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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-10-11

To judge from the record of crime
with which the papers are now filed,
one would not think that the world
is growing better. Every species OF
crime that may be mentioned, now
fills much of the space in the dailies.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-10-11

&c is estimated that there are seven
teen thousand dentists in this country
who use a million of gold yearly in
filing their victims teeth.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-10-11

Gen. 7. L. Clingman, of North
Carolina, has obtained a patent for
an electric light, which he says can
be furnished one-third cheaper than
Edison's.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-10-11

The negroes of Montgomery county,
Georgia, have summary way OF pun
ishing delinquent church members.
One got drunk recently and was buck
ed down by the deacons and given
thirty-nine lashes.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-10-11

South Carolinans boast that in ten
years their no-fence law will place
the Palmetto State ahead of Georgia
IN agricultural improvement.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-10-11

The Boston Post says that Yer
monter who stole a COW from his
neighbours barn found on getting her
home that it was his own COW, which
his neighbor had stolen earlier in the
night.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-10-11

All the leading New York dailies
have reduced the price of subscrip-
ton. Newspapers are now the cheap
est commodity in the land.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-10-11

The national turnpike overssthe Al
leghany mountains, from Cumberland
to Wheeling, the nearest approach to
perfect road ever seen in the United
States, cost 81, 700, 900, or $13, 900 a
mile.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-10-11

'Love is habit" says Robertson.
God has given to us the love of re-
lations and friends, the love of father
and mother, brother, sister, friend,
to prepare us gradually for the love
of God"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-10-11

'Amerika," of st. Louis, says that
the most important and successful
element in Mexico's foreign popula-
ton is German.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-10-11

The total value of breadstuffs ex-
ported in August from the United
States fell $7,0O0,000 below that of
the corresponding month oflast year.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-10-11

Vennor predicts mild, rather wet
autumn, with no snow at the end of
the year and very mild, open win
ter, with little or no ice.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-10-11

4 convention of those interested
in the animal industries of the United
States will be held in Chicago on
November Is and 16.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-10-11

Reports from a large number of
places in Texas indicate that the top
crop of cotton, with a few exceptions,
will be q total failure.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-10-11

The truest test of civilization is not
the census, nor the size of cities, nor
the crops-no, but the kind of man
the country turns out.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-10-11

The newly discovered comet is
making toward the earth at great
rate, and scientists say it will be visi-
BILE to the naked eye before Christmas.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-10-11

The affairs of every insurance COM
pany in Boston are said to be In very
bad condition, in fact, rotten.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-10-11

France is willing to neutralize the
northern province Of Tonquin, but
viii not cede them to China.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-10-11

There are thirty-eight Governors
OF State in the Union; of this number
twenty-five are Democratic.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-10-11

The Iron Mountain road, one of
the greatest running out of ST. Louis,
has reduced its rates from five to
three cents per mile.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-10-11

Statistics show Georgia and Mis-
sissippi to be the strongest temper
ance States in the Union.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-10-11

The most reliable estimates put the
wheat crop of the United States for
1883. at 400, 600, 900.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-10-11

Snow fell on the I'd instant IN New
Hampshire and Vermont.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-10-11
". SHIDET,
Watchmaker and Jeweler.

Matchmaker and Jeweler,
FHVakes this method of announcing 70 -
4 his old friends and patrons ana 20
the public in general, that he viii bes 49,
found on Market Street, In BogePs new buila-
ing, Shreveport, La, where he lie prepared q
repair Watches, Jewelry, &c, promptly ana
at moderate prices. He also has on nsno
Watches. Jewe1ry, &c, fer sale cheap fog CASH
Satisfaction guaranteed.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-10-11

"A literary clubin London hes fosits
name the curious title: 'eThe Set4e Of
Odd Volumes"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-10-11

The export Of wines from Italy is
steadily. increasing.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-10-11
BELLEVUE. Ia,

THURSDAY, ::::::::::::::ocToBER Il, 1883.
The Brookhaven leader., 1883-08-16
One Spoke in the Wheel OF the Chariot
OF Hell.

