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The Louisiana Democrat., 1889-05-01
Pl1A AND POINT.

Nothing is more despicable than
to reach fame by crawling; position by
cringing.
"A woman who enters politics must
remember that chivalry is left outside;
judgment henceforth rules, not senti-
ment.
You can no more tell d mans abili-
ty by the size of his hat, than you can
tell his strength by measuring his
Observation-Disclosures.
When you get into a tight place,
and every thing goes against you till
it seems as if you could not hold on
moment longer, never give up then,
for that is just the place and time that
the tide'll turn.-Harriet Beecher
Stowe.
Hope is a prodigal young heir and
Experience is his banker; but his drafts
are seldom honored, since there is
often a heavy balance against him, be-
cause he draws largely on small cap
ital, is not yet in possession, and if he
were, would die.-Colton.
"A man may have right to stint
himself of comforts, and even neces-
saries, if he prefers to employ in other
directions the money thus saved, but
he has no right to deny his wife, his
children, his servants, their proper
comforts and luxuries that he may buy
old china or rare books.-Once Week.
Recreation is to the mind what
whetting is to the scythe. He, there
fore, who spends his whole time in
recreation is ever whetting, never
moving; his grass may grow and his
seed starve; as, on the contrary, he
who always works and never recreates
is ever moving, never whetting-labor-
ing much to little purpose.
The little dwarfed flower that
springs into life in the crevice OF some
rock, shut in from sun and rain, grows
struggling toward the light, and as it
withers gives forth perfect seed,
which the winds bear to more favor
able soil. So it is that the influence of
a word may not be felt by the nature
on which it falls, but it's spell may be
borne to more yielding heart, and there
blossom in gladness.
we talk of joyless people, and yet,
though there may be few of such,
they are not often met with. To near
ly every one, even though he be in the
severest situation, there is something
that gives him pleasure. And hidden
beneath exteriors that appear to be
wholly despairing thero is frequently
a gladness that amounts to an exhila-
ration. Like the "eye" of the desert,
they CLEAN even in the starlight
| United PRESBYTERIAN,
The Louisiana Democrat., 1889-05-01
BASEBALL MAKING.
Machines Which Do Their Work Auto
matically and with Great Rapidity.

Machines Which Do Their Work Auto
matically and with Great Rapidity.
The enterprising boy who has batted
the cover off base ball has probably
Investigated its internal organization
and knows of what it is made, but
perhaps the average boy does not
know how it is made.
All base balls are made in Philadel-
phia, and there is only one kind Of
professional dead ball made. the sup
posed differences lying in the stitches
and stamps only.
Winding base balls by hand is a
thing of the past. Machines have
been invented to do the work automat-
ically, consequently every ball is ex-
actly like its fellow. Each machine
winds two balls at one time.
A little Para rubber ball, weighing
three-quartcrs of an ounce, around
which one turn has been made with an
end of skein of old-fashioned gray
stocking yarn, is slipped into the ma
chine. Then another, after which the
boy in charge touches a lever, the
machine starts and the winding be-
gins.
The rubber ball is hidden in few
seconds, and in its place appears a lit
tie gray yarn ball that rapidly grows
larger and larger. When it appears
to about half the size of a regulation
base ball, there is a click, the ma
chine stops, the yarn is cut, and the
boy picks out the ball and tosses it into
a basket.
When this basket is full, it is passed
along to another boy, who runs SINH
lar machine, where half-ounce layer
of worsted yarn is put on.
The next machine adds layer of
strong white cotton thread, and by
watching closely as the white appears
on the surface of the gray the beauty
of the winding-machine can be appre-
ciated. There is perfect regularity,
and no point where the thread crosses
oftener than in another. A coating of
rubber cement is next applied, and a
half-ounce layer of the very best line
worsted completes the ball, with the
exception of the cover. Each ball
when completed must weigh 81 ounces
and measure 81 inches in circumfer-
ence The minute differences in the
balls are equalized by the thickness of
the cover.
Every ball and cover is weighed be-
fore the cover is sewed on. The cover
resembles two figure 8s in shape, and
is cut from selected and specially-pre.
pared horse hides. Several cheap
grades of balls are made. the interior
being filled with pressed leather shaw.
ings. Golden Days.
The Louisiana Democrat., 1889-05-01
The Best Test of Success.

