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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-02-19
Harrison and Malone.

No President since General Grants
day has shown such a thorough con.
tempt for the civil-service laws of Con.
gress-not in words, but in acts, which
speak louder than words. He has been
called upon to 6eny charges of COM
plicity with Malone in the Virginia
election, where it was plainly apparent
that he virtually turned over the
patronage OF the party to Malone, to be
used to Republicanize the State. Ma
hone has never denied it; the parties
interested, and who were the bene.
flciaries of this disreputable scheme,
have never denied it, and tho charge
stands with the simple statement from
the President of the United States that
he was not responsible for Mahone's
candidacy or his defeat, without any ex.
PLANTATION as to who was responsible for
the disreputable use of the Adminls:ra-
ton in that election. He knew it was
going on; he permitted it, and no man
in the United States but the President
could have stopped it.-Atlanta Consti-
tuition
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-02-19
AN ECCENTRIC ARTIST.
Tho Great Pride of Joseph Turner, the
English Painter, Illustrated.

n,
English Painter, illustrated.
Joseph Turner, the great English
artist, had many apparently contradic-
tory qualities. lie was almost miserly in
/ his boarding of money, and yet in some
things he was extremely generous; he
was gruf and blunt, and yet kind-heart-
ed. A good story illustra ting his great
pride is told. When his grand picture
OF Carthage" was refused by some one
for whom he had painted it to order at
the price of one hundred pounds ster-
ling, he resolved to leave it to the ma
tion. Subsequently, at a great meeting
at Somerset House, at which Sir
Robert Peel, Lord Harding and
others were present, it was agreed to
buy two pictures of Turner, and to
present them to the national gallery as
monuments of art for eternal incite-
ment to artists and all art lovers" A
memorial was drawn up, and presented
to Turner by his sincere old friend, Mr..
Gritfiths, who exulted in the pleasing
task. The offer was 5000 pounds ster-
ling for the two pictures, the "Rise"
and Fall of Carthage" Turner read
the memorial, and his eyes frightened
He was deeply moved, and shed tears,
for he was capable OF intense feeling.
He expressed the pride and delight he
felt at such noble offer from such men,
but he added, sternly, when he read the
word Carthage" No, no; they shall
not have it," at the same time inform
ing Mr.. Grifiths of his former inten-
ton. Turner died December 10, 1851,
leaving 100000 pounds sterling with
which to found a charity for needy art
lists. Relatives succeeded in breaking
the will and getting most of the prop
erty, but large number of Oil paint
ings and drawings were secured by the
national galleries of art These pict-
ures are now among the most highly
priced in Great Britain.-Chicago News
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-02-19
DRIFT OF OPINION,

Tho tariff-reform procession is get
ting to be so strong as to threaten the
breaking down the breastworks of mo.
nopoly in more than one place. boston
Herald.
failures among wooden manufact.
urers and commission merchants have
been one of the most striking features
of the business results of the year.
Lewiston Journal (Rep.).
Tho campaign of education is
receiving a great deal of ammunition
nowadays from the demands of the sub.
sidy hunters before the ways and means
committee Herald.
-Pinkerton warriors are knocking
out the teeth of protected miners in
Pennsylvania. Where there is SO little
food, however, the poor miners will not
need their charlottesville Courier
Journal.
Every body Is going to Washington
Tor protection--the iron men, the wool
men, the leather men, the sugar men,
the lumber men, the salt men and the
representative of every other industry
protected and th:t wants to be. About
the only exception is Dudley, the
blochs-of-five man, who is already as
highly protected by Harrison, Edmunds
and other big Republicans as he needs
to be.-Chicago Herald.
Mr.. Rockefeller, the gentleman
who declared that his income was SO
great that he had to 60 down on his
knees and beseech Divine guidance as to
the best way of spending it, has not vet
received an answer from the Lord, but
in the meantime he is running half a
dozen tirst-class trusts, and in another
year he will be able to pay off the Ma.
tional debt-if the spirit moves him.
st. Louis Chronicle.
-Govcrnor Campbell in recent
letter said: ''The tariff will be an issue
in every election until one of the two
parties keeps its pledges of reducing
tariff taxes. The late election in Ohio
was carried On the issue of tariff reform.
We propose to make the Congressional
fight on the same issue next fall. In
1891, just year prior to the Presidential
election, there is another Gubernatorial
election. That will be fought on the
issue of tariff reform. We should com.
mence an educational campaign on this
question right off and keep it up."
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-02-19
PATERNAL GOVERNMENT.
why the Policy of Protection Is Out of
Place in This Country.

