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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-10-30
His Ample Apology.

The street car turned sharp cor.
ner, and the man who was holding on to
the strap swayed heavily against the
high silk hat pertaining to man who
was sitting down.
'.Sir!" loudly exclaimed the indig.
nant passenger, picking up his dam.
aged tile from the dirty floor, do you
sec what you have done by your beast
ly awkwardness?"
Il beg Jour pardon, sir" replied the
offender with equal loudness and in a
tone OF great surprise. II didn't
know you were sitting there. / sup
posed you had given your seat to that
old lady standing up in front of you.
EA'remeiy sorry. str-eA tyamely SoE
| "! Chicago Tribune
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-10-30
plTH AND POINT.

The shortest way to do many
things is to do only one thing at once.
Cecil
Its mighty curious how big some
faults look until after man has COM
mitted them himself. Burlington Free
Press.
Women, like diseases, always
search out our weakest points for an
attack; and they generally find them.
milwaukee, Journal.
We judge ourselves by what we
feel capable Of doing, while others
Judge us by what we have already
done.-Longfellow.
No matter how great liar a man
is, when he tells you pleasant things
about yourself you can not help feeling
that for once he is telling the truth
Somerville Journal.
"A man should not make greater
fuss about the wounds of poverty than
girl makes about those of her ears;
in both cases hooks to suspend jewels
are inserted into the wounds. 7.
Ledger.
An individual can not change the
conditions of society in which he is
obliged to live, and must either con.
form to them or be excluded from in.
tercourse with his fellows.-F. NJ.
| Crawford.
Beautiful souls are often put into
plain bodies; but they can not be hid.
den, and have power all their own,
the greater for the Inconsistencies OF
the humility which gives it grace.
Advance.
If you would be wise, study to do
the most essential things and to see
how many you are in the habit of doing
which are of no real benefit to any one.
Country Gentleman.
There is no escape from opinions,
differences, actions. save in sterility Of
thought. Deserts alone are free from
vegetation. The fertile field is occu-
pied; If not by this, then by that; II
not by seemly, then by unseemly
growths. -Bascom.
What vast deal of time and ease
that man gains. who is not troubled
with the spirit of impertinent curl.
osity about others; who lets his neigh
boris thoughts and behavior alone; who
confines his inspections to himself. and
cares chiefly for his own duty and con-
science.
-Contentment produces, In some
measure, all those effects which the
alchemist usually ascribes to what he
calls the philosophers stone; and if il
does not bring riches, it does the same
thing by banishing the desire OF them.
If it can not remove the disquietudes
arising from mans mind, or body, or
fortune, it makes him easy under them.
Addison.
-Faithfulness and constancy mean
something else besides doing what is
easiest and pleasantest to ourselves.
They mean renouncing whatever is
opposed to the reliance others have In
us-whatever would cause misery TO
those whom the course OF our lives
has made dependent on us. George
| Eliot.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-10-30
TELEPHONE EAR.
A New Disease That is Attracting Some
Medical Attention.

"A New Disease That is Attracting some
Medical Attention.
You have telephone ear. You
may not know it, but you have all the
same. 1t is the left ear, for it is on
record that only very small percent
age of men and women use the right
carat the telephone. AS matter of fact,
the telephone has suddenly come into
prominence as medical proposition,
and unless. the scientists ale mistaken
the bulk of men and women who use
the telephone within a few years may
expect to find themselves rather hard
of hearing in the left ear. This is be-
cause when using the telephone every
muscle and nerve of the ear is strained
to catch the faintest sound from the
person speaking at the other end. An
eminent eye and ear specialist, was
asked the other day if he had heard
of any cases of deafness from the tele-
phone.
ut is rather difficult to state exact
ly," he replied. Il have seen where
the repeated sound of an instrument Or
the repetition of any sound has caused
deafness. Telegraph operators are in
danger of injuring their sense of hear.
ing. Boiler-makers often suffer from
deafness. In the construction Of boil
ers it is necessary for one man to be
inside the boiler and the other outside,
and the incessant noise caused by the
riveting of the boiler always causes
either deafness or an affection of the
, ear. AS to the telephone, it no doubt
has the same effect. 1t is natural and
reasonable to suppose that person
listening for sound, and not knowing
the moment when it will come. may
injure the membrane of the ear, and il
time this might affect the hearing
power. Chicago Times.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-10-30
treasure and poured it into his hands
in her impulsive fashion.
Eleanor! What is thisp"

