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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-10-16
AMONG OUR EXCHANGES.

Protection fills the dinner-pail
with wind. Paul Herald.
If the Harrisonian concern has
got so deep in the mire in six months,
how much Of it will be sticking up at
the end of twelve? - Louisville
Courier-Journal.
Tanner has gone, but let us not
forget what Mr.. Assistant Secretary
Bussey said about the deserters: "1he
dishonorajle discharge of soldier
from the seruice of the United States is
no bar to a pension" There is the
platform that this Administration
rests on.-Chicago Herald.
General Alger is quoted as say
ing that he would rather be Com
mander-in- Chief of the G. A. R. than
President of the United States"
Without charging on the acidity of
the grapes that hang beyond our
reach, let us hope that Governor
Alger will always continue to pre-
serve the modesty of his ambition
Pittsburgh Dispatch.
--'.There are nearly 5000, 900 col
ored people in the Democratic Southern
country, and they have but one MEM
her of Congress to represent thcm."
says the Cincinnati Commercial Ga
zette (Rep.). There are nearly 3d.
600 colored people in the State of
Ohio, and they have not so much as
one postmaster to represent thcm.-
N. Y. Evening Post.
What has been termed Commits
sioner Tanners liberal pension policy
has not been in the interest Of those
most deserving and needy. 1t has
chiefly resulted in rerating in cases Of
favored pensioners who had other
sources of income, some of them of a
liberal kind, and the special listing Of
other favorites to the exclusion of
equally meritorious but less influential
claimants. Philadelphia Inquirer.
The experiment of sending Wis
iting statesmen to help elect a Repub-
lican Congressman in the third Louis
lana district turned out so disastrously
that Malone may take warning and
not desire that kind of assistance in
Virginia. Eat and not advice. is
what Malone needs and what suits
the style of his political campaign
ing. If he can not buy the Governor
ship of Virginia he can not get it
Philadelphia Record.
The pension-claim agents al
Washington, who have been getting
rich '.hand over hand" of late, are not
at all discomposed by Tanners re,
moyal. The National Tribune, organ
of Captain George E. Lemon, the lead
ing claim agent, says editorially thai
Corporal Tanner retires solely be-
cause of administrative differences be-
tween himself and the Secretary o.
the Interior; but that this will make
no practical change in the conduct o
the Bureau, which, in other hands
will continue the liberal system in
augurated by its late chief"
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-10-16
Ohio's Democratic Platform.

Lift the weight OF taxation.
Stop the squandering of the peoples
money.
Restore the ballot to those who bear
the burden.
Make necessaries cheap, even il
luXuries become dearer.
Put letters on those who rob,
whether they rob on the highway or
in the arrangement of our taxes.
Knock out the party of tho trusts,
and put in the party of the people.
Utterly demolish the one-nian
power. and give us back home rule.
This is the platform fog Ohio
Cincinnati ENQUIRER
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-10-16
- LITTLE NONSENSE"