way viz oi'CJ Oi lrOtecE1On Is Out OF
Place in This Country.
The question of protective tariff, as
MI Gladstone shows in his recent arti-
Gle, is not one of infinite and complex
details only, into which experts alone
can hopefully enter, and in which they
often merely array assertion against as
sertlon, but it is one which involves
great principles of governments. It's
chief principle is foreign to the Ameri-
can doctrine of liberty. because, as its
name implies, it is paternalism. Pro-
lection is paternalism applied to trade
or commercial intercourse, as the
various degrees of despotic administra-
ton in other countries are paternalism
in the sphere of politics. The public
authority which regulates individual
freedom in travel, in residence, in
public meeting and debate, in speaking,
in writing, and in voting, is akin to
that which restricts the same freedom
in buying and selling. 1t is indeed an
authority which, under the plea of the
public good, tends to absorb every func-
ton, and instead of exercising only the
POWER which is expressly given to it,
assumes that the individual may exer-
else only such freedom as it may permit.
Louis Napoleon, in the effort to estab-
fish his personal rule in France, called
himself the savior of society, which is
the ancient plea of despotism.
This general Wow was admirably and
forcibly stated at the late dinner of the
Tariff Reform League in Boston by Mr..
John M. Forbes, who until recently was
one OF the strongest and most liberal
and etfic,e Republican leaders in New
England. tut upon the question OF
protection as in itself good and wise
policy he has parted with the party.
he cited the course of events in France
under the two empires, which ended In
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-02-19
Marriage Not a Failure.

Doctor Ito patient)--I will have to
take six stitches in your scalp, Mr.. Bios
som, one or two in your nose, and l think
lavish outlay of court-plaster will do
the rest. But how did it happen?
Blossom wife and l were debating
the question: Is marriage failure? She
enforced her argument that it is not
with the heavily framed motto: God
Bless Our Home" When l recover /
intend to take the platform in defense
of her idea.
Doctor-That is capital. You can say
on the bills: THE lecture will be con-
tinuously illustrated" I will leave
your nose in proper shape for that
brakes Magazine,
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-02-19
Senator Ingalls, H,ranruc.

Nothing was expected from Senator
ingalls, in his discussion of the race
problem but the harangue of politician
seeking to make himself solid for re-
election, and his speech, therefore, will
disappoint nobody. 1t is matter of
regret that, even as a politician, he
could suggest no better solution of the
problem than the negro uprising, which
he commends, even while he adopts the
stale device of deprecating it. But from
a politician of his caliber that could not
be expected. The problem, fortunately,
is taxing the thought and the best CT
forts OF men who have more interest in
1t than that of the mere office-seekine
politician anxious to make political
capital out OF it. In the efforts of such
men there is some hope of solution,
though the method as yet is by no
means clear. The pretended efforts Of
men like Ingalls, only add to the din.
ealties Of the problem, = Detroit Eres
Press
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-02-19
THE GOOD BISHOP.
remarkable Kindness and Gentleness OF
Il Great Man.

