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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1882-05-31
ALEXANDRIA, La, WEDNESDAY,, MAY 81, 1882.

IN sections. l do it frequently.
| begin on one side of the ring, toss
a gag at them, and when they begir
TO laugh, skip over to the other side
to give the people there a show fo'
their money. But now a-days the
knock about clown is most in de
mand. I mean by that, the clown
who tumbles through the tricks and
falls all over himself and everybody
else in a clever make belief that he
can't possibly do the feats performed
by the leapers and gymnasts. Talk
won't win any more. The clown
must act to catch an audience in the
big tents. And it's harder work to
talk or act in a ring than it is upon
1.-THE stage, You don't feel as if you
were removed from tue people at all.
There they are all around yon, a2d a
fellow actually seems to feel the
weight of the crowd: when he runs
into the ring, and finds the people
stretching right down on to him
from, the highest seat to the edge Of
the circle. Now, while we are talk.
ing about audiences, | amsgoing to
tell you something that you may
not be ready to believe; I've always
found it easier to catch an audience
in the cities than in the country
towns. The cities are tllesficld for
talking clowns. You can hit them
with, "a little conundrum, and they'll
laugh and applaud. You've got 'em
and your work is easy. But in the
country, conundrums don't co.
There they want to see the clown do
something, and they never let up on
him until he does, A stoty that
would go in the city slick as grease
you couldn't shoot into country
audience, so as TO catch a laugh,
with q Is inch cannon"
s'The clowns and the riders re-
ceive the largest salaries. / have
known clowns to be paid as much
as $500 week and as little as $25
a week for the season, which always
lasts twenty-six weeks, if the sheriff
don't get the show in the mean
time. Performers of any note have
little reason to fear loss Of their
salaries in these times, however.
The big shows all have too much
property to let the bottom fall out
and about the only sufferers are the
Jim Grow performers who have to
go With six by nine shops or leave
the business The average salary of
the clowns who are worthy of the
name will run from from $75 to $lOO
per week; yet few of them save any
money. They are high ivers when
in prosperity, but as a class they do
not drink to excess. The money
goes, though"
''And then what becomes of the
clown when he grows old?"
swell, clown lives about as long
as anybody, and, as rule, he man
ages to get enough together to get a
little farm to retire to when he is too
old for the ring. Clowns have a
great fondness for farms to die on.
That's about what happens when a
clown buys farm. About as soon
as you hear be has got it you hear
of his death. | am not quite ready
to get farm yet, myself. - Chica-
go Weekly News.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1882-05-31

TAS. ANDREWS, Attorney-at-Law
~ and Notary Public. Office on De-
Soto street, between First and Second.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1882-05-31

ID A. & ROBT P. HUNTER, At
He torneys and Counsellors at Law.
Front street.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1882-05-31
BUSINESS DIRECTORY
ALEXANDRIA,.
PROFESS/OVaZ.

DLACKMAN, w. F., Attorney and
ID Counsellor at Law. Office on De
Soto Street, between First and Second.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1882-05-31

TOHN CASSON, Physician and Sur
~ geon. Office at residence, head of
Beauregard street.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1882-05-31
DR1" GOODS d GR0cERIE,s.

HUSTMYRE, W., sign of the "Big
IL Red Plow," corner of Second and
jackson streets, dealer in Dry Goods,
Groceries, Boots, Shoes, Hats, etc
Highest market price paid for cotton.
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PINEviLLE.

HR. JULIUS A. JOHNSTON is
~ now permanently located in Pine
vile. Office on corner below Turner's
brick building.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1882-05-31
NOTICE
Oh
SPECIAL LEGISLATION

TN ACCORDANCE WITH ARTI
i. Gle 48 of the Constitution of the
State of Louisiana, notice is hereby
given that an act will be introduced in
the Legislature, which met at Baton
Rouge on the Second Monday of May,
1882, for the purpose of establishing a
Hospital at Alexandria, for sick and
INDECENT persons.
A. COCKERILLE, NJ. D.,
E. WE'LL,
N. L. McGINNIS,
L. V. MARYE.
May LIST, 1882.
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n DU PRE-, Physician and Surgeon
~. Special attention given to disea-
ses of Women and Children. Office at
residence Johnston street, between
Second and Third sts., Alexandria, La.
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DOSENTHAL, j., corner of Second
H and Murray streets, dealer in Dry
Goods, Groceries. Boots, Shoes, Hats.
Gaps, and General Plantation Goods.
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DRIES .4VD MEDZcZ.1cES.

