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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-02-26
The Antique Candlestick.

The reign of the antique is apparent
In many ways. In dress and in orna-
ment whatever is old-fashioned is popu-
lar, provided it is old-fashioned enough.
There is world of difference between
the antique and antiquated. The one
effect is sought after with eagerness,
both in household and personal adorn-
ment, while the other is as carefully
avoided. One Of the applications Of the
old to the new is in the shape Of silver
cand]esticks. The pillar style is the
latest style shown, and very pretty it is,
too. With the column a plain surface
with Outings and with eight-sided effects
they are seen, some quite low, others
tall and stately. The bright Furnished
finish is the one chosen for this form Of
ornament. In tho candelabra the dull
silver with frosted look is combined
with the bright, in preference to using
oxidized Just for change, however fos
oxidized silver is still very prominent
in many articles. -Washingtoa Star.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-02-26
DRIFT OF OPINION.

The Republican Legislature in
Maine wouldn't touch the Australian
ballot. They are not wanting reforms
as much as they were.-St Paul Globe.
MIR. Harrison says that the race
question has given him more trouble,
since he became President, than any
other. He doubtless referred to the
race for Charlottesville Courier
journal.
Senator ingalls, can't scare any,
body with his talk about fighting the
South. He had the chance once to fight
the South and he skulked. He only
fights with his mouth. Birmingham
(Ala.) Chronicle.
Although President Harrison does
not appoint many colored people to Of
flee, it must be said of him that he is
very industriously removing those col.
ored people who were appointed by
President Cleveland Philadelphia Rec
ord.
Bier ingalls, will never be happy
until the South is again plundered as il
was in the years Immediately following
the war. He and his party should try
to be content with the enormous and
ill-gotten treasury surplus. Louisville
Courier-J Journal.
How do the farmers like it, anv
way? May wheat is lower than ever be-
fore at this period of the year since the
war. Corn, oats and provisions are in a
like fix. Our revenue business has
been 90 atrociously handled that we can
not sell our products abroad.-Cincin.
natl Enquirer.
-"Give me free ore," said the
speaker, land I'll sell pig-iron in Liver
pool and send steel rails to London.
What American industries most want is
free opportunity, and not legislative
protection nor restriction. "-Interview
with the President Of the Pennsylvania
Steel Company.
Many Illinois farmers have quit
raising wheat as profitless and gone into
apple raising, and now the tariff organs
may benefcially pat them on the back
ana remind them how much they owe to
the protection that makes existence a
continuous feast of dumplings. -Phila-
delphia Record.
The speech of Senator ingalls, ON
the race trouble at the South and the
deportation project was very credit
able piece of mad-dog rhetoric perhaps;
but nothing more absurd in it's state
nents or more inconsequential in its
conclusions has ever been uttered in
the Senate.-Chicago Herald.
1t would be shocking state OF
affairs if Congress, Republican in both
branches, with a Republica.i President,
elected on platform pledging them to
the highest kind of high protection,
should fail to carry out their pledges
and let the session go by without the
promised revision of the tariff in the
direction OF higher duties and greater
protection. But that would be Just what
the Plain Dealer has repeatedly pre-.
dlcted would be tie case.-cleveland
Plain Dealer.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-02-26
AN ARCTIC hABlTATlON.
Description of the Most Northern Dwell.
ing Place on the Continent.

