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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1897-04-14
MIR. Marler Declines the Honor.

1t is not every one who will &C.
cept an Office, no matter how great
the honor or large the emoluments.
AS verifcation Of this PROPOSE.
ton, it is only necessary to cite
the case of Mr.. NJ. NJ. Marler, re-
Gently appointed by Governor
Foster a Justice of the Peace OF
the Hineston ward, who refuses to
qualify, because of lack of time to
properly discharge the duties of
the office.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1897-04-14

The DEMOCRAT has received,
with compliments Of MIR. Davidson
Texada, an invitation from the
Faculty and Glass OF '97, of the
Medical Department of Tulane
University, to be present at the
Annual Commencement, which
takes place at 1880 O'clock to-day
at the Grand Opera House, New
Orleans. La.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1897-04-14
-Unvarying excellence is a cha

acteristic of the BUCKSKIN
BREECHES. If you get a pair
that suits you, you can always get
another pair just like them, just as
good in fit, just as carefully sewetl
seams, just as neat in appearance.
If they are once good, they are al
ways good. We have standard
Its best in all points. We work
to that.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1897-04-14
STATE OF LOUISIANA,
Parish Of Rapides-Teu,h Judicial Dis
trict Court.
y. S, r :: r.,.,, No. ~.

"A NO. Ma Il E<tnSEs
.NTHEREAS, DIR. RALPH KILPAT-
w RICK, Tcstamentary Executor Of
the above numbered and entitled success
sion has this day fled his Final Account
therein, praying that it be ho,nologated.
aoe ay nss1 to s ~Gm it a0sh
sition filed thereto within the delays
prescribed by law. that said account
will be approved, homologated and made
the Judgment of this Court, the said exec
utor discharged and his bond as such
cancelled.
Witness the Hon. E. G. Hunter and E.
N. Cullom, Jr., Judges of said Court.
{ ~ Given under my hand and
l.. s. seal at Alexandria, La. Oh
[ ~ this 3lst day of March, A. D..
1897. G. N. FITZPATRICK,
April Z, 1897. Deputy Clerk.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1897-04-14
A. BAUER,
j. HIRSCH,

Referring to the above, solicit con-
tinuauee of tho good will and patronage
of the public which was extended to the
old firm.
j. HIRSCH.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1897-04-14
BORN:

To Mrs. s. g. Bonneville, of West
Alexandra, on Friday morning,
April 9th 1897. a daughter.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1897-04-14
HENRY B. MERCER.

HENRY 3. MERCER.
We are glad that Mr.. Mercer APP.
preciates the LOUISIANA DEMO.
GRAFT to such an extent, as to be
lost without it. 1t is however, n
fault of this office that he has fail.
ed to receive it. 1t is mailed reg.
ularly every week to his address
aud our jurisdiction over it ceases
when it IL entered at the Post
Office.
The delinquency occurs some.
where between the Alexandria
and Buckeye Post Offices, probab
ably at the latter, as we have sv
cry reason to believe that all mail
matter entered at the Alexandra
Post Office, leaves that Office Oh
schedule time.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1897-04-14
Notice of Dissolution of CO-Part>
nership.

nefSnlp.
NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN THAT
IN the Co-Partnership heretofore OK
listing between A, Bauer and J. Hirsch,
nnder the firm name of A. Baner, was
dissolved by mutual consent. Mr. A.
Bauer continues the business and as
sumes all the liabilities of the said part
nership.
A. BAUER,
J, HIRSCH,
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1897-04-14

If you have a good property
to insure, 60 to J. w. Alexander
aud get a good policy on it.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1897-04-14

Learn When to Buy, Where /, Buy and How to Buy.