George Cruikshank hal been all
/ through his life up t. about 1873 Il
very incorporate man, when he sud
/ denly b. .ame "A total abstainer, and be-
! gan To use hs powerful pencil in the
cause Of Temperance The first hand
grenade he flung at the tyrant rum was
! a pamphlet OF twelve pages about the
size of Harper's Weekly which he
| callel 1.-The Bottle" 1t represents
tn. career OF happy mechanic who,
beginning with one glass of gin, de-
scendS step by step through the various
stages of misery and crime till he ends
/ hv slayinT his wife with the instrument
# all his misery, the bottle. This was
very fcrcibly treated and took the town
by storm, selling enormously. and, of
course, turning large sum OF money
into CruikShank' pocket. 1t gave
Douglas Jerrold an opportunity for
one of his sarcasms. Walking with
friend. he met Cruikshank. Halo
he cried. here comes Cruikshauk;
hasn't been ont of a public house since
The Bottle was published. But this
was not true. Cruikshank, | believe.
never relapsed, and was certainly most
sincere and earnest in the cause Of
/ Temperance when visited him.
~ want to do something he said.
for the benefit of my fellow-creatures
before die. and if can put one spoke
in the wheel of this chariot of hell which
is carting its millions every five minutes
down to the dead sea of damnation, |
shall die little more contented. Five
minutes? Did saw five minutes? Every
two minutes every one minute, like the
Padaington busses, this in.ernal vehicle
makes trip, and it's always full, too,
always full From Rum to Ruin, by
way of the Cross, Crime Crescent and
Penury Square. | fear have to a great
extent frittcred away whatever gifts,
physical and mental. God has seen fit
t. give me, and now | want to see if
can not take up a few of the overdue
bills which owe the Almighty and His
creatures.
Here he paused, and making dash
at the picture began to point out some
of the parts which seemed to him the
most effective as moral lessons.
There is no greater thief and rutfjsn
in the world than Gin he went on.
People in broadcloth and white stocks
call him Port Wine and Champagne,
but he's Gin for all that, and nothing
but Gin. Why, the rascally, thieving
csdger, he'll steal the mothers shift
and the baby's rattle. There's nothing
too little and nothing too big for him;
he'll take castle and twenty thousand
broad acres with one hand, and child's
penny whistle with the other. Now,
don't you think, my dear sir, it is worth
while trying to give this great cowardly
brigand one good whack on the head?
l don't expect to kill him, of course. l
am not insane enough to even hope
for that; but | do want to have one
good fair bang at him; and if can only
break little finger of him l shall crow
cock-a-doodle-doo like Sir Gallus on his
dung-hill. "-FranE Bellew, IN N. ]
Trjb2J1e
The Brookhaven leader., 1883-08-16
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

-Governor Hubbard, Of Minnesota,
once edited country newspaper.
Europe Through Woman Eye
is the title of new book. That beats
the Camel Through Needles Eye"
Tom Thumb was a firm believer in
Spiritualis=, and attended seances
whenever he had the opportunity.-M
Y. Sun.
Hon. $. A. Davenport, of Erie, Pa,
has the cases out Of which Horace Gree
ley set type when he worked on the
Erie Gdzettc.
-Ex-Governor Stanford, of Califor-
mia, is victim to attacks of melan-
cholia. He never goes out of doors
without an attendant.
Mr.. Charles &. Reynolds, the book
keeper in the office of the Boston City
/. Treasurer, has held his position for
more than forty years. He is now
eighty-two years of age.-BOSton Post.
1t is stated that Charles O'Conor,
the aged lawyer of New York, is an in
veterate and Industrious collector of
literature relating to love and the fair
sex. 1t is said that he has several thou
sand volumes of such books.
A Quartermaster in the Michigan
militia bears the proud name of William
Shakespeare. He has something of
literary turn, too, though instead of
writing PLAYS he devotes his attention to
compiling militia manuals and the like.
On his way to Yellowstone Park re-
Gently with General Sherman, Chief
Justice Waite, of the United States Su-
premc Court, was thrown from his
horse in Montana and received painful
but not alarming injuries. - Chicago
JOUrHai.
John Eggleston, aged seventyfour
years, a lifelong re Sident of Corinth,
Saratoga County, n. Y, died a few
days since. The deceased never lived
day out of that town. He possessed
considerable property, but never was
fifty miles from home during his long
life. - Troy (N " Times.
General Alfred Aylward, who led
the South African Beers in their war
with the British, is passing honeymoon
at Nantaskct Beach, after winning the
bride by an elopement. The bride was
Miss Carrie NanHoesen, an aristocratic
Brooklyn belle, whose parents did not
approve of the suit and carried her to
Saratoga. The ardent Irishman followed
and eloped with her to Boston, where
they were married. The couple will
live in Australia Y. Herald.
The Washington Post says: "The
only diplomats left in Washington-the
hot-weather diplomats, so to speak-are
the Chinese. They seem to like the sun
they are like suntiowers, whichever
way the sun is they turn their faces. In
their gay-colorcd smock- -frocks, panta-
lets and pctticoats of wind-tangling sea-
grass material, they scud down the ave-
nue. like a fleet of iunks under full sail,
just in time to catch the eleven O'Clock
sun in their faces, and return to catchit
on the other tack"
The Brookhaven leader., 1883-08-16
A Big Story Of Teller's Speculation.