-"Were you carefully brought up,
young MANI" said the merchant to an
applicant for a position in his estab-
lishment. Eyes, sir!" he replied, Il
came up on an elevator. Boston Post.
Ethel (entering parlor)-"Oh,
Aggie, so glad to see you. CThey
kiss.) Why, you are engaged to be
married" Aggie-"How do you
know?" Il can tell by the way you
kiss. Rochester Herald.
Young Writer-"Do you keep all
kinds of pens?' Stationer-"Yes;
which do you prefer?' Young Writer
1.-Two been advised to use a trench
ant pen. I'd like small box of them,
and you can put in few caustics,
too"
Messenger (going through West
ern railway train)-'Want dinner at
Scroggs Corners?" Starving passen-
ger-"Indeed do" MISCONCEPTIONS
dollar, please" Passenger-"What
do you want pay in advance for?"
Observation-Disclosures the train is
late an don't stop. IN. Y. Weekly.
The boss barber happened to look
toward the new man and beheld tears
as big as gooseberries rolling down
the cheeks of that Teutonic individual.
whats the matter, Gus?" asked the
boss. "Feller 1 yoost schafed vas
peen eatin' limpurger, und / got me to
thinking of home," was the fearful
answer. "-Terre Haute Express.
"A lady, suspecting her female SER
want was regaling her beau upon cold
mutton from her larder, called Betty
and inquired whether she did not hear
some one speaking downstairs. "Oh,
no, ma'am." replied the girl; lit was
only me singing psalm" "You may
amuse yourself. Betty" replied the
lady, with psalms; but let's have nc
hims." Betty curtseyed. and with
drew, and took the hint.
-"Humph." said Brown to Jones,
"that's a nice way that fellow Diog.
enes of whom l was just reading spent
his time" "Do you refer to his
practice of hunting an honest man?'
Eyes" "Well, nobody does such
things nowadays" mo, if Diog
enes were to try any such thing al
that to-day he'd get run in by bunkt
steerer before he'd been out two
hours. Merchant Traveller.
Pat (resting on his hammer)-"O
soy, Dinney; phwat's the use OF oul
dhrillin' them howles in tn rocks
whin they're after blowin' them all tt
pieces wild bhlast whiniver we're
afther gittin' thro' maxim Nv um?'
Dinney-"Oi don't know, Pat; but it.!
shure Oh am Oh think that if sum fel
lah 'ud be afther invintin' machant
that 'ud make the howle so they coult
use it over agin afther havin' blahst
he 'ud make his FORUM, SO Oh doo,"-
Life.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-10-16
WHITNEY'S TRIUMPH.
The Magnificent Ships Provided by the
Democratic Administration.

DemOCratC ADMINISTRATOR
Secretary Tracy's dispatch to ex-
Secretary Whitney congratulating him
on the magnificent success of the new
cruiser Baltimore, built under the late
administration, was a graceful and
just tribute to one conspicuous exam
pie Of the good work done by zeal
GUS, painstaklng official. It is in
striking contrast to the snarling
malice of the Utica Herald, which
abuses Mr.. Whitney for en- couraging
the builders OF the Baltimore to
achieve the remarkable results for
which Mr.. Tracy congratulates him,
and it is rebuke to the New York
Tribune, which keeps silent on the
subject, although the day before it
had much to say on the Roach cruiser
Atlanta The Republican organs
united in a peal of triumph because the
Atlanta was not sunk on her way to
Newport, and point to the fact of her
safe arrival as vindication of Roach
and condemnation of Whitney. Dur
ing her trip from New York to New
port the Atlanta labored feartully in a
forty-mile gale, and it took four days
and four nights for her to make the
trip. While this vaunted Roach
cruiser was making a desperate fight
for life, dozens of other vessels were
out in the same gale, and seemed not
to be affected by it.
All the vessels designed and con-
structed under Mr.. Whitney's direc-
ton have so far proved decided sue
cesses, and the United States may we'll
be proud of the nucleus of the new
navy provided by the Democratic ad.
ministration. Secretary Tracy found
the Navy Department in the most adj
mirable order when he assumed
charge of it, and there were no Roach
failures before him to patch up or vic.
lated contracts to set right He has
manfully acknowledged the debt OF
gratitude which the country owes his
predecessor for giving it the swiftes'
and best cruiser afoat. If the snarl'
ing Republican organs have any re-
spect for the memory of John Roach
they will refrain from dragging him
from the grave and drawing attention
again to his conspicuous failures. =
Albany IN. Y. Argus.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-10-16
IT SERVED THEM RIGHT.
How n Crowd Was Cleverly Flecced BY
Darkroom Trtckster.


