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The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1878-07-09
" Isn't It LOvelyW

A dry goods clerk on Main street was
showing a woman some parasols yester.
day. The clerk has good command of
language, and knows how to expatiate
on the good qualities and show the best
point Of goods. As he picked up par
asol from the lot on the counter and
opened it, he struck an, attitude of adj
miration, and holding it up SO the best
light would be had, said:
!" Now, there. Isn't it lovely! Look
at that silk! Particularly observe the
quality quality, the finish, inc general effect.
Feel of it. Pass your hand over it. No
foolishness about that parasol, is there 2"
he said as ne handed it over to the lady !;
amt it beauty?"
"Yes," said the lady, stuffing her
handkerchief into her mouth, eyes that's
my old one. l just laid it down there"
The clerk was Immediately seized with
a severe attack of quickened conscience,
and passed right of the subject OF par
asols on to the weather.-Keokuk Consti-
tuition.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1878-07-09
The Jelly Fish.

Visitors to the sea shore must have no.
ticed the beautiful "jelly fish" that
float near the beach at certain seasons of
the year. When in the water they are
lovely to look at, but are in fact very
useless and disgusting nuisances. We
clip from the New Haven Register the
following in reference to them:
"They are composed of gelatirous
substance, perfectly transparent except
ing in the center, where are placed the
vital parts, which are usually bright
red. From under the surface protrude
many tentacles several inches in length
for what purpose we are not able to say,
unless to secure food and aid them in
their movements. We formerly sup.
posed that they did not. possess the pow.
er of locomotion, but were at the mercy
of tide and storm. Later observation
convinces us that motion is voluntary
with them to some extent, though fal
less than in other species. Floating on
the surface of the water or just beneath
1t, they present very handsome appear
ance, often showing compound Of va.
rious hues according as the light strike.
upon them. As they lie on the beach
cast up by the tide, they become very
repuisive object, and hardly any ons
would believe them to really be fish oi
any Kind. If touched with the bart
hand or foot smarting sensation is in
stantly felt very similar to that caused
by the nettle weed, and many a summer
visitor to the sea shore has been made in
this way the victim Of a practical JOKE
by some boy who had acquired thi.
knowledge By experience. Coming in
contact with fish pound they entirely
I'LL up the neshes Of the seine, render.
ing 1t almost water tight, so that wher
the fishermen undertakes to haul his net
the great weight causes it to give away
efteG t. the serious ioss Of the owner.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1878-07-09
A Human Skeleton Inside Of Horse

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A miner in the Black Hills, writing to
friend in this city, tells horrible re-
.minder of the fearful snowstorms of last
winter and of the perils of those who
were caught out and lost their way on
the plains. He says recently, while he
and two others were crossing the coun-
try, they came upon the skeleton of a
horse. within which was the skeleton of
of man, with the grinning skull look
ing out at them between the ribs of the
animal, like prisoner peering through
the bars of his cell. The two skeletons
told the whole story. The man had killed
his horse, cut him open and crawled in
side of him, thinking to thus escape per
ishing of cold, but the flesh of the ami
NAL froze solid, and the man was now as
much of prisoner as if he had been
shut in by walls of iron. The wolves
and carrion birds had stripped the great
er part of the flesh from both skeletons.
The miner concludes his description by
saying: cit was sight shall never
forget. / can see it now whenever I close
my eyes, Virginia City Enterprise.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1878-07-09
Martin Heiskilll ON Coon an, and ,Poss,,m

Martin HeiSkill on Coon and POSTUM.
We were sitting on the store perch of
a small Virginia village. / was one of
the party, and Martin Heiskill was the
other one. Martin had been out fishing,
which was an unusual thing for him.
e " Yes, sir" said he, as he held up the
small string of fish which he had laid
carefully under mis- chair when be sat
down to light his pipe; "that's all I've
got to show for days work. / don't
blieve in huntin' fur thing that ye
can't see. If fishes sot on trees, now,
and ye could shoot at 'em, I'd 60 out and
hunt fishes with anybody. But it's
mighty trifin' work to be goin' it blind
in mill-pond."
| ventured to state that there were
fish that were occasionally found on trees.
In India, for instance, certain fish
climbs trees. S.
"a which what'sy' exclaimed Mar
tin, with an arrangement of pronouns
peculiar to himself.
"Oh yes!" he said, when I had told
him all knew about this bit of natural
history. That's very likely. Ireckon
they do that up north, where you come
from, in some of them towns you was
tellin' me about, where there's 80 many
houses that they tech each other.'
That's all true about the fishes, Mar
TIM" said !, wisely making no reference
to the houses, for did not want to push
his belief To, hard, " but we'll drop them.
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5DEATHs FINAL CoNeUEsT.