This? Why this is only your wife's
selfishness and laziness in another
FORM"
Then her story had to be told. Their
combined afforts still fell short Of the
required sum, but she triumphantly
produced the deed to the Western land.
For season there were caresses and
even tears of mutual love and thank
fulness.
"My precious wife!" he feivently
exclaimed, and he claspeG her close
'What a treasure in you, if all the
money in the world should failr'
But your piano." he said, with re-
greet overreaching his appreciation Of
her sacrifice.
"Let it CO." she said, merrily; II
could not play worth listening to
this you must acknowledge. It was
an expensive toy that's all
Next day the balance of the debt
was borrowed upon the security of the
Western deed, and Henry Woodford
was a free man once more. When the
five hundred dollars jumped to thou
sands in a sudden boom, he bought a
neat home. Margaret. the valued
friend, supplied their table with
produce from the farm. Eleanor WAS
never quite content till Harry had
looked up her two maligners and
brought them to the home where she
presided, and which her painfully
awakened energy had helped to buy.
In time she told her secret, and
thanked them for that ten minutes
gossip. In time, too, sons and daugh
tiers came and found a mother pre-
pared by self-denial for the exigencies
of life. -Eugenia Dunlap. in N. Y. Oh
server.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-10-30

ton of public business l. will only
be a fatal weakness when they attempt
to turn out Democratic members by
sheer party strength without full
and fair hearing, or when they at
tempt to pass measures that are con-
cocted on purely partisan schemes.
Then they will find that they can do
nothing except waste time.
The New York Tribune. which has
at last found out that a quorum is
necessary to do business, takes COM
fort in the fact that less than quo
rum may compel the attendance of
absent members. If the Tribune will
make inquiries of Secretary Blaine he
can give it some valuable information,
acquired by him when the attempt was
made while he was Speaker to rush
the Force bill throy 81 the House,
showing the necessity OF not only hav-
ing a quorum in attendance but OF hav-
ing a quorum on hand which can be dc.
pended upon to vote. The Speaker on
that occasion, in response to General
Buffers angry demand that he mako
the members vote, declared his igno-
rance of any method by which it could
be done, the recorded vote not disclos-
ing the presence of a quorum, although
the call of the House showed that
there was more than quorum in the
chamber At that time the Republic
ans had two-thirds of the membership
of the House and were led by able
men. The difficulties they then en-
countered show how utterly hopeless
will be an attempt Of the Republican
majority in tho next House to run
things with a high hand. They will
go slow, not, perhaps, because they
would like to, but because they will
have to.-Detroit Free Press.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-10-30
HENRY i. BIOSSAT, Business Manager.
DROUGHT.

r,ou, week to week there came no ram
The very birds took fight,
The river shrank within its bed
she borders of the world grew rcd
With woods that famed by night.
no rest beneath the fearful sun,
No shelter brought the moon;
lean cattle on the reeded fen
searched every hoe for drink, and men
dropped dead beneath the noon.
And ever as each sun went down
Beyond the reeling plain,
INTO the mockng sky uprst,
like phantoms from the burning west,
Dm clouds that brought no rain.
Each root and leaf and living thing
Fell sicklier day by day,
And I. that still must live and see
ybe agony OF plant and tree,
Grew weary even as they.
But oh, at last, the JOY, the chance;
with sudden Sigh and start
woke upon the middle night
And thought that something strange and bright
Had burst upon my heart.
With surging of great winds, lull
And hush upon the plain,
hollow murmur far aloof,
And then u roar upon the roof,
Down came the rushing rain.
"A. Lampman in Scribner.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-10-30

The more truly and earnestly you
come to do any thing The more clearly
you will seq that St,a ~ not ID cser''
thing. --Br00ss.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-10-30
About Self-lmprovement.

