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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1871-07-26
Scientific Progress,

The skeptical effects ofthe discover
les of science, and the uneasy feeling
that they cannot coexist with orr old
religious convictions, lave their origin
IN the circumstance that the general
body, who have suddenly becomes
conscious of these physical truths, are
not so well acquainted as is desirable
with the past history of man. Aston
ished by their unprepared emergence
from ignorance tn q certain degree of
information, their amazed intelligence
takes refuge in the theory of what is
conveniently called progress, and eve
~ step in scientific discovery seems
farther to remove them from the path
of primeyal inspiration. But there is
no fallacy so fragrant as to suppose
that the modern ages have the peculiar
privilege of scientific discovery or that
they are distinguished as the epochs
of the most illustrious inventions. On
the contrary, scientific invention has
always gone on simultaneously with
the revelation of spiritual truths, and
more; the greatest discoveries are not
those of modern ages. No one for q
moment can pretend that printing is SO
great discovery as writing, or algebra
as language. What are the most bill
liant of onr chemical discoveries com
pared with the invention of fire and
the metals? 1t is vulgar belief that
our astronomical knowledge dates on
" from tire recent century, when it
was rescued from TIE monks who im-
prisoned Galiiee. But, Hipparchus,
who lived before the Divine Teacher
of Galilee, and who, among other sub
lime achievements, discovered the pre-
clsion of the equinoxes, ranks with tho
Newtons and the Keplers; and Copper
micus, the modern father of our celcs-
tial science, avows himself, in his ia
nous work, as only the champion of
Pythagoras, whose system he enfor-
ces and illustrates. Even the most
modisii schemes of the day on the ORR
gin of things, which captiyate as much
by their novelty as their truth, NAV
lind their precursors in ancient saces;
and after careful analysis of tho
blended elements OF Imagination and
induction which characterize the new
theories, they will be found mainly to
rest on the atom of Epicures and tho
monad of Thales. Scientific, like spir-
itual truth has ever from the BEGINNING
been descending from Heaven to man.
lie is being who originally demands
direct relations with his Creator. and
he would not have been SO organized
If his requirements could be satisfied.
We may ana!ize the sun, and penetrate
the Stars; but man-is conscious TINT he
is made in Gods own image, and in
his perplexity he will ever appear to
"Our Father which art in Heaven
-[Disraeli.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1871-07-26


PAUPERIsM.-In England, pauperism
has become .frightful. It's magnitude
is now readily appreciated, from the
fact that its relief is matter of law
and is brought under single bureau
of the government. Under existing
poor laws the English Government dis
burses upwards of $4,000 600. This
covers, however, all the expense of
work houses, which combine orphan
and founding asyllims, hospitals and
alms-houses. But besides the inmates
of these institutions there is AN i'm
mense class of persons receiving tenn
porary relief, and called the outdoor
poor. The proportion of out door poor
to indoor poor is 7 2, and there is
one pauper to every twenty ilihabi-
tants in England and Wales. In Lon-
don, a few years since, the ratio of pri-
vate to public relief was abont forty
cents on the dollar, and the contribu-
tions and poor rates of the capital av-
eraged something over four dollars to
each inhabitant.
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Cur 20gPa Corner selee4eA
ONLY A WORD.

frivolous word, a sharp retort,
A parting III angry haste,
T. he SIM that rose on a bower of bliss,
he loving +ook, and the tender kiss,
+ Has set on barren waste,
Where pilgrims tread with weary feet,
Paths destined never more to meet
A frivolous word, sharp returt,
A moment that blots out years,
Two lives are wrecked on q stormy shore
Where pillows of passion surge and roar
-, 10 break In spray of tears;
Tears shed to blind the severed nair.
fDflttihg seaward AID drowli 70 there.
"A frivolous word sharp retolt,
a Hash from passing cloud.
Two hearts are seethel to heir inn st
core,
Are ashes and dust for erermoreg;
Two faces turned to the crowd,
MASKED by pride with u life.long lie
10 hide the sears of that agony.
frivolous word, Sharp retort.
An arrow at random sped,
II bas cut IN twain the mystic tie
shat bad bound two souls in harmon.
sweet love lies bleeding or dead.
A poisoned shaft. with scarce an aim.
Has done q lnischiefsad as shame.
A frivolous word, a sharp retort,
Alas forthe loves and lives
SoDittle cause has rent apart;
Tearing the fondest heart from heart
3 As whirlwind retds the rives,
Never to reunite again,
But live and die in secret pain.
a frivolous word, sharp retort,
Alas! that it should be so. s
speech, the careless tongue
Have wrought more evil and done more,
wrong,
Have brought to the world more woe
Than all the armies age to age
records on history's blood-stained page
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1871-07-26

