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The Cheerful Face.

Next to the sunlight of heaven is
the sunlight Of a cheerful face. 1t
may be a plain face, but then there
is something in it which we cannot
feel we cannot express and its cheer
full smiles sent the blood dancing
through our veins for very joy. We
run toward the sun, and its warm,
genial influences strengthen and re-
fresh our fainting spirits. All, there
is world of magic in the plain
cheerful face 1t charms us with a
magic spell of eternity and we would
not exchange it for all the soulless
beauty that ever graced the fairest
form on earth.
1t may be very little one that we
nestle upon our bosoms or sing to
sleep in our arms with low, sweet
lullaby: but it is such a fright and
cheerful face. The scintillations Of
joyous spirits are flashing from eve
ry feature. And what a power it
has over the household binding each
heart together in tenderness, love
and sympathy. Shadows may dark
en- around us, but somehow this face
shines between, and the shining is
so bright that the shadows cannot
remain and silently they creep away
into the dark corners, where the
cheerful face is gone.
1t may be wrinkled face, but it
is all the dearer for that, and none
the less bright. We linger near it
and gaze tenderly upon it. and say:
"God bless the happy face!' We
must keep it as long as possible. for
home will lose much Of it's brightness
when that sweet face is gone. And
after it has gone how the remem-
brance Of it, purifies and softens our
hayward nature When care and
sorrow would snap our heart strings
assunder, this wrinkled face looks
down upon US, and the painful ten
sion grows lighter, the way less
heavy.
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The sky is clouded; the rocks are bare;
The spray ofthe tempest is white in the
air;
The winds are out with the waves at
play
And | shall not tempt the sea to-day.
The trail is narrow; the wood Is dim;
The panther clings to the arching limb !;
And the lions whelps are abroad at
play
And ! shallnot join the chase to-day.
But the ship sailed safely over the sea,
And the hunters came from the chase in
glee;
And the town that was built upon a
rock
Was swallowed up in the earthquake
shock. Bret Harte.
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willing To Shake the Judge
Fer IL.
Texas Siftings.

He was In the police court. The
Judge said II shall give you your
choice; you can either work ten days
on the street or pay a fine Of $50. y
"What ~ calculated the prisoner,
''work on the road ten days or pay a
fine of $40! don't see any choice
there, boss. I'll tell you what will
do. I'll shake the dice with you,
best two horses out of three, to see
whether l work on the road ten days
or you pay me $50. But the way
you put it, there amt no chance for
me. / can't take no such risks as
that, Judge; / can't on my honor as
a gentleman" But he did.
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1t disease has entered the system
the only way to drive it out is to
purify and enrich the blood. To
this end. as is acknowledged by all
medical men, nothing is better
adapted than iron. The fault hith-
ertO has been that iron could not be
so prepared as to be absolutely harm
less to the teeth. This difficulty
has been overcome by the Brown
Chemical Company Of Baltimore,
Md, who offer their Browns Iron
Bitters as a faultless iron preparation
q positive cure for dyspepsia, in
digestion. kidney troubles. etc.
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In all ages ard at all times there
has been steady demand for sensi-
BILE, hard working young men. In
these days of dudes and kid glove
nonsense, however, the supply is far
below the demand, and instead of
young men with honesty, intelli-
gence and industry in their heads,
we find large number who are striv
ing constantly after social effects
and puny honors that are as shallow
as the sentiment that prompts their
attainment. When q man is worth
money and desires to loaf it is all
right for him to be a fool, if he de-
sires to, and loll around languidly
like most approved aristocrat. He
has money, he must live, and he pays
his way. But for a young man in
moderate circumstances, to say the
least, it is bad taste indeed to ape
the aristocratic idea, and it is fatal
TO all interests, national and social,
to have them waste their time on
style, fashion and foolishness. Such
men are puppets, to be knocked
about as the will Of their superiors
may indicate. 1t is also to be de-
plored that while the majority of
young men who 60 astray in this
vain race for fashion are nincom
poops and numskulls, there is sig
nificant number among the foolish
who are capable of better things.
1t is therefore all the more lamenta.
BILE to see brains and muscle going to
the wall for the lack Of proper ad-
vice or direction III our young men
of brains could only be made to see
that worldly success depends on the
forming, early in life, OF sound bust
ness principles, and their constant,
rigorous observance, the good things
OF this life would be more evenly
balanced among men, and there
would be more domestic happiness
and solid social enjoyment for ALL
AS 1t is, the grand results reaped
from sobriety, enterprise, brains and
painstaking effort are achieved and
enjoyed only by the sensible few,
and so long as young men blindly
follow the bent of foolish indulgence
and petty pleasure this hard work
ing few will continue to gather un-
to themselves the golden sheaves of
success. A man cannot be a man
and a dude at the same time. A poor
man cannot wear kid gloves and
promenade the street. There is no
character in loafers and hangers on.
What the age and the nation wants
is character, time-tried and fre.test-
ed; and to character, labor and snap
the nation will deliver her wages, be-
cause the laborers Of a people are al
ways worthy their hire. Wake up,
young mani Go to work and make
your mark.
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M ARTINSBURG INDEPENDENT.

