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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-05-15
SWEET PUNISHMENT.

A schoolmasterly Experiment That Was
Decided Failure.
''Mary Jane Craycraft," said the
teacher, sharply, "you will take your
seat over there between Joe Bridge
water and Bob Angelo
A blush dyed the cheek of the little
girl. She half rose, hesitated, and sat
down again.
''Do as you are told, or"
And Mr.. Hoskinson reached up for
the long, tapering Usage orange switch,
trimmed of its thorns, that rested on
two nails driven into the wall back of
his desk.
Mary Jane waited no longer. Mr..
Hoskinson was a man of his word. She
went over and took her seat between
the two boys, who submitted to the
visitation with that patient endurance
that boys will sometimes manifest when
circumstances over which they have nc
control place by their side the prettiest
girl in school.
"As an experiment for this one after
noon I have decided that evcry girl
who whispers or violates any of the
rules" announced the teacher, en-
phatically, "shall be punished in pre-
cisely the same way. Naomi Jackson, :"
he continued, II saw you put that
chew of spruce gum in your mouth.
You will take your seat on the boys
side between Ben Parrott and Sol
Leezer."
With an air of the deepest contrition
Naomi complied.
''Phebe Joanna Clifton" rang out
the sharp voice of Mr.. Hoskinson,
''march over there and sit down be.
tween Hoddy Ingraham and Jay See,
ley! You were whispering. Laura
cambridge, saw you taking bite OF
apple. You will go and take your
seat between Ed Montgomery and Dave
Erwin. Lutte Demoss and Tom Yoe,
make room between you for Hester
Jones. She has upset her ink. Nancy
Bilderback," he vociferated, II have
punished you before for eating in
school. Bring me that doughnut. Now
go and sit down between Billy Peters
and Hiram Craft"
The schoolmaster wiped his fore.
head nervously and looked about hin
again. The girls were strangely re-
CARELESS OF the rules. Discipline must
be maintained.
Clara Hankins," he exclaimed, "pu
that book back on Ellen Simpsons desk
and go and take your seat between
John Neill and Billy Houk. This dis
obedience must be stopped! Fam,
Kershaw, saw you writing commu
nication on your slate. Go and tax,
your seat between Jim Stevenson ant
George Ramseyr'
Fifteen minutes later Mr.. Hoskinson
with despairing groau, dismissed
the children for the day. The girls 0
his usually quiet school were misbe
having to degree he had never befor
known in all his experience, and ther'
vas no way to punish them.
The boys SIDE OF the room was to
full OF girls 10 hold any maca ~Chicag
! Tribune
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-05-15
HENRY /. BIOSSAT, Business Manager
THE WAY SHE MADE THE CAKE,

My rule? Why certainly! It'squeer-
But no one ever eats that cake,
Who doesn't ask me for my rule,
(How much to use-how long to bake-)
I've given it to scores, and yet,
NV knack there's no one seems to get.
| take my f1our-sometmeS pint
Though several cakes require quart,
And slit it twice, or may be thrice,
Or only once, if time is short,
Three eggs Tor four, II under size),
II scarce, two large ones might suffice.
coffee cup Of sugar, then,
With just enough OF butter, beat
Or, add more sugar, II you wish,
Should you prefer it very sweet
With milk, the butter increase,
With cream, use q smaller piece.
Don't let your baking-powder make
Your cake too tender or too tough;
Flavor the whole to suit your taste,
And stir it till it's stiff enough;
And now, your work is wasted quite,
Unless your ovens heat is right.
II you should have good luck, I'm sure
You won't regret the pains you take
But, after all it's judgment, more
Than quantity. that makes the cake;
For scores have had my rule, and yet
NY knack there's no one seems to get.
Mrs. George Archibald, in Good HOUSE
keeping.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-05-15
EASTER "LlFTlNG."
A Peculiar Custom Observed in the North
ern Counties of England.

