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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-08-13

and al OF them bought Cher tickets
that way. Atchison soon became a
prominent place from which overland
travellers started Westward and its
future was believed to have been made.
The railroads came all too soon for the
towns prosperity, however, and tho
splendid Concord coaches were retired
or else sent farther west to the end OF
the great iron railroad. Colonel Majors
delights to talk of the old days of stage
coaching. To the Times reporter he
said the other day:
sit all seems so strange that our fine
old coaches are no more, for travel by
them was comfortable and full oil
charms. In the whole time in which wa
operated our through daily line we were
never once molested by Indians or road
agents, as the higbwaymen of the West
were called. We never lost one of the
Government mail pouches and never
killed passenger. Senator Gwynn,
who was such an active worker in the
interest of the pony express, had no
connection with our stage line, although
he felt a lively concern in its workings.
do not think the Senator was killed in
a duel with the famous Frederick, for,
if my memory serves me, he died in the
New York Hotel, New York, of old age
My partners in the stage line enter
prise are dead, Mr.. w. b. Waddell hav-
ing passed away at his home in Lexing-
ton, Mo-, in September, 1871. Mr.. W..
II. Russell died in the spring of the
same year at the home of his son in
Palmyra, Marion County, Mo-"
The first general superintendent of
this famous old stage coach line was
Benjamin Ficklin, Westerner, whom
all the West knew in the fifties He
knew every foot of the great transmits
souri, country and the choice was wise
one. Ficklin managed the company
we'll and then drifted to something bet
ter. When tho railroads pushed the big
Kentucky mules and the Concord coach
es out of the way Ficklin went East.
He made money in Washington and died
in the capital city. His death resulted
from the swallowing of fish bone
Jack Gilmore was division agent al
Salt Lake. He remained in that posi-
ton as long as the stages ran, when he
moved to the mouth Of the Echo can
Won on Weaver river He lives in thai
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-08-13
PITh AND POINT.