an Albany horse carr Louise turn
ed pale, but made no reply.
Can the reader guess why, as the
ten years had nearly passed since she
wrote that note to the car driver, she
appeared absent minded, was start
led by any noise; that she took extra
pains in crimping her hair and max
ing herself aseattractive as possible.
She had not heard one word from
Henry Martin since he left Albany,
and did not know whether he was
dead or alive. She had frequently
seen notices of the talented young
preacher of the same name who had
created such a furore in Chicago, but
she never mistrusted that he was the
one whose return she longed and
prayed for. One afternoon there
came a knock at the door, which
she answered and ushered gentle
man into their little parlor, as he in
quired for her father, who would be
in shortly. Louise is startled by
something in this stranger which
reminds her of Henry Martin.
She almost stared at him to see il
it is possible that he is relative of
the car driver. No, she says to her.
self, it cannot be. What magnifi-
cent bearing this gentleman has.
He is the picture of health. His
dark, auburn hair is brushed back
from high classic forehead. He is
tall and thin, but is very erect and
has square shoulders. His voice is
deep and mellow, and though his
eyes are piercing, there is an express
sion on his face as tender as a wo-
mans. In a calm. dignified way he
inquiries: Ibid you ever know car
driver by the name of Henry Mar
tin 2" Before she could answer the
tears involuntary filed her eyes:
With trembling voice he inter
rupts her and says: "It is now four
O'Clock; ten years ago, at this very
hour, Henry Martin received your
precious note. Are you willing to
see him to-day, or" before he could
finish the sentence she had her arms
about his neck, and says, II knew
you would return to me-"
When the Rev. DR.. Martin return
ed from his vacation he brought his
wife with him, and to-day in a city
still further west, where he is the
leading clergyman, he shows me a
pretty locket containing some dried
flowers, which he said were forget
me-nots, and introduces me to his
wife, one of the lovliest ladies l have
ever seen. Will Albany readers re-
cognize this very happy couple ?
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| would recommend Ely's Cream
Balm to any one having Catarrh or
Catarrhal Asthma. Ibave suffered
for five years so l could not lie down
for weeks at a time. Since i have
been using the Balm I can lie down
and rest. / thank God that you
ever invented such q medicine. -
FRANK p. BURLEIGH, Pennington,
N. III.
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There Is No God.

