her really delicate
beauty, she seemed wonderfully out
of place in Loggerhead Gulch. She
was about the middle height, between
twenty-three and twenty-four years
of age, slim and elegant as to her
figure, fair as an angel is painted,
with soft blue eyes and dropping
lashes her mouth was small. her
lips full and rosy. her teeth white as
pearls. When animated or talking
to any one, pleasant smile would
play around her mouth but at times
when she fancied no one was looking
at her, the corners of her mouth
were drawn down with hard, care
worn expression. Her rounded
shoulders and voluptuous bosom,
white as alabaster, were revealed by
a low dress. She shared the honors
of the bar with Jack. and dispensed
bad whisky and smiles to the Log
gerheads with a dash and grace that
largely augmented the aggregate
sales.


Among the drinkers was one upon
whom liberal potations had told con-
siderably. His companions called
him Towhead, from the color of his
hair. and that was the only name he
had in camp. In his pocket he had
q fair sized bag Of gold dust, which
he had incautiously displayed sever
al times during the evening.


At twelve o'clock Towhead rose
to go but first he called Jack
Jeptha outside the door, and placed
the bag of dust in his hands.


'srhar's my pile, Jack" he said,
Year: 1873

Faded and worn in places,


Faded and worn and old,
My tears on It leave their traces,
AS I smooth it out fold upon fold;
For it beareth a magic power.


The fount of my tears to unlock,
When I think of the happy hour
fashioned that little frock
My darling sat beside me,


With his beautiful eyes agleam,
And the joy that was erst denied me
Seemed into my heart to beam,
AS Thought of the wonderous mercy,
r. OF the goodness and the love.
That prompted "Our Father" to send me
Such an angel down from above.
My needle few faster and faster,
Ny thought took wing as it few,
To the courts of the blessed Master,
From whose gates my baby came through /;
And 1 wonder if all Gods angels
Looked as pure and frail as he
If among the shining archange,s
There was any more fair to see.
But there came pale, sad stranger
Unto my house one day;
Ny heart stood stiH, as if danger
And darkness around me lay.
And besought him that he would leave me,
For his touch was chill and strange,
And he laid his hand ON my baby,
Who straightway seemed to change,
His pale little cheeks grew whittier,
His bright blue eyes grew dim,
His clasp on my finger grew lighter,
The victory was to him
To the pale and icy monarch,


Who rules with relentless sway,
Who came to my house in triumph
And bore my treasure away.
But greater than he remaineth,
Who hath broken the bonds Of the tomb
Who hath robbed King Death of his terrors
And lighted the pathway Of gloom;
Who hath promised US sweet consolation,
If we patiently bow beneath mis- rod,
And I know he has taken my darling
To btaOun in the Garden of God
Year: 1873

I HOW the Average " HOIuaH OUHStFPCts


Her Head-Gear---A Very Literal Pic


ture---Women rs an Organizer Of


Spring Hats.


4 woman who is considering the
matter of her spring hat is an inter
esting subject for contemplation.
First. she buys a straw frame that
looks as if it had been struck by
hurricane and then sat down on by
an entire coroners jury. After that
when she rides IN q street-car, she
drinks in the details of every spring
a6that enters, and learns them all
by heart, and does mental SIMS
over the cost Of the ribbon. and
makes up her mind to have flowers
in hers like those worn by the wo-
man in the corner, and lace like
that gaudy looking creature in Che
middle. And when she walks down
the street and studies all the hats
that come along, and when a woman
passes her with one on she twists
her neck right around to see how
it looks behind, and is disgusted to
see that the woman is also disloca-
ting herneck to see now she trims her
hat. When she arrives in front of a
millinery store she fingers until she
has analyzed all the spring hats
in the window, and she determines
to trim hers nineteen different ways
and decides not to have flowers like
the woman in the corner


Then she shoots into the storo,
and asks to ''see hats" with the air
Of person who has whole female
seminary to rig out with an eighty
dollar head-gear. She examines
every hat in the establishment, over
hauls ten bushels of flowers, gets
about twenty dollars worth of work
out of the saleswoman, and then
says she will ''look further" Then
she goes home with her mind fixed
on thirty-eight or nine different styles
in which she wants to trim her hat.
After while she begins to think
she ought to have feather in it,
and she passes two or three sleep
less nights trying to decide whether
to put one on or not.


