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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-05-05
MEAN PARTY SPIRIT.
Mr.. ingalls, Speech Unworthy Of q Rep
resentative of Liberty-LOvinK Kansas.

Mr.. ingalls, Speech Unworthy of Rep
resentative of Liberty-Lovlng Kansas.
1t must be source of poignant grief
to American citizens who decline to
support unfit candidates for Office, al
though nominated by the party to
which they belong, that Mr.. Ingalls,, a
Republican Senator from Kansas,
thinks that they are politically neither
men nor women, and announces his
opinion in such vivid terms, according
to the reports, that ladies fly from the
galleries and Republican Senators roar
with laughter On the other hand, it
can not be altogether pleasant for Re-
publicans who remember that Repub-
licanism in Kansas once meant a great
and earnest conflict for freedom and
the rescue of the Union from the slave
power to perceive that Republic
anism in Kansas, as illustrated
by Mr.. ingalls,, has dwindled
into a vulgar sheer at political
independence and manliness and
honesty, and ridicule of reform in the
civil service. The TRADE of Mr.. In
gals against political independence
was but feeble echo of Mr.. Conk-
lings picturesque gibes at ''Jayhawk-
ers and skirmishers between the lines. "
But some Republicans perhaps ask
themselves whether even Mr.. Conk-
1ing's gibes in the height of his polit-
ical power and of the unquestioned SUI
premacy of the Republican party,
although loudly cheered as the blows
of a great practical statesman pulver-
izing the Miss Nancys and and the
Sunday-school prigs of politics, were
really serviceable to the party, OF
whether the Republican jeers Of 1884
at purists and Pharisees and super
celestial essences for whom no earthly
party is good enough were really Of
use to it.-HdyDer's WeekIu,
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restoring to me those dangerous papers.
1t will pay your expenses to Bordeaux
and back; so, if you can gain nothing
you will lose nothing l have Endorsed
these certificates with my name. Take
them and this note to London to Mr..
Brown. He will tell you what further
can be done, if any thing. Do not
expect much, but at least try-fortune
may favor you; and l am sure you de-
serve it,
1t seemed, indeed, as if Stanhope
Randolph's good fortune had begun.
Taking leave of his friends, he came
over to London, found Mr.. Brown and
made such friend of that gentleman
that he undertook personally to look
after the matter which Mr.. Thompson
had recommended to him. The ex-
agent, whose Endorsement was needed,
happened at the time to be in Nice, and
Mr.. Brown went thither with Randolph
ana secured the requisite signatures.
Then he accompanied him to Bour-
deaux. Alas for the best laid schemes
of mice and men! The firm of X An
imas Freres was bankrupt and all their
assets and affairs in the hands of the
syndic. The elder brother of the firm
was dead, and there was but little hope
of getting any thing out of the surviving
brother, who, indeed, did not bear the
best of names.
MIR. Brown looked pensive, but told
Randolph not to despair. eff he's an
honest man we won't get cent, OF
course; but, as he seems to be a slippery
fellow, there's chance for it YETI He
called on the syndic, consulted a
notary or two in town, and then sent
M. Animas message to call upon him
that night at his hotel. NJ. Animas
came, a sallow little Gascon, with
purple gills and an uneasy eye. He de-
MED every thing, of course, and said
that anyhow he was totally insolvent-
couldn't pay ten centimes in the hum
bred.
Exactly" said Mr.. Brown. 'Your
debts amount to 100000 francs. You
have given in assets to the amount of
100000 francs. You still have in your
possession the sum of 100000 francs,
property of the late Confederacy, Brown,
Gunter and all that firm. This money
you have not returned to the syndic as
part of your assets, but are trying to
hide away. Now, NJ. Animas, it is a
question of arithmetic between us. My
young friend here has legitimate checks
for $4,000 francs, which he is entitled to
and wants. You will pay him or else
you will prepare tomorrow to pay the
syndic the 100000 you are concealing
and stand trial for fraud besides"
M. Animas wriggled and turned, and
asked for time; for month. week, any
thing.
mot moment" said Mr.. Brown,
decidedly.
"But my children, my wife," pleaded
M. Animas in despair.
''Shall l call the officer?" said Brown.
sarcastically. laying his hand on the bell
cord.
NJ. Animas turned green, and then,
pulling outa plethoric pocket book, paid
the money, and that is how Stanhope
Randolph got rich.-Ed. Spencer, !" N
! Y. World.
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A Strange Anomaly.

