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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-05-14
[sIANA, WEDNESDAY. MAY IA, 1890.

would be closer, and, consequently,
labor and capital would be enabled to
produce much more with the Same exer.
ton. The dog in the manger who, in
this country especially, so wastes pro.
ductive power, would be choked off.
There is yeS an even more important
way by which, through it's effect upon
distribution, the taking of rent to
public uses by taxation would stimulate
the production of wealth. Rutreference
to that may be reserved. sufficiently
evident that with regard to production,
the tax upon the value of the land is the
best tax that can be imposed. Tax man
ufactures, and the effect is to check
manufacturing; tax improvements, and
the effect is to lessen improvement; tax
commerce, and the effect is to prevent
exchange; tax capital, and the effect is
to drive it away. But the whole value
of land may be taken in taxation, and
the only effect will be to stimulate in
dustry, to open new opportunities to
capital, and to increase the production
of wealth.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-05-14
HENRYL. Bl0SSlT, Business Manager.

smiled and as turned erway she lit out
the door with piece of kindling that
was too long and axed me to cut it in
two. Oh! yes, I'd cut it, and l flew
Ground and got the axe like or since
the-war youngster. With the axe in nv
hand l took the piece of kindling and
putting one end of it on the doorstep
and the other end on the ground raised
the axe to show her how easy 1T was to
break such piece of wood leone down
with hard lick right in the middle of
the kindling and it broke, oh! yes, il
broke, and the ends went flying in the air
and hit me covip just above the left eye
and l seed stars and wondered who got
the best of time or the kindling-but
the hand reminded and went on to the
lot whistling 'Harll from the Tomb Ye
Doleful Sound.
by the time got through feeding
the hurting had quit and / went to the
house er smiling and er whistling and
mighty we'll pleased with my cheerful
schedule.
"As passed through the cook-room
out to wash my face, l chugged the old
oman in the ribs with my thumb like 1
ulster to do, and smiled from car to ear,
She had her hands in the dough, but
she leaned her head toward me and
pouted out her lips and we kissed just
like we ulster, and was SO happy with
our new schedule that jumped up and
tried to cut the pigeon wing and got
the darndest fall flat on my back that
I've had since l quit riding young
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-05-14
PITH AND POINT.

Those who court popularity are
afraid to speak the truth.--The Amer
lean.
Only a truly selfish man can realize
FULLY how utterly selfish other men can
oe.-Somerville journal.
speech was given man to conceal
his thoughts" but it was a needless
precaution in many cases.--Puck.
Sometimes it is those who have
seemed the hardest to gain as friends
who afterM ards prove the most faithful
ones.
Ask favor from your enemy and
you make him your friend; ask a favor
Of your friend and you make him your
enemy.
Tho man who is always saying that
he wants but little here below generally
means the little he hasn't got already.
Toronto Globe.
The good are said to be happy; but
1t is probably not because they spend
the time thinking how much better they
are than the rest Of humanity.
Transcript.
-Antisthenes wondered at mankind,
that in buying an earthen dish they
we're careful to sound it lest it had a
crack, yetso careless in choosing friends
as to take them flawed with vice.
Life is like an ocean, some souls,
like the great waves, bear heavy bur-
dens and carry treasures to far-of lands;
others, like the foam, sparkle for a mo-
ment in the sunlight and then arc cast
upon the rocks or dissolved in empty
air..
The world is upheld by the veracity
of good mon; they make the earth
wholesome. We call our children and
our lands by their names. Their names
are wrought into the verbs of language,
their works and efligies are in our
houses, and every circumstance of the
day recalls an anecdote of them.-Em-
erson.
There are legitimately in every hui
man soul two opposing forces-the cen
tripetal which draws us to our kind, and
the centrifugal which causes US to isolate
ourselves. We are impeled by an in
ward necessity to seek q social exist
ence, and SO create human society, and
at the same time to vindicate the great
fact of personality, and so secure indi-
viduality.-Once A Week.
-People-and sometimes those who
call themselves, or would have others
call them, good and upright-are
pleased with any thing that has in it an
element of chance. 1t is for this rea-
son that, though they would not sit
down to game of cards, they will risk
ticket in a lottery, or make invest
ments in speculative enterprises that
are wild with uncertainty.-United
Presbyterian.
knowledge, like the blood, is
healthy only while in brisk circulation.
Its work is to supply the veins and ar
teries of our mental life, thus contin.
ually being transformed into new
thought and fresh activity. 1t
should feed our whole lives, making
them richer, happier. more powerful,
more valuable. The knowledge that
does this has attained its object, wheth-
err it be the highest culture of the
schools or the practical business of tho
office or the factory.--N. Y. Ledger.
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LAND IN BERMUDA.
1t Stays in Families for Generations, and
Is Not for Sale.

