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The Russellville Democrat., 1884-04-24

PROSPECTUS.
The Democrat,


 Is a, Live, Local Paper, Democratic, and gives Special A.tentionto all mat ters of interest in Town and County, lending to the development of their resources, the building up of their in- dustries; tine increase of their eom- nierce and population, aad their etlu- cationai and moral advancement.
 The General News of the Day is Faithfully. Reported ain a Condensed Form, and Everything of Interest to the People lfecelyes space according Go it's impoi tance. State and Local News IS Faithfully Reported, and Questions Of Importance freely antl Icarlessly. uiscussed.l Everything pertaining 10 the Local Welfare of Ae People of Pope County. receives Special Atten- tioli. No Objectionable Reading Mat fer or Advertisements Allowed in Its Columns.
 our aim is to furnish Family Paper, such IS will be Welcomed by the old and Young in Every Household in the Land. The Cause of Education and Immigration has ever been Leading Feature, ana we shall Lose no Oppor- tuniiy to advance these Interests.
 Every subscriber to the DEMOCRAT will receive a certificate eutiiling him to participate ln our next DISTRIBU- TON OF PREMIUMS among sub scribers- Among the premiums to be gwen away will be oncof Luker, Set tie & Cos, best two-horse stecl-skien wagons, No blanks Every subscriber guafanfceQ toreceiye a prenium.
 ! Everybody will want the RTSSELT4- WILLIE DEMOCRAT the ensuing year. This will be the year that The Great Democratic Party will Trinmphantly March to the Head of tine Government. State, District. County and Township Officers will be Elected, and no one cal, afford to do without their County Paper al The price of the DEMOCRAT is sI.O0 for year Hoextra charge for the cer- tiicate in thei Distribution of Pres enfs. ~N sRE Address ]
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''AiytIlAs ! ' luIll' LITTLE ROCK & FORT SMl1H nv,
 ANpTHE LITTLE ROCK, MISSISSIPPI z ff9 RIVER AND TEsxkAS RATISY,
 TRivERsING The Great A rkansas Valley from 2 tic Indian Territory to the { MfssfssippS River.

Connections nsassc at Fort smith with stages for all points in the Indian Territory: at Van I;apsn wis. m ihs s s, als , sss hssnsisss s Russcllyiiic withthe Dardanell Russell- vile Railwuyfor DaIsianeile. lat Arsenta with ins s a aaoh aoats nort and M nolnts in Texas; also 1t Argenfa witft the Memphis and Little4sock Ruiilssad for al elnpllis and points smith Railway connects with the Little Rock, Mississippi River and Texas Railroad. forming the .Arkansasf ~ alley ifou'e.f the only line City ana the treat Sortlswesi naltc at Pine fsinn with i,sa Texas and St. Louis Hallway forall poIntsiin nolthcasterand nt Arksnsas City with all steamboAts on the Mississppi River for New Orleans, Viekspmg, Memphis stGsI ouis. Cairo. Louisville, hrst Cincsnna att. This is the. short line between Little Rock auc, all points so:'tn, east and
 For fnfsrniatioa as to rates on freight and l'"sss'Ss''' "''''s'e Asst. Franc Manager \ The Litue Rock and Fort smith Ny, has for sale ,uOl.s0e acres of the most productive land in the wpid Large qutntities Of the best cotton lands for sale in the lower Arkansas Valley. All Kinds of hard and soft timber Is founslin abundance in the conftrs traversed by this Line. For information as to land and N Land Conifpissioner.
 GOING NORTH.
 Passenger No. 2. Leaves Argcnta al, Ie 30 P. m; R,issclieiiic 4:i5'p in; Giarksviilc. 5:s5 900 D. m; arrive at Fort suith 9:i5 D. m. 7l''r
 flGoISG s0uwii q E9 aH3 < passangers No.I arrIvcs at arge.ta at 3:30 D. m. Russell tile. .l2 a Ill; Clarksviilc. ai0l .. m; Ozark. leave SAD |. in, arrive S:15 q. III, Van Buren, 40 n m; fsit susish 6.O am.
 HENRY t F !. .lSS WOOD. Ge,ld ,ll,o bHos, MET, Superintendent. Tranih Manager. ', Genera l, tsfidcs. II IiITsTyL ROCK yy4-
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Chinese Asensins Spirits.