Then will
We have of the
above Cold cash makes We
SPEOIA BARGAINS which whilst last at truly hard time
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1897-04-14
"Lost Without the Paper"
BUCKEYE, La, I
April 5, 1897. !
Editor Democrats:

Editor Democrat:
Dear Sir:-I take this method
of informing you that my paper
has failed to come for two weeks.
What is the matteri If my sub.
scription has expi,ed, why don't
you notify met l am lost without
tha Non0r
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1897-04-14

.
FURNISHING GOODS.
100 ladies' lauudried shirt waists
35c.
100 shirt waists worth 81, at SOC.
200 P q q Corsets black and white
4Oc.
DR.. Thompson's s hook corset,
black and white at 81.
90 d0z ladies' emb. h'd'kts DC.
% doz ladies and misses hose, full
flushed, fast black at 124e.
100 mems Percale lanhd. shirts 45c
100 mems white laund. shirts, Toe.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1897-04-14
SPECIAL DRIyE-Men

Cashmere worth 80 cents yard.
and 10
Goods sold 10
Fancy Crochet Sbawls sold at 60 cents
light Alpine Hats sold 81
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-23

Charles z. Osgood, of Boston, the
owner OF the largest and most success
full furniture business in New England,
II not IN the country, was one OF the
few large buyers among furniture deal
erS during the hard times of last year,
who did great business, always pay
ing cash, moving on as if times were
good, while rival concerns were going
to pieces right and left all about. His
credit from Michigan to Maine became
so cOnSpicuOuSly solid that he was
one of the most talked of young men in
commercial circles.
With limited means but we'll bred,
full of character, straightforward, and
weIl-educated, he started in business
only a few years ago in a very mod
crate way in a little store on fremont
street in Boston. The city began to
know him quickly. His business rapid
1y assumed big proportions. A news
paper one day interviewed him in the
column of Men Worth Knowing
ITO what do you attribute your sue
cess?" asked the interviewer.
Mr.. OsgOOd replied very shortly:
when in doubt, buy the best goods"
He is known everywhere today by
that expression.
Work told on Mr. Osgood's health
With characteristic judgment he put
his reliance upon natures best remedy
to make him well again The best of
medical treatment was at his disposal;
there certainly was no physician that
man in his opinion could not employ.
He got the right advice. and followed
IL quay 41e IL perfectly Wen, good
tempered, aggressive and energetic to
the last degree.
In a letter to the proprietors of Paine's
celery compound, written Sept. p, 1897,
Mr.. OsgOod said:
I have derived great benefit from
the use of Paine's celery compound. and
can unhesitatingly recommend it for
building UP the system when run
down" and tired out with worry or
work I first used this really great
remedy on the recommendation of a
friend whom it had cured of a fearful
case of insomnia, and whose wife, I un-
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-23
SPORTING NEWS.
Elliott Meets Defeat at the
Hands of Gilbert.
Iowa Man Now the Champion of
America.
Orioles and All-Americans Play a
Tie Game at st. Joseph-BasebaII
for Topeka Being Pushed.

Kansas City, Oct. 23.-ProbabIy the
most exciting live bird race known to
trap shooters was shot at the base ball
park yesterday afternoon, and by win
ming it Fred Gilbert of Spirit Lake, Ia,
establishes beyond doubt his claim to
the champion wing shot of America"
He alread holds the championship at
targets.
J. A. R. Elliott, who yesterday met
his second defeat at the hands of the
clever young man from Iowa, is prObab-
ly Gilberts equal. but for the nonce he
must take off his hat to the victor.
THE greatest match ever saw,
said every shooter on the grounds.
1t was the first time in the memory of
the oldest among the SpOrtsmen when
two men tied in a 100 iVe-bird race.
Gilbert 81; Elliott 81, was the score
when the last bird went to grass, and
it was shot off at 25 birds. Gilbert got
all of his but Elliott lost his oath bird
dead out of bounds, and the match was
lost and won.
Out of 250 birds shot at by the two
cracks, but one was missed. For one
hundred birds the two cracks tied, with
ninety-seven each. Gilbert's twenty
first, fifty-third and seventy
birds fell dead out of bounds. Elliott
killed seventy nine birds without
skip, missed his eightieth, and his
ninety-first and ninety-sixth birds fell
dead out of bounds
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-23
A United States Officer
some lNCIDENTS OF HIS LIFE and HARD
SHIPS IN the LATE WAR.
From the Gase..e. 1esawau. Mass.

