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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-06-11
The Republicans are undoubtedl

The Republicans are undoubtedly
alarmed at the prospects of deficit.
They see that they are making great
increase in expenditures-over $40, 0oo,.
600 a year for pensions alone already,
without additional Legislation and
they are planning to make CORE.
spending increase in revenues from tax
alton. II they pass a tariff bill at all
it will be with that end ~ iew.-st
Louis Republic
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-06-11
BUNS SMOKE.

How Mrs. Parks Taught Her Son Severe
and Lasting Lesson.
It begin in this way: Jack DUR had
cigar at school, and generally offered
Bun q few whiffs. Its just splen-
didr' the little fellow said, as he thank
ID JACK,
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-06-11
FOR GIRLS AND BOYS.
BOY AND STRING.

What can n small boy do with string7
Well, should guess, about every thing.
Make cats cradle; tie up knot
In every place he ouyhtn't and ought;
Send his kite flying up in tho air;
Sail his boat on the pond over there;
Make stone-sling; and red top spin;
Catch a small fish with tho aid of pin
These are few things, not nearly all;
So. under his knife, marbles, popgun and
bal,
In boys pocket the bottom. most thing
Is always piece of good stout string
IS. Hall, in our Little Men and Women.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-06-11

LOST L1tCl0 Boy
"Here, Hattie" said Mrs. Brown, as
she was going out one afternoon, II am
going to the store, and you must amuse
little brother until / come back. You
may have your playthings on the piazzi,
but be sure that he does not go down
the steps l won't stay very long"
Hattie was faithful little sister, and
had often taken care of her little broth
er. AS he was three years old, his
mamma felt that she could leave home
for few minutes with perfect safety.
| She was away. however. longer than
she expected. When she returned she
found Hattie sitting on the steps, crying
as if her heart would break.
! 80 mamma! mamma! Arthur Is lostl
have looked for him everywhere, and
can not find him."
81 told you to keep him on the piazze,"
said mamma.
II did keep him there, but he would
not play with the blocks, and l went in
to get the tin soldiers for him. He came
into the hall with me, and shut the
door; but no opened it, for when 1came
out the door was open and be was gone.
l ran down the street and called him,
and nobody has seen him." and Hattie
sobbed again.
Mrs. Brown asked some Of her neigh.
bors to help her in the search for
Arthur, and in short time the boys
and girls were running in all direc-
lions. The police were notified, and
dispatches were sent to all the stations.
but nothing had been seen or heard Of
, him.
Mrs Brown returned at the end Of an
hour, hoping that Arthur might have
found his way back in the meantime
She began to cry, too, when Hattie
said: ooh mamma, we shall never see
? him againv'
Mrs. Brown went upstairs, and SIT
ting on the bed said half aloud:
a '.My Arthur, my poor little baby"
WHAT you want, mamma dear% SAID
voice close beside her; and there OF
the bed, just awaking from nap, wa
the lost child.
!. He felt sleepy, and when he came II
with Hattie he had climbed upstairs
d Throwing himself on the bed, b
d dropped asleep as soon as his hea
!. touched the pillow, and no one though
/. Of looking in the house for him. IN. 4
Haley, In Our Little 0pes
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"pRoeYEss AND POVERTY

The London Christian has these para;
graphs relating to the ''drink evil" reciting
facts which are akin to incidents in the
United States. Progress and Poverty u
forcibly illustrated by the report Of q Dub
lin company working two or three spirit
shops, from which it appears that after pay:
ing all expenses the profits for the year
amounted to e5s44 0s. 3d.; with nearly 9600
forward. No wopisar tS8,St poverty
and disease stalk hand in hand through the
Irish metropolis, when one firm, and thre
are hundreds such, can quote figures Like
these. = The increase Of the national
drink bill by seven and q half millions dur
ing 1889 is fact to be deeply deplored.
Fortunately, the bill for tho decade Is lower
than was that for the previous decade, but
no amount of explanation can make 1t satis11
factory that we should be spending elS23
2l3,216 per annum upon Intoxicating drins
y It beginning to be asked What
is the uso of providing improved dwellings
for the working classes il the publican Is to-
bepermitted to come and settle close by, or
in the midst to drag the occupants down
again? By and by when Parliament can
condescend to practical questions affecting
the well-being, spiritual aud physical, OF the
people, we hope the query will receive the
attention of some Of our statesmen.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-06-25
Honduras Has New Stamps Annually.

