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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1884-05-27
Alex'a Fire Dept.
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TUESDAY, APRIL Goth, 's4.
EXCHANGE HOTEL.

April 29d, 1854. (
My DEAR Recommendations me -
Pardon me for disobeying all rules of
rhetoric in beginning this letter with
an exclamation, but / have seen some
thing this week that has actually made
me start. Of course, you know, that
came here to see the Firemen turn
ont, and was much perplexed and put
out when / learned that the parade had
been postponed. To toll you the truth,
I didn't like it one bit. After visiting
the various places of interest in this
lovely little city, began to saunter
into the different stores about town.
Taking the pretty omnibus of Messrs.
McGinnis & Armstrong, requested
the driver to put me out at Big Hey
MANS, on Front Street, under the Ex-
change Hotel, Entering that perfect
bJou of Dry Goods Emporiums, l re-
quested one Of the gentlemanly clerks
to show me through the stock. With
an agreeableness worthy of Chester
field, the Young man pulled down stack
upon stack Of the very finest and lat
est assortments Of Dress Goods, incln-
ding beautiful Lawns at from seven to
ten cents per yard. Oh, Mother, could
you have seen those designs-and then,
the quality! Such ''lovess Of Lawns,
dot and striped Swisses; such elegant
black goods such an enormous array
of Bed Spreads,, Bobbinet and Muslin
Bars, Damatks, Towels, Napkins, Ia
BILE Covers; such beauties of Fans,
Parasols, Hosiery, Neckwear, Fancy
Baskets, etc., such o line Of Ladies'
Underwear, Corsets, Gloves and Chill
dren's Dresses. Well, Of all the pleas
ant days, this was surely an interest
ing one for me. When you see the Sc
lections I have made, and have COM
pared prices with other houses, you
will surely send all your orders to BIC
HEYMAN.
Do you recollect the last shirts you
had made for Brother John at $50 per
duzenf You certainly must. Well, the
young-man at HEYMAN's showed me
the celebrated Vindicator shirt, and
after he had explained its construction,
ETC., was stunned when he said, "We
sell them from SO to $18 per dozen."-
| did not know that John needed shirts
bat bought one dozen for him, and ]
know you will approve my action when
you seem them. They are superior to
those for which you paid $50. This is
the "something" that made me start,
and begin this letter with 'Gracious
mew
Be sure to tell all our friends to or
der their goods from BIG HEYMAN,
and they will be sure to receive proper
treatment. Goodbye.
You loving daughter,
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1884-05-27
NOTICE.
Minors Minnie Z. andy
Mary j. Jones .--
for NJ. ao'.

minors Minnie Z. andy
Mary j. Jones ,
for NO. ao'.
Family Meeting, etc.
Probate Docket, District Court, Parish
Of Rapides, La.
PURSUANT TO A COMMISSION
i and order of sale issued and to me
directed by the Honorable the Twelfth
judicial District Court in and for the
Parish and State aforesaid, in the
soleye entitled and numbered suit, COM
manding me i'll accordance with the
eeiloerations Of the family meeting
asld therein, to sell the hereinafter des-
snoed property, upon tho terms and
oShaltlons hereinafter expressed, l
aall offer for sale at public auction at
.le front of the Court House door, in
sae lown OF Alexandria, La, between
sus hours preecrihed by law, on
SATURDAY, the 14th day of JUNE,
A. D. 1884,
s sae following described property, to-
~, a certain tract or portion of land sit
a aa.ed IN the Parish of Grant, Louisi-
S Saa, on Bayous Darro and Rigolette,
I IOallaed above and below by lands now
seiOaylng to j. w. johnson, and con-
i iainlhg two hundred arpents, more or
). IERMs-0ne-half of purchase price
20 oe paid in cash, tile balance on a
u vreale Of twelve months, with eight
pr ts. eentum per annum interest thereon
,;s1n date of sale until paid, with spo-
Mal mortgage and vendors lien and
sn.n retained On the property sold
a ~a.Il luii aud final payment. The pro-
i pss.y VIII not be adiudicated for less
sA ,a , me sum of eight hundred and
q d. o. PAUL.
sRerit and ex-ofticio Auctioneer.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1884-05-27
! Portable Electric Lamp Pro-
missed.

