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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-09-24
AQUATIC SPORTS.

-.
Hanlan and Hamm had a quarrel at
Kansas City recently. Hanlan called
aamm dirty tramp and no gentleman,
which nearly led to blowa
John i. Cummings seat with the
Bradford crew has been taken BY Oh
other member in response to demand
from the members of the crew and off,
.ers Of the club.
George Hyslop; OF Toronto, at Mon
treal defeated Benedict, the crack
swimmer Of the Montreal Swimming
Association, for the championship Of
Canada by over twenty yards.
The Superior Yacht Club, of Milwau-
kee, has elected these officers for the
ensuing year:-Presiaent, G. L. Catlin;
vice-President, N. E: Hanson; Secretary,
Charles N. OHare; Treasurer, John A.
Bardon.
The sculling race between John T.
Parke, George W. Van Vliet and Charles
Saenger, of the Vesper Boat Club, of
Philadelphia, at Eagles Mere, on Aug.
rs, resulted in a victory for Parlle, who
beat Van Vliet by third of length.
saenger finished three lengths in the
rear.
DR.. Charles B. Penrose, treasurer Of
the Examining Board of Pensions, and
Robert Ralston, both of Philadelphia,
swan down the Delaware river from
Philadelphia to Chester, a distance of
fifteen miles, August 25. The men swan
for wager, 81. Penrose winning in five
hours and five minutes. Mr.. Ralston's
time was five hours and thirteen min
utes.
The well-known professional oarsman,
Jack Largan, had very close call the
other day on the Harlem river. While
speeding in his new paper she'll between
the Harlem and Madison avenue bridges
his boat suddenly struck a floating log
and was overturned. Struggle as he
would, Largan could not extricate his
feet from tho straps attached to the
stretchers. He was fast growing ex-
hausted when Oliver, the boat-builder,
put off in oat to his rescue and brought
him ashore.
Dennis Donohuc, of the Nautilus
Rowing Club, of Hamilton, Ont, who
was disqualified by the executive COM
mittee of the Canadian Association of
Amateur Oarsmen, claims to have been
unjustly treated by the committee, and
says that he will have nothing more to
do with the association. Donohue has
lost only one race, and has helped to win
two American championships with the
Nautilus four He will now enter the
professional ranks, and would like to
mako match with Casey, of Boston;
Joyce, OF Springfield, Mass; Corbett, OF
Chicago, or Rodger, of Saratoga
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his own State, he appears to have be-
come embittered, and he is now proba-
bly, the only man possessed of repu.
tation who would attempt to lead the
faction in the Senate that is se=king to
force the passage of such a measure.
Mr.. Hoar's argument was not only weak,
but 1t was weakly put, and utterly failed
to hold the attention of the large audi.
ence that had gathered to hear him.
The fact that the State once repre-.
sented by Webster, and afterward by
Sumner and Wilson, should now be
represented in the Senate by Dawes
and Hoar, is one OF the worst signs of
the degeneracy brought about by mar
row partisanship Mr.. Hoar has never
been noted for any high order of in
tellectual ability. He Is quetulods
and somewhat ridiculous person, whose
| appearance naturally suggests to the
caricaturist the feminine night cap in
which the Senator usually figures in
| the cartoons. There was nothing to BE
said for him except that he was emf.
nently respectable and not likely to be
carried away by wild crazes or TO be.
come the tool of corruptionists. Since
this can no longer be said the humilia.
ton of Massachusetts is complete.
AS an argument in favor of the force
bill, Mr.. Hoar's speech amounted to
actually nothing. 1t was repetition
of the old cries of fraud without even
an attempt to show that the pending
measure can accomplish any thing
| where similar measures had utterly
failed in the past. 1t probably changed
the opinion of no living man, and its
only possible influence is that on Mr..
Hoar's reputation already referred to-
| N. Y. Standard.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-09-24
M'kINlEY AND MILLS.
Facta Which the Republican Organ
Grinders Should Not Forget.