Propose to yourself an object that is
noble; pursue it from motives that are
high. Let what is best in you take
the mastery. You shall be ranked
with the wise and good long before
you arc fully either. And as you go
on in the course of improvement. the
idea of your better self shall become
more definite, and the life of this idea
and wisdom and goodness shall be
dearer and stronger in you. You shall
be named after the idea of your life:
you are wise, for you are becoming SO;
you are good, for you are becoming SO.
In all right courses of life, man res
olutely desirious of becoming a wiser,
better informed. better disciplined,
more useful individual, will find his
thoughts, both of the end and the way,
get clearer as he precedes in his work.
He sees more truly and more brightly
what it is he wants; he sees more full.
ly the means for its attainment. And
with better prospect both of the enc
and the way, there comes increased
motive for the self-improving effort o
the journey.-N. Y. Ledger.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-10-30

-Threshing machines were rare ir,
the United States until 1885, when
American inventors made great inn
provements in their construction, and
their use rapidly increased. At first
they simply threshed out the grain;
then came an invention for separating
the groin from the chat, and this was
followed by an apparatus for cleaning
it. AT the present day it may be
threshed and prepared for market by
o single operation, both horse and
steam power being used for the pur.
rose, Prior to the introduction OF this
useful machine. threshing was dors
entirely with aaiIA
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-06-12
Literary Notes.

PEOPLE I'VE SAILED WITH, or Recollec-
lions of a Merry Little Life" is the happy
title of Marshall p. Wilder's forthcoming
book which Messrs. Cassell x Company
will publish within few weeks. Every
body knows Marshall Wilder, and every
body likes him and admires the plucky
fight he has made against physical odds.
He has a sunny disposition and lie knows
how to make people laugh The consequence
is that he is in constant demand for public
halls and private houses, and he has not
only made lot of money, but he has made
hosts of friends In this country he counts
among them the late General Grant,
eX-President Cleveland, the late III. w.
Beecher, General Sherman, James G.
Blaine, General Horace Porter, Chauncey
NJ. Depew and scores of others. In Eng
land he hob-nobbed with the swells," from
the Prince of Wales down the list. All of
these he serves up in his kindly way as
People I've Smiled With" The book is
full of good stories and clever bits of pen
portraiture. No one can read it and not be
amused There will be no more readable
book published this season.
WIDE AWAKE for June might well be
called a "true-story number" 1t opens
with reproduction of Henry Bacons beau
tiful painting, "The End of Long Day."
photographed especially for Wide AUdke-a
lovely picture. Then come the true stories
five of them: "A Plain Case " is by the
now famous writer Miss WllklnS, VINO grew
her early laurels in Wide drake; this story
is most pathetic. The scene of Miss Risley
Stewards brilliant story is on board an ocean
steamer it is entitled THE Naughtiest
Boy ever Met" Mrs. General Fremont s
is "a California story, "The House that Jack
Built" Mrs. Annie SawyerDowns' story
is Of the confederate side in the civil war,
Jolly tale, " The French Member of Com
pany b." The story by Sara Trainer Smith,
"Overboard in the Java Sea-" will go TO
everybody's heart. The serials are excel
| lent. Margaret Sidney's Five Little Pep
pers Furthur On " has a tremendous sur
prise for readers; "Sibyl Fairs Fair
ness" by Talbot, will be enjoyed by
| Wide Alodke's grown-up audience. The
number abounds with readable articles
"Relics of Torture,"by Mrs. f. A. Hum
phrey, describes various curious ma.
chimes " for punishment in old times which
she saw in England; Mrs. Claflin's Letter
from Daisy" on behavior is excellent
Miss Poulsson's 1.-TWO Sermons is eX
ouisite Sallie Joy Whites "Volunteel
Reading in School is of great suggestive
value Little People in the Studio" witt
its eleven pictures, is charming reading fol
everybody. MEN and Things" the new
department., is tillei with enjoyable anec
dotes and talks, notably " The Footsteps o
Genius" Lord Tennyson's Chalk Pits
and " Fish-catching on the Potomac" Thu
poems of the number are by Clinton Scol
lard, Mrs. Whiton-Stone, Marian Douglas
III. X. Hudson, Kate Putnam Osgood, Alic,
Wellington Rollins and Elizabeth l., Gould
Wide Aodke is $40 year. ID. Lothrol
Company, publishers, Boston.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-06-12
Great Manufacturing Center
of the Country.

