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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-09-08

KANSAS CITY, Sept. 7.-Dispatches from
Kansas indicate that Labor day was Rener-
ally observed rs a holiday. and in many
places the Farmers Alliance took a promi-
nent part in the celebrations of the day.
The Legislature passed q law last winter
making Labor day legal holiday. In To-
peka it was observed on large scale. The
parade was very large. Sixteen hundred
employees of the Santa Fe railroad were in
line. The principal feature of the parade.
however. was the part taken by the Farm
ers Alliance. Their portion of the parade
was headed by l.. l.. Polk. president of the
National Farmers Alliance, and Gen. Jas.
Ii. Weaver. Then followed the farmers in
great numbers They rode bony ponies,
wore patches on their trousers and large
sunfiOwers in their hats, and carried spades
and rakes. They had several floats con-
sisting of houses made of wheat. corn and
oats. Not only the farmers, but their
wives and children were we'll represented.
An elaborate programme is being carried
ont at the fair grounds this afternoon, con-
sIsting of speeches by President Polk and
General Weaver and all kinds OF athletic
SPORTS.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-09-08
Farmers Assisted mt Memphis.

FARMERS ADoiste0 at memphis.
MEMPHIS, Sept. 7.-Labor day was OBJ
served in this city in q more pretentious
manner than on any day since its incep-
ton. The banks and exchanges were
closed. and business men generally made a
half holiday Of the occasion. The princi-
pal streets of the city were traversed this
morning by q parade nearly two miles in
length. consisting Of the different trade
organizations and the fire and police de-
partments of the city. The appearance in
line of the Farmers Alliance on horseback.
each member wearing wisp of hay or
cotton-boll in his hat, was greeted with
much enthusiasm. The weather was bright
aud warm. There were epeeches by the
different labor leaders, and picnics at the
various parks this afternoon.
Gov. Boies and Mrs. Lease at Keokuk.
KHOKUK. H.. Sept. 7.-One of the largest
crowds ever seen in Keokuk was present at
the labor celebration here to-day. Thou
sands of people from surrounding localities
in Iowa, Missouri and Illinois were present.
The parade in the forenoon of labor organ
izations and floats was nearly two miles
long. The city was handsomely decorated
with national colors. Exercises In the
afternoon at Round Park were very largely
attended. Mayor Craig delivered a well
coming address Addresses were made by
Governor Boies, A. j. Westfall, the Peo-
pies party candidate for Governor, and
Mrs. NJ. f. Lease, of Michigan, Kan. Mr..
Wheeler. the Republican candidate for
Governor, failed for unavoidable reasons
to be present.
Twenty Thousand In Line at st. Louis.
ST. LOUIS, Sept. THE first general Oh
servation of Labor day in this city took
place to-day. All laborers laid aside their
tools and joined their associates in carrying
out the programme prepared for the cele-
bration. The day was q most auspicious
one. the temperature being neither too
warm nor too cool. The first act on the
programme was n march through the prin-
cipal streets OF the city. Twenty thousand
men were in line. The procession started
promptly at l o'clock. and after marching
through the business portion proceeded to
Lindell Park, where q splendid programme
had been arranged In the wav of music,
athletic sports, speech making, etc.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-09-08

Interference" q novel by B. NJ. Croker.
is issued in LIppincott's series of select
novels by the }. B. LippIncott Company.
Philadelphia. Ii is a story of English life.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-09-08

Harper & Brothers publish "Iduna" ard
other stories by George A. Hubbard. There
are six stories in the volume. all of which
rank among the good short stories of the
saaann Paner 20 cents
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1891-02-04
Mahogany Packing-Cases.

There are few instruments or pieces
Of apparatus more delicate and fragile
than many of the costly and intricate
productions of mechanical skill in gen.
eral use to-day by electrical companies
for the purposes of refined electrical
measurement, and 1t can easily be UNI
derstood that the difficulty of shipping
these expensive and easily deranged in
struments from place to place without
risk of damage from careless handling
in transit is perplexing question both
to manufacturers and users. A famous
English electrician says that he early
adopted plan which proved so success
full that he has adhered to it ever since.
Finding that careful packing and con-
spicuous labels stating the contents to
be "glass, with great care" were not
always sufficient to prevent breakage
and damage to delicate parts, he hit on
the idea of sending out all his instru'
ments in beautifully polished mahogany
cases, with brass handles and mount
ings. The exquisite appearance of the
cases appealed successfully even to the
callous natures of porters and dock.
hands; they positively had not the heart
to scratch the immaculate polish by
rough handling, and the freedom OF The
instruments from damage amply repaid
the extra cost Of the luxurious caseA =
Chicago Daily News.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1891-02-04
GARDEN SECRETS.