/ OSSSAA PAAoh VI Cuc N1OSD NOrE00rD DHGllo
! Ing Place on the Continent.
In his recent interesting account of q
cruise with Arctic whalemen, under the
title, "Arctic Alaska and Siberia" Her.
bert l.. Aldrich gives a striking de-
scrlptlon OF the most northern habita-
ton on the American continent. Most
readers are familiar with descriptions
OF the interior dwellings, but Mr.. Aid
! rlch's pen picture is fuller than usual
and has the additional interest of por-
traying the farthest foothold of human
lty among the SHOWS and ice of the Arc
tic regions. The igaloo, which Mr.. Aid
rich has photographed and pictured is
situated on Point Barrow, the northern
most spur OF the Alaskan coast. After
touching upon the desolate situation
and squalid appearance of the native
settlement, MIR. Aldrich says:
Finding one large igaloo that was
dry, | took the liberty to drop down
through the window into it. This was
the most northern habitation on tho
continent, which added to my desire to
see it. The roof was high SO that I
could stand erect. Across the north
END OF the room was platform, raised
about yard from the floor and extend
Ing out from the wall five feet. A bun.
ale OF deerskins neatly rolled up lay on
1t; underneath were a box and one Or
two household utensils Close to the
wall on the south side was an oval hole
large enough for one not very corpulent
to crawl through; this led to the en-
trance proper. A few cooking and other
utensils stood in corner near bv: in
the other corner was a small blubber-oil
stove On each side of the room was
another of these stoves. Each was made
OF piece of three-inch plank, prob
ably wreckage. The first one was
about eighteen inches long, the
second about two feet and the
third three feet. They were hol-
lowed out TOT depth OF an inch and
a half and raised Slightly from the
floor. There was no moss on them to
serve as wick nor Oil in them, but a
piece of well-smoled blubber hung near
ly two feet above each, Indicating thew
had seen service.
THE walls were of smooth boards
closely held together and the floor was
good ono. Every thing was as scru-
pulously neat, clean and ord drly as any
housekeeper could wish for. The three
lamps were thickly coated With grease,
but that could not be otherwise. Every
article seemed to have its own place,
and be in it, three or four racks on the
walls containing many of the smaller
articles. The size of the igaloo was
twelve by fourteen feet. Outside, OBJ
poslte the entrance, was the usual stag
ing or scaffold, on which were some
whalebone, perhaps fifty pounds deer
skins, bear and other skins, two dead
seals and other valuables. Evidently
the owner of the place was in good cir
cumstances.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-02-26
NEGROES FOR OKLAHOMA.
The ACCESSIBILITY of Making the Territor,
q Small No~-<, ctnto

The ACCESSIBILITY of Making the Territory
Small Negro State.
The Republican newspapers are doing
all they can to encourage the movement
OF negroes to Oklahoma. They proba
bly, foresee in the near future new
State with dusky member of Congress
and couple of Senators. It is some
what astonishing what paradise Okla.
homa has become since the idea of pop.
ulating it with negroes was made pub
lie. 1t now has all the finest qualities
OF the best land in the Union. when,
Immediately after its settlement, it was
universally pronounced to be worthless.
1t might be cruel, so far as the quality
OF the country is concerned, to fill Okla
homa with negroes, and yet it would be
good radiance for the rest of the Union
If hundred or two thousand negroes
could be placed there, where, among
themselves, they could develop their
own peculiar nature, where they could
practice social equality without him
drauce.
The negroes have certain right to a
portion of the country in Indian Terri.
tory. As is known, in 1866 the Govern
ment bargained with the Cherokees and
Creeks for large strips of land lying on
their western borders, to be used for the
settlement of freedmen and friendly In
dams. The bargais was never con-
Guided, but. in moral sense, the South
ecn freedmen have a right in this de-
partment of the Indian Territory.
1t would be a capital thing all around
If there could be established small
State which should be settled, owned
and governed wholly by negroes. It
would permit experiments as to their
capability for self-government, and
would allow them chance to depend
on themselves which they have never
yet had. 1t is only in community,
whether a State or Territory, COM
posed exclusively of negroes that their
real value can be determined. 1t is
true that it History it is shown that in
no modern instance has the African
made any considerable advance when
not connected directly with the white
element. 1t is, however, possible that,
in a country like Oklahoma, colored
men who have had the advantages of as
ISOLATION with the white race, and who
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-02-26
THE NEW AUTOCRAT.
An Arbitrary Ruling Designed to Crus
the Rights Of tho nJ,nority