An interesting story is told of the
way in which paying teller of one
Of the city banks, of a shrewd and
provident turn of mind, was able to ac-
quire competency in a short time,
and then retire from his position with
out the bank having been any the loser
by the operation and without having
his own reputation blasted. The story
is that the bank carried n heavy cash
balance to meet such calls as might be
made upon it from day to day. and to
draw upon in case of run. This was
intrusted to the paying teller. Instead
of allowing this sum to remain in the
banks safe, as was the intention of the
directors, and as they supposed to lee
actually the case, the teller invested
largely in six per cent. bonds and early
issues of the Government four per
cents. These were substituted for the
cash, the investor cutting off the
coupons and getting the money on
them as they became payable. The
prospective calls upon the cash could
be readily estimated, and anything be-
yond that limit was converted into
bonds This state of affairs went
along smoothly for about two years,
the enlerprising teller enjoying all the
privileges as 10 coupons of a bloated
bOndhOlder.
Soon after the Oby Owen defalcation
became public, the directors had a sud
den Spasm of vigilance, and, one day,
without moments warning, they
called upon the teller for his keys, and
nj tn I'M n nj of sI
With an assurance and nerve that
struck the investigating directors fairly
speechless, he said: Gentlemen, you
can not have the keys. | will give you
my written resignation, according to
the terms of our contract, but you
shall not have the keys to the safe
The gentlemen were taken complete
ly by surprise, and knew not what to
say or do. Arrest was threatened, but
the teller was obdurate, and the direct
ors finally withdrew to talk the matter
over. This gave him his chance, and
slipping out with the surreptitiouSly
purchased bonds, he speedily converted
them into cash, and the right amount
was deposited in the vaults. BY that
time the objection to the surrender of
tllt hSNS vas ICHlONCtt, anu lliC
ors and bondsmen, who had been thor
oughly nonplussed and thoroughly
frightened by the refusal, found their
heaped-up thousands secure and the
bank on as sound financial bedrock as
it had ever been. The fact that the
teller had just disposed of large
amount of bonds, however, led to the dis
covery of the way in which he had been
usirg the funds of the bank for his own
emolument, and the resignation went
into effect During the time between
the purchase and sale of the bonds
they had largely appreciated in value,
so that during the transaction the teller
had cleared between $50, 900 and $780,
600 from the rise in value and the cou-
pons. The bank was none the poorer
from the operation, and attempts made
to compel the employe to disgorgc his
profits were unavailing. Public prose-
cution would have given the affair un-
pleasant notoriety for both parties, and
the story has consequently been closely
kept.-lSt. Louis GLobe-Denocrat.
The Brookhaven leader., 1883-08-16
Our Foreign Population.