The report that a considerable num-
Der of Senators on both sides of the
Chamber are in favor of doing away
with secret executive sessions will lead
to the hope that Mr.. Pratt's resolution
looking in that direction will pass.
This resolution is so moderate that it is
difficult to see why it should encounter
any opposition whatever. It leaves
the whole matter in effect to the dis
erection of the Senate. Indeed, herein
consists the danger that it may prove
ineffective. Secret sessions may be
resumed whenever the Senate thinks
it advisable. But it is valuable in that
it breaks up the superstition which
hedges the Anticipated absurdity now in
vogue, and once departure is effected
it will not be long before the practice
shall have entirely disappeared. The
general good sense of the body may be
trusted so far.
1t is even said that Mr.. Edmunds is
in favor of some modification of the
| present system. His difficulty, or
rather his defeat, in bringing his party
into thorough submission to his COM
mittee will not prove an unmixed evil if
it leads him to support this movement.
The general sentiment of the people
Of both parties is altogether in favor of
progress in this respect. Open sessions
would certainly help Senators to arrive
at true realization of their response
bility to the people. And they would
increase the dignity of the body by
doing away with the strange anomaly
of calling certain of its meetings secret
sessions, while they are invariably re-
ported with especial fullness in the
newspapers of the following day. By
all means let the people know openly
and honestly how their business d
transacted in the Washington
Pos.
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THE STAR CHAMBER.
The Old Musty Republican idea of Secret
Sessions Giving Place to More EnliSht-
0nod Views.

The Old Musty Republican Idea of Secret
Sessions Giving Place to Moro Enlisht-
ened Views.
1t really begins to look as if we
should soon see the last of the Sena-
toral star chamber humbuggery.
Even Mr.. Edmunds is thought to be
about ready to back down. The fulfil
ity of all efforts to keep important
proceedings secret has discouraged
him; and rather than continue the
farcical performance of closing the
doors only to have Senators them.
selves carry reports to the press, he
may join those who advocate the
abolition of executive sessions That
would be a creditable step. But, APP
parently, the movement can succeed
without his aid or favor. Mr.. Platt's
resolution has been gaining support
ers. Old, musty ideas about the
necessity of shutting out the pub
lie when certain matters are being
considered, have gradually disap-
peared. They, in fact, belong to the
distant past-to the early days of
knee-breeches and wigs, when the
Government was hardly so near the
people as it is to-day. All proceedings
of the Senate were held in secret until
1893, though there was much opposition
to the custom. The doors Were first
thrown open when Albert Gallatin's
right to seat in the Senate was under
discussion. The argument in favor of
publicity, says LOSING, was the due
enforcement of the responsibilities of
the Senate and it's individual members to
the people, which secret debates tended
to diminish; the prevention of those
jealousies naturally aroused by secret
legislation; and the greater confidence
which publicity would inspire. These
reasons for conducting legislative bust
ness with open doors are good now as
arguments for keeping the doors per-
manently open, and publishing all the
proceedings as the proceedings of the
House are published. Old fogies
among Senators can not long retain
the precious privilege of clearing the
galleries and bringing out the little
brown jug. The custom is out of date.
Cincinnati Iinles-StOr.
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IMPROMPTU ORATiONS.
A Species of Hypocrisy of Which Many
Good People Are Guilty.

A Species of Hypocrisy of Which Many
Good People Are Guilty.
When man is called upon to make
speech at any gathering, social or
public, it is always ''entirely unexpeet-
ed" He has never imagined that he
was to be asked to speak out in meet
ing, oh, no! And for that very reason
he has sat up and burned up the mid
night gas, the night before the affair,
concocting q few extemporaneous re-
marks which will be neat and to the
point. You have done this. gentle
reader, haven't you? and-tell it not in
Gath-we too, have been there. There
is nothing so hard to write Us a neat
impromptu Grafton, something that
will sound easy, natural and convivial.
We have often begun a dozen times
before the extemporaneous ideas flowed
smoothly from the penpoint, and
then we usually began in
the time-honored manner of
being overpowered by an honor so ''en-
tirely unexpected, or else by assuming
a jocular air and saying that after writ
ing brilliant speech we had entirely
forgotten it. Then when you are asked
to speak, you say: "Oh, really, you
know. Don't ask me. l? Why, l never
made a speech in my life," etc. You
must be careful not to keep it up too
long, or they will not insist, and then
your literary toll of the night before will
be loves labor lost. And after you have
finished, people will say: What clever
man Mr.. So-and-So is to speak so grace
fully when he came so entirely unpre-
pared" Then you will say disparaging-
iy: "Oh, mere tritle Just few OF:
hand observations. l know that I am
no speech-maker. And you will be a
colossal hypocrite. and glory in your
hypocrisy. THE Rambler.
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CARP CULTURE.
The Profits to BE Derived From q Fish
Pond on the Farm.

