The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1882-06-28
FROM TOBIAS.

LEAN ALuAOCNA4
l thought that Jack Horner would
have been after my scalp this week,
and don't know whether its present
safety is owing to his extreme good
nature and forbearance or because he
is taking plenty of time in the prac-
tice of that war whoop metninks l
hear in the distance. At any rate
my top-knot is still where it used
to be.
A FALSE PROPHET.
Didn't old Vennor MISS it when he
predicted that we we're going to have
a cool summer? If he calls this cool
l would like to have his idea of heat.
Perhaps blast furnace is his notion
of a cool, shady nook, where one can
enjoy himself, with the refreshing re-
Election of comfort and ease.
RAILROAD MATTERS.
l don't think that the papers Of
this town have Dragged enough over
our railrond facilities and prospects.
We are going to be the center of a
great railroad system and you ought
to brag and blow all the time about
our railroads. Has the fact that we
have two roads completed and two
more in contemplation already grown
stale? What we want now is an in.
crease of. population. l understand
that the Morgan road have already
commenced work on their side track
to the river, and l saw this week an
extensively signed petition to the
Texas and Pacific to locate their
workshops here. This is the first
step that l know of that has been ia
ken in that very important matter.
1NsUFFERABLY DULL.
Business is duil--the weather is
hot--money is scarce, and if it we're
not that the planters are boasting of
their crops, we would all stagnate
and dry up. The heat is so oppres-
sive and enervating that l would like
to see the man who could evolve
from his inner consciousness an orig
inal idea. The base ball boys don't
seem to mind the heat and they de.
serve credit for their energy-but
then they call it play. How differ
emily we look at things 10 this world.
MAN OF ENERGY.
Alexandria has one man who is
never dismayed by the dull times
nor disheartened by fire or food, and
who is always active, energetic and
pleasant. A hundred such men would
make our town thriving city. Who
but Julius Levin could have taken
an old and ugly livery stable and
made an attractive, cool and pleas
ant Ice Cream Saloon out of it2 And
now that our ice supply is in his
hands there is no danger of our suf-
fering those periodical "givings out"
that we had last season. He sets a
splendid example of push and enter
prise that it would be we'll for many
Of our young men to follow.
GONE!
One Of our "institdtions" of wear
past was the fisherman and his boat
and traps moored just above the fer
ry landing. He seemed to have done
a thriving business aud he was an
artist in his line--what he didn't
know about catching. and skinning a
fish was not worth the learning. 1t
seemed to give him such pleasure
and he took pride in flaying them
that used to watch him sometimes
with great interest, and as be always
killed the fish first there was nothing
to offend about the operation. But
be is gone! The places that knew
him once will know him no more for.
ever. 1t is sad to part with an Gin.
stitution," but ours is gone. He
slipped his colby and gently glided
down tue river. Goodbye, fisher
man!
A SUNDAY SERMON.
The fisherman shall furnish me a
text for my sermon. How easy it is
to 60 down stream in this life of
ours! All we have to do is to unite
the ropes and let the current carry
US away, and as we get further away
from our mornings the current be-
comes stronger and the faster and
further we go. But if we should
want to get back how hard the pull
is! What slow progress we make /!
And on the passage back we have to |
pull constantly and increasingly. Toll
stop for rest is to lose ground and |
to have it to 60 over again. Down
stream the current is with us--up-
stream it is against us. Many 20 |
DOWN who never come back at all! |
GUITEAU.
The dispatches this morning from
Washington inform US that the. Presi-
lent and his cabinet have under con.
alteration a proposition to respite
5uiteau until commission of ply
slams can examine into his mental
and it is intimated that
his will be done. The question of
lis sanity was afflrmatively deter