That the stock will in Is months 20 to $3.50 per
share and the building lots be worth from $500 to
81 1900 each, is the expert prediction. Can anything
be safer? Can make money any faster honestly
The lowest estimate of the value of this property
readily saleable, is s6OOO,eO0, and constantly
advancing, insuring thereby the most advantageous
investment possible to offer. Remit by Bank Check,
Draft or Express to the undersigned.
descriptive pamphlet, 80 pages finely Illus
trated, containing plat of lands, scale of prices
maps, etc, sent upon application by
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-06-12

The undersigned, having been appointed by the
Honorable Probate Court for the District OF wash
ington Commits sioners, to receive, examine and ad
Just all claims and demands of all persons against
the estate of Flora McElroy, late OF MldaieseN "a
said District deceased, and all claims exhibited In
offset thereto hereby give notice that we will meet
for the purposes aforesaid, at the dwelinghouse OF
r. NJ McElroy, in MiddleseX ON the 25th day of July
and 2sth day of November next, from one O'Clock
r. NJ until four o'clock =. NJ, each OF SAID
days, and that six months from the LIST day OF
June, A. D. lssg, is the time limited by said
Court for said creditors present their claims TO us
for examination and allowance.
Dated at MiddleseX, this 10th day of Jane, A. d..
1889. GILBERT T. MILES, Commissioners
1915 SEANER HOWARD, N'"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-06-12
Caledonia County.

HARDwIcK. - Mrs. W, l. Leonard seri-
ously injured her foot few days ago,
by stepping upon nail. 60 Willie Mack,
son of Benjamin Mack, was recently thrown
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-06-12
EDNA A. BRUCE's ESTATE; ,,,,,,,ov

fhe undersigned, having been appointed " the
Honorable Probate Court for the District OF WASH
mgton Commissioners, to receive, examine ana al.
Just all claims and demands OF all persons aganst
the estate of Edna A, Bruce, late OF owatonna
Mimi, deceased, and all claims exhibited IN onset
thereto hereby give notice that we viii meet Tor the
purposes aforesaid at j. q. Freeman's store Water
bury Center ON the 9th day Of June ana isl DAY
of November next from one o'clock Z. NJ, until four
o'clock p. NJ each of said days and that six months
from the oath day of May, A. ID. 1889, Is the time
limited by said Court for said creditors to present
their claims to us for examination and allowance
Dated at Waterbury, this 18th day of June, A. d.
lssa. JOHN JACkMAN, lCommissi oners
1918 OSCAR w. MAY,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-06-12
FRANK n. BASCOM,
New England Agent,

Refers to the following who are purchasers;
Col. Fred f. Smith president VT. Fire ms. Co.
II. y. Taplin, Esq, treasurer " "
Hon Chas Dewey, president Natl Life
j. c. Houghton ESQ., treasurer
Hiram Atkins editor argus e. Patriot.
j. G. Reed wholesale tobacconist, Burlington.
Hon. A. A. Hail. st. Adams. Vt. Grand Master Of
Masons.
Hon. w. d. Wilson, ST. Adams, VT, Past Grand
Master of Odd Fellows.
w. A. Stowell, General Supt NJ a w. r. X. r.
+. W. Morse, Gen. Pass. Ag't NJ. a. W. r. r. r.
John n Woodfn, capitalist Rutland
L. p. Gibson president Killington Bank.
Geo. X. Montgomery, Cashier Killington Bank
Rutland.
II. o. Carpenter Bardwell House. Rutland.
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&e9al CLOTHES.
DUTH f.. BROOKS ESTATE.
III STATE OF VERMONT Washingt(

1t
In Probate Court, held at Montpelier in and for
said District, on the 9Th day of June, A. ID. 1882
An instrument purportng to be the last VIII and
Testament of Ruth X Brooks, late of Mont
pelier, IN said District deceased, being presented
TO the Court for Probate: 1t is ordered by said
Court that all persons concerned therein be nothed
to appear at session of said Court to be held at the
Probate once in said Montpelier on the 18Th day or
July, A. D. lSs9, and show cause If any they may
have, against the Probate of said instrument: Tor
which purpose is further ordered that notice OF thus
order be published three weeks successfully in the
Vermont Hatchmdn & STATE Journal newspaper
printed Montpelier in this state, previous to sald
1918 FREDERICK L. CARLETON, Register
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BARNARD, SUMNER & co.

