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Los Angeles herald., 1891-07-21
Columbus b Buggies

Columbus Buggies.
Thirty-fve more Of the newest styles of
Columbus buggies, phaetons and surries just
received by Hawley, King & Co.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-07-21
DRAPERIES.

We closing today line price until today
them all today They exquisite remarkably M
Los Angeles herald., 1891-07-21
LADIES UNDERWEAR.


silk We
heard the price,
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-04-08
VOL. XLVI.-NO. Is.

ton IN land ana raise the margin OF
cultivation to the level of the best un-
used land; and, in order, to leave to the
individual his full earnings, we must
abolish all the taxes on the products OF
labor, which are paid out OF wages in
increased prices. All this we can do
by taking rent Tor public purposes by
means of single tax, levied on all land,
improved or unimproved, according to
its value.
The effect would be, moreover, not
merely to raise wages to the full
earnings of labor, but to make these
earnings enormously greater than at
present. With production freed from
every trammel; natural opportunities
open to all; all the members of the com.
munity engaged in productive work
none living On rents as at present, the
product both of society as a whole and
of each individual would be the result
of the most improved methods employ
ed under the freest conditions Rent,
wages and interest would all be in
creased; and rent being distributed in
public benefits equally among all the
members of society, every man would
receive far more than his individual
earnings.-W. b. Scott.
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-04-08
BLAINE AS HE is.
Marks That Cannot Be Covered by Hia
New Mantle.

New Mantle.
An Ohio Blaine organ bursts forth in
to adulation of the tattooed idol of its
party as follows: 'sBlaine is so great
that the mind instinctively refuses to
class him with the average run of cab
met ministers. He is more than mere
minister-he is statesman, and the
greatest living one in this country. He
stands in class by himself" 1t does
not seem to realize that Blaine is great
by comparison only. Standing among
the pigmies of the republican party as
he does he certainly towers; but placed
by the side of the men who'made the re-
publican party great, to what insignifi-
cant proportions he shrinks! Mr.. Blaine
is man of craft, man of political re-
sources, an astute leader, but he is not
statesman. In all his political life his
name is linked with nothing that is not
a political device or a personal scheme.
To every lip his connection with
schemes of public robbery arise when
the demand for the recital of his public
services is made. He is the man with a
gun behind the breastworks of the Pa
cifc railroad ring that Mr.. Edmunds de-
scribed him; he is the man who was
sunstruck when in danger of investiga-
ton by congressional committee; he
is the man who would have taken ad'
vantage of the necessities of wretched
Peru to secure to himself and his
friends the guano deposits of that re-
public; he is the Mulligan letter-writer
the caster of anchors, a statesman
whose statescraft is ''Burn this" Dis
credited and defeated by the votes ot
his fellow-citizens he has been rehab
ilated by his party, but the new gar
ments are too scant to conceal the tat
too marks that disfgure him.-Chicag'
| Times
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-04-08

hoard in his pocket all the time, and,
unsuspectingly, he produced it. Mr..
Pickle received it, and his ally took
Mart's, then the boys had surprise.
A piece of cloth was thrust into the
mouth of each, and they were packed
up against two beams on the opposite
side of the mills interior. The gagging
was then made perfect with their hand
kerchiefs, and they were bound tightly
to the beams with bits of rope Mr..
Pickle produced, much to that worthy's
satisfaction.
After they were forced to listen to
some very uncomplimentary remarks
from Mr.. Pickles friend, they were
finally left helpless in the old ruin, he
and Mr.. P. disappearing through the
door, Louis five dollars and Marts short
seven in their pockets.
The spirits of the chums were damp
ened. They saw how they had been
misled: and, as if the punishment were
not already great enough, night IN
the old mill stared them in the face.
They even feared they might have to
STAY there longer-Lou thought die
there. The old ruin was seldom visited
It grew later and more lonely. Weird
noises sounded now and then, while
the strengthening wind began to moan
dismally about the caves. A storm
arose. The.old mill rocked and swayed,
its beams groaning and boarding rat
Ting. Drenching streams OF water fell
upon the chums through the leaky roof,
and they were chilled to the marrow by
the cold gusts entering the door, every
where.
A loose board or shingle was torn
from the old shell by an unusually
strong puff :,
Fortunately, for them, grizzly-faced
wanderer was driven there for shelter.
The mill was doomed.
Some time in the night, after he had
released them, the old ruin toppled into
the river and was washed down to the
Monongahela.
That nights adventure-their terri
bly narrow escape = made dreams OF
running away less frequent and fascln'
D ating with the boys than before. Nor
f was "Nat the Trapper" quite SO much
1 pored over in secret.
v Then, soon, business called Louis
e father west. and he took Lou with him
e so nv young friend saw that grea
o country as it really is, not as it Il
e painted. Lou visited Butler City
:. stopped at some of the camps in th'
e heart of the Rockies; and when HI
S, came home it was with the determine
,e ton to never attempt running ava,
from home again. Mart, too, wa
ID cured of his desire for miners life D.
le what Lou told him, and they now are
10 thanks to the failure of the plans laid il
Mart's fathers barn, successful citizen
of a thriving Pennsylvania city, an
the experience relate is vivid men
IL ory they laugh over heartily each tim
It they meet.-Clarence 6. Converse, i
Yankee Blade,
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-04-08