OZE UUO II " II WHDZ CIV II y.
-~~-<-~>>~~~o~~~~~>I~
CT. JOHN, HENRY, Chymist and
- Druggist. All medicines guaran-
teed fresh and pure. Fancy and toilet
articles. Landreth's Garden seed kept
In stock.
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Drcss-making a Specially !!
ALSO STAMPING!
q LADIES' HATS TRIMMED. 1T

Agent for the Perfect Fitting Domes-
tic Patterns. The Ladies are invi-
ted to call.
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CAUTION.

Be careful that you get the genuine
Simmons Liver Regulator in our en-
graved white wrapper, Will. red z
Trade Mark, Stamp and signature un-
broken.
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&

SICK HEADACHE,
For the relief and cure of this distress
sing affection take Simmons Liver
Regulator.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-12-07
The Fruit supply.

In all of the principal markets of the
Northern States there has been an under
supply of home grown fruit this season.
Last year it was better, but for three or
four years it has been evident that the
demand was increasing faster than the
supply. With q fourishlng state of
Horticulture throughout the country, why
is it there should be so steady an advance
in the price of these products? In the
first place, the population in cities and
large villages has been rapidly increas-
ing, causing q proportionately increased
consumption of fruit. Theu the princi-
pies of diet and hygiene that have for
many years been disseminated among
the people through the press have been
accepted as true, and practically applied,
until every one considers as necessity
a certain amount Of fruit. Again, new
methods of preserving, such as canning,
bottling and drying, have been learned,
SO that immense quantities are used for
this purpose, keeping supply all
through the year and foreign. markets
consume increasing quantities.
Even if this immense increased de-
mand could have been properly appre-
ciated considerable time must elapse be-
lOTo ~ COulu Oc luCt W AfuAeo hho VIZ
apple and the pear. The cherry, the
plum and peach, that give returns
quicker, would respond more alertly,
but these fruits can be raised to advan-
tage only in particular sections, and
probably only few OF those persons
who may be favorably situated to raise
these crops will avail themselves of tine
opportunity, since their attention is
directed to some other branch Of indus
try. The small fruits. strawberries, etc.,
will turn sooner, but for the reason
probably that they are most available
for canning the proportionate supply of
them diminishes apparently more than
that of the large fruits. It IS then quite
clear that it is safe for those having suit
able soils in favorable localities to plant
fruit trees. With proper attention they
will be sure in time to yield handsome
returns. Again, we could afford to give
our orchards and fruit grounds more at
tention than has been the custom. They
should have the best care, with the ex
pectation of receiving ample payment for
it in return. More o. the small fruits
can be cultivated, and ready market
will be found for all the products
Farmers Review.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-12-07

Mrs. Byram Topham of No. 4742 Paul
street, Frankford, had tried by numer-
Gus devices to destroy the bugs in her
furniture, but her efforts, up to yester-
day, were unsuccessful. At Last she
bought two gallons Of beDzine, and yes
terday morning she began by saturating
her parlor furniture with her whole
stock of the liquid. Her mother, Mrs.
He6, who is seventy years old and an
invalid, was sitting in the next room.
Mrs. Topham kept the door between the
two rooms closed, ON account OF the
odor from the benzine. By the time she
III fnished her distribution OF the
1ial nmong the furniture, Mrs. Top
han, 4 ing faint and dixzy from the
effects "a the vapor in the closed room,
opened the door and stepped into the
dining groom, when the benxine vspor
rushed out Of the open parlor door and
ignited from . small 6re in the Kitchen
stove. Mrs. Topham ~ lash and her
mother envelopcd in hAmee. 6eising
the chair in which the old lAdy st.. abs
dragged Il into The yard, her own cloth
ing also taking Ore. A. he anme ame
she heard crnsh end ~ ~ froue end
part Of TIE sids vail a ~ bouoo shee-
tersd by ~ ezp1oaion ,1n1l - ~ Gxo4nd.
The hoase W. 8 ixr1ocmo1, thEoo-eeogy
hriok. with a1leys botvoGn 3 - o1jo1nr
ise housou. he thsoo front rooue ~
. 1o1al wssok, nething III W - -
m0@M<mI N #
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-12-07

