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DIAMONDS.
1t Is Possible That There Will Be
GIut of Them.

1t Is Possible That There Will Be
GIut of Them.
BY degrees the De Beers Company has
bought; up the four principal mines in the
district which are included in the limited
space of four square miles, and. comprise.
the Kimberley, area 81 acres; Du Tots, 30.
acres BultfonteIn, q. acres, while the De
Beers proper, the most valuable Of all,
spreads over 1872 acres. In addition it has
a large propriet0rship in Brazilian mines.
The Directors. therefore. strenuousy insist,
with every appearance OF sound reasoning,
that the purchase Of their shares should
not be regarded as speculation like gold
mine property, but as a safe and permanent
investment They claim that, being the
chief diamond producers in the world, they
can so regulate the issue of such stones to
the market that they can maintain steadily
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A B1RD SONG.

In that sweet still shadow hour,
Before the dawn of the day,
All In the dew ana the darkness,
Warm with the breath of Mays;
Iheard the birdlings singing -:
Their chorus. glad and clear. =. .
And my whole heart thrilled with the music
So pure, cen heaven must hear.
But through all the merry chorus,
Saduened and soft IAN d Slow
heard one bird-voice singing
song OF GRIEF and woe. =
Twas like some sad musician, $3.50
Whose SORROW all unknown, d: =:
Gives to his gayest music .....'
A minor undertone.-
And when the rose OF sunrise :,
Doomed In the far-off sky =: ~:
heard, through the glad, glad woodland,
The same low pIaintlve cry. IL.
And late and sweet. when twilight
Stole softly DER the piain,::
Across the silent shadows
floated the same sad strain. 49, =.
When with her own sweet blossoms.
"A rose flush on her face, - -.
The fair loved summer frightened ::
The land with her gladsome grace; -.
Wondered, grown haii-impatenr, -
Why his song was sad alone. -
Why his little heart seemed breaking
With sorrow all its own -
The last, late, lingering roses =.
Meath the touch of autumn died.
And the south wind missed their fragrance
Aid soft through the branches sighed :.
Still, among the crimson naples.
Scarce brig hit as his own bright breast. : =.
. One sad-vo!ced bird sang ever ..
Alone. by lonely nest.
Late In the drear November, -. -:
. With the winds low sadd ened IN oan, :.
The birds long since had left him
Il heard him sing alone. 49, =
The FIRST few trembling measures = -
Were the song Knew so well, =
The song of a heart half broken.
With grief 1t cannot tell. ..-'-. =.
When 10! a burst of music - = ...--.-. :
The sweetest my soul e,er heard, -: /:
"A long. glad song OF triumph =.
From the heart of the sad-voced bird. =
/ listened with deep, strange pleasure,
Alone, meath lonely sky,
Till the sweet notes died in silence
II knew twas his last good-by! :.-
Sometimes, the midnight weeping -.
Gladdens the morris first hour; .'.
Sometimes, the rarest rainbow --..
Follows the darkest shower; >-
When we read the sweetest poem -
Do we think of the poets pain:
How through hours OF weary weeping -
: He has learned the sweet heart-strain - -
=: "a.
Meath the rare, rose-ffish of dawnins.
Meath the glow OF the Golden West,
In the glad, new joy OF spring time.
The birds will sing their best -
But 10! with heart grown lonely, -.
All heart with your strange unrestt-
i shall miss one sad-voIced singer
One bird with crimson breasti =
ALICE E. Stone.
1vff r.gfrO N GrIoy IL
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LAY ME THERE.

Softly where the waters murnur
g.. of beautiful things and fair,
Where the tall pines gently whisper, -.
. Calmly, quietly, Fay me there;
With the blue, blue sky ABOVE me
And the daisies at my head,
And the brookct baboing by me,
Lay me there when am dead.
Put no marble cold above me,
Plant instead wild rose rare;
Alone with God and nature
: Always quietly leave me there.
GERTRUDE LA PAGE.
1fen[o Park. October. 1891
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TENNIS.


