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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1884-07-19
MISCELLANEOUS,
GENERAL DIRECTORY
District Officers.


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/ q. A'aAfer,.. District Attorney
I"ytsh 0B'ees$.
y. c. Paul Sheriff and Tax Collec'r
Cllas. Owen. Deputy Sheriff
G. 0. Watts, Clerk and Recorder
c. l.. Rans,lell, Deputy Clerk
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ST. JOHNS
LIVER PILLS

The true Liver Medicine and real
remedy for Torpid and Congestive
Livers. Prompt relief is obtained
by their use; they obviate the use
Of Mercury, and being entirely Veg
etable are perfectly safe. Price, Is
cents a box.
Apply to HENRY ST. JOHN,
Manufacturing Pharmaceutical Chy-
mist, in Exchange Hotel Building,
Alexandria, La.
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CARDS.

4 NDnEWS g. FOSTER, (James
n Andrews, r d. F"ster,) At
tornrys mt Law. Office, corner of
Second and Washington streets, Os-
borc building.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1884-07-19
PLATFORM
The NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY,

The following is the synopsis of
the Platform adopted at Chicago,
on July sth:
The Democratic party of the
Union, through its representatives
in National Convention assembled,
recognizes that as the nation grows
older new issues are born of time
and progress, and old issues perish,
but the fundamental principles of
the Democracy, approved by the
united voice ofsthc people, remain
and ever will remain as the best
and only security for the continu-
anee Of free government, the pre-
servation of the personal rights Of
the States, and the supremacy of
the Federal government within the
limits of the Constitution will ever
form the true basis of our liberties,
and can never he surrendered with
out destroying that balance of
rights and powers which enable the
continent to develop in peace and
social order to be maintained by To-
cal self-government. 1t is tndis-
pensable for the practical applica-
ton and enforcement of these fun
damental principles that the gov
eminent should not be controlled
by the same political party. A fire.
quent change Of the administration
is as necessary as the constant re-
currence to the popular will other
wise, abuses grow and the govern
ment, instead of being carried on
for the general welfare, becomes an
instrument for imposing heavy bur
dens on the many who are govern
ed for the benefit of the few who
govern-public servants thus be-
come arbitrary rulers. This is now
the condition Of the country, and
hence o change is demanded. The
Republican party, so far as princi
pie is concerned, is Renaissance
in practice. 1t is an organization
for enriching those who control its
machinery. The frauds and jobbe-
ry which have been brought to light
in every department Of the govern
ment are sufficient to have called
for reform within the Republican
party, yet those in authority, made
reckless by tho long possession Of
power, have succumbed to its cor
rupting influence and have placed
in nomination a ticket, against
which the independent portion of
the party are in open revolt. =
Therefore, change is demanded.
Such a change was alike necessary
in 1876, but the will of the people
was then defeated by a fraud which
can never be forgotten nor con-
doned. Again, in 1880, the change
demanded by the people was de-
feated by the lavishness of money
contributed by udscrupulous con-
tractors and shameless jobbers, who
had bargained for unlawful profits,
or for high Office.
The Republican party, during its
legal, its stolen and its bought ten
ures of power, has steadily de-
cayed in moral character and polit-
ical capacity. Its platform promi-
ses are now a list Of it's past fail
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P e N r S

PROCURED. Send for Pamphlet
and References. Seward A. Hasel-
tine, Solicitor of American and For
eisn Patents and Attorney in Pa
tent coses. Associate at Washing
ton, D. c. Springfield, Missouri.
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ALEXANDRIA, LA, JULY 49, 1884.

