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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1884-12-27
MINE

of choice and seasonable styles in
nobby suits and general outfttings
OF the most attractive description
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1884-12-27
Two no-top buggies at Big
He,yman's for s4s piece also
one top buggy at $50.

4 IN my mems wear department,
| you will find full line of Cloth.
ing, Hats, Caps, Boots, Shoes, Fur.
nishing Goods Gloves, Mittens,
etc. All are marked at the loves.
figures. Tho fact is, this season
my stock of Clothing and Gents
Furnishing Goods is Splendid
Those who are debating about a
change of raiment for the colder
days of Fall and Winter, will ar
rive at conclusion mighty quick
after calling on me and getting a
glimpse of the handsome fabrics /
have just unpacked from their ca
ses. | am letting them 60 for a
mere song-but for goodness sake
don't sing "Only Pansy Bios
som.' '"Big Heyman," under the
Exchange Hotel, on Front street.
You can buy good coffee at
Big Heyman's, and it will only cost
you LIZ cents pound.
F.,
&C. V. MAJORS, Esq, of Rolla,
Mo-, writes, ~ take pleasure in ad-
ding my testimony to that Of hun
dreds Of others, as to the efficacy Of
Prickly Ash Bitters. I have not
only sold it here and in Arkansas.
but have used it myself, and as 4
regulator of the stomach and bow
els, | do not think there is any
thing better. Its action on the
bowels is free, without causing any
or pain whatever.
Why, CERTAINTY !-1f it oc-
ours to you that you ought to get,
more value or better goods for your
money than you have been getting
elsewhere, or lower prices for equal
" good, come and see me at your
convenience, for / can in
terest you and guarantee to save
you money. :" Big Heyynman,, under
Exchange Hotel.
AMERICAS PRIDE. True Amer:
can men and women, by reason of
heir strong constitutions, beautiful
orms, rich, compilations and char.
'cteristic energy, are envied by all
lations. Its the general use Of Ord ,
Iarter's Iron Tonic which brings
bout these results.
As a raindrop foretell a storm,
. {. does ,e a pimple upon the human
'ody indicate Notwithstanding Vi L
US in the blood, which can be- neu-
ralized and expelled only BY DR..
1arters Iron Tonic. &
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1884-12-27
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prices that carry out to the letter
our claim as being always the Co
Ahead, Reliable, One Price Cloth
ing Establishment Of Alexandra.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1884-12-27

JOB Printing neatly executed
at this Office.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1884-04-17
He Went Into Politics.

"GOod gracious" said the grocery
man to the bld boy, Il am sorry f'r
your pa, if he has got his head set On
going into politics. l was in poll
ties one year myself. and it has taken
me five to get out and pay my debts,
apd now every ward politician owes me
for groceries. You zee, they come to
meand wanted me to run for supervi-
sor. They said | was just the man they
wanted, a man with Il large head, one
who was business man, and who
would not kick at the expenditure OF Il
few dollars when he could make a bur
rel of money. They said if ] was on
the board of supervisors | could be
placed on Il committee that handled the
funds, and | could make the purchase
of groceries and provisions for all the
county institutions, the poor house,
house Of correction, insane asylum,
hospitals, and everything, and | could
buy them at my own store at my own
price, and in two years | cOuld be rich
as any man in town. Well,l never had
proposition strike me so favoIably and
[ went in head oyer appetite. For Il
month went around our ward night
and day, spending money, and the poll
ticians came to the store and traded
while l was out, and had it charged,
and when the caucus was held | only
got one vote for supervisor, and | voted
that myself. Well,the politicians tried
to explain to me, but bought revol-
yer, and they kept away. Do you know
the next day after the caucus didli'
have twenty dollars worth OF groceries
in the store. and The clerk was dying OF
lonesumeness?" ?"-Pcck'S San.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1884-04-17
Quiet was Restored.

Mrs. Daintywell, one of the neatest
and most particular" OF women,
would always say to her husband when
he was run Cverby stage on Broad
way, or something of that kind, and
people should iTd that you had on a
shirt You had worm for a week !
should just die If notification"
One day Mr., Ddintywe!l really met
with the predicted accident, and was
brought home mon a convenient shut
ter. His wife rlshed to the door when
she saw him coming, her face 50 pale
that heI husbanl, who was fully con-
scious, feared tat she was going to
faint.
"Cheer up, ny dear" he cried. 'I
stepped into annnsuSpected hatchwly,
and had quite afall but dOn'C worry
-"I had IN Il cean shirt !"
1t is needless.o add that this quite
restored her conposure.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1884-04-17
STRAW FOR FUEL.

