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The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1899-08-05
Times of Trouble and Sorrow.

There are periods in life, years and
years, when no great trouble visits US.
Then the storms Of sorrow fall, then
we are apt to say, ] have passed
through the fire and I may hope for an
immunity for the future. 1t is not SO.
The troubles may come back again,
they may come back again worse. Al
has been said our Pharaohs are seldom
drowned in the Red Sea, and we do
not often behold their corpses stretched
upon the sand. The bitterness Of death
may come again. What then? At the
very worst the memory of the past
will help Us. We shall retrace the
slow, difficult way to peace; our trust
in God will be deepened, and we shall
rea lie that, after all, the range OF
sins and sorrows is limited, though the
sea of troubles may rollits white-crest-
ed pillows shoreward as far as the hor-
lion. What are truly numberless are
Gods mercies. What is truly infinite
is Gods love.-W. Robertson Nicoll, D.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1899-08-05
SeaweeI and Alaber.

The main source Of the amber sup
ply is the seacoast of the Baltic Ocean.
1t is fossil gum, originally the ex-
udation of species of confer now ex-
tinct. This grew in luxuriant profu-
sion hundreds Of thousands OF years
ago on the marshy coasts of Northern
Europe, when the climate was much
warmer than. it is to-day. The natural
history OF amber is thus explained:
The immense forests of amber pine
underwent their natural downfall and
decay. The resin of the woods ac-
cumulated in large quantities in bogs
and ponds, and in the soil of the for
ests. Where tho coast was slowly
sinking, the sea by and by covered
the land, and the amber, which had
been gradually hardening, was at last
deposited at the ocean bottom. But
in the higher regions the pine contin-
ued to flourish, and so amber would
still continue to be washed down to
the shore and deposited in the later
formed green sand, aud the still later
formed stratum OF Ignite or brown
coal.
The gum became fossilized by its
long burial under ground. More than
200 specimens of extinct life, animal
and vegetable, have been found i'm
bedded in amber specimens, including
insects, reptiles, plants, leaves, shells,
fruit, ETC., which had been caught in
the liquid gum and entombel there
for all time. Some Of these specimens
are SO curiously beautiful as to be al
most priceless, and one English col
lector has a cabinet of them which is
valued at 100000. One piece en-
balms a lizard about eight inches
long, little jeweled monster, perfect
in its form and coloring, which, has no
like in anything existing now. In
deed, in many instances science is
able solely through this medium to
study details OF animal life which per-
ished from the earth many hundred
thousands of years ago. There ore
flies preserved with wings poised as if
for flight, where the prismatic sheen
glowing through the yellow sepulcher
is as brilliant aa if they were floating
alive in the sunshine. .'...
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1899-08-05

In the hurry Of our feverish age our
ears full Of the din that wearies US
and makes lis old, do We not more than
ever need this calm and strength OF
God? Where else than in the thought
Of the eternal shall we find it? "The
depth saith, it is not in me; and the
sea saith, 1t is not in me-" Only in
the name that is changeless, the Fa-
therhood, the FaithfulIess. the Love
that ages have not Wearied Is ade>
Guate refuge. To some it may seem
weakness, but there was one Son Of
Man who was not weaH, and who was
the, strength of every one who leaned
on Him, who has taught the world the
sublimest powers that dwell in human
souls. And He used to go, night after
night, to mountain sides and lonely
glens, to be lifted there into the in
finite calm Of the eternal spaces, and
the unspeakable peace OF God. 1t was
the thought of God that made that life
of power; that clothed Him with mai
esty as He went to make His last fu-
tile appeal to slumbering souls in Je-
rusalem; that made the victory Of Geth-
semane and the grandeur Of Calvary.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1899-08-05

Now, wholly apart from its religious
or from its ethical value, the Bible is
the one book that no intelligent, per-
son who desires to come into contact
with the world Of thought and to share
the ideas Of the great minds of the
Christian era can afford to be ignorant
Of. All modern literature and all art
are permeated with it. There is scarce
ly a great work in the language. that
can be fully understood and enjoyed
without this knowledge, so full is It
of illusions, and illustrations from the
Bible. This is true of fiction, Of poe
try, Of economic and of philosophio
works, and also Of the scientific and
even agnostio treatises. It is not OF
all a question of religion, or theology.
or Of dogma; it is a question Of general
intelligence-C. D. Warner.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1899-08-05