.x.r,st nj louis Phillippe's reign
. ~ ns' a brief story OF a faithful twain,
l uo.S hs.sa. parted by sopla cruel ehance,
VIZ. ~, from cut their dream of rich romance,
Nohss ,da cav nv which their hearts could
wend
',nto each. In loves embrace to blend.
.. ,,is wise they their scarty soiace found
rho yearly flowers that from the loosened
ground
s,ranr M and blossomed, but to strew the
clods
,e;,b sbriye,ed petals, yielded them their pods
n, snn.drIeC seeds; and these they gathered oft,
!. : yine them BIZ with signs and murmurs soft.
,rben each would make little parcel, tied
with lore knots that all other eyes dehed.
no, which to them some tender message
brought
,r,,a VOWS of steadfastness unending fraught-
IA these they dared unfasten without fear
rat any tell.tale missive should appear.
,rhen in the spring, when garden tree-tops rang
with music Of the birds that in them sang,
These lovers, leagues on leagues asunder,
!, .strewed
.rbe flower seeds on the new turned soil, be-
with tender tears: then, through the summer
breathed
THE same sweet pcrfumes-the same blossoms
wreathed.
Wear after year was made this interchange
pstween those two whom time could not eS-
TRANCE,
NJ distance, or the absence Of fond words;
iiutla ut last the troopin1 minstrel birds
exrue in the spring, and sang not, for they found
UitA1u each close Little heaped-up mound.
r. Fl. Luders, In St Louis Times Democrat.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1891-02-04

and bled, and died, and he forbears-
and, besides, he hasn't time.
All the dogs in town are congregat-
ing to see him off, and the barking is
most enlivening. Dogs seem to know
that a man running for a train has no
time to kick them, and his extremity is
their opportunity. Dogs are very sa-
gacious animals.
Brown does not venture to look up
lest it should take time, but he knows
by the sound of the bell that the train
is running into the depot. He redoubles
his exertions. The perspiration is pour
ing in stream down his forehead, and
his clean shirt feels like wet sheet
''pack," but he has hopes. Putting and
blowing, he stumbles on the rear end OF
the platform.
'Two minutes late!" yells by
stander.
Brown strikes into a gallop, resolved
to do it or die.
The bell rings furiously.
GAIL aboard!' shouts. that diabolical
conductor, III Ills iU-o"hoS" S"Pt AA>>
the train begins to move.
Brown waves his sachel in the air,
but when did ever the spectacle OF a
waving sachel melt the stony hearts OF
a set of railroad employees? They
rather enjoy Browns agony. They
lean out and grin at him as they glide
along. His blood is up; he makes
flying dash for the hand-rail of the last
car and swings himself to the platform,
minus his hat, which bounces Off and
rolls helplessly in the gutter.
Never mind the hat, let it go. He
has done it, if he was two minutes late.
Yes, sir. Brown is going to the city on
the seven o'clock train. He ls.-kate
Thorne, in N. Y. Weekly.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1891-02-04
AN OMNIBUS YEAR.
What the Close Of the Year 1890 Has
Revealed.