gion, any one of which was worth q
thousand dollars. He saw himself
tumble great buffalo to the ground
as ne dashed by its side on sturdy
oronco-and then he looked at the pile
VI wood he had been splitting. There
was more behind the woodshed, too, to
9e split, and other work for which he
naa no taste, to be dime the next week.
nls 1ather said they would plant the
heia back of the barn with potatoes,
ana then new fence would have to be
made.
Inc temptation to join Mart and
ieaVe that hard, frosty work for the
,othance OF the west was too great to
be resisted.
III goF he finally exclaimed.
mart was delighted.
Sood boyw he CALCULATED. We'll
nave great time! knew you wouldn't
60 back on me.n
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-04-08
UEyRYL BIOSSAT, Business Manager.

This occurred about two o'clock.
There had been no school, as it was
Saturday.
Supper time only parted the chums.
Then they were to meet at seven on
the common. do not know whether
Mart hurried through that meal in a
way which-with a weeks continuance
would have ruined any stomach, but
Lou did. If Biddy Nolans mind had not
been filled with thoughts of her beau
who was to call that night she would
surely have suspected something un-
usual was to happen, and have ques-
toned Lou.
At the common, Mart waited for him,
and they tarried there till seven-thirty,
then started for the old mill and Mr..
Pickle.
The rendezvous was a lonely one.
There was not house within call of
it, and the river, banked, did
not add to its cheeriness. The old mill
mas been disused for years. Its wheel
had rotted from the axle and lay as if
weary and decrepit against its wall,
while the roof sagged heavily in the
center. What better hiding-place would
ghosts want than it's dark, damp inte-
rior?
Lou whistled softly to keep up his
courage and Mart did not have the bold
est front as they neared it's weather.
warped old door.
Mr.. Pickle greeted them cheerily
from the darkness and they entered
fearlessly, Lou recognizing in him an
old friend, if tramp who has called at
ones door can be called such.
"Ah," exclaimed that gentleman; $50
you're the other gent"
Mart said he was.
Then Mr. Pickle introduced the boys
to companion near the door, bushy-
bearded, slouch-hatted man, who might
have been Mr.. P's brother, only differ
ing from him in that his hair was fire
red.
Mr.. Pickle called him Gully, Lou no.
ticed, and he asked whether Gully was
scout.
"Betyer!" returned the individual.
"Skalped towns o redskins, haz. Got
ther rumatiz walllin' in their blood, he
added; $50 guess I'll shut out the
: evenin' zephyrs."
i, He closed the old mill door at that
and at first it was hard to discern the
| objects in the big room.
, "Cully's lalaw averred Mr.. Pickle,
or something like that, and he patted
his friend on the back.
"Pick's one, too!' said that worthy
l then he asked: 'Got ther skids, pards?'
+ Lou had had his hand on the little
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-04-08
THE COMING ISSUE.
What the Fight will Be In the Fifty
Second Congress.

