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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-11-03
DRIFT OF THE PRESS.

A Republican supreme court
has just declared the Republican may
or of Columbus, o., usurper, and has
instructed a Republican sheriff to carry
out its orders and GUST the mayors
chief of police. They are giving us
Republican riot and revolution all over
Ohio.-Cu,cin'sati Enquirer.
Senator Sherman says in his
stump speech that Cleveland's Admin
istration represents in it's sympathies
the triumph of the rebel cause!" 1t
would not be polite to allude to Sena-
tor Sherman as blatherskite, and we
are not going to do SO, for Senator
Sherman is not blatherskite; but he
talks just exactly as a blatherskite
would if blatherskite happened to be
standing in his boots Washington
Post.
Chairman Jones of the Repub-
lican National Committee refuses to
join in giving Mr.. Blaine a boom in
Pennsylvania. He says it is a ques-
ton whether Mr.. Blaine cares to pass
through another siege as Presiden-
tial candidate. Probably if Chairman
Jones knew positively that Mr.. Blaine
did not care to pass through another
siege he would not be unwilling to give
him boom. But, as he says, it is 8
question, and the funny part of it i:
Mr.. Blaine doesn't answer that ques
ton. -ChicaQO News.
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strongest evidences of his marital at

tachment.
AS may be supposed, the pair had no
children; but they adopted a daughter,
now the wife of George W. Smalley,
London correspondent of the Tribune.
AS the story goes, the mother of Mrs.
Smalley lived in Martinique, and
was slave-owner She became
interested in the cause Of
ant;-slavery through Wendell
Phillips speeches, and freed her slaves.
AT her death she left her only child,
then a small girl, to Phillips as his ward;
he became her guardian, and subse-
quently adopted her. Smalley, being
an earnest Abolitionist, met her at Phil.
lips house, where mutual affection
arose, with the usual result.
The uncertainty of life is shown by
the circumstance that Mrs.}jPhillips, be-
lieving herself doomed to an early
death, still survives her husband, who
was more than seventy when he passed
away. He was always supposed to be
comfortably otf-worth at least two
hundred thousand dollars and when he
died his entire property was not valued
at more than eight thousand dollars.
What became of it nobody has been able
to tell. He was always extremely gem
erous to every charity and every needy
person; but it was not believed that he
had parted with nearly all his capital.
Financial aid has been given to the
widow by her intimate friends. as she
was sorely in need, although her cir
cumstances had been thought to be very
comfortable. Chicago Times.
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PlTH AND POINT.

"A Psychologist says that "no mans
body is as strong as his appetite. " This
explains why tramp can eat bigger
pile of victuals in day than he can saw
wood Norristown (Pa. Herald.
fare cigarettes injurious?' de-
mands an excited periodical. AS the
cigarette is fast wiping out the masher
population, we are inclined to believe
that they are not.-M Y Telegram.
No young man has yet been found
with the hardihood to ring chestnut
gong when the young lady's father oh.
serves from the top of the steps, do
you know ten o'clock has struckp'-
Ney Haveas News.
Jennie, said Lynn father as she
came upstairs at two o'clock, 'has
your young man gone homer Eyes,
father" "Who is he, Jenniep" "He
works in a shoe-shop, father "Ah, |
see, alaster. Well, he's good one at
It'd BITS.
FL never intended you to return me
that five dollars, my dear fellow" said
he. II want you to consider it gift. f"
"No, no. said the other. II am hon
est about paying my debts; and besides
may strike you for ten dollars next
week. THE Judge.
--Brown-Did you 60 for a vacation
this summer, Smith, Smith,, yes.
Brown-How did you manage your
business affairs? SMITH took my ad-
vertisement out of the paper until re-
turned, so there wasn't any business to
manage. Great scheme, eh?- Harper'S
Bazar.
Here is little thing I just dashed
off," said buxom maiden as she en-
tered the sanctum. The editor was Just
about to state that he didn't use poetry,
when the young lady produced beau
tiful golden roll of butter. 1t was ac-
cepted with thanks. darlington Free
Press.
Mrs. Bullion-I see that Miss Van
Astorbilt wore at her wedding a vail a
hundred years old, which was worn by
her great grandmother as bride. Mrs.
Mushroom-You don't say! Well, it
does seem as if people as rich as the
Van Astorbilts might manage to avoid
using a secondhand old thing Ike that
when their only daughter gets married.
| Rambler.
High and low
allow high the bonnets are this fall"
Said Jack to pretty Nell;
| "They're high in shape, but that's not ALL
They're high in price as vel"
Eyes, jack" the maid replied, "thats So"
| And then glanced up ut him
"But still you always stoop, you know.
To get beneath the brm."
-Colun1bus Eventng Dispatch.
"A Southern paper asks: "Whom
shall girls marry?" Well, there are
young men who languidly lounge
around watering place hotels, wearing
single-barreled eyeglass and a plenti-
tude of shirt collar. Don't, for good.
ness sake, let the girls marry any OF
them. They had better remain single
two hundred and forty-seven years. =
Norristo,0n Herald.
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PRACTICAL LESSONS.
Do Not for Moment Forget That 1t Il
Well to Remember

