The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-01-19

Not then like other girls I'll be.
For I'll love one. and he'll love me.
THE SORROWS OF SCIENCE.
To the Editor OF the Democrat:
Ny little daughter came home quite happy
ON New Years Day. Her brother had given
her roll of gum-drops, some grape-sugar, q
package of connections, and new book
Eteele's Fourteen Weeks in Chemistry"
Her brother told her it was book OF travels.
She said she would begin the book on the
morrow. She had already begun on the
gum-drops.
1 opened the book at random and read
aloud:
"Gum-drops are generally made, not from
gum arabic, but the best kinds are composed
Of q species Of glue manufactured out Of
boots, parings. hides, offal, etc, from the
slaughter-houses.
"Grape-Sugar-This variety OF sugar in
cludes the sugar Of grapes, figs, all common
fruits, honey, etc. 1t Is also manufactured
out Of sawdust; paper and old rags even can
be converted into sugar. Indeed, Prof Pepper
speaks Of seeing some grape-sugar that had
been made out OF an old shirt
My little GIL, on hearing the above, cried
and threw the gum-drops and grape-sugar
into the fire, and said she never wished to
study the horrid book. She said she would
rather be always ignorant-would rather be
o savage and live In the land of the orange
and the myrtle, where pineapples and lem
ons and bananas grew in Professionalism to
have the feU nice things we have here de-
stroyed by those terrible scientists.
have endeayored to express the poor
child's grief on her acquisition of unwelcome
knowledge in the lines below, which have
presented to her in lieu OF the gum drops and
grapesugar, whose sweetness has been neu-
tralized by the chemists counteracting facts.
My wife sang the lines to the air Of an old
song she used to sing to me, away back In
LIES early morning, when first cut her name
In bark
Ere my morning star grew dark"
Some Of your elderly readers perhaps have
sighed and sobbed over the tender sentiment
OF the old song.
Ibelieve it ran thus-I quote from memory:
SONG.
They tell me thou art the favored guest
OF every fair and brilliant throng;
No wit like thine to wake the Jest.
No voice like thine to breathe the song;
And none could 'ell. so gay thou art.
That thou and are far apart.
-Alasi alas how different flows.
With me and thee, the hours away
would not have thee sad. heaven knows:
Still. If thou canst be light and gay,
Ionly know that without thee
The sun himself is dark to me-"
Now, my lines below are not as artistically
correct as Tom Moore's above, but they are
truthfully descriptive OF young girls feel
ings on having her confidence in the purity of
sweet things shaken. For if young girl
learns to doubt the nicety of gum-drops,
grape-sugar, CONNECTIONS, etc. she Is apt to
suspect that all things are shams-
SONG.
Oh, father. ask me not to roam
In that cold cline where science dwells;
IL rather make my cheerless home
In errors deepest darkest cells.
Without one ray OF light above,
Than. knowing. lose the things love.
All, me. If knowledge thus Is bought
By loss Of all we've lov'd before,
Then they are bleet who are never taught
The horrid things that wise men show.
Ah. better never. never know,
Ihan lose the things we lOv'd before.
III.
fOndly dreamed that gum. drops were
Tears by sorrowing birds wept
Uown In the sunless. perfumed air
VI coral caves. where Peris slept
Al. DETER never. never know,
IMAM lose the thoughts had before.
And shall never. never see
An Old shirt Hopping from line
Bit tnaf dread thought will come to me
Inc sugar OF grapes thought divine
~ as made Of such? Better never know,
And now know alasi the fate
our Eva mother found when she
VI that unhappy apple ate
That grew on the forbidden tree
Whilst vafnly seeking things to know
She lost her paradise below
The book that gave the unhappy knowledge
that suggested the sad lines above can be
bought, asa second hand book. at half price
I offered it to ny smallest son as a New
Years gift, but he said he would rather have
ntggcr-ahooter. J. G. T..
Clinton La, January /, 1879.
ARE CUR MON0POLIEs PLACED Ri
CONTRACTS BEYOND LEGIs-
EATIvE POWER
The law-making and the law-repealing
power can be but equal This is especially SO
with the unrestricted deiegative authority to
legisate.
I have seen it urged, in reply to the Lottery
Company's claim OF being protected by con-
tract, that the Legislature cannot give up
what are vaguely called its police powers;
and various authorities are cited and quoted,
which seem to be pretty well counterpoised by
Others. so that the simple public like chill
dren, are still wishing to know ''the reason
why"