A civil engineer here who has ex-
tensive scientific knowledge outside
his own immediate professional do
main, and who is now engaged in =
colossal enterprise southwark, tells
me that very powerful improve
ments are being perfected in the
telephone and electric light. |
judge from what he says that with.
in a comparative brief period the
people Of every considerable town.
Of the United States will be con-
versing with each other with per-
feet ease and at any distance by
the telephone. He says an electric
hand lamp has been invented, the
illumating principle by some sim
pie chemicals that are ridiculously
cheap and very easily manipulated.
A little sliding drawer at the bot
tom Of the lamp holds the electric
spark in solution, while, by simply
touching a button, q magnificent
light is developed or extinguished
as the case may be. This lamp
does not specially differ in appear
ance from the ordinary kerosene af-
fair, and can be used in the same
way, but with complete. absence
of trouble, odor or danger. We
are on the verge of scientific won.
ders, applied to practical every day
uses, which will will revolutionizs
numerous contrivances that have
had their day, or that will be di-
verted into other channels.-[Ex-
change.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1884-05-27
ST. JOHNS
VEGETABLE LIVER PILLS

The true Liver Medicine and real
remedy for Torpid and Congestive
Livers. Prompt relief is. obtained
by their use; they obviate the nse
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.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1884-05-27

TIE Chicago Telegram has
these kinds words to say about our
great Worlds Fair: The bill loan
ing 100000 to the New Orleans
Exposition has passed both houses
and now goes to the President for
his signature. The Exposition will
be the grandest event Of its kind
since the Centennial Exhibition,
and bids fair even to eclipse it. It's
effect on the industries of the South
will be to bring them before the at
tention of the world, and to advance
them than could be accomplished in
any other manner. Not only every
State and Territory in the Union,
but every nation Of the world, will
be be represented. It will open
next December and continue in op
Grafton five months.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1884-05-27

--OH1cAGo is making prepara-
tons for accommodating the crowds
which are to gather there during.
the sessions Of the two national
conventions. The facilitiesfor lodg-
ing guests are being temporarily in,
creased by partitioning the large,
rooms and .parlors into tiny bed
rooms, and BY turning the servants
quarters and working departments
into places for lodging.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1884-05-27


-PAssESeERs by the new line
by Red River steamers to Alexand
ria and thence by rail to all points
in Texas and California are enthu.
siastio in their praise of the new
route. Steamers leave New Or.
leans daily at s p. M, and after a
quick run, connect with trains at
Alexandria, sleepers are attached
to all tains, and passengers step
from the comfortable cabin Of the
steamboat to the elegant Pullman
palace car, and are whirled to their
destination with but a single change.
The officers of the Texas and Pa
cife have been untiring their efforts
to keep their line open, and the
success which has attended the
new route must prove satisfactory
to them.-[N. 0. States,
WASHINGTON, May l9.-The Of
ticers of the executive departments
OF the government are making up
their estimates Of appropriations
necessary to be provided in the sun
dry civil bill to pay The expenses of
the government exhibits at the Cot
ton Centennial. They are taking
great interest, in the matter, and
predict that the government exhibit
will far exceed that of the Phila-
delphia Centennial. Especial to
the Daily States.
-WARRAN Webster walked in
to Webster. Mass Safnrdav ord
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1884-05-27
ALEXANDRIA, LA, MAY 81, 1884.
A Sad Story.

For the special benefit Of Ger
tain class, we publish the follow.
ing, which we find in an exchange:
A resident of Montana was out
hunting recently, and a storm COM
ing up, he crept into a hollow log
for shelter. After the storm abated
he endeavered to crawl out, but
found that the log had swelled so
that it was impossible to make his
exit. He endeavored to compress
himself as much as possible, but
with Indifferent success. He
thought Of all the mean things he
had ever done, until finally his
mind severted to the fact that in
stead of subscribing for his local
paper, he was in the habit of Dor
rowing them from his neighbor and
thus defrauding the printer. On
this, he says, he felt so small that
he slipped out Of the log without an
effort.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1884-05-27
CARDS.

