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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1895-10-09
peun,y,yania For Sound MONEY,

In spite Of the efforts Of q small clique
Of ~silvcritcs iu Philadelphia the Repub-
lican state convention Of Pennsylvania
adopted q platform which declares
strongly ard clearly against the FREQ
coinage deli sin. After indorsfng inter
national bi~u,ctallism the plank reads rs
follows:
We oppose the debasement Of the no
tional currency BY the admission Of s.l-
yer to free and unlimited coinage at the
rate Of 10 20 /. for the reason that il
such a policy bc adopted 1t will not b.
possible to maintai the parity Of values
Of the twu metals, and the purchasin,
and debt paying power Of the dollar,
whether Of silver. gold OF paper, cannot
continue to be equal.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1895-10-09
Brino Owners Versus Cotton Grower.


Two-thirds of our southern cotton
crop, valued at $500. 900, 600. is sold in
Europe to gold standard countries. and
the price is mainly fixed in Liverpool Of
q gold basis. If the United States adopts
free coinage without international agree
ment, the gold standard price for cotton
would remain exactly the same. The
southern farmer above ell others is VI
tally interested in sound money, or the
dollar that has the largest purchasing
power. for his cotton is "good as gold''
in Europe or America. There is 100 per
cent profit in free silver to the western
mine owner and 100 per cent loss IN it
to the southern cotton farmer. West
Tennessee Wing.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1895-10-09
He round It Desirable.

"Yos," said tho patient pedestrian,
II find it desirable to walk to bust
ness every day"
"What for?"
"As a method of prolonging life
"Ah, you need the %exercise?"
1T isn't that. The only road I car
take is a trolley road.
Star.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1895-10-09
d. l. ADAMS, D.

DUBLIC NOTICE is HEl EBY A
L given that the regular meet 0NA
Jugs of Oliver Lodge No. 81, F.. %X
g. A. NJ. have been changed from "
the LIST and 81 Saturdays of each
mouth, to the LIST and 81 Wednesdays of
each month.
G, \. STAPLES. ". N.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1895-10-09

It was a German public school boy
who said that a widows mite equal
ed "12 marks 40 pfennigs," and
pointed to Mark xii, AZ, in confrMa-
ton.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1895-10-09

An old proverb says that when
goats dance in February the hus.
bandman becomes a beggar.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1895-10-09
Oyster Sholl a

Houses built of oyster shells can
be seen in q large number of Texas
towns" said G.. A. Holland, a we'll
known newspaper man of Dallas re-
comfy. 1.-The state was at one time
undoubtedly q part of the bed of the
gulf of Mexico How many years
ago biologists do not know, and
natural historians arc puzzled at the
forms Of life, so different are they
from any to be found elsewhere"
z Mr.. Holland then proceeded to un-
fold remarkable story. Running
across the state from north to south,
he said, is an immense ledge or
sheet of rock formed of oyster shells.
"This ledge averages about 20 feet
in thickness and is used for building
purposes in some places, while in
others it is ground up and placed
upon the ground IS q fertilizer.
There is a large quarry near Hen
~rietta, In the northern part of the
state, and q number of handsome
blocks have been constructed from
it. When first taken out Of the
earth, it is white and soft, but when
exposed to the air it becomes hard
and turns to a beautiful buff color.
It was formerly used for founda-
tons only, but during the past few
years q great many handsome blocks
and residences have been built Of
1t. New York Telegram.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1895-10-09

To rank as first water a diamond
must be perfectly limpid. like a
drop of distilled water, perfectly
oolorless, but rejecting and throw
ing OF CLEANS of light from its many
facets.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1895-10-09

The Japs heat their rooms by
means of a square hole in the mid
die of the floor, which is filed with
Goals, over which a blanket is hung
horizontally.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1895-10-09

1.-THE" in front of q royal OF
princcly title denotes that tho per.
son is q sovereign, or at least the
head of his family. In England II
is employed in addressing a peer
for instance, TITO right honorable.
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NIGHTS OF HONOR.-Alexandria
n Lodge, No. 341O, meets on the
Second and Fourth Wednesdays Of each
month at 8 p. M. Visiting brethren are
invited to attend. >
D. l. ADAMS, D.
A, JAnREAU, Rep.
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ar You wish your paper discontinued,
p notify us ut once, without calling
as upon the Post Master, to dis
charge this unpleasant duty for you.
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Goorre Took the Hint.

