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q lam a poet weird and sad,
And life for me holds nothing glad,
Though sing such songs as flame and fare
over the wide world everywhere.
Famous am for my wan, wild eyes,
And my woeful mien and my heaving sighs;
And lone ah. lone as bard may be-
For where Is the woman that rhymes with me?
YsinQ-and the lark is hushed and mute,
And the dry-goods clerk forgets his flute;
And the night operator at the telegraph stand
Smothers his harp in his trembling hand
And rasps no longer the hip that halts
Red and raw from the last new waltz,
while ever wall in minor key,
q where is the woman that rhymes with me?
The plumbers daughter, as she reads my song,
Signs all day and the whole night long
For love like mine and passion warm
As the pulsin2 heart of thunderstorm;
And the new grass widow, as vainly, too,
Bangs her hair as she used to do.
nut they can't catch onl | wander free
In search of the woman that rhymes with me.
And o my heart-Iie down. keep still!l
If ever we meet, as hope we will
II ever we meet, as / pray well do
III ever we meet-O. well be truei
All ideal things will become fixed facts
The stars won't wane and the moon won't
wax,
And my soul will sing in a ceaseless glee
When I find the woman that rhymes with me !!
NJ W. Riley, in Life.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-10-18

the garden was the branch railway
from La Paz. The evening train was
nearly due
Leaving the twins to toddle after as
well as they could in their exhausted
state she ran. Ran? She flew.
The bright invalid shawl was a
beacon. Mrs Brantome sat upon the
track, idly PLAYING with some yellow
flowers. Charlotte knew her patient
well.
Mother she said, sit is late, and
the boys are calling, and you must
feed the chickens. +" @
The mother shook her head. Per-
suasion was no persuader. Then Char
lotte scolded. Alike useless. Then,
as a last resort, she used gentle
force. A failure. Sit there and pull
those yellow flowers to pieces-that the
poor unbalanced woman would do,
nothing else. In Heavens name what
was to be done? Those who have had
experience know the strength of the
insane. The train whistled for the
crossing mile away, and Just then,
some guardian angel guiding him,
James Duncan jumped the fence, wet
handkerchief in his hand.
Blessings upon the medicine which
subdued the bugst 1t subdued this
poor woman in moment, and he had
lifted her out of danger before the
train rushed past.
Then he explained. He had been
copying the inscription on the Indian s
cross as the boys went screaming by.
He gathered enough from their inco-
herent words to learn what the matter
was. The ehloroform idea was simply
an Inspiration.
"How can I repay YOUR asked wet
eyed Charlotte, as the party, boys,
mother and all, were walking back.
''By making over to me Pierre Bran
tones manuscripts and his grand
daughter can never write the history
without her. y
Well softly, ''in the cause of sci
ence perhaps. y
And this is how it came to pass that
the boys marched up the church aisle
before the robins came again with
Charlotte and the bug-man
As for the cross spreads its white
arms over a new-made grave. The
poor mother. has ''runned away for
ever. .-Flora L. Stdnfetd, In Chicago
Tribune.
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Frauds in Russia.


The st. Petersburg correspondent of
the Daily Telegraph says that formid-
able system Of fraud has just been
brought to light in connection with the
Russian shipping trade. The Straits of
,Kertch or Zeniteale is one of the most
dangerous passages of the Black Sea.
and of late years the number of vessels
wrecked on the coasts has reached an
extraordinary aggregate. English in
surance companies have paid indemni-
ties amounting to many millions of
roubles. Attention has, however, been
drawn to the fact that a great many of
these disasters occurred incalm weather
Other suspicious circumstances were no
ticed, such as the fortunes rapidly made
by some of the pilots. Information was
sent to London that an individual named
francesca, formerly a pilot, of italian
origin, was the head Of a band of pirates
of various nations-English, Italians,
Greeks and Russians-Who made their
living by the disasters on the coast.
They were IN colfusion with the pilots
and charged huge sums for assisting the
vessels which the pilots suffered to go
ashore. In less than two years fifty
vessels were stranded and had recourse
TO the assistance OF these pirate salvorG
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-10-18
The Black Faced Woman Of Alaska.