There is no God, the infidel says,
and in his heart he knows he lies.
No God ! Then who spanned the
earth with the beautiful arches oil
heaven, and taught the singing birds
their happy notes Who gave the
dewdrop its varigated tints, and
created the flowers in all their many
h ues and lovliness There is no
God Whence then came the bril-
liant sun, the paleface moon, and
the myriads of twinkling, sparkling
stars that stud the skies of night and
light the heavens with their blazon.
ry? There is no God! Then home
is robbed of all its sacred ties and
love, ard remains no more the same
happy Eden it should be; then all the
teachings of the wise and just must
be recognized as mere nothingness.
There is no God The heart stands
still, the eye its brightness loses, the
stammering tongue no longer moves
to express the joy Of christian faith
and pure belief. Who sends the
springtide, with its birds and swol-
len brooks and budding nature; the
summer heavy ladened with a rich
perfume of flowers and wealth of
ripening fruits; autumn with the
plenteous harvests, the melancholy
and sombre woods, and the eddying,
drifting leaves, and old winter with
his white shroud like ermine, and
mournful winds and beating halls,
il there is no God? III there is no
God we would live in vain; would
have no desire to do good; would feel
no interest in the pure and holy
things Of life. All the beautiful
would become ugly; all our happiness
would turn to misery-man would
be beast and philosophy mere
myth Who created the world from
chaos and set it in motion. No pow
er Of man could do it. Could he, in
all his boosted power and strength,
amid the war of elements, the wreck
of matter and the crush of WORLDS
deny that there is a God
There is no God The stars, one
by one, go out; the flowers die, the
fields are covered with rank and
poisonous vegetation, the birds per-
ish, the heart is sad and weary. No
God The winds are still, all ma
ture fades, the love we feel. the pride
and honor Of manhood perish too.
There is no God The laughing
brook is hushed and still, the moon
sails through the skies of blood-the
world is no more. What awful
thoughts, what disturbing, dreadful
dreams. "Oh, judgment, thou hast
fled to british beasts, and men have
lost their reason!"
There is a God! His tender love
isknown to us all; Hisgentle pleading
for our souls has been felt by us all.
On every hand we see His wisdom,
glory and power, and He shall always
reign supreme-even after the earth
and her teeming inhabitants have
passed away, and the sands of Time
shall cease to fow-after eternity
shall dawn with its terrible realities.
There is a God, kind loving, tender,
Who regulates creation and blesses
mankind with His love. We cannot
behold Him, but He lives and until
the Judgment day remains cnveloped
in that glory, power and wisdom
which hides Him from the mortal
eye. - Grant Pitzer.
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My son, aged nine years, was af-
flicted with Catarrh; the use of Ely Is
Cream Balm effected a complete
cure.-W. E. HANNAH, Druggist,
Easton, Pa 80 cts. package. See
adv't.l
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TITO those who are the lovers Of Sir
Il Walters need, we ask triakcf
our genu inc Graverly--it is all that we,
clam for 1.-THE best. ..
JOS. FL. SHAFEXR
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a FEW PAIR Of choice woog
"A blankets very cheap to close ous.
at DE TRICKS.
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BURKHART & co. are gsttip ~
ready for the Fall trade. New gcSds
all the time: Au 16th-etE
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1884-02-19

List of Thirty Jurors to serve during
the Second Week Of the April Term
District Court, beginning said SER
vice on Monday, April 18th, 1884.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1884-02-19

List of Thirty Jurors to serve during
the Third Week of the April Term
District Court. said service beginning
April 2lst. 1854.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1884-02-19
CLOTHING

ready on February goth, 1884:
Our stock will be unusually large
and attractive, and will comprise the
very latest styles Or garments for
this season. The goods are made
up in the very best manner, OF stan
dard fabrics and of desirable de-
signs and colors. Our long expe-
rienee in the business, aided with
additional force, warrants the asser-
ton that our stock of Clothing, Hats
and Furnishing Goods, etc., is I'M
surpassed in this market.
AS heretofore, our business will
be conducted on the one price sys-
tenn. Thanking you for past tavors
we solicit continuance OF same at
our new stores, Nos. 20, 81 and 33
Canal, Cor. North Peters Street.
Very respectfully,
G. LAZARD & Co.
Dar N. B. Samples and rules, Tor
measurement sent on application.
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JURY LIST.
STATE OF LOUISIANA, I
PARISH OF RAPIDES. !

PARISH OF RAPIDEs.
DEIT KNOWN AND REMEMBER
y ed that on this the 30th day of
January, A. y. 1884. that we the un-
designed Jury Commissioners III and
for the said Parish and State, duly APP
pointed and sworn according to law,
togethey wi1h George o. Watts, Clerk
of tue 18th Judicial District Court IN
and for the said Parish and State, and
ex-otficio member of said Jury Com
mission, who was also sworn as the
law directs, did meet in the Clerks OF
flee in the Court House, Town of Alex
andria. La, under provisions OF Legs
lative Act No. A, approved March 1th,
1877, aud did then and there draw
from the General Venire Box the
names of one hundred and ten llloJ
qualified electors to serve as jurors at
and during the ensuing jury tern OF
the April District Court, beg'nhing tne
LIST Monday aud the 7th day OF April
A. D. 1884 -
Names of Fifty Jurors to serve during
the First Week April Term District
Court, Monday I, 1854.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-05-22