fall wherever I might be and remain 50 for
some time.
Soon I was forced to keep in bed, my
digestion was wrecked my business was going
TO pieces and everything looked very dark
OF course I tried all kinds of remedies that
were recommended but to no avail, and also
went to a Medical Institute in Boston, but all
my expenditure was fruitless.
Finally l secured a box of Dr.. Villains
Pink Pills for Pale People, and received SO
great relief from them that my family and
myself could see the direct benefits.
1 kept on with their use and steadily
grew better. The dizzy attacks lessened and
at last left me, the vomiting has entirely ceased
and my general health has not vet stopped its
impro vement. My digestion is now good and
TO no Other agency than TO Or. Williams Pink
Pills for Pale People can my cure be escribed.
with chronic rheumatism but this was relieved
by taking these pills. 1t is one of the greatest
remedies ever used by anybody and every
member of my family has the same high
opinion of it that / do I have nothing but
earnest, grateful praise for what it has done
for me-"
(SigneO JOHN P. L. GRANT.
Capt. Grant will be glad 10 answer any
letters addressed him about his case. His
address is Z. o. box 142. Midway Mass.
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The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-23
ALTCAR CLUB MEET.
In the Coursing at GoodIand Noun
tain Beauty Beat Bismark.

GoOdland, Oct. 23.-The coursing the
third day was continuance of the fine
sport which has been enjoyed through
out the Altcar clubs meeting Two
principal events were run to finish,
and at least half the population turn
ed out in vehicles or on horseback 1t
was windy and hares got up wild Out
the first dozen found only two could be
slipped at. With one exception the
hareS ran very we'll, the final course of
one stake being about two miles and of
the other a mile and a half. The inter-
est was keen and the betting lively
although no large sums We're wagered.
The four puppies left in the Altcar
produce stakes fought out the issue as
follows:
Mountain Beauty, owned by Simmons
& Donahue. of Cripple Greek, beat --
-, owned by A. L. Weston of Color
ado Springs; Bismarck, owend by T. w.
Bartels, of Cripple Greek and Charles
Barrow, of Denver, beat Anorita, own
ed by w. Walker, of GOodland.
In the final course, Mountain Beauty
beat Bismarck.
In the semi-finals of the AItcar cup.
Ben Hur, owned by L. F. Bartels, of
Denver, and J. H. RosSeter, of San
Francisco, beat Joe Smith, owned by
Pascal Poe, of Pueblo White Diamond
owned by Eugene Nally and J. Morley
of St. Louis, beat Winning Style, own
ed by Bartels & Barrow.
In the final course Ben Hur beat
White Diamond and won the cup.
y match for $50 side was run by
Duke, owned by R ShOelS of Salt Lake
City, and Procrastination, owned by
Simmons & DOnahue, the former won.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-23
BEST OF The SEASON.
Topeka viii Never See Any
thing Better This Year
Than 'sIn Gay New York" the
Great Success.
Music and Burlesques Are the Latest
Things From the New York Stage.

On Monday night In Gay New York.
the big review which achieved such a sue
cess at the New York Casino and later
in the principal cities of the east. will be
seen at the Grand Opera House in this
city Klaw & Erlanger are sponsors for
the production and this in itself is guar
anty that the performance will be up to
a high standard of merit. The piece is
a characteristic Casino production, and,
as is generally understood, the Casino
cult runs largely to bright lines.
pretty girls, attractive costumes and
jingling music All these are factors in
In Gay New YOrks" performance. AS
its name implies it furnishes a stage re-
production in burlesque and caricature of
some of the salient points of life as it
is lived in gay Gotham. Its author is
Hugh Morton, and this writer has fur
nished a thread of story along the line of
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-23
PRIMROSE & WEST MINsTRELs
Ezra Kendall the Principal Feature of
an Excellent Performance.

The usual big audience which char
acterizes a visit of Primrose & Vests
Minstrels to this city, saw the perform
ance at the Crawford theater last night
1t was one of the most entertaining
minstrel performance that has ever
been given in Topeka, if not absolutely
the best.
This year Primrose & West introduce
a number of innovations in minstrel
work and they are innovations which
audiences appreciate. The work of
Ezra Kendall, who has entertained au-
diences in his inimitable way from New
York to San Francisco. is one of the
particular features of the performance
and fills a part of the programme which
could scarcely be filled as entertaining
ly in any other way. KendalPs original
rnonologue is funny, so funny that the
audience is kept in continual laughter
from the time he first makes his ap-
pearance up to the moment he is finally
allowed to make his exit from the
stage
The performance this year closes with
one of the best drill features that the
company has ever introduced. 1t is
The Zouave Patrol and is the latest
production of Mr.. William H. West.
Mr.. Primrose is with the other Prim-
rose & West Minstrel company.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-23