bfssf l5s ny JANIS suiRLEY.
The glories NJ our birth and state
Are shadows, not substantial things;
There IL no armor against fate
Death lays his Icy hands on kings;
Sceptre aud crown
Must tumble down
And In the dust BIZ equai made
With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
some men with swords maj reap the Heid,
And plant fresh laurels where they kill,
K Bat &lelr sgToDz nerves A. last mNst yield
80 s: 8: ssSSsSs.ssirs y, 80.
Early or late @
They stoopto fate,
And must give up their murmuring breath
hen they. pale eaptives, creep to death.
Tie ssrlands wither on your trow-
~ Then boast 20 more your mighty deeds;
Upon deaths purple altar, now,
See where the victor victim bleeds:
And heads must come
To the cold tomb
Only the actions Of the Just
Swell sweet, and blossom In the dust
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1878-07-09

What on earth's the matterY"
aio Bessie leaves unfinisheds the !" But
begun speech, and runs laughing to him,
and taking the hat from his hand, fans
him energstically while she explains,
!" Charley was the matter, father. You
cant think how aggravated he's been.
He wouldn't go until this gentleman" -
with another pretty blush" kind
enough to mako him go"
The old man looked keenly at the
young one. And pray where did you
csme from and who may you beY" he
ASKED sharply. ~
Il will tell you where I came from,
and how happened to meet your
daNghtAr, at some future time. Mean
while ye.. viii learn from this this who
+apln-haading card to the old farmer,
on which was engraved, Charles Marks,
. Our old l.ndl.dy'ss nephew and
hair r.
2 The sane, Il your service; and h.y.
ing no, dssire, in spite Of my agents
arrangement to the contrary, to begin
my life in Daily vile BY turning 90 wor-
III, 4. tenant" lin his heart he added,
81 - pretty : daughter'') stout Of
~ hone hehas occupied 20 many yearn
/ was just proposing to Miss Gray a. you
made your appearance that Charley
should pc stopped in his mad career, and
once !sceE al al be turned toward mis- DID
home"
Are Jon quite in earnest, sirr
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If ahackman drove around the world
could he fairly be called a Wandering
hui
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1878-07-09

{ y wagon utleu Win nOu6enOld furniture,
= etomnanied by an ef,ormols shaggy
Newfoundland dog and as pretty coun-
try maid as ever MIXED COW or made
apat Of golden butter.
The broad-brimmed hat that she wears
shades her low brow to which clings baby
ishs rings Of hairathe color OF the glossy,
satin-smooth buttercups, pair of inno-
Gently roguish eyes, cheeks brown with an
underlying tinge Of rose, charming
red-lipped mouth, and a firm, round
chin.
Across the brow, however, at this mo-
mept fits the shadow of q frown, and a
look 81 comic perplexity comes into the
sweet young face. The odd,looking
horse has stopped in the middle Of
the road, and remains perfectly motion
less, staring directly before him, save
whea he bends his head to take nibble
at the fower-thick grass, as though sud-
denly oblivious of everything under the
sun except the tranquility Of the June
like May afternoon.
s.Oh, Charley! Charley go on-dol
that's dear1 caaxes the young girl,
coming to his side and gently patting his
head with her little brown, ungloved
hand; but Charley merely whisks a too
familiar fly away with his forlorn old
tail, and makes no further sign.
" Charley, good horse, Charley, oh !!
why didd't ! bring some carrots with
me? Charley, you bad, bad fellow, if
you don't go on, I'll whip you as sure as
you stand there. Come, be darling"
And fhus sha altavnafalv haos and
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IT is the break Of the daytAst pre-.
vents night from going too far.
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a FIERY STEED.

For once May gave promise of being
May worthy Of the many beautiful
songs which had been sung in her praise
She came dancing alongssfter her sister
ApriI-who had just left in a shower of
tears-with bright smile upon her
lips, and q wondrous rainbow halo about
her head.
Along a pleasant, winding, lonely
country road, with splendid great apple
and pear trees standing on either side,
and the spring flowers dotting the green
carpet SO thickly that the green is al
most hidden, comes slowly, on this poets
May-day, a diminutive. old, odd-looking
white horse, drawing a small market
wagon filed with household furniture,
accompanied BY an enormous shargv
Newfoundland dog and as pretty coun-
try maid as ever MIXED COW or made
apat Of golden butter.
The broad brimmed hat that she wears
shades her low brow to which clings baby
. ish rings Of hairathe color Of the glossy,
satin-smooth buttercups, q pair of inno-
Gently roguish eyes, cheeks brown with an
underlying tinge Of rose, charming
red-lipped mouth, and firm, round
chin.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1878-07-09