1t Stays in Families for Generations, and
Is Not for Sale.
sWhat is this garden land worth?" |
asked DR.. Harvey one day, as we were
driving past a beautiful green field OF
onions.
GA million dollars an acre." he re-
piled. 'That is to say, it can not be
bought. 1t stays in a family for gener-
ations, and nobody wants to sell, but
every body wants to buy more
1t is beautiful soil, rich and mellow
enough to make any body who likes gar
dening want to climb over the wall and
go to digging. However handsome our
gardens are at home, there come the
yellow leaf and the blighting frost, and
for live months the prettiest garden is
no more than a pit of mud or frozen
turnip-field. But in Bermuda there is
no sleep for the garden. 1t is as busy
in January as in July. And every gar
den is sheltered from the high winds,
because all of tho good tillable land lies
in pockets between the hills, the soil
having washed down, no doubt, in the
course of ages, slowly and deliberately,
of course, but with an unwaver;ng
certainty. 1t was we'll that circum-
stances required it to go down hill,
which was easy, or it would never have
got there. In the lazy Bermuda eli
mate, if it had been necessary for it to go
up hill, it would have lain where it was
through all time. With only ono acre
in five fit for cultivation, and the good
land down in valleys and hollows, the
general aspect of the islands is of sue
cession of cedar-clad hills. If you will
let the city of New York represent the
Bermuda islands, the space in it occu-
pied by liquor saloons will just about
correspond, l think, with the space oc-
cupied by gardens in Bermuda, where
all the onions and potatoes are raised.
But am thinking more particularly of
the Bowery and Third avenue, where,
perhaps, there are too many saloons to
represent the Bermuda gardens fairly.
At any rate, five blocks of hills, then
one block garden, and in the garden
you must imagine two or three colored
women down on their knees pulling out
weeds, with pipes in their mouths, big
straw hats, bare feet, and tendency to
stop and rest on the slightest provoca.
ton. William Drysdale, in N. Y
Times.
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mules l don't know how much sin
would have committed er cussing that
young man that got me into this cheer
full business of the old oman hadn't err
raised her hand and said PUNK by the
time | hit the floor, and at the same
time reached her other hand down to
help me get up. The reminder kept
me cool and l riz er whistling and er
smiling, but was erbleeged to rub my
back and grunt er little between smiles.
II took er seat on the bench by the
table and pressed both hands to my
back and whistled Jordan Is Hard
Road to Travel AS 1 stopped whist
ling long enough to say 'ohr the old
'oman's hand went up with that PUNK
accompaniment, and 1 riz er smiling
er little smile, and went out to wash my
face.
81 lathered well with lye soap and
was getting my face mighty clean for a
week day, when er pain struck me in
the right eye and by the time I give
keen whistle the pain was in both eyes
and l knowed the I've soap was getting
in its work on 'em and I turned Ground
mighty pert to feel for the towel.
Did you ever have I've soap in your
eyes? / did, and the towel was como
and in flying round feeling for it I
stepped often the porch and come darned
nigh running my whole anatomy.
81 lay on the ground err kicking and
er cussing and as blind as bat till the
old oman rushed to me and knelt beside
me and wiped my eyes out with her
frock and stood like the GODDESS of liber-
ty with her right hand stretched to the
skies, screaming: PUNK! PUNK!
PlunkP
SO PUNK be darned. Pessimist be
darned.
"'Why in the Jerusalem Jehosaphat
didn't you have tho towel where it be-
longs?'
81 shook myself the same as err roar
ing lion and the old 'oman got erway
from there and l went in and groaned
and grunted and rolled and tumbled and
took er solemn oath that If AIRY mother
youngster comes talking to me erbout
being cheerful I'll cheer i'm.
1.-the mocking bird may fill the air
With sounds of sweet refrain,
And the lark's gay song from DER the hills
May answer back again;
But the OWLS boot in the gloom OF night,
AS bass to the whip-owill,
Is best in keeping with my age
They bring solemn thrill"
you're right" said Brown. Sarge,
in Atlanta Constitution.
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''PLUNKi"

