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The faded face was pressed against
the fraycd button now in a vain at
tempt to hide the hot tears which
would come, and his worn glove, much
too thin for the season, smoothed her
h. f,ar,Iar
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-11-04
ROTTEN INSTITUTIONS.
Pennsylvania's Political Buccaneering sy'


tenn.
The political banks of Pennsylvania
began failing Immediately after the
democrats carried the state, the insti-
tuition presided over by Quays candi-
date for governor leading off and the
rest of them following with frequency,
if not regularity. up to the present
time. Whether the list is exhausted
does not yet appear, but it is probable
that there are others too rotten to re-
main open much longer These insti'
tutions were in reality not banks at all.
They were leeches which the Quay
system allowed to suck their fill from
the state.
When, with democratic success, Quay
was no longer omnipotent in Pennsyl-
vania, these so-called banks began to
fail, astonishing the country with the
disclosures of their rottenness. Con-
temporaneously, similar disclosures
have been made in other states, for the
political bank is not contine d to Penn
sylvania, though it has flourished there
more than anywhere else. In Penn
sylvania each one of these political
banks is the headquarters of a
ring of politicians masquerading
as financiers The ring was
sometimes local, but in the case
of the Philadelphia banks it as
pired to national Importance. Both
state and national Office holders were
more or less involved in the ring which
gained control of the Philadelphia city
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-11-04
HARRIsoN'S HYPOCRISY.
l. Desc of Home-Alade Gospel for r epub
lican Sinners.

l. Desc of Home-Alade Gospel for r epub
lican Sinners.
President Harrison, who came out to
Chicago to open theater, was unable
to make journey hither for the pur'
pose of assisting at the unveiling OF
monument to Grant. He wrote, how
ever, to a committee on invitations,
saying incidentally: 81 ara glad to
know that Gen. Gresham, who was SO
honorably associated with Gen. Grant
in the campaigns of the army OF the
Tennessee, has been selected as the
orator of the occasion, and do not
doubt that his personal knowledge OF
the great commander will enable him
to speak fitting phrase of one whose
relation to me was only that OF re-
mote but beloved commander in chief"
Judge Gresham fully justified the
confidence reposed in him, a habit in
born in the man. Judge Gresham, by
the way, is the same man who, IN
1885, was proposed as an opponent in
the republican convention Of that year
of the other Indianian, Mr.. Harrison,
but was not chosen. TO such vacan-
cies as have since occurred in the SUI
preme court Mr.. Harrison has not
seen 6t to promote the gentleman OF
whose ability to speak tittingly OF
Grant he condescends to speak word
of praise. Judge Gresham was not
personally candidate for the repub-
lican nomination three years ago, and
probably does not change his mind
with the fight of years. He is in the
judiciary, apparently to remain, and if
President Harrison were of broad and
gracious disposition the highest possi-
BILE honors of the bench would be given
him.
The president of the United States, a
beneficiary of the Dudley blocks-of-
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-11-04
tire production of the United States is
added to the currency of the people,"

tire production of the United States is
added to the currency of the people,"
Whatever the abstract merits or de-
merits of the silver question may be,
the action of the republican congress-
men last winter, and the loudly-ex-
pressed horror of these same gentle
men on the stump at the present time,
at the phantom of something terrible
which they declare the democrats in
tend to do if they get the opportunity,
are glaringly inconsistent and pro-
foundly ridiculous.
One reason which they give for con-
senting to this silver measure is that
they feared something worse would be
done if they didn't pass it. This is as
logical as though a bank cashier should
steal all the funds of his institution so
that his successor would be compelled
to be honest.
The republican chairman of the COM
mittee on finance candidly admitted
that the successful silver bill was =
piece of pure politics, whose chief
purpose was the payment of an ad-
ministration debt" That debt was so
well paid that he would be worse than
political Shylock who would demand
further usury on it. No wonder Mr..
Lodge refused to discuss the republican
end of the silver question. Boston
Globe,
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-11-04
AN ANIMATED SKULL.
.ncarny Experience of Young Medical
Student.