At duncan, Alaska, the women and
children tripped down in their bare feet,
and sat around on the dripping wharf
with fecklessness that suggested
pneumonia, consumption, rheumatism,
and all those kindred ills from which
they suffer so severely. Nearly all of
the women had their faces blacked, and
no one can immagine anything more
frightful and sinister on melancholy
day than to be confronted by one of
these silent, stealthy figures with the
great circles of the whites of the eyes
alone visible in the shadow of the
blanket. A dozen fictitious reasons are
given for this face blacking. One In
dian says that the widows and those
who have suffered great sorrow wear
the black in token thereof. Another
native authority makes it a sign of
happiness, while occasionally a gig
CLING dame confesses that it is done to
this may seem to the bleached Caucasian
and the ladies of rice powdered and
enameled countenances, the matrons of
high fashion and the swell damsels of
the Thlinket tribes never make q canoe
voyage without smearing themselves
well with the black dye that they get
from a certain wild root of the woods,
or with a paste of SCOT and seal oil.
On sunny and windy days on shore they
protect themselves from tan and sun
burn by this same inky coating. On
feast days and the great occasions, when
they wash off the black, their complex
ions come out as fair and creamy white
as the palest of their Japanese cousins
across the water, and the women are
then seen to be some six shades lighter
than the tan-colored and coffee -colored
lords of their tribe. The specimen
woman at juneau wore thin calico
dress and thick blue blanket. Her
feet were bare, but she was compen-
sated for that loss of gear by the turkey
red parasol that she poised over her
head with all the complacency of
Mount Deseret belle She had blacked
her face to the edge of her eyelids and
the roots of her hair; she wore the full
parure of silver nose-ring, lip-ring and
earrings, with five silver bracelets on
each wrist and fifteen rings ornament
ing her bronze fingers, and more
thoroughly proud and self-satisfied
creature never arrayed herself accord
ing to the behests of high fashion,
Cor ST IOatiS Gl0be- De99OeT.Hf
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-10-18
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

"A coquette is woman 'thout any
heart that makes a fool o. man that
amt got any head. The Continent
"A philosopher who had married
vulgar girl used to call her ''brown
sugar, because, he said, she was
sweet, but unrefined. -
"A little girl in Hartford school,
unused to diplomatic ways, sidled up
to her teacher, and, naively as could
be, said: "Mother wanted me to find
out in a roundabout way whether YOU
are Mrs. or Miss. ''-Hartford Post.
What was in, it: MY case is Just
here" said a citizen to a lawyer.
''The plaintiff viii swear that hit him.
can you lawyers make out OF that il we
90 to trial?n "a hundred dollars
easy" was the repIy.-Benc5 and Bar.
"A little girl admitted to her mother
that her little boy sweetheart had
kissed her on the cheek. .'And what
did you dop' asked the old lady in a
tone of indignation. ''Motaer," said
the child, II cannottell story; / turned
the other cheek -Haaper'S BazGr.
The Pail Mall G0zette points out
that during Mrs. Langtry's nine months
in the United States she cleared about
five times as much as the income of the
Prime Minister of Great Britain and
more than twice the monthly .emola-
ments of the Archbishop of Canterbury.
The way to wealth is as plain as
the way to market. 1t depends, chiefly
on two words-industry and frugality;
that is, waste neither time nor money,
but make the best use of both. With
out industry and frugality nothing will
do, and with them everything. --FiraSak-
lin.
"A Virginia girl has picked and sold
enough blackbeFries this year to buy
her father q shotgun and sixteen steel
traps, and a. woman in Nebraska has
cut and sold over 5000 worth of rail-
road ties and bought her husband
either and gold ch.-Detro1 Free
Press. @ ~au Aas lJ
please, sir, is this the mail boat?''
inquired lady, holding letter in her
hand, of gentleman who was standing
on the deck of a. Mississippi steamer.
II guess not, madam, replied the
gentleman, somewhat embarrassed; 81
Just heard the Captain say she would
leave in half an hour, sol guess it must
be female boat ~ Yonl,ers States
man. 49,.
Plantation Philosophy white
frost is de gray hairs Of the season. r DE
man that swears dat he. wouldn' hab a
office is de berry man dat is hurt when
he's beat. People what always look on
de dark side should recolleck dat;na-
tu9 furnishes as much honey as she
does gall. | doan hab much confis
dence in de loud-talkin' man. De
blunderbuss is louder dan de rife, but
It amt half as true. Der old ssyin' dat
a miss'was good as mile amt true.
A feller shot at me once an missed me,
but he skeered me nearly 10 deaths-@
| ArkanSaa0 TrGreAer,
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Various Oaths.