An Arbitrary Ruling Designed to Crush
the Rights of the Minority.
Politicians seeking party advantage
Shift their ground as rapidly as the law
yer celebrated in the old spelling-b book
when he learned that it was his own not
the farmers OK that was gored.
Republicans were able through the
presence of every Congressman-elect to
the House of Representatives to organ
ize that body, but the majority was so
slender as not to constitute working
force as it is called, and the party's pur-
pose is to unseat every Democratic mem
Der where contest has been made. The
| House is as yet without rules, and the
Democratic demand is that in matter
so important as the report of the COM
mittee on elections action shall not be
taken until rules are adopted. The
minority does not propose to be at
the mercy of Speaker who in
his brief service has exhibited a
despotism and partisanship without
precedent in the history of the
House. Lacking a quorum, the Re-
publicans nevertheless proposed to
push the resolution for unseating Jack
son, of West Virginia, and, pursuing
policy ancient as Congress itself, the
minority abstained from voting. The
call OF the roll showed that quorum
was not present. The Speaker, how
ever, went outside of the journal and di-
rected the clerk to record various men,
bers as present, not because the call dis
closed their presence but because he
chose to take the evidence of his senses.
AS all precedent in Congress is against
his proceeding, as Blaine and Garfield
are recorded in opposition to this exer-
else of power by the Speaker, and as
Reed himself when in the minority had
declared on the floor that "the constitu-
tional idea OF quorum is not the phys-
ical presence Of a majority of the mem
bers of the House, but a majority of the
members present and participating in
the business of the House." intense ex-
element was naturally caused by the
Spe aker's extraordinary conduct
So arbitrary and UNJUST is the Speaker
Iud1 IL was Ills purpose TO enforce his
ruling without the permission of appeal
or debate, but he was compelled to give
way at the demand of Republicans like
Butterworth, who realized the extraor-
binary character of the ruling and were
unwilling that so revolutionary proc
ess should stand without full debate.
If the functions of the Speakers eve
are to be enlarged, and in addition to
determining who shall be heard upon
the floor, he is also to determine by his
visual sense when quorum of the
House is present, the value attaching to
a working majority will disappear, and
the minority, observed Or unobserved
accordingly as the Speakers eye is will
ing to operate, will be shorn of one ole
ment of potency. The business of the
House would be greatly facilitated no
doubt by rule which would compel all
present to vote unless specific
ally excused, but such has never been
the practice Of the House, and if a
change is to be made after one hundred
years of precedent the House and not
the Speaker should make it. Reed needs
a gun, not gavel.-Chicago Times.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-02-26
VOL. XLV.-NO. 8.
PiTH AND POINT.

Even in the best regulated families,
the things that don't seem possible oc-
Cur very often.
1t is the man who can light good
fires who is soonest able to hire others
to light his fires for him.
To recognize duty as duty is to
make pleasure of duty, to him who
would do what he ought to do
Some one should preach sermon
on the bad taste of pursuing good taste
too exclusively.-Century.
There is no scorn like that VIII ich is
uttered in silence. The shears give the
most effective cut when they shut up
Binghamton Leader.
Responsibility is contagious, but,
like other contagious, you can't always
catch it when you want it.-Puck.
Familiarity breeds contempt"
Don't acquire the habit Of permitting
your anger to get you, too often, beside
yourself. -Philadelphia Press.
He who can not forgive others, says
Herbert breaks the bridge over which
he must pass himself; for every man has
need to be forgiven.
When you want any thing we'll done
do not go to person who has nothing to
do. Always go toa busy person. Those
who have plenty of time on their hands
are lazy OR incompetent.
Many think that sleep is lost time.
But the style of your work will be
nightly affected by the style of your
slumber. Sound Asleep is the sister OF
Wide Awake. Sleep is not subtrac-
ton; it is an addition.
1t is easy in the world to live after
the worlds opinion; it is easy in soli-
tude to live after our own; but the great
man is he who, in the midst of the
crowd, keeps with perfectsweetness the
independence of so!itude.-Emerson.
Thou mayst be sure that he that
will in private tell thee of thy faults is
thy friend, for he adventures thy dis
like, and doth hazard thy hatred; for
there are few men that can endure it,
every man for the most part delighting
in self-praise, which is one OF the most
universal follies that bewitch mankind.
Sir Walter Raleigh.
Every duty, even the least, involves
the whole principle of obedience; and
little duties make the will dutiful, that
it is supple and prompt to obey. Little
obediences lead into great. The daily
round of duty is full of probation and
discipline; it trains the will, heart and
conscience. The commonest life may be
full of perfection. The duties of home
are a discipline for the ministries OF
Heavenly R. Hayerpal
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-02-26
TO KILL A CANVAS-BACk,
The Only Proper Way Is to Shoot Him
the Wing.