oakland flayers Who Have Come to Live
on This Side of the Bay.
Miss Crouch, the Coast champion, was
again victorious, ana by the superb playing
of her partner, Win Allen. as well as that
Of her own, they succeeded in winning the
c. Y. T. challenge cup. This cup is the
counterpart Of the one won by Miss Crouch
at,San Rafael, except as to engraving aud
dates
George H.. Mason. the popular President
of the East Oakland Club, has returned from
his wedding trip and resumed his manifold
duties. Gearge looks as fresh as daisy.
Several new member have been added to
the roll of the East Oakland Club and rumor
says that several clubmen from the other
side of the lake will join soon.
Ben Marx had hard luck and was not in
1t at all, and his excuse (for Ben always has
an excuse was that he was ratified at the
start -.
Charles A Culver, the ylce-President Of
the East Oakland Club has come to live on
this side of the bay for the winter.
Miss Hattie Kimble, Miss Ethel B tes
and Miss Bertha Crouch are among the reg
ular players of the East 0aklands.
There is a lull In the tennis courts, ana it
VIII be some time before any games Of note
Will be Played.
Mr.. and Mrs. A.. L. House, of the East
Oaklands, have forsaken East Oakland for
the winter. -
II. NJ. Fine has forsaken the tennis courts
and is staunch devotee to the silent steed
Fred Cliff Of the East Oaklands is 'mcm-
Der OF the Oriole Club of San Lorenzo. -
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PIscatorfaI.


1t is astonishing to note the Numbers of
authorities on fishes who will differ on
questions pertaining to salmon and trout
The Forest and Stream. which is consid-
cred one Of tile leading journals of America
devoted to fishing and shooting, answers a
question regarding the causes of sores on
certain fish as follows:
:Leeches Will cause sores on certain fish al
though we Have not known this to occur wit h
trout Another very common Cause of injury in
the salmon family Is lire fish ,ouse-a species of
lernp D., Which fasiens itself to the sides, giis
and; mouth and>canses severe inflammation and
ulceratlon. 1t has been supposed that Tie habit
OF going to sea was acquired through the desire
of becoming free from these Troublesome para.
sites
If, as the Stream says, trout are free from
the attacks of the fresh water parasites, the
question might be- asked what are the
species OF fish which at present inhabit our
lakes and are shut off from every possibility
Of reaching salt water?
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A Machine for Racing.

Tie Herreshoffs have built a boat which
is certainly one of the most curious afiuat,
says the New York Sporting World. The
hull very much resembles watermelon cut
III half lengthwise She is % feet in length
on thei waterline, AMI about 80 feet over all.
She is feet beam, and has for her keel
about SIS pounds of iron. She comes down
from the center of the boat like center
board, and is bolted to the hull with angle
irons. At the bottom of this piece of iron
is about 200U pounds Of lead shaped like a
cigar. The boat is simply RAGING ma
chine, having no accommodations whatever
She is rugged with ib and mansail, and
is expected to sail against the Nameless,
Smuggler and Needle IN the % rating class.
This trap has brought up serious question
for yachtsmen to consider. She is built for
nothing else but speed. For any other
purpose she is practically useless. The
Nameless, Needle aud ether boats in. that
class are capital cruising boats and have
ample accommodation below for at least
four. men. It is considered unfair that
racing machine like this new Hrrreshoff
boat. or even Tom Clapham's Chippe-
wah should be pittfd against boats that are
suitable for cruising as well as racing. The
yacht clubs are talking of rule Earring
racing machines from competing in their
fegattas, unless in separate class.
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given them. Either that or the CornSialks are
coming by way of the Suez Canal and England,
or. as a last alternative, the doubt expressed by
the Empire as TO wbeihrrthey ever had any real
intention of making the trip was well founded.
The morning call., 1891-11-01