Uncarny Experience of q Young Medical
Student.
Medical students sometimes have
queer experiences. A physician tells
the following story, says the New York
Advertiser:
cat one time when I was medical
student my class had been for several
days studying the bones OF the head.
To aid in this number of human
skulls had been brought into the lee
ture room. After we were through
with them they were thrown in q
heap into one corner. One night
CHANGED to be left alone in the room.
Finding It quiet and pleasant In the
half light, sat down to smoke cigar.
Immediately facing me was the pile OF
skulls. They presented very uncanry
appearance as the light from q dim gas
burner played over them, making them
seem almost alive, with certain play
of expression.
''One particularly big fellow, lying
on top of the pile, appeared actually to
wink at ne from its eyeless eye-sock-
cts, while the teeth in the gaping
mouth grinned horribly. Amused. l
winked back and offered my cigar,
when suddenly there was slight noise
and the skull inclined slightly forward
as if bowling acceptance. There was
no mistake about it. 1t actually moved,
not only once, but twice. ! dropped my
cigar and sat up straight in my chair,
my eyes fixed on the grewsome thing.
There was another louder noise and a
stronger movement of the skull, when
down it came crashing to the floor, and
bounded to my very feet.
"In an instant / was on the table
near by, gazing upon the strange thing
and ready for precipitate flight. Then
the skull gave violent shake and
turned over, and out jumped a big rat,
which scampered across the floor and
into hiding. If the cause of that skulls
movements had not been revealed l
think my medical studies would have
stopped then and there"
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-11-04
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vs. YnTSlSIk
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cooYRioEf 1881

LiN OOCf
your sufferings from Catarrh.
That is, if you go about it in the
right way.
There are plenty Of wrong ways,
that perhaps you've found out.
They may relieve for time, but
they don't cure.
Worse yet, they may drive the
disease TO the lungs. You can't
afford to experiment.
But there as right way, and a
sure way, that does cure. Thou,
sands of otherwise hopeless cases
have proved it. It's with DIR. Sage's
Catarrh Remedy. BY its mild,
soothing, cleansing and healing
properties, it permanently cures the
worst chronic cases. Catarrhal
Headache, "Cold in the Head -
everything catarrhal in its nature,
is cured as if by magic.
It's a way so sure that the pro.
prietors of DR.. Sage's Remedy
offer, in good faith, $500 for
case of Catarrh which they can.
not cure.
If it's sure enough for them to
make the offer, it's sure enough
for you to make the trial.
They risk $500. What do you
risk?
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-11-04
A Git to All Free.

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Bloomsbury Square, London, England.
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-11-04
NO PLACE TO STAND.
The Unstable Nature of Republican Fsun'
datiOns.


dations.
The republicans seem to be unusually
hard pressed to find an issue that they
can comfortably or confidently rest
upon. The Mckinley bill was tried
last year and found more treacherous
than rotten reed. Now they have
shifted to the silver leg, but fail to find
in this change of position the relief
that they hoped for.
The New York chamber of commerce,
purely business body, at its first
meeting after the summer vacation,
passed, with only one dissenting vote,
a resolution condemning the disturb
ance of the currency caused by the &C.
ton of the last republican congress and
calling for the repeal of the silver act
for which that body was responsible.
That is blow between the eyes. 1t
numerically knocks out the hypocrit-
ical pretense that there was anything
worse in this line to be done. If there
was any danger to be wrought by maxi
ing silver a conspicuous part OF the
country's legal tender, the measure
passed last winter embodies it all
When the whole silver production OF
the country, available for coinage, f1as
| about ten million ounces short of what
that law authorizes the country to pur-
chase, it looks as though the most ex-
treme silver man had obtained the sub
stance of what he was striving for, and
would not now worry himself very
much about the shadow.
The republican congressman of Mas
sachusetts voted for this measure. The
two democratic representatives voted
against it. The Ohio republicans OF
Ohio in this years platform "approve
the amended coinage act of the last
republican congress, by which the en-
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-11-04
A MILLIONAIRE GUEST,
How the "supe" Said He Would Ente
Mrs. Astor's House.