Bar-Room Trtckster.
'You see this dOllar?' said one of a
company of men in front of a rosewood
bar in front Of one of the leading hotels
in Philadelphia, and he handed a dol
lar to one of the group, who examined
it and passed it around among the
company. All decided that there was
nothing unusual in its appearance UNI
less it was counterfeit.
mo, it's not counterfeit" said the
first speaker, 'but will let you take
that dollar. Spin it on the bar. will
turn my back, and will toll you
whether it turns head or tail"
Impossible" said one of the doubt
ers. '.unless you use a bookings glass"
mo, don't use any thing, and I'll
bet you the drinks I'll tell it every
time"
"Done," said the doubter.
The man turned his back to the bar,
the coin was spun, and, as it settled,
he called out:
Heads"
It was ''heads."
| MAKE it three out of five times for
another round" said another of the
group.
Certainly consented the stranger,
accommodatingly.
Again the coin was spun around and
stalls" was called. The third time it
turned .'tails," and a third time the
stranger "called."
II can keep it up all night, gentle
men," he said, smiling.
The drinks were paid for. and the
stranger, under the genial influence Of
the liquor and the urgent requests OF
the crowd, said:
Il don't often give my tricks away,
but it will leak out sooner or later,
You see, gentlemen, the coin on thu
the head side is nicked very slightly
by knife, the hicks being about al
eighth of an inch apart. The nick
are so small as to be scarcely percep
tible. When you spin the coin, if
turns on the nicked side it settle
quickly, whereas on the other side
slowly settles, taking fully twice a
I long to die as on the other side. b
, the difference in sound, you see, ca
tell which side turns up, or, rather
down. It's all told by sound"
The coin was handed around an
spun again, and what the strange
said proved true, much to the deligh
of the group, who were glad. appar
emily, as is usually the case, to ge
hold of u trick that at first seemed in
applicable.
.'There, fix me dollar that way,
said one of the group, handing out tn
money, and the other four requested
like favor at the hands Of the stranger
who, taking out pen-knife, obliging
ly did as requested. Then, biddini
them polite goodnight, he grace
? fully retired, leaving the group spin
{ ming their coins. Suddenly one G
them picked up his dollar, examined
e and quickly flung it on the bar, tn
sound given out being the unmistal
g able dull, dead sound of counterfeit
s .'Done for five dollars" said he, a
he looked ruefully at the door wher
the stranger had disappeared.
"Well. we've learned a trick wei
= worth dollar,' said another, philo
|. Observation-Disclosures Record.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-10-16
Fall Colts and Calves.

For growing stock grass is rec
ognized as one of the cheapest and
best of feeds. Not that it is in ally
cases complete food, but during the
growing season it can be used to good
advantage as principal food. And in
the management of the farm stock it is
quite an item to get the largest amount
of benefit from the grass, either by
pasturing or soiling.
Calves and colts, in the first few
months of their existence, must de-
pend almost, if not wholly, upon milk.
It matters little during this time to
them, at least, whether their dams are
pastured upon grass or are fed hay and
grain in the stable. provided the guam
tity and quality are such as to enable
them to furnish full supply of milk.
But when they are ready to wean then
it comes question of considerable in
terest, as they will grow and develop,
usually, in proportion to the quality
and quantity of the food supplied.
One of the principal advantages in
having the colts and calves come in
the fall rather than in the spring is
that, by the time they are ready to
wean in the spring, the grass will
have made sufficient growth to fur
nish considerable food, and they will
be able to make their first six-months'
growth, after weaving. upon grass
rather than upon dry hay or fodder
and grain. In counting the cost OF
| preparing an animal for market, the
period of weaving is usually considered
the proper time for beginning the ac-
count. and in a majority OF cases it
| will lessen the cost considerably II
grass can be made the principal food
| for the first six months. With the
COWS another item can be added.
Whether marketed as milk or made
into butter the milk is Of more value
during the winter than in the summer
and, after calving, the cows will give
the largest quantity Of milk, at sale
| for four to six months, and this can b.
secured with little, if any more ex
pense, during the winter than in tn
summer.
So far as possible all the stock o.
the farm should be kept in a goo
thrifty condition, and if this is don
the cost OF feeding is but little, If any
more during the winter, whether
large or a small quantity of milk
supplied.
With the brood mares it is usual
expected that enough work can
done oy them to pay at least for the
keep, and yet It Is an item TO get to
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-10-16
PERSONAL AND ,mPERsoNAL
An Ohio girl, nineteen years

