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The Louisiana Democrat., 1890-07-02
PALMER FOR SENATOR.
An Innovation Which Promises to BE
Far Reaching in It's Effects.

An Innovation Which Promises to Bo
ar-Reachins in It's Effects.
There is something wonderfully
pleasing to the ear in the words of Cen
eral Palmer at Springfield: "The pur-
pose is that hereafter these Senators
shall b. made responsible; their acts
shall be inquired into, and they shall
be called to account for them itSt as
other people are. That is the purpose
of tho movement. 1t is to popularize
the Senate of the United States"
John NJ. Palmer's candidacy is based
on the above principle. lie has been
nominated for the United States Senate
by conventions of the people in one
hundred counties and by the combined
and unanimous voice of delegates from
all these counties in State convention
assembled. No more spontaneous pop
ular call was ever received by an Amer
lean political leader, and in these days
of bought Scnatorships, OF trades and
biibeS, and of official dcreliction, the
Illinois uprising may be properly re-
garded as the beginning of a new and a
better day. 1t certainly means much.
Its results must be far-reaching. 1t is
more than a reform. 1t is a revolution
peaceful and benefcent, but none the
less radical and fundamental.
The United States Senate must be
popularized, or the government of the
people will not endure. Devised at the
beginning as a body in which States
were to be represented, as an organiza-
tion of wise and good men who would
solemnly weigh all measures coming
before them and as a conservative force
in government remarkable for its
checks and balances, it has ceased to
hold in the Federal system the place
that was assigned to it. Many of its
members represent States no longer.
They notoriously represent railroads,
mines, forests, mills and commercial
combinations. Elected by tho use OF
money, they do not recognize any pop
ular authority. They stand dcfiantly
for monopoly and privilege Instead OF
being an organization of wise and con-
servative men, the Senate is as whole
/ a DCay OF VlolenJ partlsanS, lmpnden
money-bags and subservient tools of tl,z
rings and combines that Cypress the
people. The need of popularizing that
House is imperative. Illinois is we'll
situated to inaugurate the reform, and
the honest and progressive Democracy
of this State peculiarly well fitted tc
| illustrate the determination and the
virtue Of a free people.
AS the leader in this momentous
struggle General Palmer will be en-.
gagged in a labor entirely to his liking
andfor which he has pre-emincntqualif
cations. Profoundly impressed with
the dignity of American citizenship and
with the Importance of maintaining
every popular right, and fittingly rep
resenting the sturdy manhood and pat
riosm of American democracy, he can
not fail in the laborious canvass on
which he is about to enter to make an
impression that will extend far beyond
the lines of his own State. The cause
which he is to champion must triumph
eventually The Herald believes that
it will triumph now.-Chicago Herald.
The Louisiana Democrat., 1890-07-02
THE YOUTHS CORNER.
THE JOURNEY OF THE TOES

There were ten little fellows who started
one day
TO make on the road OF existence their way,
To seek Tor its joys and to meet with its
woes,
And the name they were known by was Ten
: Baby Toes.
Five got in one sock, and declared they were
Right,
And found fine dwelling, snug, pleasant
and tight;
And then the five others, of brothers bcreft,
Jumped into another, and said they were
Left.
with each, Master Big Toe, he marched at
one side
(Two Big Toes were brothers, to strengthen
and guide;
And he is the stoutest of all the five toes,
as nc ought to be- getting such "stubs" as
Sometimes Right was foremost, and lett Left
behind,
Then Left in the front, with Right left you
would find;
But however these brothers in rivalry Wed,
Whenever they rested they stood side by
side.
They shared the same Ourdcn-thc baby
above
And mother declared that they shared the
same love,
And all just as precious, since every one
knows
That Baby can't spare the least one Of his
Toes.
Together they'll Jog to meet quiet or strife,
From the bright rosy dawn to the evening of
life,
When their Journey will end; but tonight
they mustg so
To the chamber above from the parlor be-
low.
Up stairs they must so. so the mother AYERS,
The whole of them clasped in those soft
hands of hers.
Where she'll put them to bcd and the cur.
tainS shcl II close
For they're all very sleepy, those Ten Baby
Toes.
Thomas Dunn English, in Harpcr's Young
People.
The Louisiana Democrat., 1890-07-02
URiAH HEEP WANAMAKER,
Ugly Facts Brought to Light by the Clos
ing of Il Berlin Cloak FnCtory

