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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1895-07-24
Day and Night on Mercury.

Professor G. v. schiaparelli. the
astronomer, gives some curious
points concerning day and night as
exhibited to the people of Mercury
that is, of course, providing the
torrid climate of that planet permits
of the existence of organized beings.
The professor says that on three
eighths of the planet thick and eter-
nal night forever reigns except per-
haps during an occasional exhibition
of some phenomenon similar to the
aurora borealis.
Another portiq6 of the planet of
similar area is continually exposed
to the burning rays of the sun, and
the inhabitants, providing that there
are any, know nothing whatever of
night, sunrises and sunsets.
Might" says Schiaparelli, ION
that threo-eighths of tho Mercurian
world is physical impossibility,
and the only change that can take
place is the varying obliquity of the
suns rays, which shift according to
the sun s position during the SO days
which go to make up the year."
In another region on this planet
there are two-eighths of the entire
surface which have alterations of
light and darkness. In these favora-
bic sections the period of So days Is
divided into two intervals, ono char
acterized by continual light and the
other by perpetual darkness.
Taken all together, We should be
we'll pleased with the conditions ex-
listing on our world, which are per-
haps better suited to human beings
than those of any of the suns great
train of planets.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1895-07-24
Rover Knew the Portrait.

Since the painting of that famous
bunch of grapes with which Apelles
Is said to have deceived the fowls of
the air it has been an undecided
question whether animals recognize
facsimiles in pictures. It is certain
that they sometimes recognize por-
traits.
The young master Of a beautiful
collie dog suddenly died. The dog
was inconsolable. For weeks he
roamed about in search of the lost
one, exhibiting the mute and touch
ing grief that animals sometimes
show for the dead.
One day a portrait of the boy was
brought home, and it was proposed
to bring Rover in to see if he would
recognize it. The moment he came
into the room the portrait caught
his eye, and he sprang forward with
| a joyful bark, reaching up to touch
it with his paws.
When he found that it was only
! an inanimate surface, his disappoint
ment was pitiful to see.-New Yorl
Tribune.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1895-07-24
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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1895-07-24
Famous Old Men of Kentucky.

There is old Cassius M. Clay, with
his 81 years and his girl bride.
Here is old General Buckner, who
surrendered to General Grant at
Fort Donelson more than 80 years
ago, walking about the streets of
Louisville with his corncob pipe in
his mouth and looking hopefully
forward to the day when, as Unit
ed States senator, he shall take his
young wife and 5.year-old boy to
Washington.
General Fitz-Hugh Lee is dieting
to avert threatened obesity, but his
friend, Major D. w. Saunders of
Louisville, noted as "the best liver
in Kentucky, has served notice on
his old commander that dieting
means death. keep up this nom
sensical German regimen, said Ma
jor Saunders, "and you will weaken
your vitality and fall victim to the
first illness that attacks you. A man
can't afford to play any tricks upon
his vitality after he is so. Better let
nature take her course. 4"
General Fitz- Hugh Lee sticks to his
regimen, but if he wants an object
lesson in the advantages Of "good
eating, good drinking and good
thinking he may find it in the per-
son of his most hale and lovable
friend, Major Saunders. Chicago
; Times-Herald.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1895-07-24
Tho DandeliOn.

Tho dandelion belongs to the lar
gest, oldest and most widely diffused
order of plants. While other orders
of plants have died out and become
mere fossil remains in the rocks
this order has survived the geolog-
ical changes of many different Pc
RODS on account of Its power of ad-
apting itself to those changes. And
these changes in their turn have
only made it better suited for all the
varied soils and climates of the earth
at the present day.
We find members of this order in
every part of the globe, In places as
far apart from each other as they
can be. It is the prevailing and
dominant order Of vegetable life, the
most highly finished and the most
successful family of plants. And the
dandelion is one of the most perfect
forms belonging to it.
It is the head and crown of the
vegetable kingdom, as man is thu
head and crown of the animal orea
ton, and tits curious how this high
est type Of plant always Is fount
| only where man, the highest typ
of animal life, is found, and wher'
he dwells or cultivates the soil. I
| is never found apart from him. !
! follows him wherever he goes-t'
America, Australia and New Zea
land, and there IN the new home be
comes silent but eloquent reminde
of the dear old land he may neve
| see again.-New York Times.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1895-07-24
WINTERS WARNING.

