The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-01-27
TOBIAS AGAIN.
Editor Democrats

am. The love OF seeing his opinions
in a newspaper is an overweening pas
sion with some people, zone of whom
am which" as long as I can have
things all my own way, and there ii
no other fellow covorting around and
wanting to have his way too. If
can't have my way I will not have
any body clse's way, and because Of
this extremely liberal and generous
proclivity, some people are inconside
rate enough to call me hard-headed
BY THE WAY
Did you know that all the progress
of the world in the arts, sciences, lit
erature and discovery is due to hard
headed people? That the sum total
of progress is commensurate only with
the aggregation of pig-headedness'-
TITS fact by jingo! as strange as it
may appear. The hard headed fellow
gets an idea-lt may be only half an
idea and half of that may be wrong,
but he sticks to it right or wrong and
finally whatever truth there may he in
the idea is recognized and admitted
and we have some progress. Some
other pig-headed individual begins
where he left off, argues, illustrates,
amplifies and after while we have
some progress. The fellow that be-
!ieves and insists does something; the
fellow who believes and gives up, does
nothing. Count me on the side of the
hard headed fellows.
AN EXCEPTION OF COURSE.
Now it goes without saying that this
only applies to the lords of creation
and by no process of logical reasoning
can be held to apply to the gentler
and softer sex. Whoever heard of a
woman with an idea7 If by any chance
she happened to meet one, she would
not know what to do with it, and If
she knew what to do with it, it would
he extremely dangerous to the social
fabric for her to be fooling around
with ideas. What would man do
| with a wife or sweetheart who was
carrying around an idea? The very
notion is absurd. An idea is the re-
suit of q mental process-the mind be-
longs to man, the heart to woman.
She has her realm no less important
than his, for if man was fed on ideas
alone he would soon starve. If wo-
men lived by ideas their hearts would
shrink and dry up and here would be
pretty kettle of fish. Men with no
love and women with no hearts from
such catastrophe the good Lord de-
liver It's. ~ He saw and regulated all
this in the beginning and wisely or
dained it as it is. The proposition is
proved.
WHAT'S THE "IDEA' ANYWAY.
After all this prelude, I ought, OF
course, to have some idea to advance
to keep up appearances, if not because
of logical necessity. Well, how will
this do, after short crops, freezing wea.
Their and amid TIE hard times; i. e.,
that We are really a great deal better
off than We were, because we are les.
in debt and because;.w We have been
taught by adversely the hard lessons
of thrift and economy. Last years
crop was made on less than any crop
since the war. The crop was short
and the price is small, but the planters
had less to pay than ever before and
they are practically out of debt. Now
with "a long pull, strong pull and a
pull altogether" We will get Of the
woods.
But l hear somebody say, what has
that got to do with hard headed people
and women2 Everything, my dear sir
The hard headed man when be has
difficulties to overcome and has met
with disasters, don't sit down and weep
but he grits his teeth, shakes his locks,
pulls himself together and makes up
his mind to try again. A woman might
cry and give up, because, because
we'll, because che isn't man-but g
man cannot do any such thing. He
is bound to try again.
THE AMENDE HONORABLE.
| In this effort to retrieve our fallen
fortunes there is abundant scope for
the display by our wives, daughters
and sweet hearts, of those heaven sent
qualities which make the sex adorable
and qualify woman for her proper
ephora nf actinn ~ fhc holm mate nj