Mrs. Astor's House.
It was during the rehearsal of a su-
premely swell domestic drama, says the
New York Commercial Advertiser. The
act in which banquet at the house Of
the merchant prince is portrayed had
been reached, and the stage manager
was breaking in the five gentlemen who
had been engaged to play the million
aire guests at the revel.
A man who does the emillionaire-guest
act at first-class theater rarely gets
more than fifty cents a night for it, and
off the stage he doesn't. look the part.
Among the FIVE in question was ono
whose clothes would have been reject.
ed by any self-respecting secondhand
dealer, and whose awkwardness was
worthy of an infant camel. Seedy,
broken-down and wretched, he looked
like lithograph of misery personified.
In ten minutes he had driven the stage
manager to the verge of paresis. He
would not come upon tho scene prop
erly.
He fell over his feet, the furniture
and everything else, while the more the
stage manager fumed the weirder grew
his actions. Finally the manager walked
up to him with a forced and deadly calm
upon his features.
"My FRIEND" he said, grasping the
arm of the lowly super, "this is sup
posed to be the house of very rich
man. Now, how would you enter Mrs.
Astor's drawing-room?"
"With a jimmy" was the answer.
There were only four guests at the
bankers banquet when that play was
Drodrced
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-11-04
HARD AND SOFT WATER.
A Scientific Analysis Of Their Dlnsrcn
Properties.

Properties.
The difference between "kard" and
''soft" water is that the former con-
tains in greater or less degree earthly
salts, while the latter is nearly free
from them and in greater state of
purity. The earth most frequently oc-
curing in natural waters is lime. The
quantity of earthly salts varies consider
ably in different instances. It is OBJ
served, says the Brooklyn Eagle, that
when they exist in the proportion Of
five grains to pint such water will be
hard and unfit for washing and many
other household usesand manufactures.
The solvent properties of water are the
true causes why we never obtain this
universal and important fluid in state,
of absolute purity. It constantly par
ticipates in the properties of the mani
fold sources whence it is derived, or
through which we obtain it. When
ever it is in contact with the soil it in
variably dissolves the soluble constitu-
ents, and hence it follows that water
springing from rocks which are only
slightly soluble, as sandstone and gran
lite, is very pure, and is called soft
water, while that which is derived from
calcareous formations is termed hard
water, and contains lime, which pro-
duces ani'ncrustation on the sides and
bottom of the vessel wherein it is
boiled. Pure water is known only to
the chemist for all the ordinary kinds
of water contain either gaseous, saline
or organic matters. For chemical pur-
ooscS water il obtained by distillation.
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-11-04
POINTS AND OPINIONS.

ALI the political issues now be-
fore the people national, state and
local-are involved in the election this
year. The democrats dodge none.
They force the fighting upon all-N.
Y. World.
-Blaine's popularity in Pennsyl-
vania is indisputable. He is so much
admired by the republican napoleons
of finance in that state that they use
his we'll known "burn the letter" on
all of their "business" correspondence.
Chicago Herald.
bsurdity is quickly reached at
both ends of the republican chain Of
reasoning. If the protectionists main
tain that high duties produce high
wages, then with high wages must
come higher prices of manufactured
articles consumed-which is what they
are trying to escape admitting. -Bos-
ton Globe.
Gov. Campbell certainly acquitted
himself most handsomely in the joint
debate at Ada. His opponent, Maj.
Mckinley, is confessedly an able man
and fine speaker. But the difficulty
was that he had the wrong side of the
argument. The governor had, there
fore, an easy victory. y.-Kansas City
Times
Hon. William Mckinley, dressed
in a suit of clothes of imported Eng
lish woolen cloth, made by Eng
lish labor from English raised wool, is
travelling over Ohio telling the farmers
of the great benefits and beauties Of
the Mckinley bill. American shoddy.
the result OF McKinleyism, is not good
enough for the great advocate of rob
Der tariff. Cleveland Plain Dealer.
A stewpan made Of such "tin-
plate" as the Ohio Mckinley and pro.
lection" campaign medals are made of
would give off salts of lead enough in
cooking stew in it to poison an entire
family. Mr.. Mckinley has put him
self in the "hands of his friends and
the Chauyenet quantitative analysis OF
his campaign medals OF Piqua tin
shows that some OF the hands are very
baA-St Louis Rappblia
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-11-04