1t was a customary thing in what are
called the dark ages for swearer to
lay his hand on crucifx as sacred
symbol, or touch the altar while he
swore by the God to whom it was ded-
icated. Soon he came to swear by the
crucifx itself or ''by the rood. )" OF
kindred origin is the oath .'by the
mass" ''by the wounds hence
'swounds'' and ''zounds." The sacred
water was to the vulgar mind part OF
Gods corporal nature, hence 'sGods
bodikin," favorite oath of the Eliza
bethian age. 81 l
The custom of placing the right hano
upon some sacred obieetwa considered
of the utmost Importance, and there
was quite difference in the degree OF
the solemnity of the oath according as
the object sworn by was more or less
sacred. When Harold of England
swore to William the Conqueror that
he would not push his claim to the
crown, he supposed that he was only
swearing on a missal or prayer-book
which was lying on a chest, and hence
could do so with a mental reservation,
but the oath was really the most bind
ing possible, as was afterward dis
closed, when William removed the
cloth with which the chest was covered
and disclosed the authentic relics Of a
saint It was claimed at one time in
the Irish troubles, in James IL s time.
that the oath upon the eucharist of an
Irish Catholic could not be relied upon
in the court, unless the priest who con
secrated it was in sympathy with the
English Government. For it was said
that the transubstantiation depended
entirely upon the will of the priest, and
if he did not wish the bread of the
wafer to be changed into the body and
blood it would be nothing but bit of
baked dough, which everyone could
swear falsely upon without committing
perjury.
An Abyssinian chief, who had sworn
an oath he disliked, was seen to scrape
it off his tongue with his knife and spit
1t out. And in Germany, to this day.,
there are places where the witness,
when he wants to tell u lie or swear
falsely. crooks his finger, as if to in
dicate to his conscience that his oath
was crooked. Cgeeeland Herald.
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"A flock of shep was passing along
sone of the streets in Malone, N. Y,
recently when one of the knowledge
seeking leading bucks jumped through
the window of a millinery store. The
rest Of the flock soon followed and the
latest styles in ladies' hats was soon
changed to later styles. --Bafalo Er-
press.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1883-10-25
With Pen and Pencil.

NO, sir: don't believe newspaper men are
more dissipated than any other class of men
who earn tr cir living by their brains," said Mr..
A. III. Siegfried, Manager of the Advertising
Department of the st. Paul P0neer-Press.
Still, those of them who do desk work are
tempted to stim ulate. for it's very hard on the
nerves and stomach"
'.As for example,"
AS for example. in my own case. 1 stuck to
my desk on this paper until my nerves wefe
like bunch of telegraph wires after gale
and my stomach kept about as good time as
two-dollar watch. Ny friends suggested this
and the doctors advised that, but one day
caught or to an 'ad.' of PARKERs TONIC, and
tried ir. i have never endorsed a proprietary
medicine before but 1 shall depart from my
rule and say that the Tonic is not merely the
best thing but the only thing that breaks up
these attacks. All desk-work ers should make
note of it,
This preparation, which has been known as
PARKER's GINGER Tonic, will hereafter be
advertised and sold simply under the name of
PARKER's Tonic. As unprincipled dealers are
constantly deceiving their customers by sub
shutting inferior articles under the name of
ginger, and as ginger is really an unimportant
ingredient, we drop the misleading word.
There is no change, however, in the prepare
ton Itself, end all bottles remaining in the
hands of dealers, wrapped under the name of
medicine if the fac-simile signature of HISCOx
II Co. is at the bottom of the outside wrapper.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1883-10-25
GROCERIES.

We have good Coaees to offer at 12}
Is, Is and zoe. h., or lbs, lbs. and
6 lbs. for S106. These goods have
already advanced, and viii very likely
go higher. Buy now and save something.
The bargain this season is our keg
syrups at 1926 each, Al gals. of the best
goods you ever saw. After you have
used the Syrup bring US the empty key
and we will give you 15c. If you bring
back both the keg and faucet we give you
zoe. Syrup costs you s2.O5 only for At
gals. We warrant every keg to contain
the quantity of syrup named. A single
gallon of as good goods costs you 60 to
Soc. anywhere.
New "Pan Fired" (the only uncolored
goods imported) Japan Teas are in stock
now in all grades and we have bargains
to offer you. Come and see us.
PLUMB & Nelson.
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MARRIED..