The Christian, of all men, should be
in earnest as to properly enlightened
conscience. He who accepts the rev.
e!ation Of Gods will confesses that his
conscience.is no safe guide until it has
been trained and instructed in that
word, and that his own will is a thing
OF uncertain and spasmodic energy,
wilfulness rather than will, until it has
been regenerated by the Holy Ghost.
He cannot, If he be in earnest at all,
be satisfied that he is doing Gods will
unless ne has taken as much pains to
know 1t, understand it, resolve 1t into
rules OF action, as he has the calling
which he follows for his bodily support
or social standing, in a word, he will
not only be conscientious, but in a
much strieter sense he will be con.
scienti svs about his conscience.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1899-08-05
Fruit Cures.

"Fruit cures,"t just now q fad in
Continental Europe with people hav-
ing real OF imaginary diseases, is by
no means a new thing. In the tenth
century ADMINISTRATION has discovered,
many medical authorities became en-
thusiastic in their writings over tho
remarkable curative virtues Of grapes,
while certain Van Swieten OF o more
modern date is said to have "recom-
monded in special cases the eating Of
twenty pounds Of strawberries o day"
Tho same gentleman also reports o
case of phthisis healed by strawber-
ries, and cites cases in which maniacs
have regained their reason by the ex-
elusive use of cherries as food. These
instances rather SAVIOR of the miracu-
lous, but there is no doubt that the
so-called grape cure for indigestion
and other evils, is carried on in many
places on the Continent, and that peo-
pie betake themselves to Meran, We
way, Bingen, or to Italy and the South
of France with tho intention of de-
voting six weeks to the cure, during
which time they are expected to have
gradually accomplished the feat Of
consuming from three to eight pounds
of grapes daily, as the case may be.
Grapes are said to exercise salutary
action on the nervous, system, and to
favor the formation Of fat; that is to
say, when fruit of good quality is en-
ployed; if the grapes are not sufficient
ly,,ripe and are watery and sour the pa.
tient may lose rather than gaini in
weight. The.valuable results obtained
by fruit diet in cases yof biiiousness
are due to the fact that noxious germs
habitually present in the alimentary
canal do not thrive in fruit juices.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1899-08-05
Hospitality Is Christ in the home

HOSPITALITY u NuinSt LIZ ou0 AoA
Life lies deeper than its leaves
Enthusiasm Is the fountain OF. per-
petual youth. 81 $50 =
If you are certain that you are un-
certain, how great is your uncertainty.
The doubt that is an Interrogation
may be blessing, but If 1t Is a de-
termination, 1t is curse.
Adversely is. the grind5tone or
which we lose enough to put An edge
of usefulness on our lives .,
The present needs patriots as we'll
as the past.
A creed works better as an engine.
than as a track.
The man who says the Bible is too
otherworldly is afraid to use 1t In his
office in this world. a
Christ is the centre Of the circle o.
our lives.
The upright character needs down
right sense.
Mud-slingers usually scrape it OF
themselves.
1t Is not history alone that has room
Cor the heroic.
The room for Improvement Is U.s.
ually a spacious one.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1899-08-05
He Hold His Own. !

During the recent heavy fog in New
York o young man named Kingsley
was standing on q corner early in tho
morning waiting for car, when he
saw very tough looking man ap-
proach him. Kingsley was three miles
from home and had only nickel,
which he was holding tightly in his
hand for fear that it might be lost.
The stranger reached tho young man,
and, just as the latter thought,
proved to be o highwayman, He or
dered Kingsley to throw up his hands
and then he proceeded to so through
his pockets. AS the victim put up
his hands no managed to slide the
nickel into his mouth. The robber
found no money, and, taking stock Of
Kingsley's good clothes, at once made
another search. Finally he became
enraSod, and remarkinS, YOU'RE O
pretty chap to be at large at this hour
Of the morning." dealt Kingsley q
blow in the mouth, landing him on the
pavement and at the same time caus-
ing him to swallow the nickel. As
soon as he got his breath Kingsley
shouted for help, and officers, who
were near at hand, succeeded in catch.
ing the highwayman, who was found
to be an old convict. Buffalo Express.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1899-08-05
The T3lessedness Of Work.

