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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-05-22
SPEED or THOUGHT.
How Long It Takes an Idea to Reach the
Human Brain.

How Long 1t Takes an idea to Reach the
Human Brain.
Some of the readers have, no doubt,
frequently made use of the expression
''quick as thought" but have any of
them ever stopped to consider how
quick thought ISL A writer in the
Nineteenth Century has made some in
teresting calculations regarding the
comparative length of time it takes to
call to mind various everyday facts.
1t takes about two-ffths of second
to call to mind the country in which a
well-known town is situated, or the
language in which familiar author
wrote. We can think of the name of
next month in half the time we need
to think OF the name of last month. It
takes on the average one-third of
second to add numbers consisting of
one digit, and half second to multiply
them. Such experiments give us con-
siderable insight into the mind.
Those used to reckoning can add two
to three in less time than others those
familiar with literature can remember
more quickly than others that Shake
speare wrote Hamlet" 1t takes longer
to mention month when season has
been given than to say to what month
season belongs.
The time taken up in choosing mo-
ton, the ''will time" can be measured
as well as the time taken up in per-
ceiving. If I do not know which of
two colored lights is to be presented,
and must lift my right hand if it be red
and my lift if it be blue, l need about
one-thirteenth of a second to initiate
the correct motion. have also been
able to register the sound waves made
in the air by speaking, and thus have
determined that in order to call up the
name belonging to printed word I
need about one-n1nth Ola second, to a
letter one-sixth of a second, to q pict-
ure one-quarter of a second, and to
color one-third of second.
A letter can be seen more quickly
than word, but we are so used to
reading aloud that the process has be-
come quite automatic, and word can
be read with greater ease and in less
time than a letter can be named. The
same experiments made on other per-
sons give times differing but little
from my own. Mental processes. how
ever, take place more slowly in chill
dren. in the aged. and in the unedu-
Gated.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-05-22
wANamAkER'S THRIFT.
How tho Philadelphia Man Expects 10
Make His Office Pay.


When Judge Thurman alluded to the
Postmaster-General as ''that Philadel-
phia breeches maker" the administra-
ton organs make show of indigna-
ton that one of the sanhedrim should
be spoken of so contemptuously. 1t
turns out, however, that the old Roman
knew what he was talking about. Re-
Gently postmasters all over the coun-
try have been receiving circular let
tiers from Philadelphia clothing firm
which goes by the name Of Wanna
maker & Brown. asking them to act
as agents or drummers for the con-
Germ. and signifying that they will find
it to their interest to do 50.
When the attention of the Postmas-
ter General was called to the matter
he pooh-poohed it as ridiculous at
tempt to connect his administration of
the Post Office Department with the
business management of a firm with
which he disclaimed all connection,
saying that he had separated from the
concern four years ago, and that he
had simply left his name with it as an
evidence of good will. 1t so happens
that Mr.. Wanamaker has two part
ners in his big department store in
Philadelphia, and observing that the
newspapers were onto the Wanna
maker & Brown circular, each
rushed into print with an expla-
nation of the Postmaster Generals
connection with the concern, and appar-
emily without consultation with each
other, or IL knowledge that the boss
had been making an explanation him
self. Thomas 3. Wanamaker declares
that John is interested in Wanamaker
& Browns merely as a stockholders;
William Wanamaker declares that
John is interested only as creditor;
while John himself declares that he
has had no interest in or connection
with the firm for four years.
There is Discrepancy in the state
ments of these three witnesses that
would strike any ordinary court and
jury as being quite remarkable. 1t is
not our province to Undertake to
reconcile them, or to point out which
is right and which is wrong. But we
do know that Mr.. Wanamaker got his
Cabinet office in consideration of the
large sum he contributed to the Re-
publican campaign fund last fall, and
we do not see how he is to get his
money back unless he runs the Post
Office Department in connection with
mis- Philadelphia establishment.
With Russell Harrison's newspaper
pool, Mr.. Wanamaker's 'breeches"
trust and Mr.. Blaine's corner on guano,
the indications are that this admins
tration will be an exceedingly thrifty
one.-St. Paul Globe.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-05-22
VASE, NOT vAWZ.
A Little Word About Whose Pronun
tion Much Has Been Written.