 !. The parliamentary form of all religion, propitiation of deal ancestors, ltis well known that the worship of inc dead is the principal religion of China,'and that the other religious systems. having long yainly struggled against it, have finally givcn in, and are fain to serve as ad- iuncts to the faith which is followed by all classes. At certain seasons the propitiation of the dead forms the ocea- sion of greatzpublic festival, subscrip- tions toward which are made by every member of the community, from the richest to the poorest, each according to capacity. Each family is ex- pected toiook after its own dead, and there is no slackness of piety in this re- spect, for the foundation of the worship is terror. Rich and poor, all of them, live In aperpetual fear, not only of their own ancestors. but of other peoples. A dead Chinaman passes from the world of light of the middle kingdom to the world of darkness beyond, where, eS- cept for the darkness, everything is the same as in the world of light There is an Emperor, susnda there arc mandarins. with. the regulation buttons, deep drink ing literati, and the prescribed annual Yamens, policemen and chuck le- headed soldiers who can not pass the exanhstions. \. Ihm would he all very well if the spirits had the counter part of thepossessions they owned upon earth. This, however. they have not. They are entirely aepentient for al their comforts upon their desceudapts ip the world of light II the wsll-being of the spirits is not looked after, they come up to the world of light to aycnge them selves. es ThiSyengeance,t they naturally carry out ,fpon their own relatives first of all but they are by no means partic- ular If they come across any body else on the way. There are naturally cer- tain number who are neglected by in-
The Russellville Democrat., 1884-04-24
MEXICAN

I Mustang Liniment is without an equal. \ If pesacsrs.tcs 1.ash and muscle to the very b0fsc--malxiry the continu- ancc of pain md i-famination impos. : rfhe Brute Creation arc equally wonder. ful. Tho lIexicaa M
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-07-17
Every Chinaman a Cook.

AS every Chinaman is able to cook
his own meals in tirst-class style when
occasion requires, he stares amazed at
the lamentable ignorance of the
foreigner who does rot happen to be
walking cookery-book. 1t is at meal
time that John Chinaman displays his
extraordinary powers and capacities.
1t would be strange indeed if his place
were vacant on that occasion. When a
Chinaman has lost his appetite his case
is pronounced desperate. The great
mass of the people have only two meals
q day, though laboring men when hard
at work insist upon three square
meals. Considering the variety and
quality of the food supplied, must say
they are ineomparably better fed than
the average farm laborer have seen in
the United Kingdom. The employer
invariably finds his men in food, no
matter whether he be mandarin, trades
man, artisan or farmer, and his men
eat at one common table Bowls and
chopsticks are arranged on the bare
board. In the center of the table are
placed dishes containing picked fish,
boiled pork, some salt vegetables and
perhaps curd made of lentils. The
smell of garlic and oil is enough to
knock one down. The men sit ON
stools around the table, and if the
weather is hot, divest themselves of
every stitch of clothing save the tucked
up pants. When they are ready for the
fray, in comes a serving man, bearing
huge bucket of rice steaming hot, the
contents of which he commences to
shovel into the bowls on the table.
Each man takes his chopsticks and digs
into the central dishes and fishes ont
several Jumps of meat into his bowl.
Raising the bowl to his face, he pokes
the rice and meat into his gaping
mouth. The chopsticks are piled so
rapidly and continuously and mastica-
ton occupies so little part of the pro-
cess, that the whole basinful of rice
soon disappears as if by magic. Once,
twice, three times, perhaps, is that
bowl replenished and as quickly
emptied as before. Having reached
the limits of his capacity, he takes half
dozen whiffs from a brass hubble
bubble pipe, drinks cup or two of tea
and resumes his task or makes the
night hideous by unearthly snoring
San Francisco Chronicle.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-07-17
Won His Case.