Remarkable Kindness and Gentleness OF
Great Man.
1t was certain Bishop, who, before
his elevation to the episcopate, was mas
ter of one of the colleges of Cambridge
University, of whom Bishop WILDER
force once said: "You have heard OF
the milk of human kindness, but unless
you know the Bishop of c. you do
not know the old COW from whom the
milk comes" lie was indulgent to
every one, even beyond the verge OF
aXity, and his gentleness can hardly
have been salutary for youthful morals
Ono day he put one of his boys in a
corner, and though this was such mild
form OF penalty the Bishop could not
bear to compel the youth to endure il
for any great length of time.
'You may come out of the corner
now, Dicky," he called, after short in
terval.
"Shan't," replied Dicky.
''Oh, do come out, Dickcy!"
''Shan't, l tell you.
"fll give you shilling if you'll come
out"
81 shan't come out for shilling"
'Ill make it eighteen pence" And
for eighteen pence Dicky consented to
appear. Naturally parental discipline
did not gain by that incident
The Bishop was the pink of courtesy,
and if he went to of1iciate at church
made point of shaking hands with the
church warden, taking off his hat to the
pew-opener, and according every official
some kindly recognition. One day, as
he was stepping into his carriage after
service, he stopped and said to the rec.
tor.
Il have quite forgotten that nice,
pleasant, honest man, your sexton, who
was SO attentive. l must just go back
and shake hands with him.
Il am sorry to say, my Lord, returned
the rector, chat he is not at all desery.
ing of your kind condensation
Indeed" said the Bishop; nothing
serious, hope.''
only this, my lord. The manis con-
tinually drunk, and | am obliged now
to be on the lookout for a new sexton"
ooh, must just run in and shake
hands with him. persisted the Bishop,
continuing, as he resumed his seat in
the carriage, Il am very glad that
there's nothing serious against the poor
fellow!'
So kindly was this dear old gentleman
that he was willing to believe all the
failings of humanity cleaned to virtues
side, and though he was far from ex-
cusinS evil, never regarded the most
hopeless sinner with pharisaical intol-
erancc. Thus did he become an exam.
pie to both saint and sinner; to the one
by his charity, and to the other by the
nprightness of his daily life.-l.iverpool
Post.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-02-19
SPEAKER REEDS WIFE.
Ono Of the Most Popular Members
Washington Society.

Ono Of the Most Popular Members of
Washington Society.
In color Mrs. Reed is brunette, in
form rather tall and strikingly graceful,
with a courteous dignity that makes
many friends. She was Miss Susan
Merrill, the daughter of Congrega-
tional minister who moved to Portland.
Me-, where Mrs. Reed met and married
Thomas b. Reed in 1870, he being at
that time State Senator, and shortly
afterward Acknowledgement OF Maine.
Their rooms here are in the Shoreham,
the big fat-house or hotel owned by
Vice President Morton. Little Miss
Katherine Iced, age fourteen, is her
mothers constant companion and
"chum," the two being warm friends in
addition to the nearer relationship,
and together entering into many
plans for pleasure as we'll as in.
struction for the little lady. Well,
read, and sometimes called conversatiye
in her opinions, Mrs. Reed is one of the
most welcome guests at the brilliant en-
tertainments Of Washington winters.
The most striking effect produced by
Mrs. Reed is that of force and intel.
lectuality. Her dress is always refined
and quiet in tone and her ornaments
few. Canoes and plain gold bracelets
are her favorites, and the sparkle Of a
diamond on her person is rare sight
save when in evening dress. AS the
wife Of the Speaker the calls upon her
time are most frequent, and as a
descendant of Puritan ancestors she
does her duty thoroughly, and as we'll
bred woman charmingly. No one claims
Mrs. Reeds time or attention without
receiving careful and considerate
courtesy, to which fact Is due in no
small degree, perhaps, Mrs, Reeds pop.
ularity. Washington Cor. Palladelph's
Lines, -
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-02-19
pITH AND POINT.

: Riches sometimes fail to bring popu.
larity. It's not always the man with the
latest roll who sets 'em up the oftenest.
Philadelphia Enquirer.
The quadrupedal hog isn't as bad as
his namesake; no one ever gets the cold
shoulder from him until he's dead
Yonkers Gazette.
Beware of preiudices; they are like
rats, and mems minds are like traps.
Prejudices creep in easily, but it is
doubtful If they ever get out.
Leisure is time for doing something
useful; the leisure the diligent man will
obtain, but the lazy man, never; SO that
life of leisure and a life of laziness
are two things.--Franklin.
The doctor who cuts a man open
after death and tells what is the matter
with him has the advantage of the doc
tor who is compelled to guess what is the
matter with the patient before DEATH
Atchison Globe.
The value of what many a man says
depends upon what he has said pre-.
viously. He has earned the right to
speak with authority, and people listen
to him as one of that character.
Presbyterian.
The tendency all around us, and
seemingly growing tendency, is to
give as few hours as possible to the re-
quirements of ones calling in life. The
outcome is the working of manifold
mischief.
In one of his writings George Wash
ington said that slender acquaintance
with the world must convince every man
that actions, not words, are the true
criterion of the attachment of friends;
and that the most liberal professions of
goodwill are very far from being the
surest marks of it,
Each one of us is bound to mako the
little circle in which he lives better and
happier; each of us is bound to see that
out of that small circle the widest good
may flow; each of us may have fixed in
his mind the thought that out of a single
household may flow influences that shall
stimulate the whole commonwealth and
1ho "uO4o ClVlilAeu WOriu.-De1n StaH-
ley.
The men who accomplished the most
never seem in hurry, no matter how
much they have to do. Every body
must have observed that. They are not
troubled for lack of time, for they make
the most of tho minutes by working in
cool, clear, orderly, and methodical
fashion, finishing each task properly,
and not wasting their nervous force on
trifles or expanding it in hustle. They
never complain of o7erwork. They are
more likely to be hunting up new work
to do, in order to give their faculties
more varied employment and to exer-
else some which are not sufficiently
used.-N. Y. Ledger
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-02-19
HENRY L. BIOSSAT, Business Manager
ONLY A WORD.