Peculiar Custom Observed in the North
ern Counties of England.
A peculiar Easter-Sunday custom is
still in vogue in some of the northern
counties of England. On that day the
men parade the streets with the priv
ilege of "lifting" every woman they
meet three times from the ground. and
demanding in pay either a kiss or
sixpence. On Easter Monday the tables
are turned, the women being entitled
to the chance of recovering their kisses
or the sixpence as the case may be.
Chambers "Book OF Days" thus al
ludes to this custom of lifting: Gin
Lancashire, and in Cheshire, Stafford
shire, and Warwickshire, and perpaps
in other counties, the ridiculous custom
of lifting or 'heaving,' is practiced.
On Easter Monday the men lift the
women and on Easter Tuesday the
women lift, Or heave, the men. The
process is performed by two lusty
men or women joining their hands
across each others wrists; then, max.
ing the person to be heaved sit down on
their arms, they lift him up aloft two
or three times, and often carry him
several yards along the street. A
grave clergyman who happened to be
passing through town in Lancashire
on Easter Tuesday, and having to stay
an hour or two at an inn, was astonish-
ed by three or four lusty women rush
ing into his room, exclaiming they had
come to lift him. TO lift men repeat
ed the amazed divine; what can you
mean?' why, your reverence, we've
come to life you, cause it's Easter
Tuesday, Lift me because it is Easter
Tuesday? / don't understand. Is there
such custom here?' Yes, to be sure,
all us women was lifted yesterday, and
us lifts the men to-day. And in course
it's our rights and duties. After a
little further parley the reverend
traveller compromised with his fair
visitors for half a crown and thus es-
capped the dreaded compliment. y
Table Talk.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-05-15
HOMES OF CASTAWAYS.
Thoughts Suggested by Recent Dis
coYerY at PalmerstOn Island.

1HOuS us SuSScSGeu Nv d NCCcAO LIB
covery at PalmerstOn Island.
The recent discovery by a British
bark that the small Polynesian island
known as Palmerston island is inhab-
tied by men of our race, will revive the
hopes of those who have long mourned
for relatives lost on the Pacific. There
is hardly a person in California who
can not recall the memory of some one
who went to sea long ago on the widest
of the oceans, and was never heard Of
again. Spiritualists and other impos-
tors have reaped a living by deluding
survivors with stories of the happy life
of the supposed corpse on some sunny
isle, where, as the poetess sang, the
skies forever smile and the beaches
forever weep. Now that we are actu-
ally finding crews long since wrecked
on islands far out of the track of pass
ing vessels, it must be expected that
these sanguine hopes will be revived.
Palmerston island is only one exam
pie. 1t was found to be occupied by
an English sailor, who had lived there
for twenty-five years. He had DESERT
ed from his ship at Tahiti in a small
boat, had picked up wife on a pass
ing island, and had made himself a
home on Palmerston, where he was
lord of all he surveyed. The nearest
land is three hundred miles away; his
subjects number thirty-three, of whom
fifteen are his own children. In two
years it will be century since the
mutineers of the Bounty established
themselves on Pitcairn's island. They
lived there eighteen years before they
were discovered, and even now one
only hears of them at intervals. Three
quarters of II century ago three sailors
established themselves on Tristand
Acunha. They got wives from St.
Helena, and led happy lives, seldom
communicating with the rest of the
world.
"1n the tropical zone an island
which bears cocoanuts and plantains,
and on the shores of which fish are to
be found, will sustain human life in
definitely without imports from the
civilized world. But little clothing is
necessary, and food, with but slight
labor, can be made abundant and
varied. What sort of life the inhabit-
ants would lead. can learn from
Robinson Crusoe'' and Charles
Reade's Foul Play" To one who is
accustomed to his daily papers and to
the hum and stir of the busy world,
life would be a trife monotonous, but
there are persons in every age for
| whom the career of a hermit has
charms. 1t is quite possible that many
islands which sea captains class as I'M
inhabited are really the home of casta-
ways, and it might be worth the while
of the schooners which sail out of this
point to Polynesia in quest of copra tc
keep a lookout as they pass them
San Francisco Call.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-05-15
PiTH AND POINT.