"That makes Is times I've kissed
you, darling" he said as he put on
his hat in the doorway at II p. m.
"Oh, George, 10 is an unlucky
number" she answered thoughtful
ly.-Detroit Free Press.
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IT You desire Il sample copy for your
p self or IL friend, We will take
~ pleasure IN sending it to sou upon
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You change your address, notify
us, giving your nanie, present post
office and the post office to which
you wish the pare. changed.
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NIGHTS OF PYTH1AS.-Alexan.
u dria Lodge, No. 33, meets the First
and Third Thursdays at 8 Up. ~. Visiting
brethren cordially invited.
SIDNEY S~CBMALINSKI, C. c.
A. HILTON, X. of r. 4 S.
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LODGE MEETINGS.

NDD FELLOWS.-PhGuix Lodge. No.
~ SO, I. O. 0. +. meets every Tues
day night 1T s o'clock. All brethren are
cordially invited to attend.
G.. T.. KIMBER, N. G.
l.. P. WHITTINGrON, Rec. Sec.
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.Yon do not receive your paper reg
IN alarly, either by mail or carrier,
please notify MS Immediately.
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NOTICE.

TIME CITY ASSESSMENT ROLL FOR
i 1895, is now complete and any one
desiring to inspect same, can do so by
calling at the Office of the undersigned.
&C. SWAYZE,
City Assessor.
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G, \. STAPLES, W. NJ.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1895-02-21
SOME CURIOUS CUSTOMS.

HINDoo women are forbidden to rca6
Or write. indeed, those who dare Il
indulge in such Injuries are often ''ac
cidentally" missing.
In China wife is never seen by hei
future master. Some relatives bargain
for the girl, the stipulated price is
paid, and she is afterward submissive
slave.
JEWISH women Of the higher classes
were secluded from public life and
passed their time with the distaff and
spindle. At marriage the ceremony
lasted seven days.
TIE women of ancient Rome were
treated with the greatest respect Still
they were notallowed to inherit prop
erty and could be divorced by theiI
husbands for counterfciting their keys
and for wine drinking.
IL Turkey woman is held in the
most rigid seclusion. She must always
appear yelled. With pigs and dogs she
Is forbidden to enter Il mosque and the
Koran declares woman who is un-
married to be in state of reprobation.
SIBERIAN women are raised as abjeci
slaves, untidy in dress, and are bought
with money or cattle. The most capri.
cious within of her husband is law &c
the Siberian woman, and should he de
sire divorce he has only to tear the
cap from her head.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1895-02-21

Now that the extraordinary cheap
ness of sugar and molasses is attract
ing considerable attention in this
county for cattle feeding, the follow
ing account of the use of certain cheap
materials in Germany for a similar pur-
pose will prove interesting. From a
description given in the Deutsche Zuc.
ker lndustric. 1t appears from recent
experiments that very large use is
likely to be made of what is known as
the lupine food. 1t is made from q
plant which is extensively cultivated
in some parts of the continent. and
resembles the vegetable known in
this country as pulse, the seeds
of which have Il leguminous taste.
The lupinc seed in its natural
state has very bitter flavor,
which, however is capable of extrac.
ton, and the residue is then of consid.
cradle value AS the foundation of u
cheap food, to which is added certain
quantity of molasses. The exact pro-
portions recommended are one part of
molasses, two parts of dried lupine
from which the bitterness has been re-
moved. The advantages of such IL food
RS compared with other descriptions of
food to which molasses is usually add
ed are as follows: Firstly, the mix
ture is richer in protein Tor gelatinous
substance obtained from vegetable
casein or legumin) than the goods
hitherto produced; secondly, lupines
are cheaper than palm-liernel cakes,
suntiower cakes, etc. Although
none of these are manufac-
tured in England. both lu-
pines and supflowers are ex-
tensively grown on the continent,
and the oil which is expressed from
their seeds is largely made use of, the
pulp being afterward pressed and mixed
with. molasses. forming hard cake.
The average value of lupines for the
last five years has been $50 marks per
cwt., equivalent in English money to
Is. Cd. per cwt., while beet molasses
can be bought on the continent for l. &c
| marks per cwt., or, in our money. at
rather under Is. Sd. per cwt. To these
figures, however, must be added the
cost of extracting the bitterness or the
oil of the lupinc, and the subsequent
drying of the residue, both of which
operations would entail some loss OF
weight. Texas Farm and Ranch.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1895-02-21
KNOWLEDGE

Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who live bet
ter than others and enjoy life more, with
less expenditure, by more promptly
adapting the worlds best products TO
the needs of physical being, will attest
the value to health of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced in the
remedy, Syrup Of Figs.
Its excellence is due to its presenting
in the form most acceptable and pleas
ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties OF perfect lax
ativc; effectually cleansing the system,
dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
and permanently curing constipation.
1t has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval of the medical
profession, because it acts ON the Kid.
neys, Liver and Bowels without weak
ening them and it is perfectly free from
every Objectionable substance.
Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug
gists in SOC and 81 bottles, but it is man
ufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup of Figs,
and being we'll informed, you will not
accept any substitute if offered.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1895-02-21

dust prevents the whole .rass Iroin
blazing. Hickory also IS good, but
never pine, as this lind ef,~qoke viii
give your meat a disa gret.,s1e taste.
II you win keep this up night and day
for the small hams and sides for ten
days, the heavy pieces fifteen days,
your meat will have Il nice. yellow
brown color.
To keep the meat the whole summer
SO II does not get strong and tainty,
there are several remedies. The meat
Will keep the best if packed between
chopped charcoal. Pack just as If you
were going to salt it down; don't have
any vacant places, Also sifted ashes,
particularly those of beech wood, is
good, the last layer of ashes one and
one-half inches thick. Oats, salt. etc,
is good, but ] give the charcoal the
preference.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1895-02-21
DIR. PIERCE'S
Golden Medical
DISCOVERY
Cures Mnefy-eighf per cent OF all
cases of Consumption, In all its
Earlier Stages.

Although by many believed TO be incufa-
BILE, there is the evidence of hundreds of
living witnesses to the fact that, i'll all its
earlier stages, consumption is a durable
disease. Not every case, but a large per-
ceaiage Of cases, and we believe, ffiip o8
PER cent are cured by DR.. Pierces Golden
Medical Discovery, even after the disease
has progressed so far as to induce repeated
bleedings from the lungs, severe lingering
cough with copious expectoration (includ-
ing tubercular natter, great loss of flesh
and extreme einaciation and weakness.
Do you doubt that hundreds of such cases
reported TO us as cured by Golden Med
ical Discovery were genuine cases OF that
dread and fatal disease? Youneed not take
our word for it. They have, i'll nearly every
instance, been so pronounced by the best
and most experienced home physicians,
who have 10 interest whatever i'll mis-
representing them, and WHO were often
strongly prejudced and advised against
a trial of Golden Medical Discovery,
but who have been forced to confess that
it surpasses, III curative power over this
fatal rnalady, all other medicines with
which they are acquainted. Nasty cod.
liver oil and its filthy emulsions" and
mixtures, had been tried in nearly all these
cases and had either utterly failed 10 bene-
| fit, or had only seemed to benefit little for
short time. Extract OF malt, wlliskey,
| and various preparations of the hypophos-
phites had also been faithfully tried in vain.
The photographs of a large number OF
| those cured of consumption, bronchitis,
lingering coughs asthma, chronic nasal
catarrh and kindred maladies, have been
skillfully reproduced III book of 100
pages WHICH will be mailed 10 you, Oh re-
ceipt of address and six cents IN stamps.
Address for Book, Worlds DlspsnsaFy
Medical Association. Buffalo. n, !.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1895-02-21
TO CURE MEAT.
Most Farmers Think They Know How, hut
Here's Good Method.

