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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-12-29
Moved by a Tale Of Misfortune.

A sharp game was, some time ago,
] played upon a cashier Of one OF the
leading banks in this city, the facts Of
which have but recently come to light
One morning in early spring, with the
iull influence OF budding and blossom
ing nature upon him, the cashier had
taken his seat behind his desk, when he
was approached by an attorney at-law,
whose countenance was sorrowful and
warned the experienced eye of the
hnancier Of an early application for
loan. He thereupon hardened his heart
and made up his mind to say no. Att
er greeting him in detected and sub
dued manner. the attorney began to
make known his business. With tears
IN his eyes the lawyer told him that the
death OF near relative, involving
heavy expense, and failure of remit
tances, as well as poor-paying clients,
had reduced him to the necessity Of
taking step which only dire ill-fortune
could reconcile him to. He wished q.
loan OF 800 for few days only, and
ne would offer as security q box Of
family plate and sundry heirlooms
which had been handed down from
generation to generation. He produced
a receipt signed by the Secretary Of
the Safe Deposit Company, showing
payment of storage fees for nearly
year in advance on a box containing
plate OF the value of $1,000. The
lawyer said to the cashier as be
wiped his fearful eyes, II put very
low value on this, for / am too poor TO
pay high storage rates. I never
thought that would come to this, but
l must. 1t is of no use. I'll paw the
loan in ten days, though [ am driven to
sell my wife's diamonds" The cashier
pitied the high-bred sorrow and feltfor
the scion of noble house in misfor-
tune, and then, thinking of the box Of
family plate. concluded to make the
loan. The key of the box was handed
over to him and the borrower, with
many profuse expressions of gratitudB.
walked out with the money in his
pocket. The note was placed in the
drawer and forgotten. A few months
elapsed and the bank changed its Off
GERS, and the incoming manager,
among other assets, discovered the
note with the family plate collateral.
He at once sent for the box, and, OPEN
ing 1t, discovered that its valuable con-
tents consisted of eighteen volumes 81
the Patent Office reports. about twenty
Old newspapers, q plated caster and
cake basket. all of which would sell for
about four dollars. The revelation
created much profanity on the part Of
the new management and q good joke
at the expense of the cashier, who had
been so nicely done for. Of course, %
tne borrower was man of no properly,
nothing could be done except to bear
the loss as philosophically as possible.
But the cashier. who has now retired,
has never heard the end of 1t, and ID
the bank q bad loan is spoken Of az
"family-plate loan. Washington ".
C.) Republican. sa
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-12-29
Shelter Saves Food:

Every keeper of animals would actin
ally profit by little study of chemistry
and physiology. Here is short lesson
All kinds of food, as hay. grain, bread,
meat. etc., are, like wood. mainly com.
posed of charcoal (carbon) and water.
with considerable nitrogen in some III
them. To prove this, strongly heat any
OF the above food materials In coal nit.
or better, under glass. Water, with
some nitrogen gas, will be driven off
and can be found in the glass receiver,
while only charcoal will remain. Let in
more air and the charcoal itself viii
unite with the oxygen of the atmos.
phere, and also go of as transparent.
invisible carbonic acid gas. This chem
zeal action sets at liberty heat that was
before concealed or insensible, the
same as when wood or coal is burned
rapidly IN stove producing an active
flre; or as when wood DECAYS, butgiyes
OH heat so slow as not to be observed.
Exactly the same thing occurs VIII en-
any food is dissolved (digested) in the
stomach OF animals or men, and is taken
into the blood and carried to all parts
OF the body. The blood gets oxygen
also from the air in the lungs and car
RES it all through the body. The atoms
of oxygen meet the atoms of dieested
food, here, there, and everywhere in
the blood vessels. The two unite lust
as they do in stove; heat is produced.
only minute quantity at any one point,
put great deal of it, taking the whole
blood circulation together, and so the
whole body is kept warm, though
heat is constantly escaping from the
whole outside surface. Nature pro-
yldes that the body shall always be kept
warm, otherwise it would quickly per-
ish; and SO il the oxygen in the blood
don't find food enough to keep up the
internal heat, it will attack and con.
sumo any fat or flesh stored in the BODY.
and thus make the animal poor.
We must have an ever-burnipo fire
IN both the animal and human system.
Ii the surrounding atmosphere is cold.
and carries off heat rapidly from the
surface OF the body, we must increase
the internal production of heat by put
ting in more food, or by surrounding
the body with a covering that will pre-.
vent the escape of much heat.
LIS it not plain then, that bv keepino
ANIMALS warm, by means of close build.
lnds, or shelter against heat-stealinp
winds, less food will be needed. and
there will be less waste of flesh in maxi
Ing heat? ANY arrangement of shelter.
cover. stable, shed, Understanding
that will prevent the natural warmth |
from passing away from the surface of
any animal-will be a great saving of |
food required to keep up the absolutely |
necessary internal life warmth; wifi |
prevent loss of flesh; will allow the food |
70 60 more to adding to weight Of |
nesh, or the yield of milk or of wool. |
and external warmth in cold |
weather are most economical and there |
tore profitable in the keeping of farm
s1oek' Anericas 4grieHVurist
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-12-29
The Future Of Canada.