The Government of Honduras changes
it's postal stamps annually. The design
Of the stamps this year is pretty, much
more elaborate and striking than the
stamps of any of the other Spanish
American republics. The Postmaster
General, Mr.. Burt Cecil, speaking of this,
,aid: at is because it is no expense to
the Government at all that we make the
change every year. Honduras has con.
tract with large engraving concern in
New York to furnish us with all the
stamps of all denominations we want and
Of any design we select, free, we simply
10 return at the end of each year all the
unused stamps and to receive fresh sup.
oly of the new designs. The New York
aouse makes its profit from the stamp
collectors. There are tens of thousands
If these cranks all over the world. At
The end of each year uncancelcd Hondu-
ian stamps of that year can only be had
rom the New York cngravers. They,
having monopoly, make the collectors
paw roundly, and, l hear, make good
hing out of it."-Mp York Press.
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GEORGE W. CARTER, who discovered
natural gas in Indiana, and to whose
pluck and energy its success in thas
State is due, recently died at Eaton,
Ind, from paralysis. Several years
ago, at Muncie, he sunk well several
hundred feet deep, on the banks of the
Mississinewa River, after coal, which
was supposed 10 be there. On striking
the Trenton rock, the gas odor fright
ened away the diggers, who did not
know what it was they had found. The
we'll was filled up and the coal search
abandoned, no one knowing the useful
ness of the discovery. When gas was
found at Findlay, Mr.. Carter was one
of the passengers on an excurson train
run over to see the wonder. He found
the great new fuel to be nothing more
than what he had abandoned. He went
home and sunk q well where he had
filled the one up before, and got the
first gusher in Indiana. There is now
talk of erecting him a monument.
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The Barber Pole and Basin.

The sign of the striped pole, which can
he seen at the door of every barber shop,
was adopted as emblematical of the pro-
cess of blood-lctting, which practice was
a common remedy for nearly all diseases
until about fifty years ago. The patients
arm, usually the left, was made bare, he
was then given short round stick to
grasp in his hand, the arm was then
tightly wrapped with narrow bandage
or tape to the elbow. This was done in
order to get all the blood above the point
where the lancet was to be inserted. The
red stripe on the pole is symbolical of the
arterial blood, the blue stripe of the eveins
or venous circulation and the white of
the arm. The brass basin sometimes sus-
pended from the BARRIERS pole (quite
common in Europe, though rarely seen
in this country was anciently one of the
utensils of the barber. 1t resembles a
tin pie plate with semi circular gap in
one side to encompass the throat and so
prevent the lather from soiling the clothes.
This was found necessary, as the party
being shaved was compelled to sit in an
uprightposition. 1t will be remembered
that "Don Quixote" assumed BARRIERS
basin as hemlet.
1t was not until the reign of George II,
about 1757, that the barber ceased to be
anything but barber, as we now under
stand the term. During the fifth and
sixth centuries the custom of shaving was
nearly obsolete. It was not revived in
Europe until the seventeenth century.
During the reigns of Louis XIII and XVI
of France, both of whom ascended the
throne in boyhood, the fashionable peo-
pie soon began 10 make free use of the
razor that they might resemble their
youthful so0ereigns. 1t will be observed
that the desire to initiate great men did
not originate with the present generation
and, it is safe to predict, will not die
with it. WASHINGTON Star.
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Numerous attachments were made by
the japanese srmorer to the original coat
of mail or cuirass, covering the truni
and protecting the vital organs. In feu-
dal times in Japan, the daimios, or lords,
possessed splendid and serviceable har-
ness, which was often so heavy as to
hamper the movements. The helmet was
generally shallow, with mask before the
face, made to look as gruesome as posi-
ble-looks are considerably more than
half the Oriental battle.
In Corean armor we sec another material
useI for defence. The ancient Corean
soldier wore q coat of great weight and
thickness, made up of thirty-two layers
of course cotton cloth. The helmet is
paddcd and iron bound. On the outside
of the front and rear pads forming the
coat are painted protecting sentences
from Buddhist prayer books. This kind
of armor was probably introduced from
China. Cortes, in the Conquest, fought
against Mexican soldiers equipped III
coats padded with cotton or stuffed with
salt. The Bornce African soldiers also
wear quilted arnlor, and protect their
hn!cns with the same material.
Primitive armor only protected the
body; the legs are left free to run and
dance about in the skirmish fighting OF
wild tribes. The "Romans of Cali
fornia," as the Hupa and Klamath 1ndi-
ans were called. wore an arnor Of wooden
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-06-25
Electricity Direct From Heat.