Most Farmers Think They Know How, but
Here's a Good Method.
Take TO one hundred pounds of meat
seven pounds of salt, two ounces of
s;ltpetrc, we'll mixed. Hams and sides
are rubbed well on both sides, tEau
placed in a box after the bottom has
been covered with the above mixture
one inch deep. Now pack the meat as
close as possible, and fill all vacant
places with salt until the whole box
forms one entire mass of meat and
salt. BE careful and don't place bone
against bone. The salt will soon melt,
and with the dampness of the meat
will form u juice that will soak into
the meat. Small hogs remain four
teen days, heavy ones four weeks in
this state, after which time you can
smoke the meat. Before you take the
meat to the smokehousc to smoke, you
have to dry the meat thoroughly.
Now in regard to smoli ehouse, as a
good smokehousc is Il rarity. A good
smollehouse must be dry. but airy, and
when closed free from frost. Such
house is cool in summer. If YOU cover
the airhcles with wire mesh to keep
out insects, the meat can remain in
this house the whole summer, but You
have to give the meata smoke now and
then. The smokehouse mrst be ar
ranged so that the smoke reaches the
meat dry and cold. A real good smoke
house ought to be two stories. In the
lower story you make the smoke,
which, through an opening in the upper
floor, passes to the upper story, where
the meat hangs; in the roof you have
several small openings, through which
the smoke escapes. Meat ought to be
smoked, not blacbened. You don't
want thick, impenetrating, suffocat-
ing smoke, mixed with plenty of fresh
air, to give your meat a nice, yellow
brown appearance. Every two OF.
three days, when the air is cool and
dry, open the door to let in the air SO
it will dry the meat
The fire in the smokehouse must be
built so that no blaze will start from
the material that the smoke is to be
smokehouse build furnace out of
brick, eight inches deep, ten inches
vide and about fourteen inches high.
On the bottom lay two rows of corn
cobs, then a layer of maple or oak
sawdlst, then thin layer of slabs of
either wood, then sawdust, etc, until
the whole furnace is filled; now lay
live Goals to the corneobs, Such q pile
WI. smoke the whale night The sew.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1895-02-21
LITERARY SAYINGS AND DoIN6S.

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES received
s5o0-the highest price he ever touched
for single pocm-for his verses eulo-
giving Garfield.
IN one month $1,000 copies of Hall
Gaines THE Manxman" have been sold
in Englanda sale unequaled by any
novel since Lothian.
IL recent lecture delivered at Co
lumbia college, William Dean Howells
was quoted as placing Ambrose Bierce
among the first six writer's of America
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1895-02-21
HERE AND THERE.

A hen that will not produce double
her weight in eggs every year is not
worth keeping. Have her for dinner
at an early day.
w. T. Warren, of Carroll county,
Tenn, has brood SOW which has
dropped him three litters of pigs with.
in the last ten months, the total num-
Der being thirty-fve.
Tar paper is good thing TO line a
fowlhouse with: it has an odor that is
unpleasant to vermin and supposed to
fortify the lungs and throat against
diseases that enter the system by that
route.
1t is estimated by competent au-
thority that more than 600, 000. 600 acres
of arid lands in this country can be ir-
rigated and made to far exceed the
best uuirrigated lands in productive
capacity
1t requires more food to keep up
egg production than is necessary to
support flock of hens in unproductive
idleness. The best hens in the world
can not make eggs out of wind.
1t is estimated that every in
dividual in the land eats fifty pounds
of pork annually; in any event that
much is raised, This, at least, shows
the Importance of swine industry.
CARROTS are IA cheap and excel
lent food for horses, and for sick or
convalescent horses they are highly
recommended. 1t is said horse rare
ly gets so sick as to refuse this root,
until the actual articulo mortis.
--One-fourth OF the labor that men
do would be sufficient to supply every
human being with all the necessaries
of life and every reasona bic luxury, if
they would live as they ought to and
observe the Golden Rule.
Every farm should keep flock of
sheep, for every farm has place for
sheep, which nothing else can fill. The
flock may be "a small one That de-
ponds on conditions, but the flock
should be amply sufficient to supply the
family with mutton.
--On the farm it is best to keep but
one breed of chickens for they can
then be allowed full personal liberty
to range at will, and the breed can be
kept unmixed. Plymouth Rocks,
Wyandottes, or any of the Leghorns
are suitable for this purpose, with the
exception that the latter, if pure
blood, will not sit worth a cent.
Whatever may be said of the pres,
ent prospects for sheepas commercial
venture, there is one aspect of sheep
husbandry in relation to which nc
farmer can ever make a mistake, says
the Homestead. and that is the keep
| ing of sufficient number of the right
kind of sheep to provide abundance
| of good, wholesome meat for the use OF
his own family.
In no domestic animal has there teen
greater improvement than in the hog.
! Where is the man with gray hairs in
his head WIN does not remember the
fleet-footed windsrlitter of yore, whose
! legs, as well as snout, were made for
business? Compare him with the no.
tund modern porker, whose snout and
legs have almost disappeared In the
well rounded carcass, and wonder VI
the ingenuity Of the breeder MAJ
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1895-02-21
RELICS OF ANTIQUITY.