What the Fight Will BE In the FHty-
Second Congress.
The democratic issue in 1892 is the re-
form of the tariff. Other issues of i'm
portance to the country will be con-
sidered and treated in the democratic
national platform in the measure OF
their Importance, when compared with
the tariff issue. We do not see how
there is any room to doubt that this
will be so, or to question from demo-
cratic standpoint that it ought to be so.
1t is true that there is democrat
here and there in the northeast who be-
lieves that the conservatism" the DEM
ocratic congress is expected to show in
contrast to the radicalism of the Reed
congress is to mean the acceptance of
the Mckinley bill with nothing more
than a show of protest. But even in
| the northeast there is not more than
one such democrat in every ten thou
sand. In the west democrat who
talked abandonment of the tariff issue
for any other issue whatever would
speedily talk himself out of the party.
Western democrats are opposed to re-
publican methods of controlling the
currency and they are determined to
correct them, but in the republican
abuse of the taxing power they recog-
nize the greatest evil of federal gov.
ernment as it now exists as govern
ment against all except limited class
in a few favored states.
| In the coming congress, as in the
democratic platform, the issue of re-
forming the abuse of the taxing power
will be kept at the front, in precedence
of all other issues whatever. The
speaker chosen will represent thai
issue. No.one who has been doubtful
on it in the past will be chosen as the
chief representative of the democratic
party in the house. A mistake in tina
respect would be an irreparable blum
der, and it will not be made. The mex
speaker and the next chairman Of tn
ways and means committee of th'
house will be men fully representing
the democratic issue against the Nc
Kinley bill as it represents an abuse o
the taxing power to prevent compe
tition and restrict trade.
The democratic party will abando.
none of its principles, whether they az
ply against monopoly control of tn
necessaries of life, monopoly control G
money or of the public land. It Wi
, attack republicanism at all points, bu
, its strongest attack will be made o
the central abuse-the abuse of tn
taxing power for purposes of direct an
Incidental larceny.-St Louis Republii'
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-04-08
NEWSPAPER NOTES.

Reciprocity and McKinleyism
don't trot together worth a cent.
Blaine is the republican man-afraid-of-
his-horses.-UticaO Observer.
-Ex-Spealer Reed will now APP
pear as civil service reformer and the
friend of honest money. AS friend
of anything that is honest in politics,
Mr.. Reed will be very interesting
Louisville Courier-J Journal.
The republican senate was decent
enough to leave the nomination of the
Harrison postmaster for Vicksburg un-
confirmed. The postmaster in question
is a nonresident, nominated solely be-
cause he is negro, and with the sole
view of exasperating the people OF
Vicksburg. All Of which is very like
B. Harrison. st. Louis Republic.
Speaker Reed was at last per-
suaded that "praise by ourselves would
be in vain" He told his partisans this
in his farewell speech. Said he: "If
our deeds do not praise us our words
cannot" Poor ex-speaker, the proba-
bilities are that the Fifty-frst, with its
broken Reed, will die unwept, union
ored and unsung forever and forever.
At last the czar of the house has uttered
simple, unvarnished truth. Will his
partisans remember it in the next cam
paign?-Toledo Bee.
One more such congress as the
Fifty-frst, the New York Tribune can
didly admits, would bankrupt the gov
ernment. It says: 'But If it (the mex
congress) appropriates as large al
amount as the recent congress it vii
be compelled to increase taxation il
order to prevent national bankruptcy
| The recent congress began it's worl
with large surplus to be distributed
and that exists no longer. Alb. Argu
Says Tom Reed: political az
ton can never be justly viewed from
near standpoint" Let the POLITICAL
dead car understand that there ar
two matters of recent political aetio
on which the people have passed fin;
! judgment. The first is directed to h
retirement along with poor old Keift
to the obloquy earned BY dishono
The second is the Mckinley abomin
ton, which is saved from being Il
meanest thing only by the lower dept
| in Reed's character. r.-Chicaro Times
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-04-08
THE SAME OLD ROUTE.
An Old Gentleman Shows Where Man Is
a Slave of Habit.

An Old Gentleman Shows Where Man Is
Slave of Habit.
When it was the old mans turn to
have his say on the peculiarities Of man
he asked:
"Is there any one place that you go
to day after day about the same hour?"
Fits the only place where I have
credit" explained one young fellow, but
the old man did not deign to notice the
remark.
"Do you always go by the same
route?" he asked. ''Do you stick to the
same streets, cross over at the same
point, and so on?'
There was a moments pause, and
then one of the party spoke up.
'Now you call my attention to it,"
he said, 81 recall that do follow pre-
cisely the same route every day. l fol.
low it as closely as though it were
beaten path through a meadow. /
never thought of it before, though
The rest nodded approval and the old
man went at it again.
"If friend is with you," he said,
don't you instinctively insist on his
following the same route?"
One man admitted that he had gone
so far as to stop on a corner and argue
about the route because his friend
wanted to go different way.
Exactly" said the old man, 'and it
by any chance you do go by different
route you feel that something is wrong.
OF course 1 am referring only to trips
you take regularly. Am right?"
1t was the sentiment of the gathering
that the old man was right.
"And that's the kind of creature OF
habit man is" he said. ''And he's con-
sistent, too-yes, indeed. If a horse
wants to travel over a route he has trav'
elsd regularly he'll hit the animal with
whip and get red in the face as he
talks about that blamed fool horse.
And he'll talk about this man and that
man being a slave to habit And yet
I'll bet there isn't man in Chicago whc
takes trip from one certain point tt
another at regular intervals who isn't
good deal more cranky about the route
than any horse that ever lived. O.
course it's small matter, but it show
what habit is.''
And the next day every member O
that party made his usual trip-what
ever it was-by new route, and so ia
as heard from they assert that it reall,,
took some will power to make tn
change.-Chicago Tribune.
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-04-08
REPUBLICAN ExTRAvAeANcE.
The Prodigal Appropriations of the Fifty
Fist Congress.