-"Oh, mamma, won't YOU please give |
me piece of that cake?" mo, my
dear; it will make you sick" Il don't
want to eat it; only want to make
some sinkers for my fish-line. "-Golden
Days.
-Beggs-"I wonder why Mrs Jaggs
won't let her husband employ female
typewriter OPERATOR" Foggs-"Don't
you know? She. was his former type
writer operator herself" = Munsey's
Weekly.
-Doctor-"What is your husbands
complaint ma'am? Is it chronic o.
Wife-"Yes, sir. have never known
him to be satisfied with meal for the
last thirty-five years. Huntington
Free Press.
-''Dear, I do wish I could think of
some way to make the congregation
keep their eyes on me during the SER
mon." Little Tommy-"Pa, you want
to put the clock right behind the pull
pit" The Epoch.
Miss Debutante-'sWere you at the
Bones reception, yesterday, Mr.. Bjon-
son?" Mr.. Bjonson-"Yes,I stepped IN
for few minutes, but there was such
lot of uninteresting girls there soon
left. We're you there?"
Young Husband-"What! You are
twenty-five years old to-day? Why you
told me a year ago, just before the wed.
ding, that you were only twenty
Young Wife (wearily)-"I have aged
rapidly since MARI led"
Clerk lin ready made clothing-store)
will you please give me an hour OIL
this afternoon, sir ?" Proprietor
'What do you want to get off for ?"
Clerk-"I want to go and buya suit OF
clothes. boston Courier.
-"Hullo, Stiggins! 1 hardly knew
you. When last saw you you were dy-
i ing from sleeplessness, and here you
are, fat and happy. What has cured
you?" ''Been appointed on the police
force. "-Philadelphia Times.
Aunt Maria-''Your husband seems
unusually amiable and pleasant now,
dear" Ethel (recently married.
'Well, yes. You see, / have stopped
going to cooking school, and we now
have cook. '-Harper's Bazaar.
First Citizen-'I hear the Cover n
ment has rejected one of the. new cruis-
ers. What was the matter with it?'
Second Citizen-'I presume it hadn't
enough speed. to get away from for.
eign battle-ship." IN. Y. Weekly.
--Batchell Ito happy father)-"Con.
graduate you, old man, on the new ar
rival. Whom does he look like?''
Father remembering the visitors COM
ments) -"He looks like all his relatives
on both sides of the family."-Ex.
change.
Fond Mother-'T have called John
ME dozen times to come in and go on
an errand, but he won't come. He is
out there playing with one of the neigh.
boris children Caller (meaningly)-
"He-won't Gomez" Fond Mother
mo Those neighbor children ought
to have more respect for my feelings
than to 60 on playing with him after he
has been called, and / shall send then
home this instant. IN. Y. Weekly.
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it yourss Really, | didn't Hnow Ii be'
longod to you. Twenty-Five cents,
please. That's the tax on sheep per
head. Thought it rather light at the
time, and urged an increase, but the mo.
ton was defeated.
81 am going up to Boggs now to col
lect. chad a little trouble with Boggs
yesterday. He was moving his house
,from one lot to another. charged him
with three separate assessments-the
lot from which the house went, the lot
to which it was going, and the house
midway between them. lie objected en-
the ground that this made his taxes
nearly one-third moro than they ought
to be. said an assessor was bound to
take things as he found them. and
that's the way found them. 1t was
not my fault; had to do my duty.
assure you he was quite violent. Good
day."
Ard higgins hurried after Boggs,
whom he saw passing down the road.
The other day he wanted to tax the
Widow Higgins on tho elegant rosewood
coffin in which her husband was to be
buried. He wanted to go down on the
day of the funeral and collect, but we
reasoned with and told him it was real
/ ly not her coffin, but his; and that sha
| could not be assessed OH what did not
belong to her, and that it was obviously
impossible to levy on Higgins. 1t did
not seem reasonable to our assessor that
dead man should not pay for indulg-
ing in luxuries OF that kind. But up
to certain point we think it is neces-
sary to restrain higgins. 1t is no use
| to reason with him. lie is a too faithful
official for that He wants simply to do
his duty. He started out for Mrs. Smiths
when he heard that lady had twins, un-
der the impression that he could collect
from her under the poll tax. lie was
with difficulty dissuaded from this.
Nobody in the village owns any thing
nowadays. Under the argus eye OF Mig
gins, wealth is rapidly disappearing
carriages are wheeling out of town, the
4 profits of the cigar mandatory havo
seemingly all disappeared in smoke, our
town jeweler is working on half time,
the book sellers trade is all bound up.
and the feeble glimmerings of candle
factory have gone out entirely.
We are looking around for a less zeal
GUS assessor. higgins is a just too faith
full official. He does his duty too we'll
4 IacrDH N4NA Miller
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-08-13
THE TEXAN COWBOY.
He Is Bold, Fearless and Generous, with
Nothing Small About Him.