The record of the Republican party
for 1890 is one that the party would
gladly expunge from it's annals. 1t
commences with the dictatorship of
Speaker Reed in the National House
OF Representatives, and closes with
desperate and insane effort in the Sem
ate to impose upon free people bayo-
net rule at elections. The proceedings
OF the Republican majority in Congress
have been characterized by usurpation
of the most reckless description, disre-
gard for the choice of the people by
unseating legally elected Senators and
Representatives, shameless extrava-
gance to the extent Of seriously en-
barrassing the Treasury, the passage of
bill outlawing importers, and the in
famous tariff bill, which has caused
such disastrous disturbances in the
channels of business, the exposure Of
frauds in Government departments, the
attempt to place the force bill, the sub
sidy bill and highly dangerous finan-
cial bill on the statute books
The year 1890 is also memorable for
the grand uprising of the American
people on the fourth of November,
which almost annihilated the Republic
an party, and taught political despera-
does that there was a power unsafe to
defy. Quay, Platt, Mckinley, Reed and
all the bosses that strutted SO insolent-
ly and confidently on the political
boards for the first ten months of the
year, are now objects of contempt and
derision. In American politics, there
fore, it may be seen that 1890 was a
most notable year. The Mckinley tar
iff law has had the immediate effect OF
increasing prices and cutting down
wages, of stimulating the creation OF
trusts and adding to the long list OF
business failures. The close of the year
found the Secretary of the Treasury in
dazed condition of mind as to the out
come of the financial situation, and Re
publican financiers in Congress tinker
ing with bill that is likely to compli
cate the situation still more. It was
indeed, a very ominous year for the
party and Administration that entered
upon it with such confidence and in high
spirits. bany Argus.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1891-02-04
The PLuToCRATlC RADICALS.
Measures for the Perpetuation of Sectional
Strife.

Mr.. Edmunds, of Vermont, is the gem
tleman who SO recently showed his sin
cere regard for the welfare OF the coun-
try by securing two cents a pound on
maple sugar from the Treasury for the
sap-boilers Of that State. Mr.. Hoar, of
Massachusetts,, is Senator who during
a long Legislative experience has never
failed to use all the power of his intel
lect to serve the ends of the Northeast
ern Commune of Capital" Mr.. Chand-
Ter, of New Hampshire, is as subservi-
ent a tool of plutocracy as is Mr.. HOar,
and he has moreover record in cor nee
ton with the worst period of jobf cry in
the navy which has fixed his moral
status so that no one is at all in doubt
concerning it.
These three men constitute the tri-
umvirate which is attempting to coerce
the Senate into passing the Davenport
force bill, under which elections are to
be controlled by District of Columbia
returning boards, backed by bayonets.
Behind this bill is .'the American Pro-
tective Tariff League" the association
of monopolists organized to furnish the
fat fund of 1883 and to control money
and supply through Federal legislation.
1t is because of this demand for the
bill that Messrs. Hoar, Chandler and
Edmunds are so determined on its pas
sage. A strong sentiment has grown
up in the West against Northeastern
control of money, and the agricultural
States of the South sympathize
with it, while in the South
from year to year there is grow
ing up a stronger competition in
manufactured goods with the North
east. The result of this, if not checked,
will be more and cheaper goods in the
market and more money to buy them
with. The tariff prevents the agricult-
ural States from buying outside the
country, and the plutocratic States OF
the Northeast have in SO much mo-
nopoly. But the tariff can not be used
to prevent Georgia, Alabama and Ten
nessee from manufacturing their own
cotton and other raw materials in COM
petition with the plutocratic States.
The only method by which this tower
production" as the Northeastern trusts
call every thing which cheapens the
necessaries of life, can be prevented is
by reviving the old sectional quarrel on
the line of manufactured race issue.
The plutocratic radicals are attempting
to do that for the South, while at the
same time they are trying to keep
money and supply controlled against
the West. When every thing else fails
them, when the West rises in a ire
mendous revolt against them, it only
makes them the more desperate and the
more determined on returning board
and bayonet Only through such means
can plutocracy maintain the control it
has usurped over a free people.-St
Louis Republic.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1891-02-04
To Sneak Correctly.

Where there is a tendency to speak
fatty, or as it is commonly expressed,
Through the nose''-a great error, since
the difficulty is decidedly failure to
get the tone through the nose-the
practice of lip sounds, in which the
dramatic thought is lip expression only,
will in time do away with all tendency
to humble and confuse sounds. With
clearness of speech once established
the next efforts must be directed
toward volume or power OF voice.
Here the aid of good teacher will be
found invaluable in showing the pupil
the difference between energy OF tone
and refined subtlety, the one crude and
unpleasing as the uncultured sounds
which proceed from savage lips, the
other polished, thrilling, pregnant
with suggestions of deep and rich emo
tons of hope, faith, affection, rever.
ence, love of God, of humanity, OF
liberty, of country, or any other OF the
thousand and one interests to which a
human mind may lend itself. s-Jenness'
Miller Magazine,
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1891-02-04
pITH AND POINT.