The full extravaganza of the congress
which has just expired cannot be accu-
rately determined until many years
have elapsed. Bills have been passed
that will call eventually for the expen-
diture of millions Of money, but the
extent of the burden with which the
treasury has been loaded cannot yet
be determined Nevertheless, we know
that the Worlds prediction of de.
ficiency at the end of the present fiscal
year has been justified. and that the
further prediction that the government
would be banlsrupted by the expiration
of the fiscal year, June so, 1892, is amply
borne out.
On the face of the annual appropria
tions the Fifty-frst congress has pro
vided for an expenditure of more than
81, 1000, 100000 for the two years ending
a year from next July. The receipts
of the government for these two years
cannot reach $9OO,OOO,OOO. There will
be deficiency at the end of the cur
rent fiscal year of at least $1,000, oOa
which must be met by the embezzle
ment of trust fund belonging to the
national banks, by the neglect to pay
over the annual contributions to the
sinking fund, and by the appropriation
of every dollar, thereby leaving the
treasury without working balance
This year the government. in ODE.
dience to the legislation of the repub-
lican party, will have exhausted all ita
available funds and will begin the new
year with the certainty that its ex,
penditures will exceed it's receipts. In
these early days since adjournment it
is possible. from the amounts known
to have been appropriated, to figure out
q deficiency of SIC: :OO0,OoO and when
the accounts have been finally stated
the excess of expenditures over receipts
will undoubtedly be found to be more
than $1OO, 1000, 900.
The result of it all is that in two
years of absolute power the republican
party has brought the government face
to fa:e with the necessity of creating a
new bonded debt or of pinching itself
to the point of starvation to meet Its
obligations, while at the same time ex-
travagances have been made part OF
the current annual budget, so that the
emergency must be felt for years to
come-N. Y. World.
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-04-08
PITH AND POINT.
1t is hard for man to face the worlt

1t is hard for man to face the world
when he is flat on his back.
No gift can make rich those that
are poor in wisdom.-Julia Ward Howe.
He Ought to Be.-Is the man who
Is always on the fence opposed to barbed
wire?-Ram's Horn.
You can't tell how valuable girls
affections are worth until you are sued
Tor blighting set of them.
The sunlight comes for rich and
poor alike; the blizzard is mostly for
poor folk.-Milwaukee Sentinel.
The chiropodist's lot is not happy
one. He begins at the foot and never
gets any higher. -Yonkers Statesman.
Experience has established the fact
chat lawsuits gre more wearing on
man than any othcr.-Boston Courier
Argument Is often introduced to
establish falsehood. Ittakes few words
to make truth convincing. .-Atchison
Globe.
-Flattery merely consists of having
ones secret opinion Of ones self ex-
pressed in the language of others.
Times.
Fear makes man slave to others.
This is the tyrant's chain. Anxiety is a
form of cowardice, embittering life
Charming.
Speaking of hydropathetic cures it
strikes us that well-water ought to be
good for sick people.-Burlington Re-
publican.
Now it is my nature to accept every
offer that means wider outlook from
a higher point of Observation-Disclosures
| E. Willard.
| II man wants companionship he
should go skating. There he has a
grand chance to fall in with friend
Yonkers Statesman.
-"Love is devouring fame" the
poet says. It's a pity it doesn't burn up
most of the love letters that are written,
too.-Somerville Journal
One of the most amusing and harm
less of distractions that man is heir to
is the fancying what he would do if he
were somebody else.--St. Joseph News.
Energy will do anything that can
be done in this world; and no talents,
no circumstances, no opportunities, will
make two-legged animal a man with.
out it.-Goethe.
The man who complains about the
old minister who preached SO long thai
he always missed his dinner, and the
new because the sermon is SO snort thai
he can not get nap, would be hard te
please in any community.-Baltimors
American.
One of the secrets of achievement.
is to keep ones self in the mood and at
mosphere in which imagination ant
heart work as one harmonious and con
tinuous energy. There is an elemen
of inspiration in all great work, which
is never wholly at command; with tn
greatest, as with the humber men,
ebbs and flows. No man Who'll
ly commands these affluent moods, thes'
creative impulses; but some men learl
the secret of appropriating them, o
keeping them within their range
Hamilton Wright Mabie.
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-04-08
D[ME-NOVEL HEROES.
1,u Two Eastern Boys Were
C,rad of Their Wild Fancies.