Survival is the best test of success;
but then survival may either be of the
whole or of part only, of much or of
little. The nan may survive as liv.
ing organism-a geological specimen
but character may be gone. or hope, or
health, or happiness. The truly sue
cessful are they who carry with them
to the end that which makes life worth
living, who retain the sense of pur-
pose and meaning in life, and who do
not, like James Mill, father of John
Stuart Mill, feel that when the fresh
ness OF youth is past human existence
is somewhat dreary thing. To the
multitude perhaps success in life is
gauged by money scale; to be rich is
to be successful, to be poor is to be un-
successful; but this is far from being a
desirable standard to erect. But few
can reap success according to this
idea; and the rest must reap failure
and discontentment. A truer and bet
ter conception is that the man who de-
velops his faculties and cultivates his
dispositions Alright, who, amid the war
fare aud yicissitudes of life, keeps his
Judgment sound, his aims sincere, his
temper sweet, his domestic and social
relations duly adjusted, and who thus
in true sense lives through his whole
career, is the type of a successful man.
Boston Transcript.
The Louisiana Democrat., 1889-05-01
Lack of System in Farming.

The most unobserving observer
through any portion of the farming
section of the Southern States can not
be otherwise than most unfavorably
impressed with the general appear
ances and sloven carelessness that is
universally characteristic with Ala
bama farmers. They woefully lack sys-
TEN, order, and any thing pertaining to
neatness and economy in their fields
and around their premises, and es-
pecially their lots, where their farm
ing implements are dropped, become
their general resting place until
needed for future use, consequently,
every year new supply has to be
bought. Wagons one place, bodies an
other, andeverything in corresponding
disorder, regardless to every rule of
neatness, system and order. Their
stables are only excuses for shelters Of
horses and mules, while their lots are
a loblolly of mud and filth, making
one wade through the mire to get to the
crib to distribute food to the stock,
which is dashed into heap, and into
the trough, not caring an iota whether
tom eats all from ''Bill' or "Bill''
gets all from "Tom," so the feeding in
''some sort of way is cotton rid of.
Hence, when a mule dies with collie
they can't imagine what on earth
killed it, and neither can they un,
derstand why ''Mollie' is so fat an6
''Sallie" is so poor, forgetting thai
success to any and all business depend.
entirely upon common, practical sense
energy, industry, order. system, neat
ness. Until Alabama farmers learl
that there is a place for every thing
and then keep every thing in its place
farming will be an uphill business
that will be ruin to the. man who un
iertakes it, and want and starvation
] q thep .ttamillesi and the sooae
The Louisiana Democrat., 1889-05-01
with bread and jam or with rice.pud-

dluS
1t was not an easy matter to keep
Sam alive in the tropics; now that he
is not only well out of the tropics but
in a region where the winters are Sc
we're, one may we'll despair OF being
able to preserve him. During the
twenty-seven months which he has
now spent with me, he has been my
constant companion. He went with
me to the Office when l was in the
south of China; he goes with me now
that 1 am in the north. In the south
he used to pull the hats of my chair
coolies off; here he continues this play,
varying it by pulling my hat off and
throwing it out of the chair. At the
Office he constitutes himself my
special guardian, making strong
protests against any one ap-
preaching my desk. He will allow a
stranger to go up to him and scratch
his head; but he makes the noisiest
demonstrations possible if any one
ventures to shake hands with me Or
touch any thing on my desk. II |
leave my home in the morning without
him, he speedily lets me understand
how sore in spirit he is, and | have
eventually to take him. Sometimes l
am reluctant to take him, as he pulls
things about at the office, and on the
way to the Office he swoops down on
any fruit which may be within range.
If he captures d pear or an apple, he
returns with it to the sedan-chair in
great triumph, showing as much pleas
ure in his face, and making as much
noise as a child does when given a
piece of cake of more than ordinary
richness or a lollipop of extra quality.
/ am so we'll known here, that itinerant
fruit-venders know where to apply for
compensation for thefts committed.
There is no ill-feeling created; indeed,
there are roars of laughter when the
"black monkey" as they term Sam,
makes good seizure. | have to keep
q string of "cash'' at the office to pay
for SANS depredations. Chambers
Journal
The Louisiana Democrat., 1889-05-01
HERE AND THERE.