II you would have sunlight in your
home see that you have work In 1t.
Nothing makes moroseness and heavy
heartedness in a house so fast as idle
ness. The very children gloom and
sulk II they are left with nothing to
do. If all have their work they have
not only their own Joy In creating
thought, in making thought into form,
in driving on something to completion,
but they have the JOY of ministering to
the movement Of the whole house when
they feel that what they do is part Of
living whole. That in itself is sun
shine. The morning is bright with
the knowledge of how much has to be
done. The midday walk is looked for
ward to. The hour Of rest or play is
true Joy; the evening hour, when all
that has been done is talked over, is
delightful; and sleep, "sore labor's
bath" Is only another piece of pleasant
work. All eyes in that household look
forward, all its members are bright,
all honor one another. Every day there
is the light of something conquering in
the eyes Of those who work. Time, the
gray shadow, takes substance, walks
as friend with those who work, and
he is a charming companion when we
make him out of a ghost into reality.
In such a house, if there be also the
good temper of love, sunshine never
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1899-08-05
Rabbits Frozen JyhiIe AEoot.

Ever since the late cold snap in
Nevada the Indians there have been
selling jack rabbits in great numbers
and at low prices. 1t turns out that
they have not shot them, but that the
animals have been frozen to death.
The Indians prod around in the snow
for them and pick them up by the
score frozen hard as stone. A hunter
says that he-snw hundreds of the little
fellows huddled together in Kings
Canyon just after the blizzard: and
was surprised. that they should allow
him to approach without stirring. He
blazed away into the bunch, but the
rabbits did not run, and when he came
up to them he found that they were ell
frozen sta.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1899-08-05
POPULAR SCIENCE

A mechanical device recently pat
oted pastes paper labels on 100000
ms in ten hours. ~ Z
The eity,pf Santa Fe, New Mexico
without rats, mice and cats, as tho
Iir is too rayefcd for those animals.
tits estimated that greater Quanti-
lies OF gold apd silver have been sunk
n the sea than are now in circulation
IN the whole world, 81 s.. .g.rs.
DR.. B. Kossmann, Of Charlotten-
berg, Germany, has secured a patent
rom the Imperial Government covering
! rust preventing paint composed OF
;he peroxides of earths of the cerium
group. e.
The tanners, of Newark, N. j., ore
said to get more money out of hide
than anywhere else. Three, and some
times four, splits nre made and fin
shed. It is estimated that SIG is
realized per hide and the yearly bust
ness done amounts to $40, 1000.
1t has been calculated that the hair
Of the beard grows at the rate of one
and half lines o week. This will
give length Of 6! inchesin the course
Of year. For a man eighty years OF
age no less than twenty-seven feet Of
beard must have fallen before the edge
Of the razor
Through tho gift of Mrs. Charles
Pratt, the Pratt Institute, Of Brook
Ign, N. Y, has come into possession
of 1000 examples of textiles, ranging
over several centuries of European and
Oriental manufacture. The. collection
was purchased from SiSnor Salvador,
of Florence, Italy, by whom it was
collected, and, it is said, cannot be
duplicated.
At Lynn, Mass, there is now in
practical operation a new cotton gin
which is attracting much attention.
This is roll gin, no revolving saws
being used which cut the fibre, the
seed being forced ont by q scraping
blade close to the roller. In recent
trial o long staple lint run through
this machine was declared to be worth
Is! cents % pound against six cents a
pound when run through the old style
| gin,
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1899-08-05
WAR DEPARTMENT GROCERIES.
What !They Are and How They Are
e. Purchased.

What !They Are and How They Are
b. Purchased.
The War Department maintains o
number of grocery shops in various
parts of the country. There is one in
New York City, another in Chicago,
another in Boston, another npzSt.
Louis, another in San Francisco and
SO on oil over the United'States. They
are kept up for the purpose of fur
nishing supplies to officers and enlist
ed men in different sections. In this
way much expense for transportation
is avoided. At every army post there
is such grocery store, as a rule under
charge of commissary. All the com
missaries are under the direction OF
the Commissary General of the army.
The army grocery store furnishes
groceries to any officers and soldiers
who wish to take advantage of the
cheap rates at which goods OF this
kind are offered by the Government.
Everything is sold at the lowest rates,
the goods being purchased by the
Government, not in open market,
wholesale, but under contract from the
lowest bidders. Flour, for example,
worth S. o barrel, comes at $500.
There ore no bad debts, officers being
obliged to square up monthly, while
enlisted men must pay cash.
In the wars Of the future far more
attention will be paid to the material
comforts of the soldiers than has been
the case in past conflicts, They will
have such surgical care, with improved
instruments and germ-killing process
ses, as to make the percentage of
deaths from wounds little above ono
halfwhatit has been hitherto. Health
full conditions of living for the troops
will be deemed of primo Importance
from the military point of view; and
whatever can be accomplished toward
making the diet Of the fighting men
more palatable, more varied and more
digestible, will be done, regardless of
expense. Science has taken hold of
warfare and though war itself is con-
fessed survival of barbarism, it is to
be conducted in the future according
to enlightened and humane methods.
st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1899-08-05
Corrosive Power of Pure Water.