For fifty years electricians have been
trying to discover o method of convert
ing heat directly into electricity, says the
Hartford Conn Courant, but until re-
Gently no results of commercial value
have been obtained. Such a method
now, however, seems to have been dis
covered by H. B. Cox, a young man from
Maine, at present living in Hartford.
He claims to have invented an appara-
tus for converting heat directly into
electricity, which is so simple in con-
struction that he does not dignity 1t by
the name of machine.
By Mr.. Cox's method heat is changed
to electricity as simply as water is IS
changed to steam. His furnace is all
that may be seen. From glowing Goals
comes the subtle current, without the aid
of boiler, engine or dynamo. A jet OF gas
can be made to run dental machine, a
sewing machine, and anything which re-
quires no more power than these. No
power has ever been discovered that IS
half so cheap as will be electricity oD'
tanned by this new process.
While at his home in Maine nc had
small furnace, which supplied the ciec'
tricity for several lights, and all OF hi'
experiments have been successful.
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KINGsMILL ISLANDER. ALASKAN WARRIOR.
1t seems strange that the Esquimaux
high up in Behring Strait should feel the
ueed of armor. With plates cut from
walrus tusk he makes mail put together
like that of the Japanese that are mar7els
Of patience. When barrel hopes wereto
be had he sometimes used these instead
of ivory.
The Churkchies, on the Siberian side
of Behring Strait, had an armor made of
bands of sealskin that telescoped like a
tourists drinking cup. They had shield
attachment protecting the sides OF the
face, also square breastplece hlnged on
with leather thongs.
A shield is detached or movable armor.
While it is tolersbly easy to pick out all
the tribes that have advanced to the use
of protection worn on the body, oil the
barbarian world use shields. Happy was
the Indian that had a a"medicine" shield !;
no bullet or arrow could hurt him, and,
summit of Indian felicity, it was reputed
to make him successful in battle and
horse-stealing. The Indian buffalo-hide
shield was generally showily decorated
in colors and trapped with red flannel, ,
scalps, horse-hair and eagle feathers.
Sometimes the designs relate the exploits
of the owner, or are his own dream de-
vice, kind of coat-of-arms.
African shields compare favorably in
point of area with whole suit of armor.
They are made of raw hide, wood OF
basket and slat work. The latter are as
pretty weaving as can be found. The
Congo negroes trusted their shields
against bullets tor q time. One of basket,
work in the National Museum has hole
made by rife ball that killed the man
that carried it. ..--
The large round Siamese shields are
nea.y- woven OF split rattan. Long
wooden shields covered with tufts OF
hair are found among the head-hunting
Dyaks of Borneo. The New Guinea
shields are of wood, partly covered with
finely woven basket-work.
The most wonderful shield in the
world is that used by some Australian
tribes. 1t is really sort of parrying
stick. With it the native turns aside
any spear or other throwing missile sent
against him. An Australian gave an ex.
hibition of it's use to the Prince of Wales
in London some years ago. He parried
with case spears that were thrown full
force at him from a distance of fifteen
paces.-Net0 York World.
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years ago,

Some of the best-armored warriors
that have been met with by later travellers
we're found by Captain Charles Wilkes,
U. S. N, in the Kingsmill Islands in the
South Pacific. They wore q heavy cuirass
of cocoanut, woven over q bamboo frame
work resembling barrel chair. Besides
this they inclosed their limbs in cocoa
nut network like chain armor. The he'll
met was of the skin of the sea hedgehog.
The suit is admirably fitted to tear out
the Jagged sharks teeth set into the
edges of the murdcrous wooden swords
and spears of these islands. The Kings
mill natives acted oa the belief that
their mail was imprcgnable until Cap
tain Wilkes thought it advisable to hang
a suit in the rigging and riddle it with
bullets.
japanese differs from European armor
by not beng closely lifting. 1t seems to
be rather low in the scale, as it is com.
posed of overlapping plates, a method
that is frequently followed in the begin
ming of the making of armor.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-06-25