Passing through field of melons,
1t is noe wise to stoop to tie ones shoe.
"A work we'll begun is half done,
but the other half should not be neg
lected.
The human mind is a gem, but it
is sometimes very much impaired by a
bad setting. -Jewelers Weekly.
Purposes, like eggs, unless they be
Matched into action, will run into decay.
Smiles.
The best sign that a man believes
any thing is not his repetition of it's
formulas, but his impregnation with it's
spirit.
If there were no readers there
would be no writer's. To indulge in
the reading of bad books is to give bad
authors their power for evils. S.
Times.
Love that has nothing but beauty
TO keep it in good health is short-lived,
and apt to have ague tits.-Erasmus.
How can man expect sympathy
who insists on shining up his family
tree only to shake hands with the grin.
ming monkeys at the top?-Once a
Week.
Virtue consists in making desire
subordinate of duty, passion to princi.
pie; the pillars of character are mod
Grafton, temperance, chastity, sim.
plicity, self-control; it's method is self.
denial.
Many of our opportunities must
be lost to us; it is impossible for us to
be alert enough to profit by them all.
But part of our training is to look for
them, and our success will depend on
the use we make of them. United
Presbyterian.
1T is doing some service to hui
mainly to amuse innocently; and they
know very little of society who think
we can bear to be always employed
either in duties Or meditations with
out any relaxation.-Sir P. Sidney.
When we look back upon our
lives, especially if we begin to feel
that they are pretty far spent, how we
amuse ourselves with thoughts of what
we might have made out of them other
than they are. But it is an amuse.
ment that may as well be sparingly in.
dulged in. Our better employment is
to make as much as possible of what
is left us.
-Censure is not aroused by the
prudent exertion of ability. To think
highly of ourselves in comparison with
others, to assume by our own au-
thority that precedence which none is
willing to grant, must always be in
vidious and offensive; but to rate our
powers high in proportion to things
and imagine ourselves equal to great
undertakings, while we leave others in
possession of the same abilities, can
not with equal justice provoke cen-
sure.-N. Y. Ledger.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-05-15

--Cholly Gocu'arly) - ''Take that
pencil out of your mouth" Billy
Say, mister, who owns this mouthon
Cholly-"A syndicate, probably, judg.
Ing from the size. Grip,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-02-17
Her First Telegram.


BE sure to telegraph me as soon as you ar
rive said young husband to his bride at the
Broad street station yesterday. She was start
ing on her first trip home to see her mother
Her mother lives about ten miles out
Il will, promised the young wife sweetly;
''but l don't know whether l have money
"O6, send it collect Now don't forget
Good-by.N
"Good-by"
"Good-by."
The young husband gazed longingly after the
train as it steamed out and then he sadly re-
turned to his place of business. In half an
hour messenger boy presented the following:
FROG CENTER, PA, p. M.-George Washing
ton Blank, No. 43 Blank street, Philadelphia
My Dear George; l have just arrived safely
without any accident at all, not the slightest
The train slowed up at Jinks crossing and
whstled but don't think anything serious was
the matter. 1t made my heart jump TO think
how you would feel if anything had been the
matter you know, but there wasn't not a
thing, 50 far as | could find out. | got to think
my station if Cousin VIII, the one you
used to be so jealous about, you know,
hadn't been on the train. He is visiting at
mothers, and is haudsomer than ever He
says he hates you; but, Of course, that's only
fun, you know. | forgot to say that my trunk
came through all right 1t was no trouble at
all Cousin Will took my check and arranged
TO have it the trunk, you know hauled up to
the house. 1t will have TO be taken around by
the mill, because the other road is blocked up
YOU know: but, you know, that will only take
a few minutes longer than by the other road
the one that is blocked upI mean. Well, must
close this dispatch, because kilograms have to
be short you know. Your loving wife,
ANNIE BLIFKINs BLANK.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-02-17