The question of the future of Canada
is largely question of population.
Canada is not at present in position
to assume the risks and burdens OF ~
dependence, nor is the necessity OF sucn
a change greatly felt. When Canada
has a population of twelve or fifteen
millions of people. If the necessity
arose, it might then be in a position e
spend such sums on defense as migns
give it a reasonable hope of maintain
ing its position as an independent Sta1ei
II it could count on still having thrown
around it the agis of the parent colns
try, the problem of the means Of az
Tense would be more easily solved
Until, however, Canada reaches such,
position that it could not easily q
stricken down by any power, 1t wouIs
be madness to assume the burdens y
independence. st, Johns Telegraph
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-12-29
gor Auu,,g Readtrs.
MEETING OF THE BIRDs

Inc Dustry wind had called them all:
Inc pfrds arrived, the large, the small.
Inc owl, OF course, was chosen Judge:
lie stared around, but didn't bulge.
The robins, jays and mcadow-larks
Tot up to make few remarks:
Iney said the time had come to 60.
hed leaves and gold flew to and fro,
Inc sparrows then grew spiteful quite.
1ney thought it much too soon for flight:
But pluebirds longed for bluer skies
AND wrens thought this was very wise. es-
Inc blackbirds said their time was nm.
Int line berries gone, where should they supa
Inc Inc cat birds said they quite agreed.
Twas time the warning they Should heed.
The owl this question put: Say sAy,'
ihose who intend away to tiyP'| r.
All out the sparrows vote to go: g
1nese cheep most decided "Nop'
lis carried" said the owl: "adieur.
:. The birds cry: "Now for skies of bIue.~
"So! chirped the sparrows, "why this fuss;
Our home is good enough for us!''
George Cooper, in Our Little Ones.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-12-29
What Lieut.. Schwatka, the Arctic Elk.
plorer, Thinks Of the Lost Jeanette.