Lawyer, meeting his client: s.Hurrahl
let me congratulate you. You are the
luckiest of mortals, and SO am /. We
have won our case in the Supreme
Court. Let US have drink''
$50 we have won. Well, I'm GLAD to
hear that, as | am somewhat hard IN
for money, and now I'll be able to
realize something at last, after having
been paying out money for the last ten
years. y
Yes, thanks to my skill and pluck
In holding out. / have obtained iudo-
ment at last. Well, you are a lucky
dog.
Eyes, but have had to wait a lone
time. and | have paid out a good deal
OF money. How much do get nowp''
''The Court DEGREES you shall receive
$1,000. The cost and my Zee will only
amount to $500. Ali you viii have to
pay me is $780,"
tGreat Caesar. must lose what little
money I've got LETTER
''Of course, you lose your money.
but console yourself. You have gained
your case. You can't expect to gain
syoEyshing. "--Tszds Sifttrak
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-07-17
FARM AND PRESIDE.

An experimenter who tried am
monia on strawberries says he had a
double crop. 1t also frightened the
flowers of crysantheums.
Delicious fruit cream is readily pre-
pared. Mix half pint of any fruit
juice, pint and q half of cream, the
juice of lemon and ten ounces OF
sugar; then whip the mixture and
serve it in glasses. Detroit Post.
DO not in feeding calves, change
too suddenly from one food to another;
and give no more than is readily eaten.
Calves, like all other young animals,
med frequent, rather than large, feeds.
- Troy Times.
The Toronto Globe says that the
wild oat is more difficult to eradicate
than the thistle. 1t comes very rapidly
to maturity, and will reseed the ground
before the grain crops are ready for
cutting. The seed is of wonderful
vitality, and remains dormant for years.
Our Swedish sisters bring US an
other mode of using pie-plant. The
red stems are stewed gently with sugar
in water enough for the consistence of
lemonade. Then strain and use the
liquid to flavor and color buildings of
corn-starch, blanc mango and the
like, to be eaten with sugar and cream.
"A high authority in cooking re-
commends that when baking a custard
you should set the basin or pudding
dish containing it into another dish filled
with hot water; this keeps the temper
ature more even, and the danger of
scorching is entirely done away with.
A more delicate flavor is insured also.
N. 7. Post
The Massachusetts Pzoughnea'a says:
"When tree becomes covered with
moss it should be scraped off, because,
if left to any extent, it sucks the life Of
the tree, and thus checks its growth
After the tree that has moss on it is
scraped, it should be well washed with
a solution of soap and water strong
enough to kill the moss. :"
An extremely poor horse is usually
a miserable one, but it is questionable
whether it is any more so than an ex-
tremely fat one. Especially is this true
where the animal is required to per-
form any amount of hard labor. While
horses need good, wholesome food, IL
should not be all of the fat-producing
kinds. The matter of feeding horses
by the majority of horse owners never
receives the attention it should. The
supply of food and the different kinds
should be varied as often as the amount
and kinds of work are changed. -NeW
England Farmer.
"A writer says that a years ex-
perience with broad wagon wheels is
conclusive as to their value. A four
inch tire will carry two tons over soft
ground with greater ease to the team
than q two and half inch tire will
carry one ton. The wheels are not so
much strained by stone and rough
tracks on the road, and the road is not
cut up, but, on the contrary, is packed
down and keeps smooth. The preva-
lent idea that the draught is increased
by widening the tire is altogether base
less; on the contrary, wide tire reduces
the draught. The extra cost of the tire
is repaid many times over every year in
the extra work that can be done by q
| team.-C CHICAGO Journal.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-07-17
Getting Ready Beforehand.

"What are you doing nowP | never
saw girl that was so continually ind
ing something to dol"
''Pm only going to sew button On
my glove. "
why, you are not going out are
you?''
"Oh. no. / only like to get things
ready beforehand; that's all. -
And this little thing that had been
persisted in by Rose Hammond until
it had become a fixed habit, saved her
more trouble than she herself had ever
had any idea of; more time, too. Ready
beforehand-try it.
AS surely as you do, faithfully, yoa
will never relinquish it for the slip-shoa.
time-enough-when-it' s-wanted way o.
doing. Young Christian.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-07-17
Medical Item.