THAT country editors are sometimes
very busy men is evidenced by the fol-
lowing editorial paragraph from q re-
cent issue of the Wsitsburg wash
Times: "Whea We returned from din
ner on Tuesday We found a piece OF
paper sticking into the keyhole of our
Office door, on which was written these
words: Been here twice to subscribe
for the Times, but failed to find You In.
Send it to me and I will hand you 81
the next time am in town. We very
much regret being absent when the
writer called, but Great Scott! we
can't take money all the time. View
cot To take time to eat"
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Stats woven together, fitted. around the
nrns and neck and fastened over the
shoulders with bands of buckslsin. A
stone-hcadcd arrow like these people
used q few years ago would be harmless
against this fence Of hard wood sticks.
Thev also made odd-looking coats OF
thick elkskin almost capable of stopping
a bullet at medium range. Further north
this variety of skin-armor is painted with
grotesquc Alaskan figures in glaring COL
ors.
The Alaskan helmet is also stIikingly
carved and colored object.
An Aleutian skin coat in the National
Museum shows o curious combination OF
ornament and protection. 1t is covered
over with brass Chinese coin called
"cash," sewed on with sinew cord. 1t
would be interesting to know how the
Aleutian acquired Chinese money.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-06-25
1'riplet Steers.

The interesting picture given below OF
triplet calves is copied from the Rurat
Ntao Yorker. The steers belong to Josiah
s. Kenerson, of Barnet, Vt. Mr.. Kener-
son writes of the animals:
"The mother of the steers is q nine
ycar-old high grade shorthorn cow which
had always dropped single calves until
May 8, 1889, when she gave birth to
these triplets. Their sire was very fine
full bloodcd Shorthorn bull, which, 80
far as I have heard, had always begot
single calves until this case. The steers
q were castratcd when few weeks old.
They were born May 8. 1 bought them
on August 10. They were allowed to
suckle the dam until / took them on
August II. I then tried to teach them
to drink new milk as taken from the cow,
but they would not touch it. 1 fed
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-06-25
SAVAGE ARMS.
SHIELDS AND ARMOR USED By
VARIOUS TRIBES.
Cocoanut Cuirass Of South Pacific Isl
anders-Thick Corean Armor-
A Body Fence Of Sticks
Some Shields.

To those whose acquaintance with
armor is confined to that of the times ol
Richard Ceur de Lion, the primitive
suits in the National Museum at Wash
ington would prove surprise. There
have been knights of all nations and
times; the first sword was a blade o1
clipped flint, the first spear fve-pointed
stick, the first shield and body armor OF
thick skin of wild animals.
Those were the humble beginners OF
the famous swords, shields and harness
celebrated in song and romance. They
were the equipment of the brave knights
whose names are Eareco1ded
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-06-25

Defense and offense are the two great
ideas along which weapons have grown; !;
nature began it in the conflicts of the
armored slow and the unarmored active
animals, which we see repeated between
The ships of to-day. When missiles be-
come more penetrating the armor must
be made thicker, and so this fight has
been waged with varying success in all
worlds history.
The suggestion of the use of body
armor at the present day would recall
the amusing adventures of Don Quixote,
and less than twenty years ago the uhlans
Of the Franco -Prussian war were clad in
cuirasses and helmets of steel. These
we're tested before being issued by rifle
6re at certain range. It is just this
sort of armor of different materials that
some barbarous tribes used up to few
years ago.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-06-25
sHEM, HAM AND JAPHETH.

them on hay, ground oats and wheat
bran, and after few days began to give
them ears of corn left from the table IN
the boiling season. They relished the
green ears very much.
As the corn matured I put them en-
the hard corn, giving them two or three
ears each now and then. They are now
eating about three quarts of bran apiece
each day, and also, first, handful OF
oats, then two or three cars of corn and
afterward few roots-beets or carrots.
They have gained very finely.
They are colored exactly alike and
marked rc,rly alike, except that shem
has a star on his forehead. No person
can tell which is the tallest. A farmer
called to see them this week and l
asked him to select the largest one; he
looked them over and carefully made his
selection. then "mixed them up and
asked him to tell me the smallest. He
made his selection, and, to his surprise,
he had picked the sumo steer.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-06-25
RIGHT AND WRONG STIMULUS.