An Ohio girl, nineteen years of
age, has become baldheaded.
"A Californian named John Fess.
Ter has quartz mine that has paid
him $4,000 in two years. He does
his own work, and his only mill is a
hand mortar.
The oldest Admiral in England is
Sir Provo Wallace, aged ninety-eight.
He was in the fight in 1912 between
the Shannon and The Chesapeake, but
he never commanded steam vessel.
-Colored women in New York City
have organized ''The Woman's Chari-
ty and Industrial Club for the help
of their sisters, and have leased a
four-story house as a 'home for friend
less colored girls.
"A wanderer somewhere in the
wilderness of New York has ring
whose like is not to be found in any
country, as it is set with five diamonds,
respectively red, blue, brown, canary
and coffee color, colors which it is out
of the jewelers. power to match.
One of the wonderful women OF the
Pine Tree State is Miss Dow, the in
valid daughter of the veteran General
Neal Dow. For years she has been
confined to her chair. During this
time she has studied almost constant
ly, and mastered the French, German,
Spanish. Russian and Greek languages.
She recently repeated a long passage
from her Greek Testament verbatim,
a month after she had read it.
Mrs. Mackay, the wife of the
Bonanza King" OF California, is the
owner of the superb robe presented tc
the Empress Eugene by the munich.
pality of Paris in the time OF the Sec
ond Empire The robe is of lace, en-
tirely covered with flowers 1t was
made at Chantilly, and took five of the
fl rst hands of that celebrated fabriqut
fourteen years to make it, at a cost o
100,0 francs.
The popular Cresus of Spain re-
Gently died in the person of the Mar
quis de Urquijo. His executors hav'
paid into the Spanish treasury success
sion duties amounting to f96,O0 o.
his fortune, which exceeded five mil
lions sterling. This was gained il
fifty years. The owner had begun lif
as Basque village lad, and died
Senator, grandee and ex-mayor 9
Madrid. He left ESQ. 900 in bequest
to charities in his native province
many of which he founded himself
and 100000 for masses for himself.
President Harrison and Secretar.
Blaine, says writer in the Washing
ton Post, are strikingly alike in tn
matter of complexion, the peculia
pallor of which defies sunburn, tan o
freckles, no matter how long the ex
posture to the sun to which they ma.
be subjected. During his stay at Dee
Park the President spent much time i
the open air, and while at Bar Harbor
in company with the Secretary
State, led an out-of-door life. "
neither has even tinge of brown
show for his summers outing.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-10-16
HERE AND THERE.

The farmers Alliance in Forsyth
County, Ca, will fine its members FIVE
dollars if they use jute bagging.
in johnson County, Ga, the ALI.
ance farmers have adopted series OF
resolutions aimed at "a doctors trust
or combine" which seems to exist
there.
Keep the stock we'll watered.
Thirsty stock standing around dry
trough because somebody forgot to
pump water, is n waste OF valuable
time.
One of our contemporaries advises
farmers to keep all the tools housed.
We have seen farms on which the
weeds indicated that thateort OF advice
passed current in that meek Of the
woods"
Feed sweet and nutritious food to
the COWS at all seasons Of the year.
Musty hay, and of favored food are
not the material out OF which to make
good milk and butter.
Give winter protection to the
small fruit. The thing to do is to se-
lect the best varieties, even II tender.
and then 60 to the trouble Of protect
| ing them. Hardy varieties are often
like the scrub COW, tough, but mighty
Improbable.
The cause of milk sickness, says
Mr.. Benjamin Spradlin, OF Kentucky,
is lobelia, which is eaten by the ami.
| mails. Lobelia, after it has SO far ma
tured as to produce seed, will invari-
ably produce milk sickness after 1t Is
eaten.
There is a proper limit to the ex-
ercise OF COW. II the pasture is SO
everlastingly poor that a COW must
travel over ten acres to get enough to
keep her alive, she is getting too much
exercise.
!, An exchange says that one who
knows says that corn fodder in the silo
occupies but one-fifth Of the space it
does in the barn-loft. That there is
but ten per cent. waste in the silo.
while there is thirty per cent waste
in feeding the fodder in the old style.
1t is best not to think Of politics OF
your neighbors while milking the COW.
Better pin yourself down to the work
ON hand, or you may pinch the teat
q and then the COW may kick. and ther
Q you may get mad, and there may be a,
). Improbable complication all around
9 "A dairy may be made up from tn
q best milk and butter stock on record
e but il treated no more iudiciously thai
: great many people treat their COW
Q it will not be source Of profit Nat
ural capability is valuable only whe
n furnished with the material with whic
d to work.
Is 1T should be set down as rule an
!, strictly adhered to that no noxiou
q plant should be permitted to matul
is its seed on any part OF the farm {
along any roadside contiguous to Il
ly farm. It is the bounden duty OF ever
be farmer to destroy and utterly exte
,ir inmate the weeds on the road that pa
Iis through or along his farm
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-10-16