"THERE never was remedy made with
more care than DIR. John Bulls Sarsaparilla.
Each one of the several herbs and roots
used is closely examined, and all foreign
substances excluded, before their various
virtues are extracted. The remedy is not
largely advertised, but people who use it
will talk about it and praise it, and it adver-
tises itself. It will cure you of blood dis
ease. Try it when thu SO largely advertised
watery compounds fail.
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-11-04

We are quite used to circuses that
advertise investments of from one mil
lion to three millions of dollars, but
there is another side to the picture.
In the small railroad towns of New Jer-
sey a circus made one-day stands, used
only two cars for its outfit and exhibit
ed only one horse and one rider in its
ring.
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-11-04
From Puck. ]

treasury, operating it III connection
with the Keystone and Spring Garden
national banks. For years under Quay's
control of state politics, there is every
reason to believe that the Pennsyl-
vania state treasury has been operated
on the same plan, and it is not at all
surprising that Quay has made most
strenuous efforts to shut off an investi-
cation of the period during which the
treasury was under republican control.
But for the fact that the character of
these so-called banks was patent, pub
lie confidence in banks in general might
have been seriously impaired by these
repeated failures at time when ma
tional finances have been thrown into
great confusion by republican reck-
lessness. but the public has been quick
to see that there is no more connection
between legitimate banking and the
schemes of these ringsters than there
is between banking and burglary. The
failures have had an excellent effect,
in fact They have driven a number of
political ringsters out of the banks into
exile or prison and they have so edu-
Gated the public that when bank goes
into politics, or politics gets into
bank, the public will be better able to
diagnose, hereafter, the symptoms of
the most deadly disease to which bank
ing is subject. st. Louis Republic.
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-11-04

ness when even the bench responded |
to the appeal of the beneficiary Tor
protection to the scoundrel, the sturdy
honesty of the nation may say to Har
rison as the prophet said to the guilty
Judean: "Thou art the man!''-Chica.
on Times
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-11-04
You Needn't be a Shaker

70 have the shakes that are produced by
chills and fever or bilious remittent fever.
Prevent them and every other form of ma
larial disease with Hostetter's Stomach Bit
ters, the grand fortifier and defensive medi.
cine Of the age. Dyspepsia, kidney and liver
complaint, constipation, rheumatism and de-
bility are also remedied by this benefcent
medicine.
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-11-04
ONE ENJOYS

. ~
Both the method and results wh.r
Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant.
and refreshing to the taste, and acts
gently yet promptly on the Kidneyn
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the 81
tenn efectually, dispels colds, head.
aches and fevers and cures habitu.l
constipation. Syrup of Figs is tho
only remedy Of its kind ever mo
duced, pleasing to the taste and 40.
ceptable to the stomach, prompt in
its action and truly beneficial in it,
effects, prepared only from the most
healthy and agreeable substances, its
many excellent qualities commend il
to all and have made it the most
popular remedy known.
Syrup of Figs is for sale in 800
and 81 bottles by all leading drug.
gists. Any reliable druggist who,
may not have it on hand will pro.
cure it promptly for any one who.
wishes to try it. Do not accept any,
substitute.
CALIFORNIA FlG syrup CO.
SAN FRANCISCO. 0AL.
LOUISVILLE. KY. NEW YoRK. Mx
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-11-04

MUST not be confounded with common cath
artic or purgative pills. Carter's Little Liv.
or Pills are entirely unlike them in every re-
spect. One trial will prove their superiority.
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-11-04

The flowers that bloom in the spring, ira
la, have good deal to do with the breach
Of promise case in the fall.-Dallas News.
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-11-04

A CAREER of extravaganza does not neces.
sarily bring man to sackcloth. but it is
more than likely to bring him to hashes.-
Washington Star.
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-11-04