1WO euIaSeu, uuellSIS met upOH Vno
dark and bloody ground. Just as thelr
swords are about to be handed to them
the first enraged duelist, in voice
trembling withsuppressed bravery, said:
a0ne of us two must remain on this
field" "Yonr TALKING" says the second
enraged duelist. "And itshall be you"
says the first enraged dueiist, :: for I'm
going" (Goes with the velocity of
quarter-horse. )}-Pcris Paper.
A TRAVELLING minister observed
rough-leeking man leunging in front OF
an Elko saloon last Sunday. and ap-
preaching him asked: "My friend, do
you know where men 60, eventually,
who hang about saloons and gambling
houses on the Lords day7" Yer
whistlin', l do pard. They spar for grub
here till the hash factories tumble on
their racket, an some on 'em strike 6pt
for Tuscarory, an a few drifts over to
Eureky. Pm hy On that, rard-heen
over the routes myself" The minister
pinned on an agonizing smile and sadly
passed on.-EzEo Post.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1878-04-10
Our Pact gorner SslesteA
LiFE'S ROSES.

Gather the roses while you nav
For tn" Spring goes by with flaeting
feet,
Aud your childish glee, am your child
ish play,
Must follow the glowing hours so
feet:
0 child, with the laughing eyes to-day.
Gather lite's roses while you may.
Gather the roses while You may
Whose summer of life has just begun
For youth is only Summers day,
An! flowers will fade in the MONDAY
sun,
With your fresh young hopes, and your
hearts SD gay,
Gather life's roses while you may.
Gather the roses while you may
Oyr.in yonr manhood's golden prime.
For shadowed forth is sure decay,
In the riprned fruit aud the purple
wine,
Haste, haste, to the garden Of God
to-day,
Gather LIES roses while you may.
Gather the roses while you may
For the wintry wind blows cold and
chill.
The light falls dimly athwart the gray.
Aud frost is creeping DER heart and
will,
Up. up, and BIZ doing. make no delay.
Gather life's roses while you may.
Gather the roses while you may
For life at the best is but span.
With willing mind, and heart to
pray,
With love to God, and love for
Aud eager hands, for your life To-day,
G ,ther the roses while sou may
Gat'pr the roses while YOU may
III work for the MASTER work and
| pray,
The fields are white to the reaper's
| hand,
The vineyards in purple glory stand.
0 hiring your hearts tn the work to-day
and gather life's roses while you may
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"A HALF wITTED Parisiun has been
making an experiment 10 dentistry.
He had long been suffering from tooth-
ache, but pbstinateiy refused to go to
dentist, and at length, finding the pain
uncomfortable, tDok tile following I'M
common method Of extraction: To the
tooth he attached long string, and to
the string heavy stone; thus armed
he proceeded to the topmost story of
the house he occupied, opened the
window aud hurled the stone into the
air. Tie weight Of the stone and the
length of the string produced so vio-
lent a shock that not only was the
frotl. pulled out, but with it portion
+ the jaw, his neck being 81 painfully
twisted that he tainted. Hours eusaed
ere consciousness returned, and when
he recovered i,is senses It was only to
find himself deprived Of the faculty of
speech.
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turned in that direction; hut thai
she has the ability to carry on husi-
ness, We do ,ot for a moment doubt.
$ e could not do it once. of course.
any more than a man could do lie,
work put into her place. But she
wonld soon learn. We are not to be
understood as discussing the advisa-
hility Of women engaging in business
affairs which are usually conducted
hy men. We are simply entering =
protest against the remark one hears
too frequently, "what are women
good for in business! Rural New
Yorker.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1878-04-10
) NO. 81.
What Had Mr., Kaye. to d. With
the Case ofGrn. Anderson?