Much has been written and much
more has been spoken about reforms IN
dress. Women have always been the
agitators of this subject, and mainly
women of an uncertain age and frequ-
emily unmarried women OF uncertain
age. The mania on the part OF these
women is usually desire to secure the
breeches where failure has been made
to secure man in them. In other words.
she pants for the pantaloons, and IS
known among the anti-cranks as q
pantaloonatic. Women of this class look
with scorn upon their supposed weaker
minded sisters who take pleasure IN
Paris millinery, and who endeavor to
enchance the beautiful charms that ma
ture has endowed them with tasteful
ornamentation of their persons. The
pantaloonatic rebels against this. The
limited amont of charms that she has
been blessed with she aims to destroy.
Instead of arranging her tresses in
handsome braids and forms, she
ruthlessly crops them short, giving her
the appearance of convalescent brain
fever patient. On top of this usually
rests mans Derby hat; next comes a
garment as nearly as possible to mans
coat, the whole finishing with scant
skirt, or, where the mania is very strong,
with pair of tro wsers.
The pantaloonatic announces that she
has a mission to perform-that of raising
her erring sister to the dignity of her
own high level; to raise her, ss it were,
from the fashionable slough into which
she has fallen and set her firmly upon
the dry sands of simplicity and natural
L. Lo~ 60 h,k oh
no longer to be bound down by petit
coats and an insane desire to please the
male sex, but is in future to be actuated
by the far more noble purpose of REBEL
ing against such social tyranny and sim
ply please herself.
Although the pantaloonatic arrays her
self as nearly as possible after the ordi-
nary habits Of men, yet is she also ar
rayei in defiant warfare against the ordi-
nary mans habits. Her models OF men
are found among the frequenters of as
sociations that deal in isms. While she
crops her hair close, his must be worn
long. She glories in man with an I'M
naturally bright eye that looks into the
dim future from O sallow face elongated
by some thought, but little reason and
much dyspepsia. The president of the
Anti-Matrimontal Alliance is her friend.
and she claims fellowship with members
of the Neeldow- sebago- croton-hydraulic-
dry collie association. She demands the
privilege of voting and holding Office.
and unsexes herself generally by at
tempting to initiate many things in men
which she affect to despise.
The true dress reformer is the woman
or man who can combine utility with the
greatest elegance, who can please the
eve with graceful and artistic combina-
tions both of materials and colors, and
who can introduce into human attire the
magnifcence shown by nature in cloth
ing all her beauties of the woods, fields
or gardens. Millinery Review.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-12-07
The Laundr,es Of the Seine

Women kneel in the boats on the
banks of the Seine, pounding their linen
with the wooden battoir, scrubbing 1t
with a stiff brush on a ridged board,
while they sing as merrlly as larks, and
reply to the banter of the passing bareee
and cantier. They turn the handle OF
the wringing machines and do all the
hard labor, while the men are busy
ironing. The man in the blue cotton
trousers and snowy white shirt, with the
scarlet girdle round his waist, can iron
as we'll as any Chinaman. He can boast
of having among his colleagues men who
Golfer frill, or ''bring up" the pattern
of lace better than any emigrant from
the Celestial Empire. The irons, Hat
and box, are pushed deity to and fro
over the white linen, which has been
starched, and the man who yields them
has bit OF the wax in his pocket like
the chalk of the billiard player
which he passes over the hot iron
when he comes to the front, the collar or
the wristbands. He has learned the
rudiments of his art when, soldier In
the barracks, he was compelled to do his
own washing and ironing, and he works
by the piece, earning his living, and
glowering angrily when his profits are
menaced by the threat of introducing
the mangle, as yet almost unknown on
this side of the channel. The blauchis-
seur goes into Paris on the Monday
morning with the clean linen, and the
ironers, who have been working over
time on the Sunday and on the two pre-
ceding days, take q rest. They may be
found on the Monday afternoon at one or
other of the concerts at Point du Jour,
enjoying themselves as best they can
with the firm intention of not resuming
their occupation until the Wednesday.
Sometimes their employers can not
secure their services until the Friday,
but, as a general rule, they prefer to
wait, for they are ungallant enough to
maintain that it is far better and more
profitable to employ men than women
London Globe.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-12-07
Mary James Identify.