Ia that a bluobird's notes heart"
Clasps winter, paralyzed With fear.
aye gods. then I'm goner!
To me tits like q funeral knell.
Now death for me, I know full well,
Waits Just around the corner.
"No use TO talk know I'm downeA
A yiolet's already crowned
The springs reluctant coming.
The earth will have her jubileee,
And soon with drowsy hum Of bees
She'll happily BIO hummfng.
"'Neath many chill, white coverles
Fen now the modest flowers may fret
To meet Apolio's glances,
While in her dreams each da6odil.
Forgetting she's o prisoner still,
With zephyr gayly dances.
"Now, though she wisely wears her fura,
In the glad sunshine all but purs
The soft, grny pussy willow.
And soon, howe'er wild winds may rave.
The grasses their green sea will wave
In billow upon billow.
"While to his health now offers up
The crocus her gold loving cup
That floral Tommy Atkins,
Tho tonquil. thrusts bis bayonet through
The esrthworks, winks and queries. Who
Says I'm behind the catkinsf'
"An silently, with shining blades,
A mighty host the land invades,
And every quiet corner
Mutely proclaims old winters death,
While timid spring with every breath
ForeteIls the reign Of summer"
Mary Norton Bradford in Boston Globe.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1895-07-24
WILBUR r. SMITH, PRESIDENT,
LEXINGTON KY

WILBUR r. SMITH, PRESIDENT.
LEXINGTON, KY.
Reerencec5Gasn sp is fs bapk graduates
Award OF Medal and Diploma at WORLDS
p? ThSress1 iaiisensi.I and ,oncrs ed
the past year, from % states.
Rasiness Course consists Of Book -keeping,
Law, Merchandising, Banking, Joint stock.
Manufacturing Lectures, Business Practice,
so.s aS f% including
Tuition. Stationery and Board in nice family
shorthand. TypewritinE and TeleEraphy
rooms, and can be taken alone or with the Bush
Special department. for ladies.
situations.-The demand for our graduates in
different departments OF this College mas e3'
't T%e Prsn s! Of the Ranking Depart;
Vice. President Of a bank Tor number q years,
and refers to nearly 100 former pupils now holding
positions In banks as Presidents Vice Presidents,
Cashiers, Book keepers etc. ; nine IN Lexington
The Principal of the Photographic De.
cal stenographer in taking verbatim reports pho;
netically, and as q good English scholar endorsed
neys Judges and score Of other leading attor.
neys Of this city who have employed MIN; NJ
rns oe pa. sae as vas fs1
years operator, prin cipal clerk agent. etc. for
the l.. d N. r. R., and whose qualification ID en-
dorsed BY the leading officers OF that road
The other Teachers of this College In
bookkeeping, Business, Arithmetic, Penman-
ship etc. are experienced and efficient.
This College II Estab1fshed and relies on ita
clear record Of over quarter OF a century. IS -.
sponsibe and erHct,V as represented. and endorsed
by Its thousands OF former pupils for honest ana
conscientious tyork and who influence annually
hundreds of their relations and friends TO attend
No Business College in America can refer
to more distinguished and successful graduates
than this College. Our catalogues have letters OF
endorsement by represe natives OF One Hundred
Officials, including Lieutenant Governor, Con.
gresham Attorney G. neral, Judges. Members OF
legislatures, etc. :: also One Hundred Bank EN-
ployes One hundred former students holding
the highest and most lucrative positions in this
city.
The Kentucky Uniyersity Diploma. under
seal is awarded the graduates Of this College.
Kcntucky University is the outgrowth OF
the Transylvania University, founded over lU
years ago. Assets over s40O,UO.
Literary Course Free. students OF this Col
lege have the privilege OF receiving instruction r
the Literary Department OF Kentucky University
for the remainder OF the session IN which they
graduate, free OF charge.
Lexington, Ky, the location OF Prot. Smith,
College, Is noted for its healthfulness and mt
climate; has Is churches and II banks. Access
ibie by its many railroads.
No vacation. Enter now. Graduates success
full For circulars address its President,
WILBUR R. SMITH, Lexington, Ky.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1895-07-24
Turn About.