s IL - =
When it was, announced that. Mr..
R. B. Hayes had addressed q letter
TO the Attorney General of the Uni
ted States. the purpose Of which
was, il possible, to invoke the inter-
position Of the Department Of Jus
tice in behalf of the prisoner, We
commented on the obvious impro-
priety of Mr.. Hayes interference ia
the matter. Whether it was from
our calling attention to It, or from
some other cause, a discreet view
Vas subsequently, adopted, and the
letter has never seen tie light. It
would seem strange that the Demo-
Gratis in Congress have never called
for this letter, if anything in their
conduct would seem strange.
But If Mr.. Hayes drew back from
one contemplated step of folly, he
has since taken another which, to
say the least, is no Improvement on
that upon which he first ventured.
1t is stated in such quarters as to
leave no room to doubt the fact, that
General Winfield S. Hancock recent
Iy went 10 New Orleans to promote
the views of the Administrator in
reference to the liberation Of Ander-
son after his conviction.
The first thought that strikes one
on hearing this is that General Han.
cock has forever destroyed his own
political prospects. 1t may be said
that these were not brilliant or en-
couraging; but we think Hancock
himself and a few friends Of his re
garded them differently. The polit-
ical destruction of General Hancock,
however, is matter Of very trivial
importance in comparison with the
gravity of the error committed by
the Administration in interfering,
through its emf >saries, to effect the
discharge Of man who has been
convicted Of forging the false vote
which placed that Administration in
power. l
Mr.. Hayes may deny any personal
instrumentali.y in this; but his de.
NAL will not be believed. Probably
John Sherman. was more ostensibly
active; yet who will suppose that
Mir. Hayes was not appraised of every
step and consulted aboutit2
1t has been contendea that Mr..
Hayes cannot be impeached for the
frauds which placed him in office be.
cause they we're committed before
his installation. However that may
he, there would seem to be lack Of
ground for charges arising after his
inauguration. His sending General
Winfield S. Hancock to New Orleans
to tamper with the Anderson matter
was something which an innocent
President would not have done.--1N.
Y. Sun.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1878-04-10

The SOCIETY OF LADIEs.-It is
better for you to pass an evening
once or twice a week in a lady's
drawing room, even though the con
versa,ion is slow, and you know the
girls song by heart, than in a cIut,
or tavern, or pit Of theatre. All
amusements Of youth 10 which virtu-
GUS women are not admitted; rely on
it, are deleterious in their nature.
All men who avoid female societ,
have dull perceptions, and are stu
pid, or have gross tastes, and revolt
against what is pure. Your club
swaggers, who are sucking the butt
of billiard, cues all night call female
society insipid. Poetry is uninspi
rini to a Jockey; beauty has nc
charms for a blink man; music does
not please the poor beast who does
not know one tune from another; bu,
as epicurc is scarcely tired Of waite,
sauces and brown bread and butter
l protest | can sit for whole nigh
talking with we'll regulated, kindl,
woman about her girl Fanny and he
hoy Frank, and like the evenings en-
tertaiDment. One of the great bene
fits man may derive from a NO
mans society is that be il bound t,
be respectful to her. The habit il
lot great good to your moral men, dc
pend upon it. Our education make
us the most eminently selfish mel
in tho orld.-[Ex,
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W AIF s.

When Time spares beauty he
completes it.
Women do not read; they listen
with the eye.
Wit makes it easy to grow Old,
but not impossih =.
"A woman would sooner rule a
heart than Gil it; not so with nau.
"A woman need not always recall
her age, hut she shouId never foi
get it.
"A woman listens tn a play with
her MUD and judges it with he,
>enses.
1T takes as much wit not to dis
please a womaa as it takes little H.
please her.
"A w"man's friendship is, as :,
rule, the legacy Of love or the aims
If Indifference.
In matters Of the heart it is usu-
all, he fear of insolvency that leads
To bankruptcy. :
The woman who conf les t0 one
man her par,iaIity Tor an"ther seeks
Twice less than au avowal.
We are always very anxious tn
know VIII, We are Lowell, they on !,
are tn know how much We love
| hem.
The latest school un:'erstan.'s
literature much as the En.li>h ,!G
cookery. Is ideal is raw meat an.
plenty of condiments.
How man. Of our writer's mos
in voyu should bear in mind that >;
'lent supplements every thing i! ga.
dispense with nothing.
Ill 'hHItH "hih'H thiuA lii.
they receive because The, ob>e,,,
ri that the, are md lating whe.
~ are onl, l.oi'lin. Thea, tonsu
ONE should mee, death rs res.
ut.,y as General would meet -
in vita IL conqueror. This is tbs
| lest wa, i" obtain easy condition.
"A xi,ly man fluids il Iitfi; ~;
| ~ occasion IL he dull like ever,
MI, else. sud 81 u-ua!i, rnnlrIv,
b ~tapi'.er than ANY BIO! ell.
1t is above all in love that /;
feast is not a. good rs enough. 4
i! insists on revealing him-"l
where he is only asked to show him
self.
The highest mark Of esteem :
woman can give to man is to ask
his friendship, an'i the most sigma
proof of her Indifference is to otfel
HIM hers.
As rule women care little foI
comedy because it makes them ente1
into themselves. Give them thu
drama which draws them out u
themselves.
Women attain perfection in hui
Two departments of literature let
ters and memoirs. They only write
we'll when they imagine that they
are talking.
She is to be pitied who thinks tt
lind a friend other than her husbau,
If she he wife, than her children j
she he a mother, than her God ifsh'
lbs neither.
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DEMOCRAT.
0FFlClal JoJlNAL Of THE PARISH.
TER Ms:

