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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-03-12
HENRY l. BlOSSiT, Business Manager.
TAKE 1T NOW.
II you're waiting for a day

II you're waiting for day
In the future-far away
When, with gold enough to spare,
You will rest from trial and care
And enjoyment find supreme,
Let me tell you-'tis dream.
II you're Shaving all for wealth
At the cost of life and health,
And the present you reject
For the future you expect,
If your joys are yet to be-
Pain, not pleasure, you will sec.
If you're waiting to be old
Ere you take the good of gold
and enjoy your rightful due
OF lifc's pleasures, sweet and true
You will find, alas, too late,
Woeful disappointment great.
Live life's journey by the way;
While the sun shines make your hay;
Now-now only you are sure
of the pleasures that endure,
Pleasures that make memory bright
When life noon has turned to night.
o, the heart grows hard and cold
Piling up the yellow gold,
Throwing present good away,
Dreaming that future day
Never coming may bestow
Joys you noU or never know.
Wait not till life is spent
Ere you know its sweet content;
Take its pleasures, good and true,
While they still belong to yOu
Then upon a future day,
They, and more with you, will stay.
II. G. Dodge, in Detroit Free Press.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-03-12
THE, MAN OF FASHION.

How His Tailor Should FIT Him Out for
Spring and Summer.
The three-button cutaway frock coat
will remain the popular semi-dress gar
ment. The single-breasted sack coat is
as popular as ever, especially with three
buttons instead of four, corners slight
ly rounded and cut away and long,
narrow, shapely roll. The edges arc
stitched rather wider than usual, in
some cases the stitching being as wide
as fve-eighths of an inch, but the av.
erage is about one-half an inch.
There will be moderate number Of
double-breasted sack coats worn, cs-
pecially in blue and black cheviots and
serges. The popular garment seems to
be four-button, with shapely Prince
Albert lapel.
In spring overcoats, the prevailing
garment will be the box coat. This
garment is about thirty-six inches long,
made with a handsome treble stitch or
plated seam, with the back cut full and
shapely, the entire garment hanging
gracefully from the shoulders. The
roll is long, and in beautifully modu-
lated lines, with buttonhole in tho
left lapel especially arranged to hold
boutonniere. The cuffs are stitched q
Ia Partisan, with three buttons fitted
into three handmade button-holes,
making pretty and novel effect.
Vests are cut five button, long, shape
ly roll, and not exposing too much shirt
front, with neatly-notched collar. The
edges are stitched the same width as
the coat.
Trousers are being cut trifle mar
rover than heretofore, slightly tapering
from the knee to the instep.
For quietly dressed and elderly gentle
men, the single-breasted, one-button
cutaway, cut with flaps at the waist
line, and the regular length, single
breasted fly front, silked faced over
coat, hold their own as heretofore.
These garments are made in solid black
worsteds and cheviots, ccrkscrews and
diagonals, and many combinations OF
modest mixtures. Clothier and Fur
niSher
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-03-12
Amenities of Journalism.

Dudish Reporter lin brand-new suit)
1T does beat all. I've Just been or
dered to make tour of the slums and
write column of scenes and incidents.
Ny clothes will be ruined.
Tramp Reporter lin rags and tatters)
Il am in just as bad fix. / have been
assigned to Mrs. Nabob's ball. and I
haven't a thing fit to wear.
Dudish Reporter say. Let's trade
assignments S
Tramp ReporterThe city editor
wouldn't allow that, but Ell tell you
how we can fxit. Let's trade clothe4.
IN, y. Weekly. 81 SIS ssa ....H
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-03-12