Ugly Facts Brought to Light by the Clos.
ing of Il Berlin Cloak Factory.
The recent closing of John Wanamak-
ers branch factory in Berlin brings to
light some very ugly facts
1t seems that while this Christian
statesman was posing as model husi-
ness man he was having his work done
by cheap white slaves in Germany. At
time when he was boring Sunday.
school children to death with his stupid
platitudes about the blessings OF Chris
tianity and the happiness Of a virtuous
life, he was driving hundreds of girls to
fate worse than death by making them
work for an average wage of two dollars
and a half week. The fact also comes
out that the contractor made double the
wages allowed the girls and the gar.
pents were sent to Philadelphia, whore
they were sold at good prices for Wana-
makers benefit. This little chapter
shows how our PostmasterGeneral is
able to contribute so literally to the
Republican campaign fund. He simply
makes use of the blood and tears of the
poor to perpetuate his power in party
OF robbers.
When Schuyler Colfax went down
under a heavier load of infamy and
bitterer curses than ever damned any
other American public man, people
hoped that the Christian statesman
business was played out. But fraud
springs mp everywhere and at all times
to fill the high places of honor and
profit. and the Wanamakers will be
with us until honest men band together
and turn the rascals out
Wanamakeristn is linked with Nc
Kinleyism under the loudest and falsest
professions of honesty and justice. The
representatives of these twin evils
propose to rob the poor so that the rich
may revel in the deep damnation of
this fraudulent philanthropy and sham
religion.
The real oppressors of the poor the
worst enemies of .heir race-the most
cruel of all slave-drivers, are not the
men whose vices and loose living excite
our horror On tho contrary, they arc
the smooth and decorous devils of So
ciety-the Blifills and Uriah Heeps,
whose road to success is drcnched with
the tears of the victims of their prog
ress and patronage.
Rough words, these. Perhaps they
will make the Philadelphia slave-driver
vince, and dump another load of his
hoodle into mission or club of Re-
publican campaign toughs. He can af.
ford it. He has only to starve few
more working-girls to get his donations
back with interest.-Atlanta Constitu-
tion.
The Louisiana Democrat., 1890-07-02
EVERY THING NEW.
A Foreigners View of Americans and
Their Homes.

"A Il III VIZ" VI <AASAlCduS
Their Homes.
A shrewd German observer who visit
I'd this country during the last year re-
marked to a friend: ''The popularity
about wealthy Americans which strikes
a foreigner is that they all have just
built their homes. Magnificent houses
they are, to be sure, abounding in art
treasures, but-they are brand-new. If
you ask your host where did he live a
year ago, he does not show you. Are
they, then, all ashamed of the homes of
their childhood?"
Of course there is an almost Yankee
exaggeration in this statement of tho
case. There are score and hundreds of
charming OLD homes; but there is also
some truth in the somewhat bitter sneer
American men, women and families are
pushing on, progressing in wealth, cult
ure and social position. They are re-
solved to occupy higher place in tho
worlds eye, and to command more ap-
plause for the to-morrows of their lives
than they had for the to-days.
But what to do with the yesterdays?
All boys know that the crab which
swims along our sea-coasts and inlets
grows rapidly, but that its shell can not
expand. Periodically, therefore, the
crab breaks out of the narrow she'll,
buries its cast-off clothing in the mud,
and presents itself new, larger and
more important creature to the view of
its companions.
The man or the family who is pushing
Up to higher social levels breaks in the
same way out of old shells. There is
the humble, unpainted village house in
which the youth of the great millionaire
was passed. Is the man who is risen in
life ashamed to show it to his foreign
guest who, in the new palace, asks to
see the family homestead?
There are the grammatical slips, the
old-time country manners of the woman
just admitted into fashionable circles;
shall she be ashamed of them, or let
them pass as of trivial weight while,
with simplicity and sincerity, she en-
deavors to make friends in her new life?
Or, there are the old friends and kins.
folk who were so dear in the days of
our poverty-shall we turn our backs on
them, hide them out of the sight of our
new companions?
These are the shells which the pros.
porous American sloughs off as he grows
in wealth and Importance. He can not
bury them in the mud as the crab does
his old skin.
There is no better test of a man than
his behavior concerning these proofs
and relics of his former poverty and
humble estate. Acoarse man can make
huge fortune; vulgar woman can
push her way in society, but it is only
the thoroughbred gentleman or gentle.
woman who lives above the petty eA,
ternals of live.-Youth's Companion.
The Louisiana Democrat., 1890-07-02
TRIMMED WITH LACE.
The Unburied Corpscs in tho Catacombs
of Palermo, Sicily.