that does not exist. 1t calls upon
Congress to remove the burdens UNI
der which American shipping has
been depressed; it imposed and has
continued those burdens. 1t pro.
fesses the policy of reserving the
public lands for small holdings bv
actual settlers-it has given away
the peoples heritage till now few
railroads and nonresident aliens.
individual and corporate, possess a
larger area than that of all our
farms between the two seas; it pro-
fesses a preference for free institu-
tons; it organized and has tried to
legalize a control of the State cleo
tons by Federal troops; it processes
a desire to elevate labor-it has
subjected American workingmen
to the competition of convict and
imported convict labor; it processes
gratitude to all who were disabled
or died in the war, leaving widow
and orphans: it has left to a Dem
ocratic House of Representatives
the first effort to equalize both
bounties and pensions. 1t profers
a pledge to correct the Irregular
ties of our tariff; it created and has
continued them. Its own Tariff
Commission confessed the need of
more than 20 per cent. reduction;
its Congress gave a reduction Of
less than 2 per cent. 1t processes
the protection of American manu-
features; it has subjected them to
an increasing food of manufactured
goods and hopeless competition
with manufacturing nations, not
one of which taxes raw materials.
It processes to protect all Ameri-
can industries. It has impover-
ished many to substitute a few. 1t
has impoverished many to subsi-
die few. 1t processes the pro-
lection of American labor-it has
depleted the returns of American
agriculture, an industry followed
by half our people. 1t processes
the equality Of all men before the
aw-attempting to fix the status
of colored citizens. The acts of its
Congress were overset by the deci-
sions Of its courts. 1t accepts a
new the duty of leading in the
work of progress and reform. Its
caught criminals arc permitted to
escape through the contrived delays
or actual connivance of the prose-
cution. Honey-combed with cor
ruption, outbreaking exposures no
longer shock is moral sense. Its
honest members and its indepen-
dent journals no longer maintain a
successful contest for authority in
its counsels or veto upon a bad
nomination. That a change is ne
cessary is proven by an existing
surplus of more than 100000, 900,
which has yearly been collected
from suffering people. Unneces-
sary taxation is unjust taxation.
We denounce the Republican par
ty for having failed to relieve the
people from the crushing war taxes
which have paralyzed business,
crippled industry and deprived la
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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1884-07-19

JJUNrER, MOSELEY & HERT-
Ill zuy. Attorneys ut Law. Office
on Front street, between Murray
End Johnston.
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MISCELLANEOUS.

ell, P; J. II. Dennis, NJ F; W. l..
Amber, NJ f; p. II. Osborn, K of R
and S; VIM. Mcclellan, G; James
Madison, 0 G; F. l.. Porter, NJ A.
Meets lst and Sd Monday of each
month.
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NASsON, john. Physician and
" Surgeon. Office at residence,
at shr s,ead of Brauregard street.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-12-18
The Fascination o f Nature.

It is astonishing what power mani
mate things obtain over the mind of
man; once fall in love with the sea, and
what can ever replace it in our heartsp
Nothing. It is forever calling us;
through the calm Of a summer night
we hear it above every other quiet
sound, in the winter we picture It to
ourselves in its thousand and one
moods; and after being apart from 1t
for any length of time, it is only the
veriest shame that prevents us casting
ourselves on the sand and touching
the waves as they come toward us, so
glad are we to know we can see its
beautiful face again. 1t is the most
perfect of companions, and never pals;
but it is a subtle creature too, and SO
possesses itself of our inmost soul that
we are never really happy unless we
are within reach of the truest and most
sympathizing friend we possess. This,
too, extends itself in some natures TO
the land. None can understand it,
perhaps, who has not experienced it;
but it entirely accounts for the way in
which, year after year, farmers per-
sistently lose money, simply because
fields and pastures that they have
known from their youth are more to
them, have more to give of perfect hap
piness, than riches and plenty have
among houses and in cities or in coun-
tries that they do not know. - Christian
at Work.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-12-18
HE HAD PLANS.