The thriving town of Medway, Mass, has
no more reputable citizen than Capt. John P.
L. Grant, the carpenter and builder. For
months he a sufferer from wrecked di-
gestion, loss OF memory and the keenest of
rheumatic pains arising from a life of anbl-
Hous labor and arduOus exposure as an officer
in the late war, and later a L S mail carrier.
A representative of this paper called on
Capt. Grant for his story. He met the news
paper man cheerily, and in his own honest,
simple language, said:
81 was born in South Berwick, Ne, Dec.
30, 1884 and when two years old, moved
with my parents to Old York, Ne. When
16 years old l was apprenticed TO Il promi-
nent builder, Samuel Colcorl, of Exeter, n.
H, to -~rn the carpenters trade with the
added , iyilege of attending Phillips Acad-
emy, tnen as now famous seat OF learning.
[ graduated from there and went to Portland,
Me-, where l served two years with Hon.
VIM. G. KimbalI a noted builder of the time.
''I worked in Newburyport two years and
then established myself in business in West
Amesbury. During this period / was mar
ried at CharlestOwn. In 1862 | removed to
York where l enlisted in the q. S service.
I served nearly three years, participated in
forty-three battles, some of them the hottest
fights of the war, was twice wounded and for
a time disabled and at last was discharged
at Augusta Me. in 1860
f' secured and kept the contract for car
rying the mails between York and Ports
mouth, n. H, for twelve years / removed
TO Midway in March, 1887, where / have
since resided, in business as a carpenter and
builder. I have raised family of ten child
ren, and have now a family of six residing
with me.
About three years ago I was suddenly
attacked with dizzy spells, prOtracted III dur
alton and more frequent as the weeks went by
With these attacks came incessant vomiting
and spasms of coma so that instantly / would
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-23
tN CAY NEWYoRK.

which are hung the various bits of co1rf-
edy. farce ballet, spectacle, opera and
speciality that give to the piece its COM
posite character. Its principal charac-
teristic, perhaps, is DASH; certainly no
similar piece has ever attained a more
rapid pace in its movement. Conventional
ideas and traditions of the stage are said
to be thrown to the winds in its perform
ance and a constant succession of sur
prises keeps the audience on the qui vive.
The company provided promises well. In
individualities it bears evidence of merit,
while its numerical strength is unusual,
as some seventy persons take part Eddy
Foy, Lee Harrison, Gilbert Gregory,
Yorke and Adams, jeanette, ,Bageard, Ger
trude zeIla, Eta Gilroy, Alice Veazie,
Josephine Stanton, Arthur V. Gibson,
James G. Peaks and E. S. Tarr lead the
long list. The incidental features include
burlesques on famous plays and players
and vaudeville intrOductiOns by Eddie
Foy, Jeanette Bageard, Yorke and Ad-
ans, Gregory and Curley, Eta GilrOy
and Harry Watson, a trick bicycle rider
The prices for the engagement are $780,
81, IS, so and 25 cents. The sale of seats
is now open at Rowley & Shows drug
store.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-23
CYCLE COMPANY ASSIGNS.
Couldn't Raise Two Weeks Pay for
the Workmen.

Chicago, Oct. 23.-An assignment has
been made by the Fowler Cycle company,
one of the largest bicycle concerns in the
west. The company has not been doing
a flourishing business for some time and
has keenly felt the competition. The Of
ficers of the company give the liabilities
at close to $4,000 and the assets much
less. The concern employed about 500
men.
The difficulty of raising a two weeks
pay roll decided the officers of the com
pany to give up the struggle and assign.
The chief creditors of the concern are
Herman Booker & Co., manufacturers of
tubing; the Anglo-American Fitting COM
pany of New York and the Morgan &
Wright company of Chicago
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-23
CEDAR RAPIDS DID 1T.
Smaller City Than Topeka Made
Money at Baseball