He Is Bold, Fearless and Generous, with
Nothing Small About Him.
e., Cowboy life has in the last few years
lost much of its roughness. The cattle
barons have discharged most Of the men
who drank, and have frowned so per-
sistently upon gambling that little of it
is done. Cards and whisky being put
away, there is small temptation to dis
orderly conduct; so it is only when they
reach some large city, and are not on
duty, that they indulge in genuine
Spree On the ranches kept under fence
they have little to do when not on the
drive or in branding time, the cattle
being all safely inclosed. But they
must take their turns at line
riding, which means a close in
spection of the fences, and the
repair of all breaks and damages.
Where night overtakes them, there
they sleep, stalking their horses, and
rolling themselves in their blankets.
These rides of inspection take days to
accomplish, for there are ranches in
Texas which extend in straight line
over seventy-fve miles. Those ranches
which are not kept under fence neces-
states more work. The boys must
then keep their cattle in sight, and
while allowing them to Craze in every
direction, must see that none in the
many thousands stray beyond the limits
of their own particular pastures. They
go then in parties, scattering over
the territory, for they must cover hun
dreds of thousands of acres in a day.
1t is not a life of hardship, and pays
we'll enough. Every thing is furnished
to them free and of the very best, and
thoy are paid besides thirty dollars per
month. Each party stays out from two
to three weeks at a time; but they take
with them the finest of camp wagons,
with beds and bedding, cooking uten-
sils, the best of groceries of all kinds,
and as excellent cook as money can
employ. The prairies are full of game,
and their rifles are ever handy. The
life is free, fascinating, and peculiarly
healthy.
These men are exceedingly chivalrous
4 to all women; this seems to be trait
born in them, as much part of their
moral nature as it is of their physical
4 to have small feet, for it is seldom that a
genuine Texas cowboy can be found who
has not the distinguishing mark Of
handsome foot, and his boots are to
him all that the sombrero is to Mex
lean. He will deny himself many
pleasures, he will go without coat
and be seen in most dilapidated attire
but his boots must be of the best anc
most beautiful make that the country
can afford; high in heel and curved O.
instep, fine upper and thin sole, fitting
like a glove, and showing the handsome
foot to perfection.
Take the cowboys as a class, they arr
bold. fearless and generous a warm
hearted and manly set, with nothing
small, vicious nor mean about them
and Texas need not be ashamed of tn
brave and skillful riders who travers
the length and breadth of her expansive
prairies.-Lee c. Hardy, in Harper
Magazine.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-08-13
One WAY to Do Work.

To the Editor of the Standard-SIR:
The evidence daily multiplying of the
rapid spread of public desire to know
more of the single tax doctrines, and
how involuntary poverty can be abol-
ished by the doing of justice, is most
gratifying to every lover of humanity.
And the new and original methods re.
sorted to with so much success, by both
individuals and associated workers, to
catch public attention. show not only
the earnestness, but the hard, practical
common sense of single tax people, who
not only know what they want but, for
the most part, just how to get it.
Above every recent effort to spread a
knowledge of our aims, the programme
of the Memphis single tax association,
as detailed by r. G. Brown, in the Stand
ard of the 5th inst, seems to promise
the most gratifying and rapid results.
To reach the farmers and village read
.ers of the country newspapers by two
columns each week of judiciously edited
single tax literature, presented in the
''patent inside" which most country
weeklies make use of, must result in
more rapid progress than the most san.
guihe of us have dared to hope.
The Mascoutah Herald promptly &C.
cepted the offer of two columns weekly
| of single tax matter, which the Mem.
phis association made, because the edi-
tor clearly sees the cats profile, if not
all of its shading. But many editors no
doubt paid no attention to the offer
made them. because public sentiment in
their localities has not yet grown to de-
mand it, Can not our individual friends
everywhere seize the opportunity and
request their local papers to accept the
offer made them. In this way widely
scattered individuals can do work out
Of all proportion to the paucity OF their
/ numbers. When the farmers organiza-
lions see the light as the Knights OF
Labor have done, the Democratic party
will not be less radical than they. But,
as Mr.. Gladstone says, sit is the office
qf politician to follow, not to lead,
public sentiment The public senti.
ment has been formed, the politicians
will be falling over each other in theiE
rush to keep up with the procession.
| BOYD CoRMIcK.
Masco,tah. ILL.,. March g.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-08-13
Turn About.

Smiley-Pm going to be married to
the beautiful Miss Sharpe. Congratu.
late me, old boy, and come and drink
her health.
Slimley-Yes, you're right to toast
her now-she'll toast you when you're
married. -Weat Shore.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-08-13
Practical Economy.

First Collegiate-What in the world
have you stopped smoking cigarettes
and started in on cigars for?
Second Collegiate-Oh, father made me
promise to try to save money by swear
ing off cigarettes, you know. -Munsey's
Weekly.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-08-13
Unparalleled Growth.

Citizen of Boomtown--Our city has IN.
creased nearly one hundred and fifty
per cent. in the last ten years.
Citizen of Upthecreek-That's nuthin'.
Aours hez increased five hundred per
cent.
81 don't believe it."
Eye needn't, but hits fact. In 1886
we he'd only ten inhabitants, an now
we've got over fifty, BY gum!'-shicago
Tribune.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-08-13
EARLY STAGE-COACHING.
How the Daily Line Was Started
and Maraged.
core ,,,msnt Assistance In the Enterprise
History of the scheme-The Great
Old Concord Coaches That Were
in the Service.