~ Lieutenant Schwatka, the Arctic ex-
plorer and commander of the successful
Franklin search expedition, is at the
Palace Hotel. He was asked last nioht
. oy Chronicle reporter what he thought
in regard to the fate of the Jeanette
party. He replied: s.It is, of course
merely conjecture with me. While [
must confess that the failure this year
to hear anything of them makes their
safety and return very much more dubi
GUS. l do not give them up by anv
means. think that the Jeanette
{ pushed on during the first season as far
north as possible, and probably reached
the Ferry archipelago, lying northwest
OF the American continent. presume
she went somewhere about Prince Pat
rick's Island, on the northeastern mart
or the group. Both Mcclure and
Perry reached that neighborhood. and
as she had favorable season and was
reaching for the Pole, have no doubt
she pushed that far north. She NAV have
pushed on to the Pole or through Baf-
nus Bay, and ultimately come out on
sAe Atlantic side. At any rate it is GER
tam she will not be heard of this wear.
Tor all avenues are closed there now
1t is not improbable that she is fast in
the ice somewhere about the Perry ISL
ands and may get out. If she does not,
don't think we shall ever see any of
her people again, because if crushed in
the ice they could hardly roach the
mouth of the Mackenzie River, which
would be their best channel of escape.
and If they had abandoned the vessel
fast in the ice without her being crushed
they would long ago have reached the
Mackenzie, or the natives near
it, and have been heard of. II
think that after searching Wrangel
Land and finding it worthless.
they pushed on towards Prince
Patrick's, and it is not unlikely that the
vessel is now fast in the ice somewhere
there. In that event they would prob
ably stay with the vessel in hopes of
getting her out while the provisions
lasted, because the chance of escape in
the vessel while she remained sound
would be much better than by such a
sledge journey as would be necessary.
Ii does not follow that she must have
got out in such case during such an |
open season as this if she ever could. |
what might seem to us an open season |
might have been one unfaVorable for
the extrication of the vessel, because
the winds may have been adverse and
driven the ice, as the warm season
broke it up, in pack upon the vessel. |
thus adding to her letters. | don't
think the Rodgers from her present DO
sltlon, has any chance of finding the
Jeanette next season. 1t is hard from
here to criticise justly an officer in the
Arctic. but it seems to me that the Rod
ger sonly chance of success in her search
was lost when she failed to take adj.
vantage of the open sea and push on
north from Wrangel. 1t is not likely
hat two such open seasons will occur
2 succession. n-Saa francisco Csron-
Gle.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-12-29

The oldappellation Dead Letter OF.
nee has been changed to Returned Letter
0ffice In London, owing to the fact that
q multitude of people misunderstood it's
significance. The controller was be.
sieged with demands for information
about missing people and letters ad.
dressed to dead ones,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-10-06
Murder and Lynch Law.
MENoMrNEE, Mich, Sept. %.

hENoMiNEbt hliCil.t Stpi- 20.
Frank and John Mcdonald, two ex- convicts
who have just completed an eighteen months
term in the State prison, aud have been ont
only two weeks, while at disreputable house
in the outskirts of this village, day before yes
terday, got into row with Willie Kittson, a
half-breed, about % years old. Norman Kilt
son and one Tommy Dunn went to
the relief of Willie, and took him from
the house and started for home. The
McDonalds followed them and attacked them
again on the street. Willie was knocked down
and then stabbed several times. Norman re-
ceved several severe knife wounds i'll the face
and side. Willie died within few moments
after receiving his wounds, and Norman eau
not live. The McDonalds were promptly ar
rested by Sheriff Barclay and lodged in the
county jail, where they remained until last
evening. Great excitement prevailed from the
time of the murder, and extra guards were
placed over the Jail. About 10 O'Clock
last night mob of over 500 people. composed
mostly of Frenchmen, Indians and haIf-breeds,
approached the jail, overpowered the Sheriff
and guard, and with heavy timbers, s.edge-
hammers and axes broke open the door of the
Jail sad of the cell where the McDonalds were
lodged. The prisoners were pulled out of the
cell and long ropes fastened about
their necks, and they were then dragged
by the mob mercilessly through the street for
three-q quarters of mile to the house where the
row originated, where their bodies were sus-
pended 10 tree. The victims were dead
however, long before their bodies were hung
up. The house above mentioned was then set
on fire and burned to the ground. The two bod
les were left suspended to the tree until this
morning, when they were taken down by the
authorities. When the Jail was attacked, a
large number of citizens responded promptly
TO the call Of the Sheriff for help. but the mob
had obtained entrance to the Jail, and resist
Gnce WA then impossible.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-10-06
Business Failures.