--a-B ouT za1ARRYING.-O OCCASIONALLY
young men of, good character indulge
in gloomy doubts concerning the aver
age American woman, but such doubts
can be traced to disappointed affection
or perhaps it may be traced to the
horrors of q cheap boarding house.
Marriage is sanctioned by God and
common sense. 1t is the only means
whereby Il young man in this age and
country can hope to lead respectable
aud cleanfy life. Bit there. are two
classes of persons who are exempt from
its joys and sorrows.
Ii you, young man, are deaf and
dumb, lame, blind and idiotic, and if
your ancestors have been such, or if
you are so mean that your life is that
OF friendless, snarling cur, and you
could not be anything else, even to;
yonr wife, you can stand aside.
If you, young man, have conceived
that ambition so common now-a DAYS,
of being ''fast MAN." if you have
made up your mind to keep fast
horse and aconcubine; all your ideas
of happiness is to have your hands full
of cards and your stomach full of oys-
tiers; if your arrangements are to 60
straight to peIdition, without change of
cars, you'd better not marry. You will
spend the money that tho honorable
man lavishes on a home and its flight
and life" on painted creatures who
drag your polluted name through every
sink in the land; who will display the
jewel:y and gifts you have bestowed
on them, and curse you with glib,
round oath for spooney and fool.
You too economical to marry will hare
plenty to spend on long-haired cut
fhroats, who will leave you at last it
may be, to die wifeless, amid dust and
ccbwebs Of the garnet.
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AN ENGLISH HORROR.-Tbe wife of
a laboring man, living in Tintwistle,
Cheshire, a few miles from Manchcs-
chester, England, murdered two of her
children, and then committed suicide
by hanging herself. The husband re-
turned from work unexpectedly soon
after lie left his home in the morning,
when he found the house locked up,
and procuring ladder, he got in at
the window. Here he found his son, a
lad aged seven, lying in pool of
blood, with his head nearly severed
from his body, and with his head
downwards in a pail OF water; in an
other room, WAS the infant. In the
cellar the unhappy mother herself was
found hanging to a. beam, quite dead.
1t is evident that she first murdered
the boy, by cutting his throat whilst
asleep in bed, with razor which she
had procured from the room below /;
had fetched pail of water upstairs,
and thrust the babe Head first into it,
for the garments Of the child bore
marks of the mothers bloody fingers.
The boy must have been attacked
while asleep, or he would have proved
a formidable antagonist for his moth
er.-[Exchanse.
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Y spectacles, according to Once.a
Week, are not sneh recent invention
as might be thought. Although they
did not come into use in Europe until
about the year 1900, they are, it is
stated, of unfathomabic antiquity in
China, being made, it is true not OF
glass, but or rock crystal. The Es-
quimaux, also, although ignorant of
the manufacture of glass or en-
pottery, and, therefore, not able to
construct a lcns,. have devised an in
strument of wood and bone, with "a
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your power to relieve yourse!f9 A few
doses of DIR. TUFTS EXPECTO-
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and throat to resist attacks in the fu-
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Group when they have bottle of this
valuable compound ON their Mantel-
pieces.
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~ 1t has been ascertained that ont
of fifteen hundred salmon eggs, in the
ordinary course of nature, only one
produces a mature salmon. IF all the
eggs laid were to produce salmon, the
ocean in halfa century would be NOV
ing mass of salmon.
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be proved that copper points on light
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lightning than those of iron, although
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reverently, the body of her son, and
turns to seek the loved partner of hcl
joys and sorrows. She can not be
surprised row ; she intuitively knows
his fate. She follows his tracks per
haps quarter of mile, and came
Suddenly upon a stiff, rigid form in
the snow.
i Oh, it was now all revealed, but,
merciful God! what an awful calami-
Ify! And to think that they should
perish almost at their own door! Z
And now what can be done? She
has not neighbor, to her knowledge,
within thirty miles. She is all alone
none to console her in this sad bereave-
ment-none to perform the last rites
for the dear departed. Ali, all, de-
wolves upon her stricken shoulders.
Moaning in the intensity of her grief
she, now almost frozen h rself
manages to return to the house.
We will not try to depict the sor-
row of the fatherless children upon
learning the sad story, nor of the
widows feelings, as with James she
took the oxen and wagon and brought
home the bodies of her husband and
son, and with their own hands dug a
grave and tenderly and decentlv as
possible buried their beloved dead.
With the load of provision they got
through the winter comfortably, and
the following season raised enough
by filling the already. broken prairie
TO satisfy their wants, and are yet, as
| said in the beginning of this sketch.
living on the same farm, and will, if
ever they sec tliis, recognize it as a
true sketch.
The widow Grey is not yet avery
old lady, but her harris as white as the
driven snow, and has ever been since
that fatal morning when she found
her husband and son frozen in the
snow.
And now, kind reader, you have
truthful account of circumstance
that really occurred in Nebraska.
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y Seamless kid gloves arc coming
into favor again.
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VIE UNDERSIGNED HAS OPENED,
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HALL. He viii keep on hand SODA
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Aprii,26, 1871.
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WATER CURE.-The day before yesterday
Moline witnessed performance Of the va
ter cure upon the person of a gentleman
connected with the Paper Co The men
who are putting the Holly Water Works
Jointly into the works Of the Moline Pl9w
Co., aud the Paper Works were having q
title experimental trial, hose in hand, on
Main Street, between the two above named
establishments. They played into the
Victor Scale Co.'S yard, And drenched il
pretty wel then they turned their jet into
me ward OF the Psper Works and wet that
Somebody proposed that they should play
upon the Paper Works scales and against
he off ce, to cool them of. The gentleman
appeared at the door and vehenently mo
uoned them away. Somehow or other, they
iidn't go, aud be picked up some stones 70
brow ct them, on which he got sprinkled q
little. Full of indignation, he seized some
anger stones aud wAs going for them
sith dire intent, when the jet was turned
pon him-the force being at the same tine
mat of-And be WAS ducked until he Wilted
.nd f ID Into the office. Who. after this will
ieny the efficacy Of the water cure in Ger
| ,Aln cases