went to sleep and dreamed of how cheer
'ui was going to be from that time on.
Inc clock struck four in the morn
ing and walked the old oman, it never
ialis to wake her, then she hunched me
'No OF three times and lowed for me to
gov up and make the fire, but I still
SOSea on till she had to give me er
pretty laundering big bunch, when up
= ~ oea bounced. rubbing my eyes, and
/, mad 1t on the end of my tongue to tell
nsr 'nat she needn't be so darned rough,
"ueh sne raised that right hand and
a ,SSeu piunk,' as we had agreed the
4ieht before. That reminded me and
rA or whistling. I felt Ground and
% ,,,, IN the dark for my britches for
n is i've minutes and it was as cold as
da uiuer' too' but when I got 'em had
I Vie more whistling and more smiling
.aan mad been done in my house before
ior ten years.
9, when got my britches on started
~. -. 'ae fireplace or whistling at every
ergin chair. 'i0
Why in the
And que a cut me off by raising that hand
b,us saying ,Plunkp l couldn't see her
WIN ls Out knowed she had it raised
ran anu heard her say Punk and 1T
nv n. me and l could hardly pucker
uiouth to blow tho fira fo ;,;
Nm naa When the fire was built and | pulled
b, puy oritches leg and looked at tho
whi VIII pace on my shin sailed in to
lena, Issuing Old Dan Tucker as hard as
ing. Aeep oowh the hand rails
cbsa aae morning passed erlong mighty
coot hu ana the old oman went out to
had breakfast sal with er quicker step thar
bytba o oaa, aef have for years. AS passed
In and s ny door l stuck my head
Ns s0Wee Peep She smiled and !
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-05-14
ERoTIC FlCTIONlSTS.
Female Writers Who Put Their Talent.
to Unsatisfactory Uses.

Female Writers Who Put Their Talents
to Unsatisfactory Uses.
The incarceration in an insane asylum
Of an unfortunate woman novelist the
other day was rather suggestive. Last
wear | took lot of books of the fe male
novelist of erotic fiction into the coun-
try with me and read them all through
in week. 1t gave me literary dys-
pepsia, but moro than that, it filled my
mind with the sentiment OF amazement
that women of so much personal purity
of character, as most OF these feminine
novelists are, could sink to such depth
of absolute smut and indecency in the
books which they put upon the market.
The reason for the sale of all their
works was to be found in the dirt and
obscenity of the morals of their hero
ines, and anybody reading them could
not have pictured their writers as any
thing less than feminine monsters. Yet
l had slight acquaintance with four or
five of these apparently passion-tossed
creatures and there was nothing about
them which led me to suspect that they
were not women of the conventional
pattern imbued with rather strong
liking for romance. 1t is certain that
none of the women novelists are credited
by common report with resembling the
dissolute heroines whom they place be-
fore the public with so much love and
fervor. One of the most violent of them
has gone to an insane asylum. Perhaps
this will prove warning to the rest.
They are good, bright. industrious and
cleverwomen and they should stop put
ting their talents to such unworthy uses.
Perhaps the insane asylum can hold out
terror for them, though the ridicule OF
the critics did Iot,-Rrooklyn Eagle,
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-05-14
5TRAws THAT SHOW THE WIND.

The action Ct the General Assembly
Of this Knights of Labor, at the meeting
just closed at Atlanta, regarding the
land question, is an important one,
more especially at this time since the
strength of the order now lies in the
country and small towns. A
few years ago the Knights would not
have dared to put such plank j, their
platform, and it's adoption now proves
that the workingman has begun to study
political economy and the science Of
government.-Detroit Sunday Sun.
The single tax men appear to bequite
active in this city. Where a multi
plicity of taxes is the rule the single
tax notion ought to be popular - Troy
Morning Telegraph
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-05-14
The Health of Children.

