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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-04-30
HIS NARROW ESCAPE.

How MIR. Brodweigh Camc Near Losing
Emersonii Howjames' Love.
MIR. Brodweigh," said the lovely
Boston girl, flush mounting her pale
forehead and her voice trembling slight
ly, II will not deny that your avowal
moves me strangely. can not disguise
the fact that my heart pleads for you.
But III matters that involve the whole
future happiness of two human beings
no step should be lightly taken. Mr..
Brodweigh," she continued, softly wip.
ing her speetacles, while / should not
look upon your residence in another city
as wholly insurmountable barrier to
our union, there are, nevertheless, other
things to be considered. You are not
aware, possibly, that l am a vegeta-
rian?"
Are you, indeed?" exclaimed the
young man, dclightedly. "Why, so am
j! Miss Howjames-my own dear Emer-
sonia, L"
Zone moment, Mr.. Brodweigh. 1t
may seem trivial to you, but is, | am
persuaded, matter of vital Importance
that we should entertain harmonious
views in particulars rs we'll as generals.
Pardon me, but what are your prefer
ences among vegetables"
THE vegetables to which I amer
addicted" he replied, "are tomatoes,
cabbages turnips, rice, rutabagas, egg
plant, heets, sweet corn, peas, potatoes,
lettuce, parsley and mangelwurzel.
also cat a great deal of oatmeal and
cracked wheat"
Nothing else, MI, Broadweigh?" in.
CURED Miss Howjames, anxiously.
"0f course | use all the principal
fruits" he said. 81 consider apples,
peaches, pears, grapes, melons, cherries,
currants and berries of all kinds as
really vegetables"
"1ou have omitted from your list
nothing that-that seems to you pecul-
iarly and distinctively Misunderstanding
and-and representatively vegetarian in
itself?" she said with an effort
Nothing that 1 can think of. Ihave
mentioned all the varieties, I think,
that but why this agitation, Miss
Howjames? Arc you i'll? Have /"
Mr. Brodweigh," family spoke tho
young lady, in the agony of this dis.
appointment, the keenest that / have
over felt, and whose bitterness you, too,
must SHARE
'Emersonia Howjames" he ex-
claimed in a thrilling voice, light
breaking in upon him, did l forget to
mention beans? Did l omit beans?
Why, beans, my darling, are my very
rife."
She fell into his outstretched arms,
they mingled their tears of ecstacy to-
gether, and New York and Boston again
communed in spirit, as they have done
once in great while from the begin
ming, do occasionally even now; and
probably ever shall do at rare intervals
world without end. Chicago Tribune.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-04-30
IN CENTRAL ASIA.
Every Innovation Is systematically DIS
couraged by the Moffahs.

Every Innovation Is Systematically Dis.
couraged by the Moffahs.
In Bagdad the lettering throne
consecrated tyranGs was overthrow by
Mongol hordes; in Teheran, in SIAM
boul, in Cairo, and elsewhere the influ-
ence of the West, every day becoming
stronger, has compelled the adoption OF
better methods of government, and has
loosened the grip of despotism; while in
Central Asia the old state of things
still prevailed. 1t is true that here,
too, Mongols and Turko-Tartars have in
the course of history overthrow mon-
arches and set up new dynasties; but
here, with every change in the ruler,
tho old despotic system planted itself
all the more firmly, and on the very
eve of the Russian occupation was con-
fronted in Turkestan with the most hor-
rible exhibition of Asiatic tyranny and
barbarism. Religion, which, according
to its original intention, should have
acted as q check on tyrannica1 exercise
of power, had become in Central Asia a
support of despotism, and the pious men,
who were in full possession of the conf
denco of tho people, emulated the Off
Gals of the Emirs and the Khans in
plundering the masses intrusted to their
spiritual care. Among the principal
religious persons whom met in Turkes-
tan do not remember single Kali
Kelan or 1shan Chief of religious
order), or one single Mollah who ever
felt himself moved to express the slight
est disapproval of the conduct of tho
officers of the government, however
great the cruelty with which the latter
behaved
The whole attention of those religious
men was directed to the maintenance of
superstition, the suppression of all in
diVidual liberty, and the exclusion OF
the last CLEAN of enlightenment Where
the spiritual and temporal powers care
only for their own interests, have in
view only the plumber of the people and
the continuance Of their own power and
influence, there can be no hope of any
moral elevation of the masses, of any
improvement of their economical condi-
ton. Commerce and manufactures
moved only in the old grooves, slowly
and with difficulty. The genius of the
people in Central Asia il not wanting in
taste and ability, industry and persever-
ance. But every innovation was sys-
tematically discouraged. Clothing,
house furniture and jewelry were
forced to keep their time-honored forms
and their primitive methods CT manu-
facture. So that even before the Rus
sian conquest of the country the native
arttficers themselves avowed their in
ability to compete with the foreign
goods imported from the north, south
and west, and during the time of my
visit lamented their approaching ruin.
The merchant boldly undertook the
montb-long journeys with the caravans,
and braved the dangers caused by the
severity of the climate and the rapacitv
of the nomads, but could hardly sue
coed in protecting his bales of merchan-
disc, which had escaped the storms of
the desert and the armed bands of the
Alamans and the Barantas, from tho
arbitrary eXactions of the customs
officers of the khanates. -Vambery, in
Nineteenth Century.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-04-30