THE DEMOCRAT is published Weekly At
FoUR n ,LL.ss per anunn Two Dor
lars and FIFTY CENTS for six months
PAYABLE ~ ADVANCE. No sub
acripfion taken for u less period than
ak months.
ADVERTISEMENTS inserted Mt the rate
Of one DOLLAR nar square for the first
insertion and FIFTY CENTS for each
subs,quent one. Eight lines or less
{brevi.r typa) constitute a square.
OBITUARY NOTICES. Marriages.. Public
Meetings, Cards of Thanks, ETC., to he
maid as advertisements
PERSONAL CARDS-when aimissahln-
charged double the usual advertising
rates.
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JURY List.
III ST
The jDa0as D.iAWN TO SERVE
T q e NEXT MAY TERM
THE DISTRICT COURT

CLERKS OFFICE, ALEXANDRIA. LA.,|
March l6. 1873.
DE IT KNOWN THAT ON THIS
- the 18th day "f March A. d. 1879,
we. Charles c. Wrems, W. A, Griffin
and William Hns.myre, members OF the
Jury Commission in and tor the said
Parish. duly qualified aud sworn. to-
getirr with James H RansdpH. Clerk
of the District Court for said Parish,
aud es-"ffieio Il member of said Com
mission. did meet in the Court House in
he Town OF Alexandria. aud did then
AMI there proceed to draw from the
General Vrnirr Box he names OF thOs,.
who are 70 serve a> Jurors ut the ensu.
ing May Term of the Ninth Judicial
District Court III and for the Parish
aforesaid, as follows, to-wit:
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Tas Late Pope and Mr.. Davis.

The Catholic Universe, published
at Cleveland, Ohio, and edited by Mr..
Many tells, in its issue of March I,
contains an elaborate description of
the Papal obsequies At Mobile
1t also publishes the following inter.
esting notice Of letter received h,
the editor FROM Hon. Jefferson Davis
relative to the late Pope:
sin personal letter the editor OF
the Universe has received from Hon.
Jefferson Davis, there occurs the fol
lowing tribute to the Holy Father,
Which We feel We cannot help 10 ma
king public.
I'VE shall pass TO comment on the
eulogy of Mr. Davis, nor on the Incl
dent he narrates. For our feelings
are strong Will, love for the dead
Pontiff, and strong with love for him
who in the hour Of his bitterest des-
nlati0n received the coincidence of
the common father Of the oppressed
= = l grleve with
you over the decease of the great
and nchly good Pho Mono. In com.
mon with all who honor true piety,
that which hegets universal charity,
feel the loss which the christian
world has sustained in the departure
Of this grand exemplar; but I have
personal obi CATIONS added TO the
common cause for mourning.
You have mentioned many charac
teristic acts of that sublime man;
let me add one, of which you nigh,
not otherwise learn, for it was as pri.
vately done.
When our war had closed in the
defeat oftbe South, and was incar
cerated with treatment the mos,
nee1lessly rigorous, if not designed
~ cruel; when the invention of ma
lignants' was taxed to its utmost t,
fabricate stories to defame and de
grade me 10 tie estimation Of man
kind, when time-servers at home q,
we'll as abroad Joined in the cry Will
(which the ignoble ever pursue TIL
victim: q voice came from afar Il
cheer and console me in my solitar,
captivity.
The holy father sent to his like
ness, and heneath it was written, BY
his own hand, the comforting invita-
lion our Lord gives to all who ar,
oppressed, in these words:
VEK1TE AID Ne oxNEs our LABoRA
IT'S, EFT EGO RErlclAh vos, DIGIT DON
mus.
That the inscription was autogra
pi'ic was attested ny 'Al Carolina
Barnabo, Dec. 1885, under his seal
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1878-04-10

WOMEN who would hesitate
about crying before husbend or a
lover have no scruple about she'd
ding Tears before an audience. 1t ia
with their emotions as With their
shoulders: they are only displayed
in public.