\ RT GORDON
had a mysteri-
Gus air about
him as he came
into Lou Hunts
yard. Lou no.
ticed it as he
looked up from
the kindlin g.
wood he w as
split t in g t o
greet Mart.
whats up?"
he inquired.
"Hush!" his
chum returned.
Are your folks
at houe?"
They had gone
to Pittsburgh,
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-04-08

which was not far from the llttle village
where the boys lived, and Lou told him
so. a piece OF news Mart received with
evident satisfaction.
'SThings couldn't be better'' he eS-
claimed, sitting on an old hencoop.
.Thinps couldn't be better! Mines at
Pittsburgh too"
~ wish you'd tell me what's up, and
what our folks have to do with it, said
Lou, impatiently, "ls it circus COM
ing to town."
mo; but you remember the story we
rs.d in our barn last week-Nat, the
Trapper?"
"Yep."
"And what we wished?"
"That we could be trappers, too?"
"Yes."
"Well, what of it anyhow" queried
Lou.
"Well!' cried Mart, excitedly, ''the
chance has come, I'm going to be a
trapper like the fellow we read about,
and YOU can, too, if you've got the
nerve
Then he toned his voice to conf
Dental key, moving up close to Lou
who was all attention.
sI met mamie called himself
Pickle-down by the old mill, this
morning." began Mart, ''and somehow
we got to talking about trapping and
Indian shooting. l told him I'd like to
trap, and kill Indians; and he said he'd
scalped tons of Indians, and killed
hundreds of buffaloes. Then he said I'd
ought to run away, and go west with
him, and that this little village wasn't
any place for boy like me-just as I've
said it wasn't-and he asked me if l had
saved any skids-that's what he calls
money.
"eYes, said |. I've got almost sever
dollarsp
"'Well,' said he; just come dowr
here to the mill tonight with the skids
an I'll take you west with me. In
goin' west myself
'Geel I didn't know what to say
but at last said I'd be at the mill a
eight tonight. Then thought of you
swell, when l told Mr.. Pickle of you
he thought for a little, then said
Three's crowd, but as he's your frient
lguess / can cotton to hlm if he's go
some skids; we'll need them to buy gun
with
Il told him about the five dollar
you've got in the tomato can in the hen
coop, and he said: If your pard bring
the V it'll be o. K And then he sal
he would have to be moving.
"' Be there at eight, and don't pee
tono one,' was what he said when w
parted, and hurried right here. Ain
things bully! VIII you go?"
Lou did not answer for moment.
Talking about running away wes1
IN Mart's fathers barn, and delibel
ately planning it were different thing!
His conscience smote him not little.
II don't think we'd ought to CO." h
faltered; ''but I'd like to, awfully."
"Nonsense!' exclaimed Mart. "Yo
mustn't miss this chance, think M
Pickle is agreat trapper in disguise, an
we'll have great times with him; an
its lucky met him."
Then he pictured them with Mr. Pi
ke, with buckskin suits, rifles swun
at their backs and mounted on fer
ponies, riding along lonely, picturesqr
trails, or striking terror to bands {
Sioux and Cherokees. The storit
awoke Louis imagination, which ha
oeen fed till it was diseased with tai,
oi the wild west, of heroes who nev'
aid and never could have existed. vi
IONS came to him of his and Mart's ha
penlng upon nuggets of virgin go
IN The dark rapines of that stranre !.
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-04-08

LOOK over the republic to-day. See
great estates growing and multiplying,
while an increasing proportion of SO.
called free and independent American
citizens are destitute OF all legal right
to use the soil of their country, can only
work on it, can only live on it, by pay-1
ing tribute to some other human crea-
ture, and he often a resident OF Europe
| for permission to do so. Is it any won
der that faith in democratic republican.
ism is weakening, that all the evils that
our fathers thought of as belonging on.
" to ''the effete monarchies Of the ole
world are appearing her02