A Little Word About Whose Pronuncl
tlon Much Has Been Written.
If three of our most celebrated poets
Pope, Byron and Moore-may be
cited as orthepists, then are, or were,
cease" "face" and grace correct
rhymes to "vase," in proof of which I
append quotation from each poet:
Pope, The Rape OF the Lock-" canto
", adj tn.:
There heroes wits are kept in ponderous vases
And beaux in snur boxes and tweezer cases.
Byron, don JUAN" c. viii, S. 90:
a pure, transparent, pale yet radiant face,
Like to lighted aIabaster vase.
Moore, "Odes OF Anacreon. v. and
xviii:
Grave me cup with brilliant grace,
Deep US the rich and holy vase, etc.
Ode lxxviii. has the same rhyme.
The question is, was such pronunci-
alton of "vase" the "pure we'll of En-
glish undefled," or was it only "po-
etic license" or caprice, fashion or
custom? OF course, many words alter
their pronunciation from age to age,
and vase" may be one of them, as at
present, think, the word is generally
pronounced as though it rhymed with
stars. Nuttall, in the preface to his
dictionary, says: THE standard of
pronunciation is not the authority of
any dictionary, or any orthepist; but
it is the present usage of literary and
well-bred society,"" Itthis be so, such
usage seems to be the safest stand
ard we have for our pronunciation.
Keats, in one of his miscellaneous po-
ems, makes 'Iaces" rhyme with
vases:
Fair dewy roses brush against our faces,
And Towering laurels spring from diamond
vases,
When / was a boy, about 1S43, we
had a reading book, one story in
which was about 1.-The Broken Vase"
My father taught us to read it to
rhyme with CHASE" but we after
ward came to think it ought to be
something between Mars" and
"yanz. Notes and Queries.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-05-22
DEMOCRATIC JUSTICE.

An Example About Which Republican
Organs Have Nothing to Say.
1t has remaiyed for the Democratic
State OF Arkansas to supply the only
example, save that set in two minor
cases in this city, of enforcing the
penalties of the law for crimes against
the suffrage.
In the court at Little Rock recently
a man convicted of driving q negro
s<om the polls in November, threaten
ing to shoot him if he attempted to
vote, was sentenced to two years i'm.
rrisonment. Another man convicted
OF interfering unlawtully in the cleo
ton was fined $780, This is justice
Any interference with the right of
citizen to vote, by force or by threats,
is an offense not only against indiyid
ual rights but against the spirit of
republican institutions, and deserves
the severest punishment.
But the bribery of voters is crime
equally heinous and more dangerous,
because more insidious and less likely
to be detected and resisted. Bribery
poisohs the stream at its source. It
debauches voters while defeating the
popular will. And yet when the in
citers and perpetrators of bribery have
been arraigned before Judge Woods
court at Indianapolis the law has been
interposed, with strained and techni-
cal interpretations to shield the Of
tenders. Not one OF all the guilty gang
has been punished in Indiana, or in
any other Northern State.
Arkansas has done well.-N. Y.
World.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-05-22
An Old Time Partisan.

Ii is easy to recall to mind his familiar
figure as he sits, during winter evenings,
in his favorite corner.
In his easy chair, with pipe in hand and
his silver-rimmed ''specs'' pushed back
until they find a soft resting place on his
beloved snow white head, with eyes spark
ling and his face beaming with pleasure as
he calls back old memories of days long
gone by, he is likely to talk something after
this fashion:
ats a long time since was a boy. All,
but that was many years ago. Sixty long
years have gone and the good Lord knows
they were short enough. was then as
spruce and pert as any chap whereabouts.
"Oh, but we boys were boys! Things
have changed heap since those days.
Boys then didn't take much stock in stylish
clothes aud they didn't carry canes like
they do now. Clothes and canes didn't cut
much caper then, but it was good hard
sense aud work.
1.-The boy who could do the biggest days
work-could cut the most wood, split the
most rails, pillow the most corn, was the
most envied for he was sure to have the
sweetest and best lookin' gal at the 'slngin'
school, or 'apple-peelin'.'
II tell you those were good old times!
II didn't think any thing of going thirty
mile or more to see your grandmother,
and we didn't have very good roads either,
but generally had to follow some old Indian
trail.
"Talkin' about sickness then, there was
no sickness like now. II we had cold, a
pain, or any thing, there was the best med.
icine in the world found in any log cabin
home you came across. Why, I remember
that my old grandmother, God bless her
soul, she's been dead these fifty years or
more, could make the best home made
medicine for miles around. Her 'sarsapa-
rilly' couldn't be beat. Come to think
just read in the paper about somebody who
is making this same old log cabin medicine,
under the name Of Warmers Log Cabin
Sarsaparilla.'
"It does seem splendid to think that you
can buy those good old home cures at the
druggists nowadays.
''Mebby you think people were not
healthy in those days, but tell you that it
was mighty seldom anybody was sick long
when they had such good old grand
mother medicine so handy.
"People used to be stronger, healthier,
and they lived longer, when I was boy"
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-05-22
She Wanted Him to Stay.
In the parlOr at 1l:30.