The emancipated woman was just
leaving the club.
Here" she. said to the cashier,
take this roll Of bills and look them
up in the safe for me-.
"You are very cautious, said q
companion.
Eyes. Ny husband has got into
the way of going through my bloom
ers when I am asleep, and / have to
be. Washington Star.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1895-07-24
Eagle Drug Store, ~ Uelgel
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YOU CAN BE CURED WHILE USING 1T.

The habit of using tobacco grows on a
man until grave diseased conditions are
produced. Tobacco causes cancer of the
mouth and stomach; dyspepsia; loss of
memory; nervous affections; congestion of
the retina; and wasting of the optic
nerve, resulting in impairment of vision,
even to the extent Of blindness; dizziness
OF vertigo; tobacco asthma; nightly sutfO-
cation; dull pain in the region of the
heart, followed later by sharp pains, pal
pitation and weakened pulse, result
ing in fatal heart disease. 1t also causes
loss of vitality.
QUIT BEFORE IT is TOO LATE.
To quit suddenly is too severe shock
to the system. as tObacco-to an lnveter
ate user, becomes stimulant that his
system continually Graves. "BACCO'
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| of habitual tobacco users smokers, chew
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YOU CAN USE ALL THE TOBACCO
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| CURO.r IT WILL NOTIFY YOU WHEN
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"BACCO-CURO" is not a substitute
but reliable and scientific cure-whicl
absolutely destroys the craving for to
bacco without the aid of will power, ant
with no Inconvenience. 1t leaves til
system as pure and free from nicotine, a
the day you took your first chew o
smoke.
Sold by all druggists, at 500 per box
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ka Chemical Il Manufacturing Company
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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1895-07-24
shAUolRLE STREET MUSICIANS.
Mr.. Howells Thinks They Earn Their
Money Even II Not Hoard.

Mr.. Howel,s Thinks They Earn Their
Money Even II Not Hoard.
1t may be doubted whether a bal
1adist who is not making himself
heard is earning his money; but, on
the other hand, it may be asked if
he is not less regrettable for that
reason. A great many good people
do not earn their money, and yet by
universal consent they seem to have
right to it. We cannot oblige the
poor to earn their money any more
than the rich without attacking the
principle on which society is based
and chasing ourselves with its enc
mics. If people get money out of
other people, we ought not to ask
how they get IT, whether It is much
or little, and I. at any rate, will not
scan too closely the honesty of the
inaudible balladist Of the avenue.
Neither will / question the gains of
those silentious MINISTRIES who grind
small, mute organs at the corners Of
the pavement, with little tin cup
beside them to receive tribute. They
are usually old, old women, and I
suppose Italians, but they seem not
to be very distinctly anything. How
they can sit upon the cold stone all
| day long without taking their deaths
passes me to say, and am inclined
to think that they do really earn
their money, if not az minstrels,
then as monuments Of human en-
durance. The average American
grandmother would sneeze In five
seconds under the same conditions
and be laid up for the rest of the
winter. But these hardy aliens re-
main unaffected by cold or wet,
light or dark.
One night came upon ono sleep
ing on her curbstone-such a small,
dull wad Of outworn womanhood!-
her gray old head bent upon her
knees and her withered arms wound
in her thin shawl. It was very chill
that night, with sharp wind sweep
ing tho street that the street depart
ment had neglected, but this poor
old thing slept on, while l stood by
her, trying to imagine her short and
simple annals-a dim, faroff child.
hood in some peasant hut, girlhood
with its tender dreams, a mother
hood with it's cares, grandmother
hood with its pains-the whole
round Of woman's life, with want
through all, wound into this last re-
suit of houselcss age at my feet.
How much of human life comes to
no more. if indeed one ought not tc
soy how little comes to so much!
sighed Us people of feeling used tc
do in the eighteenth century and
dropped q dime into the tin cup
Tho sound startled the beldam, and
I hope that before she woke and
looked up at me she had time tt
dream riches and luxury for the rest
of her life. bella musica,' said
with fine irony, and she smiled ant
shrugged and began to feel for thu
handle of her organ as If she wer'
willing to begin giving me my mon
ey's worth on the spot. If we die
} not SEQ such sights every day, hov
impossible they would seeml =
"Tribulations Of a Cheerful Oliver,
by w. D. Howells, in Century.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1895-07-24
THEY ALL WORE TITLES.
But Each Mans Right to His Military
Handle Was Somewhat ShAky.


