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4 Col Head.

When Mr.. John Clark, (aftter-
wards Lord Eidiu,,) was admitted
to the bar, he was remarkable for
the SGmgJr0jd with which he treat
ed the judges. On one occasion
ajunior counsel, on hearing their
lOrdships give Judgment against
his client, exclaimed that he
was surprised at snch a deeiS-
ion" This was construed into a
contempt of court, and he was
ordered to attend the bar next
morning. Fearful of the conse-
quences, he consulted his friend,
John Clark, who told him to be
perfectly at ease, for he would
apologize for him in way that
would avert any unpleasant result.
Accordingly when the name of
the delinquent was called, John
Clark arose, and coolly addressed
the assembled tribunal; 81 ami
very sorry, my lords, that my
young friend has so far forgotten
himself as to treat your honorable
bench with disrespect; he is ex-
tremely penetent, and you will
kindly ascribe his unintentional
insult to his ignorance; you must
!. see at once that it did originate
in that. He said that he was
surprised at the decision of your
lordships. Now, if he had not
been very ignorant of what takes
place in this court every day-had
he known you half so long as /
have d0ne-he would not be sur
prised at anything you did,
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Carrying Concealed Weapons,

The bill before the Legislature
at present which regulates the
carrying of concealed weapons,
and which infiicts a punishment
OF not less than five nor more
than ten years Imprisonment on
any one found guilty of having
concealed on his person certain
weapons which are designated in
the bill, is a measure clearly,
though not, perhaps, Intentionally,
in the interest Of the criminal
classes. The custom of carrying
arms for seif-defenSe which the
present unprotected condition of
the orderly classes absolutely
renders necessary in a city con-
tanning more than thirty thousand
resident criminals, is no doubt one
OF the reasons why highway rob-
berries are not of hourly occurrence
even in our most pOpulous thor
oughfareS. The passage of the
bill in question would disarm all
qniet and law. abiding citizens, but
would not in any way affect those
who habitually live by crime and
disregard all laws. The intention
of the proposer Of the bill referred
to, was, no doubt, to protect the
good against the bad clements of
society, although the least reflec-
ton would show that it would
have the very opposite effect, and
place the lawabiding at the mercy
of the lawless. Disarm honest
men by such a law as that pro-
proposed, and the thirty thousand
criminals who are banded togeth
er in secret organizations, and
governed by one spirit would
very soon be in possession Of all
the movable wealth of the city,
in spite of the few struggling
policemen who are seen at long
intervals, many of whom invaria,
bly, keep out of the way of the
way of the enemies of society,"
n. Y. News.
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PROSE- ECguS.
The Country Gentleman.
VOLUME FOR 1873.


THE CULTGvAToR & COUNTRY Gentle.
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The Glorious Uncertainty Of Medi-
CT Evidence.

Accordingly to the testimony
addEced at the Wharton trial it
you'd be next to Impossible to
establish a charge of poisoning,
even when a deadly agent is dis
covered, by means of chemical
tests, in the body of the victim
of the pOisOner. DR.. Reese, a dis
tinguiShed physician and chemist,
in his evidence in the latter capac-
ity, made this fact apparent, and
by his evidence as a pathologist,
fully proved what is made a fun
damental principle of medical
practices by large and increasing
sect of practitioners, that the
symptoms arising from tn eeffects
of the poisonous doses of medical
agents correspond in every in
stance with the assemblage of
symptoms characteristics of some
pathological condition. Every
person, therefore, who takes a
deadly poison may be, and is,
as every one knows, liable to be
treated fora disease characterized
by the very same signs as would
indicate poisoning. This, We
think, was exemplitied in the MI
merous fatal experiments which
Mrs. Sherman tried on her OWL
childred and on various connect
ions whom she found in her way
Her favOrite toxic agent was arse
mic, which in its action on the
human system Stimulates inflam
nation Of the stomach and bowel.
produced by ordinary causes o
disease. The physicians summon
ed to render their professional
services in those cases treaties
them as if their origin was purely
pathological, and not poisonous
and the patients of course, died
as doubtless thousands Of patient
; die every year, and in create
numbers now when bad men ant
women, for malice, revenge o
profit, have made toXicOlogy
study, and employ poiSons as tn
swiftest and least easily detectet
= means of removing troublesom
domestic barriers to pleasure o
fortune.
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a solicitor who was recently
by a prominent life insu-
rance firm, returned to the office
of his employers the other day
complained that he had been
snubbed by a gentleman on whom
he had called. "Snubbed," cried
the manager, "snubbed7 Why,
what did you do that he should
have snubbed you? 1 have So
licited life insurance from the At
lantic to Mississippi, and have
never yet been snubbed. l have
been kicked down stairs, beaten
over the head with chairs, and
thrown out of the window, but
Snubbed 1 never have been.7 The
solicitor is driving a coal wagon
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-02-22

A recent wedding in COnnecti-
cut, when the minister called
upon any one who knew of "any
just cause why this man and wo-
man should no be-" etc., happened
to look searchingIy at nervous
young man sitting in front of him
who jumped iup and exclaimed,
"Oh, no, none in the least-not at
abby no means !" and then sud
denly subsidized, amid the laughter
of the audience.
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Live-Torever Theirs.