In the parlor at 1l:30.
'.Don't go Charley. 1t isn't late"
II must Flora. l don't want your
father to quiz you about the size of
his gas bills, you know"
"Ha! ha! Don't mind that. I pay
the gas bills and pa gives me the dis
count. The bigger they are the more
] get, don't you see?"
Charley ian hour later on his way
home) II wonder if that's the reason
that mercenary girl always wants me
to stay till morning?-Chicago Herald.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-05-22

Sometimes it happens that quite an
entertainment IS arranged especially
for juryman's benefit Such an in
stance was seen in Maine village the
other day. 1t was in horse case, and
the entire jury had to go out and see
for themselves what kind of q record
the animal could make ca the track,
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-05-22

DODGE & CHANDLER, of Cambria Mills,
Michigan, wrote DR.. Schallenberger:
We are selling five different kinds of
Ague Pills, but yours are in the lead. After
trying all other remedies our customers in
variably fall back on Shallenberger' Pills.
They never fail to effect cure, and living
in the midst of Fever and Ague country,
we speak from experience.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-05-22

Mime. Carnot, of France, has set
the example among the ladies of the
presidential court of wearing lilies Of
the valley on all occasions, and these
flowers are now regarded as the en-
blem of the Carnotregime. The F1eur
de lis has for many years been the ma
tioaas flower Of France,
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-05-22
physicians Wise in Their Generation.

The above class of scientists recognize,
the efficacy of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters
as remedy and preventive of fever and
ague, rheumatism, want of vigor, liver COM
plant, and some other ailments and infirm
conditions of the system. Experience and
observation have taught them its value.
They but echo the verdict long since pro
nounced by the public and the press. Only
the benighted now are ignorant of Amer
ica's tonic and Alternative.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-05-22

Tho latest discussion of tho
Southern question shows that it re-
mains just where it was. No amount
of theory will solve it. The solution
must be left to the gradual extension
of progress, and the growth of civil
zation and enterprise, BAL tiinore
American.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-05-22

PAIN from indigestion, dyspepsia and too
hearty eating, is relieved at once by taking
one of Carter's Little Liver Pills Immediate
ly after dinner. Don't forget this.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-05-22

Coon ADv1cE.-Use Hale's Honey of Hore-
hound and Tar for cough or cold. Pixies
Toothache Drops Cure in one minute
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-05-22

PHILIP ARMOUR is said to give away moth
ing less than tive-dollar tips to walters,
train hands, etc., when he travels.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-05-22

To REGULATE the stomach, liver and bowels,
Little Liver Pills every night. Try them.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-05-22

JOHN BR1GHTs collection Of pipes is OF
great value, and Is to be preserved intact.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-05-22

KING M1LAN's last official act was to dec
crate his cab-driVer,
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-05-22

A WA1L1NeFoRD (Conn.) milkman has q
shepherd dog with three tails.
The evening world., 1889-09-21
GIVE THE DEVIL HIS DUE.

The Cigar-Makers' International Union
asks for a law prohibiting the manufacture
and sale of cigarettes, putting the demand on
hygienic and humanitarian grounds. 1t may
be, as they say, that the cigarette has demon
alized the youth Of the land. undermined
their health and made them unfit for much
of anything. But it has supported I'M army
of girls and cultivated the public taste for
art Us we'll as nicotine.
It has made q new diversion for the small
boy with its pictures. It has advertised a
lot of good people, athletes. actors and the
rest. And last, but not least. it has given
ANTHONY CoMsrock n kindred fanatics q
thing or two to think and pra,tle about.
Have cigars lone more. except to cost
more money?
The evening world., 1889-09-21
The Fortunate Isles.