At last she resolves she will
Then she lies awake for two more
nights endeavoring to determine
whether it shall be red or blue
She buys the trimming and sews it
on in seventy successive positions,
her mind filed with deepest anxiety
as to whether the feather should 90
on the right side, but just then Mrs
Brown passes the window with a
feather on the left side Of hers,
and so she changes it. The next
morning Mrs. Furguson calls, and
her feather is on the right side, and
then another change is made. At
church the next day, Mrs. Smith
has feathers on both sides, and Mrs.
johnson has one on top. Then more
sleepless nights and more painful
uncertainty. At last in utter despair,
she takes the hat to a milliner and
pays ten dollars to have it trimmed.
When it comes home she pronounces
it hateful, and picks it all to
pieces and broods over it, and wor-
ries and frets, and Iooses her appe-
tite, and feels life to be a burden
for two weeks longer, until suddenly
she hits just the right thing, and
becomes one morce serene and hap
py, and puts the hat on and goes out,
and makes millions of other women
miserable because their hats are not
trimmed exactly like hers. AS a
wife, woman is a blessing; as a
mother, she is an inestimable boon;
as an organizer of spring hats. she
is simply an object of compassion.
Year: 1873

A lady writes of the decolete style
of dressing: ''No man who prop
erly prizes and appreciates his wife
ever did, or ever will, like to see his
better half exposing her naked bust
in public Woman bares her bust to
excite something more than envy in
woman and admiration in men.
And this she knows full well when
she looks at her undraped form in
the mirror in the character of a
statue UiUdnte. On the score Of
health the fashion cannot be too
severely denounced. How many
fatal cases OF consumption have been
caused by sudden exposure to the
chill midnight air on coming out of
steaming bathrooms and opera-houses
with the most vital part of the body
entirely unprotected. On the tomb
stone of many a beautiful woman
might be truly inscribed, death from
lownecked dresses
Year: 1873

AS the time for this meeting approaches, we
occasionally meet individuals who endeaVor
to lnstil into the minds of those with whom
they are thrown in contact the belief that 1t
it is useless to continue our opposition to the
Kellogg usurpation and our efforts to over
throw it. 1--WE cannot cope with the Federal
Government with its bayonets," say they.
"Grant has recognized the Kellogg Govern
ment; it exists de facto, and we cannot sue
cessfully combat it," and so on. There are
also-and these are our greatest enemies-men
who will tell you, and accompany the advice
with a familiar tap on the shoulder: LET us
attend to our own atiairs-to our crops and
to picking moss, &c.-and let the id
politics alone J." Such puerie and unmanly
advice deserves but one answer-no matter if
it should be more emphatic than elegant.


Let us look into and scrutinize the motives
which prompt these parties to so readily bow
their neeks to the yoke of the Kellogg usurpa-
tion, which Federal bayonets have temporarily
fastened upon our people. The majority of
those who use such arguments are interested
III our ruin-not to say our degradation-men
who are enriching themselves at our expense
who are enjoying the benefits of the monopo-
lies created or fostered and protected by this
foul usurpation, who are occupying fat Offices
through kellogg's pleasure, or who arc hoping
to be benefited by them, and who would bar
ter their honor readily as they have sold
their political opinions, in order to have IL
share Of the spoils ground out of the planter,
the mechanic and the property owner, how
ever scant may be their possessions.


And when it is not one of these birds of prey
it is some poor chicken-hearted devil who has
been led by such creatures to believe candidly
that there is no longer any hope of having our
grievances redresscd.


Away with such insulting counsels Let us
resist these intolerable encroachments upon
our liberties like men let us continue to pro-
test against this usurpation, admitted to be
such by Congress itself, and maintain our
honor intact by claiming the vindication of
the popular vote of last November.


Let every citizen Of this parish with spark
of manhood i'll him come to the meeting on the
Sd of November next at the Court House. and
participate in the selection of delegates to the
Convention to be held in New Orleans on the
2ith of November, in order that our united
protest and petition for d redress of our unen-
durable grievances may be laid before Con-
gress at its meeting in December.