Eyes, I've lived out West ten
years, F." said a traveller, who was beard
ed like a forty-niner, 81 mean on the
prairies of Newbraska. Great coun-
try, too"
"What did the folks do for fuel ?''
"Well, nowadays we're following af-
ter the r ,oshuns, the Rooshun Men
nonites, You KNOWN the fuel business
They are right smart and ingenious in
some things. and this is the way they
get over the fuel difficulty
"Fhey build their houses OF four
rooms, all cornering together in the
center Right there they puc up a
great brick oven, with thick walls.
From the furnace door back to the
backyard is passageway. Every
morning, noon and night they Ing
jag of straw in from tie stack and
burn it in the furnace. The thick
brick wa Is get red hot, and stay so for
hours, warming every room in the
house. Even in the coldest weather
three fires q day in The furnace will
keep the house warm. For the cook
ing stoves W barn cornstalks ID get
meals with, aud thus our farms raise
our fuel as we 60 along. Pretty good
scheme, ain't it ?n
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1884-04-17
Not a Ls1ghing Matter.

a woman sbod at the front gate
watching her leighbor's dog coming g
down the stree with a Kettle tied to
his tail. 1t amused her vastly.
Presently theOwner of the dog Sour
ried in hot pursuit., whereupon the
woman at the Sate laughed gleeful
unneighborly laugh.
Then alittlepoy rounded the corne
with a bright innocent look upon his
face, us whoslpnld say: "I-am-On-
an-errand- -fCr-my-d ear-ma, so
don't-detah-
He stoppd and said to the woman at
the gate:
"What an you laughln' at?"
She replied with hilarity: "I'm
laughiD' at old Bullrag'S dog with a
kettle tied tdhls tail.'
It's awfufunny, ain't it?" the lit.
tie boy said, S he hurried on. The
kettle is youn."
Then the wman at the gate suddenly
stopped Laughing. Phtla. Etv. Call.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1884-04-17
A Very S I'd Story.
What Rum will co to De-
grade and Destroy Men.

Gohn Il. Cough tells the following:
"A minister of the gospel told me
one Of the most thrilling incidents
haYe heard in my life. A member of
his congregation came home for the
first time in his life intoxicated, and
his boy met him upon the door step,
clapping his hands and exclaiming,
"Papa has come home!' He seized the
boy 10y the shoulder, swung him around,
staggered and fell in the hall. That
minister said TO me, 81 spent the night
in that house. / went ont, barred my
brow that the night air might fall upon
it and co it. l walked up and down
the hill. There was the child, dead |!
there was his wife in strong convul-
tions, and ne asleep" A man Of about
thirty years asleep, with dead child
in the house, having mark upon his
temple where the corner CT the marble
steps had come In contact with his
head as he swung him around, and
wife upon the brink OF the grave "Mr.
Cough" said my friend, Il cursed the
drink. lie had told me that | must
remain until he awoke. and L did,"
When he woke he passed nis hand over
his face and exclaimed, "What is the
matter? where am l? where is my boy !?
You cannot see him" "Stand ont Of
the way, will see my boy" To pre-
vent confusion | took him to the child's
bed, and as turned down the sheet and
showed him the corpse he uttered
wild shrek, "Ah, my child!" That
minister said further to me, Zone year
after that he WAS brought from the
lunatic asylum to lie besides his wife in
the grave, and I attended his funeral; :;
The minister of the gospel who told
me that fact is today drunken host
Ter in stable in Boston. Now,tell me
what rum will not do. It Will debase,
degrade, imbrute and damn everything
that is noble. bright, glorious and God
like IN human being. There is moth.
ihg that drink will not do that is vile,
dastardly, ,cOwardly ,sneaking or hellish.
Why are we not to fight till the day of
our death 2"
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1884-04-17
BLUSHING AND LYING.
The Popular Error That the One is
an Index Of the Other.