Yon sail and you seek for, the Fortunate Isles.
The old Greek isles OF the yellow birds songi
Then steer straight on through the watery
miles,
Straight on, straight on, and you can't 60
wrong.
Nay. not to the left, nay, not to the right,
But on. straight on, and the isles are in sight.
The Fortunate Isles where the yellow birds sing,
And life lies grit with a golden ring.
These Fortunate Isles they are not so far,
They lie within reach of the lOwliest door.
You can see them CLEAN by the twilight star;
You gan hear them sing by the moons white
shore
Nay, never look back! Those levelled grave
They were landing steps; they were steps unto
thrones
or glory for souls that lave sailed before
And have set white feet on the fortunatO
shore.
And what nre the names of the Fortunate Isl0s7
Why, Duty and Love aud a large Content.
LoL these are the isles Of the watery miles
That God let down from the ornament.
10! Duty and Love aud q true Mans Trust;
Your forehead to God, though your feet in the
dust;
Lo! Duty and Love and a Ewest babes smiles,
And there, o friend, are the Fortunate lsleA
--Jodquin Mhler.
The evening world., 1889-09-21
POLITICAL ECHOES.

The halr-dozcn men who formerly composed
what was known as the Union Labor party have
fcNtherel their nests and quit, but the party
seen nt the Republican and Democratic State
though they REPRESENTED q hundred thousand
instead of II half dolon votes.
New Works lawyers are anxious that the Judge
of the Court of Appeals shall come from the
metropolitan district. They will ask both
parties to nominate such a man. Judge
Rapallo and Gray are the only New Workers who
ever sat in the Court of last resort.
Special admission tickets with reserved seat
coupons are a new innovation in political
primaries. The Eighth Assembly District is
accountable for many queer things in the
political line.
The National Republican League of Deaf
Mutes has a grievance, but naturally ia keeping
very quiet about IL. Some OF its members have
been refused employment in the Custom-House.
and a manifesto against Collector Erhardt for
his stand in the matter is being issued.
BILLY Kcnney will CONF about as near hllinR
Tom Costigan'sc chair as | do Judge Norton's. =
said the man who looks like the new Supervisor
of the CftB Record to-day. Judge Mitchell says
that the contrast between Judge and chair is so
great that it takes from his dignity.
One hundred and sixty-three new election dis
tricts have been added to the $50 Of last year,
making a grand total OF l,ol9 voting pre-
cincts in the city. The greatest increase is in
the Harlem district with ~ new precincts, the
Nineteenth Assembly District following with 2l.
The evening world., 1889-09-21
THE FIRST TO PROCLAIM IT.

The EVENING WORLD gets the news, gets it
first hand, gets il easily, and gets it straight.
The latest illustration of its superiority over
other afternoon papers was it's announcement
Thursday. hours ahead of every one, of
the Site Committees choice of the Central
Park site for the Worlds Fair. BY having
the news early THE EVENING WORLD WINS
enabled to supplement its story with an aecu-
rate map showing the exact location and
extent of the territory decided upon.
1t was u great, big, frst-class beat.
Later editions of the other papers, taking their
knowledge from The EVENING WORLD, made
tardy announcements OF what the Committee
had done.
That is all right. This paper has no OBJ
lection to being a pioneer in the matter of
news. It is willing its n~eighbors should make
use of its columns to patch up the gap, and
deficiencies in their news service. and mako
their late editions at least in q measure
worth reading. but it wants the name as well
as the game.
We lead. Let who will follow.
The evening world., 1889-09-21

deal table. He wore spectacles, and was
reading q paper.
This was Donohue's father. The murderer's
mother sat at the other side of the table,
weeping as If her heart would break.
My boy, my boy could you not have
done without murder ~ she muaned. rock
ing herself to and fro, and hiding her face
In her apron.
God help us. Don't cry, old woman, 1"
her husband said.
He is a man Of means. aud lives on the
West side. He has six other children be-
sides the lad in trouble.
DO you think they will hang him ?" he
asked. ~pitifullv following the reporter into
the hail aud closing the door carefully, 30
that his wife might not hear the answer.
II don't think they will" replied the re-
porter.
Whit else could he tell that trembling old
man before him.
Where is your sons wife" the reporter
asked.
"She went to court to zee him" he ex-
planned, but she wasn't seen there md neither
Ind she gone to tue stat on house to see her
husband. On the ground floor of the teue-
m mt. house the dead man lay in his coffin,
his weeping children about il.
Annie Reynolds. the dend mans eldest girl.
Indignantly denied that there had ever been
any undue intimacy between her father aud
Mrs. Donohue.
Donohue Was afterwards nrraigned before
Coroner Hanly and lully committed to the
Tomhs.
The inquest will be held next Thursday.
The evening world., 1889-09-21
OFF THE STAGE.