SINGER-WALTERBACH At the Catholic church
In Meeme Tuesday, October BIRD, by Rev.
Father Smith, MIR. Anton Singer of Milwaukee
and Miss Katie Walterbach of Meeme.
Mr.. Singer formerly resident of Meeme,
but is a resident of Milwaukee. His bride
is daughter of one of the pioneers of the town
and one of its most respectable and well-to-do
farmers. The following is list of presents
received by the bride.
wine glasses and server, Mr.. and Mrs. II. Snyder;
elegant sil ver butter dish, Mrs. Nj. kirwan and
Miss Annie Nagle; fruit dish, Miss B. Sullivan;
set of china cups and saucers, Mr.. and Mrs M.
DER; half dozen wine glasses Miss Nellie Cries;
elegant chrome, Mrs. A. Snyder; parlor lamp,
Miss Minnie McCarty; large mirror, Mr.. Joseph
Singer; silver butter dish, Mr.. and Mrs. Nj. H.
Egan; butter dish, Miss Amelia Bohne; tidy, Miss
Mary Hayes; glass tea set, Misses Gertie and
Sullivan; cake basket, Miss B. Peppard; table
spread Mrs. nj. Kettenhofen; silver breakfast
castor. Miss Mary and Mr.. II. C. Walsh; bed
Hayes; piece of factory Mrs. O'Grady; fruit dish
and sardine dishes Mrs. J. Snyder; table cloth,
Miss Mary Maloney; globe lamp, Mrs. Jno. Carey;
glass water pitcher, Miss Maggie Gudinger; bed
spread, Mr.. and Mrs. JAS Ryan; set of fish plates
and holy water font, Miss Louise Eiche; elegant
linen lace bed spread and shams, Schuette Eros;
fruit dish pickle dishes and half dozen goblets,
Mrs. Hoffman; wash bowl and pitcher, Miss
Ihos. Peppard; set of elegant lace curtains, Miss
SHlatle NdllerDacIli CAKE basket, set or bread
plates, pair of pickle dishes, Mrs. fresh; table
spread, Miss Katie. Pinter; elegant silver dinner
castor and call bell, Mr.. and Mrs. John Franz
fruit dish, Miss Nora kirwan linen table cloth,
Mrs; ID. Hayes; bed spread Mrs. P. Burns water
pitcher, Mrs. MILESTONE; half dozen elegant
handkerchiefs, Miss Mary Eiche; silver and cut
glass pickle castor, Mrs. NJ. Egan; marble top
table, Miss Tena Singer; butter dish, Miss Nellie
Madlgan; breakfast castor, Miss Annie Bohne;
set knives and forks, John Bohne; parlor clock,
Mrs. Il. Bouck; silver knives and forks Mrs
Singer; set silver spoons, Mrs. p. Walterbach;
silver butter knife Albert Exly
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1883-10-25
TOOK THE TOWN.

Ayoung fellow whose name is withheld
for good reasons. played the COW boy at
st. Nazians on Tuesday last. He comes
of good family and ordinarily is gen.
tlemanly fellow. Some time ago he
went to Texas from his home in Eaton
and became familiar with the cowboy
doings. He came home some time ago
and on Tuesday went on spree in ST.
Nazians with young Norwegian. The
western style soon cropped out and he
began shooting at signs, beer kegs,
glasses etc. The people tried to arrest
him but he defed them all. Soon a
crowd gathered, armed with all kinds of
shooting irons, and a fusilade was opened
on the daring young fellow. Bullets
whistleT around -
determined resistance he was captured,
and brought to the city under guard
of five men. Three wagon loads of
people came from st. Nazians TO attend
his trial and it is said that warrants
without number are out for his rearrest
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1883-10-25
THE question which now is most likely

THE question which now is most likely
to agitate women with strong minds, is
what are the attributes of sperson."
The attorney general of Massachusetts
has given it as his legal opinion that
woman is not "person." All, here is
the missing link for which Science has
been so long straining, and while the
great students of evolution have been
pushing their researches, the while sus-
tanned by the hope that their great labors
would be crowned by success in finding
the keystone to the arch of common life,
a monad at one extreme and man at the
other, prosaic lawyer of Massachusetts,
stumbles upon the Grand Discovery
And so woman is not "person." Prob
ably there may be no legal objection in
denominating her, negro fashion,
"pusson." Or mayhap the astute Mas
sachusetts lawyer is not the musty old
parchment Imaoin tinn NAV r>;~I.--- -
at Uue nrsI glance, ana he may think
woman an "angel' and hence above the
ordinary appellative, ''person." This
no doubt will be the general interpreta-
ton of the opinion.
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First publication September 13. 1889 7
SHERIPPS SALE
/ N CIRCUIT COURT-MANIrowoo CoUNry.-
Patrick Lynch, plaintiff against Thomas