1t often occurs that doctors do not
care to tell patients the whole truth.
An Austin doctor has very neat way
of encouraging the patient, and at the
same time he does not deviate from the
truth.
doctor, please examine my chest.
There is something the matter with my
lungs said a man far gone in con-
sumption.
The doctor examined the patient
chest, and consoled him by saying:
''You just go home and don't bother
about your lungs
us there nothing the matter with
them?'
81 don't say that there is nothing the
matter with them, but they will last
you until you draw your last breath,
and you certainly will not have any
use for them after that, - Teas
EstesaqS,
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-07-17
NATURES WONDERFUL WORKS.

never could see any good reason for
inventing all those stories about beings
called fairies and gnomes and water
mixes, who are said to dance upon the
green-sward by moonlight to the tune of
the cricket's violin, and hold their
courts in the recesses of a lily-bell, and
to whom much mischief and many Curl
GUS pranks are ascribed. | say that
could never see any good reason for
making up such tales, for, OF course,
every boy and girl knows that such
things as fairies never existed, or never
can exist. There are wonderful things
enough going on about us every day
that are true and of which we may
learn and know something.
Is there anything, for example, in
any fairy tale more beautiful and won
derful than the history of the begin
nings and the growth of flowers and
trees, and of the pretty and curious
ways in which spiders and birds and
other creatures build their homes and
provide for their young.
Think, for a moment, of the marvel
GUS changes that are going on about
you at this season of the year. A few
weeks ago the trees in the parks and
fields and woods had only bare, leafe5s
branches; now they are clothed in their
summer dress of green foliage, so thick
and heavy that the birds may hide their
nests in them, and the piercing rays OF
the sun can not find their way through.
What has wrought this wonderful
changep What power has been at work
helping the trees to put OH their sum-
mer dresses, cutting the leaves after a
thousand curious patterns hanging the
aowsr-hells 10 theE swinging green
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-07-17
WouIdn,t Take Him.

"Will this road take me to Atlanta?''
asked traveller of a cracker"
mo, sir-ree,' replied the country
man; "narry time"
That's strange" unused the first
speaker. "a man told me few hours
ago that it would
"He lied, stranger; I've been hyar
twenty Vars, and L haint seed it tuck
nobody annywhar yit; and 1 don't S pose
she ever will long as folks kin ride an
walk"
"Well, if I follow the road I'll get
there, won't II" smilingly asked the
traveller.
mot much; fer We KANT foller it,
kase she don't move, an We kaint,fol-
Ter nothin' what don't move long in
front Of yc."
But if | travel this route I'll soon
reach the city, reckon
Then ye struck it. masteri jes' keep
q moyln' the way we're g8in' an yen
git thar after while. hernia to 10. "
4AtlaHse CoaslliatioH,
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-07-17
A Large Family.

''The yellow Italian bees are gentler
than the brown wild bees; and IL IS salu
that the Italian bee has a longer pro
boscis, and so can get honey from tne
red clover which is SO abundans
hereabout 1 thought they were
better; for. when / was very
poor man, l bought an Italian queen
bee in the big city of New York, and
paid twenty dollars for her, and have
never yet repented of my extravaganza.
l have now sixty-nine hives OF pure
Italian bees. and they are all the ee-
scendants of my pretty queen. Allow
ing forty thousand bees to q sWarms
which is moderate number, it is not :
bad showing for her majesty. Let ny
see, forty thousand by sixty-nine nlaSes
we'll, at least two and half millions Y
of living descendants, besides dozens =. =.
queens | have given away, with al tn q.
descendants; these. added to the null Y.
tudes that have lived and died IN lns
meantime, must make, all together ~ ~
far from two hundred millions In tWel g,'
years. Mrs. S. B. Herrtcs, 70 y
Nicholas
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-07-17

Sixty cigars for every man. woman
and ehiN were made in and imported
into this couatry last year. Chicago
1Gmes,
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-07-17

Mrs. Plunkett of Boston has WHY
ten book urging women 70 pefVAs
plumbers,
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-07-17
Leader.