Many a life has been lost.
because of the taste of. cod
liver oil. ....... r.. + !.
If SCOTS Emulsion did
nothing more than take that
taste away, it would save the
lives of some at least of those
that put off too long the
means Of recovery. ..=-. s E:
1t does more. 1t is half
digested already. It slips
through the stomach as if by:
stealth. 1t goes to make
strength when cod-liver oil.
would be a burden. !.
scoTr & BowsH, Chemists. 70, South sth Avenue.
New York. +. -. :.
Your druggist keeps SCOTS Emulsion Of eod.livel
oil-ail druggists everywhere do. sr.:.; go
~, - ocl ThSuTu,s Wv l2m - -. -. "
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was an. assistant examiner in the Patent
Office, and l know thing or two about. this
affair."" ,
Captain Pierce says.h he was born in Jeffer-
son County, n. Y. &c years ago, and be-
came sailor. when but IA years old. He
says he took the first vessel from Chicago
to Liverpool IN 1856 with cargo of wheat.
He was five years in Russia aud had a
traet for building a portion of the rail
road that WAS to run between Moscow and
the CriInpa
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ALEGESp.
Z, SPANISH artist painted once. Ills said
'g A picture. OF the Supper OF the Lord:
Ia And wrought with utmost skill TO make
y his work
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among them, but it is hard to see how
they could have treated him better II
they had loved him.
In republican states he has been re-
ceived with decent formality and moth.
ing more. The speeches he has made
have been politely applauded, and when
sent to the country have fallen fiat.
His "Old Flag and Subsidy" address
at Galveston was type OF one OF the
two forms of address which In various
language and lengths he delivered
along the route. The other speech,
now heightened, how sharply con-
densed, had nothing whatever in it.
Except in the Old Flag and Subsidy
speech, as reported on various occa-
sions, Mr.. Harrison made no references
to his policy. At Denver very skillful
effort was made to draw him ont on
silver coinage by presenting him with
silver brick, but he lodged with some
skill.
The tour as whole has been with.
out result except as it shows that per
sonally Mr.. Harrison has no hold on
the country. If it had enabled him 20
see this, the trouble and exhaustion it
has cost him will be well repaid, but :
is almost certain that now holder
grown, for praise installing pother, u
he will insist more than ever on being
indorsed with q denomination. - 81.
| T,ouis Renublic.
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German
Syrup"

Martinsville, NJ, Methodist Par.
sonage. my acquaintance with
your remedy, Boschee's German
Syrup, was made about fourteen
years ago, when 1 contracted Cold
which resulted in a Hoarseness and
q Cough which disabled me from
filling my pulpit for a number of
Sabbaths. After trying a Physician,
without obtaining relief-I cannot
say now what remedy he prescribed
Il saw the advertisement of your
remedy and obtained bottle. I
received such quick and permanent
help fror1 it that whenever we have
had Throat or Bronchial troubles
since in our family, Boschee's Ger
man Syrup has been our favorite
remedy and always with favorable
results. have never hesitated to
report my experience Of its use to
others when I have found them
troubled in like manner" REV.
w. H. HAGGARTY,
of the Newark, New A Safe
Jersey, ME. Confer
ence, April IS, go. Remedy.
G. G. GREEN, Sole Mani Woodbury,N.J
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THE SLEEP oF'pRrNcEs.
slumber Wooed by Jeweled Beds and BEDS
That Make Music.

slumber Wooed by Jeweled Beds and Beds
That Make Music.
Among the extravagances attributed
to American women is o brass bedsteao
inlaid with real pearls. Across the top
rail the owners name Is wrought IN
pearls. !.
Recently bedstead made of gold and
silver, inlaid with precious stones, has
been discovered in cave between Bey-
rout and Damascus, bearing an inscrip-
ton declaring that it once belonged to
Eleanor, queen Of England.
In point of costliness this can not
compare with the historical cradle or
dered by Napoleon for his son, the king
of Rome, upon which all the resources
Of French art were employed. the de-
sign being prepared by Prudhomme.
In the Paris exhibition a gorgeous
bedstead was to be seen which had been
constructed at a cost of $4,000 to
the order of an Indian prince.
The canopy was supported by four
automatic figures, costumed in the ma
tional dresses Of Spain, Italy, France
and Greesc, who moved their eyes and
waved fans to cool the air. The mat
tress was gigantic musical box, which
played series of operate airs when
anyone lay down upon it. This con-
trivance might not prove an unmixed
blessing, when one was too weary to
remember that music hath charms, v
and only wanted to sleep the sleep Of
| the righteous.
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ABOUT OTHER NATIONS.

SALVADOR is called the "Dote's Nest
of the Sierras." :.
THERE are over one hundred miles OF
streets paved with wood in London.
In the national printing office, St.
Petersburg, Russia, documents can be
printed in every known language. 1t
is the most complete Office of its kind In
the world
THE three cities of Hankow, Wuchane
and Hanging, at the head OF large
steamer navigation on the Yangtze
river, China, are said to be as near to
each other as New York, Brooklyn and
Jersey City, and contain about the same
population.
THE island Of Hawaii, the largest in
the Sandwich group, is constantly in
creasing in size, owing to the ever flow
ing streams of lava, which run out tc
the sea and flow over and make the
shores of the island overhang the main
stem of the formation.
RICH layers Of lapis lazuli have been
discovered in Samarkand, near the
source of the river Zervashan by the
village of Sabok. The sample pre-
sented to the governor of Samark ant
weighs about one pood FORTY pounds
and is of rare beauty and purity Of
| color.
A VARIETY of coffee which is said t.
be pleasant in taste, though rather
bitter, is grown in the neighborhood O
Ascholtshausen, Bavaria, in sandy soil
1t is sown in spring, and the sky-blu'
blossoms appear in July. The fruit il
gathered in August and is pale yellow
resembling Bourbon Island coffee.
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In Wide Awake for June