Do Not for Moment Forget That 1t Is
Well to Remember
That every promise is debt
That peculation leads to specula-
ton.
That all are not saints who 90 to
church.
That he who has not wife is not
man.
That he is well paid who is well salts
fed.
That to believe in the heroic makes
heroes.
That there is no worse joke than a
true one.
That man must either be an anvil or
hammer.
That it is easier to give advice than to
follow it.
That every fool is wise when he holds
his tongue.
That good fortune is hard to be borne
unselfishly.
That it is the second word that makes
quarrel.
That it is better to be innocent than to
be penitent.
That there is no resurrection for a
dead opportunity.
That a little of every thing really
amounts to nothing.
That nothing can come out of sack
but what is in it.
That it is much easier to be critical
than to be correct.
That the good paymaster is lord of
another mans purse.
That there would be no shadows if
there were no sunshine.
That the only way to learn the value
of dollar is to earn one.
That tomorrow has no overflow to
make good lost yesterdays
That to make the cart 60 easily you
must first grease the wheels
That mules and jackasses are as apt
to kick at saints as at sinners.
That it is not the clock with the loud
est tick that keeps the best time.
That valuable as is the gift of speech,
silence is often still more valuable =.
Good HO1tsek1eDi71q.
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AWFULLY GREEN.
An Appeal Which Surprised and Disguised
an Honest Acadian.

An Appeal Which Surprised and Disguised
an Honest Acadian.
Joyite Arnivault is an Acadian
Frenchman who lives near Yarmouth,
N. S. He went fishing on shares for
Mr.. Augustus Woodman, and they made
bad voyage. At the settlement Jovite
had to sign note for forty dollars for
his indebtedness to Mr.. w.
These Acknowledgements are always
taken in such cases. Sometimes they
get paid-more often they don't II
they run over second bad year they
are not worth much, and Jovite had an
other poor year.
Then he went fishing out of another
port and made very successful voyage.
In the autumn of that year Jovite's
brother presented himself at Mr. Wood
mans Office with very mournful coun-
tenance. What you 60 to do bout
Jovite's note, Gustp He never could
pay dat note; got large family and bad
.Well," said Mr.. Woodman, 81
don want to be hard-how much can
he payP"
Ambrose thought he might perhaps
pay 1.-TWO, tree dollar" and after
awhile Woodman said: .'Well, if he can
raise ten dollars will give him back
the note"
Then Ambrose produced, with many
groan, small sums of money from
many different receptacles, stopping
occasionally to beg in true Nova
Scot;an fashion for ''better terms" but
in vain.
The ten dollars came at last and she
note was given up.
A few days later Woodman learned
that Jovite had cleared four hundred
dollars, and soon after he met him and
complained that he had not been we'll
used in the transaction. He appealed
to Jovite's sense of honor and justice
and finally asked him if he did not
think himself bound to pay something
more.
The Frenchman looked at him for q
space, surprise, disgust and pity alter
nately displaying themselves in his
countenance.
Then he said: 'Gust, always take
you for biznes' man. l didn't fought
you was green, and, departing, closed
the Observation-Disclosures Free Press.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-11-03
An Unjust Suspicion.