Do not, in the name of yourp posterity, allow
yourselves to be discouraged and disheartencd
by persons interested in perpetuating the
present humilatins state of things, but come
forward and assert your manhood, and do
your duty like freemen who are willing to
make one more grand effort to reclaim Louis-
ana from impending ruin, and to preserve un-
tarnished the honor of her unfortunate chill
dren!
Year: 1873

The Recorder and Clerk of st. Marys parish
are out in circular calling for convention
of Recorders and Clerks in the State, to meet
in New Orleans on Monday, the 29th day of
December, for the purpose of petitioning the
General Assembly to revise the fee BILL" as
it is impossible $50 they say) for either of said
officers, in the respective parishes, to obtain
them. We hope the call will be confined to
the two officials of st. Mary. The present fee
bill is ample tshsupport men of moderate pre-
tentions, and If the two individuals mentioned
do not find it SO, let them resign and give way
to others equally competent and less exacting.
If the Clerk of the Court of ST. Mary is the
same Allison who figured SO long about Baton
Rouge, we do not wonder at his finding the
'pergnisites of Office too small to crafty his
''rapacious maw.'-Sngdr Planter.
Year: 1873

NoT1CE.-Parties indebted to this Office for
subscription, advertising or job work are earn
estly requested to come forward and Attle
without delay. We have urgent need for the
money-not to indulge in expensive luxuries,
necessary material to continue the publication
Of our paper, principally "for glory" and in
order that the numerous opponents of the
Kellogg usurpation and other frauds in our
Parish may have an organ upon which they
can depend to express their true sentiment, at
this. the most momentous crisis of our history
Year: 1873

THE VIGILANCE OF VERM1LLoN PAR
1sH.-We had hoped and were under
the impression that the Vigilance Com
mittee Of our neighboring parish had
finished their work but learn from
reliable source that such is not the case.
Last Saturday the committee hang a
man by the name of Severin Boudreau,
who lives Tor did live) near Long Point,
III the parish Of VermiIlion, and was
well known to many of the citizens of
this parish. The crime Of which this
man was accused is too dark, too damn
ing to pollute the columns of our paper.


efmIli0nrUle Cotton-BoN, 8.
Year: 1873

We would suggest that our young people
i've an Entertainment of some kind for the
benefit of the sick and destitute at Shreveport.
Other towns of less pretentions have done
something for their relief, and the chief town
'ssf st. Landry should not be left behind in the


IA work. We have no money to give, but


III aheerfully do the printing, putting and
advertising gratis. Who seconds the motion!
Year: 1873

Mr.. Sol Loeb will to-day begin the sale of
his entire stock of goods at auction, at his
store, corner Of Main and Bellevue streets.


Those who need such goods as he has on


md now have a fine opportunity of making
BOD bargains. partial list of his goods will
found in his advertisement in another col
Year: 1873

When lion wishes to have giraffe for his dinner, he is obliged to be very careful how he goes tomarket. Giraffes are not cheap articles of diet, even for isn, and an attempt to get meal of that kind of meat always costs him a great deal of trouble, and sometimes costs his life. Of course, the lion slips up very quietly toward the giraffe. He always does that, no matter what his prey may be, but in this case tits neces- sary to be very careful indeed, for if he springs and misses the giraffe, the great beast may get kick at him before he has time to recover himself, and kick from giraffe, whose hind legs fly out like sledge-hammer will make even a lion feel considerably shock up like. But even after the lion has safely landed on the giraffes back, his dinner is not ready. The giraffe is large and pow erful animal, and away he rushes, as fast as his long, awkward legs can carry him, and that is very fast indeed. Gilt ter, chatter !-spring and bound Away he goes, with the lion hanging on like good fellow, and the hyenas come to get something at the second table,

  eat whole giraffe. But it is not at all certain that there will be giraffe for dinner at all, for if the frig htened crea- ture can get into the woods, he may be safe. Dashing among the limbs and rocks, he may knock the lion of. And look out, MT. Lion! The giraffe will turn on you as quick as lightning, and kick the life out of you before you can get out of the reach of his heels. AL though giraffes have been know to get the best of lions in this way, they are not always SC fortunate. If thick wood cannot be reached, the giraffe will become exhausted, an the lion will fix his teeth in his throat, and drag the poor beast down and kill and eat him.