Handle Was Somewhat Shaky.
I was riding around town with
Colonel White when we were hailed
from the steps of store by man,
and the colonel stopped his horse
and introduced me to Captain Da-
vids. After we moved on he said:
IF you meet the captain again,
he'll be sure to talk war, but he
wasn't in it. He's simply a blow
hard"
AS we drove past the postofdce a
man came out and waved newspa-
per at the colonel and called to him
to hold up. We stopped, and the
colonel introduced him as Major
Taylor. After we had left him the
colonel said:
Hes another of the same sort.
He'll fill you up with army adven-
lures, but he never saw q battle or
heard the sing of a bullet"
Down at the oil mills as we were
turning around some one cried
"Hello!" to tho colonel, and q man
came up and was introduced as Gen.
eral Whitcomb. He had q decided
military bearing, but when we had
left him behind the colonel said:
LII give you pointer on the
general too. He'll reel off army
yarns by the rod, and yet he never
even had q uniform on.
We didn' t meet with any more he.
roes during the drive, but soon after
our return, and while sat on the
hotel veranda waiting for the dinner
bell, a gentleman who had every ap-
pearance of having led a brigade in
a glorious charge to victory came w
and introduced himself as Genera
Patton and added:
IT saw you out riding with Colo
mel White bit ago"
Eyes, he drove mo around town.
Good fellow, the colonel, but al
awful buffer. Was never ever
sworn into the service, and yet he'll
tell you how he was shot all t.
pieces and left for dead at Cedal
creek"
The general talked for q few min
! utes and then excused himself, ant
as went in to dinner the LANDLORD
met me with smile and q wink an,
whispered:
II saw the general out there fill
ing you up. Ho was in Europe al
through the war and has no right t
the title.
"My friond," I said, "is there
captain, colonel, major or general il
this town who was actually in til
war and fairly won his title?"
"Only one, just ono" ho blandl..
replied.
"And that man.
I'm tho one! Yes, I'm Colone
Jones at your service!"
I had to leave town directly afte
dinner, but on the train fell il
with man and happened to spea
of Colonel Jones to him, and he eS
claimed: Colonel Jones? Colone
Jones? Why, sab, that man WASH
Is years old when General Lee su,
rendered!'-St. Louis Republic.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1895-07-24
no.son rs,thful to Baked Beans.

Probably few people realize the
proportion which the baked bean in
dustry has assumed in Boston. One
establishment IN Shawmut avenue
has a daily bake of 1880 pots, holding
from two to eight quarts of beans.
The bake begins at about 2 p. M,
and at 80 a. m. the steaming pots
are loaded upon wagons and deliver
ed to hotels and residences in all
parts of the Hub.--St. Louis Globe
Democrat.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1895-07-24
New Nautical Motor.

Some successful trials are reported
az being made In various places with
the new nautical motor by which
any boat, say, from 10 to IS feet
long can be transformed into an
electric launch without any altera-
tons simply by screwing to the stern
of the craft q fitting similar to a
rowlock plate, the motor being at.
tachable at once and easily. From
the tip of the tiller to the screw the
equipment for this purpose, as OK
planned, is 81 feet long. About Il
inches of this length, consisting Of
the motor. controlling lever and till
or, are inboard Of the sternpost
that part which runs outboard be
ing simply nickel plated 2 incl
shaft tube, the weight IS pounds
and the battery for running being
from rs to 275 pounds, the weigh
varying with the choice Of a primar.
or storage battery. The two blades
| screw is Of 10 inches diameter, an
just forward of this ON the shat
tube there is located q steering FIR
both motor and steering gear bein
thus combined in the same machine
By means Of this arrangement fro1
one.third 70 one-half an electri
horsepower Is developed with fou
four cell batteries giving rs volt
and, as stated, from three to fiy
miles an hour is the result accort
ing to load and resistance.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1895-07-24
His Dispositions,

Brown-Old Miserleigh tried to-
pass counterfeit dollar this MORN
ing.
Jones-I'll bet he didn't succeed.
Brown-No, but how did you
know anything about it?
Jones--I know Miserleigh. Hs
couldn't pass cent without break
ing a blood vessel trying to take it
along with Detroit FREQ Press,
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1895-07-24
Force Of Habit.