The Unburied Corpscs in tho Catacombs
of Palermo, Sicily.
One of the strange sights of Palermo,
in Sicily, is tho long series of vaults
called "the catacombs," in which tho
bodies of men and women are preserved
for generations by n curious process,
and are visited by their mourning rcla.
tives.
The grinning skeletons of Generals or
Governors who died fifty years ago are
here seen, clad eycry few years in fresh
uniforms, and their features are some-
times preserved for century.
Undoubtedly tho ugliest of the sight
is tho ladies' gallery. Corpsc-worship
hero has prompted freaks Of burlesquo
millinery, such as the trimming of the
vacant skulls with deep frills of lace.
Ono poor shade is in purple silk. a
young lady's mummy is adorned with q
silver crown, fantastic shoes, open-work
stockings and white kid gloves! A
princess-among the most recent OF the
interments-lies in her coffin, which
bears many artificial garlands and yards
of much-mottoed, funereal ribbon. On
All Souls day the dead in tho catacombs
may be said to hold gruesome sort Of
reception; but the richer class, whose
"dear departed" stand there, frequent"
the cemetery at all seasons.
Imagine coming to pay your devoirs
to tho ladies with whom you used to
dance; to your hostess of former years,
to the members of your family, to the
wife of your bosom; and being received
by these phantoms Of grizzly bonel
These bedizened skeletons! These rag
and bone things, aping humanity! 1t
is too horrible!
Yet there are Palermitans who find
melancholy pleasure, some certain
consola tion, q few terrible fascination,
in the relics Of their dead preserved in
this cemetery! But not all the inhab-
itants approve of this mode of sep
ulture.
On certain fete days these cata-
combs are open to ell comcrs. A
drunken man once strayod in here and
fell asleep. At night the porter locked
up without noticing the sleeper. Awak-
ing sober, with the early light, the hor-
ror of his surroundings seized upon the
man. He ran about wildly among the
dead. lie shrieked, but no one, not
even those in the convent, could hear
him. The earliest passer-by found him
clinging convulsivcly to the bars Of the
entrance gate. Thoy could hardly loose
his hold. He was stark mad!-Cor. N.
Y. Journal.
The Louisiana Democrat., 1890-07-02
AMONG OUR EXCHANGES,

THE best way to indicate the su.
perlative degree of silence is to say "as
quiet as Quay."-St. Louis Globe Demo.
crat.
Colonel Elliott Ferocious Shepard
is so much in earnest over his PROPOSE
tion to declare war on the rebel flag
that he has already commenced to cast
about for substitute. Was hing tor
Post.
AT Gettysburg brave ingalls,
Attacked the sunny South;
But not when bullets fell like rain
And men lay dead or wrung with pain.
His the proud task in peace to fight,
In war to talk, and e'cr delight
TO fire off his mouth"
Chicago Times.
The farmers of the United States
have votes enough to reverse the policy
which has brought so many of them to
tho verge of ruin. They have only to
place themselves in situation where
they may enjoy their earnings free
from unnecessary exactions. They
want justice and not bounty.-Louis-
Vile Couricr-Journal.
appropriations aggregatlng $780,
900, 900 and making deficiency of S97,.
coo, 600 are looming up before the lead.
ers of the majority in Congress. They
thought the appropriation wolf a very
tame, harmless and useful animal in the
last campaign. Now they have him by
the ears and find it equally unsafe to
hold him Or let him go.-St. Louis Post.
Dispa tch.
The Republican press has los,
both character ana influence because OF
it's recklessness of statement in assail-
ing party opponents. 1t resorts to
vituperative congratulations ''You uns''
are all black; tive uns" are all white.
Such portraiture is never effective. It
is not in literate human nature that it
should be. Any intelligent man dis
Germs at glance that it is falsehood.-
Chicago Times.
-Blaine's friends are making strong
declarations just now that the Secretary
of State no longer has the Presidential
bee buzzing in his bonnet He is re-
ported as fayoring some other Repub.
lican candidate for the honor, while he
himself will be content to be again a
Senator from Maine. Mr.. Blaine is evil
IDENTIFY wise man in his day, if these
reports be true He realizes that the
deluge for his party is coming in 1892.
and he hastens to get in out Of the rain.
He is not pining for more record as q
defeated candidate, M Y, Stags .
The Louisiana Democrat., 1890-07-02
CAN YOU TELL