surface soil else the wheat would have
gotten it. While did not know where.
this nitrogen came from, / knew It did
not come from the subsoil through tho
tap roots, or from the atmosphere
through the pores in the leaves.
For the last four years have had tho
'.gall" and the '.impudence" to beard
the lion (science) in his den (the agri.
cultural press), and every attempt TO-
smoke me out only drove the scientific,
man to the woods to return no more.
l have never doubted science, but 4
doubt the knowledge Of natural L.
scientists. For want Of tn
knowledge scientists haYai
which end of the plant
For two years past
ural science with
Here it is in ''np(
nine-tenths OF al
from the air. l
the winter ar
the soil by
by mulching
ing by the whit
forms the best
surface will not
clear to the sury
warns up the soil =
ton the air is filtered
soil the same as water
and only the pure air
surface, however, Is firm e.
pores to come through, all
pass back into the atmosp
whence they came.
We have learned to hand
gases with much more ease tn
Edison has electricity. Our mist.
the past was in trying to ,rowd
two gases in the plant at the wrong
If we wish to grow spring crops
should only loosen up few inchel
the surface, SO as to retain these gases
near the surface, and by no means sub
soil. If the soil is loose deep the gases
will be carried too deep, for when the
plant needs them, they will be sub
merged.
If we wish to grow summer crops,
such as cotton, sweet potatoes, tobacco,
ETC., the deeper the soil and subsoil
can be opened up during the fall Or
early winter the better for it. II only
the surface is stirred the gases will be
used up in making excessive stalks or
vines before fruiting timer but the sur
face must be kept loose SO the tubes or
pores can not come clear to the surface.
jeff Wellborn, in Southern Cnltivator.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-03-12
THE PATIENT WIDOW.
A Childhood Legend Which Is as True q
1t Is Pathetic.

A Childhood Legend Which Is as True as
1t Is Pathetic.
"Mamma, will papa come tonight"
mot tonight, my darling, but
Smother night"
Thus spoke Henrietta Caruthers, a
little eight years of age, to her mother
as the candle was lighted and the bull
dog turned out doors to take care of
tramps.
Seven years previous Mr.. Caruthers
had come home one day looking sad and
hungry and said:
''Wife, l must go over to Jonesyille
this afternoon and see Steve Smith
about them fourteen dollars he owes
me. I'm afraid he is going to skip the
country, and if he does what will be-
come of us?'
The wife felt awfully sad to have him
go, as Jonesville was seven miles away,
but she dried her eyes as soon as posi-
BILE, plucked up her courage, and said:
go, my husband! / am not the one
to hold you back when duty calls
And he went and they never saw him
more. Some wives would have kicked
up a row about it and had every saloon
within forty miles carefully searched,
but Mrs. Caruthers was not that kind of
a graduate from Vassar College. She
knew that he would turn up sooner or
later, if not dead, and if dead he
couldn't turn up or down or any other
way.
And the years went by. She thought
of him now and then, but most of her
time was put in looking sad and raising
Early Rose potatoes for the Schenectady
market. She was very patient and kind
and loving, and many poor wayfarer.
who called at her door was bitten in
four different places by her dog before
he could get out of the yard again.
$50 papa won't come?' queried Hen
rietta as she toyed with a hole in the
heel of her stocking.
I'm afraid not, sighed the mother.
However, let us be good and patient,
and seek to bear in a cheerful manner
whatever Providence so wills"
The words were hardly spoken before
ooIlC OiC hAOhCo LII UuC uOOEs duu IL utSp,
bass voice called out in loving tones:
''Hey, old woman, your MGinty has
(hic) returned to thee at last, right side
up and solid as brick!"
And it was he, sure enough, his nose
little redder, his clothes the worse for
wear, and his eyes full of fond expect.
ancy and lager beer. Unexplained that
he had become temporarily insane and
wandered off to Albany and become a
paving contractor, and that he had
come to his own true self only two days
before, after being hit on the head with
a dirt-pounder. And he was lovingly
welcomed. his explanations were ac-
cepted without question, and he is now
talking horse in the corner grocery
while his dear wife takes in washing to
support the family.-Detroit Free Press.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-03-12
Deaths of Peter and Paul,