"But didn't you see him blush ?"
"Well, what of that 20
Don't you think he was lying 20
mo, | don't. | know he was tell
ing me the square truth"
''Do YOU know the circumstances ?''
eyes. and know he told them just
as they were"
''It sounded like lie, anyway"
"That is why lie blushed," SAID Mr..
Denison,a weil-known Chicago lawyer,
for this talk was taking place in his Of
flee just after the departure Of a young
man who had been sued and was seek
ing advice from his attorney.
81 venture to say no man has had
more trouble than I with bushes, and
| think l know some of the causes be-
hind them. You may have noticed
that | blush on every conceivable occa-
sion. If IA question is put to me quick
ly, lush. If meet friend slap on
the street-uuless | see him some time
before | reach him-I blush. If any
body speaks my name from behind or
from some unexpected quarter blush.
As much as have been before iuries,
| blush every time an opposing advO-
cate refers To me as the learned coun-
sci for the defense.' Hang | blush
on all sorts of occasions, and yet l don't
believe that anybody would say [ am
an especially modest or bashful man."
"No, sir" continued the old attor-
ney, Il have blushed and blushed all
my life, and the more | blush the more
try not To, aud tie more | try not 10
the more l blush. Above al, the
meanest blush is just such one as you
saw on that young mans face just
now. TknOw just how he felt He
knew he was telling pretty hardstory,
and he could see in your face that you
didu't believe him. That's why he
blushed. If he had been talking to me
alone he would not have blushed, be-
cause he knows am familiar with the
circumstances he related but You
looked doubtingly at him, aud he
felt the mistrust 50 keenly that it
brought the blood to his face.'i
After a little pause Mr.. Denison con-
tinued
II never pay the least attention to
bushes when examining "a witness.
The blush is not, as is too often belev-
ed: the evidence of lie Nor is itea
true signal of embarrassment. | know
that, for have been told that | wa
blushing purple when was as calm
and Upembarrasse1 rs | am at this mo-
ment. There are many causes for my
bushes ; some Of them purely physical
| think ; but often when | am telling
something some little personal recol.
lection, perhaps. that amounts TO moth
ing-I get it in my head that some
body donhts some part of If. Then |
blush. Then feel that I am b'nshing
and say to myself. Now he will see
me blush and will he sure to think |
am lying, and that makes me- blush all /
the more, until finally | can feel my
face burn and glow like coal, and l !
say to myself, Now he is sure am
living, and he thinks know he is sure /
Of it, and so | stand and hlnsh because |
| think he doubts me until, perhaps, | |
really make him doubt me because of
my bldshes."
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1884-04-17
In a Boudoir.

What has become of Miss Lulu,
who was always such a favorite in
your set?'
Her father failed some weeks ago,
and all they had was sold by the sher-
iff.
Poor thingp
And now they have to live in a
small rented house down town.
What a change! How she must
grieve!'
Yes. She is so much changed that
even her best friends would not reco-
gnize her. I met her on the street to-
day and did not know her at all, poor
thingp
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1884-04-17
Teach Your Boys.

Teach them that a true lady may
be found in calico quite as frequently
as in velvet.
Teach them that common school
education, with common sense, is bet
ter than college education without
it.
Teach them that one good, honest
trade is worth dozen professions.
Teach them that honesty is the
best policy'-that it is better to be
poor, than rich on profits of crooked
dealing.
Teach them to respect their elders
and themselves.
Teach them that, as they expect to
be men some day, they can not too
soon learn to protect the weak and
helpless.
Teach them that to wear patched
clothes is no disgrace, but to wear
black eyeis.
Teach them that God is no respec-
ter of sex, and that when he gave the
seventh commandment hemeant it for
them as well as for their sisters.
Teach them that by indulging their
depraved appetitss in the worst forms
of dissipation, they are not to become
the husbands of pure girls.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1884-04-17
SOMEBODY'S CHILD

Just picture Of somebody's child,
Sweet face set in its golden hair,
Violet eyes aud cheeks OF rose,
Rounded chin, with dimplr there.
Tender eyes where the shadows sleep,
Lit from within by a secret ray,
Tender eyes that will shine like stars,
When love and wOmanhoOd come this way.
Scarlet lipS with 4 story TO tell:
Blessed be he who shall iudit out!
Who shall learn theeye deep secret wei,
And read the heart with never douyt!
Then you viii tremble, scarlet lips!
Then you will crimson, ,lovlieSt cheeks!
Eyes will brighten and bushes will burn
When the one true lover bends and speaks.
But she's only child now, rs You see;
Only child in her careless grace;
When love and wOmanh Od come this way
Will anything sadden the flower-lke face?
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1884-04-17
An Object Lesson.

An object lesson in the transmuta
ton Of virtues is conveyed in thiA
paragraph from an exchange: Tenny-
son can take a worthless sheet of pa
per, and by writing poem on it
makes it worth So, 600. That's genius
Vanderbilt can write a few words on a
sheet and make it worth So, 100000.
That's capital. The United States can
take an ounce and a quarter of gold
and stamp upon it an eagle bird and
make it $40 That's money. The me
chanic can take the material worth s.
and make in into watch worth 500.
That's skill. The merchant can take
an article worth % cents, and sell it
for 81. That's business The ditch
digger works ten hours a day, and
shovels out three or four tons of earth
for 50. That's labor.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1884-04-17
MILLHEIM PA, THURSDAY, APRIL IL, 1884.