II it is the purpose of the city council to
introduce the pail system into the eastern
and western portions of the city, would it
not be advisable 20 begin making arrange
ments at once for doing 500 What necessity
is there for wasting any more time in dis
cussing the matterl The last council talked
about introducing a house drainage system
until the winter was SO far advanced that
it was thought advisable not to attempt to
do anything before next fall.
The warm season will soon be here, and
then perhaps the council will conclude that
it will not undertake to establish the pail
system at all, but will devote its entire at
tention to perfecting plan for house drain
age with the expectation of adopting and
carrying out the plan as soon as cool
weather comes. The result will probably
be. if this course is pursued, that the city
will be provided with neither the pail nor
the house drainage system.
The preservation of the health Of the city
is more important than any other matter
with which the council has to deal, and yet
it Is the matter concerning which the coun-
Gil shows the least inclination to act Last
summer the council spent about $4,000 to
protect the city against the fever at Jack
sonville. Such an extraordinary ex-
penditure for such a purpose would not
have been necessary had the city's sanitary
condition been satisfactory. The
streets were swept and walls were
whitewashed, and people went about con-
graduating each other on the remarkably
good sanitary condition Of the city, but
everybody knew, who knew anything at all
of the city, that what had been done toward
making the city clean, amounted to nothing
in comparison with what ought to have
been done. In tho eastern and western por-
tions Of the city and all through it, there
were bad smelling, disease breeding vaults,
and they are there yet. Is il the purpose
Of the council 70 let these vaults remain
through another summer II they are per
mitted 10 remain after all that has been
said with regard 10 them, and the city
should be visited by serious sickness, it is
cutie certain that the council would not
escape the condemnation Of the people.
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How &c Broke the News.

You say that I'm pale and flustered and
shivering in my shoes; I'll he hanged if you
wouldn't shiver il you had to break the news -
l suppose you have heard how Quimby is
stretched on a bunk down there, with pint or
more of his own blue blood mixed no with his
auburn hair? Well, they made me a joint com
mittee to go to his house and tell his wife all
about the scrimmage and what to her man
befen | went to the house up yonder, not
mashed on the job. you bet, and my classic and
blueveined forehead was bathed in quart of
sweat The woman was in the kltching, a-sing-
ing a plaintive song, but she dried up when she
saw me- for she knew there was something
wrong Then l cOughed and / hemmed and
stammered, and Madam, SAID |, be brave
Your husband is now a-lying-N oh, Lord !
what shrek she gave! And she walked up
and down a-moaning and wringing her fur
rowed hands and her hair fell down like sea
weed adrift by the ocean sands. "Oh heaven, ~
love from me-" and the way that she reeled
and staggered was sight for man
TO see; 80 brave, so kind and
so noble So loving, so grand and strong, and
now must wait his coming in vain all the dark
day long, And his children will wall in sorrow,
and never again in glee. troop down in the
misty twilight and cluster about his knee. "
And so she went on a raving her screams for
block were heard; and like craven image
stood there without saying word. II seemed
like my tongue was frozen or glued to my
peary teeth and hardly breath came upward
from the paraiyzed lungs beaeath But |
braced up ali Of a sudden, and Madam said
! again. I'm sorry-l'm deuced sOrry-to
have caused you this needless pain; let up on
your trenHed screaming; you don't need to
weep and wall your old man amt dead by a
long shot, he's only locked up in JAIL She
glared al me for minute-tor minute or two
and then the said. so the darned old loafer is
down there IN Jail AGAIN." Then she picked up
a tub and smashed IL all over My prlnccly head.
and saw She was getting ready 70 paint the
whole landscape red. So skipped through the
gate ana moseyed so fast that tore my shoes;
and they don't make me a committee IN the fu-
ture to break the news.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-02-17