IN CIRCUIT COURT-MANITowoo COUNTY
Lynch, defendant.
State OF Wisconsin, Manitowoc County. So
by virtue OF an execution issued out of he
clrcnit court of the county of Manitowoc. state
OF WISCONSIN, in the above entitled action nst
the Goods and chattels, lands and tenaments Of
said defendant, Thomas Lynch, bearing date the
w DAY OF August. A. D., 1883, have levied Don
ali the rights, title and interest which the laid
defendant Thomas Lynch had on the goth day OF
May A. D.. 1888, or has since acquired in and to
the following described real estate which : all
expose for sale and sell to the highest and lest
bidder Tor cash. on the Bird day of ovember A. ID.
1883, at my Office in the court house in the city
and county OF Manitowoc Wisconsin, at 10 o o'clock
In the forenoon ofthat day, pursuant to law: said
premises are situated In the town of Meemc in
Manitowoc county Wis, and described as follows.
The East Half ~ of the South East quarter 10
OF section No. Ten Q0) in Township No Seven
teen 90 north OF Range No. Twenty-Five (22 east,
according togoyernment survey, containing EIGHTY
acres OF land more or less
Dated, September 18th, 1888 oct25
JOHN BIBINGER
Sheriff of Manitowoc Co.. Wis
G. A Forrest, Attorney.
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EVERYONE has heard OF the water witch
4 his instrument of divination, the
hazel put who would think that the
b;ble might De, an instrument IN the
hands of the prospecto,t TO discover pay
rock?" But such it is. Late-rV one VI
these seekers of wealth dropped into
gentle sleep with his open bible on his
lap. The sacred book fell over ledge
and right on to the paying lode. Ii this
does not restore waning faith in the bible
what camp
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AND so the two revenue districts in the
eastaro mart of the state arr consolidated
and the two in the western are le1 ~
statu quo, Notwithstanding that the col
lections in the Milwaukee district are
greater than in all the others in the state,
and in the Fond du Lac district greater
than the two over which Harnden and
Lottridge preside. Lottridge did work
at the primaries and Harnden in the
field and in the line of blubbering.
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HARARD spoke in no uncertain tones
| through the lips of Charles Francis Ad-
ans of the college fetch" and now Yale,
| through one of it's alumni, George s.
Merriam, takes like stand against the
waste of time ON classics. Merriam g
address Is startling in more respects than
Its hostility to Greek as a regular part of
the college curriculum. Like Adams, he
denounces the practice of neglecting the
subjects of the day for the dead languages
and says that although he graduated at
time when the great issues in the Unit
ed States came to their elimination, he
knew far more of Greek than of Ameri-
can history and could not give any CT the
details of the revolutionary wer or tie
principles of the Wilmot Proviso.
Nothing was taught in his course but
what was contained in books. Chemis-
try included no analysis, Geology no
study of rocks farther than the descrip-
ton given in the books. The student
was taught to do nothing, and during the
period of life when aptitudes could be
strengthened, they were rather weaken
ed by the system of training. Greek,
Latin and Mathematics were the only
subjects taught properly and that be-
cause the textbook was the medium
through which knowledge of these may
be properly gained. After two years of
hard work devoted to Greek, he was un.
able to read a single page of the easiest
author Understandings, without the aid
of lexicon, and he was one of the six
highest in that study in the college.
Does not the structures Of this scholar
on the manner in which subjects are
taught in Yale apply generally to COL
leges? What per cent. of our graduates
have any practical knowledge of Geology,
of Chemistry, of Mathematics, even p
The writer has seen graduates well up in
the nomenclature of mineralogy, puz
cling over piece of rock salt, and speak
ing of limestone beds as drift. Colleges
may be likened to the medicine which
doctor gives, knowing it will not restore
health but that it will secure an obser-
vance of certain hygienic rules which
would be disregarded if not considered
accessories of the medicine. The work
the student does outside the college,
which he looks upon as supplemental
merely, is the education without which |
the other is a waste. College professors,
as a rule, are very inferior teachers.