Why a Clear Night In Winter Is Cold and
Cloudy Night Warm?
Who has not noticed that veryclear
night in the wintcr.time is very cold,
while a cloudy night is warm? There is
reason for this, as there is for every
thing else that occurs in nature. Dur
ing the day the suns rays come down
and warm the surface of the earth.
Even If there is snow on the ground,
it absorbs much heat while the sun is
shining.
But at night, when there is no longer
any warmth coming into the earth from
above, it begins to cool off, until it has
lost all its heat
Now, if the night is clear, if there are
no clouds, the heat will rise and be lost
in the upper air, just as the heat from
stove placed in the open air would riso
and be lost That is, it would be wasted.
But il there are clouds the heat can
not rise above them, and it is much tile
same as if roof were built over the
stove in the open air.
Hence, when there are clouds, it is as
if we were in very great room, of which
the clouds themselves are the ceiling
and the earth the floor from which heat
is rising.
This is the reason that clear night
is cold and cloudy one warm. &C. NJ.
Hayes, in Santa Claus.
The Louisiana Democrat., 1890-07-02
A WORD ABOUT QUAY.
The Charges Which the Republican Lcade
Refuses TO Answer.

Evidence is accumulating that Mat
thew S. Quay has not the slightest notion
of resigning the craftsmanship of the Re-
publican National Committee. That
means that the Republican party will
60 into the next campaign commanded
by man who has stubbornly refused to
answer the following widely published
charges:
eleven years ago Quay took $500, 600
from the Pennsylvania State treasury.
mad lost it in stock gambling. He had
The Louisiana Democrat., 1890-07-02
II Makcs Every Body Sick.

Yes, was awfully fond of that girl,
and believed her to be perfect, but !
saw something about her last night thai
made me sick"
"What was that"
Another fellows asm. rBlngbamtGs
Leader. 8
The Louisiana Democrat., 1890-07-02

"A barrister was explaining to a lady
whom he met at dinner the other even
ing for the first time after lapse of
some years, that he had given up his
profession and taksn to commerce. "Ah.
see," said the lady--"given ur this
law, and taken 10 the pseats,"
The Louisiana Democrat., 1890-07-02

"A man never forgiyes woman tor
making him feel silly, I
The Louisiana Democrat., 1890-07-02

The sensational report published in an even
ing paper yesterday that well-known million
are made his fortune by dealing in counterfeit
money and bonds that were issued by Wilson is
secuted by his numerous friends. When our re.
porter called at tho milllonaires mansion last
evening he refused TO talk on the subject and
grufly said: II have nothing to say for pub
lication. Let the people attend to their bus
ness and I'll attend to mine" Very queer re.
marks isn't it? What would you think?-Chica
The Louisiana Democrat., 1890-07-02

To give our candid opininion, wo could sec no
difference in the bills, as the notes were printed
from genuine United States AS the case now
stands, some one is getting rich in safe, fast
and sure manner at the expense Of the Govern.
mont.
The Irish standard., 1890-12-27

tunnel, but fortunately knew some
German.
''Push ahead!'' said, prodding at him
as was being prodded myself
Scott in Himmel! Iacan't. I'm fast!"
he replied in German
''Your clothes?"
eyes. my breeches.'
''Slip them off and I'll carry them out
for you," said
BY our united efforts we got of the
trousers and he was enabled to go on.
I handed them to him after emerged
from the tunnel, and the last | saw OF
him, as Howard and made our way
south toward the canal, he was putting
his clothes to rights.
It was starlight night with a
keen frost in the air, but it was
royal change from the fetid at
mosphere of the prison. We did not
hurry, but walked 1eisurely to the east.
Under the lamp at the corner Of the
prison ] saw guard standing, and l
heard HE cry: Zone o'clock; post NUM-
Der ten and all's well!' "Al1's well!"
echoed Howard as we passed out of
sight Of the prison and made our way
toward the railroad, which We had
planned to follow for mile or two and
then make for the Chickahominy
swamp, in which we were to remain in
hiding for the day.
The lateness Of the hour favored US.
The Irish standard., 1890-12-27