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ners, with a solid old gentleman at the
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ner, ana ne proDaply didn = care 2 cent
whether such a person existed or not,
He was coming in over one Of the
roaas IN a racant Saturday and had
taEap . scat in the smoker to enjoy !
t; i when q fellow-traveler
asked him how business was. and what
firm he represented.
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resent the honse If Rlank e ca De.
troit ), was the answer.
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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-12-18

After careful experiment conclude
THAT, as 3 rule, mOre profit can b had
/ from COW that comes In fresh In the
fall than id the spring. There are sew
eral reasons for tiis: 1. The COW =
usually in better condition in fall than
| in the spring. hitter cow has run
dry on pasture for two months or
more in The summer: she is usually in
better flesh and condition for calv-
ing and giving milk than if she comes
m in early spring after months of dry
feed 2. Again, the cow that calves in
the fall goes on fresh pasture Just at
the time she would begin to shrink in
her milk, and the season OF flush milk
is prolonged. 5. The average price OF
butter is considerably greater from Oc-
tOber to May than from May to Octo-
Der, SO that w0 can make greater
profit from the cow that is fresh in the
fall. The most disagreeable season Of
the year to milk, and the hardest to
make good quality Of butter is during
the heat of summer, and at this season
it is wise to produce only what the
family requires. B.. / find fall calf
can be raised with less trouble than
one born in spring, for the reason that
it does not require the same care to
winter calf that is a full year old,
and has had an entire season on grass,
that it does the spring calf weaned in
the fall, and must spend six months on
dry feed before it goes to pasture. The
profitable way to fatten cow is to fat
ten and milk at the same time- II you
do not breed the COW she can usually
be MIXED at profit from eighteen
months to two years, and occasionally
you will find one that can be MIXED .
much longer time. A. COW in her
prime-say from six to eight
years old = that has given
milk year or more can be-
MIXED all winter and dried the first of
April and in four weeks go to the
butcher at the season of the year when
beef is always scarcest and highest in
price. The latest cows. ever sold
were MIXED up to the day the butcher
took them, and I calculated that the
milk through the winter paid the entire
expense of fattening. l have often
bought in the fall thrifty COW, with the
marks of a good feeder, that under the
treatment she was receiving, was Civ
ing but three or four quarts, of milk
day, but under full feed soon increased
to two gallons and kept up the flow till
she went to the butcher in the spring,
and usually sell at an advance of from
$12 to 1925 above cost. The quality of
the milk from fulfilled farrow COW is
very superior to- that from a fresh cow.
have found this plan of milking for q
long time without breeding especially
valuable with old cows. Occasionally
one gets hold of a COW that possesses so
many valuable qualities that he wishes
to keen her as long az rrnSsihla After
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-12-18
HUMAN VISION.

Something About the Eyesight, Which
Should be Read and Remembered.
Persons speak of their eyes being ia
tigued, meaning thereby that the seeing
portion of the brain is fatigued,
but in that, says DR.. w. w
Seely, they are mistaken. So men say
their brains are tired. Brains seldom
become tired. The retina of the eye,.
which is part of the brain and an off
shoot from it, hardly ever is tired.
The fatigue is in the inner and outer
muscles attached to the eye and in the
muscle of accommodation. The eye
ball, resting in bed of fat, has at
tached to it six muscles for turning it
in any desired direction, and the mus
Gle attached to the side nearest the nose
and one at the outer angle of the eye
should, in every normal eye, be bal
anced. They are used in converging
the eye on the object to be viewed, and
the inner muscles are used the more
when the object is the nearer. The
muscle of accommodation is one which
surrounds the lens of the eye. When it
is wanted to gaze at objects near at
hand, this muscle relaxes and allows
the lens to thieken, increasing
its retroactive power at the same
time that the muscles on the in
ner or nasal side of the eye contract and
direct the eyes to the point gazed at.
1t is in these muscles that the fatigue is
felt, and one finds relief in closing the
eyes or in gazing at objects at dis
lance. The chief source of fatigue is
the lack of balance in the two sets of
inner and outer muscles of accommo-
dation. 1t may h set down that there
is something wrong when the eye be-
comes fatigued. The defective eye, as
it gives out sooner, is really safer from
severe strains. The usual Indication of
lid, betokening congested state of the
pain. When it is shown that the eye is
not equal to the work required of it, the
proper remedy is not rest, for that is
fatal to it's strength, but the use of
glasses of sufficient power to render
necessary so much effort in accommo-
dating the eye to vision. tits not good
sense to waste time in resting the eye,
and that practice does not strength
en- it.
Eyes begin to age at about the tenth
or twelfth year of life, when they have
reached their full development At the
age of forty-five or fifty years the lenses
cease to thicken, when the pressure is
removed and their presbyopia, or old
sight, begins. When a child is COM
PEELED to use or require the use of
glasses, there is little reason to hope
that it will outgrow the need; but the
person will use these glasses as basis,
adding other glasses as he reaches the
age when old sight begins, or using
thicker glasses. DIR. Seely, however,
mentioned one case he had observed
where child had outgrown the need
of glasses, but in the mean time he had
grown from small and puny child to
large and well developed man.
Second sight, or the apparent re-
covery of strength of vision, which is
sometimes seen in the aged, the lee
turer explained as change, an elon-
cation, in the shape of the eyeball, by
which the person became nearsighted,
accompanied by a change in the lens
caused by the appearance of cataract.
Scientific american
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-12-18
SIMPLE STYLES.