The immigration into the United
States during the fiscal year just ended
was more than twenty-five per cent. be-
low that of the preceding year and ten
per cent. below that of the year which
preceded that. The total number of
immigrants arriving in the year just
year and 669, 431 the year before. Over
10000 have thus arrived in the cOun-
try and taken up their abode here with
in the last three years. The total ar
rivals for the last ten years have been
less than 100000, and in no three
years preceding had the total run much
above 100000. The largest number
of immigrants arriving in any one year
preceding the three in which the pres
ent - boom has been running was 49,
S03, in 1873 The number of inn
migrants who have arrived in this coun-
try during the last fifty years reaches
over 100000. The smallest number
of arrivals in any single year in the
half-centurv aforesaid was in 1888,
when the arrivals were 1914. In 1912
the number for the first time exceeded
100000. Since that it has only
fallen below that number four times
in 1S43, 1914, 1861 and 1862. Germany
continues to furnish the largest number
of arrivals. Last year there were 19l,-
643 from Germany, the next largest
being 1882 from England and Wales.
From the Dominion of Canada there
were $4,000, Ireland, 63, 700; from Scot
land, 1862; from sunny Italy there
were 81, 10; from bleak Norway, 2l,-
1874. and from Sweden, 1886. Nearly
three-fourths of the arrivals come in at
the port of New York; the number of
immigrants at that port in the last year
having been 4O6, ,697.
The number of foreign-born persons
residents of the United States is now
about 10000 or nearly one-eighth of
its present population. In 1880 twas
6,679, 943; in 1870 it was 1867 229; in
1860. 4, 138, ,697.
New York has a larger number of
persons of foreign birth than any other
State. 1t has .2JO, 900 out of total pop
ulation of 100000. Half a million of
these are from Ireland and $50. 600 from
Germany. Pennsylvania and Illinois
have each 100000 of foreign birth and
Ohio 400, 900.
OF the 100000 of foreign population
now in the United States 2,225,0 900 are
of German nativity and nearly 1000, 600
Irish Besides the 7,000,0 900 who are of
foreign birth, there are about 100000
of foreign parentage.
The percentage of arrivals for the
last few years shows a large increase
from Germany. A few years ago the
arrivals from Ireland formed much
larger percentage of the whole than
now. The number now arriving from
Germany is more than three times as
many as those arriving from Ireland.
Last year there were 191,G43 Germans
to rs, 252 Irish. The number of emf
grants leaving Germany in the last fifty
years is estimated at $500, 600; most of
them came to the United States. -
Washington Cor. N. Y. World.
The Brookhaven leader., 1883-08-16
USury.

Our English ancestors thought that
it was shameful and unchristian to de
mand pay for the use of money. While
they never declared that the taking of
interest was unlawful, they made stat
utes to limit the amount. In time their
views changed and they saw that it
was just that borrower should pay
for the use of the money loaned him, if
the charge called interest-was not
exorbitant A trader who borrows
money to use in his business, and there
by increases his profits, ought to pay
for the use of the money just as he pays
for the rest of his stock in trade.
In nearly all countries the rate of in
terest is fixed by law. In commercial
countries it is also the rule that any rate
of interest can be given and accepted if
the agreement to pay it is made in writ
ing. The reason for this is that the
value of money like the value of any
commodity is changeable. 1t is high
when money is scarce and low when it
is plenty. 1t is right that the dealer in
money should have the same advant-
ages as the dealer in any other article.
TO take or agree to take unlawful in
terest is usury. If taken unintention-
ally. or by mistake, the agreement is
binding at the lawful late.
Money-lenders resort to many eXpe-
dients to avoid the law. Some of these
are allowable. A lender may deduct
the interest from the face-value of the
note, thus obtaining it in advance.
An agreement that a year shall be
twelve months of thirty days each, for
computing interest, is valid. Com
pound interest may be demanded and
taken if expressly agreed upon, but the
interest must be asked for when it falls
due.
A lender, who is obliged to borrow
the money he advances, may charge for
the trouble of raising it. The courts.
however, always watch such cases with
suspicion.
When a man borrows money to put
into risky business, the lender may
charge more than the lawful rate. He
has right to receive pay for the risk
he incurs. 1t is always lawful to buy
up note in the money-market for less
than its face-value.
The laws on usury do not apply to
loans of anything except money. Any
sum may be charged for lending arti-
cles of commerce.
Usurious agreements are worthless in
the hands of the parties who make them.
In some places, notes bearing usurious
interest are not good in the hands of
persons who bought without knowing
them to be so tainted. Nearly every
where, however, an innocent holder
may obtain his money.
Modern laws have made the usury
regulations of little account. To-day,
in civilized lands, they are only a curl
osity of ancient legislation Yosth's S
Companion
The Brookhaven leader., 1883-08-16
Like the Valley Of Death.