THERE Is moro Catarrh in this section Of
the country than all other diseases put to-
gether, and until the last few years was sup
posed to be incurable For great many
years doctors pronounced it local disease,
and prescribed local remedies, and by con-
stantly failing to cure with local treatment,
pronounced it incurable. Science has proven
catarrh to be a constitutional disease, and
therefore requires constitutional treatment
Halls Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J.
Cheney u Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only con-
stitutional cure on the market. 1t is taken
internally in doses from 10 drops to a tea.
spoonful. 1t acts directly upon tho blood
and mucous surfaces of the system. They
offer one hundred dollars for any case it
fails to cure. Send for circulars and testi-
monials. F. j. CHENEY Il Co., Toledo, o.
Sold by DRUGGISTS 75c
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-04-30
DR.. John Bulls Sarsaparilla.

Our druggists tell US they are selling a
great deal of DR.. John Bulls Sarsaparilla
1t has not been advertised much in this
vicinity, and we take it that the large de-
mand for it is attributed merely to its ex-
traordinary merit as blood purifier and
strengthening Alternative. We know of
several instances where it has put sick men
and women on their feet after physicians
had exhausted their skill. 1t is medicine
very first dose seeming to do good. The
blood is the life and we believe there is no
other medicine made so powerful as blood
purifier as this remedy. And it does look
as if when the blood is made pure person
naturally gets well. We advise any of our
subscribers who are ailing and feel sick from
any cause whatever to give DR.. Bulls Sar-
saparilla an immediate trial.-Covington
Express.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-04-30

MOVABLE FLOOR AND SECTION OF COOP.
a sect on of this form of coop with the
movable floor in its place. Every few
days, the door, A, being opened, stand
at the rear, and, taking hold Of the
handles, slide the coop lengthwise OF
the cleats away from the floor, which
may then be scraped with a hoe, fresh
earth spread on, and the coop replaced
by reversing the motion. This coop, it
is claimed, will keep out rats and wet
more effectually than any other cheap,
simple affair.-N. Y. World.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-04-30

promptly cures weakness of stomach,
nausea, indigestion, hloating, weak
back, nervous prostration, debility and
sleeplessness. in either sex. It is care
fully compounded by an experienced
physician and adapted to woman's deli
cate organization. Purely vegetable
and perfectly harmless in any condition
of the system. 1t is the only medicine
for women, sold by druggists, under a
positive guarantee of satisfaction in
every case, or price ($1.0O) refunded.
This guarantee has been printed on the
bottle-wrapper, and faithfully carried
out for many years.
WORLDS DIsFENsARY MEDICAL AS
ISOLATION. Proprietors, No. 663 Main
Street, Buffalo, n. Y.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-04-30
WEBSTER'S
UNABRIDGED
ANCIENT EDITION.