Barlow asserted writes Henry A.
Beers in 1.-THE Ways of Yale"> that
ae was present once at morning
chapel when Tutor Cosfne, whose
duty it was to conduct the exercises,
began prayer as follows: 20 thou
who dost cause the planets to evolve
in their elliptical orbits-the force
of attraction varying inversely as
the square of the distance
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1895-07-24

From the earliest dawning of pol.
10y to this day the invention Of man
has been sharpening and improving
the mystery of murder, from the
first rude essay of clubs and stones
to the present perfection Of gunnery,
cannoneering, bcmbarding, mining.
Burke,
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1895-07-24
WCMaN'5 NEW VIEW or Love.
She Is Satd to BE AZ Romantic as Ever
but No s.onger Sentimental.

WCMaN'5 NEW VIEW or LOVE.
She Is Satd to BE as Romantic as Ever
but No s.onger Sentimental.
When we come to consider tbs
woman of this time as she stands in
regard to love, we touch the essen
tial point of her dissimilarity to tie
woman of the past If vein OF ra~
nance runs through her-and tie
modern woman is often romantic,
though never sentimental-love is
still in her estimation the best thing
in life, bearing, nevertheless, about
the same relation to it as 4 fantasia
does to an opera. To her it is lux
ury, incssential, though delightful,
bringing with it the keenest Of hui
man sensations and the most ephem-
oral. And this conviction of tie
poignancy and the evanesccnce OF
sexual affection lies at the very gate
of desire, at once quickening it and
quenching it.
But that sublime faith in love
which has been a living spirit in tho
soul of Eve throughout the ages
has gone down before the eyes that
are at last unbandaged and the mind
whose perceptions have been whet-
ted by education into seeing life
steadily and seeing it whole. In the
love of the modern woman there is
not q shred Of illusion, though it
lacks neither subtlety nor intensity.
Even at white heat she has never
lair de croire son bonheur, for the
difficulty of believing in her lover,
which wrung the heart of Mariana
and her sisters, has vanished before
the much greater difficulty of believ-
ing in herself.
AS matter of fact, the instincts
of fidelity are not in her. She is not
like her grandmother, a fixed guam
tity in whom the prcpossessions of
youth deepened as the years passed.
In the good old days life moved OF
leadefl feet, and love kept pace WITH
it. A girl then embarked OH her first
passion with tho firm conviction that
it was going to last her lifetime, anu
as a result it frequently did. At so
she was practically the same crea-
ture as at 20. and tho same love suf-
feed for both decades. She was
faithful by nature as we'll as by obli-
CATION and knew as little about her
! sensations as a cabbage does about
its growth. Love was to her merely
the antechamber to marriage, and
the idea of pursuing it for Its own
sake mover dawned upon her placid
soul, wherein only known gods. were
deifed and domestic ideals scher<
ished.
Nowadays the dust lies thick upon
all these. Life is no longer sluggish.
but ardent, earnest tmpetuous, its
waters whipped to fineness and its
| stream swift. It has washed many
new things within her reach, new
pcrspcctivcs, now aspirations, new
affections. AS her nature blossoms
it hungers for fresh food at every
stage Of its Observation-Disclosures
with q pulse in them, sensations
with bloom on them. How should
the man of llor maiden favor fulfill
the need of her maturity? To every
season its hook and its bonnet. Why
| not also its love?-Saturday Review.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1895-07-24

At the altitude of IL miles the at
mosphere has q density OF about
one-tenth that Of the surface-that
is, the barometer would stand at
about three inches.