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THEATER DOORKEEPERS. Petted Misanthropy at the Stage Entrance and Pestered Urbanity In Front. There are theater doorkeepers and theater doorkeepers, and the para' dox which is remarked among them i is this-that whereas the stage door keeper, who is the continuous recip ient of smiles and gratuities, who is cheerfully saluted and whose health is cordially inquired after by the di vinities of the stage and their satol lites, is usually a crusty and disa greeable individual, the front door keeper, who stands as a bulwark against intruders and is harassed and perplexed by their importunLi ties, is usually a cheerful and affa ble personage and may be seen, when off duty, mingling in the friendly bowl or participating in the wassail cup. It is a tradition in nearlyall thea tors that the stage doorkeeper should be a man who at some time or other has had some direct connection with a playhouse. He is usually an actor who has either voluntarily with drawn from the stage or reluctantly retired from it by reason of the fail uro of those who witnessed his por formances to appreciate them at his own high valuation. He is usually a disappointed individual who lives in the congenial atmosphere of the past and regards all newcomers as objectionable upstarts to be toler ated if need be, but under no cir cumstances to be encouraged in the belief that they are fit to rank with his own peers and contemporaries. The ravishing smiles of the leading lady or the hearty salutations of the leading man are lost upon the stage doorkeeper. Notwitlhtanding the faeof that he has very few titles to popularity, he enjoys a certain distinction among writers of sentimental songs, by whom he is represented as a person age of much benevolence and philos ophy, with a heart as big as a Wa terbury clock and a purse which is always open to the needy and undo serving. hand, is a man usually drawn from the walks of 'commercial life and having no sympathy or connection wit the stage or its people. He is selected on account of his' urbanity and forbearance, and there are scores of applicants, as he knows, for any vacancy which may. occur in his place. It is for this reason that he is careful to give as little offense as possible to the patrons of the thea ter. The pay visitors give him very much less trouble than the persist ent seekers after deadhead tickets, who, until worsted by a vigilant and courageous opponent at the theater gate, swarm over the lobby and re turn repeatedly to the attack. The front doorkeeper in a theater enjoys no celebrity among prose or lyric writers. He is not the subject of pa. thetio recitations, and he is not point ed out as one of the curiosities of the city. Quite the contrary, ho is generally regarded as a necessary evil, and the less said in his defense the better it is usually considered. With the practical abandonment of resident stock companies at the leading theaters up town, the prom inence of the stage doorkeeper has to some extent been eclipsed, for he can no longer tell with much gusto and many monotonous details how the leading members of a company, such as Mr. Wallaok's, for instance, would not appear on the stage ex cept after the formality of inquiring how his wealth was, and how, in the event of his absonce, the curtain could not be raised unless he had conveyed his consent to permit such a seeming denial of the necessity of his prosenco.-Now York Sun. Quick Cure. "Talk about your faith cure," said the man on the end seat. " 'Tain't nothin alongside o' what happened up to Si Stover's house only yester day. You see, Si's wife was took awful bad, and they thought she was dyin suee. So they got Si to go for the doctor. When they told him to hurry, he said: 'All right, I'll get him fast enough, but as I've got to go by the shoemaker's Imay as well drop in and see if my shoes are done, and perhaps I'd better call and see how the WVidder Stomes does. Have not seen her for a day or two, and' "Before he could got any further his wife raised up from her bed and said: "'You needn't mind about seein any doctor for me. I guess I'm all right now.' "And so she was. She got up and has been as well, if not better, than ever she was over since. But sihe does occasionally give Si a look that makes him shiver and get out o' the house as soon as he can."