What difference does it make to the
world who modest single woman OF I'M
certain age is, anyhow? Now, il were
married women with sixteen small
children and husband to support, then
inquiry would be charitable, but Is it is,
I feel like rising in arms-not the arms
of any living man, though, or dead one,
either, for mems arms as refuge In
time Of trouble don't catch me.
mot even Charlie Kincaids?" sug-
gested Dickey, with blush OF signifi-
cant redness.
"No, not oven Charles, said I. "for
he has been q sort of house OF refuge
after that order OF architecture too long
to catch q female Of my age and expert
once."
Then Dickey remembered something
about my knowing good thing when !
saw Il, and vent on writing.
/ shall have nothing more to say Of
myself and my identity except this;
Questioning is Al in vain.
kasy Jane h Mary. lane.
Little dried-up. old and plain.
More OF lesr cross IN the gain
Right a heart and in the MAN,
Trying hsrd 70 iesnen PAIN
ealisnsd II that che gain.
nasy Jane 70 Mary Jane. Il.
ssAnd will stay 90, said Dickey. Tor
the only old bachelor who had the nerve
to make her anything else died years
ago."
"Pniss the Lord" said l, Barnesi-
cally ~ Courier-Journa
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-12-07
A PIucky Naval Apprentice

"You are plucky little fellow" These
words were spoken on board the flagship
Portsmouth Of the training fleet on the
occasion of the distribution of medals to
the boy. The speaker was Admiral
Porter, and the person addressed was
Apprentice Krepps of the first class. The
circumstances that brought about the
compliment from such distinguished
source were as follows: Some seven or
eight days ago. while the Portsmouth
was still far out of sight of land, bound
home from Europe, number of ap-
prentices we're sent alof. to take in some
canvas. There was pretty stiff breeze
blowing and the vessel rolled heavily.
After the sails had beer taken in and the
boys were in the act of obeying the call
to come down, when the vessel
gave sudden lurch, and over
went young Krepps into the
sea. The cry, "Boy overboard!" was
Immediately heard, and orders were
given for boat to put out to the rescue.
Krepps was repeatedly lost to view while
the vessel was heaving to, although it
was seen that he was making brave
struggle for life. He made for the stern
of the vessel, and got hold of some
chains that we're hanging there. These
he chung to like grim death, and then
called out to the men in the boat, 81
guess there's no danger; I am here at the
stern" Blood was streaming from his
eye, which had been cut in falling. 1t
was for his great pluck that he was
specially noticed by the Admiral, who
took occasion to make the remark when
handing him the Admiral Bailey medal
of gold, given annually to the appren-
tice who is most proficient in gunnery.
The boy is under fourteen years OF age,
and is small for his age. Apprentice Nc.
Kigney, of the first class, got the Farra-
gut prize for sesmsnship, and Appren-
tice McFadden got medal for second
position in gunnery.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-12-07

Perhaps not the least singular circum-
stance connected with the practical wars
of the Mediterranean is the fact that
their latest and ableet historian is
Roman Dominican monk. Padre Al
berto Guglielmotti, of the Order of
Preachers, is the author of series of
valuable works all dealing with marine
matters, and especially and peculiarly
with the Papal navy. Perhaps to the
general reader the very phrase "Papal
navy" NAV appear almost homogeneous.
Yet Papal navy once existed, and it's
captains and sailors we're among the
most valiant and skillful of all those
who manned and navigated the fleets of
the Mediterranean. Still more incon
gruous does it appear to think OF
cowled friar in the cell inditing treatises
and narratives about naval doings,
which not only manifest the most COM
plete mastery of technical details.
but have as breezy . salt SAVIOR OF
the sea in them - Dibdin's songs.
The phenomenon is partly accounted
for when We learn that Padre Gugliel-
mott is q native of Civita Ve0chia, and
that his boyish "reminiscences include
listening with eager delight to the yarns
OF an old sailor who was wont to sit on
the quay on holiday afternoons and re-
count his adventures. But Padre Gug
lielmotti's natural bent and aptitude for
maritime things have been cultivated by
assiduous and intelligent study. On
navigation, gunnery, and fertilization,
on marine topography and meteorology
ESPECIALLY q regards the phenomena TO
be observed in the Mediterranean, this
Dominican monk speaks with science
and authority. One is tempted to ex-
claim: "What fine sailor w6stedl' But
il must be remembered that for thou
sands of stout fellows able to take part in
doughty deeds ahoat. all the sea ports in
Italy could perhaps not furnish one
other able to chronicle them as Padre
Alberto has done for us. He brings to
the performance OF his task some valua-
BILE elements which are supplied by the
learned leisure Of cloistercd life, and a
mass Of very varied erudition is fused, so
10 speak, into homogeneity by the glow
Of : strong and steady enthusiasm. = The
Cornhill Magazine.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-12-07
Shutting up Children.