The wretched Jean had mace good use
of his five minutes grace. Tie had
emptied the keg of brandy upon a heap
of tarred rope and already the entire
hold was in flames. How was Pierre
to quench the flre ? Five man would
not have sulllced for that
Then Pierre set down on the bench at
the stern and mechanically seized the
tiller, clnging instinctivrly to the life
he was about tn quit. Almost at once
Che wind had fallen. The sea was yet
disturbed , but its fury had vislbly weak.
ened.
Pierre remained upon the bench as if
stupeded, hearing the plank partitions
crack beneath him aS the fige gnawed
them. Suddenly a JET Of red dimes es-
capped through the open hatchwaY. The
deck was burning.
FIom minute to minute tho fire in
creased. Shortly before the sea sweep
ing over the smack would have extin-
guished or at least, fought it. Now,
having doubtless escaped from the fu-
rious hurricane, the vessel no longer
shipped water. 1t went along inert,
tossed from wave to wave, plunging
and coming up again, sending forth, as
each succeeding billow lifted it, a blind
ing plume of lire.
The remainder of the wind that was
blowing coming from behind, it was to
the fore Of the smack that the flames
made headway. For the half hour his
agony had lasted Pierre had re mained
motionless. staring around him at the
bloody light with which the blazing
smack empn;pled the waves. Now,
suddenly, feeling the approaching fire,
he threw himself upon his knees, made
the sign of the cross and fell fat on the
deck, his face against the burning
plAnks.
How long did he lie there in the tor
por of his mute resignation A few
minutes perhaps. Suddenly shouts
burst upon his ear. He raised his
head there, very near him, a boat
manned by fonr sailors was coming on
as rapidly as oars could bring it, fan
tastically Illuminated by the wild glare
of the FIRE.
"Ho, there ~ cried a voice.
Pierre opened his lips TO reply. But
jast at that moment, he felt the smack
sink under him aud flood of salt wa
ter roughly filled his mouth and ears.
Pere Landure's vessel plunged down
ward, bow first.
When he came to himself, lying upon
his back in the lifeboat, Pierre saw
huge bearded face bending oyer him.
As he opened his eyes the face sp Ike.
1T was lucky FIR you, my boy, that
your smack caught fire ! Had i5 not
been for that we should never Lave
seen you amid tie thick darkness.
x
When Pierre, year later, married /
Marie, he told hr the story of that ter
rible night.
"He was ba( fellow, that Jean"
said he ''dont ,on think so, my love |
Still it is becaus, he tried TO kill me /
that am alive p-day :"
IF you thik proper, my own
Pierre" said Mrie, 1--WE will burn a
wax candle for his poor soul !"
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1884-04-17
HUMOROUS.

PROFESSIONALISM can You say in
regard to the articulation Of the
bones?' Student (doubtfully)--"T
don't think they articulate very much.
There are some marriages which re-
mind us Of the poor fellow who said,
"She couldn't get any husband, and I
couldn't get any wife, so we got mar
ried.'
"A poet sends a contribution entitled
why do l live?' That is easy to
answer. 1t is because he sends his
contributions to this Office instead of
bringing them in person.
An Illinois girls heart il located on
the right side, and she says she can
not imagine how it came so, unless it
was squeezed over there from her
young mans habit of always hugging
with the right arm.
'Hello!' said the policeman. What
are you sitting out here in the cold
for? Why don't you go in the house;
have you lost your night key?' No.,
responded the disconsolate citizen, 4
-hic-havn't lost ther key. I've
hic-lost ther key-hole.'
Can you give me a little money
on that account of yours this morn
ing?' "No,I don't believe / can this
morning. 'Well, viii you appoint
time when you can? You have traded
with me a good deal, and have never
paid me cent 81 know it. I am
free-trader.'
L don't see how you can endure
that Pity girl, jack" said bis sister.
'I'm sure there's nothing in her.
Nothing in her, indeed! / just wish
you'd been with US to supper after the
theatre tonight and he dropped a
tear over his buried salary.
She-'Only give up smoking for
one year, and | have no doubt you
will never touch tobacco again He
We'll, / don't know; / did not smoke
once for fifteen years, and then I be-
gan and enjoyed it hugely She
For fifteen yearsl You must have
been very young when you began.
He-I was fifteen
Dr. Perry late bishop of Melbourne,
u sed to relate that on one of his official
rounds he was dining at a settlers
cabin lin the bush, his plate became
empty on the solitary vege able COM
prised in the primative bill Of fare;and
then one of his hosts juvenile sons
Lord and God to be in
terchangeable terms, and having heard
the guest addressed as my Lord
piped out Pa, won't God have some
more potatoes?'
Podgers rushed into the sanctum
Of the Hammertown Bugle for satis-
faction; and as he came out, and mon
opolized the stairway at one jump, be
exclaimed: Jewhilikensl but the very
chair that editor sits on is a revolverI'
A Jerseyman was once thrown one
hundred and fifty feet by an express
rain; when he picked himself up, look
ed around for his hat, and remarked,
Well, if don't find that er hat I'll
make the company pay for it,
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1884-04-17
THE IMPOSSIBLE.