Interesting Information About Costumes
Which are Becoming. but Not Costly.
Economists will be glad to know that
the fashion of having the basque differ
ent from the skirt is now not confined
to materials only, but extends to colors
as well; thus a red velvet basque is
worn with black skirts, and a blue
basque with red skirts. This plan gives
variety to a limited wardrobe, and
such changes, or the possibility of
them, should be considered in selecting
the winter outfit The use of Jerseys
probably brought this fashion about, as
they are often worn now in contrast to
the skirts that complete them, a red
silk Jersey being thought appropriate
with black, blue or green skirts. The
fine white wool Jerseys, stylishly
trimmed with wide Hercules braid,
with or without little gilt or silver,
are now used in the house with any
light wool skirts, such aspale blue wool
or cashmere, and light tan-colored
JERSEYS are worn with darker wool OF
silk skirts.
Wide stripes grow in favor for lower
skirts, or as the apron front on plain
wool or silk dresses. These stripes are
lengthwise for short figures, and across
for those who are tall. An economical
plan is that of buying Inexpensive vel
vet ribbons two inches wide, and sew
ing them on any part of the costume
that may suit the wearer's fancy;
thus very deep apron of
black silk or wool may be striped
lengthwise by velvet ribbon two
or even three inches wide; or there may
be short apron, and the whole space
below may be covered by either per-
pendicular or horizontal velvet stripes.
The stripes re-appear as vest, or a
square plastron, and the high collar
band and the narrow cuffs are covered
with velvet. This trimming is used on
light wool dresses, and is very hand
some for golden brown camel s-hair,
with the velvet ribbon slightly darker,
and also in the dahlia shades of pur-
plish red.
Very pale tan-colored cloth, almost
as light as ecru tints, is made up in
dressy costumes for young ladies to
wear at afternoon receptions. Gilt
braid and some slightly darker fur are
the trimmings, and there is usually a
fanciful cap or small bonnet of the
same cloth. These are carriage cos
TUNES, as they are too light and too
dressy to be worn when walking, al
though made of cloth, the material
now most used for walking dresses.
Tapestry embroidery done in old
fashioned cross stitches in dull soft
colors is the newest trimming for black
velvet jackets that form part of elegant
house toilettes. This embroidery is not
in borders, but in detached pieces ap-
piled irregularly on the jacket. :.
To test whether or not a color will
be becoming, modistes lay the hand
of the wearer on the colored fabric, and
if the hand looks fairer, or at least does
not look more sallow. than before. it is
a safe choice, and may be worn near
the face, Harper's Bazaar.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-12-18
A TALK ABOUT COWS.