The commercial failures for nine months
ending Sept. 30, 1881, are reported by Dan,
Wiman Co. as $3.50, as compared With &, 476
for the corresponding period of 1850. The
liabilities for three-quarters of the present
year were s51, 600, 900, as compared with s45.-
100000 for the same period of 1880. The fail
ures for the last three months have been 1.024.
with liabilities of 80 600 COO while in the third
quarter of 1880 they were 979 with liabilities OF
sl2 100000. The geo graphical distribution OF
failures shows that the Southern States suf-
fercd somewhat, inasmuch as the figures indi-
cate their liabilities for the first three months
of 1889 were only S8i8 600, as against S1,054000
for the present quarter. On the other hand,
for the Western States the liabilities show a de-
cline OF nearly $685. 900 ia favor of this quarter
In the Middle States the liabilities are about Il,
600, 600 less in amount than in the correspond
ing period of 1880. In tbs E stern and Pacific
States the liabilities are but lit G different
from those of last year. In Canada au keep
tionally good condition of affairs has prevailed,
the failures for the las. three months having
heen but 1870, with liabilities OF sT57 $50.
This is better showing than has beon made
in the Dominion for any quarter IN the past
air wears
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-10-06
A Is0y's Vacation.

A small boy, who seems nearly desti-
tute of holiness, is up In the country
spending his vacation. Ii he don't make
things lively and bring his parents to
grief before the summer wanes away 1t
will be wonderfully remarkable. Here
is letter written by him to school
mate in Cambria e: "This is the best
place in the world to have fun. There
is six of us fellers, and an old man who
lives here said he wished we were all in
hell; we throwed his wheelbarrow into
well and he couldn't get it out, and that
is what made him swear / got fish
hook stuck into my nose, and don't you
forget it amt sore. The farmer folks
put tin pans out i'll the sun to dry, and
they are sick pans to hold milk after we
iab some holes in 'em. The farmers
NOW down hay with a horserake and
scatter it around with a grass-mill and
pile it up with machine. Cripple got
one of his legs in hay machine and got
cut immense, and when he gets home he
won't have any leg, only one; he'll be
healthy kid to play baseball There
was great circus when Jimmie's moth
or came and found him crazy, he was so
SICK: he ct too many cucumbers and two
quarts of huckleberries, and [ ct more'n
he did. I want you to see Hickey and
swap my rabbits for his gun. We fired
pistol four times at COW yesterday
and didn't kill her. Pistols amt no
good for game. We drowned six hens
in a brook yesterday; it was sport to see
'em flop round. We shall drowned some
more every day. The doctor has cured
Jimmie and his mother is goin' to take
him home. But here is something
funny: Jimmie put some squirrels III
his trunk and they ct his clothes up.
When you send the gun send lot of
powder and a lot of matches. We are
goin' campin' out next week.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-10-06
The Etiology Of Dinhtheria.

DIR. Hubert Airy has made report
TO the local government board of F,no-
land, OF the results of his investigations
into several local outbreaks of dinb-
liberia. The disease did not seem 10 he
affected by elevation or dampness Of
site, nor by foulness nor over-crowdino
He found abundant instances of its con.
tagiousness, as in schools, from visits to
the dwelling of diphtheria patient,
from making purchases at shop where
the shopwoman had diphtheritic sore
throat. There was one striking ease of
the conveyance of diphtheria to new
locality, by person who had been in
contact with diphtheria patient. but
had not herself contracted the disease.
This would show that the poison can
attach itself to the person or clothes of
visitor or occasional attendant. and he
thus transported for some distance. DIR.
Airy concludes that diphtheria is caused
by an organism which can multiply both
within and without the human body. its
increase In the latter case being pro.
NOTED by clay soils, by the season, and
by moisture 1t is also capable of in
fecting both water and milk and seems
to flourish best in the autumn months.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-10-06
sary commission to reOrganize the Egyptian
HIDIys
THE Pal Mall Gazette, moved by