 Arsenic Eaters.

 It seems almost incredible that any person can be guilty of the madness o1 . resorting to the use of poisons, eithe, internally or externally, for the purpose of improving the complexion. Arsenic, in any form in which it is used--al. though not in pure metallic state and before oxidation-is terrible poison. If taken in sufficient quantities it causes death, after excrutiating suffering. In small doses itproduces very unpleasant effects, and undoubtedly shortens life. The habit of eating arsenic once con. frmed cannot be broken off. A person is to be looked upon as idiotic who will deliberately adopt the practice of taking such an injurious and dangerous drug, merely for the purpose of whitening the skin. But there are other substances much more commonly used than arsenic for their effect upon the complexion, which are also highly deleterious. Many of the cosmetics which are sold contain lead, and there are few poisons which produce results more to be dread ed than those occasioned by lead. Even as used in hair dyes, it occasions neu- ralgia, paralysis, suffering and death. Seek good looks by seeking health; by early rising, out door exercise, whole some food, 8 clear conscience, and the cultivation of cheerful temper, and not by the use of arsenic or any other poison.
Year: 1873

AN EXPERIMENT WORTH TRYNa.- The proposed plan of stationing 8 steamer two or three hundred miles east of Sandy Hook, and connecting her by . submarine wire with the Signal Service station in New York City, so that she could give warningof approach ing storms to inward-bound vessels, is one which may prove of great service to commerce.
Year: 1873

The three best agents for accomplish ing inc disinfection of air after small pox or other contagious diseases, are sulphurous acid, iodine, and carbolic acid. The best method of employing sulphurous acid is to scatter little flowers of sulphur upon heated shovel and carry it about in the room or rooms which are to be disinfected.

 Iodine may be used by simply placing little in an open glass or earthen yes sel, and it vaporizes readily at the ordi- nary temperature of house. Carbolic acid may be employed by sprinkling a weak solution of it on the floor of the room, or cloths wetted in such.
Year: 1873

Among the many phenomena of the Colorado river are "swirls," so called. They occur everywhere, but only at high stages of water. A bubble rises from the bottom and breaks with Q slight sound on the surface. The water at the point begins 8 rotary motion, so small that an inverted teacup might cover it. Larger and larger grows the circle, till a surface of forty feet in diameter is in motion, spinning round funnel-shaped hole in the centre two or three feet across at the top, and coming to point in the depths below. Often Q large tree floating down the stream is caught and its foremost end thrust up in the air twenty or thirty feet, while the other passes underneath, the exposed end to be slowly drawn down again and to disappear Three soldiers, deserters from Camp Mohave, passing in skiff through the ravine immediately below the fork, suffered their craft to run into a swirl. One of the crew at the first intimation of dan ger, threw himself overheard beyond the charmed circle, and as he swan away, he turned his head and saw the boat spin round and round, until one end being drawn into the vortex and the other upheaved in the air, it slowly sank as it revolved into the turbid bosom of the river, it's human freight to be seen no more, for the Colorado river does not give up the dead-no corpses lodge on it's shores.
Year: 1873

The Vest Jersey Press has this bit of local history with reference to Glouces- ter County: A few days agowe listened to the recital of the circumstances at- tending probably the last sale of slaves that took place in Gloucester County, nearly sixty years ago. A free colored man became enamored of 8 colored girl, 8 slave, belonging to family in that county, and desired to marry her, but as the law would not permit the mar riage, ke determined to buy her. He applied to the owner, who agreed to sell her to him for half & crown. The money was never paid, however, but this. fact was not developed until years after, when, by an accident which befel daughter by this marriage, she became charge upon the county. This took place within a few months after the death of the owner of the girls mother. and the executors of the estate sought counsel in the premises, and were told, in advertising the personal effects of the deceased, to conclude it with these words: Together with all the person al property of said deceased" This was done, and at the sale, which took place in the year 1915, the father of the girl bought his wife and four chil- dren for forty cents. The descendants of this family are now living in Salem