The trust business is a bad one.
It has played hob with the farmer for
good many years. He would have
been better of If nobody had ever
trusted him.
An axle that needs oiling, or a
piece of machinery that needs oiling,
is wearing out ten times faster than It
would if proper attention was given 1t.
Foul odors in milk contracted from
the foul air of stables, from unsuitable
food or from filth introduced into the
milk in the process OF milking or other
wise, can not be entirely removed by
eration. In these cases prevention
is the best.
The fastest member Of the Blue
Bull family is the PAGER Georgetown.
that made record OF 2:16i last year,
and it now transpires that he has q
full brother called St. George. that is q
natural trotter and capable of beating
2:3O.
There are two ways of artificially
manuring the soil: one by the direct
use of chemical fertilizers, the other
by feeding farm animals the foods that
are rich in fertilizing elements, such as
nitrogen, phosphoric acid and potash.
There will be no crop of onions ii
the ground is not rich and we'll pre-
pared. and but little time remains be-
fore the onion sets will be planted.
After the sets begin to start they will
not thrive if grass or weeds grow
among them. They must be clear Of
all obstacles.
-Unleached ashes possess fertiliz.
ing qualities far beyond the estimated
value of the potash therin, as lime and
phosphoric acid are ulso constituents.
Leacbed ashes may also be used with
advantage on soils deficient in lime or
potash.
An acre Of fruit, especially Of
strawberries, will sometimes pay bet
ter than five acres Of grain. Il should
pay the farmer to have suficiency OF
fruit for his own use alone. A large
quantity can be canned for winter use,
and it affords an agreeable change
without much cost
The Louisiana Democrat., 1889-05-01
Two Apt Comparisons.

''Miss Clara" he murmured, fondly,
"can you tell me why your eyes are
like the stars?''
''No. Why are they?"
Because they shine SO brightly"
"Ah! thanks. But you are like the
stars, too, Mr.. Daily"
"Why, may askp"
Because you stay until daybreak. :"
And shortly afterward his footsteps
could have been heard as they pattered
along the broad walk. Minneapolis
Tribune.
The Louisiana Democrat., 1889-05-01
NOT A HAPPY THOUGHT.
The Trials and Tribulatlons of n Society
Young Man.

The Trials anu Tribulations of n Society
Young Man.
While the society girl is subject of
so much sympathy and commentin the
newspapers, it might not be amiss to
cast a kindly glance toward the young
society man. Unquestionably the sea-
son tells heavily upon debutantes, but
after they have been out for year or
two they thrive upon fashionable life
in a way that is wonderful to see. The
leaders who set the pace in the lively
circles of New York society are with
out exception magnificent specimens of
robust and beautiful womanhood. They
have bright eyes and clear skins; they
are quick of movement and apparently
happy. Although the years roll by,
many of the old leaders continue to
keep in the van. and the incessant
round of balls and parties has no other
effect upon them than to emphasize
their charms.
Meanwhile how about the society
man? Any one who casts glance at
the vacuous, round-shouldered and
narrow-chested youths who block the
doorways at evening entertainments,
and drag themselves wearily through
their social PAGES by day, will see what
wear and tear society exercises upon
the system of the masculine portion of
the Four Hundred. The main trouble
with society man is that he does not
get enough sleep. His sister goes to a
ball in comfortable brougham, very
often after having taken a cosy and
healthful nap after dinner, and dances
until about two or three o'clock in the
morning with vivacity. The next
morning she sleeps s..ugly in her bed
until eleven or twelve o'clock. The
whole house is hushel that the beauty
of the family may indulge in her re-
pose, and after eight or nine hours of
healthful slumber she lounges around
in an easy wrap over breakfast, and
then goes to walk, ride or drive, pre-
cisely as an athlete would who is train
ing and building up his strength.
Her brother goes to the ball, dances
until three o'clock, lights big cigar,
smokes it on his way home, tumbles
into bed at quarter to four, is reused
at eight, dresses hastily, and runs
down town after hurriedly swallowing
a mouthful Of breakfast. All day long
he works with a heavy head, and at
short intervals he builds up his failing
strength by visits to the nearest cafe.
At the end of five years, or even at the
end of two, the difference between
brother and sister is wonderfully dis
tinct. Any body can observe the con-
trast who cares to look at society peo-
pie. Take any of the horseshoe curves
at the Metropolitan Opera House, for
instance, and observe the pallid,
wearied and languid men who sit be-
hind the radiant beauties that adorn
the boxes. 1t is picture OF full sig
nificance. a Week.
The Louisiana Democrat., 1889-05-01