There was ball given at the Clam
whopper mansion on Fifth avenue, New
York, in honor of Count de Vermicelli.
Gus Snoberly. who is engaged to Miss
Maud Clamwhopper, was also present.
and it did not escape his attention that
Maud never took her eyes off the Count.
AS soon as Gus got an opportunity he
said:
"You seem to be dead gone on that
Italian monkey"
"Oh, Gus, how you misjudge me. My
heart beats for you alone"
That's too thin," replied Gus, with
bitter smile. '.if I'm your huckleberry
why can't you look at me occasional
lyP'
s.I'm afraid if l did look at you for a
minute the Count would take advantage
of the opportunity to steal some OF the
silverware. The last one went off with
three of the spoons, and ma scolded me
for not keeping my eye on him. Ter.
as Sutiags.
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PATIENT WANDERERS.
A Peculiar People Whose Origin and Name
are Shrouded in Mystery.

A Peculiar People Whose Origin and Name
are Shrouded in Mystery.
Meet them where you will-in Spain
or Norway, in Hungary, Wallachia or
Scotland, in Italy or Epping Forest, in
the arid deserts of Morocco or the snow
swept steppes of Russia-there is no
installing the Gypsy face, the Gypsy
blood or character. They all under
stand the same language, that of ROM
any, subject though, of course, it is to
variations in dialect and tinged and in
terspersed by the language Of their sew
eral adopted countries.
Even their name is shrouded in mys-
tery. Nearly century before they APP
peared in Britain they were known
in France as 'Bohemians'' or "Egyp-
tians," and for long they were
popularity supposed to hail originally
from Egypt; but philologists and anti
quarians differ as to their nationality.
There is a faint traceable likeness in the
names given to them in different lands:
Il Zingari" of Italy, the "Gitanos" of
Spain, the Tzigan" of Hungary, the
GYPSY of England. They are as ig-
norant of their origin as we are; they
have no archives, no family history, no
possessions, no patrimony, no litera-
turc.
Perhaps they were the cursed descend
ants of Ham; perhaps the posterity of
that first outcast, Ishmael, whom jeal-
ousy and injustice drove out to the
wilderness to give name to the hapless
pariahs of society to time immortal
''their hand against every mans, and
every mans hand against theirs Or
were they wandering Bedouins, wander
ing first by choice and then by necessity,
till habit grew to second nature, and
grown too numerous to find their need
full prey on their native soil, they spread
over the known world? A dreamy
mystery, deep as their dark eyes. sur
rounds them; a halo Of antiquity on
which history has thrown no side light,
they are people complete, individual,
separate with no rights, no titles, not
even home. --AU the Year Round.
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ONE WORD OF LOVE.

One little word of love Is worth
Far more than courtly speech,
Though whispered in the lowest tones
The inner ear twill reach;
Though golden gems from cultured lips
May eloquenty fall,
Each heart confesses that one word
OF love outweighs them all.
When sorely chastened and bereft
OF joys the heart held dear,
When hopes and dreams that cheered our
way
Fade out and disappear,
when sorrow settles round the hearth,
AgG clouds hang dark above,
o, how the heart in secret pines
For just one word of love!
One word of love will warm the soul
Adversely has chilled;
One word of love iifes stormy waves
; And passions oft has stiled;'
And much of all the wants and woes
The human heart may feel,
From childhoods hour to lonely age.
One word of love can heal.
None are so poor they can not give
This coin to whom they choose;
None are so rich they can afford
The rare gift to refuse
And earthly places have been made
AS fair as realms above,
With Heavens own glory there, because
Of one sweet word of love-
Josephine Pollard, in NJ Y Le5oer
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Warning to Bad Writers.