Yesterday a Washington gentleman, native
Of the ssouth, met en- old colored woman the
avenue. She had belonged TO his family before
the war. He chatted with her minute or two,
and finally. said
Il hear Aunt Sally, that that boy Cobb of
yours has been acting h .dly."
Yes, Masr John, was the reply, cobb has
done gone dimmycratic.N
A friend who was with Col. R asked him,
as they passed Of what the old lady meant by
her remark that her son had gone democratic.
well, commenced the colonel, laughing,
Cobb, her son, has gone to the worknOuse.
The expression is a common one among the
negroes in the south. II means that Cobb has
gone to the bad. The negroes run naturally to
figures and metaphors, and they use this meta
phor, which taxes the place Of every adjective
indicative Of badness Of any kind A man or
woman who gets 'ornery' misbehaves, they
say has ne dmmy mule that kicks
or baulkS has gone 'dimmycratic.' suspender
that breaks is a nO-accouut dImmycrat An
aching corn is a dimmycratic misery on the
toes. 1t is pretty effective metaphor among
the colored people remarked the colonel,
laughing again, but it is little rough on us
democrats"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-02-17
our Defensive Strength.

Although this country has a very small
standing army it has quite a large organ
lied militia force In his annual report.
made a few days ago, Adjt. Gen. Drum
stated that the organized militia of the
states and territories aggregated JOG, 500
men. or this number 1896 are officers and
%, 100 are privates. In 1888 the total
organized militia was l00,S30, and in
1887 it was %, 734. 1t will be seen that
for several years the organized militia has
been increasing steadily though slowly
The number of men who could be called
into service in case of war, and who are
not connected with the organized militia, is
estimated at s,lO4, OPS This estimate may
not be correct, as iD some instances states
have failed TO report. The available land
forces, however, may safely be placed at
100000. The country's naval strength is
not so great as that of either England, Ger
many or France; but under Secretary
Whitney's management the navy has been
greatly improved, and American sailors are
probably the best fighters in the world
Gen Drums report shows that New York
has larger organized militia than any
other state. She has 1852 well equipped
troops. Pennsylvania comes next. with
1851. and Ohio next with 5,G27. South
Carolina stands fourth with 1905, only a
few hundred less than Ohio, although Oh o's
unorganized militia strength is 100000 and
South Cardinals is only $4,000. Massa-
chusetts is fifth with 5,l62. and Georgia is
sixth, with about $500 In proportion to
their populations, Connecticut, Florida,
New Hampshire and Oregon make excellent
showings. Indiana has an unorganized
strength Of about 46s, 900, which is greater
than that Of Ohio. and yet her organized
militia numbers only 2,045.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-02-17
The Old school Teacher.


The dignity and self-reliance which years
should and generally do bring will occasionally
lapse even in the most Independent and self
conscious of men. Such a letting down | felt
the other day when | stumbled on an old school
teacher that l hadn't seen before in years. |
was again the irresolute and ignorant boy he
the learned and eXacting master. Humbly |
listened TO his descantings on variety Of sub
jects
Timidy l questioned him upon topics con-
corning which l am satisfied now he knows
nothing, but he did not hesitate in the least in
pronOuncing his opinion, nor in accepting it,
As for venturng an opinion myself would no
more have dared than in the cid school days
would have questioned his superior knowledge
of the rule of three.
After he had ventilated his opinions upon a
variety of topics, and had nothing particular to
think of, he turned his attention to me
well, doing anything nOw?h
YES, sir alphabetically; running farm
"Humph make your salt atit?'
Eyes, sir Cconfusedly); doing very we'll"
well thats more than you ever did at
Aehool. Married YETI"
Yes -
"Who?"
/ told him.
81 thought that she had more sense than
that" he said, and then he left me.
When | got to thinking about it I wondered
that | hadn't knocked the old fellow down
Years ago, as a boy, when .smarting under nu-
merous castigations, had vowed over and over
again that wheE | grew up I would hunt the
BILE revenge upon him. | had pictured the saw
age satisfaction with which l would see him
bound and gagged on some desert island. or IN
some dark cavern, or some pirate ship of
which was captain.
Yet how easily he got off when did meet him 1!