A so-called Wsbster's UnahridoaA
Dictionary" is being offered to the nuhIic
at very low price. The body Of the boof
from A to 2, Is cheap reprint, pace fos
page, Of the edition Of l847, which Was Il
its day, a valuable book, but in the bra.
Qress Of language for over FORTY YEARS
has been completely superseded. Il Il
now reproduced, broken type, errors mi
all, by photo Autograph process, is prinfei
on cheap paper and flimsily bound. I
brief comparison, page by page, betvAan
the reprint and the latest and enlarnaS
edition, will show the great superiorit.
Of the latter. These reprints are as ON
OF date as a last years almanac. No hon.
orahle dealer will allow the buyer Of sunh
to suppose that no IS getting the Webster
which to-day Is accepted as tho STANDARD
and TIE ST,-eyery copy Of which
bears our imprint as given below.
bG If persons who have been induced IA
purchase tho Ancient Edition" By anv
Misrepresentation will advise US Of ia
facts, we will undertake to see that tia
seller is punished as no deserves.
G. & G.. MERRIAM s. co.
SPRINGFIELD, MASS.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-04-30
THE POTATO.
Points on It's Successful Culture-How tc
Kill the Bugs.

Points on It's Successful Culture-How to
Kill the Bugs.
The potato crop always pays for good,
clean, constant cultivation, says the
Western Rural AS the potato season
is short, the crop should be pushed as
rapidly as possible. Some people begin
cultivation even before the plant APP
pears above the ground and it is good
plan, especially if the weeds begin to
show themselves. Cultivation should
be continued until the vines cover the
ground, provided it is necessary to keep
the land clean. Different seasons will
require different degrees of cultivation,
perhaps, but even in dry season when
the weeds are not as aggressive, STIR
ring the soil and keeping it in fine con-
dition is to assure greater degree OF
moisture. So perhaps the rule laid
down should be: constant cultivation.
After horse cultivation is no longer
practical, the weeds, if they start,
should still be kept out, and it must
then be done by hand. A potato field
filled with weeds can not produce as
good a crop of potatoes as it would if
the weeds were not there. After the
weeds are in blossom there is an idea
that the weeds can not hurt the crop,
but that cultivation will. 1t is big
error.
If it were not fact that weeds must
be supported by soil that should be
made to devote it's entire strength to
the potatoes, it would be true that it
would cost more to harvest the crop,
when the field would be full of weeds;
and more than that and worst Of all, is
the seeding of the ground to weeds for
the next season, and the expense Of
keeping them down. Whoever is an
implacab)e enemy to weed under all
circumstances, is an excellent friend
TO himself and practices economical
farming.
The potato beetle, of course. will be
on hand for its share of the crop. Sea.
son his meal with Paris green, being
careful not to make the mixture too
strong. 1t is the bugs you want to kill
and not the vines. The quantity of
Paris green that will settle bug is ex-
ceedingly small Hence there is no
necessity of strong mixture. One of
our most prominent farmers and agricul-
tural writer's has not used Paris green,
however, for number of years. He
cultivates twice week, and attaches to
the end of the singletree light brush.
This brushes off the beetles ahead OF
the cultivator, and many of them are
killed. But the Paris green diet is by
all odds the most efficient Of any thing.
Push the growth as much as possible
and sprinkle with Paris green.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-04-30
In "a Bad Way.

There IS "a scene of great restitution
on Calumet avenue"
rs there?"
ut is fact, ana in one of those paia.
tial residences, too"
rs it possible?"
Terribly true; simply case of star
vation."
"What?"
That's right. Mother and four
daughters starving to DEATH"
'Do tell?i
Hired girl runs sway, snd none OF
the Others knew how to cock. ma,
Reaal Weekly, :
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-04-30
AGRICULTURAL HINTS.
COOPS FOR CHICKENS.

This Is the Simplest and Best and Is,
Besides, Easily Made.
The season is at hand when coops for
chickens are in demand. AS success de-
ponds largely on the kind of shelter
provided, we here present the illustra-
ton of triangular coop with movable
floor. This coop is recommended as
among the best by H. II. Stoddara in
his manual on poultry architecture, and
is, moreover, easily made.
Make the coop of hait-inch stuff, SC
that it might be light and moved
easily, piece of wood being fastened
to the roof las in the figure) each side
for handle. The door, A, is hinged to
open upward.
A small door in the rear allows the
chickens to pass out that way when tho
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-04-30
Governor Rusk Potato.