Only word his lips let fall
careless word in wanton play
He did not think of it at all,
And idly went upon his way.
But in heart with sorrow sore,
The cruel gibe produced its smart,
And what he never thought of more
Convulscd crushed and bleeding heart.
Only word another spoke
A simple word lit by a smile
And mental clouds their darkness broke
Which Swallowed all the sky crGwhiie.
A life which hope had seemed to leave
Grew stronger from its generous might
heart bowed down with utter grief
Felt the rare radiance of its light.
The future rose serene and fair,
And sorrow lost it's bitter sting;
a single word though light as air,
May seem n very little thing;
But hope, joy, sorrow and despair
BY it in human hearts are stirred;
This IS no thing more foul or fair
Than one slight utterance of 81 word.
Joel Benton, in Youths Companion.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-02-19
THE LIMEKlLN CLUB.
Brother Gardner Gives Some ExccfeI
Now Years Advice.

Brother Gardner Gives Some Excellent
Now Years Advice.
My frens," said Brother Gardner, as
the meeting opened in due form, ''de
var 1890 has busted itsef full upon us;
1889 has bin pushed way back among
de gone an forgotten. Sich of us as hes
lived freu de last var am a var older.
Although some of us ar old an lame
an stiff, l kin still say dat one an all
Of us begin de new var wild enthusiasm,
energy an a good appetite fur meat an
Eaters. We hev put de past behind US
we hev sot out to climb de golden hills
of de future.
Il doubt not dat each an ebery one Of
US hev made resolves which, if persisted
in, must make us better men, hev bin
rejoiced, among other things, to
hear dat Waydown Bebee has re-
solved to cease shootin' craps an devote
mo- time to de buck saw; dat Samuel
Shin has decided to put in at least fo'
mo- hours each day cultivatin' de truth;
dat Shindig Watkins will lay aside his
desiah fur aseben-dollar damon pin an
git some shoes fur his chill'en; dat de
Rev. Penstock will consult medical au-
thority as to de state of his liver, an
hereafter display all de sentiments Of
brotherly love; dat Giveadam Jones
won't squander no mo- time gwine to de
post-oftice fur letters from Washington,
an dat Whalebone Howker has dun
made up his mind to sell off his twenty.
seven dogs, pay up his back house rent,
an come to de front as a leadin' citizen
Of the Third ward.
MY frens, let us all-each ar ebery
one of us--seek to be better men in all
respects. We kin do it if we only re-
solve an persist Wild desc few unob-
servant remarks, an wild de additional
declarashun dat if git my hans on de
pusson who hung dead an frozen cat
on my front gate on New Years night
will make his heart ache. I now declar'
dis meetin' ready fur de transacshuu Of
de bizness which has brought us togeth-
er."-Detroit Free Press.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-02-19