HERE is a man
in t h i S town,
now h a | g and
hearty at the age
OF seventy-fv We,
who was a mem
Der of the firm
that started the
first daily stage
that ever ra n
from t h Q Mis-
souri, T i v g r to
Salt Lake City.
He is Colonel
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-08-13

NO." said the comedian, ut isn't
as easy as it looks l find my task a
very hard one. 1t struck me as nc
laughing matter when saw you at the
theater last night"-WashinGton Post
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-08-13

THE Pittsburgh Dispatch is complain
ing that the property owners are standing
in the way OF business expansion in that
city. Pittsburgh has, it says, made
marvellous strides in industrial develop
pent within the last few years, increas-
iny it's business SO as to occupy seventh
place in the list of clearing house cities;
but now its business men find that there
is lion in the path. The land owners
stand in the way of the city's develop
ment, holding their property at rents
that it is we'll nigh impossible to pay
and do business proftably. The Dis
patch wants these people to get out Of
the way" Why should theJ7 Doesn't
the land belong to thep2
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-08-13
Mascoutah, H., March 8.
A Clergyman on George.

Rev. j. Aud, in his sermon on the fol.
lowing Sunday morning, referred to the
presence in Sydney of Mr.. George as fol-
lows: x
Whatever opinions they might enter
tain regarding Mr.. Georges theories, they
were hound to recognize him as a great
Christian philanthopist ! had the
pleasure of listening to his address to
the members of the general assembly;
and Mr.. George there gave expression to
thoughts that we're very beautiful, poet
ical and distinctiyely Christian. His
iaea Of the Kingdom of Heaven seemed
to be that Of perfect society, from
which all poverty, inequality and injus-
tice would be banished. 1t would not
be fair to Mr.. George to say that he ex-
pected such society to be brought
about by means of political economy.
The most perfect system of political
economy could never rise higher than
the utterances of Jesus of Nazareth.
Yet political economy may be regarded
| as powerful auxiliary to the Gospel in
completely establishing the Kingdom OF
God among men.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-08-13

To Prohibit Aliens From Owning Lands II
tho United states. -
The Arizona sentinel., 1890-05-24
RELIABLE EEE05.

Tine amous Hovoy Seed Store of Boston, and Hovey Nurseries of Cambridge, Macs, have been moved to East Pasa1era, California, where the ts1siness vill be continued
 The Raymond FIowe- and Seed SsOe,
 c. |. HovEY, Manager,
 East Pasadena, Gal. Send forcomplete catalogue. 10th.
The Arizona sentinel., 1890-05-24
A DouhIe Enoch Arden.

An army officer told me a strange story the other day of a brother officer who graduated with hiE from West Point many years ago. Shortly afterward he married pretty girl and for time things went smoothly, but John BarleycOrn, who has killed more soldiers than have ever fallen in battle, got the best of him and he went to the dogs rapidly. Finally he tiIrew up his position iH the army, de- serted his wife, and for years nothing was lieard of him. At last news came to the poor woman that the worthless wretch was dead, and after time she married another officer, and they moved out to his station at one of the far western posts. In the meantime it seems that her first hus- band was not dead, but after years of dc 'hauchery and wandering reformed. He ethen began to make inquiries for the woman he had deserted. Nothing was known of her, and after long and fruit less search he was forced to the conclu- s:on that she had given up the struggle. He came to Washington, where, through the assistance of some influential friends, he procured an appointment in the army. Then, believing himself free, be married ; gain and took his wife to the frontier past tolwhicll he YVES o-dered-the same at which his first Wife was living. The meeting, the shock of mutual recognition, the deeD shame Of the terrible situation, is something to which 20 pen can do jus tlce. What were they to do? The queS- ton has not yet reached 8 satisfactory set tiement. ashingtor Capital.
The Arizona sentinel., 1890-05-24
Assessment Notice.