Miss Selma Fetter is a Louisville girl. and il
was N that city that abe chose to make her debut
as n star, in THE Tigress, " last season. Miss
Fettcr Is earnest and conscientious. The tiger
dress that she bought for Mr.. Morris's play was
recently seen at the Madison Square Theatre.
Miss Ethel Greybrooke and her husband.
Henry Holland, live in a little fiat in Thirty
third street. The were temporarily separated
last season by the eXigencies of their profession.
This season they have occurred all engagement in
the same theatre, and are happy.
Miss Emily Soldene, who was at one time a
leading comic opera light in England. has now
turned her attention towards this country. Miss
Soldene wears huge hoop earrings on all occa-
sions. She is ali inveterate shopper.
Miss Kate ClNxton is an energetic little bust
ness woman. She is an indefatigable worker.
Miss ClaXton is very much liked among the
members of her company. She is not at all
strict at reheArsa!s. In fact she is extremely in
dulgent.
The evening world., 1889-09-21
A PRESS THAT WON'T BE s1LENcED.

Minnesota's beautifully constitutional effort
to trammel the press seems happily to meet
with small success. The second hanging
under the new law. which forbids the pres
ence of reporters and the publication of any
description of the execution, took place at
st. Paul yesterday.
The newspapers in the Twin Cities all had
stories of the event, Just as If the absurd
statute had not existed. That law is as it de-
serves to be, not only a dead-letter, but a
still-born one.
The execution of any punishment under
the law is the action of the people, though
its servants be the instruments, and the
people has a right to know in what manner
that action is performed.
The evening world., 1889-09-21
MEN OF MUSCLE,

R. II. Potion, one of the prominent members
of the Long Island Rowing Association, pos
sesses a large number of medals as rewards Of
his aquatic proves. When ION edge" Mr..
Pelton can participate in three or four races on
the same day without tagging out.
F. W. Jansen is Chairman Of the Athletic
Committee of the Staten Island Athletic Club.
Besides being in business in this city he man.
ages a periodical devoted TO athletics,
Foxhnll Keene is the son OF James r. Keene.
the stock speculator. Foxy" is the captain Of
the champion polo team of the country, is eli
adept at lawn tennis and court tennis and will
play i'll the rush line of the Harvard football
team this Fall. He is generally conceded to be
the best gentleman rider in America
willie Day is one of the speediest long-dis-
tance runners in America. Ten miles is q IA
vorite distance witt him, though he will not
turn up his nose at a good stiff steeplechase. He
is a member of the New Jersey Athletic Club.
Owing to his speed, E. d. LANCE, OF the Man
haitian Athletic Club, is usually scratch man
in the walking events in which he enters. He
holds his own with the best of them. even allow
ing this advantage to his competitors.
The evening world., 1889-09-21
The Spartan Virtue Of FOrtltuds

Must be possessed in no ordinary degree by those who
bear tho pSnES of rheumatism without complaint. We
have never heard of such an individual, But why not,
rec the lifelong mArtyrdom begins, eItinguish the
germ ofthis Atrocious mGlady with Hostcttsr's Stomach
Bitters, the efficacy OF which as a preventive Of the
disease, as we'll as q means Of relieving 1t, IL well
established and amply Attested. during the last thirty
Ave years. over professional sigma urss! 1t eGpurGGtSS
from the blood those Acrid principles which bsgst the
pain and Inflammation Characteristic Of this complaint
which, II should be reoollscted, is always liable to ter
minEte life suddenly when il attacks a vital part. ThS
Bitters also sIpols the virus OF malaria from the sys-
tenn. remedies dyspepsia, kidney complaint, conStipSr
ton and bilousnesS, Quiets the nerves. and tnViSor-
Gtes the whole physical organism.