The corrosive power of pure water
on new or unsealed boilers was well
illustrated in the City of Glasgow,
when new water supply was intro
duced from Loeb Katrine, one of the
purest waters in the world which are
available for city consumption. The
former supply had been poor and cal
careous and old boilers were much
coated with lime scale. To the dismay
of tho users, those who had put in
new boilers or new tubes found them
rapidly corroding, while the old scaled
and coated boilers remained as before;
those, too, who had removed every
possible trace Of old incrustation from
their old boilers by mechanical or
chemical means, intending thus to get,
as they expected, the full benefit OF
pure water, were also badly troubled
by corrosion, and even tho old boilers,
as the scale was gEadually removed by
the unvarying soft and pure water
from the lake, were more or less cor
roded when no means were taken to
prevent it.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1899-08-05
A(keligious Life NJ h.

Dews and showers and sunlIsh, y.
complish in the zatural word - ~ "
the grace Of God does in the relI,,.ai
life Of the family and home ~,
great blessing in favor CT child. xa.,
the Lord plants 1t in the bosom !, /
pious household. A religious fam,,v !.
a blessing to itself and all its rs, :
bers, and its reflex influence reachal
far abroad. The world and the churss|
is benefited when the power Of n.
Christian religion rules in the hon.
life Of the family. :,
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1899-08-05
Mrs. Col. Richardson
SAVED BY MRS. PINKHAM.
LETTER TO MRS. rrKKHAx NO. za,so6l


"You have saved my life, snatched
me from the brink of the grave almost
and I wish to thank you. About eigh,
teen months ago ! was o total wreck,
physically. l had been troubled with
leuccsrhea for some time, but had given
hardly any attention to the trouble.
cat last inflammation of the womb
and ovaries resulted and then ] sui.
fered agonies, had to give UP my pso.
tession (,nusiciun and piano playerL
was confined to my bed and life became
q terrible cross. lily husband sum.
moned the best physicians, but Their
benefit was but temporary at best. I
believe I should have contracted the
morphine habit under their care, If my
common sense had not interviewed.
Zone day my husband noticed the ad.
vertisement Of your remedies and i'm.
mediately bought me q full trial. Soon
the pain in my ovaries was gone. lam
now well, strong and robust, walk,
ride wheel, and feel like a girl in her
teens. would not be without Lydia
Z. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound; 10
Is like water Of life to me. l am very
gratefully and sincerely your we'll
wisher, and l heartily recommend your
remedies. Ihope some poor creature
may be helped to health By reading my
story. "-MRs. Coz. E. p. RICHARDSON,
REINELANpER, WIS. M
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1899-08-05
Living Clcso &c ChrisA

The clouds that for us 'nortals haunt
the land of Righteousness ans truth
may long hang so thick and low that
living close to Christ the soul may
still fail to see Him; but some day
certainly the fog shall rise, the cloud
shall scatter, and, in the perfect en-
iightenment of the outer iifs the soul
shall see Its Lord and be thankful for
every darkest step that 1t took towards
Him here.-Phillipps Brooks
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1899-08-05
Sympathy.

God pities the poor sinner. Pity 4
what is given by the superior to ths
inferior. This is what comes from
lofty plane to the man on the low
plane. 1t was not SO with Jesus Christ
He did not simply pity the poor sin.
ncr while he remained in heaven, but
he came down to earth and gave the
sinner sympathy. Sympathy Is what
we give when we place ourselves in thu
place occupied by the one with whom
we sympathize.-Rev. W. W. Landrun
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1899-08-05
Facing to-1norrow's trials Ii turning
our back on to-day's duties.
nut1 O, Church Membership.