Nothing is certainly known of the
last years of the life of st. Peter, and
the manner of his death Is a matter of
conjecture. From the last quarter OF
the second century to the beginning OF
the sixteenth century the commonly ac-
cepted belief was that he ended his days
in Rome and met his death by being
crucified with his head downward. The
incident at Antioch Galatians, ii) is
the last that we surely know of him.
Some of the early fathers, such as
Dionysius, of Corinth, Irenaus and
others, speak of Peter and Paul as
founding the Church at Rome. From
that time forward until the sixteenth
century there was an unquestioned &C
ceptance of the traditions respecting
Peter and Paul., more especially the
former, and to whose reputed early la
bors in Rome the leaders of the church
which derives its name from that city
have always related it's beginning and
apostolic succession. Whatever has
been written OF said of the place anc
manner of the deaths of Paul and Peter
has, therefore, been in regard to mat
tiers highly uncertain. In the light O.
intelligent scholarship and criticism
there is little reason to give credence tt
the Roman traditions of either of these
two well-known Christian leaders. =
Chicago Inter-Ocean.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-03-12

You don't care how much ma,
thinks OF himself, go long as be think
we'll Of you,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-16
GOSSIP OF THE TIME.

A Western Woman Who Has Won a
Fortune From an Original Investment of
S1OO-Trousseau of Princess Victoria of
Prussia-Some Pretty Fancy Work.
One of the remarkable women in the
Northwest is Mrs. H. Z. Houghton, of
Spokane Falls, says the New York Sun.
Mrs. Houghton's career is a living illustra-
tion OF what pluck and grit can accomplish.
There are many Eastern young women in
the new State OF Washington who have
made money chiefly by taking up timber,
pre-emption and homestead claims and by
buying town property, but Mrs. Houghton
is so far ahead of all. She came to Wash
ington six years ago from Wisconsin. Her
husband, H. E. Houghton, is a lawyer, and
now a State Senator. The boom was Just
striking Washington at that time, and Mrs.
Houghton got 10 investing money on her
own account She bought timber and coal
lands and desert acres, good if irrigated.
Besides this she became interested in nu-
merous town sites, notably at Bonner's Ferry
and Post Falls.
Everything has gone her way, and she is
now worth some S5OO,OOO, all realized from
an original investment, it is said. of but
500. Mrs. Houghton is not boastiul about
her success, however, but says what she has
done can be done by other young women,
and that she feels the great West
is the place for the young women
of the crowded East, whether they
want to obtain wealth or husbands.
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SLAMS ROYAL BARGE.
They Are a Strange and Weird1y Fashi one
Craft and Richly Ornamented.

They Are Strange and Weirdly Fashi oned
Craft and Richly Ornamented.
Murray's Magazine.l
A royal barge in Siam is portentous
structure. Its lower part is an immensely
long and rather fat boat, turning up at the
ends, so that these are reared many feet
above the water. Strangely and weirdly
fashioned are these towering ends, present.
ing to view such wonders as a colossal
dolphin covered with gliding, multi-col-
ored crocodile, or glittering dragon, all red
green and gold
Along the benches fore and aft are packed
the paddlers, dressed in gorgeous costumes
of the brightest colors royal red predomi-
mating; and from the middle of the hull
rises the pavilion of state, sort of pagoda
with four corners, richly covered or inlaid
with colored bits of porcelain and gilded In
tinsel, hung with bright curtains, festooned
with real and artificial flowers, and sur
mounted with one or more of the peaked
emblems of royalty. Inside is a sort of
chamber in which are placed old-fashioned
weapons, some palace guards In gala dress,
and perhaps some courtiers or officers of
state.
One of these monsters will carry tower
ing structure with a throne at the top, upon
which His Majesty will sit if he comes out
to honor the procession with his presence.
Other less pretentious royal barges will
carry only a large awning draped with the
royal standard, and looking at a distance
rather like howdah taken off the back of
some gigantic elephant and lifted into the
canoe. In spite of the great size of these
leviathans and the smallness of the paddles,
they travel at very good pace, driven by
the short, sharp strokes OF multitudinous
men on each side.
A procession of half dozen such giants
following one another, and followed In their
turn by smaller but capacious barges, be-
longing to the chief princes and mobiles,
makes grand spectacle on this noble river,
and rivals probably the greatest glories at
tanned on our own river by the water
pageants of medieval London.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-16
A MODERN FAGIN.
Chicago Police Break Up a Bad School for
Young Thieves.