Henry Clay, who was a neatpenman,
was quite an enthusiast on the subject
of plain handwriting, and was in the
habit of telling story in point about a
Cincinnati groceryman who wanted a
lot of cranberries and thought he could
get them cheap in a little Kentucky
town. To this end he wrote to GUS.
toner at the place, requesting him to
send one hundred bushels of cranber-
ries per Smmons-the name Of his
teamster. The writing was so bad that
the party to whom the note was ad-
dressed could not make out the word
.cranberries' at all, but did conclude
that his correspondent wanted one hun
dred bushels of persimmons, which
were at once gathered and forwarded,
much to the disgust of the Cincinnati
man.-Ben. Perley Poore.
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a newspaper says: General
John A. Logan is industriously max
ing hay while the sun shines, and
seems to be getting along very nicely"
But General Logan's appearance of
speed is deceptive. Logan is very
much like Pecksniff's horse; he lifts his
legs very high, but really doesn't get
along very fast Chicago Times.
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The Great Need of the Times

"Mr. Dusenberry, isn't it remark
able! A woman down South who had
lost her voice for years, had it restored
by the shock of che earthquake"
'Well, may be so, my dear. but it
isn't the kind of an earthquake that mar
ried men like myself like. The great
need, to us, is one that will deprive
women of speech. "-PMladelphia Call
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-11-03

In plain black many ladies continue
to favor satin duchesse, because Of its
enduring qualities
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The great railroads of the country
continue to show that the trains can
pass each other on the same track, =
Philadelphia North american,
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New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-01-13
High Life in Washington.

The Washington correspondent of
the Philadelphia News tells this story
OF high life at the capital:
The sensation Of the hour is the re
cent coup of Mile. Nugeiras, daughte.
of the Portuguese minister. The
young lady is All exceedingly vivacious
brunette, with interesting features,
typical of the sun land, and noted for
her musical culture and chic. Shehas
resided here for several years, is ia,
millar with the customs and language
and has taken part in entertainments,
receptions and high teas Withoutnum-
Der. About two months ago placards
were distributed announcing that 8
charitable concert would be given AT
Masonic hall to aid the poor. Mile.
Nugeiras displayed remarkable ac-
tivity in selling tickets at 81
and So each, according to location
She solicited the members of every
legation here, and made it her bust
ness to dispose OF a large number OF
seats for cash in hand. The concert
occurred as announced and was a full
dress affair, the net receipts being
1915. The young lady who had
managed every detail, coohy pocket
ed the money ard two days after.
ward sailed for Europe, to remain, as
it was stated, to complete her educa-
ton. She absolutely refused to give
the name of the poor people for whom
the concert was given, but dropped
hints occasionally that poor widow
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HER REPRooE
Underneath a shady tree

Underneath a shady tree
Glanced q youth a maid tn see,
To this cool, sequestere d n ok
She had wandered with .uok;
But the heat her senses dulled,
Insects drone to Blumber lulled.
And the author was SO deep
She had fallen fast asleep.
Spying her thus slumbering there,
Sweetly innocent and fair,
He etole softly up behind,
Gently Ger the girl inclined,
And. half fearing breath to take
Lest, perchance, she might awake
Az the bee sweet honey sips,
Boldly kissed her pouting lips.
Weakened thus, in shy surprise,
The maid cast down her lovely eyes,
And the youth began to try
His rash act to justify,
Il know" said he that did wrong,
Bnt my temptation was to strong,
Such a melting mouth as this
Surely was but made to kiss"
Deeper still the maiden blushed,
Roster yet her sweet face flushed,
Lower down she dropped her head,
AS with modest air she said:
1T was wrong, most certainly,
Thus to steal a kiss from me,
I was sound asleep, and you
Might just as well have taken two!"
From the Somerville Journal
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for: the Century.

Entertainments for the Century.
Every school district should have a
literary society for the long evening.
1t is q never-falling source of enjoy
,ment, and good is sure to come from
1T.
Almost every neighborhood has
readers and thinkers who can discuss
clearly and inte!l;gently all topics of
general interest.
Every neighdoriaood has an organ
and singers, and if the music is not
very good and the singing not good
at all, a desire may at least be
awakened for something better.
A taste for good neading, good
mtasic, good stories, good singing and
fos good in all things has been created
in country lyceums-
Ridiculous things may be said and
done, but a very wise man once, wrote
:. He who asath not d dram Of folly in
his nnixt,lrn, hath pounds OF much
worse matter in his composition.
The amusing things of life play a
most Important part in bringing
about general happiness and general
good. Every man and every woman
is better for a hearty laugh once in a
while.
A Literary society for young people,.
and particularly young people living
in quiet rural districts, should always
have an element Of fun in it; Aaad hap
ply this element is seldom missing in
fglch societies
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How They Trap Bears in Maine.