SOME OF the little bronze images Of
Chinese deities arc supposed to have an
antiquity of two thousand years before
Christ
MANY Persian drinking cups have
been found in the ruins of pcrsepolis
ihey are shaped almost exactly like
our saucers.
A PAIR Of shears with blades ten
incheslong is among the spoils of Pom.
peii. The instrument belonged to a
tunic-malSer.
a PORTRAIT of man scratched on
bone, apparently the shoulderblade Of
sheep, was found in 1857, in Swiss
Lake dwelling.
THE swords of the ancient Mexicans
were composed of bits of flint or oh.
sidian, set in a stick about the length
of an ordinary saber.
SEVERAL sacrificial knives have been
recovered from the Mexican pyramids.
They are pieces of nint, fashioned into
the shape of butcher-knife.
"PRIAM's BOTTLE" found ut Trov. is
of pure gold, shaped almost exactly
like the show bottles seen in druggists
windows, and weighs one pound
AMuLETs are now worn by roval
noble families in India that are be-
lieved to have been handed down
from father to son for nearly two thou
sand years.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1895-02-21

THE famous. Russian entomologist
lingo Christoph, died the other day in
st. Petersburg. He was born in Ger
many in 1881, but went to Russia IL
1858, becoming a professor in Sarepta.
lie travelled over half the known world
and discovered large number of new
insnptS
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1895-02-21

WiFE-,There, uow This paper saws
that married men can live on less Than sin,
gle men, Husband-"But, my dear, all Of
us ", haven't wives who take in washing. -
Dubuque Times.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1895-02-21

No MATTER how great he may have
been, no man ever yet looked i'm
prssive when he was attempting to in
iiate tire he knew was punctured.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1895-02-21

JIxKs-(At the door impatiently)-"A Are
YOU all ready, DEAR Mrs. Jinks-"All but
putting on my bonnet" Jinks III IN
We'll. I'VE time for two moro cigars, any
way. r--Harper's Bazaar
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1895-02-21

INSTANCES have been known of lime
being added to snuff to Increase it,
dryness and pungency.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1895-02-21

THE whale lives about four hundred years
A whale would be a good thing fora pcrsol
to buy who hated to part with a pet after IN
became attached to it.-1it-Bits.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1895-02-21

JnIsox says he doesn't see why there
should be any objection to women entering
the legal profession. Don't you sec that
nine out Of every ten married men know
very well that her word is law. - Buffalo
Courier
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1895-02-21

$50 THE doctor has ordered your wife to
go south for her healtli!n "Ycs." will
the climate agree with her.' We'll, if it
does it win be good one''- Inter Ocean.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1895-02-21

A RIcn ADoRNMENT.-'Wh a singular
brooch Mrs. Newrch has on. Is it cnamelf
"No. It's thousand dollar bill glazed -
Harper's Bazaar
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1895-02-21

WHO shall be true to rs. when we are SC
unsccret to ourselves i-Shalzespeare,
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1895-02-21

IT * the business of the newspaper eiitor
to make a long story short. '-lcxas Sift-
iups
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1895-02-21

An amateur editor has just made for
tune by his pen. His father died after read
ing one of his articles, and left him fifty
thousand pounds. -Tit-Bits.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1895-02-21

Grxr-"What is the reason you charge
twice as much for my cuffs as You did Tor
merly!p Washorwoman - Because yon
have begun making pencil notes on them
Gent-"What difference docs that maker
Washerwomal-"The girls waste SO much
time in trying to make them out."-De Am
stordammcr.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1895-02-21

NEXBD sailors cursed the rain tOr which
poor shepherds prayed in vain.-Waller.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1895-02-21

"YoU say you and your wife never quar-
relf" Never. you see, whenever she fires
up | always get out. Atlanta journal.