A leading st. Louis physician, in an
interview a few days ago, said: Some
statisticians say that the most delicate
age is from sixteen to twenty-three, but
have different opinion, based on my
practical experience. I think that
children from one to ten years of age
are the most delicate, and yet the most
neglected members of community.
People often say that child is strong
and healthy, requiring no attention,
but this is mistake. Because parents
oonfide so implicitly in the health and
strength of their children, great ptr-
ton of the deaths occurring annually
are young children,
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that it is the weight of sorrow upon
their hearts that keeps 'em from it.
"Er mighty fine young fellow stopped
here the other day to get some water
and to rest er little, and in his talk to
me he lowed that it was my duty to
hop, skip and jump GROUND and to be
merry for the sake of others-'a cheer
full heart spreads gladness everywhere,
he said, and It's just as cheap to look
on the bright side of life as it is to look
upon the dark. You're er pessimist, Mr..
Plunkett, you're or pessimist, and you
ought to change and be cheerful and
laugh and grow fat
THAT big word 'pessimist, struck my
ear / didn't know what it meant, and
so, after the young fellow left me the
old 'oman got the dictionary and one of
Browns gals and found out all erbout
the word.
"That young fellow is right, lowed
the old oman, and | hope you will fol.
low his advice
Right there and then I decided to
turn over new leaf, and to whistle and
laugh at every thing l seed, and it was
agreed that the old oman should help
me out by watching, and whenever she
seed me forgetful and erbout to depart
from the cheerful schedule, she was to
raise her hand and say Punk just to
remind me, for habit is mighty, and we
knowed it.
"My new schedule was to begin the
first thing the next morning, and that is
what want to tell erbout.
1.-THE old oman layed erwake and
talked to me that night longer than she
had for thirty years before, and we built
some pretty castles just like we useter
build in our young days until at last
she drapped off to sleep with her arm
throwed over my neck, er thing she
hadn't done before for years and years,
and 1t made my heart beat young ergin,
as lay there in the darkness and prac-
ticed how to smile, and | whistled and
smiled and smiled and whistled till I
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-05-14
FOR GIRLS AND BOYS.
TO AND FROM sLEEPTowN.


The town OF Sleeptown is not far,
In Timbuctoo or China
For it's right near by in Blnkton County,
In the State of Drowsyllna;
It's just beyond the Thingumbob hills,
Not far from Nodvile Center,
But you must be drawn thro' the Valley of
Yawn,
Or the town you can not enter.
I'D this is the way,
They say, they say,
That Baby goes 10 Seeptown!
He starts from the city Of Oiearine,
THO Booboo street he tottcrs,
Until he comes to Dontcry Corners
BY the shore Of the Sleeping Waters:
Then he comes to the JohnnyJump-U Up
hills,
And the nodding Toddlebom mountains
And straight does he go thro' tho Vale of
Heighho,
And drink from the drowsy Fountains.
And this is the way,
They say, they say,
That Baby goes to Sleeptown!
By Twilight Path thro' the Nightcap hills
The little feet must toddie,
Thro' the dewy gloom of Flyaway Forest,
By the drowsy peaks of Noodle;
And never a sound does Baby hear,
For not a leaf does culver,
From the Little Dream Gap In the Hills Of
Nap,
To the Snoozequehanna river.
And this is The way,
They shy, they say,
That Baby goes to Sleeptown!
Away he flies over Bylow bridge,
Through Lullaby lane to wander,
And on thro' the groves Of Moonshine valley
BY the hills of Wayoffyonder;
And then does the fairies flying horse
The sleepy naby take up
Until they enter ut Jumpoff Center
The Peekaboo Vale OF Makeup,
And this is the way,
They say they say,
That Baby comes from Slecptown.
IS. W. Foss, in Yankee Blfde
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-05-14
us LOVE NOT PERFECT.