The duty of church membership IS
plain, and Is an obligation Of gratitude
and love and life service. The Joy OF
1t Is the Joy of pardon and peace and
hope of glory; the Joy Of salvation ana
loving devotion. To confess Christ be-
fore men in His church should be the
very first desire of a new disciple. The
church is His spiritual homo and
Christians are its brethren, and Its
work Is Christ service.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1899-08-05
prnrressire Fish PronacntIon.

The yearly report OF United States
Fish Commissioner John J. Bricq
shows that 100, 100000 of goldfish eggs
were collected, from which 98,000,0O0
of cod fry were liberated on the
natural spawning grounds along the
coast of Massachusetts,. This was OH
excess over the previous year of about
4O,O00,O00. OF winter founders the
output was over 64, 100000 Of fry from
about so, 90, 900 Of spawn. The work
of propagatiuS Holsters has been
largely extended, and, although there
was poor catch Of females with eggs,
over 1913, 900, 900 of spawn was secured,
from which wera produced over l15,-
600, 900 Of fry, on increase of 20,OO0,-
900 over the output OF the previous
year. OF shad spawn over 203, 900, 900
were secured, some 100000 more
than during the previous year. o.
whitelish the take Of eggs was 20O,-
900, 600; of lake trout, 100000; Of
Atlantic salmon. 2S,0O0,OOO; of land
locked salmon, 100000; Of quinnat
salmon, 100000, and season for
these had not ended when the report
was compiled. To test the probable
value of the quinnat salmon in Eastern
waters 100000 Of fry were liberated
last spring in the st. Lawrence, Hud
son, and Delaware Rivers in New York,
and in tho Indian and Penobscot
Rivers in Maine, and 100000 were
held to be liberated when yearlings in
the Penobscot. 81. -s..,...,s.s
- Henry Georges Reply. Il
The,late Henry George, after his ad-
dresses on the land tax theory, always
invited his hearers to ask questions.
which he delighted in answering. In
1888, after lecture at Howard Uni
versity in Washington, o Western Con-
gressman, accepting the invitation,
said: s1. r.'..7 gst'-f Gr.tf y
CATER all, Mr.. George, you advocate
@ system of confsoation Of property.
If Ishould take wild land and culti-
vate and beautify it, I would have won
uudisputed, titletos the land itself, and
you should recognize, my proprietor
ship in it"
This sally won loud applause from
the audience, but the applause was
deafening when Mr.. George had flung
back this reply: Co.,"
81 thought 1 had explained that all
improvements ought by rightto belong
to the improver. On that we agree.
I go farther. All that you produce
outof the land by your labor should
belong to you. If 7 should see you
sitting on the seashore fishing and
should see you catch large fish, or,
in other words, bring forth Or produce
that fish, I should maintain your right
to it as your property, to use, to sell,
to giveor bequeath but I'll be hanged,
sir, if I'll agree that you own the
ocean from which you. produce that
fish. Land stands in the Same reTa-
ton to man. "--Springfeld Republic
can.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1899-08-05
Pred:ca,nent of Sponge Ped,ers.

Spongepedlers, travelling on foot and
covered front, flank aud rear With
futtering strings of sponges, are doing
sections Of Maine. They present a
grotosquayop2eagancs, aatt are good
mark for al rural caniues. They gel
on very we'll in fair weather, but when
trains they have to hustle for cove!
with ell the speed they can attain.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1899-08-05
-r,enr Conscience and bravery.

How bravely a man can walk tho
earth, bear, the heaviest burdens, per-
form the severest duties, and look all
men in the face IL be. only bears within
his breast clear conscience. Eoid OF
cffense. There is no spring, no In
spiration like thls-to feel that we have
omitted no tasl, and left no obligation
undischarged. This fills the heart with
satisfaction and the sou! with strength.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1899-08-05

Clean blood means a clean skin. No
beauty without it. Cascarets, Candy Cathar.
tic clean your blood and keep it clean, by
stirring up the lazy liver and driving all i'm.
purities from the body: Begin to-day to
Danish pimples, boils, blotchcs, blackheads,
and that sickly bilious complexion by taking
Cascarets, -beauty for ten cents. All drug
gists, satisfaction guaranteed. l0c. Csc. Soc.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1899-08-05
Gratitude.

1t is a pleasant sight to see any
body thanking God, for the air Is
heavy with the hum of murmsring and
the roads are dusty with complaints
and lamentations.-C. II. Spurgeon.