Men canuot draw water from an empty well,
Or trace the stories that gOssps tell,
Or gather the sounds of peallng bell.
Man never can stop the billowS roar,
Nor chain the winds till hey blow M more,
Nor drive true love from maiden's doora
Men cannot O'ertake a fleeting lie,
Change his wheat to a field OF rye,
Or cal back years that have long gone by,
Man never can bribe old Father Time,
Gain the height of Il peak that he cannot elimb,
Or trust the hand that hath done u crime.
Man cannot cruel word recall,
Fetter 4 thought.b be il great or small,
Or honey extract from drop OF gall.
Man can never backward turn the tide,
Or count the stars that are scattered wide,
Or find in Il fool truSty guide.
Man cannot reap fruit from worthless seed
Rely for strength on the broken reed,
Or gain heart he hath caused 10 bleed.
Man never can hope true peace to win,
Pleasure without and Joy within,
Living thoughtleSS life OF sin.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1884-04-17
DEABODY HOTEL,
OthSt. South Of Chestnut,
PHILADEI PHIA.

One Square South of the New Post
Office, one half Square from Walnut
st. Theatre and in the very business
centre of the city. On the American
and European plans. Good rooms
from Scots to $500 per day. Remodel
ed and newly furnished.
w. PAINE, NJ. D.,
46-1y Owner g. Proprietor.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1884-04-17

Because a woman Figures in socie-
ty" it is no sign that she knows the
multiplication table.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1884-04-17

ADVERTISING RATES.

One inch makes square. Administrators
ana Executors Notices $50. Transient adver-
tisements and locals 10 cents per line for first
insertion and cents per line for each addition
al insertion.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1884-04-17

II subscribers order the discrimination Of
newspapers the publishers may continue 20
send them until all arrearageS are paid.
If subscribers refuse or neglect fO take tfeir
newspapers from the office to which they are sent
they are held responsible until they have settled
the bills a. d ordered them discontinued.
1t subscribers move to other places withoutin
forming the publisher. and the newspapers are
sent to the former u'ace. they are RESPONSIBLE.
Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1884-03-17

DUBLIU SALE OF HOUSEHOLD AND
i kitchen furniture, at the Delaware
House, on Market street between Fifth and
Sixth streets, on
TUESDAY, MARCH 18th, 1884,
at $50 a. M,
consisting of l parlor suit, cottage suits, bu-
reaus, bedsteads, stands. tables, chairs, look
ing glasses, 10 feather beds, holsters and pill
lows, 10 chamber sets. good clock, ingram
and rag carpet, Happy Thought range, s
parlor stoves, window shades, oil cloth, tin
glass, china and queensware, bar fixtures,
and great many articles not herein men
toned.
P.S. Also, bay mare, years old, IL sorrel
mare, years old. Both are sound and gen.
tie and good drivers. DRAKE & CO.,
ml52t AuctiOneers.
Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1884-03-17

DUBLIC SALE OF HOU SEHOLD AMI
II Kitchen Furniture at the Swan Hotel
between Market and Shipley streets, on
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18TH, 1884,
at O'Clock, q. IN.
Consisting of l hair cloth parlor suit,
marble top table, l sidebosrd, extension
table, 9 feet; 10 single bedstead, spring and
mattresses, 10 double bedstead, spring and
mattresses, 20 wash stands, 20 towel racks, 20
bureaus, J wardrobe, 10 window shades, 20
looking glasses, 4S cane chairs, 3 dining room
tables, l cupboard, ice, boz, lot Of feather pill.
lows and holsters, brussels ingram and rag
carpet, No. 9 Collins X Burgie range and
fixtures, 8 parlor stoves, bar and fixtures, tin,
glass, queenswsre, and q great many articles
not mentioned.
p. S.-Also bay mare, six years old, good
driver, l carriage and harness. good COW.
JOHN DUNN.
Drake 4 Co., Aucts. MIDST