Grinders Should Not Forget.
Republican journalists should take a
few lessons from the exemplars of plan.
tation manners in the South. The
treatment, for instance, of Mr.. Mills by
the average journalist of the North is q
discredit not to Mr.. Mills but to North
ern journalism. Take, for instance, the
following paragraph from a reputable
Brooklyn paper:
1.-THE wanderings Of Mr.. Mills, Of Texas, on
the stump, preaching what he is pleased to
term tariff reform and paying thrilling tribute
to Columbia while he denounces the force bill
are, If considered from the humorous stand
point, funny. But he is very serious man.
There is reason to believe that he believes in
himself great deal, and has not faith that the
country can get along without him Mr.. Mills
must have something large concealed in the
back parlor OF his mind
The Democratic party has nothing to
be ashamed of in having chosen Mr..
Mills as chairman of the ways and
| means committee. The measure which
he introduced and the methods by
which that bill was advocated, ex-
planned and defended suffer at no point
in comparison with the record made by
the Republicans in dealing with the
same subject under the direction of Mr.
Mckinley, of Ohio.
The Mills bill united the Democratic
party. The Mckinley bill divided the
Republican party.
The Mills bill reduced taxation; the
Hill 10
The Mills bill was drawn in behalf Of
the masses; the Mckinley bill is bill
for the exclusive benefit of classes.
The Mills bill put binding Irvine and
cotton ties upon the free list; the Nc
Kinley bill taxes both of these.
The Mills bill struck at the very prin-
ciple of trusts and combinations; the
| Mckinley bill fosters trusts and subsi-
dies rings.
The Mills bill embodies the principles
of liberty Of action, liberty of exchange,
and acrords with the spirit of modern
life. The Mckinley bill is reminis-
cence OF the Middle Ages and embodies
| all Of the absurd restrictions and false
economic doctrines of the colonial sys-
TENS of European Governments two,
! three or four hundred years ago.
This people believe in Mills and in
the Mills bill. In his speeches in Con-
gress and in his addresses throughout
the country, Mr.. Mills has shown him
self to lie a master of his subject; earn
est, aggressive, but courteous and
| thoroughly sincere,
M. Mckinley palters in a double
sense; his speeches lack force, distinct
ness and fairness. In dealing with his
subject there is narrowness OF view,
bigotry, blindness that carries him,
his measures and his party to defeat.
The Republican press can no longer
deceive the people in this respect. They
have tried to make a great man of Mr.
Mckinley and to belittle the character
and attachments of Mr.. Mills. But it is
beyond the power of the press to make
great men. They come to the bar of
public opinion to be judged and when
so arraigned the Democrats may well be
satisfied with their champion.-Louis-
Vile Courier-Journal
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DRIFT OF OPINION.

When the history of Reeds Con-
gress is written, it will be found deeper
in corruption than any under Colfax,
Blaine or Keifer, and it will become
more obnoxious to the country than
Congress wac in the days of the Credit
Mobilier. louisville Courier-Journal.
There seem to be three Repub-
lican parties just now-one with head.
quarters in the State Department., an.
other with it's seat of government be.
hind the Speakers desk in the House,
and another, little one, dominated BY
the present tenant of the White House.
IN. Y. Times.
When Blaine, Buttefworth, Plumb,
Paddock, Henderson, Davis, Dawes,
Teller, ingalls,, Walcott and Quay have
been read out of the Republican party
the G. 0. p. will be in the position Of
the old lady, half of whose skirts had
been cut off while she slept: ''1f this
be not /, then who am I?''-N. Y. Tele
gram.
"a majority of the people," said
dear old Granny Hoar in the Senate,
"believes firmly that for four years
usurper sat in the executive chair oil
the Nation" That is undoubtedly true,
but it was hardly to be supposed thai
from Granny Hoar would come such an
unkind, such vicious cut at the gentle
hen-fancier of Ohio.-Chicago Mail.
Nearly every prominent Repub.
lican paper In the States west of Ohio
is opposing that part of the Mckinley
bill proposing to increase duties. The
views thus expressed are not confined
to thu editors formulating them. They
represent the sentiment of an over
whelming majority of the Republican
party of the Mississippi valley.-St.
Louis Globe Democrat.
colonel Dudley, the blocks-of-five
statesman who carried Indiana for Har-
rison, has withdrawn his libel suits
against numbered Eastern newspapers
which published his famous letter re-
vealing the blocks-of-five me thods Of
carrying an election. Doubtless he
has been fayorably impressed by the
successful inantion and sileAca OF his
friend Quay in that little matter Of ems
hsaazlemeHt Chicago Herald
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MORE FORCE WANTED.
Congressman Lodges Latest Plea in Be-
half of His Bill.