Twenty one years ago and up
ward, when LOnis Napoleon
usurped the Government Of
France, among those who were
was N. Theirs. lie wa5
in a state of great fright and con
at the time, Jut soon
recovered from it, beng treated
with the greatest lenicncy 10y
Napoleon, and escaped at last
with only few days detention.
Although then an old man, much
further advanced in life than Ma
poleon, he lived to see the end of
his long life and to become his
successor in power. What a re-
markable man! He witnessed
the glOrieS and the overthrow of
the first Empire. He saw the
restoration OF the Bourbons and
the entrance of the allied mon
archs into Paris. He was the
Prime Minister and moving spirit
a large portion of the eighteen
years reign of Louis Philippe. 1t
was owing to his advice and his
policy that the remains of Napo-
leon /. were brought back from
st. Helena in 1910. He wrote
the best history of first Empire,
and successor of the second. He
has seen, in the course of his al!
most fOnr-scOre years, no less than
eight or ten Governments rise
and fall. The political endurance
of Theirs is wonderful, and almost
without parallel. Several year,
ago he earnestly begged the Em
peror TO consent TO the removal O
the remains of ex-King Loui:
Philippe from England, wher,
they then reposed, to Paris, wher,
they might be inferred with hi
royal ancestors. The Emperor
fearing political consequence
from the revival of the Orlean
feeling, declined. He littl
thought that he was soon to fo
low in the footsteps Of the e1
king, and like him, to die OF
English soil. When the politica
passions of the day have subside,
the remains Of both will, we pre-
sumo, be removed to Paris. Loui
Napoleon, we believe, left a plac
for himself in the magnificeu
tomb which he prepared for hi
uncle at st. Denis-a tomb whic
cost over S12,OOO,OOO.
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a Ro-al Curiosity.


This pen picture of kamehameha
of the Sandwich Islands, by Mark
Twain, is certainly not tiattering.
The late King was frequently on
hand in the royal pew in the Roy
al Hawaiian Reformed Catholic
Curch, on Sundays; but whenever
he got into trouble he did not fly
to the crcsss for help-he flew to
the heather gods OF his ancestors.
Now this was a man who would
write you a beautiful letter i'll a
faultloss hand, and word it in
faultless English; and perhaps
throw in a few graceful classic ai-
lusions; and perhaps few hyapp
references to science, interna
tional law. or the worlds political
history; or he would array him
self in elegant evening dress and
entertain you at his board in
princely style, and converse like
a born Christian gentleman; and
day after day he would work ike
a beaver in affairs of State, and
on occasions exchange autograph
letters with the kings and empe-
rors Of the old world. And the
very next week, business being
over, he would retire to a cluster
of dismal little Straw-thatcled na'
tive huts by the seaShOre, and
there for a fortnight he would
turn himself into a heather whom
you conld not tell from his savage
grandfather He would reduce
his dress to a breech clout, ill
himself daily full of whisky, anC
sit with certain of his cOncubines
while others danced the peculia,
hula-hula. And if oppressed b!
great responsibilities he would
summon one of his familiars, al
ancient witch, and ask her to tel
him the opinion and the CON
mands of the heather gods, an,
these commands he would obey
He was so superstitious that h
would not step over a line draw
across a road, but would wal
around it. These matters wer
common talk in the islands.
never saw this king but once, an,
then he was not Oh his periodic;
debauch. He was in evenin
dress attending the funeral of hi
sister, and had a yard of Grape d.
pending from his stOvepipe hat.
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.'Doyou so to school now, Char
liei' Eyes sir; Ihad fight to-
day, too" 'You had? Which
whippedi" "Oh I got whipped
he replied, with great frankness.
'Was the other boy bigger than
your No, he waslittler." "Well,
how came you to let hitler boy
whip you9" ''Oh! you see he was
madden nor | vast!
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The other Sunday morning a
stranger entered Christ church
at Indianapolis, and there being
no usher just at hand, was per-
mitted to occupy a standing posi-
ton for a moment or two. At
length he was approached by one
of the brethren, when he inquired,
"What church is this9 "Christ
church, sir" ais he in?" The
stranger was led to conclude that
he was in from the fact that he
was Immediately shown to a seat.
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The day of Marriaqe.