Man requires stimulus. .. 1t Is bic spirits
native air. 1t is like the steam to the engine
and wind to the sail. he ignorantly seeks ID
in the nicotine dream, The hallucinaion Of
drink and the brutal delirium Of lust But
all the while, voices from heaven were call
ing him, only he did not listen, to Gods
modes Of stimulaion-the threefold loves az
the soul: one is the mystic bond that biads'
two hearts and builds home; another Is;
the blessed tie of human brotherhood that
broadens out into work benefcent and,
crowning all, the love Of God, the holy spirit
setting the soul aflame for unity with Him
who Is both it's Creator, it's Master and its
Redeemer. T.. Willard.
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RUINED BY RUM.

Before the war William L. Knowles had
the largest clothing store In New York:
swept away his entire fortune. He took to
drink and went down step by step until his;
only means Of livelihood was the distributine|
of circulars in the Bowery, when he cou1
get it to do. A few weeks ago he stumbll
half drunk into mission, where he was
duced to sign the pledge he stuck tohi8
word and was beginning to see rehahihta
ton before him, when he was taken i'll and
had to go to Bellevue hospital There, alone
and friendless, he has just died Of heart fail-
ure in his seventy-frst year. he was o rich
man when the war broke out.
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PARIsIAN LIQUOR SALOONS.

At the recent Alcoholic Congress at Paris,
it was elected that, during the last eight
years, the liquor saloons Of Paris have M
creased from twenty-four thousand to TWEEN;
ty-nine thousand; that, In thirty years, the
consumption of alcohol has been trebled, In
the last ten years doubled, and that no less;
than thirty-si1 million gallons Of alcoholic
toes. The seed thus sown has borne it's ineYr
table fruit in q startling increase Of crime;
disease, insanity and suicide.-NeD Yore
Ledger. -
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A Wonderful African Mountain.

The top of Kilima Marc, the wonder
full mountain lying almost under the
equator in Central Africa, has been
reached by DR.. Meyer. Several ascents
were made to both the Kibo and the Ma
wcnzi SUBMITS, the party remaining SIX
teen days above height of 200 feet,
and finding the snow-encircled klbo
crater $500 feet in diameter and 65o 1eet
deep. A height of 1850 feet-the
highest point in German terrltory-Was
reached Trenton (M J) american.
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TEMPERANCE.
PAVING THE STREETS.

1--WE must have the liquor tax to pave our
streets, ," says politician.
'tIf mothers had the control
They could pave to-day
The broad highway
With something not so white as the souls
OF tho innocent boys at play.
Why can't men pave the business marts
With something harder than wolnen's heartsi
Is there no gold that will serve their turn,
Save the shining gold of the heads that rese
Soft on loving mothers breast?
Must these 60 down to adrunkard's grave
In order that we the streets may pave?'
iSdlltc F. Chaplin, Il, Union Signal
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DRUNKENNESS NO EXCUSE.

Says the Governor of Virginia: 1.-THE man
who pleads drunkenness to excuse q
crims should get double sentence. 1t ID
like . murderer asking to be excused for
chopping up man OH the ground that be-
had stolen an ak and was carrying it along
when he met his victim" The Governor
persstently refuses pardon to any prisoner
who was led to commit crime through
drunkenness.
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TIE King of Danomey had for years
believed that one Of his warriors could
whip eeven white men. When one
Frenchman began to lick nine OF MS
fighters the King slowly realized that
he was "off," and he also "offed the
heads of several of his generals for con-
ISOLATION -
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-06-25

IT is an interesting fact that in Co.
lombia, where potatoes form the chief
food of the people, and where potato
diseases run riot very often, the greater
the altitude at which the vegetable IS
grown the less is it liable to the dis
ease, and at 5000 feet above the sea it
grows in perfectly healthy state.