81, ,oyc, she Is not perfect. oh,
~ ynil many fault she has. Yeti
~ thankful that it's so, since else
Nv love she might take wings and f1yi
,,r ,oye thank Heavens but human! Were
She more angelic, well know
rbat never on mortal man
Like me, would she one glance bestow.
Oh we're she 1awless, how could
Look in her face and dare to hope
mat to sinners knock like mine
That Heaven, her heart, will ever ope?
She's but woman, willful, wild,
And bitter.sweet, but oh, how can
T wish her other than she Is
When remember I'm man.
Boston Globe.
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"yyhat baby! ha! hav' and very soon

WHAT baby! ha! ha! and very SOON
Winfred did not dare to cry any more.
"That parrot is worth his weight in
gold,' said Thad one day. "Win. has
not had a good cry for weeks; but what
bothers me is to know who taught the
Commodore that phrase that has such q
wonderful effect"
at is my opinion" said Ruth, "that
mamma and Uncle Chester know more
about it than they are willing to tell"
What do you think?-Julia D. Peck,
in Youths Companion.
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BEING CHEERFUL.
whv Plunkett Is q Pessimist and
Is Proud Of It.

N old dog can't
| e 4 r n n Q W
t r i C X 81 said
Plunkett, as he
settled back in
his C h q i r and
w u t C h @ d t h Q
smoke from his
pipe curl to the
ceiling.
"And old folks
m u S t be old
folks, he con-
tt n Il e d, land
must have old
folks ways, and
the young people
mustn't expec t
'em to hop, skip
and jump and
laugh a nd be
merry, or judge
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-05-14

in Germany railway fagman at q
small station thought he had the grip
when all the other employees of the road
were getting leave of absence for the
same cause, and applied to the compa-
ny's doctor to be examined. The doctor
could not spare the time to stop at such
a small place, SO he telegraphed the
flagman to be standing beside the track
when the train went past, with his
tongue out, and he would examine him
on the fly. The fagman dutifully stood
with his tongue out all the time the
train was slowly passing his station, and
the next day the company received from
passengers dozen complaints OF the
impertinent conduct of one of its en-
ployes at that station.
Here is unique specimen Of med
ical certificate of death. 1t was ten
dered by native apothecary at recent
inquest in India: Il think she died or
lost her life for want Of food or on ac-
count Of starvation, and perhaps for
other things of her comfortables, and
most probably she died by drowning.
Ono way for man to find out how
many friends he has is to put billiard
table in his house. Add well-stocked
sideboard, and the number can be easily
doubled.
--"You're the most curious woman
ever heard Of" said a boy to his mother
-"you tell me that have bad tenn
per, and yet blame me for losing it,
N. Y. Ledger.
Every unmarried man ought TO join
the church, for there is no telling how
soon he will wan. the church 70 JOIN
him.
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Every unmarried man ought to join
the church, for there is no telling how
soon he will want the church 70 join
him.
The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-05-11
ELSIE LESLIE'S STUDIES.
One Day She Lived Like a Prince.
the Next Like a Pauper.

The dramatization done with, Elsi Q
Leslie was handed the manuscript of the
dual role of Tom CAVITY, the pauper, and
Edward, Prince of Wales. Twain had
met the child, had grown very fond of
her, and at this juneture sent her an In
vitation to visit him for several weeks
A little discussion which they had one
day may serve to illustrate phase of the
child's character. While they were at
dinner the humorist remarked
Elsie, what beautiful hands you have.
They will do excellently for the Prince,
but am very much afraid they are not
appropriate for the pauper. How will you
disguise them?p
She looked at him seriously for mo
ment and replied:-'T will not disguise
them at all. Your book says the panper
CAVITY had ugly or dirty hands the King
would have known at once that
he was not the Prince You see, good
way to tell ladies and gentlemen is to
look at their hands, aud the King would
have probably noticed TOMS right off If
they had not been clean. Besides, Toms
hands must have been clean, for he had
just changed clothes with the Prince, and.
according to your book, the change had
only been made when the guard APP
peared. So you know Tom would not
really must have been clean always, Mr..
Clemens. Don't you think so?''
well, remarked Twain. Il had not
looked at it in that light.
Just looK il over the child returned
gravely.
From Twaiu's residence little Elsie
went to q summer resort in the noun