when he suddenly shot himself. No other
reason except that he was insane was
given for the act.
A LARGE number of land seekers from
the Northwest were in Western Tennessee
lately looking for locations.
A SPECIAL from Cheraw, s. c., says: W.
Began Cash. the fugitive murderer of Mar
shall Richards, was killed the other morn
ing while resisting arrest by posse in
charge of Deputy Sheriff King. One of the
posse was slightly wounded, and one of
Cash's associates was seriously wounded.
A RUssELLvILLE,A Ark, special says: The
horses attached to wagon containing
wedding party ran away, throwing four
persons out, killing Mrs. Peller aud danger
ously wounding Mrs. Albert Lyons.
The Fourth Quadrennial General Con
ference of the Methodist Church met at
Baltimore, Nd, recently, with Rev. DR..
McElroy, of Michigan, as President. One
hundred and ninety delegates were pres
ent.
A MAN named Kuykendall and two
brothers named Pope were lynched in
Howard County, Ark, the other day for
the murder of a peddler named Ward.
The crime was one of great atrocity, the
BODY being burned.
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In New
amount of money when Nc ~.---.
Hoefer and has wife only recently returned
from Germany.
LoRDST. LEoNARDs, of England, arrested
on charge of assaulting maid servant
of his host, demands trial by his peers.
TIE Treasurer of the United States for
warded 5000, 600 in legal tenders to the
Assistant Treasurer in New York, recently,
| for use in case of necessity.
A NEPHEW of Henry Ward Beecher was
| a member of one of the firms that failed In
New York during the recent panic.
TIE Secretary of the Navy re-
Gently received telegram from Commo'
dore Batcheler, commanding the Galena
at Key West, Saying the threats against
the life of the Spanish Consul at that place
were made in a bar-room by two or three
drunken Cubans, but that neither the Con
sui nor the authorities there attach mucf
importance to them.
A DENNIsoN, Tex, special says:
freight on the Missouri Pacific was deraile'
near the city limits and the fireman, en-
pineer and brakeman seriously injured.
A TORNADO, on the 18th, was reported Z
have done considerable damage in tn
vicinity of Quincy, III.
TIE Stadt Theater at Vienna was no
totally destroyed. The library and som
vardrobes were saved by iron doors.
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the plumbers of drug clerks. One of the
latter has been held for murder.
A CONSTRUCTION train and q freight
train collided on the Baltimore & Ohio on
the morning of the Ath near Connellsville,
Pa The construction train was conveying
some day laborers to work when the &C.
cideut occurred. Immediately after the
accident the wreck caught fire, and when
the debris was cleared away the charred
and mangled bodies of fourteen or fifteen
persons killed were discovered. Twelve
others were injured, some badly.
The tobacco-growers of New England
have started a movement to secure the re-
peal Of all internal revenue taxes on their
product, and they expect aid from Southern
and Western politicians and tobacco men.
THE remains of Charles O'Conor were
buried from the Cathedral at New York,
on the 10Th.
The machinery of the Mount Washing
ton inclined plane at Pittsburgh, Pa, be-
came disarranged, recently, and several
persons were injured.
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the mouth Of the st. Law,

the mouth of the st. Law.
MEcHANIcsvILLE, n. Y, depot was ue-
stroyed by fire the other night.
TIE Murraysville riot cases came to q
close at Greensburg, Pa, by Judge john
ston ordering q change of venue to Allie
gheny County for Milton Weston, OF Chi
cago; Colonel Blskely, of Pittsburgh; A.
n. Bower of Irwin Station, and Johnston,
Mcfarland, Remaley and Miller, of Green's
burg. The remaining sixteen persons, who
prefer to be tried in Westmoreland County,
cannot have their trials until after the Al
1egheny trials
The reported defalcation in the Second
National Bank in New York was denied
by President Emo.
AT the church extension meeting OF the
Methodist Church at Philadelphia recently
Sol, 900 were raised to build churches on
the frontier.
JUDGE WALLACE, of New York, has re-
moved Shipping Commissioner c. c. Dun
can for not having properly performed his
duties, and appointed James c. Reed in his
place.
A HIGH-PREssURE boiler exploded in the
Pennsylvania Railway machine shops a
Altoona, Pa, recently. The two firemeI
were blown to atoms, one of them not be
ing found at all. A sick man lying in be-
in an adjoining tenement house was strucl
by a piece of the flying wreck and fatal.
injured. Two little girls were also il
-ured.
WITHIN a few days q woman and chill
t Pittsburg, Pa, have lost their lives o
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WASHINGTON NOTES