Some Points Which Farmers and Dairy
men VIII Do Well to Study Over.
I do not design in this article to pass
upon breeds, although shall refer to
some of them, butt shall call attention to
several points, which in my Judgment,
the farmers cow ought to possess. She
should be of good size that she may
produce a calf that will be profitable to
raise for beef if male, and also that
she herself may be profitable turned
into beef as soon as by age, her milk
ing powers show signs of failing, and
here wish to make this point. A ma
jority of farmers keep their cows too
long. | believe that except in the case
of those which prove extraordinarily
profitable for milk or butter, or possess
some qualities which render them SUI
perior, it will be more profitable to fat
ten cows at from five to eight years old
than to milk them longer. If you will
look at the market reports in any Of
our papers you find the poorest grade
of cattle quoted at from $1.75 to 1926
per hundred, and in the same papers
you will see good fat cows quoted at
from 81 to IS per hundred. In
visiting the stock yards I have
seen pens of old bony cows,
with wrinkled horns and protruding
hips, and have ceased to wonder at these
low quotations. Aside from the differ
ence of two cents per pound or more in
price at selling time, these cows have
often been kept for some years at o
loss, and if sold five or more years
sooner this double loss might have been
avoided. If a COW milks hard or does
not prove to be gentle, / never milk her
more than one season. If she is a fair,
ordinary cow, turn her for beef when
in her prime, but occasionally | find a
COW that possesses such combination
of valuable qualities that / keep her to
old age, and have kept such cows at a
profit till nearly twenty years old.
Another point will make is, that for
the farmer it is more desirable that the
COW give large amount of milk, than
that it be very rich. know this is con-
trary to the general opinion, and that
the fact that a small quantity of milk
will make pound of butter is ordina-
rily considered decisive of a good COW.
/ affirm that for the farmer the COW
which gives four gallons of milk day,
from which ten pounds of butter
week is made, is worth more than the
one which produces the same amount of
butter from two gallons of milk per
day. The average price of butter is SO
low that when we take into considera-
ton the labor to produce and prepareit
for market, there is often greater net
profit from the skim milk fed to stock
than from the butter. IL have de-
scribed the COW most profitable to the
farmer, she certainly is not Jersey,
for most of this breed are understood
and give but a moderate quantity of
very rich milk. In addition to this.
her milk, though rich in butter, is quite
poor after it has been skinned, so that
it is worth much less for feeding than
that of some other breeds. I have
found it decided advantage to the
quality of the product to have one DER
sey cow to each two or three others in
the herd, as their milk gives butter of
better color and tirmer texture than
from most other breeds.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-12-18
A. d. 1884.

Our great great grandpapas had scnooleu
Your fancies, Lita, were you born
In days when Cotton Mather ruled
And damask petticoats were worn!
Your pretty ways, your knocking air,
q Had passed, ma hap, for Satan's wileS-
As ffaught with danger, then and there,
To you, as now to us your smiles.
Why not! Were inquest to begin,
The tokens are not far to seek:
Item-the dimple of you chin;
Hem-that freckle on your cheek.
Grace shields his simple soul from harm
Who enters your Irritation niche,
Or trusts in whispered counter charm,
Alone with such a parlouS witch!
Your fan q wand is, in disguise;
1t conjures, and we straight are drawn
Within q witches Paradise
OF music, germans, roses, lawn.
So through the season, where you go,
All else than Lita men forget:
One needs no second sight to know
That sorcery is rampant yet.
Now, since the bars no more await
Fair maids that practice sable arts,
Take heed, while pronounce the fate
OF her who thus enSnareS our hearts:
In time you shall a wizard meet
With spells more potent than your own,
And you shall know your master, Sweet,
For you at his behest shall wear
A veil, and seek with him the church,
And at the altar rail forswear
The craft that LEFT you in the lurch;
But oft thereafter, musing long,
With smile, and sigh, and conscience
twitch,
You shall too late confess the wrong
A captive and repentant witch.
e. C. Stednsan, an Hdrper's Magazine.