Two English servants, Ann Warde
and Eliza Wylde, went to a Salvation
Army meeting on Sunday evening,
overstayed the time when they should
have been home, and for fear of a
scolding, tied themselves together with
a awoolen scarf and drowned themselves
in a canal.
The Louisiana Democrat., 1889-05-01
HENRY L. BIOSSAT, Business Manager.
PLANTING.

Planting, in pain and weakness,
Good seed in the ground SO hare,
The sad tears, falling, number
The grain that is lanted there;
There, in the ground so fallow,
With never the sun to warm,
Under the SHOWS deep cover.
Beat on by sleet and storm,
TIL the failing limbs grow numbcd
Yet YEARLY plodding on,
Scattering still the seedlings,
Patiently, one by one.
Lifting eyes to the leaden.
Cheerless, gray-hued skies,
Rfting and renting it's dullness,
A transcept vision lies;
Away and away over hillsides,
Waving fields Of grain,
Is the harvest planted in sadness,
In weakness and in PAIN
And seeing with sight immortal,
The rains OF Heaven which fell,
terminating the seedlings,
Were the tears / could not quell.
Eana Miller Sheldrake, in Good HousekeeI
Ing.
The Louisiana Democrat., 1889-05-01

The rock to which chain was at
tached during the war of the Revolu-
ton to prevent vessels going up the
Hudson river will have to be removed
in making excavations for the Peeks-
kill bridge in the Highlands. 1t will
be taken out entire and preserved at
either West Point, Newburgh, or in
the rooms of the Historial Society in
New York.
The Louisiana Democrat., 1889-05-01

Many men spend dollar to save
ten cents; they wear out nickle
worth of shoe leather In getting gift
OF two cents worth OF grindstone from
o ne:ghbQr,
The Louisiana Democrat., 1889-05-01

Whom the gods love, die young, -
says the heather epitaph. Those who
know the survivors appreciate the
Judgment Of the gods IN selecting,
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-09
HIS OWN CALENDAR.
One Of the Most Remarxa able Freaks
Nature Ever Recorded.

One Of the Most Remarkable Freaks Of
Nature Ever Recorded.
Twentyeight years ago when Mrs. Sarah
Rothernlal gave birth to a son there was
mark upon the back part Of the infants
head just below and to the right of the base
of the brain. The parents were not super
stltious, and not great deal'of attention was
then paid to the defect in the chid's head.
To-day he is widely known, and the BIRTH
mark upon James 8. ROthermal IS the most
remarkable freak in nature yet heard OF In
this section Of the country.
The man, says the New York Times, is
carpenter by trade, and lives in Springhil
township, close to where the Cheat river
empties into the Monongahela, Pennsyl-
yania. He is more than ordinarily intelli-
gent Mr.. Rothermal's birthmark is not of
the common kind, its transformation with
the changing of the moon makes it pecul-
lar It is naturally crescent IN shape and
blush in color. AS the moon is turning the
first quarter the mark becomes a reddish
hue, and the swelling of the flesh below it,
extending diagonally across the neck to the
right shoulder, is percepGible. The mark be-
comes redder as the moon grows older, and
the flesh swells correspondingly. When the
moon is full the crescentis of a bright red and
the flesh assumes a horn like roll over two
inches in thickness at the largestpart grad
ually tapering to point on the shoulder.
AS the birthmark grows larger as the
moon becomes full so it decreases in size as
the moon wanes, and when the moon is
quite dark there is nothing to be seen but
the bluish crescent-shaped mark. Singu-
lar as it may appear, these chan ges have
come regularly ever since the man was
born. Mr.. RotherInal suffers no inconveni-
ence by the enlargement Of the neck, nor
does he endure much pain He needs no
almanac to tell the changes in the moon,
simply placing his hand on the mark to tell
its condition While going to school the
scholars and teacher often observed the
changes IN the birthmark, and wondered at
the remarkable regularity with which they
occurred. There are many theories dis
cussed by Mr.. Rothermars acquaintance
as TO the relation Of the moon to animal life,
but none has been advanced which is salts
factory to every one. All agree, however,
that the freak can go on record as the
strangest thus far observed.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-09