"A gentleman recently appointed
CONSERVATION of a demented Norwich
Conn., man discovered that he had
over 81, 000to his credit in a brokers'
office in that city. Being suspicious of
''the ticker and it's environments, he
drew the money and placed it where be
thought it would be more secure. In
ten days the brokers' firm had failed.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-07-17

Incidence is a delightful but dis
tressing state; we must be doing some
thing to be happy Action is no less
necessary than thought to the instructive
tendeneiesiot the human frame -Haz.
Eltt,
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-06-28
Fluids and Fat,

The removal of surplus fat from the body
by appropriate means naturally forms q
subject ofintereSt to the well-to-do classes.
Various notifications of solid diet having
had their day, the consumption Of fluids is
now undergoing regulation in respect of
quantity among those who find their own
presence insupportable. There is some
thing in this theo-y, inasmueh AS liquids,
merely as such, materially aid the digestion
and absorption of the food with which they
are taken. Thus cocoa contains very large
proportion of fat, coffee a considerable
amount along with amyloid substances,
which are also represented in tea 10 much
smaller extent, and which readily pass by
chemical decomposition into the form of
fat. Beer, wine and spirit are all fatten-
ing, partly In consequence OF their saccha-
rine and starchy constituents, and partly
from their tendency to hinder execretion OF
products of food, and, when acting on amy
but a languid frame, to hurry and TO slur
that methodical oxidation by the blood on
which the maintenance of sound tissue de-
ponds. General opinion, we are sure, will
bear us out in saying that when the solids
consumed are moderate in amount and
digestible. and when the fluid is merely
fluid, not fatty or amyloid in its compost
ton, and not stimulant, free drinking Will
not influence obesity We can call to mind
heavy drinkers of water and regular con-
sumers of tea, moderate in diet otherwise,
whose habits engendered not the slightest
tendency to corpulence. We should, with
out hesitation, recommend their practice
to the stout, and should rely for the reduc-
ton of their bulk not on any further alter
alton of their diet, which might easily be
carried so far as to starve their more i'm
portant tissues, but on the maintenance Of
regular and sufficient physical exercise
Lancet.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-06-28
Alcohol and the Heart Beats.

DR.. n. B. Richardson, of London. the
noted physician, says he was recently able
to convey a considerable amount of convic
ton to an intelligent scholar by a simple
experiment. The scholar was singing the
praises of the Rudy Bumper" and say.
ing he could not get through the day with
out it, when Dr. Richardson said to him:
VIII you be good enough TO feel my
pulse while | stand here"
He did so. l said, Count 1t carefully
what does it say"
" our pulse says seventy-four.'
then Isat down in chair and asked
him TO count il again. He did SO, and
said, - Your pulse has gone down TO
seventy"
| then lay down on the lounge and said
" VIII you take it again?'
He replied, Why, it's only sixty-four
what an extraordinary thing
| then said, When you lie down at
night, that is the way nature gives your
heart rest. You know nothing about it,
but that beating organ is resting to that
extent and if you reckon ii up, it is a
great deal of rest, because in lying down
the heart is doing 10 strokes less a minute.
Multiply that by go and it is 600: multiply
it by hours, and within fraction it is
5000 strokes different; and as the heart is
lHIoWllS % ouIlCes Ol UloOu at every stroke,
it makes q difference of 10000 ounces of
lifting during the night. When l lie down
at night without any alcohol that is the
rest my heart gets. But when you take
your wine or grog you do not allow that
rest, for the influence of alcohol is to in
crease the number OF strokes, and instead
of getting this rest you put on something
like $1,000 extra strokes, and the result is
you rise up very seedy, and unfit for the
next days work till you have taken little
more of the rudy bumper which. you
say is the soul of man below"
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-06-28
SAN FRANCISCO ITEMS.

The San Francisco school fund has beer
discovered to be 1000 short of the habili
ties for the current fiscal year.
There is a proposition on foot 10 close al
business houses and banks from Thursday
afternoon next TO the Monday morning fol
lowing.
1t is thought that Lucas, the rascally pri
vate detective, has left San Francisco, as he
| cannot be found since his bail was increased
from s., 600 to 5000.
Peter Brooks, residing at "a Freelor
street. was brought TO the City Hospital Al
9;45 Thursday evening, having taken &
dose of g Rough on Rats" with suicidal in.
tent Peter stated that his girl had I" shook
him, and life had no further charms. Pc
lice Surgeon Dennis inserted the stomach
pump and relieved Peter Of his embarrass
ing load.
Since the LIST of January, less than six
| months, there have been ten homicides anC
sixty-two suicides in San Francisco. Thi.
is about the average Of hOmicides for tn,
last five years, which is nearly two PEI
month. The average of suicides is sever
per month for five years prior to 1884
During this year the average is a fraction
over ten per month.