half of His Bill.
Congressman Lodges argument to
prove that there is no force in the
fraud and force bill excels any thing
of the sort on record. He goes into
figures to show that the voters of the
United States could not be coerced ur1-
der his proposed statute, because there
are not regular soldiers enough in the
country to furnish a sufficient detail to
overawe electors at every polling place.
But what's the matter, Mr.. Lodge,
with enlisting an extra hundred thou
sand men or SO, to make sure that no
vote be cast except at the point Of the
bayonet? Such plan would suit the
imperiialists mighty we'll. 1t would
mean more money to be spent, more
positions to be filled, more fat contracts
to be given ont and shorter and
quicker road for the universal domina-
ton of the Man on Horseback.
1t would not be even necessary to in.
crease the regular army but only to pro.
vide for the employment and uniform
of deputy marshals at the sweet will o..
Davenport & Co. That would be glori.
Gus plan, from the Lodge point of view,
and pretty sure, as the imperialist lead
ers look at things, to enable them to
hire men enough to elect anybody any
where.
curious feature about this argument
of Lodge is his cool assumption that
soldiers would be needed at every vot.
ing place at once. Our Democratic i'm.
agination has taken no such flight. We
have assumed that troops would be
only sent to close districts, where the
Federal power would be needed to in.
suro Republican Congressional ma.
jority. But Mr.. Lodges partisan fancy
scars far higher. He evidently wants
to have House of Representatives
unanimously Republican, and every
man Jack Of them elected at the point
of the bayonet.-N. Y. Star.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-09-24
A DEEP.SEA RATHER.
He Coils Himself Upon the Water to Strike
and Resists Capture.

He Coils Himself Upon the Water to Strike
and Resists Capture.
A lady who has been staying at St
Augustine, Fla, sends her brother in
this city anaccount of the capture of a
rattlcsnake under remarkable circum-
stances. In May last she was in a sail
boat containing, beside herself, four
children, two gentlemen and two ne.
groes. They were coming up from Ma
tanzas river to st. Augustine. When
they were about mile off Anastatia
Island, which is famous for it's venom.
Gus snakes, they observed large snake
swimming in the water AS the boat
neared the snake it coiled itself in the
water and raised it's head about foot
above the surface.
1t was then seen that it was a large
rattlesnake. The white men proposed
. to kill it, but the negroes begged them
not to 90 nearer. lest the snake should
spring into the boot. One of the gen.
tlemen, however, who had sporting
blood, said he thought it would be a
pity to let such an ugly creature retain
the land and continue to enjoy life, lib
erty and the pursuit of wickedness.
With the permission of the lady, he
determined to shoot the snake The
boat was headed across it's track. 1t
again raised its head above the water
In a threatening manner, and small
bullet from rifle, such as is used by
sportsmen down there, was sent through
its throat The snake twisted itself a
little and then lay in folds upon the
water, apparently dead. A slip-noose
was made in cord and thrown over the
snakes head by one of the occupants of
the boat
Then the reptile was hauled into the
boat. 1t seemed about mile long as it
came over the side, though, in fact, but
little more than six feet 1t was no
sooner fairly in the boat than it re-
turned to life and began to strike at the
occupants Of the boat The gentleman
who held the cord behaved very pluck
lily. Had he loosed his hold he and ono
or more of the others would have suf-
fered. Death might have resulted from
bite, for the stock of anti-snake- bite
fluid in the boat was small. He mar
rowly escaped the snakes fangs several
times. After engaging for some time in
the pastime Of keeping the snake at
arms length and lodging its head, he
managed to slip the cord round a
pin in the gunwale, and twisted
it round the pin several times.
This lessened the danger. He still held
on to the cord. The lady, the children
and the two negroes huddled in the
stern of the boat The snake did not
discontinue its activity because it was
tied to the pin. 1t flourished its six
foot body about sometimes in the water,
sometimes in the boat.
When st. Augustine was reached and
the party landed the snake was finally
killed. The boatmen who gathered
around its corpse removed their pipes
from their mouths after the expiration
of several minutes and declared it to be
a varmint of the worst description. 1t
was found to measure exactly feet III
inches from the nose to tho end of its
rattleS.-N Y. Evening Sun
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-09-24
WOOL FROM IRON.
X Peculiar Substance Which Comes from
the Great Furnaces of Pittsburgh.