How They Trap Bears in Maine.
Mr.. Knapp, Veteran Hunter, in Lewiston
Journal
usually build q cubby- house in the
woods out of old stumps and decayed
branches. I sorter pile 'em around
you know, and leave a little opening
for the bear togo in, after he sees the
consarn and his curiosity is excited. |
catch some suckers or other kind Of
fish in the river and hang 'eln up in
this cubby. Then try to fix the trap
so that the bear will have to step on
the trencher if he gets the fish. A
bear never steps on a log in his path,
but always steps over it. usually fix
the trap on tother side of a log or
branch SO that he will be pretty sure
to step over the log and into the trap.
A knowing old bear won't go into one
of these cubbles. Sometimes after
trying to catch an old sheep thief in
this way and not getting him, l have
caught the old fellow by hanging a
string of fish in careless way
on some tree, as if left there
accidentally by some,. sportsman,
and putting q strap underneath
Sometimes I find a track where a
bear had a habit of fording a brook.
I take away the stone in the brook
which the bear steps on when he
crosses, and put the trap in it's place.
When the bear feals after the old and
familiar stone, his fore-paw is caught
in the trap.
Some bears havelearned to smell a
trap, so we have to kill the smell.
We do that by daublng it over with
lard and :beeswax. I have twelve
traps and visit 'e1n twice a week. The
bear is usually caught by thefore-paw:
He does mt live more than twenty.
four hours after the Jaw closes on him,
as a general thing. In warm weather
the pelt would soon spoil;ifI did not
get it pretty quick latter tie critte1
died. The fur lis in the best condition
when the bears are housing, Elate in the
fall. Then it lis as nice as a Merino
sleeps wool. get So to $15a piece
for my pelts. The bears spend the
winter in the lodges about here and
under the stumps. Since we had that
hurricane that blew down 80 many
trees, there have been lot of cosy
places for bears around here.
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airy, though on other occasions it doe
often look that way.

airy, though on other occasions it doe
often look that way.
A goor deal of hugging and kissing il
INDUCED in by men. But these mel
are all foreigners or of foreign extrat
ton, although some of them are il
other respects so thoroughly American
lied that it takes a sharp glance to de
termine their extraction. The phlea
matte Anglo-Saxon looks at.thesepe,.
formances with an air ofcontemptuou$
Indifference. Nothing can convince hin
that there isn't always a great dea:
more genuine feeling shownby a hearty
handshake and a. careless How arc
you old boy?" than can be put into
any exchange of hugs and kisses be
tween men.
When asteamer is about to sail there
is a great deal of kissing INDUCED in
also, but there generally goes with tia
lachrymose accompaniment, often
quite coplous, that must prevent any
man, unless he have a heart of ada
mant, taking unalloyed delight in it.
In fact, it is often narrowing specta-
cleand had better be avoided altogeth-
er by people of sensitive feelings.
But to witness entire abandon to
the two extremes of Joy and sorrow
one must witness the meetings
aad farewells Of the poor emf
grants. They put no mask on their
feelings. Both men and women at
parting will often indulge in a genuine
tboo-hoo," and floods of tears which
would be comically suggestive of ones
nursery escapades if one didn It feel too
sorry for the poor, simple minded folk
to make the comparison until some
time afterward when thinking it over.
Tears Of Joy, too, are not infrequent-
~ seen among these poor people.
When, for instance, some poor Ger
man, who has been out here for three
or four years, trying to scrape togeth-
er money enough to pay for his wife's
passage and make a little home for
her, at last gets her in his arms at
Castle Garden, there is likely to be q
summer-shower of tears on both
sides. Such a scene is worth seeing
and thinking about, but it can't be
written about loosely.