IT has been discovered that music comes
out Of barrel organ in slaves. Washing.
ton Star.
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-11-04

PoSsoNDr -''ls that Pompano coming
this way, Arthur De Twi!iger-"Yaas y
Pollsonby--*Lcl dodge down this street.
! have every reason to believe that he has
the first photograph Of his arJt baby IN lis
pockst "-Harpev's Bassg, :. =
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-11-04

EvERGREEN-"I wonder why old Closefist
married that fearfully fat girl?" Brightly
because there was so little waist to her,
[ suppose. e."-Philadelph Press.
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-11-04

TURKEY red is made from the madder
plant, which grows in Hindostan. 1t is
probable that the madden it gets the redder
It becomes.-N. O. Picayhne.
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-11-04

FLATs-"You are not playing with the
.:1.It band t0;deyT = sharpsn"No; I sent a sub
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-11-04

FIRST Central Operator-"Are you still
engaged to Remsen Hicks~ Second Cen
tral Operator-"No; he has .rung off.'"-
Brooklyn Eagle.
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-11-04

If you think your child has worms, don't
neglect it until it has spasms. Atonce give
it DR.. Bulls Worm Destroyers. They taste
good.
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-11-04

If you want to be cured of cough use
Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar.
Pixies Toothache Drops Cure in one minute.
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-11-04

AN actor's life ought to be fruitful: It Is
filled with dates.-Y Yonkers Statesman.
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-11-04

"WE are having an epidemic of flees.n
said the city Official when it was discovered
that the treasurer was gone.-W ashine ton
Star
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-11-04

THOSE who wish to practice economy
Forty pills in vial; only one pill dose.
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-11-04

THERE is many dynamiter who is afraid
to give his mother-in-law blowing up
Texas Siftings.
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-11-04
A Throat
and Lung
Speciality.

ly appreciate what truly wonder
full medicine it is. The delicious
sensations of healing, easing, clear
ing, strength-gathering and recover
ing are unknown joys. For Ger
man Syrup we do not ask easy cases.
Sugar and water may smooth a
throat or stopa tickling-for while.
This is as far as the ordinary cough
medicine goes. Boschee's German
Syrup is a discovery, great Throat
and Lung Speciality. Where for
years there have been sensitiveness,
pain, coughing, splitting, helnorr-
hage, voice failure, weakness, slip
ping down hill, where doctors and
medicine and advice have been swal-
lowed and followed to the gulf of
despair, where there is the sickening
conviction that all is over and the
end is inevitable, there we place
German Syrup. Itcures. You are
a live man yet if you take it. o
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-11-04

HE-"Young Dudelets says he had hard
pull to deiach himself from Miss Flirrs
fascinations." She tcontemptuously) )-"It
must have been monkey then.''-
Baltimore American.
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-11-04

FIRST TRAMP-"I haven't seen you for
three months. What have you been doingp'
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-11-04

THE small boy always looks with envious
admiration at the drum major leading the
procession with his gold-headed baton and
his big bear-skn hat, but the little fellow
with the cor.et in the back row of tho band
gets the bigger pay.-Somerville Journal
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-11-04

IT doesn't follow that versifier always
produces fervid results.-Boston Courier.
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-11-04

THERE arc more women in British India
t124,0O0,0O0) than there are men, women
and children in Great Britain, France and
Germany put together, with the population
OF several minor European states cast in as
we'll
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-11-04

WILLIE-"Do you like milk. Mr.. Stay.
lateP Staylate-"Notp particularly, my lit
tic man: why do you askl" Willie-"Sis-
ter says YOU never leave until tho cows
come home.m--N. Y. Sun.
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-11-04
The Only One Ever Printed--Can You Find
the Word?

the Word:
There is 8 inch display advertisement
in this paper, this week, which has no two
words alike except one word. The same Is
true of each new ono appearing each week
from The DR.. Harter Medicine Co. This
house places "Crescent" on everything
they make and publish. Look for it, send
them the name of the word and they will
return you book, beautiful Autographs or
samples free.
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-11-04

a AfArlGuEunform-The messenger boy 3
Baltimore American.