fearful disaster for the French people.
Every omnibus wheel and post horse
woio the government badge. The in
terfering hand of public authority
reached everywhere. Over-taxation, OK.
travagance, corruption, jobbery, and all
forms OF tyranny and injustice, and the
general dry-rot under which the Second
Empire crumbied, were due to the spirit
OF paternalism, which MIR. Forbes de-
fines as over-government or an absorb
ing Capitalization, as opposed to local
government, or Lincoln's government
''of tho people, by the people, for tho
people," High tariff, posing as protec-
ton OF the poor laborer, and holding on
to surplus which breeds extravaganza,
corruption and jobbery, necessarily
tends to reaction in which the laborer
will be the sufferer. Moreover, he ar
CUES, it is the precursor Of socialism or
communism; if the interests Of trade
may be properly protected by govern
ment at the expense of other interests
and industries, those other interests
may in turn, and logically, be equally
protected by government, until Mr.
Bellamy's Look Backward will be shown
to be merely a Look Forward.
This is the philosophy of protection.
1t is form of paternalisn1, and there
fore it is not agreeable to what we NAV
call Americanism, in which Mr.. Forbes
has great confidence. Whatever NAV
have seemed to American enlighten.
ment and common sense in certain de-
gree and under certain circumstances
permissible or desirable, yet the ten.
dency to convert a medicine or stimu.
liant into daily food or drink must be
jealously watched. He finds comfort in
Lincoln's shrewd saying: "You may
fool some of the people all the time, and
all of the people some of the time, but
you can not fool all the people all the
time" and from Burke's famous sen.
tcnce: THE people never give up their
liberties but under some delusion." The
paternal aspect of protection is well
worthy universal attention, apart from
the contested details of the tariff
Observation-Disclosures Weekly.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-02-19
THE OLDEST MAN.

A South American Methuselah Who II
Nine Score Years OF Age.
The Oldest man in the world is citi.
zen of Bogota, in tho republic Of San
Salvador.
This new Methuselah declares that he
is $50 years old, and it would seem he
fatters himself, for his neighbors give
the assurance that he is older than he
says he is.
He is a half. breed, named Michael
Soils, whose existence was revealed to
DR.. Louis Hernandez by one of the old
est planters in the locality, who as
child knew Soils as centurian.
They have found in the year 1919 his
signature among those of persons who
contributed to the building of Fran
ciscan convent which exists near San
Lebestien.
His skin is like parchment, his long
hair of the whiteness Of snow envelops
his head like turban, and his look is
so keen that it made disagreeable i'm
preston on the doctor.
Interrogated by the doctor, he an
swered complaisantly that his great age
was due to his regular mode of living
and to his never giving up to any ex-
cess Of any sort whatever.
81 never eat but once day." said he,
''but never use any but the strongest
and most nourishing foods. Ny meals
last a half hour, for believe it is i'm
possible to eat more in that time than
the body can digest in twenty-four
hours. l fast the first and fifteenth day
day of each month, and on those days
drink as much water as l can bear.
always let my food become cold before
touch it. 1t is to these things that
attribute my great age."-Quebeo
Union Liberale
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-02-19

There are no foreigners except the
swedes who easily and quickly learn to
speak English without an accent. There
are twenty thousand of them in Boston,
but they do not herd together, and
therefore are ideal immigrants.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-02-19

Tomatoes we're only raised for orna-
rnent fifty years ago, and were called
love apples, and not thought fit to eat,
Last year about 7s,ooo,ooo cans were put
~, y
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-09-28
FIRESIDE VIRTUES.

A Moral Drawn From the Report of the
Census Bureau.
The census of New York shows an in
crease of 100000 in the population of
that state since 1880. OF this 500, 900 is in
the city of Brooklyn end 81, 600 is in New
York city. or $4,000 of the total. The in
crease in the other cities of the state ac-
counts for nearly all of the l Coz, 900 added
to the population in ten years, leaving the
rural population practically at standstiil.
This bears out what the Alta Californian
has repeatedly said concerning the deser-
ton of rural life and industries for the
cities. We view it with no feeling of salts
faction. It proves bad industrial condi-
ton and implies decline in the physique
and morals of the people. In the crowded
cities there is loss of the freside virtues
which in the country flourish compat-
IDLY with slender fortunes. These virtues
are alive In cities. but they are invaded by
temptations unknown to rural life. It is
sadly probably that many other of the Older
states will make the same showing as New
YORK. IT their rural population be found
70 nave increased at all, it will be at q
slower rate than ever before. while the city
population will be found to have increased
ITS percentage rate of gain. We want a re-
turn to the time when public men pay
more attention to rural interests. In 1S6;
denoricks, Pendleton and other western
statesmen predicted the decay of the farmel
repuonc as result of changes then pro
posed IN the methods of the government
Inae which they foresaw seems to have
come 20 pass, and its presence Is disagree
aDie feature IN our national life.