- T| ~ >''N'S IO' O'SC
dollar" have had ever so many
imitators, but nothing has ever
approached them in excellence
for the money.
The warm weather is the test
of all the boasts uttered for one
and another of the aspirants for
favor, and dispels many a claim
for clearly excellence.
" Our Special stands all
tests, and not an objection has,
as yet, reached us of them.
We have set our mark at one
thousand dozen for this season,
and will easily reach that point
by July Ist.
They 7otWnot crock your feet
or soil your clothes. They are a
perfect stocking in every re-
spect.
Three Pairs for enc dollar.
Equal to any hfty-cent black
stocking in the market.
A dress for a dollar is no UNI
meaning phrase. Sixty dresses
of twelve yards each were cut
from our stock OLDEST American
Satines yesterday, materially
reducing the number Of pieces
we secured for you.
We are not specially urgent
to have you give attention to
this great bargain on our own
account, but we think you will
be glad to see how very nice a
Saline can be at so small a
price as 8 I-3c a yard, or twelve
yards for a dollar.
Talking about Non-crocking
Black Stockings reminds us that
we sell great many excellent
Stockings, that we guarantee,
at IL I-2c a pair-two pairs for
a quarter.
-Four styles can be had in
ladies' Stockings, in very hand
some broken stripes, at 25c a
pair.
The children can have Xxi
rib, non-crocking black, guar
anteed, sizes 6 to 8 10, at
IL lac a pair.
For the boys, Xxi rib, Non
crocking Black Stockings, with
white feet, sizes 9 and Q I-2, at
I5c per para good stocking.
The gentlemen can have
French Balbriggan Undershirts
and Drawers-shirts from "a to
as size, drawers from % to 40
size, soc, 75c and 81 will give
good service and much comfort.
Four-in-hand Ties fof gen
tlemen that will wash to perfec-
ton, regular price 25c and SOC.
We sell your choice at nc.
Grenadine Four in hand,
plain plaids and spots, fifty
cent tie, nOa0 25C.
Puffs and Techs, fifty and
seventy-hve-cent goods, choice
now for 25c; $I.oo ones for $50
Special bargain Jersey-ribbec
Vests for ladies.
Price 81 I-2c, three for &
dollar, saving a good fifty cents
from regular price.
We have for gentlemen a
Non-crocking Black Stocking
OF equal quality to our ladies
special, and at same price
three pairs for one dollar"
For misses we have a Xxi
rib, double knees, non-crocking
black, sizes 6 to 8 I-2, CSC a pair
The ladies are showing grea
interest in the Zephyr Cling
hams, especially SO as the new
= arrivals are extremely attrac
+; tive patterns. We advise you
A to surely see them or &c
E samples. II I-2c is their price
The Medium Dress Goods
! section will show you a new 10
t of summer shades of pretty
MOhaars, designs in leaf, spray'
and flowers, with few specia
: patterns of Oriental design, 20
o a yard, and then there are sew
! eral very stylish patterns il
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1889-09-12

ton. and whether or not they are good and
just themselves. they admire goodness and
justice in others. ''When the devil was
sick. the devil monk would be: when the
devil got we'll. the devil monk was he"
There is good deal of truth in the fore
going. and it applies to mankind. free and
imprisoned as we'll as to his Satanic Mai
esty. We are sick of the past, we know
that we have done wrong, and would like
to do right; but we often fail to do as we'll
as we know how. for the same reason that
men outside of prisOn-preachers, editors
and teachers-advocate the right thing and
do the wrong thing themselves. The same
influences make us more successful in con-
demning wrong than in avoiding it. Even
were we so inclined, we would not be per-
mitted to publish other than strictly pure
journal. We are confined to very narrow
range of subjects; the field of literature is
pretty well covered, and if we should try
to compete with other journals our paper
would not be appreciated, and the result
would be death by starvation. 1t is not
necessary for us to tell the editor of the
News that paper, to be successful, must
conform to the tastes of the class from
which it expects to derive its support
We make THE MIRROR just as good as we
know how, and we are thankful to The
News for it's friendly comment.