Farmers Irrigating Canal Co. Location of principal place of business, Toltec precinct Yuma County Arizona.
 Notice is hereby given that at a meeting of the Board of Directors, held on the 18th, of April 1890, an assessment (No. @ of ten 1G) dollars per share was levied upon the capital stock of the corporation pay able in thirty i30l days from the above date, to t!e Secretary at his office, in T3itect precinct Y ana County, Arizona. Any stock upon which this and other assessments shall remain unpaid on the 2Jth day of May 1890, will be delinquent and adver- tised fer sale JGbiic tu tien.
 Following is correct list of clare holders, number of shares each, aHd amount due Fr,,,, each ei,ar, h-tl3sr.
The Arizona sentinel., 1890-05-24
An Indian Salmon Dance,

The Indians residing on the Yakima reservations below the gap Leld one of their pumpums or tumanimus dances in their medicine house Sunday last The dance and accompanying weird incanta- tons were for the purpose of propitiatinE the good spirit and in supplcation for a bountiful run of Chinook salmon. The lodge, a low structure about seventy feet in length, was covered with tule mating, and in this were 900 bucks, squaws and papooses fantasticglly clad and painted in all the colors of tne rainbow. The dance was under the direction of Ko-ti-a-con, one of the head medicine men. For hours lhe Indians danced and chanted their mo- notonous songs, until tired nature as- serted itself, and they would fall or their s5=, and offer up their 'amens" to the ex.s7r:..iic:z.s .f tae medicine man
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1.-THE ARIZONA SENTINEL" CLUB
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Having made speciq! a,ran gements vi.l the r4b i+i.e,.s oi nnn,Eor of tAa iea.'iac periodicals, rnB SENTINEL presents ei.s follow ing clubbing list to its reoders:
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 Nex Orleans Weekly Times Democrat one year, $$;3 & St. Louis Weekly Globe Democrat, one year, $3 s.
 Scribuer's Magazine, one year. s4 90. Weekly New York Herald, s 30. Weekly New York Times, $ 40. Weekly New York T'ribuns, S3 8. Weekly New York Sun, $ 3O. Weekly New York World, s 30. New York Weekly Ledger, $4 %. Harper's Magazine, s 90 Harper's Illustrated Weekly, s 70. Harper's Bazaar. 5 70. Century Magazine, 56 Lippincott's Magazine, $4 50. Scientific American, 5. Subscriptions to the above must be paid for in advance Address:
 THE ARIZONA SENTINEL.
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loIlce fer Publication Homestead APpIic2-
 siCn, Elc. io69.
L ND OFFICE, AT TUcsoS ARIzoNA,O
 Jan. IG. le90.

E,oeice is hereby given that the following-named ssieg has filed notice O. h. intention to nake br4I proof in support of hs ciai'. and th-t sad proO; i'll be made before the i gi5tar and Receiver |. &. and Oifi e ct Tucson, Ariaoaa. or March l?tt.. ,91, viz; George w. Cameron of Senticel, Ar;zona or the Y. '. of Sec. 32 Tp : <, B l. ". lie names tEP following tEesseS to pr5vs his ccU- uous residence upoa aid cultivation Of, said IfI.d 5.z:
 Elijah Harris ST. II R. Wills, F. TWheathesby, ard i&-gi1l r G!cr. all ct Se,.tiG ! arizona.
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Agents tsylans3 Wanted SIKLEGG GGtSs3ERS tSg S3R

It beats them all. No book like 1t. Everybody wants it, zoo illustrations. Humorous, Pathetic, Fas- cinating, Hundreds of dollars to hustiers. Old and young buy; also thousands of G. A. K. ana Sons of Veterans. One agent has ordered over 700 books. Another made S83 Tn 4 days, an- other took 15 orders in 30 min. in 1 c. A. R. Post. Choose territory at once. 24 attractive illustrations Ez ,.r.AI ,s-1,.Io- z-I Na,
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