The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1881-09-28
TOBIAS GIVES Us SOME OF HIS
THEORIES.
Dear Democrats:

Dear Democrat:
If Chatty doesn't hurry up and
get we'll / am afraid that / will have
to throw up the sponge. This week
ly writing without the inspiration
of her company is getting to be de-
cidedly monotonous. Poor Chatty
If sympathy could cure chills she
would have been we'll long ago.
GIT IS ALWAYS THE UNEXPECTED THAT
HAPPENS"
During his illness some of the pa.
pers reported that the now dead
President had said that it was al
ways the thing he least expected
that happened to him throughout
his life. His death was not an ex.
ception to the rule. Who would
have thought a few short mouths
ago whea be was inaugurated with
so much pomp and splendor, that he
would now be lying so low. Where
is the prophet so bold as to have
foretold that his noble wife who went
TO rule as tue mistress of the White
House on the 18th of last March,
would leave it on the 22d of Septem-
Der a broken hearted widow? The
doctrine of chances will do for the
Dry, but can not be depended on in
practice. 1t has come to pass so
often in my own experience that the
exceptions proved to be the rule and
the rule the exception, that in de-
termining any course of action and
counting the possibilities, I give as
much heed to the impossible as to
the probable. In the course of our
Journey from Time to Eternity we
meet and have to deal with many
paradoxes.
NOTHING SUCCEEDS LIKE SUCCESS"
In the great battle of life there is
neither time nor opportunity to stop
TO attend to the wounded. If the
eager warrior, pushing forward with
all his might and main, and all but
assured of the victory, stumble and
fall by the wayside, another, per-
haps, not SO strong nor so good a
soldier, steps into his place, the
ranks close up and the march is re-
sumed as if nothing had happened.
1t is too late then TO make excuses
for the failure or apologies for the
fall. The hero of to-day is the vic.
tim of the morrow and no heed is
given to the causes of the disaster.
The world is too busy and life is too
short for US to make any inquiries,
To be successful we must succeed
and nothing succeeds so we'll as sue
cess. l attribute nothing to chance
and always accord the need of praise
to him who succeeds in his under.
takings. If he succeeds all right
praise him. If he fails, all wrong
) blame him only. Pity him, we may
but excuse him we may not. 1t is O
hard rule, but there is no other tbs
} can stand the test of every day life
and experience.
THE WILD FLIGHT OF THE LOVERS
OR,
THE TERRIBLE TEST OF TRUE LOVE-"
, CHAPTER III.
The savages discovered Araminta
and Algernon almost as soon as they
themselves were seen, and leaving
their dinner of roast preacher they
came in bowling troops, to make
sure of dinner for the morrow, to.
wards our lovers. Poor Araminta's
soul sank into her No. l "Newport
Ties" and she would much rather
not have left the balloon just then.
Grinning, their horrible teeth gnash-
ing. their hideous faces lighted up
with eager expectation they surroun
ded Algernon and Araminta and hav-
ing dined for the day, they fastened
them with leather thongs each to a
tree which grew close by, in readi-
ness for big feast the next day.
1t was now three days since our low
ers had tasted food or water. They
would have been hungry, but the
prospect of being themselves eaten
on the morrow destroyed their appe-
titles. Thus tied and guarded they
stood until uisht. The dose of mis-
sionary the savages had had, as it
sometimes happens in civilized coun.
tries, made them sleepy and they,
guards and all, were soon wrapt 10
profound slumber. Meanwhile, a
gentle rain fell and their leather
thongs stretched SO that they had
but little trouble in slipping them