-Boston Transcript. A Lawye's Scheme. A gentleman once askedl a lawyer' what he would do provided he had loaned a man $500l and the man had left the country without sending any acknowledgments. "Why, t6at's simple. Just write him to send an acknowledgment for the $5,'00 you lent him, and he will doubtless eply stating it was only $500. That will suiffice for a receipt, and you can proceed against him if ,ecessarv." Bucklen's Arnica Salve, The Best 'Salve in the world for Cuts, Briises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rhenar, Fever Sres, Tetter, Chapped lan Iuds, C!lilblains, Corns, and all Skin Ernptions, and posi tively cures Pzles, or no pay required. It is guaraniecd to give perfect satisfaction or wunc r refuaded. Price 95 "euts v'er brx. IFr sai by .Mrs. C Ge;ger, E lr: tLrag uturc. THE SULTAN AT DINNER. He Eats Alone and Spends $5,000 a Day on His Table. By far the most, extravagant din. er in the world is the sultan of :Turkey. His table expenses foot up to $5,000 a day, or $1,825,000 a year. It is the most expensive table and household in all probability that any country has ever seen. The old Ro mans used to spend vast sums on single meals, the equivalent of $50, 000 being a drop in the bucket when their emperors used to dine foreign potentates, but the sultan expends all this money on himself. He is not a sociable man and very rarely has guests or visitors. le does not even have a dining room or dining hall. Turkish cus tom among the higher classes is for servants to bring the meals to wher ever the diners may be, and in the palace of Stamboul the menials at the dinner hour first search out his majesty and then in long procession bring the banquet, table and all. The table is a silver one and per. hops the most exquisite table that has ever been made. It precedes the procession, borne in upon the ihoul ders of lower grade servants. Fol lowing come a long line of jubla kiars, who are cook's assistants. On the heads of these orientals are large tablets on which the platters are placed. Such a perfect balance do the jublakiars keep that an accident, the breaking of a dish, has never been known. The waiters (sofiadgis) lift the platters from the tablets and pre sent each dish to his majesty, bowing low. The dishes are covered and sealed wth the imperial seal, whidh is put on in the kitchen by the grand vizier, the idea being that the sultan may be cortain that his food has not been poisoned or tampered with. All at once the dishes are set upon the table, vegetables, meats, ices and confitures being arranged in front of his royal highness without any regard to courses or ordinary dinner regulations. The whole re past is before his majesty. He runs his eye over the many viands. Then he picks and chooses, eating the whole simultaneously, a pick here and a bite there, a mouthful of meat, a spoonful of ice, a sweet cake and a tiny ball of fish. It all seems strange to a man who finishes his soup before he tackles anything else, but the sultan seems to enjoy it. He is a total abstainer, and never has wine set on the table at any time. At. state dinners the people that get a chance to drink the rare vintages provided are those seated at other than the imperial board.-New York World. Bad Books Help Dogeneration, To recommend degenerate books to neurotic or hysterical readers is not only to vaccinate but to inocu late them. There is here certainly a communication of the disease. An unhealthy imagination finds in the wild lubrications of the degenerates welcome nourishment and a pattern zealously to be imitated. Every dor mant inclination is awakened and monstrously developed by this sort of reading. Far from causing a sat isfaction of these morbid tendencies that shall no longer seek perpetua. tion in deeds, such reading only strengthens what becomes an im perative necessity to commit crime and immorality. I could cite dozens of cases from the criminal records of the past few years where thieves, housebreakers and murderers indicated that the primal conception of their misdeeds arose from the perusal of sensation. al novels in which malefactors were oxalted and their heroic deeds expa tiated upon with enthusiasm. I do not assert tlmt these individuals were made criminals by what they road. Their natures were perverse by birth and education. The propen. sity to crime was organic. But who can say that the perusal of immoral books was not the direct cause which governed their litent instincts, pro. ducing a well defined