= Peculiar Substance Which Comes from
the Great Furnaces of Pittsburgh.
Strange as 1T may seem, there comes
from the iron furnaces of Pittsburgh a
substance SO white and light. so fluffy
and tlaky, that it looks and feels like
picked wool. 1t is called 'slag WOOL"
and a correspondent offers to tell us
how it is made and for what it is used.
Stag Is waste substance which issues
from iron melting furnaces. 1t is formed
by the separation of the earthly matter
from the ore, and looks like coarse,
dark glass if allowed to cool as it comes
from the furnaces. Formerly it was
thrown away as valueless, but since q
process for converting it into wool has
been discovered, it is utilized for many
purposes.
This mineral wool if formed by caus-
ing jet of steam to play upon the
stream of molten Stag as it issues from
the furnace This has the effect OF
breaking up the molted mass into
countless small, bead-like particles, so
light that they fly in every direction.
Each of these tiny beads carries behind
it a delicate thread of finely. spun Stag,
so that one Is reminded of comet with
its tail.
To collect these threads and to sep.
arate the flbers from the beads or
heavier portions of the Stag, the steam
jetis arranged at the mouth of an open
cylinder of sheet-iron, in which strong
air current is induced by means of ad.
ditional jets of steam.
The tube or shaft is furnished with a
shield or striking plate which detains
the heavier PARTICLES, while the lighter
Stag wool is carried by the draft into
large chamber resembling gigantic
meat-safe, its walls being formed of
wire netting with about sixteen meshes
TO the square inch. Here the steam
condenses and escapes, leaving the Stag
wool, which now has the appearance OF
snowfakes, deposited on the floor Of
the chamber or clinging to its wire
walls.
The filaments or flakes are then
broken up and felted together, when
they look and feel like wool.
This mineral wool is extremely light
and absolutely ireproof-propertie
which make it useful for large
variety of purposes. 1t is mar
velous non-conductor of heat and
sound, which renders it valua.
BILE for packing between the floors OF
rooms and in the spaces between par
titions. 1t serves as an excellent GOV.
oring for boilers, heating pipes and such
things.
1t can be woven into cloth, and as such
makes fire-proof curtains for theaters,
and it might not be bad plan to make
clothes out of it for children who per.
sist in playing near the fire. 1t is SC
porous that it will absorb and retain
large quantities of water, like a sponge,
and 1T is also an antiseptic, that is,
substance which resists or corrects
putrefaction. 1t is useful, therefore, az
ADDRESSING for wounds, as well as for
other medical purposes. Youths Com
panion.
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Cbilis and Fever.

they don't want to take medicine that does
them no good They don't feel bit like
doing such foolish thing. They want a
medicine that Is safe and one that is sure.
Well, there is one remedy that, while being
perfectly harmless, has never failed and
never will fail to completely cure chills and
fever, and that remedy is Smiths Tonic
Syrup 1t is made by DR.. John Bull, Of
Louisville, KY, and is as sure to cure chills
and fever as daylight is to follow darkness.
In the malarial season it is an excellent
remedy to have handy. A single dose will
check a cold and allay feverish symptoms.
Every intelligent family should keep it in
their household and use it US prevent
i've of colds and malaria, as well as quick
cure.
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Frankly Stated.

Borrowell-Sir, l am temporarily but
heriously embarrassed, and l venture to
apply to you for loan of five dollars till
next Monday.
Westerly--But why don't you apply
to some of your friends? don't know
you.
Borroweil--That sir, is the very res,
son why caas to you for . loan. Yves.
gheFa - =
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-09-24

A departure
from ordinary methods has long
been adopted by the makers Of DIR.
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery.
they know what it can do-and
they guarantee 1t. Your money
is promptly returned. Il it fails to
benefit or cure in all diseases Arising
from torpid liver or impure blood,
No better terms could be asked for.
No better remedy can be had.
Nothing else that claims to be a
blood-parifer is sold i'll this way
because nothing else is like the
&c. NJ. D."
So positively certain is it In its
curative effects as to aoarvant its
makers in selling it, as they are do
ing, through druggists, ON trial!
It's especially potent in curing
letter, Salt-rheum, Eczema, Fry
| sipelas, Boils, Carbunc1es, Sore
Eyes, Goitre, or Thick Neck, and
Enlarged Glands, Tumors and
Swellings. Great Eating Ulcers
rapidly heal under it's benign IN
fluence. Worlds Dispensary Med
ical Association, 663 Main Street,
Buffalo, n. Y.
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Home Seekers; Excusirsi0tis