A NDREWS & FOSTER, DANES
n Andrews, T. D. Foster, At
torneys at Law. Office, corner Of
Second and Washington streets, Os-
bore building.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1884-05-27

The rain was coming down by
the barrelful, as Gilhooly stepped
into Nose Schamburg's store. Nose
wore q very gloomy look.
"Why, Nose, what makes you
look so blueT
"No wonder / looks plue, Misther
Gilhooly. 1t rains SO much all do
dimes, and I has got 3 pig stock of
umbrellas on hand"
~ should think that rainy wealth
or would be the very time you would
sell more, umbrellas than at any
other. I should suppose that rainy
weather would be the very time for
you to make hay while the sun
Shines SO to speak"
':No, sir; dot vos a great mis-
take. You see it rains SO steady
dot the PEBBLES can't put their um-
prellas long enough down for them
to be stolen"
"Wenr
"vell, don't you see, if de pee
bles don't down dose umprellas On
the corner der vas 20 umprellas sto-
len, and if dere vas no umprellas
stolen, den der vas no new ones
pought."
Just as this moment the sun
shone out from behind a cloud, and
its rays fell on the head Of the
smiling 1srealite, who looked Ike
one Of the pictures Of a saint with
a beatifc smile, with a halo about
his head by one of the old masters. !
.-[Texas Siftings.
CHICAGO is making prepara-
tons for accommodating the crowds
which are to gather there during
TIM onoo;npc ~ TIN %wn ro&:or.J
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1884-05-27

1esensrntfon for Enfsebled Systems,
suffering from general want of tone, and
10 usual concomitants. dyspepsia and
seriousness, lie seldom derivable from the
us o. . nonrishing diet and stimuli Of
eject . removal Of the specific obstacle TO
renewed health and vigor, that 10 . genuine
corrective, is the real need. It il tie poe-
session Of this grand requirement. which
makes Hostetter's Stomach Bitfers 90
saecave IS an inyigorant. For sals BY al
orasgists and Dealers generally. -,
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1884-05-27
Webster walked i

-WARRAN Webster walked in
to Webster, Mass, Saturday and
greeted his old friends after an alb
sence Of four years. He had walk
ed all the way from Humboldt Bay,
CAL, distance Of 500 miles, and
was two years on the road.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1884-12-24
The Mound Builders as Metal
Workers.

II 4- z =
The remains Of the mound builders
are placed under four heads: First,
mounds; second, embankments; or
ramparts; third, mines and excavations;
fourth, arts and manufacturers.
High up on the face of the cliffs along
the canyons of Northern Mexico are the
caves of these curious colonists, close
to the eyyies of eagles, thousands of
feet above the valleys. In some cases
a path Just the width of a human foot
leads from the brink of the cliffs above
instance a ledge overgrown with shrub
berry. In these caves they lived and
died. The cmbankments and ram
parts are classed as defensive and re-
aligious. The Notifications manifest
progress in the art of war, at least, as
advanced as the early Greeks and Tro-
JAMS. The religious Enclosures were
usually combinations of geometri-
cal figures, in which perfect squares
and figures are found. The mining
operations of the mound-builders were
extensive. In the Lake Superior re-
gion they mined copper. In Missouri
galena, and in Mexico iron. They
mined iron in pyrites. Elsewhere they
qnarried for mica and porphyry. Tho
arts and manufactures of this people
were of considerable Importance. At
ter rude but effective fashion, they
cast copper and iron, from which they
not only manufactured weapons, but
also ornaments and coin. They were
SO distinguished in wrapping amulets
in silver that the work could hardly be
distinguished from plating. Articles
worked in gold have also been discov-
cred in the caves and mounds. 1wo
Republics.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1884-12-24
True Courage.

In all ages, courage on the battle
field has been the theme of orators and
poets, yet the courage of the warrior is
not only common and variable quail
ty, but has often been surpassed by
that displayed by women. Native val
or, too, is sometimes inferior 10 that
which is acquired. Frederick the Great
ran like coward out of his first battle.
Flying on the wings of fear, he went :
great distance from the field, and, COM
ing to one of his own strongholds, ~
ported that his army was destroyed.
What was his surprise and mortifica-
ton to learn that his men had gained :
great victory. He never forgot the lcs-
son taught, and ever afterward was.
conspicuous for steady courage in ac-
ton. Many instances might be given
Of soldiers In the last war who, in their
first fight. were s.lily.livered. = but Who
afterward faced with dauntless front
tie cleaning steel; and on the other
hand, Of some who were lion-hearted
till taught BY the pain Of . wound tho
perils Of q battle, and who then became
notable towards. Bravery in action.
though more admired, Is really not -
great Is that displayed in passive suf.
fefing. The woman who sticks % her
post Ia the pestilential chamber y lar
drawer than Alexander charging at the.
head Of his cavalry. Southern Birosoc.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1884-12-24
Joseph Cook to Niagara.