The Profits to BE Derived From Fish
Pond on the Farm.
The carp fish is native of China. Ac
cording to missionaries who penetrated
the interior of China at an early date,
multitudes of these fish assembled the
rivers and into the rice fields through
the bitches used to flood them, and there
deposited their eggs, where they soon
Matched. During the month Of May the
people bar the river in various places
and with mats and hurdles collect the
eggs and young fish that are just
Matched, put them in vases and offer
them for sale. Merchants come from
other provinces to get them for individ-
ual ponds. They were imported into
Germany and Austria between 400 and
600 years ago. Carp have been caught
at Frankfort, in Germany, that weighed
Is pounds. They are very prolific
fish. A tive-year-old female has laid
100000 eggs. There are three varieties
of carp-scale, parti-scale and scaleless
carp. They all have the same form. In
buying carp to stock ponds always be
sure you buy of reliable breeder that
has pure-bred fish, as 50 to SIS more on
a hundred fish or on dozen spawners
does not amount to any thing in start
ing pond, because If you get pure
bred fish IN the start, and take proper
care, you can keep them pure. There
are some breeders selling fish that are
mixed with gold fish, catfish, chubs,
etc. They are worthless at any
price. Not over one farmer
in one hundred but can have fresh fish
in season if he will. Some say it will
be overdone. Look at the large cities
to supply with fresh fish. German carp
will command from - to Is cents per
pound wholesale, now, in our cities.
Can you make one-third of this clear on
hogs, cattle or poultry, with the time
taken in their care? Carp can be raised
at one-third the price Of poultry, by
actual test. You can raise in a one
acre pond 1000 pounds of carp, with
feeding 500 worth of feed BY experi-
ment Of reliable carp culturists near
our place. one ton of mill feed will pro-
duce 1900 pounds of fish. At the small
sum of cents pound, this will leave
you the neat profit Of 1924 an acre, to say
nothing of three or four hundred dol
lars worth of small fish over enough to
keep in your pond. Spring is the time
to buy fish and make ponds, but fall will
do quite as WELL The flesh of carp is
nice, juicy and sweet, as good for table
use as any fish caught in northern lakes
and rivers, have eaten of white fish,
the famous black bass and all others,
and carp is as good as any Of them.
Some are publishing that carp tastes
muddy. If you starve the fish in a mud
hole and compel them to eat mud, you
could not expect any thing else, any
more than if you feed COW rotten
apples and expect her to give good milk
aud make good butter If you attend
the carp they will pay you well. Carp
| thrive best in shallow. warm-water
ponds, and if they have good forage
and a little feed, will gain 8 to 10
pounds in single season. Carp do not
get their teeth till one year old, and
| after this they grow very fast.-Cor.
Ohio Farmer
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The Nation Yet Lives.

The Republican orators in the last
campaign, from Mr.. Blaine down, pre-
dicted that all sorts of financial disaster
would result from placing the Admin
istration in the hands of the Democrats.
They pointed with pride" to the re-
duction of the public debt, the large
treasury balance, and a reasonable store
of gold, as the results of Republican
rule, and depicted in dark colors The
probable effect of a change. The voters,
believing government of the people to
be safe in the hands of any majority of
the people, decreed change. A COM
parison Of the receipts and expenditure
for the nine months from July l,
1884, with the corresponding period
from July l., 1885, shows that there
has been an increase during the latter
time of $10,000,000 in the revenues,
and decrease in the expenditures Of
$23,00O,O00, a net gain under Dem
ocratic rule of $3.50, 900 for three
fourths of year. The public debt was
reduced over $14, 600, 900 in March; the
net cash balance in the treasury is
S76,0O0,00O; the surplus gold reserve
over S51, 100000. If the Republicans
were entitled to credit for the good
showing sometimes made under their
Administration, the Democrats are de-
serving of just as much now. AS a
matter of fact, the people paid the
taxes that produced these results in
both cases; but it is the universal testi-
mony of business men that the man
agement of the treasury under Secre-
tary Manning has been as honest, wise
and firm as it was under any of his
predecessors. The fiction of Repub-
lican indispensableness is thoroughly
exploded. boston Sunday Herald.
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GRiDDLE-CAKES.
Che Invention of the Most Perfect Prod
uct of Epicurean Art.