oh tiS
''The only proper way to kill canvas
back ducks is to shoot them on the wing
as they fly over you. If you are mutf
you will have lots of sport, and you will
not hurt the ducks. You will blaze
away at them as they fly toward you,
which is precisely what I, as a love of
the species, would best like you to do,
unless you are generous and are dis
posed to divide your bag. SO long as
you shoot them in this way only rare
accident will enable you to dc any harm
to the beautiful creatures. They wear
breastplate of feathers which is prac-
tically impervious to shot If you are
sportsman you will let them fly oyer
you, and shoot them as they recede.
'The fact that the ducks fly high and
are very swift of wing renders it diff
cult to kill them on the wing at all, and
as very few men are really good shots
resort is had by the majority to such
blind shooting as is permitted. Bat
teries are, of course, forbidden,
and so are sneak-boXes and
the like. But it is permitted
to the half-skilled sportsmen to build
blinds of reeds along the shore and to
shoot from behind them when the ducks
approach within range. In this sort of
shooting very little harm would be done
but for the fact that the canvas-bacls is
beset with curiosity surprising that of
women.
If he sees any thing in motion on the
shore which he does not understand, no
consideration of prudence will restrain
him from padding at once toward it,
of all danger, and the duck
shooters take advantage of this by
training little dogs to run about in a
frisky, absurd fashion in front of the
blinds when ducks are in sight. AS
soon as the ducks see what is going on
the whole flock makes for the shore, and
the sportsmen can shoo5 at what range
they will Forest and Stream.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-02-26
UNBEATABLE HEAT,
How Dwc1lers in India Manage to While
Away the Hot DAYS.

How Dwcllers in India Manage to While
Away the Hot Days.
My dwelling, the m magistrates house,
was fallen into disrepair, and that wear
the landlord, on commencing the annual
patching up, found the beams which
supported the heavy fiat roof completely
tunneled out by white ants. This meant
four months in tho hands of the work.
men, and the judge kindly offered me
quarters during the slow process of re-
roofing. 1t was not considered quite
regular for the judge and magistrate to
live together, as the executive and Judi
clal powers in districtat that time often
came into collision. But no one else
had house with sufficient spare room
to take me in, SO my hens and ducks
and guinea-fowls were driven over to
Ayliffes poultry-yard, and l took up nv
abode with my friend
1t was altogether bachelor station,
None of three civilians was a married
man, the doctor was widower, and the
wife OF the district superintendent Of
police had gone to England with her
children. The hot winds set in early
like consuming fire. The large
double windows stood open all night,
and were shut up tight in the early
morning, the heavy venetian doors out
side the glass doing their best to her.
medically seal the interior from the
glare and heat. We had to start for
our gallop by five o'clock, OR not get it
at all, except at the risk of sunstroke,
The courts and public offices opened at
seven, and closed for the day before
noon. Then each man drove swiftly
through the furnace of shimmering air
to his darkened and silent home. A
lingering bath and a languid breakfast
brought the hot hours to one o'clock.
The slow combustion of the suffocat-
ing afternoon was endured some
how under the punka, with the
help OF the endless bundles of papers in
ones office box, read by chance rays
which fiercely forced an entrance
through every chink in the double win
dows OF glass and wood. About six we
all met at the raquette court, whose
high wall by that time cast sufficient
shadow. A couple of four-handed
games (the doctor had grown too stout
to play left us streaming at every pore,
and marking at each step damp foot
print through our tennis shoes on the
pavement Then the delicious plunge
In the swimming bath in the judges
garden, that one moment of freshness
looked forward to throughout the long
exhausting day. A cheroot and an iced
drink, as we lay famed by the servants
on long chairs at the top of the mount
and presently, almost in minute, the
sun had once more hidden his malie-
nant face, and the binding glare of day
had given place to the sitting stiffness
Of night.--Contemporary Review.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-02-26
Curious idea of Economv.