About three months ago the faculty Of
Wellesley College, Of which Mrs. Joseph Cook
was in early years an instructress, wrote to
the Rev. Joseph Cook asking for an auto
graph sentiment to place among the valued
archives Of the college. He responded with
the following which has never before been
printed:
When EN-; Rome fell, where vert thou, colossal
In slow secession thou hast wandered back;
These mites of seething chasm were thy track;
When lost Atlantis sank, where dtd6t thou
To thy Inv vexed precipices7 what II all
Thy dates stood on thy cliffs, from the stored
OF Troy to the deluge green and black,
How eloquent were thy stOrfed wall!
When first in thee was dipped the swallows
When heard's thou first the shy brown wood
thrush sing?
When thou and man first met, hast thou for
Where vert thou in thy youth; when man
Speak, dateless roarl for thou art old and
fhy memories are unsounlfng majestfes!
hear the thnnderous thud, the muf1ed
roar;
I see the binding. wheeling, shifting mists,
The. green's and grays. puppies and anne
From Gods wide palm thy frightened cata-
r1cts pour;
And look up beneath them and adore.
Of summer tempests. In the awesome lists
OF contest are the thunders and thy shore.
Beneath thy quivering riven rocks lilo
AND gaze Into the lightnfnge and the sky.
a hand that undergirts immensity.
Thou speakest much, but most thou speak'st
Of Himl
God, God, God walks on thy watery rim.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1884-12-24

some very rude galloWs, under winch
he sat down in the most unconcerned
way, drinking wnter, and altogether
behaving as If he were merely specta-
tor instead Of the principal actor in the
tragedy. He put the rope round his
own neck, the knot being exactly at the
back. An English officer in the Egyp-
tian army suggested that it would be
much better und the ear, but his in-=
reference was rejected. The family of
the unfortunate man then approached
and implored his liberation at the feet
of the mother and brother Of the victim.
The latter was inclined to clemency,
but the former was quite obdurate,
shouting loudly that as he had killed
her son he must die for it. These par
leys lasted over an hour. It is the Gus
tom that the nearest male relative Of
the murdered man performs the Office
of executioner; SO at last the prisoner
quietly stepped on to stool not two
feet high, which the brother pushed
away from under him. OF course this
only caused him to be strangled, his
legs dragging about on the ground, so
q bystander took hold Of them and lit
ed them up, while the executi0ner,
amid the howls and groans Of the
crowd, shortened the rope and then
had to escape as best he could.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1884-12-24
Wonnen's Names.

Annabella is not Anna-bella or fair
Anna, but is the feminine of Hannibal,
meaning gift Tor grace) of Bel. Ara
bella IS not Arabella, or beautiful altar,
but Orabilia, a praying woman. In its
Anglacised form of Orabel it was much
more common in the thirteenth century
than at present. Maurice has nothing
to do with Mauritius, or q Moor, but
comes from Almaric -himmelreich-
the kingdom of heaven.
Ellen is the feminine of Alain, Alan
or Allan, and has no possible connec-
ton with Helen, which comes from q
different language, an older by at least
LOCO years. Amy is not from AIMEE,
but from annie. Ayice, or Avis, does
not exactly mean advice, as some seem
to think. It comes from Edwis, and
means happy wisdom. Eliza has no
connection with Elizabeth. It is the
sister. of Louisa, and both are the
daughters Of Heloise, which is Helewis,
hidden wisdom. There is, indeed,
another form Of Louisa, or rather
Louise, which is the feminine of Louis,
but this was scarcely heard of before
the sixteenth century.
The older Heloise form of the name,
Alolsa, Aloisia or Aloysia, was adopted
into medieval English as Alesia a
name which our old genealogists al
ways confused with Alice. Emily and
Amelia are not different forms Of one
name. Emily is from Emylia, the
name Of an Etruscan gems; Amelia
comes from the Gothic amala, heaven
II. Reginald is not derived from Regi-
ma, and has nothing to do with a queen.
It is Rem-alt, exalted purity. Alice,
Adelais, Adelaide, Aliza, Alix and Ade-
line are all forms of one name, the
root Of which is adel, noble. But Anne
was never used as identical with Annis
or Agnes (of which last the old Scottish
Annis is q Variety !; nor, as I sturdily
maintained, was Elizabeth ever synony-
NOUS with Isabel. Notes and Queries.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1884-12-24
Children in the Studio.