A magnificent new potato, originated by
John A. Salzer, the La Crosse, Wis, Seeds
man, who no doubt grows more seed po-
tatoes than any firm in the world. 1t is an
enormous cropper, fine shape, cooks mealy
and white, is medium late, and contains all
tato. 1t is named in honor of the great
farmer Governor of Wisconsin, Jeremiah
M. Rusk, at present Secretary of Agricult..
ure at Washington. It can be had only of
John A. Salzer. La Crosse, Wis. at Sl.50
per bushel, or S.. 50 peril barrel
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-04-30
WOMEN OF WORTH,

Mrs. TAI.MAGE, vito of the celebrated
preac her. is said to be tho iinancier of
tho family. 1t is she who makes all the
doctors engagements and does his bank
ing business.
NINE. PIERRE MARIE. who holds do
gree of Doctor Of Medicine of the Facul-
ty Of Paris, has, after debate, been adj
mitted to the competition for tho Office
OF physician to tho bureau of public as
sistance.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-04-30
a Danish Idea.

Denmark has organized new system
of State butter shows. The scheme in
cludes continuous butter show at the
expense of the State during several
months in each year, where fresh
samples of butter will be received every
fourteen days, the judges decision to
be given on the butter as received, and
its condition at the end of fourteen
days. The samples are to be sent i'm
mediately on the receipt of letter or
telegram, so that the dairymen will not
be able to make a special cask for exhi-
bition, and the samples are to be re-
peated as often as required. Competing
diaries must send in a return of the
feeding and system generally followed
on the fam, with special reference to
the week during which the samples are
sent in. AT present the number OF
diaries entered is three hundred and
sixty. Nine judges have been selected,
and these act in groups of three each,
each group recording an independent
opinion on each sample, which is
checked by those of the other two
groups. Each group will consist of two
butter merchants and one dairy expert.
The exhibitors are paid the usual
market rate for their exhibits. The
shows will be held at intervals of
70, might during eight months OF tbs
Gentleman.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-04-30
A Woman Two Hundred Years Old.

A case is on record of woman who lived
to this advanced age, but it is scarcely nee
essary to state that it was in ''the olden
time" Nowadays too many women do not
live half their allotted years. The mortality
due to functional arrangements in tho
weaker sex is simply frightful, to say moth
ing of the Undesirable suffering which
makes life scarcely worth the living to so
many women. But for these sufferers there
is certain relief. DR.. Pierce's Favorite
Prescription will positively cure leuchor-
rhea, painful menstruation, prolapsus, pain
in the ovaries, weak back; in short, all
those complaints to which so many women
are martyrs. 1t is the only guaranteed cure,
see guarantee on bottle wrapper.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-04-30
Consumption surely Cured.

To THE EDITOR Pleasant form your read
ers that I have positive remedy for the
above named disease. By it's timely use
thousands of hopeless cases have been per-
manently cured. shall be glad to send two
bottles Of my remedy FREE to any of your
readers who have consumption if they will
send me their express and post-office ad-
dress. Respectfully, T. A SLoCUM, NJ c.,
1871 Pearl street, New York.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-04-30

''THE proof of the puddingis in the eating
of it." How slow we are to believe in what
we have not tried. How many times have
you read in this paper of Shallenberger's
Antidote for Malaria, and instead of testing
it, gone to the drug store by mere force Of
habit for your quinine to simply patch up
truce with disease! The Antidote will cure
you. Sold by Druggists.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-04-30

ASK for DR.. Bulls Worm Destroyers.
Don't let your druggist sell you some other
kind of worm medicine. None other are so
safe and yet so sure.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-04-30

SOME one says: SIT is just as easy to tell
the truth as it is to tell lic." No doubt Of
it; but there are times when man will get
several hours more sleep and put his wife
in better humor by telling q lie. And he
tells it, too.-NorristoWn Herald.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-04-30

KNOW of a man who was cured of forty
year old sore on his leg by Bulbs Sarsa-
parilla, also lady that it cured of erysip-
elias, which doctors failed to beneft.-Jo-
seph d. Andrews, Mitchell Co., Ga,
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-04-30

London has Thirteen Club" Its
heroic members bind themselves to dine
together on the thirteenth of every
month and to sit down thirteen at a
table. They propose also to set at de-
fiance other conventional superstitions,
and, among other things, to spill salt at
table and to walk under ladder when
ever they have the opportunity of doing
so, and when there is no risk of being
smeared with paint.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-04-30
Home-Seekers' HaH-Rate Excursions vits
the Wabash.