Perhaps the most enjoyable thing Is
that story with the Edward Bellamy
touch, 1.-THE Pursuit of Happiness" by
Tudor Jenks-a quizzical look into the
future for boys. A beautiful romance
is contributed by Annie Bronson King,
under the title, This Way Went the
Lady Mary to Paradise" A good old.
time article, "a Vermont Boys Trip to
Boston in 1885," is from the pen of John
l.. Heaton of the Brooklyn Times.
"Amana Jinkum's Burdens" by Oliver
Howard, has its serious lesson for eld-
est daughters. All the girls might take
some tender teaching from sweet,
bright, true Polly Pepper in Margaret
Sidney's Five Little Peppers Grown
Up" serial, which has never been more
interesting than in the present number.
Quite different little girl from Phron-
sic Pepper, but charmingly quaint
child, makes her curtesy to Wide
Awake's readers in the new serial,
"Miss Matilda Archambeau Van Dorm"
in the third serial, "Marietta's Good
Times" we get delightful glimpses OF
the free open air life of Italian children.
This serial is 'front.' the pen of an Italian
woman recalling her childhood. Good
things are as thick as roses in June;
articles, beautiful illustrated poems;
pictures, some fine, some funny; four
pages of sparkling original anecdotes;
'Tangles," and three pages of letters
from the children crowd the number
full.
Wide Awake is $40 year, $1.20 a
vol, Is mos J; 90 cents No. D. Lothrop
Company, Boston, Publishers
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1891-06-17
THE REPUBLICAN, POLICY.

Creditors of the Government Shamelessly
Cheated by the Party of Greed.
The entire policy of the republican
party has been in the line of cheating
creditors. Soldiers in the trenches
were creditors of the government.
They were deliberately plundered by
the republican party, and the man who
engineered the scheme was John Sher-
man, who lived to boast of his cunning
after the war had closed. After the
government, under the control of the
republican party, had placed in the
hands of the people four hundred mil
lion dollars Of treasury notes bearing
on their face the pledge that they should
be ''fundable at the option of the
holder in any bonds" issued by the
government, the party which claims
now to oppose the cheating of creditors
then cheated every government cred
itor except the holders of interest
bearing bonds by the passage of law
taking this important privilege from
the holders of the notes issued. This
act was denounced by the republican
chairman of the ways and means COM
mittee as mot quite right" but it was
no less cheating OF creditors than that
proposed by the peoples party and now
denounced by the inventors of this
fraudulent legislation.
The producers who were to help pay
the fraudulently-created war debt were
creditors of the government. That
government owed them fair protection
in their rights. The republican party
pledged itself in convention in this city
in 1868 to care for the people who were
to pay the debt and to preserve equal
and exact Justice. It proceeded to make
new contract for the benefit of the
bondholder and to add more to the
burden resting on the people than the
war had honestly cost. The producers
were creditors to the government in a
double sense. They had largely aided
in the suppression of the rebellion.
They found themselves gradually grow
ing poorer while millionaires were be-
ing made by act of congress. Chicago
Tir,oc
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1891-06-17
POLITICAL PARAGRAPHS,

The last republican president at
the grave of the first is another mourn
full example of how extremes meet
St Louis Republic.
When it comes to question Of
peoples party, what is the matter with
the good, old. true-blue democratic
party?-Chicago Globe.
President Harrison is reported to
have harvested four hundred presents
during his recent trip. An encore of
his administration is not among them,
or, if so, its labe, has fallen off.-Omaha
World-Herald.
Poor Oil Blaine would no doubt
reform if he could, but the friends he
made in his Mulligan and guano days
are determined to be his friends yet,
and they have ''cinch on him that is
too strong for his new zeal for bonsi
mores.-St Louis Republic.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1891-06-17
THE PRESIDENTS TRIP.
A Bold Effort to Secure for Himself 6
denomination.