A great many little children come to
my studio to have their portraits paint
ed. II they are old enough to talk and
ask questions, they wish to look ut my
easel and at my palette. The easel IS
sort OF standing frame, which has q
movable shelf to hold tho canvas on
which the picture is painted, and q
crank, by turning which you can raise
or lower the she'll.
Then the palette is q thin mahogany
board with hole for the thumb, SO
that may hold it easily and handful
OF brushes as well. On my palette
put fourteen colors, squeezing them out
OF little tin tubes, in which they are
put up and sold to artists.
When the palette is ready and the
canvas on the easel, ] am ready to begin.
At first, perhaps during the first sitting,
I only play with the little child, or get
his little sister or brother to play with
him until I see some natural or pretty
movement that is picturesque. like
best to paint two children together, be-
cause that seems to me the most nat
ural way. So soon as have seen po-
sition that like, persuade baby to sit
in little chair made fast on d table
''throne" we painters call thigh
enough for me to see his face OPP
Posite mine. while / stand and walk
backward often, to get the right view
OF baby and Of the picture. T have to
keep two things in mind: first, to
paint the portrait; secondly how to
amuse the baby. II he is very little,
we generally make believe that I am q
. horse. / tie the reins around my
waist and baby drives me. When I
wish to see him laugh, / caper about
like very wild horse; sometimes I am
an omnibus horse, and stop every min
ute to take up passengers, and wheDey.
er we stop / run to my canvas and try
to get in good touch. Sometimes, IL
baby will keep very still for two OF
three minutes. reward him by being q
saddle-h0rse, and take him on my back
for gallop about the studio. All this
does not seem to leave much time to
paint, and that is just the difficulty. II
l made baby sit in his chair, tired and
worried. he might look cross. and his
papa and mamma would find my por-
trait ugly. They would say I had not
caught his sweet expression and
other people would not ask me to paint
their children. That would be very.
bad for me; therefore. be it ever 80 diff
ficult to romp and play and paint all ct
once, have learned that with patience
it can be done.-Anna Lea Merritt, in
st. Nicholas for December.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1884-12-24
The Decay OF the Dude.

The knell Of destiny has struck. and.
the dude must 90. The same cosmic
principle which folded away in the
archives Of geologic history Of the
once agile ichthyo saurus and the fero-
cious trilobite has clutched in its resist
less embrace this sweet, young species
of the genus homo, and is slowly wrap
ping it in the cerements Of tradition.
Even as q sappy, verdant fern, plucked
by some gentle maid in summer ram
bles, and pressed with care in her red
lined ..Evangeline, but forgotten
amid the ensuing gayeties of social
life, the fair, short-lived, emerald hued
dude will soon pass into oblivion. Yer
lily, all flesh is grass.
He who studies the testimony Of the
rocks soon learns how slight change
of circumstances avails to work de-
struction. Dire catastrophe, the up
heaval of an oceans bed into air, or
the submerging of continent, has, in.
deed, more than once been the abrupt
and wholesale instrument of slaughter.
Yet this is the exception and not the
rule. Nature prefers more gradual
methods. Species after species evolves,
exists, and dies. Some slight modifica-
ton of environment suHices first to
decimate and then to extinguish the
whole family.
And SO, analogy warns us. will it be
with the altogether-too-l for-any-
thing and yet ACCOMPLISHMENTS
most-appreciated dude. For change
has come not over the spirit Of his
dream; for only creatures with brains
have dreams-but over the cut Of his
trousers. Thus far it has been with
him a survival. not of the fittest, nor
of the filter, but of the fitted; very
closely fitted, too. But no longer shall
the drapery Of his neither limbs cling,
with the dhesiveness of plaster, to
his attenuated form; in the spacious
folds of the raiment which the latest
fashion DEGREES, he can but collapse
and disappear. So radical revolution
in the circumstances of his existence
he cannot hope to survive. His fate is
sealed. And with tear in the eye,
and quill over the ear, the historian
already ransacks the pigeon-holes of
sentiment and memory and prepares to
recite his career.-N. Y. Tribune.