Driven Out by Rudeness.-''Why
did the soprano leave?" "She said the
preaching interrupted her conversation
with the tenor Y. Sun.
-Dick-"What on earth have you
been doing, Jsck--shoveling coalw
Jack-''No, I've been taking notes with
fountain pen. Harvard Lampoon.
Judging from Results.-"Does your
daughter play on the piano?" ''Waal,
she says she does; but kinder thinks
she works on it."-Fort Worth Gazette.
Have you ever observed that when
woman is buying a cheap quality of
any thing, or small quantity of it, she
generally ''buyes it for a friend?"-
Boston Traveller.
well, goodbye, dear nephew. If
you should happen to be in want Of
money you can write to me- Here is
the letter now, uncle, if you will be SO
kind. - liegende Batter.
You say that all dreams are due to
something influencing the sleeper at
that particular moment. How do you
account for my dreaming the other
night that was dead? "Probably the
room was too hot. indianapolis Jour
nal.
-''Have you noticed what vast
quantity of information old Simple has
acquired during the last several days?"
eyes. 1t is easily accounted for. His
fifteen-year-old son returned from
boarding school last week for a short
visit. "-Norristown Herald.
-Ethel-s'I am so anxious about my
new dress! shall insist on having my
dress-maker make it fit me. 1t will then
be sure to look we'll" Maud-''Yes;
but wouldn't it look better if you in
sisted on having the dress-maker make
you fit it instead?" -Harper's Bazaar.
Times Changes-Brown-''So you
could never understand woman"
Cobwigger-"No. Before marriage !
occupied my time in making myself out
worse than l was; now it takes me
every minute of my time to make my
self out better than I am. Epoch.
Medical science threatens to circum-
vent all the ills that flesh is heir to, and
as in time there will be no such thing
as death the earth will soon become
crowded. Therefore hold on to your
real estate. It can not help going up
several hundred per cent.-Boston
Transcript.
BY Proxy.-"John," said Rev. Mr..
Goodman to the hired man, fare you
Christian?" "Why-er-no, SIR" re-
piled John "Do you ever swear?"
'I-I'm sometimes q little keerless like
in my talk 81 am sorry, John," re-
Joined Mr.. Goodman. ssBut we will
converse about this some other time.
I wish you would take this money and
settle this bill of 81 for thawing out a
waterpipe, and talk to the man in a
careless kind of way as if it were your
own bill. Chicago Tribune.
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wking-chair, which his wife wore last
sh1 10 that lecture on Total Depravity.
MRS. Brown spitefully tells him he
s y; tear the house down; and
- Aaes1sy ne finds the button in the wash
S SoWi, where he remembers to have
4eara IT drop last night.
N a not very placid frame of mind he
AM AM down to brenkfast. Coffee fear
~ iy not, and potatoes fearfully cold.
eries mouthful of the scalding
aa ss'a' out he elects it almost instantly,
sns a sprinkles into fashionable polka
AN ru,s nus clean shirt bosom and the
h,n tablecloth. Feels like swearing,
Ia. .ememoers thathe joined tho church
D. week and profanity is forbidden.
h, ns enoiSes down a morsel of soggy
AM, na anu watery potatoes, and begins
eas; ;s.e Oh oatmeal mush, which he is
ss;aass Tor his digestion; but the distant
.ss s',e OF locomotive strikes on his
nv S. Tie starts up-men who are going
.ssr. in the railway cars always
s~' ~ the sound Of q whistle even
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1891-02-04
Benpy's Boom.

Harrison by the aid of his officehold-
ers triumphed in the organization OF the
Indiana Republican State Committee,
and his ''boom" for re- election is now
well started in the Hoosier State. By
what means this virtuous statesman
hopes to accomplish his denomination is
revealed by this remark, credited to a
member of the committee who is heart
and soul for the President: "You all
know that we carried the election BY
the use of Doodle in 1888. and that we
lost it in 1890 because it could not be
used to advantage and because of the
new Australian election law. We must
have chairman who is smart enough
to get around that law, and it must be
got rid of somehow" And the State so
prolific in Dudleys, which gave its cleo
toral vote to Garfield for Dorsey's
''soap" and was won for Harrison with
Dudley's ''blocks of five," gave to Har-
rison as fdus Achates one John R.
Gowdy, who, it is to be hoped, is ''smart
| enough" TO violate law and steal 2 State.
Chicago Times.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1891-02-04
NOTES AND OPINIONS.