This afternoons ball game is ex-
pected to arouse the smouldering flame
of enthusiasm that has been smOthered
the days when the article of ball fur
nished by the home team was beyond
fault. The old time spirit is expected
to rise and awaken everyone interested
to the fact the last meeting of the base
ball fraternity Will be held on Tuesday
night at the Commercial club rooms.
The board of directors, the president,
secretary and treasurer will then be
elected and the permanent organization
perfected. 1t will be the last meeting
and the promoters urge that all who
are in anyway interested in the project
turn out and swell the meeting and
give their views and vote on the sub
Ject. Two representatives will be
elected to represent Topeka at the Ce-
dar Rapids meeting on November Is
and to secure the franchise. Topeka
can support a frSt-class team. The
public enjoy and will turn out for
good game of base ball but they will
not support an inferior team. Cedar
Rapids, with a population of less than
half that of Topeka, has supported a
team that carried away the pennant
for 1897. The team has received all
the patronage that it could ask for and
has finished the season with money in
the treasury. Topeka can do the same
and by starting in time a good team can
be procured without paying eXorbitant
salaries. Several we'll known play
managers have already applied for a
position with Topeka and it will be an
easy matter to select a team as soon
as the organization is formed.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-23

matical effect. It is a marvel in stage
pictures, surprising even '-Gismonda,"
Miss DavenpOrt's most notable achieve
ment previous to this. No detail is
sighted from motives of economy, and
the result is the splendid production.
The scenes are all laid in France, the
first in the village of Domremy, the
home of Joan Dare
The second and third act scenes are
on the field of La ChapeIIe, revealing
the encampment of the French army:
the fourth and fifth acts show the in
side and outside of a prison in which
Joan is confined and finally dragged
to the stake to be burned as a witch
The scenery, costumes and stage ap-
pointments are the finest Imaginable
"A Soldier of France is considered the
supreme effort of this highly talented
woman, the masterpiece . her brilliant
career
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-23
DUG UP THEIR BONES.
Settlers Murdered by Indians Given a
Granite Mausoleum.

Walla WalIa, Wash, Oct. 23-The
grave of DR. Marcus Whitman, who
was killed by Indians so years ago at
Whitman Mission, seven miles from
Walla Walla, was opened preparatory
for a mausoIem of brick and granite
TO be erected thereon by the Whitman
Memorial association.
President Penrose of Whitman col
leSe and a few students were present
Near the surface Of the mound in one
corner four skulls nearly intact were
discovered, also a number of minor
bones. The skull of Dr. Whitman was
recognized by a gold filing in one of his
teeth and tOmahawk wound back of
the base of the skull.
DR.. Whitman, his wife and II asso-
ciateS who were masSacred so years
ago, are all supposed to be buried in the
grave.
The bones were brought to this city to
be classified by physicians After be
ing placed in a glass case for inspection
a few days, they will be returned to
their resting place.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-23
Mss DAYENPORT,s PLAY.
ga Soldier of France" the New Five
Act Play, Produced in Boston.


Boston, Mass, Oct. PA Soldier of
France" Fanny DaVenpOrt's new play,
in five acts, the title of which was kept
from the public until the rising of the
curtain, was given it's first performance
on any stage at the Boston theater last
night before one of the largest audien-
Ees ever assembled in the historic play
house.
There We're over 5000 people present
and appreciative applause at frequent
intervals demonstrated the pleasure
which the audience took in the perform
ance.
Miss Davenport was repeatedly called
before the curtain and made the recip-
lent of floral gifts. The play is a strong
emotional tragedy and deals with the
18th century chronicles of the war be
tween France and England during the
reign of Charles VII, having as its
central character Joan D'Arc, with
Fanny Davenport in the title role
While treating of a historical subject
and historical characters, the author
whose name is still withheld, has wan
dered from the historical fact, and has
in this deviation heightened the dra-
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-23

derstand, was first relieved Of a long
troubling rheumatism by the same rem
edy."
Work is necessary to a healthy body
and brain; but when it runs through
the same grooves through the twelve
months, year in and year out, the effect
Is as disastrous as a fire in a bundle of
wood.
When the nervous system is fagged
out none of the organs of the body do
their duty; the purifying, eXcretOry or
gans do not thoroughly cleanse the
blood and the digestive and assimiIa-
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The tired system needs help. Here is
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Every one who has taken Paine's
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