Women have queer ideas of economy,
A lady went TO State streetdrug store
with parcel for which she desired some
postage stamps. The postage was z
cents, and the proprietor had nothing
but 2-cent stamps in his shop. The lady
refused to donate the extra cent to
Uncle Sam, but boarded street car,
rode downtown, paid 7cents for seven
l-eent stamps, returned to the car, and
went home, having expended 10 cents
in cold cash and having lost half
hours time to avoid paying more than
the exact postage rates, -..New Haven
Palladiup,
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-02-26

amlss to them. In the neighborhood Of
certain temples they are sacred, and the
native priests feed them-the crea lures
assembling at the sound of bell, or
clapping of hands, or even of the voice.
and opening their hideous mouths for
the dainties they are led to expect. E.
Shipper, NJ. d., in Golden Days.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-02-26
HENRY L. BIOSSlT, Business Manager.
A BIRTHDAY VERSE.

know maiden, fair and calm,
Whose shining, tender eyes
Make when meet their earnest gaze,
Good thoughts within me rise.
And if all silver grew her hair,
Or faded were her face,
She would not look to me less fair
Nor lack single grace.
Or If were a little child,
With chldhood's timid trust,
Think my heart would fly to her
And lovc--because it mustl
And if were an earnest man,
With empty heart and life,
Ithfnk-but might change my mind
She'd be my chosen wife.
--Demorest's Magazine.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-02-26

would be IN close contact with The su.
perior civilization of the pale-faces,
might attain considerable develop
ment.-Chicago Herald.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-02-26
Punishment Deserved.

"What are you whipping Jack for?"
'You know there was half pie left in
the pantry?'
Eyes"
swell, Pm whipping him for disturb.
ing the piece" Time.
, 1890-08-20
Barba ,lOs News.

We regret to say that the month that
closes to-day has been very dry. A show.
er or two fell in the first days of the month.
but since then it has been dry, with hot
suns. But for the heavy dew at night.
which has kept the plants alive, we should
have had a sad record to-day. AS it is,
we are told that the yams planted have near
~ all persisted, and corn has been planted
two or three times in some places without
success. Along the coast and in shallow
soils the IOung canes are showing signs of
great distress. In other parts they are
holding up bravely, but two more weeks of
the weather we have had in July would be
disastrous to the young crop generally.
Let us hope that August may be more
genial, and that the fears and predictions
that are now expressed regarding the
weather may prove u%nfounded. The old
crop may be said to be gathered in. An
estate here and there may still be making
sugar, but it is in cases where circumstan-
ces of an unexpected and undesired nature
have caused Idelay. Every effort has been
made to finish crop before August, and
as a rule the efforts have succeeded. The
canes that are now being cut givea very
different account of themselves to those
that had been taken down month or six
weeks ago. The crop has turned out
even better than was anticipated. 1t will
be the largest on record, and proves what
skill and appliances can do for the soil,
provided the elements are Favourable. The
Jamaica planter quoted by MIR. East at the
Colonial Institute lately, who said sugar
, 1890-08-20
Wednesday, goth August, 1890.

The Colonial Council held q meeting on
Monday, at which HIS Excellency the
Governor was present.
The Vice Chairman, Mr.. John Hewitt,
took the Chair.
Mr.. w. A. Creagh was elected Chairman
of the Council, in the room of Chief Justice
Andersen, retired.
The newly erected 3rd Member for Chris
.tiansted, Mr. Paludan- MILLER, and the new
~ appointed Grown Member, Mr.. Richter,
took their seats,
The retirem ent Of Messrs. 0agemann,
Wilson and Raphael was agreed to; as was
also the appointment of Mrs. CLARK and
Thos. Hewitt. as members of TIE Road Com
mission, dhring the absence of MessrS.
I.unney and Wilson.
Messrs. Creagh and Dahl were elected
Members of the School BoHrd, in place of
Messrs. S%takem9nn and Wage, retired.
AS Members to revise the st. Croix Com
munal Accounts for 18S8-89 were elected
Messrs. Lemming and Dahl and as Mem
Ders to assist in the distribution of the
interest Of Prince Valdemar'S Wedding
Fund were elected Judge GHansen and Mr..
Paludan- Muller.
In the same meeting the Draft of Ordi-
nance for granting a subsidy to he West
India and Panama Telegraph Company
was carried through it's remaining stages
and passed.