The pudding-head leaders, who
lave brought the Republican party to
its present forlorn condition, don't know
any thing and don't want to learn any
thing.-Louisville Courier-Jour
Speaker Reeds remark that this
is time for patriots to keep their
mouths shut, taken in connection with
his impressive silence since the cleo
tons, leads to the inference that he con-
siders himself model patriot. Boston
Herald.
The first result on wages that has
occurred since the Mckinley bill be-
came law, in this locality, seems to
be reduction of ten per cent. in our
largest steel works. AS the Mckinley
bill has advanced the price of most of
the necessaries and comforts of life
from ten to twenty per cent, is the re-
duction in wages of ten per cent. in
the nature of compensation?-Pitts-
burgh Post.
1t looks very much as if President
Harrison and Secretary Blaine were at
tempting to initiate the policy of the
third land LAST Napoleon, who sought
to amuse the French with outside ques-
lions because the internal situation had
become intolerable. But have these
statesmen forgotten the National hui
initiation and calamities which followed
the Napoleonic Observation-Disclosures
Times.
in the defeat Of. the force bill the
Democrats in the United States Senate
have earned the gratitude Of the coun-
try, and the people will look with
equanimity on the crocodile tears shed
by Mr.. Hoar and his allies. Not even
the flood of oratory favoring legislation
for the benefit of si]ver-mine owners
will lessen the feeling of rejoicing at
the escape from the intended basis for
further investments by Dudley in
blocks of five. Chicago Times.
1.-THE Federal elections bill is
dead" says the New York Age (Rep.) },
organ of the negroes. cit has gone to
keep company with the Federal educa-
ton bill. The Republican party has
broken faith with the voters of the
country upon two or three measures
upon which it won the elections OF 1888.
The best interests of the Afro-Amer
leans have been cut to pieces in the
House of their friends. The treachery
of the Hayes administration has been
repeated under the Harrison admins.
| tration.'
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1891-02-04
HEHRYL. BIOSSiT, Business Mana ger
when they know that their train is . OF
due for two ho,,,.c

when they know that their train ia n az
due for two hours.
lie looks at the clock. just fifteen
minutes OF seven. No time to put on
his overcoat, or muffle up his throat.
tie must do that as he goes. He brushes
on his hat, seizes his sachel, Grams into
it bundle of papers, half-fnished
novel. which he means to read by the
way, and pair of shoes which his wife
got in town for Sadie, the oldest girl.
which were too small and must be ex-
changed.
He dashes out of the front door-the
sachel in one hand and his scarf in the
other, and his oyercoat on his arm.
Mrs. Brown screams to him from the
chamber window:
John, you are never going off with
out kissing darling little Daisy?"
So he goes back and gets through the
kissing ceremony, and hears, as he
rushcs downstairs, Mrs. B. telling him
to get ashes OF roses, sixteen yards, and
be sure and not forget that chinchilla
for Toms coat, and mind and get the
shoes with steel shanks
When he is ten yards from the house
he finds that he has forgotten his watch,
and by the time that is secured he has
just eight minutes in which to make a
ten minutes walk.
Whistle sounds in the distance as he
tears along. Jones screams to him from
the piazza of his house, as he smokes
his after breakfast cigar, that he'd bet
ter hurry, or he'll be late.
| Brown puts on little more steam
and puffs along. That overcoat is des-
perate.ly heavy. So is the sachel. He
tries to change them from one hand to
the other. Down goes the sachel in the
mud, and out roll those shoes and a
a bottle which Mrs. B. is sending to
town for ''baby's drops" He secures
them at last, and starts upon the run.
Nothing but running will save him
now.
People along the way become excited
about the thing. They rush to the
curbstones to see how he is coming out.
Small boys wave their hats to him, and
shout:
eco it, old Fatty!
And he hears from small army OF
gamins, who are playing marbles, such
cheering remarks as these:
"Two-forty"
"I'll bet my money on him!''
"Good bottom!''
"Git the pole!''
"Pocket the sweepstakes"
$50 it, Toots!'
Brown is angry enough to shake the
breath out of the individual bodies OF
the little wretches, but he remembers
that free speech was one of the privi-
leges for which our forefathers fought,