Chicago Police Break Up Bad School for
Young Thieves.
CHICAGO, November 15-After weeks
of hard work, detectives arrested last night
Harry Daniels, alias Sheedy, who, they
say, is a veritable modern Fagin. Five
weeks ago the officers were informed that
Daniels had fitted up rooms where he daily
gave instructions to class of young street
gamins in the art of thievery. Dummies, it
was alleged, were rigged up and youngsters
taught how to extract pocketbooks, jewelry
and handkerchiels from the pockets without
ringing one of the many bells hung about
different parts of the clothing. They were
also, it was charged, shown how to work
transoms, pick locks, and to extract articles
of value from show windows and cases.
Last evening the officers saw Daniels and
two of his pupils in front of the Park
Theater and placed them under arrest. One
of the little fellows slipped out of his over
coat, which he leftin the grasp of the police
man, and scurried down the str9et. The
other, with Daniels, was taken to the Harri-
son street station. The boy admitted that
he had been taking lessons in thieving from
Daniels. This morning, however, when
arraigned before a police magistrate, he re-
tracted his former admissions, and the two
were fined for vagrancy.
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having puff of silk around the edge. The
effect of the silk through the scallops of
plush is very pretty. The upper right hand
corner is turned over Cf plush it must be
lined), and the papers of ribbon are ar
ranged on this flap by means of ribbon.
The drawing, though crude, will explain the
rest, think.
~
Princess Victoria, of Prussia, is having
made one of the finest trousseaus ever seen
in Europe. Five evening dresses are al
ready done. One is in white, one in yellow,
one in mauve, one in pale green, and one in
heliotrope. This last had a high bodice,
and was a visiting gown, perhaps. The
Princess has tall, graceful figure, and her
colorIng is good; consequently she hasn't 70
trouble much about the hue of her gowns.
She is almost a brunette, with an olive
complexion and red-brown hair. There
was freshness and simplicity
about all the dresses, none of
them being overdone with furbelows
or costly draperies. The white dress was
the incest in my opinion. 1t was of satin,
and the front was embroidered with the
palest pink roses tied with true lovers knots
The mauve dress and the yellow one were
equally pretty. They were both made of
satin (this material is coming to the front
again), and had floral garnitures, yellow
roses and ivy leaves for the first and Neapol-
itan violets for the other. These two were
ball dresses. The other dinner gown had a
train of pale green and pink broeade and
petticoat of green satin trimmed with light
fringe which was also green. Then the
visiting dress had a design of lilies of the
valley in their natural color strewn over a
heliotrope silk ground. The sleeves of this
dress were made of velvet.
~
The newest fad in hair-dressing is for
waved hair, says Pail Mall Budget. Curled
hair will disappear altogether when our
English coiffeurs have learned how to pro-
duce permanent wave. Monsieur Marcel,
a celebrated colffeur in Paris, Is making his
fortune by waving ladies' hair. He charges
20 francs or more for an operation. The
undulations remain ior one month. Mon
sieur can turn stiff, lank head of hair into
a hundred graceful ripples. The wave he
makes is a beautiful water wave, not the
hard, stiff wave ordinarily produced by hot
irons. Our leading London nair-dressers
have been racking their brains over the mat
ter these three months without making
much headway. hope somebody will solve
the mystery before long. 1t would be nice
to get away from curIed hair for time after
getting such surfeit of it.
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vinegar and small piece of red pepper minced.
Let simmer for few minutes, pour into an
earthen vessel, and cover closely, when cold.
Let stand for three weeks strain into bottles
and use as needed.
Celery vinegar ranks high among the favored
vinegars, SO useful ana convenient for cooking
when the vegetables and herbs used in season
ing are not at hand. Celery vinegar is also
made from celery seed.
CELERY SALT.
Wash and rinse celery roots until quite clean.
