The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1882-05-10

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To soc a thousand years;
The scenes saw that awful night,
Will always stick to me,
The officers an men on board
Were brave as men could be.
"You bet, the pilot he was game,
An at his wheel did stay,
Until the awful flames rushed in
An drove Purcell away,
He never flickered from his post,
For duty kept him thar,
Ontil he found the fire so hot,
1t burned his face an har.
"But, Mister, you'll forgive these tears
That from my eyelids fall,
It makes 'em come, to think of him,
The hero Of them all.
The one who at the throttle stood,
An never flinched with fear,
Bnt sacrificed his noble life
"Bob" Kelly, engineer.
"Mid all the wild exciting scenes,
The cries for help-the yells,
Bob stood thar at the engines, sir,
An answered all the bells.
He looked at Death squar' in the eye,
An to his throttle chung,
An waitin' for that gong to say
"I'm dOne," 1t neuer rang.
"Bob, no doubt, tho't of wife an home
Of little ones so dear
But thought of duty most of all,
And never thought of fear.
He went down with the burnin' boat,
An Mister You kin bet
Your life that Bob is standin' thar
Right at them engines yet.
~ don't say his soul Is thar,
For that riz up through the flames,
An put on wings an went up whar'
The angels write mems names.
The names Of heroes just like him,
five could only look,
I'll bet we'd see Bob Kelly's name
'Rit down iu Heavens book.
"Let Memory take the pen of Time,
And write on earth his name,
That all the world can sect it on,
The monuments Of fame.
Tho Kings have no nors, men Of wealth
And proud distinction thrive,
I'd rather be Bob Kelly dead,
Than any man alive.
"God bless his wife, lis little ones"
Shall always be my prayer,
b'lieve if her,es 60 to Heaven
You bet Bob Ks'ly's there.
Well, Mister, must go. Good night
A KISS ON THE SLY.-There is tc
be found much refresh ment in &
well-proportioned kiss. This muct
everybody acknowledges, though
only a frank few have the courage tt
acknowledge it openly. AS It 10
curious fact, yet unexplained by tn
philosophers, that the slyer the kis
is the more Is in it Of refreshment
A kiss that is paid as q forfeit be
fore a whole room full of people
prosaic, not to say embarrassing
The girl laughs, which spoils th
romance, and the fellow, ten to oa'
blushes-neither Of them thinkin
much Of It, and they are both al
pretty soon to forget all about i
But let the same fellow kiss the san
girl when nobody is looking, and ii
situation is as different as possibl
That sort Of kiss, fred of in hu
nv behind the door or in a conserv
tory, is like an electric shock, and
A sweet as cream. The taste Of
sort Of holds on and constantly 80
gests the propriety-or i'm proprie'
as the case may boot trying
again. And the laughing and blus
ing are exactly reversed. The +
low laughs without spelling the
nance a bit, and the girl blush
like o pink carnation. 1t is on
that the very same thing should, I
der such slightly altered circu
stances, be SO entirely different, l
is it any the less queer because
difference has existed from the q
Hest age Of the world.
do you travel2 Send % &c
to the drug store for a bottle OF L
ley's Saline Aperient, and when J
become annoyed with Symphonic
dyspepsia, sick headache, acid ste
acb' heartburn, torpid bowels, in
tive liver, &C., it will relieve you
once and will be attended with no
pleasant effects