aim? Indeed the malefactors themselves believed this to be so. Could I but relate the moral devastations traceable.to the reading of Nietzsche and Ibsen which I have seen in actual lifel Max Nordau in Forum. About Benedlietlne. The liquor has been distilled since 1510, when a monk invented it. It was used by the Benedictines of those days as a medicine and stimulant, and its populatity dates from the time when Francis I showed his ap. preciation of the cordial by creating the abbot a cardinal. The bottles are oorked; labeled and sealed by the young girls of the orphanage of the sisters of St. Vincent de Paul. Businesslike. Here lies Jane White, wife of Tlhomas White, stone mason. This monument was put up out of respeot for her memory and as a specimen of his workmanship. Tombs in tihe same style, £50.--London Tit-Bits. A Diferent Experience. Abbott-4 have never been in Chi cagoebut I have bean through the town a few times. Babbitt-I have been in Chicago, but the; town went through me. Indianabolis Journal. DR. S. H. RUSHING, ALEXANDRIA, ZA. 7I Residence on Fourth and W.ash iiigten streets. Office and Hospital on Fourth anid DeSoto streets. Su~geon for the Texas & Paciic and Houston, Central Arkansas and Nortlhern Rlironal Comnpaies. All will I lmi pltly- 'iredl for upon RUSSIAN NATIONAL DRESS. It Is the Most Beautiful and Pictaresqae of Any In Europe. It is well known that of all Euro pean national costumes those of the Russians are the most beautiful and picturesque. The sarafan, the wom an's gown, is still worn by the em press of Russia and her ladies at court receptions and could not. be equaled in beauty by any modern gown. Unfortunately the national costume is now being replaced even among the peasantry by the use of factory products, which are cheaply produced, cheaply bought and soon worn out and replaced by new ones. Formerly a handsome holiday cos- 3E tume was a possession to be prized and would often be handed down from mother to daughter and some. times descend to the grandchildren. Neither labor nor expense was spar ed on these costumes. They were things of beauty, and as the fash ions did not change the joy they gave was permanient. Some of these costumes are still in the possession of distinguished families, who long ago ceased to wear the national dress. Many of them have been do nated to museums, where, in the ethnological department, artistically -executed manikins can be seen, the work of real artists, dressed in ex quisite ancient costumes. The pres ent empress dowager has given sev eral coihplote costumes to the Dash koff museum in Moscow. Among the peasants who still wear the national dress the older costumes are handsomer and richer than the modern ones. The style -f dress is not the same in all parts of Russia. It differs not only in the several provinces (governments),but there are often three or four differ ent styles in the different parts of the same province. In the main features, however, the costumes re main the same and generally consist of the following articles for a wom an's dress: A linen chemise, or shirt; is worn next to the skin extending down to a little below the knee. The up. per part of it, with full sleeves, forms a kind of ohemisette and is generally embroidered in red or black or red and blue arranged in geometrical patterns. In holiday costumes the chemise is made of fine linen and the bottom is either em broidered or trimmed with fine lace. Over this is worn the sarafan, a sleeveless gown consisting of a skirt - almost reaching the ground and a bodice attached to it with straps across the shoulders. These sarafans are frequently made of fine woolen or silken material of beautiful colors I and handsomely trimmed with em broidery or gold and silver braid. An apron, also embroidered, is al ways worn with the sarafan. In the house a short sleeveless jacket is sometimes worn called dooshegreika (soul warmer). It is made of silk or velvet, embroidered and fur trim med. For outdoor use in cold weather a shooba, or fur lined coat, with long sleeves, is worn. It is provided with fur cuffs and collar. The coooshnick, -the headdresssof Russian women, is a very elaborate and handsome affair, in shape very much like a crown. It is made of gold or silver cloth and embroidered with pearls and precious stones in the costumes of the rich or with cheap finery, but still very bright, in those of the poorer classes. These headdresses