Che Invention of the Most Perfect Prod.
uct of Epicurean Art.
Griddle-cakes were invented by tho
mother of Pythagoras at seven o'clock
in the morning, 500 B. c. On tasting
the first one, which was served up hot,
her son is said to have exclaimed, in
his own beautiful Greek tongue:
"Gimmeanotherquickr' which the read
er is at liberty to translate as freely as
he pleases.
The Chinese claim to have introduced
the griddle-cake several centuries before
the mother of Pythagoras thought of it;
but, as they also claim to have invented
the pocket-corkscrew and various other
ideas purely American in origin, we do
not trust them.
We sing our distrust to the Chinese
at short range, with six-shooter. Until
they produce a griddle-cake of earlier
vintage than seven o'clock in the morn
ing, $50 B. c., as an evidence of good
faith, we shall continue to claim that the
griddle-cake is of Grecian mold, and to
give full credit to the esteemed and ex.
cellent maternal ancestor of the late Mr..
Pythagoras, of Greece.
do not envy the possessor of grea.
wealth so much AS | do the man who
can eat eighteen hot griddle-cakes, and
then 90 around with sweet smile and a
bearing of calm repose. For what are
wealth, honors and a plug-hat to man,
kind reader, if he must turn away from
the tempting brunette griddle- cake
while it smoketh and giveth its odor to
his nostrils?
Did not one of Americas greatest
statesmen say, in moment of enthusi-
asm: "Giye me griddle-cakes or give
me death?" Did not another wise and
eminent publicist and warrior say, in
that emphatic manner peculiarly his
own: 'sThe blessings of the griddle.
cake, like the dews of Heaven, shall de.
scend alike upon the rich and the poor9'
These little things, trifing as they may
seem to some, show how near the grid
dle-cake is to the impulsive American
heart, and how near it will continue to
be there. Congress could not bring
! about civil war quicker than by impos.
ing special tax on homemade grid
dle-cakes.
But the griddle-cake habit, while it
| may be a blessing when INDUCED in
moderation, will cause remorse- deep
bordered remorse-if carried to excess
A friend of mine, who has long been il
| the habit of eating twenty-four hot grid
dle-cakes at sitting, had occasion t.
call in his physician the other day, ant
was told candidly and calmly that III
must break off from the griddle-cak'
habit or go to an early grave.
Every well, DOCTOR" he answered
with smile Of resignation: "can 20,
| give me the name of cheap and re
liable undertaken who will not pu
pinchbeck handles on my coffin, an
charge for solid silver?n- Way, Il
| Puck.
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VOL. XLI.-NO. 81.
plTH AND POINT.

He never dies
You may break, you may shatter the press,
II you will,
But the 'oidest subscriber" will cling to it
still.-Burdeste.
There are two things which q man
is bound to take on faith--his wife's
private opinion of him and what saus-
ages are made from.-FGB River i'd
rance.
"A writer describes beauty as hay
ing can exquisitely moulded face, Of
which two dark hazel eyes are the CEN
trail feature" Where is her nose still
atedp-Burlington Free Press.
There is m article going the rounds
of the press entitled, Elbow to get rich. "
And vet there are more than dozen
poor families right here in this town.
This comes of not reading the newspa-
pers. No,rist0on Herald
The plain untitled citizen can slide
along in life without receiving much
criticism and abuse; but when he has a
handle to his name he must expect
everybody to take hold and shake him
up.-N 0. Picayune.
AT recent meeting of Sorosis in
New York Miss Parloa startle the ladies
by asking: ..How many of you know
how to boil potatop" 1t is rather
singular that Miss Parloa should have
mistaken a meeting of the brightest
women in New York for an intelligence
-Norristown Herald.
-..Them's mine.n said Colonel Yer
ger. "All right. Colonel" replied
Jules Barnfeldt, the bartender. land
be careful not to charge me with them
twice. "That's something [ never
do" "You had better not overcharge
me, because keep all the drinks take
in my head-' ri knew that, Colonel.
before you spoke. Anybody can tell
that just by looking at YOU N, B..
Colonel Yerger's face looks as If it had
been painted red and vanished. TEXAS
Stf1tngs.
Tommy Gray:
am six years old
And like play and fun,
Imean to grow up
Like George Washington.
So when mother said,
"Who ate all the pie?'
Ispoke like man,
And said: cit was l."
Bnt she didn't say
She'd rather lose the pie
And know that her boy
Would not tell lie.
She just shut me up
Where couldn't see
Then sent me to bed
Without any tea
Ella Bau, in Ba6yhood
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THE DYING SHOEMAKER.