Bold Effort to Secure for Himself q
denomination.
Mr.. Harrison's transcontinental trip
was undertaken for personal reasons,
and while he has not thought proper to
reveal them it has been generally con-
cluded that it in augurates his active
canvass for second term. The trip
must have cost Mr.. Harrison very Sc
rious physical discomfort, aside from
the mental strain of making long
series of speeches without sayinga any
thing in particular. On the return he
has spoken several times of physical
and mental exhaustion, and it appears
that he shares the general opinion that
there was nothing of the pleasure trip
in it.
The most significant if not the OMIT
significant political development in
connection with it is the uniform kind
ness and courtesy shown him by dem
ocrats and the entire absence of any
manifestation of enthusiasm from re-
publicans It will hardly be supposed by
any one that the democrats admire Mr..
Harrison as politician, or that, except
by great effort, they can feel any
thing like esteem for him as a.man. To
the democratic mind he represents
either the actualities or the POSSIBLE
tiles of everything democrat ought
not to be. He is distinctly product of
the sectional politics of the civil war
period, and represents this sectional
ism as a survival into generation
which is gradually broadening out of it.
AS part of this sectionalism, he has
manifested strong sympathy with the
sectional effort to force race issue
and embroil the negroes with the white
people OF the south. Holding this at
titude to the south, his sympathies in
the politics of the east and west are
distinctly with the plutocratic classes.
While it might be possible to have a
certain sort of admiration for the con-
sistency of desperate radical like
Spies or Parsons, preaching anarchy
without regard to section, and stirring
up to violent revolution the ignorant
classes of Chicago and Mississippi
alike, it is impossible to have any adj
miration of any kind for radical like
Mr.. Harrison, who, as railroad attor-
ney in Indianapolis, advocates the pol
icy of shooting. down strikers, and then,
on coming to the presidency through
his capitalistic alliances, exhausts his
energies in an effort to disorganize So
ciety in Mississippi, Louisiana and
South Carolina
Though such Inconsistencies in Mr..
Harrison's character are keenly felt at
the south, it was from southern demo
Gratis that he received most kindness
during his tour. 1hey did not pretend
to love him In making him at home
F.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1891-06-17
QUAY'S DECLINE.
Republican Leaders in Training for a
Grand Reform.

Republican Leaders in Training for a
Grand Reform.
The republican party, it is announced,
will shortly indulge in one of its great
periodical publications. 1t is custom-
airy in some of our baclswoods commu-
mites for the county desperate to get
religion at revival meeting once
every two or three years, and behave
like Christian gentleman for at least
two days. 1t is probable that the re-
publican party is actuated by similar
motive now and then for little while.
There fore, it was decided, according to
report. to dethrone Quay, and place
some other man at the head of the ma
chine in order that it may preserve the
appearance of responsibility.
Mr.. Quay deserves better at the hand
of his party. The public has been
taught that the laborer is worthy of his
hire, and if Mr.. Quay has not performed
the things that he was hired to do many
untruths have certainly been told
about him. His efficiency in the last
presidential election cannot be doubt
ed, and he is to-day the best exponent
of the methods and ends of the repub-
lican party. According to his creed a
party exists to get the offices, and any
means are pardonable if they are sue
cessful-, The republican party has
lived up to that principle, and under
leadership Of Quay it achieved sue
cess which it hopes to repeat in 1892 by
similar methods, though another man
may direct them.
1t is to be presumed that Hon. j. s.
Clarkson is in training for the position
of moral and intellectual leadership
that Mr.. Quay he's occupied in the re-
publican party, and more fit and APP
propriate successor could not have been
obtained. As assistant postmaster gen.
eral Mr.. Garrison demonstrated his
ability and craftsmanship by turning
out more democratic postmasters with
in a given space of time than anyone
hitherto believed to be possible. He
has shown himself fanatical partisan,
a thorough believer in the doctrines
that to the victor belongs the spoils
and that the end consecrates the means,
and therefore by all the laws of his
party he is entitled to the republican
succession.
But this change of leaders will come
too late to save republican respectable
ity. The party has thoroughly identi-
fed itself with Quay and Dudley and
Doodle and blocks of five, and change
of garments cannot discharge it of the
sins it has committed. If Quay loses
his place it will be merely campaign
movement, and will not blind the pub
lie to the fact that his methods will not
be changed, whether he remains at the
head of the national committee or not.
Louisville Courier-Journal.