and then scrape them.
When dry crate and mix with one-third fine
table salt.
Use for soups. gravies. hashes. oysters, etc.
TO KEEP CELERY FRESH.
Roll it in brown paper sprinkled with water.
wrap IN coarse, damp cloth. and keep In a
1mmerse in cold water an hour before serv-
ing.
Here are some general recipes:
SNOW BALLS.
Wash cupful of rice through several waters
and then let soak for an hour or two.
Put the rice to boil in plenty of water and
let COOK rapidly until tender without stirring It.
Drain off the water. should any remain, and
return to the back part of the stove for few
minutes.
Have pared and cored half dozen large, tart
apples well sprinkled with sugar.
spread the rice on pudding cloths, place an
apple In the center of each and tie loosely with
Steam for an hour, and serve with cream
sauce.
CREAM SAUCE.
Beat together half a pound of powdered
sugar and two rounded tablespoonfuls of but
ter until very light.
Pour in half cup of cream and the same
quantity of boiling water
Let cook for a few minutes and flavor to taste
with lemon or nutmeg.
CREAM FRITTERs.
Sift pint and a half of -four, two teaspoon
t9ls OF baking powder, and half teaspoonful
of salt together.
Beat up the yelzs of four eggs, pour in the
center of the flour. and add milk enough to
make batter, rather thick.
Melt equal quantities of butter and lard-in
all about the size of a hickory nut, and pour
into the batter, and then add the whipped
whites of the eggs.
Drop in plenty of smoking hot fat.
Drain on paper, sift over them fine sugar and
serve.
SCOTTISH CAKE.
One pound of fresh butter, one pound of
lump sugar, one pound OF currants, half pound
of raisins, chopped, quarter of a pound of
candied lemon and orange one pound and
three-quarters of flour, small teaspoonful of
soda, put in the last thing. three eggs, one pint
of milk; beat the butter to a cream; then add
the flour, eggs and milk by degrees, beating all
the time; put the currants in last, then the
soda; put spice to taste. Bake long as fruit
cake. ELLICE SERENA.
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casions for eating. When they admit new
departure In the regular schedule OF cuisine
they make much of it. Thus the latest
fashion introduces a '1unch" after the
church wedding instead of breakfast.
Nv
For room where stoves are in use in the
winter and removed in the summer, an un-
slightly hole where the pipe goes through,
having to be covered up, this screen will
prove particularly serviceable. 1t is also a
screen for a slender pocketbook, and
1t is one for all seasons. the vase to
hold the flowers of all the year, from
apple blossoms to golden rod and
autumn leaves. Have it OF any height and
width you desire, with the lattice work cor
responding in depth; brass rod below the
lattice work, on which hangs curtain in
scant folds. My selection would be a very
coarse crash, that being stiff and harmonic
ing with all colors. The she'll is placed on
the middle of the top of the screen, so that
anG serves as mantle. The shelf at the
bottom holds the vase that contains the
decoration.
This housewife is to be hung upon the
wall. 1t Is entirely my own idea, and is
beautiful ornament as we'll as handy
article, says a writer in the New York
Press. The top part can be made
of either plush or linen, scalloped and
buttonholed. This is placed over an OBJ
long bit of board covered with silk and
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FORTUNATE FORAKER,

He Wins Large Land Suit Pending for
Years in Arkansas.
LITTLE ROCK, ARK, November 15.-In
1884 Ex-Governor Foraker, of Ohio, bought
several thousand acres of land In Ashley
county, this State, at sale held under a
decree of the Circuit Court of that
county IN suit brought BY the
State to enforce payment of overdue
taxes Later, George D. Dick bought from
the Commissioner of State Lands the same
tract of land. Foraker Instituted suit to
quit title. Ex-Attorney General Daniel W.
Jones and Colonel W. T. Woodbridge were
counsel for Governor Foraker, and Judge
w. Mccain and ex-Auditor A. W. Files
appeared for Dick.
The suit was called In the Federal Court
to-day, and Judge Williams ordered decree
entered confirming Foraker's title. This
land is said to be worth from $50, 900 to $40,-
000