If officials are to be executed
for looking out for their own inter-
ests, giving public. places to their
relatives, counting the soldier vote to
the point of political lewdness and
scattering the public money as il
there were no end to it. Mr.. Harrison
may we'll ask with Hamlet: "Who of
As shall 80 uahsneedp"7N. J, Times,
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-10-16
VOL. XLIV.-NO. AZ.

work at time when it can be used 70
the best advantage. On most farms
this will be found to be in the spring.
when the work of seeding and plant
ing, as we'll as of cultivating, is gem
orally most pressing. And by having
the colts come in the fall more work,
with less rick, can be secured than II
they come in the spring, and in addi-
ton there is better food for their
growth and development after wean-
ing. Louis Republic.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-10-16
SOUTHERN AGRICULTURAL.
The Dairy Requires Attention.

It might as we'll be understood first
us last that butter-making can not be
made profitable unless there is suf-
ficient time given to it, and unless the
work is done at the proper time. 1t
must now be pretty we'll understood
that profitable butter-making means a
good article of butter. But that can
not be made unless every thing is done
properly and promptly. II, as writer
of note remarks, woman has the
care of a family OF children, does the
cooking, mend!ng, sweeping and thou
sand things that devolve upon moth
er, she can not be q good dairy maid,
or If she is, it is more than one woman
ought to be. As rule people are not
rapid enough in execution to greatly
multiply duties. Once in a great
while we find man or woman who
can do the work OF half a dozen peo-
pie, and seem to do it easily. But such
people are the exceptions.
It is not wise, therefore, to expect
that the wife with all her other duties
to perform, can give attention to much
of dairy, and, therefore, at the very
beginning enough help should be pro-
vided. There is a great deal of hard
work in the dairy. and it must be done
at just such time. It is mistake to
suppose that dairying is easy. In fact
it is a mistake to suppose that any
work or occupation is easy, If it is hon.
est.
We must devote close attention to
any business if we expect to make il
successful. The dairy particularly re-
quires close attention and steady work
The COWS must be MIXED and ough
to be MIXED regularly and care
fully; and we can not be to-
particular to see that the hell
we employ attend to these things
There is so much careles sness upol
the part of some mixers, as shown il
their roughness toward the COW, o
their neglect to milk thoroughly, tina
in any considerable herd some mixer
will do more damage in season tina
their wages will amount to. Tn
process of milking, therefore, shoul
be carefully overseen by the owner
In walking through city streets we al
ways see foreman-a boss OF stree
gangs of men. This foreman watche
closely the work of the men, and We
: if they did not sweep clean or Other
wise neglect their duty, no irreparabl
damage could be done. The dairyme
frequently give no attention to the mat
ter OF milking their cows by the helT
and if damage is done there it ca
not DO repaired. The mixer shout
be clearly person. Since milkin
has been entrusted so largely to mer
there is not always that degree {
cleanliness that is absolutely necessar
; in well-conducted dairy, and the lac
often gives rise to the wish for the re
turn of the neat dairy maid, who wa
not always the sole creation OF tn
: poets. After the milking comes tn
care of the milk. If the mixer he
; mixed with the milk dirt OF variou
descriptions the milk is spoiled; n
after-care, however great, can restor
. it to prime excellence. The dirt ma
be got out, perhaps but the strainin
can not remove the doors that ma
have come from the dirt -Westel
= Rural.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-10-16

Prof F. v. Hayden was the
founder Of the system which developed
into the Geographical Survey of the
United States. He was man Of great
genius and renowned scholar, bnt
cratic and peculiar. It was not un-
common for strangers to follow him
for several blocks, their attention ar
rested by his bowed figure as he almost
ran for a few steps then suddenly
stopped, with his gray sharp eyes
fixed on the pavement-then ran again
as if sudden thoughthad struck him;
then they would inquire, who can
that poor insane man be?"-Wide
Awake.