On April % and May 20 the Wabash Rail
road will sell tickets at one fare for the
round trip to points in Kansas, Nebraska,
Indian Territory, Texas, New Mexico, Colo
RADIO, Wyoming, Utah, Idaho, Montana,
North and South Dakota, Northwestern
Iowa and Minnesota. Tickets will be good
returning thirty $50, days from date of sale
For particulars apply to the nearest ticket
agent of the Wabash or connecting railroads.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-04-30

For "run down." debilitated and
oyerworked women, DR.. Pierce's Fa-
vorite Prescription is the best of sill
restorative tones. It is potent Spc-
cific for all those Chronic Weaknesses
and Diseases peculiar to Women; a
powerful. general as well as uterine,
tonic and nervine. 1t imparts vigor
and strength to the whole system. It
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-04-30
All Sorts and Conditions Of Men

Acknowledge the efficacy of Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters as means of extirpating
dyspepsia, constipation, malarial and bilious
troubles, nervous debility and kidney all
ments. The learned and sacred professions,
the press, the mercantile, manufacturing,
agricultural and mining communities have,
for the past thirty years, been furnishing
each their quota Of testimony in its behalf,
until that has reached unwieldy but graft
flying proportions, affording unequivocal
proof that the publicis discerning.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-04-30

CoUGHs, Hoarseness, Sore Throat, ETC.
qalckly relieved by Browns BRONCHIAL
TRocHEs. A simple AID effectua1 remedy
superior to all other articles for the same
purpose. Sold only IL boxes.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-04-30

When man gets mortgage on house
he realizes perhaps for tho first time that
there is one man in the world who takes a
real, live, active interest in his career
Louisville journal.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-04-30

If you are tired taking the large old fash
toned gripping pills, try Carter's Little Liver
Pills and take some comfort A man can't
stand everything. One pill adose. Try them.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-04-30

IT is a mistake to say that rain falls alike
on tho just and the unjust The latter al
WAYS has an umbrella.-Puck
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-04-30

MEN who tell their wives they are so busy
they can not illal time to go church viii sit
On o log for hours waiting for a bite, and
-Somcrville journal.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-04-30

IT is the old man, as rule, who gives the
advice to the young man. And it is the old
man, too, who gives the money to the con-
tidencc man-Puck.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-04-30

Sir Nouels Free, will be sent by Cragin Il
Co., Philada, Pa, to any one in the U. s. Or
Canada, postage paid, upon receipt of Is
Dobbins' Electric Soap wrappers. See list
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-04-30
Entitled IN tha Rost-

All are entitled to the best that their
money will buy, so every family should
have, at once, bottle of the best family
remedy, Syrup Of Figs, to cleanse the sys-
tenn when costive or bilious. For sale in
SOC and 81 90 bottles by all leading druggists.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-04-30

SOME people are never satisfied. Now
that tho days arc getting longer some of the
laboring men are on strike to make them
shortcr.-Light.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-04-30

THE man who boasts that he wants but
little hero below is always complaining
when he hasn't plenty of room in horse
car.-Boston Post.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-04-30

STGASGE that when any thing or any body
10 to be cried doHH IL is generally aone with
no npsGnr, .-GaltlIiora ASaeriesla.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-04-30

THE amount of brandy taken by some
men is out of all proportion to the size of the
collie they arc entertaining.-M Vine
yard Herald
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-04-30

The peach orchard should be cult.
waited as soon as the frost is out OF the
ground. IL is common among peach
growers to cultivate the orchard in The
same manner as for cora. Grass il In.
furious 10 young peach trees,
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-04-30
"A young man ST Warsaw ordered a

"A young man IF Warsaw ordered a
dress suit from tailor who agreed to
deliver it on a certain day. Tho lattct
failed and hence curious lawsuit. The
plaintiff alleged that he had arranged
to go to an evening party at which he
had resolved to offer his hand to the
daughter of the house. Because of the
failure of his dress-coat ho could not
go, but his rival went, proposed and was
accepted and the plaintiff considered
himself damaged to tho value of the
lost bride.