THE Pail Mall Gazette, moved by
the death of President Garfield, ventures to
hope that the bitter memories of dividing
animositiss engendered by the Revolutionary
war are finally passed away" and suggests a
union between England and the United States
for the prevention OF internecine strife II
asks "Why should there not be an Anglo
American concert wide enough to include in
one fatherland all English-speaking men?n
In consequence of the Land League
agitation the Irish harvest would be largely
left ungathered but for the Property Defence
society and Emergency Committee, who have
large number OF men engaged In harvesting
Several shootings at constables and process
servers have occurred. 'sBoycofting is on
the increase, and the South of Ireland is gem
orally disturbed. Queen Victoria requested
Minister Lowell to express her sympt thy with
the mother Of President Garfield, and to Iro-
cure pho tograph of the illGstrious dead :.
Jim Keene's horse Golden Gate won the Gran
by stakes at the Newmarket race meeting The
American sports pocketed considerable Brit
ish cash on the result. The Manchester tn
gland Sunday School Union, representing
1900 teachers and q, 600 scholars, passed res
olution Of sympathy for Mrs. Garfield. -.
Germany has completed subtt rranean tole-
graph system connecting 221 towns and cities.
n OEofEhAlE dtteinpb was uldue, al
Pallas Green, ireland to blow up with dyna-
mite the residence of Capt. 1Lomas Llovd 90.
cupled by seventeen emergency men and police.
In Westport, Capt Boycott was followed by
mob and burned in effigy. Moffatt, the leader
Of an Orange expedition in County Louth, was
fired at and wounded The Land
League has, it is stated, appointed
two tenants in each ntighborhood
to asssss fair rents" whose decision is TO be
the law in each case. Jim Keene's celebrated
horse Foxhall won the Grand Duke Michael
Stakes on the Newmarket course. Don Fulano,
also owned by Keene, came in second. Fox
halls victory was an easy one The Scotch
farmers demand much moro sweeping
measure of land reform than that granted to
the Irish farmers.
The Lancet, the leading medical
journal of Great Britain, severely censures
President Garheld's physicians for not having
stated in their bulletins the true condition Of
their patient. The Lancet says that a bulletin
should be the truth, and nothing but the truth.
The Bliss bulletins were not the truth; they
were anything but the truth. An earthquake
at Changeri, Anatolia, N Asia, killed eleven
persons. The Grand Mosque and many DWELL
ings we're greatly injured.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-10-06
VILLAGE OF wYALUsING.
To Whom Ass'd eS
Guiteau. the Assassin.

WASHINGTON, Sept. o.
Guiteau has frequently boosted in jail that
he would have eminent legal counsel to defend
him, but he would never give any information
AZ to whom he had in view. 1t now turns out
that he war only indulging in exaggeration, OF
which he is fond. When informed by
the District Attorney to-day that the
Grand jury would indict him next week
and advised TO make preparations for
his defense, he requested the District Attor-
new to telegraph to his brother-in-law. Scoville.
of Chicago. He is compelled to fall back on
his relations II no counsel is provided the
court will, of course, assign aim counsel,
though this may not be en- easy task, as the
LAWYERS here are all aYerse to appearing IN the
hight of counsel. None OF them want to utter
a word that would lend to save his neck
Guiteau still clings tenaciously to the de
fusion that if he can escape mob violence and
get trial before a court he will be acquit-
ted. Since he has learned OF the de til of
President Garfield he has on several occasions
EXPRESSED qualification that his murderous
work was accomplished, always speaking of II
as the Lords will, and accompanying
his remarks with regret that his victim
suffered so much. He pretends to
expect that he will yet get the sympathy of the
people. In conversation with one Of the jail
guards the other day, he said iTreyerently that
he Was sure the American people MOulu, attef
President Garfield was buried, "transfer their
sympathy from that lump of clay" (referring
TO the dead President)l to him. He does
not express or feel any renorse for his
brutal, cowardly act but his great dread is OF
mob violence. He has been III a constant state
of fear since President Garfield died, and if he
hears any unusual noise or steps of more than
one person approaching hif cell he endeavors to
conceal himself under his bed. He is pusil-
Ianmous coward. One of the guards who does
duty at Guteaus cell said to- day, 'Guiteau be-
lieves that he will have falrand impartial trial,
but does not believe that he can be tried for
murder When ask. him the other day his
reasons for believing that he could not be tried
for murder, lie said, / am lawyer,
and am conversant enough with law to
know that l cannot be tried for muir
der. for the reason that there must
be malice shown, and certainly had no malice
toward Garfield. His death was q political me-
cessity, and when his body is land away to
rest, and the excitement incident TO his death
subsidies, the American people will begin to APP
preciate my motives for killing him. ,"
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