we lay down against the brick wall that
separated is from the Upper Potomac
room.
The prisoners at the other side of the
wall-al of whom were fine follows as
subsequently learned-were l think the
noisiest crowd l ever encountered. AS
soon as the last tallow dip was out, one
Upper Potomac man began barking like
q dog, and this aroused scores of ROSTERS
and ducks, geese and turkeys innumer-
able Then child began crying, land
hundred men shouted heroic prescrip-
lions for allaying its collie. 'I'll Tx it?'
screamed the imaginary mother. This
was followed by the vigorous dashing
of something against the wall and
roar of savage laughter.
"Whcre's Botty, of Berks?" 'Look be-
hind the big gun and find 'Teed, of Read
.ing!' ''Who stole Rulve's stays?'' 81
move that General Neal Dow give us a
temperance talk tomorrow. ALI in
favor say 'Ayer" A laundering "Aye"
followed this. "All opposed say No ."
ssThe house is dividedr' 'sCall the roll!"
"Captain Moss, this joking is monoto-
nous. Give us song with q chorus!"
A minute of silence, then voice,
quiet by contrast, replies:. "My doctor
has forbidden me to sing on an empty
stomach"
But despite the medical injunction,
Captain ED" Moss starts up song, and
its chorus about cham fat sizzling in
the pan" makes my mouth water. The
last note is dying out: when deep
baritone voice strikes up. Julia Ward
rHowe's Battle Hymn Of the Republic.
EVEN the guards stop their pacing to
listen. 1t rings through all the rooms
of the wretched prison till the chorus is
reached. Then from fourteen hundred
recumbent men the "Glory, glory, Hal
lelujah'' goes up with a mighty, and not
unmusical volume, and feel glow Of
heat and forget the cold wind whistling
through the iron bars near by.
'sHalf past ten, post number one, and
all's well!''
The jewellers in the Upper Potomac
room are hushed, and the singers are
silent.
I lay my hand on Towards face and
) A0 kuOdlS 4lA0 OIO ia lCtSAAoA oASSH'
II wonder how men can sleep in such a
place, and conclude that If forced to
remain must die of insomnia.
listen, and along the ranks, packed
SO close together that it is a surprise
how one can turn without forcing the
other to initiate him, hear snoring in
every key, deep bass snoring that seems
to come up from the depths, and shrill
nasal trebles that appear to- come down
i from the roof. IS ;#ls i 81 ss
The wind, blowing straight through
I the rooms from the north, has turned
\ the iron bars on the windows into
4 hoarseS aeolian harps. There is the
never easine ira nping Of guards out
The Irish standard., 1890-12-27

Howard led me into a room to the east,
which he explained was the clover mid
dle' or Lower Chickamauga Room
the long apartments taking their names
from the armies or battles in which most
OF the officers were captured. The two
upper rooms to the east were known as
''the Upper and Lower Potomac" We
went up another flight of steps and d.
rectly under the rafters we reached the
supper Chicl1amauga," where Howard
"hung OUT" and where l found many
old friends, all looking so changed and
bearing themselves so bravely thatit was
only with an effort I could keep back
my tears.
Howard gave me some corn bread,
tiron-clad'' they called it; it was heavy
anG unpalatable, but as had had moth
ing to eat since leaving Bristol that
morning I devoured the bread nor heed
ed the bits of cob on which my teeth
grated.
had just finished this simple repast,
and was wondering where or how the
swarns of men about me slept, when
from the southwest corner of the prison
q voice rang out:
"Nine o'clock: post number one, and
all's we'll! Lights out up thar! Lights
cut, Yanks!'
mime o'clock; post number two, and
all's well!''
''Nine o'clock; post number three, and
sll's well!'
And SO from post to post, around the
prison, the cries of the guards rang out,
while band Of men, who did not ap-
pear to be on guard, shouted: flights
out!'' till the last post on Carey street
had announced that it was nine o'clock
and that all was we'll.
With the first cry of Lights out!"
the prisoners in the Upper Chiekamauga
rushed to the crossbeam, on which
blankets and overcoats were hung, and
began making their beds on the cold,
wet boards.
Howard had an overcoat and blanket
1eft him by a chaplain who: had been
recently exchanged, andt with the
former under us and the latter over us,
The Irish standard., 1890-12-27

ished. There were lot of loose bricks
beside the figure, and a black hole back
of the hearth told the place they had
been taken from.
SIS that you, Johnston?" whispered
the man.
.sYes,'' replied. rs all right9"
9..All right. SCOTS just gone down.
Be careful, !" said the guard
slipped into the hole feet first, and
with the aid Of : rope dropped into the
cellar under the hospital.
It was ipt~re ely dark, but q soon as
The Irish standard., 1890-12-27

side, and every naI1 nour the cry CT
''All's well,'' rings round the building.
l hear the challenges as the reliefs
come on. Not sound escapes me dur
ing that long night, and rise with the
first gray dawn, my own lungs feeling
sore from sympathy with the painful
coughing l had heard all about me,
since the lights went out.