There is something so different in the
concerns of that day from all others, that
few men and women ever forget it. 1t is
the day of responsibilities; and you have
taken them for better or worse. Upon that
day You promise TO be the all in all TO one
woman; TO love, honor, cherish. and protect
her; TO cleave to her and to no other You
madam, have said you love, honor and obev
your husband These promises mean u
Thousand things more than they seem.
They contain within them of all happiness.
love, peace and cOntentment for one or
both human beings; two eternal souls!
They are mutual pledges made before hsav-
en-, eemented by the fire of Z prOfessed de
yOtiOnal love. The words are enameled
upon the heart by the fervency of n true
affection. VIII these self imposed pleiC
es, received by witnesses, ever be broken!
viii this record, made in heaven ever have
across its fair pages the blot of Inconsistency.
The day of marriage Is usually one
fraught with bright hopes and high eXpcc-
tatIOns. Ii is day of all others that the
welded pair are joyous, gay and contented
with lite. 1t Is day new to every welded
pair who considered the relations they have
taken npOn themselves and the respOsibili
ties they have assumed Upon that day
they Lave agreed mutually to with draw
themselves from relations they NAV have
held to OthJrS, and TO forever fOrsake every
other while they both live. The obligations
of the day are thousand times more
weighty than one in a Thousand ever stop to
consider. The pretty face, the lovely form,
or some witching charm, may have led
you co the promises of this day if yon are
true men and women, You will forever hold
these obligations sacred and binding When
the cares of life and the disturbances of
business have shown some trait of weak
ness in the character of the other. there
should be no gatherings, no regrets, that
the relations were assumed upon the we'd
ding day. 1t is lamentable 20 behold the
little responsibility that is felt by both men
and women when pledging their all TO one
nnnfhnr rIlnlrin dar
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OF the many ben 1aOtS Of the
late Napoleon, now revived, are
two of Journalism, embodying
much shrewdneSs. On one occa-
sion, the proprietor of an influ
entail England newspaper sought
a subsidy from him as an advo-
cate of his policy. The the app!i
cant he replied: This, sir, is
the difficult: 1t is useless to
subSidize an English journal that
has no influence, and 1 know that
an English journal which re
ceives a subsidy loses its influ
ence." Once an EngliShman, who
had been presented, suggested
to the Emperor that free press
in France would be a good thing
and that the English press law
should be adopted by the Empire.
"Had l English editors and Eng
lish readers, l should do so,r re-
piled the sagacious monarch.
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An Iowa paper administers
''cold comfort" to its brethren in
Minnesota by publishing the fol-
lowing:
a country paper wants to know
who Swindled the Indians out of
'.such an Internal cold country as
Minnesota is, and who deluded
the white people into it
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Since the clergy have held
special prayers for the benefit of
the press the Chicago Times sug-
gcSts that editors unite in suppli-
cation for the diffusion of intelli-
gence and morality among the
clergy.
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Moltke has a light and transpar-
ent complexion, a clear blue eye,
tia1en hair, white eyebrows and
no beard, and except when bis
face is clearly Seen makes one
think he is bow.
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Why is a prima donna Ike a
jeweler? Because she NAV be
called a dealer in precious (s)tones.
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A Card.

TO NY PATRONS IN GRAND ECORE AND
ALEXANDRIA TRADE.
TIE EXTREME LOW WATER IN
Red River has prevented and does
prevent nv Offering accustomed facili-
ties lsay weekly trips) for the transac-
ton of your business. I have endeav-
ored, by employing the very lisltest
draft boats, to afford you regular week
" communication with New Orleans.
Experience demonstrates that, with the
difficulties of navigation in this low
water. regular weekly trips cannot be
maintained, and as you may deem
prices charged by transient boats to be
80 excessive, I respectfully announce
that ! have from this date no coDnec-
ton whatever with any boats except
tbe B. L. HODGENo. 2, D. L. TALLY
and RAPlDES, who will resume their
regular trips as soon as, navigation
opens, 10 their respective trades, and
carry freight at rates to satisfy all con-
cerned. Yours respectfully, p"
JOHN HAEBERLE.
Dec. 1s-lm. '.'I- '7I6 '7'' ,''
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- Go TO the Ball of the Hooks.

A SwAAlPvILLE PEDAGOGUE.--A gentle
man from Swampville was telling how
many different occupations he had at
tempted Among others he had tried
school-teachi"g.
"How long did you te;,ch?" asked by
Islander.
"Wa'al, I didn't teach lonssthis is, I
only went to teach"
'Did you hire out?'
"Wa'al. l didn't hire out-I only went
to hire out"
"W6y did you give up?"
"Wa'al, give it up Tor some reason or
nuther. You see Itraveled in deestrict.
and inquired for the trustees. Somebody
said Mr. Snickles was the man / wanted to
see. So found Mr. Snickles, named nv
object, introducing myself. d asked
what he thought about lettin' me try my
luck with the big boys and unruly girls in
in the deestrict. He wanted to know if [
raarly considered myself capable, and I
told him wouldn't mind his asking me o
few easy questions in 'rithnetie Or jogra-
ply, OF showing my handwriting. He
said no, never mind, he could tell a good
teacher by his gait. Let me see you walk
off little ways says he, aud can tell
Ijis's wells I heard you examined says he.
He sot in the door as as he spnke, and I
thought he looked little skittish. But I
was consid'rabl frustrated, and didn't
mind much; so turned abont ann walked
OH as smart as l knowed how. He said
he'd tell me when to stop, SO l KEEP on till
thought I'd gone far enough. Then
'spccted suthing was to pay. and | looked
around. Wa'al, the door was shet aud
Snickles was gone. es A'!, - <