As PASSED by the Senate there is added
to the Indian Appropriation bill about
$4,000 more than the amount reforted by
the Senate Committee ON Appropriations.
TIE American Fish Culture Association
began ats thirteenth annual session at the
National Museum building, Washington,
on the 18th.
The Comptroller Of the Currency ap-
pointed Walter S. johnson Receiver of the
Marine National Bank, of New York.
johnson was Receiver of the National
Bank of the State of Missouri at st. Louis
The House Committee On Elections in
the contested election case Of English VS..
Peelle, of Indiana. decided by a vote of five
20 three to report I'm favor of English.
Those voting in favor of English were ].
j. Adams, Lowery, Robinson, Converse
and Bennett. Those in favor of Peele,
Hart, Pettibone and Hesburn.
The President has issued a proclama-
ton restoring to the public domain the
lands set apart by the executive order as a
reservation for the Jeirell Apache Indians
In the Northwestern part of New Mexico,
embracing 3O0, 900 acres.
TIE House Committee on Judiciary has
decided that Congress has no legal right
to declare forfeiture of the land grant of
the New Orleans, Baton Rouge & Vicks-
burg Railroad Company.
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Another nianaond-

| MILWAUKEE,, May IA rumor was cur.
rent that two,Other large diamonds had been
I found in the diggings near Eagle, in thi.
! State. Thereporf was Only partially true.
Mr.. northumberland a correspondent thai
one small diamond of the same shape but
| lighter in color, and, a. half carat in weight,
had been found. The stone was exhibited
and found to be severA shades lighter. The
'~1- was found In the same hole as the
depth of twenty feet The
K down fo-ty-five feet. II
Ill., 'Nr to that in which
first one Should be
SHAFT hao Oeen .-aI s;,,u,, shaG
4 S.'c other stones were fosnr M tns
struck it was tie plan to direction dir from the
and theft drift in e-,'s u
lain
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Those Spiked Cannons.

AUsroN, TEX, May 1.-THE splkng q
the four cannons of the Travis Light Artlit
erv has created quite stir in the commune
ty. County Attorney Dudley G. Wooten'
who lives in the neighborhood where the
cannons are located, publishes card, en-
dorsing the spiking of the cannons and re
aecting upon the officers OF the artillery
company. and also the Chief OF Police.
Mr. Wooten winds up his article by snggese
ing that the police force take turns oorin.
ont the files. 10 this Marshal Lee repnes
through an afternoon paper. He mtlma ~
that the police are near solution Ok '''
nroblem of who spiked the guns.
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I'D vIgIIau~-
had disappeared.
COLONEL. A. S. JOHNSON, Land Comm
,ioner for the Atchtson, Topeka q Santa
Fe Railroad Company, left Topeka IN
;pecial car with party of ladies and gen
;iemen for tie City of Mexico, on three
weeks trip.
THOMAS J. WHITE, a quarryman, Was
recently run over by the cars at Argentine
Both his legs were separated from ms oouy.
he was living when taken to the hospital
GUSTAV BEHR has been convicted OF sell,
ng LIQUOR at Salina, the trSt case iiiSatu.eu
since the ousting of Attorney Foster.
IL difference to the wish of the Board OF
Railroad Commissioners another tram mas
t,2n nut on the Southern Kansas Railroad,
making full daylight service over the en-
tire line.
JUSTIN INGERsoLL, an old resident OF
Tesyanworth, died in that city the other
iay. He had long been prominent in pub
lie matters.
THE train conveying Republican dele
rates to the National Convention at Chicago
will leave Kansas City Saturday evening
MAY 81, the fare for the round UP oeins
$685.. The train goes over the Chicago
| Rock Island & Pacific.
THE Democratic State Convention Assem-
| les in Topeka on the 18th.
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Tn. ,furraysvflIe Riot.

GREENsBURG, PA, May 1.-THE NUT
-.vsviIle riot cases came to close by Judge
Johnston ordering a change of venue to Al
legheny County for Milton weston, Q, Unf
,ago. Colonel Blakely, of Pittsburg'
A. NJ. Bower, of Irwin Station;
cd Johnston. Mcfarland, Remaley and
Miller of Greensburg. The records nave
haen cent to Allegheny County and the re
naming sixteen persons who prefer 70 Ok
tr;ad i'm Westmoreland County cannot nave
their trials until after the Allegheny trials
weston and the other incarcerated prisoner
will be removed to the Allegheny jail LID
mediately.