The London Lancet relates distress
ing case of suicide of boy 10 years old
who had been shut up in his bedroom as
q punishment, The editor comments
adversely on leaving children or young
persons and the weakly or tronbled in
mind alone: 1.-THE solitary state 10 alb
horrent to the nature and mind of man.
Whether the brain be immature in it's
development or morbid in its state, it is
wrong in scientific sense-thst is, OPP
posed to the laws and teachings of physi-
illogical science-to leave it alone. The
possibility I've will even concede the
probability-of subsistence Of excite.
ment is not sufficient set-of against the
dangers of self-destructive intellectual
activity. The mind always works to its
own injury when it works alone. Re.
Election, introspection and sels-examina-
ton are essentially abnormal processes.
The proper action of mind is on the
outer world, or on such conceptions OF
fact and object as may be readily cor
rected by present observation or ex'
perience. Abstract processes of thought
are never safe for the young or the
weakly and troubled in mind. Healthy
activity, SO far as these two conditions OF
mind are concerned, is directly relative
1t is not good for man to be alone in any
sense. We would therefore again pro-
test against the recourse to solitary con-
finement as punishment for children
and against 'seclusion' in any form fol
the unsound of mind. The two methods
of treatment stand on the same footing
and they are both equally bad"
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-12-07

; wAKxa FENCE Posrs LAsr.--A West
'ern farmer says that he hes discovered .
modal BY which the part Of len0orposts
buried IL the ground cen b mn1o 70
loet longer than iron. Tins and weather
seolm noe % afSot Il. Poets ean b pre-
posod loe looe Than tvo oonto eD1ooo.
IL 1oo1ro = 70 tnko boilo1 Hnoood ~
ri ~ 4 Il pulvostuo1 Ensceol ~ ~
Goon11oouey q ogoGm. 60 oDD1Y 3 oco1
- y - ~ lover ho1f G ~ - B ~
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-12-07

Clown A. PHsRAnA1onY OnoP.--
When clover il followed BY vheot, >
lafes Yield Of ~ l.t1ss Il oee anoug
~ eer1niniies. ana eho farmer ehoun ~
mombeg that VIA oIovQR y - b tol-
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-12-07
How a Girl Nay Always Look Nice.

"When was q girl there was one of
my young friends who was distinguished
for making her things last Her dress,
gloves and ribbons were marvel OF du-
rability. / used TO wonder how she
managed to make them last so without
their looking shabby, but ceased to do
90 after had visited her at her own
home. The reason why her clothes wore
40 long was she took good care Of them.
Her dresses were brushed and folded
carefully away, and the slightest spot on
them was removed a. soon as it was dis
covered. Her hat was whipped In an
old pocket handkerchief and put away
in box Is soon ~ done with. the strings
and laces being Strengthened and rolled
out most systematically each time. Her
gloves were never folded together. but
were pulled out straight and laid nat in
q box, one upon another, each tune they
we're used, the thinest hole being mended
almost before il had time to show itself.
But the thing that impressed me most
was the care she bestowed upon her rib
bons. When making mp bows she used to
line the under part Of the ribbon with
white paper, and this NOT only prevented
the ribbon from becoming limp and
creased, but kept il clean, 90 that when
the bow was soiled on ono side she
could turn the ribbon, and the part that
had been covered camel ont. looking
fresh and new. That girl married and
brought ur large family. Her husband
hnd 20 nght his way, and did 20 brevely
and SUCCESSFULLY. for he became wealthy.
But his prosperity voG due quite -
much 20 his wife's care end economy -