pioyeo. Lucy receive eieven cents ZOE
hopping. They are mainly Bohemians OF
Hungarlans. Cull-masers receive thIrty-f1ys
cents per barrel; trimming, twelve and
half cents; day work, $50.
THERE are great many more peopA
whose product is less than fifty cents worth
a day each, for themselves and those de-
pendent on them, says the Forum, than Of
those who earn more; yet this is the richest,
most productive and most prosperous counr
try in the world
AT Troy, N. Y, Is, 600 persons work on
collars and cuffs, and their wages are ST.
500. 600 annually; 4,s0o persons are iron
workers, and they receive s., 600 per
wear in wages, and the store industry
brings 81 900 coo in wages to its 1000 hands.
These firms employ about one-third OF
Troy population.
THE Rochester On. Y. street railway dis
charged an employee On the ground of dis
honesty. The union objected to this charge,
and the railway offered to let the Stats
Board of Arbitration settle the accusation.
That body decided against the company,
and ordered the reinstatement of the con-
ductor, with pay from the date Of his dis.
miSsal.
MORE coal is now unioaded in Duluth
harbor, Superior and st. Louis bays than
in any other port, if not in any other two
ports, on the chain of the great lakes. Uu-
til the season Of 1887 Chicago held first
place. The past seasons coal freights from
Lake Erie points to Duluth ranged from so
to IS cents, with the average less than 20
cents, or from 25 to 10 cents less than the
rates at the same time to Chicago, Mnwau.
kee and Green Bay
THERE are no laundrymen in China. No
linen is worn there. The rich use silken
and wooden under-garments, and the poor
woolen or cotton. AS starchipg and iron
ing are unknown, the female servants do
all the laundry work. The reason OF the
great number of laundrymen here is that
when the Union Pacific railroad threw
hundreds of Cinnamon out of employment
they cast about for something to do, and as
there was great demand for washer
women, and scant supply of them in the
West, the Mongolian turEed his attention
10 her trade
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-09
WORK AND WORKERS.

SoNG Bohemian women cigar makers al
San Francisco make S15 per month.
THE entire type in recent issue of the
Hartford Post was set by machinery.
a SEAM Of coal 10 feet thick is reported as
a depth of los feet near Louisville, Col.
THE only Spanish moss manufsctory IN
the United States is at Fort Worth, Tex
TIE shortage in the stock of domestic
wool in the United States is $4,000, 900
pounds.
OMAHA's trade unions have presented TO
the Legislature petition calling for new
laws that will help labor.
1T is stated that near Centerville, D. T,
an elgnt foot seam Of hard coal has been
found at a depth OF lbs feet.
SINCE the United States prohibited Chi.
nese immigration, Japan laborers are com
plainlng of their competition.
THE Crandal Stove & Manufacturing
Company has been organized at Los Ange
les Cal, with capital stock of 100000
THE Fort Worth Tex Gazette, in re-
ferring to THAI cIty's growth, saws capital
lists and WORKING men need only 70 visit the
town to settle there.
THE Ouachits (Ark.l Coal Company has
driven its tunnel In 800 feet, and found
solid roof over the six foot seam of coal re.
Gently proved at Camden.
THE Jefferson Qnd.) Boot and Shoe Com
pany viii drop contract labor, as it doesn't
pay, and will establish shop at st. Louis.
The daily output is COO pairs.
THE international Plumbers Association
reports that 1t is making money AZ its Co
operative shop at Milwaukee. The shop
men are paid $50 per day.
THE Spring Valley (Ill.) mines remain
shut down The two shafts that are run
nlng are shipping very little coal. At Otta
wa seven banks are running.
THE Toronto Cam TRADES and Labor
Council sent questions TO all its branches on
the condition of labor. The reports show
about al occupations over-crowded and rent
increasing.
IHK Journeymeu Plasterers' Union oil
Kansas City has decided that $3.50 per day
shall be the minimum wages after April /,
and that nine hours shall constitute the or
binary Gay, with eight hours on SATURDAY..
AT the Standard Oil Company's barrel
shop at Bsyonne, y. J.. loo hands are en-