are exceedingly becoming to the round, full faces of the Russian women and are worn principally by the maidens. The married women generally cover the cocoshnick with a silk kerchief. On the feet stock ings and leather shoes of different kinds are worn, sometimes maroon slippers embroidered with gold. Washington Times. A Membep of the Forces. "A good many amusing inoidents came out in our first examination of the police," says Colonel John W. Ela, the apostle of local civil service reform. "Irecallone incident which struck me as being particularly fun ny. We were putting one of the pa. trolmen through, and the big fellow Sfumed and fretted and perspired as if he were actually in the sweatbox. Atlast I asked him this question, 'What is a felony?' 1 "The poor fellow looked stunned for a moment or two, but finally there came an expression of return ing reason into his eyes, and in a triumphant tone he ansivered, 'A t'ing on the t'umb l' "-Chicago Reo. ord. The Englishman's Question. The latest story of the average Englishman's notion of the size of our country comes from Wakefield, where a visiting Briton mounted the observatory on the grounds of his host and surveyed the landscape o'er. The White mnountains were pointed out to him in the deep die. tance, and then he asked, "And which way from here are the Rocky mountains?" -Boston Transcript. Apprehensive. One Woman-If IthoughtI would e ever have hair as gray as Mrs. Bad ger's, I believe it would worry me to I death. Another-I am sure I should dye right off.-Philadelphia Record. M. C. MOSELEY, ATTORNEY - AT- LAW ALEXANDRIA, LA. iPraPctices in all clauses of cases in Sall the Courts of the parishes of Ranides, SGrant, Natchitoches, Avoyelles, Sabine, St. Landry, in the Supreme Couot of the State and in theFederal Courts. Otflue up stairs over A...Albert's store E TI- E 0 N - ·-- - --- - Fi T1 F< Si DEMOCRATJ A J H J F BI 81 IOFFLCEI L G D J, P C C D C D R JI Has a First-Class w al ai L G B H J L tI A ting for samples, prices, etc., be I cA -4 donewil co3sul thir on iter ests by allig uon u or n tingforsamles prces et., e. foregivig thir oderselse * where OFFICIAL DIRT CTORY. U. S. Senators. N C Blanchard term expiring on the 4th of March, 1897. Don Caffery, term expiring on the 4th of March, 1895. Representatives in Congress. First District.........Gen Adolph Meyer Second District..............M D Lagan Third Distrlet............Andrew Price Fourth District .......... H. W. Ogden Fifth District..............C J Boatner Sixth District........8 M Robertson State Oiceers. Murphy J Foster.............Governor -...........Lienut-Governor Thos S Adams........ Secretary of State Milton J Cunningham.t....Atty-General John Pickett............State Treasurer W W Heard.... Awlitor Public Accounts AD Lafargue....Supt Public Education J G Hawks...Commissioner Immigration H C Newsom...Commissioner Agriculture J S Lanier.... Register State Land Office W G Burt............ Adjutant General F Seip,..Senator 18th Senatorial District Baton Rouge Advocate .... State Printer Supreme Court. Francis T Nicholls.........Chief Justice New Orleans. ASSOCIATES. GA Breaux.....................Iberia Saml D McEnery .............Ouachita L B Watkins ................Red River H C Miller.................Orleans Parish Officers. Representatives. G W Bolton...... and.......S F Meeker District Judges Tenth Judicial District, Jas Andrews......and.........A V Coco P P lBrazeale.........District Attorney C L Ranadell ......Clerk District Court C M Kilpatrick ...........Deputy Clerk D T Stafford ...Sheriff and Tax Collector C J Bartow ....................Assessor Dr R L Luckett, Jr............Coroner R W Bringhurst ........Parish Surveyor ( R G Maddox ...........Pariah Treasurer JUDGES OOUAT OF APPEALS-3RD CIRCUIT: W F Blackman. ..and.. .Robert S Perry Terms of Court-Second Mondays in February and July. 'rERM8 OF COURT FOR RAPIDES PARISH : Civil Terms-First Mondays in Janu ary and May. Jury Terms-First Mondays in April and November. - POLICE JURY. W P Flower, Alexandria ......President L C Sanford ..................Clerk I George L Wilson ..............Lamourie W P Ford...................Cheneyville B H Randolph...............Spring Hill R M White ....................Calcasieu J H Sorelle .................Hinestou L M Texada ....................Cotile P H Davidson..............Rapides P O E J Hardtuner ............... Pineville T K Smith, Jr .................Rigolette CCHOOL BOARD. C A Schnack, Alexandria. .....President G O Watts Alexandria ..Supt and Secty ( R W Bringhurst..............Alexandris Samuel Blum............ .Cheneyvillo T Spence Smith................ VWeil PO samuel Mallette..........Babb's Brdge I 11 R Lawson.................. Elhutr N L Hathorn ..................Pineville - W W Brashear............... Ben Lewis .................... Welchton I J USTICES OF THE PEACE AND CON STABLES: Alexandria Ward Justices Peace-W W Whittington and 'A B Rachal. Constables-- M W Baillio and Chas S Duke. Cotile Ward Justices Peace-John Pawson, T D Henderson, ,T W SorreUe- and J D K Woodard: Constablos-J E Thomas, E H James, Eli Cleveland and J M Dutilho. Calcasien Ward- . Justices Peace-John Dixon and IV C Teal. Constalles-Henry Perkins and R W Glass. Lamourio Ward- Justices Peace--Robert Martin and Josiah Bruce. Constables--C F Goodwiu and A C Staftord. Chleneyvillo Ward Justices Peace-James A Wylie and J R Moore. Constablea--W S Roberts and N L Stewart. Rapides Waird Justice Peace-L C Sanford. Constable--R H Murphy, Rigolette Ward Justices Peace--E P Brown andB L Payune. Constables-Albert Brown and R G Teekel. Spring'Hill Ward Justices Peace-J B Dove (resigned) and John Evanse. Constables -B P Phillips, J D Dunn. Hiueston Ward Justices Peace-J L Whitehurst and H C Lyles. Constables--A G Ward and A J Gray. Pineville Wrrd Justices Peace-A A David and John A Newell. Constables-J J Duplissesy and Fra zier Scott. City Ofrcers. Thomas Crawley..... ,...........Mayor C C Swayze......Secretary and Assessor Jas T Flint.. ...................Treasurer John P. Groga&:............... Collector John C Ryaun..............City Attorney D)r RB 0 Simmons.... Pres't Board lealth J J Sullivau,....................Malrshal C S Duke ................Night Marshal COUNCILMEN. Chas Goldonberg.............First Ward Sam Warshasuer.....,.... Second Ward E J Sullivan..............Third Ward Dennis Kelly ..... ........eFourth Ward R W Bringhunrat..... ........Fifth Ward Couincil meets first Monday in eacl month. ALEXANDRIA POST OFFICE DIREC. TORLY. .Jonas Rosenthal............ Post Master Wni Maddpx,.......Asst " " Ollice hottis from 8 o'clock a m to 7 p m. Money order business closes at 4 p m. Regisitered Letters close at 5o'clock pm. DISTRICT MILB.. Hineston, six times a week. Leaves Alexandria at 11:30 a m; arrives at6 p m. Pineville, fourteen times a week. Leaves Alexandria at 11:30 am and 6p m. Arrives at Alexandria 10 a m and 4 p m. Poland, three times a week. Leaves g Alexandria Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sat Surdays at 6 am: returns same days 7 p m. Iatt, once a week. Leaves Alexandria I on Fridays at 6 am iand :retumsr same . day at 8:30 p m.. Kansas City, Watkins:& Gulf Railway e to Lake Charles and\intermediate post offices, dIsaily and return same day. E. ;SCHMALINgKt 8s& Manufacturers' - Agents -and - Dealer ianos, Organs and all , " SHEE1 MUSIC 10 CENTS PER COPY: Pianos, Conover, Kingsbury, Schubert,: Smith:& Co.,.Wing & Son.,IHam-' ilton Go*4on. ORGANS, CHICAGO COTTAGE . . Old Pianos taken in excbhiiged. rlay ' terms." L*esti Prices. Firont treet, Alba cl: EAGLE DRUG STORE: Jacob Geiger, Proprietor. Is selling at New Orleans prices in the Jobbing trade and offering special inducementa to re-buyeas. Iw The Stock consists in part as follows -. DRUGS, CHEMICALS, PAINTS, Choice Books, Tobacco and Cigars, Liquors for Medieo inal Purposes, Etc., LANDRETH'S . 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GASTON MESLIER, General Passenger and Ticket Agent, DALLAS, TEXAS. M. W. FLOWERS,. PRACTICAL WATCHMAKER Has opened next door to Western Union s Teolegraph otlice and will do all repairs in s his line. Braiding heir chains a special ty. Fine and complicated work prompt ly done. Main springs $1.00. Cleaning t $1.00 to $2.00 and other work proportion ately. Boss Grocery! 6.R -conna- Second and DeSoto Streets Moses Rosenthal. Best Family Groceries ALWAYS ox HAID Specialty. Made of Fine Cigars and Ti bacco; Fine Wines and Liquors. .-1 Goodsreeeived by every train, ims king everything nice and fresh. Prices to Sut the Times SOPYRIGHTS. noN & CO., wbo hMav bad enart eit " experence lathe atent bustnes. vomnaunl Uon sotl.ctly onldenta A Hasber or ! - formatloan oel Patents sun bow to oh. tainthem sent frebokso. a cesatalogue oft Sandi eclente book ent ftree. 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