In the gas works at Twcnty-third and
Filbert streets, Philadelphia, one gets
an idea of the valley of death. Here is
the deadly cross-iire like that through
which the nonchalant Cardigan gal
loped. Two double rows OF retorts, that
must be heated for forty-eight hours be-
fore they have the proper temperature
for gaS-making, stretch clear across the
building. In this lane of fire men work
"Wben | come out of there, after twen-
tNeight minutes work on my four re-
torts,H SAID one to the reporter, Il can
put my hand on top of my head and
feel the blood leaping. | can roll up
my sleeves and see it bounding in my
veins. For seven or eight minutes aft
er that, when press my hand on my
heart as hard as can, it seems as if the
heart would jump through it. lam not
a drinking man, and | am a strong one.
To those who have that fire without and
that wild-fire within, as many of them
have, not being able to do their work
without stimulants, | can imagine what
it must be. | have ON rare occasions
and long ago--for l have been here four
teen years-takcn glass of whisky be-
fore going on. Upon my life, sir, l
could feel the blood boiling within me.
That ice-water there, of which every
man drinks from ten to fifteen quar.s a
day, positively tastes warm until you
get two or three cups of it down. That,
with oatmeal in it, is the best thing a
man can drink
"How long do men last at the busi-
ness?"
"Some only three or four years, 9th.
ers five or six, few much longer
Philadelphia Times.
The Brookhaven leader., 1883-08-16
Information Wanted.

A City Hall official was about to de-
part for home and dinner the other day,
when a stranger entered and intro
duced himself as John Linden, and
added:
Il presume YOu are a smart man, or
you wouldn' be holding this position.
| want to ask You Il question or two.
You own Il hOrSC?"
"No, sir
Don't eh? If YOU did own one,
and he had symptoms of poll-evil, what
would You do?'
. can't tell, sir. 1 am just going
to dinner
Yes, | know, but I've another
question or two? Was Cleopatra a
married wOmanp'
Il don't know. sir.
Don't YOU? That's bad, for I've a
bet of three to one that you knew all
about it, Well, we'll let that pass.
Do vou think that Shakespeare lived
happily with his wife, and is there any
truth in the rumor heard up on Michi-
Gan avenue half an hour ago that he
hated cats?'
What do / know about these
things" exclaimed the official. -
am in hurry, sir!''
$50 am |, but wait minute more.
Let's see! Oh. yes, | wanted to ask
YOU if it would be of any use to try to
revive person who had been drowned
three days?"
No, sir" shouted the official.
Wouldn't, eh! Sorry for that, for
[ have bet of ten to five that it would
be. Sit down a minute while / ask YOU
another question. Do you believe that
maternal instinct descends to fish
worms?"
Il believe you are a crank, sir, and
-
You do, eh? Then | win bet of
twenty to five, and will never cease to
be grateful. History tells us of the
youth"
Il am going home!"
Certainly, and I'll walk up street
with you. History tells us of the youth
who fired the Ephesian dome"
Il don't care-I don't care a cent,
sir.r'
Yes, but what was his name, and
was the dome insured? Did the fire de-
partment come out, and was the youth
arrested on charge of incendiarism?
want your decision?"
go away-go off, don't want
you!' shouted the official, as he tried to
outwalk the other.
you know, don't you?"
mo, sir-no, sir-go way from
me!''
You don't? Then lose a double
barreled shotgun on bet that you did.
One more question"
The official rushed for a car and
entered it, but the man walked along
beside it and looked through the win
dow and said:
"What is meant by the term 'spon-
taneous outburst?' / have frequently
seen it in print, and thought I'd ask
you to explain.
A silver half-dollar changed hands in
the car. and broad-shouldered laborer
jumped out and spit on his hands and
ran the information-seeker into hard
ware store, where he had no sooner re-