AtHALF RATES, VIA WABASH LINE.
will be run September 9th and 23a, aud
October 14th, TO points in Southwest Mis-
dian Territory, Oklahoma, Texas. Colo
RADIO, New Mex 80, Wyoming, Utah, Idaho,
Montana, South and North Dakota, Iowa
and Minnesota:
RATE-One Fare for Round Trip. For
time tables, tickets and other particulars
apply to the nearest ticket agent OF the
Wabash OF connecting lines.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-09-24
HCAR'S WEAKNESS,
The Ridiculous Successor of Webster
Sumner and JHIIsa.,

Sumner and Wilson.
Senator Hoar of Massachusetts, is in
many respects one of the most peculiar
men In the Senate. He represents a
highly cultivated constituency which
has, during the past few years, become
more and more liberal In its treatment
OF such questions as those involved in
the force bill. For time Mr.. Hoar an
peared " share their sentiments. but as
hia party has gradually lest strength 10
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-09-24
Much Needed Reform

In the condition OF disorderly or torpid
liver is no sooner Instituted by Eestetter's
Stomach Bitters, than the headaches, paths
in the rightsde, yellowness of the skin, fur
Upon the tongue, aud constipation, which &C
company this ffialady. take their departure.
Dyspepsia, also, twin brother Of billousness,
yacates the ranch. Kidney troubles, ms.
larial affections and nervous complaints
also srccumb to the Bitters.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-09-24

The Great st. Louis Exposition for 1880
With Gilmore's full band and the grand :
est Electrical display ever made on earth,
will be open until October 18th. Th'
Wabash offers the usual low rates to and
from st. Louis. Particulars Of tbs near
a It Ticket Aren't
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-09-24

SUMTER, soUTn CARoLiNA, June I'd, 1887.
DIR. A. r. SHALLENBERGER,
Rochester, Pa Dear Str:-1 have
been using your Antidote for Malaria in my
family for several years. For more than a
year had chills, and was so low down that
/ had not strength to walk Mr. Whomsley
Begged me to try the Antidote, and it cured
me at once am now strong, healthy
man. We use no other medicine in the fam,
lily, as we find it the quickest; safest, and
also the cheapest. Yours very truly,
SAMUEL CLARK
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-09-24

For washing .fanaels, Dobbins' Electric
Soap is marvellous Blankets and Woolens
washed with it look like me,c, and there is
absolutely no shrinking. No other soap in
the world will do such perfect work. Give
it trial noiU.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-09-24

ALL cases of weak or lame back, backache,
rheumatism, will find relief by wearing one
Of Carter's Smart Weed and Belladonna
Backache Plasters. Price2 cents. Try them.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-09-24

Rev. Fl. P. Carson, Scotland, Oak, says
1.-TWO bottles of Halls Catarrh Cure com
pletely cured my little girl" Sold by Drug
gists, CSC.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-09-24

"You are looking pretty hard this morn
iug,n said the lettuce to the egg. eyes,
answered the egg; 81 am just getting over
a hniln
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-09-24

DaN'T wait until you are sick before trying
Carriers Little Liver Pills, but get vial at
once You can't take them without benefit.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-09-24

NATURE has wisely arranged matters SO
that man can neither pat his own back
nor kick himself.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-09-24

YoY can't teach an old dog new tricks,
but you can buy a new dog.-Terre Haute
Express.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-09-24

WHITE-s'When the boat begins to roll
expect my dinner'll come up" Brown
"Why, thought you bolted it down."
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-09-24

WIrH the angler it is more matter OF
knowing just when than justwherc to draw
the line
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-09-24

No REMEDY in the world is so highly ap-
preciated by mothers as DR.. Bulls Worm
Destroyers. Many little children owe their
good health to these dainty little candies
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-09-24

BEFORE you do any thing wicked remem.
Der that the papers will probably want to
mention it.-Atchson Globe.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-09-24

'I'M not tall" said the saving little man
"but I'm never short. Boston Herald.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-09-24

ENERGY and boy digging fish-bait both
mean about the same thing.-Ram's Horn.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-09-24

81 CAME and saw saw" said the face
tious tramp, 'but didn't saw:''-Bostor
Herald
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-09-24

IT requires courage to acknowledge to
gray hairs, and that is why brave man
dyes but once.-Texas Siftings.