s'Dear wife, Pm waxing near my end"
The dying cobbler said;
"Soon to an upper world my sole
Its lonely way must thread.
'"I fear, indeed, Pm pegging out;
But then what boots it, love?
Here, we have been fitting pair,
And SO we'll be above.
'"My Ills, know, no drugs may heel.
SO It's welt to prepare;
We can't run counter to our fate
Just put a peg In there!
"The fIfure need not give YOU care.
rye left my awl to you;
For deep within my inner sole
know that you've been true.
1--WE always given you your rights,
But now you must be left;
However do not grieve too much
! When OF me you're bereft.
"a last farewell now Will take"
de smiled, and raised his head,
"B last the cruel malady
That lays you Iow," she said.
"l'll slipper way In peace" ne sighed.
"The strife viii soon be past"
His head fell back, he sweetly smiled.
And tpen he breathed his last.
r. A. IQnqford, in Norrtstorcn Herald
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last Administration, gave such COM
fort to the land grabbers, event for"
the Illinois General in a very uncom-
promising manner, sarcastically re-
marking that he had yet to learn that
services in the field especially qualified
man for legislative functions. Poor
Logan was dumbfounded at the UNI
masking of the Blaine batteries, and
plaintively asked why he should be at
tackled. He should have addressed
note of inquiry to Augusta, Maine
AtbGny ArqalS.
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The Man from Maine.

Che sly statesman from Maine has
evidently no notion of allowing the
tail Of the last Presidential ticket to
arrogate superiority over the head.
His friends in the Senate sat dawn on
Logan during the army debate, pooh
poohed his services and ridiculed his
reiterated recitals of what he had
done for his country. The Colorado
Senator, whose management of the De-
partment of the Interior. during the
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"A fOrtv-niner who amassed a lal y.

"A 1UTty-l1Illtr WHO dlldsSeu q IdlSt
fortune in California during the gold
fever there, but spent it foolishly, was
found walking barefooted thl cugh the
streets of New York recently and ar
rested. He is without friends or home,
and has been leading the life Of a tramp
since misfortune overlook him thirty
years ago.-M ]. Tribune.
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"A man never realizes how much Of
sponge he is until he slips down in =
puddle and mops it Ill up, -Arkansas
yravslz,
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-07-10
nEATlia.


BEE0LFsTOH. Died, Thursiay, jay
am nj s.25 +, NJ, JAMES II. BEbobS-
sT'ON. in the sixty first year OF MS aye.
Fuperal services will take place IRON nis
Iate residence, No. ZsVv o, sas -, 10 oeIocS
M. Friends OF the family are invited 10
attend.
HILL, Died. July 8. 1885, After snort
illness. MEREDITH ROLAND, infant son
OF Irwin I. and Lottie Hill; aged seven
months,
JoBNsoN.-Dled, July Q, 1885 oArHA-
RINE JOHNSON. ..,..
Funeral This Saturday AFTERNOON
nj 0 O'Clock from st. Peters Cathedral.
Friends OF the family invited 10 attend.
LYoNs.-Dled. AZ her mothers residence.
No 3O5 south Fist street. Friday, jay .,
Iso6 ut lO:45 A. NJ =, ALICE j.. youngest
daughter Of Mary and the late Thomas Ly-
oIs
May her soul rest in peace. Amen.
We miss thee at hOme-o Oh. we miss thee,
How much human hearts cannot tell;
IL Is hard Oh, 50 hard 10 be parted
From dear one we have treasured so wei.
Yet. when earthly sorrows nave vanished,
Ard the heart ; weary thrObblngs are DER,
How sweet to 20 10 that circle
Where We shall he parted no more.
FuDerpl from 1t. Peters Cathedral sun
DAY at Z. 81.
MOSS Died, Friday at ten minutes
TO O'Clock OF meningitis, WALPEhG AR
NETT. infant son OF w. J. and Anna VI.
Noes.
Funeral from the residence Of his grand
mother. Mrs. A. NJ. stage. GIL north sixth
street, SATURDAY at 3 T.. IA.
STERN.-Died, July l, 1883, ut Pearllng-
ton, Hancock county, Miss. AFTER snort
illness. SAMUEL STERN, In his thirty
eighth year.
deceased was a brother OF Mrs. Charles
Thalnlmer OF this city.
WOODWARD Died, In New Kent coun-
Is. Va. July 8, 1883. Mrs Y. +. WOOD
WARD beloved wife OF W. +. NoOdWarii
aged forty. one yeafS.
We weep. though not IN bitterness;
ours are not tears o. gloom.
No thoughts but those of tenderness
shall ci.s,en around the tomb.