davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Bossier banner., 1883-08-02

p VOLUME XXI.
WHERE IS HEAYENa

Two little children, weeping sore,
Went wandering slowly down the street,
Poor waits upon life's stormy shbfe-
With shivering FORMS and naked feet. a
And when they glet me, as they saw
81 Theirwoe had touched my sympathi a
The oldest turned to me and cried:
20, do you know where Heayr "a, z
sour father died year age.
And mother told us, WI an he ,5;oa
That he had crossed a ,1vsr. sseA.. A.
ANA ,HeaYen was on the other side,
AND Wpen we as ed her where he was
She hlWays aid; In Heaven, / know
Anu tola us &e could 20 to him. .3 aae
" teh 8, tell us where TO go!
ear mother died week ago,sE
And Robbie cries for her ali day,
We want ogo where mother Ia.
Is Heaven so very far away2" l.-.y
%, plaint of little, sorrowing heartsl -.
Earth's universal cry is this, ... RI
That you've SO early learned to ask;
Who knows, who knows where Heaven Is
Poor little seekers after Heavenl ~
Poor little waits on life's bleak shOrel
Some day syealn feetwHl find the way
That gives you back your lost once more.
The only answer l. can give e-e54
To any question such as this +
From those who miss amother's face 16s.4
Isl Heaven is where that mother is.
-E1egl ID. ReCford. In Golden Ddys.
The Bossier banner., 1883-08-02

"A gloomy dun encountered q
brokers clerk on-the street this morn
ing and presented him for the nine
teenth time with little bill The
clerk snnilingly excused himself for an
other week. The collector put the bill
in his pocket, and said to the imperturo-
able debtor: DO You know why you
are like the weatherP' Because I'm
SO sunny lisped the. clerk, showing
all his, teeth. mo, said the dun,
"because you won t settle, and walked
off at once to patent the joke CHICAGO
Herald. a 3
The Bossier banner., 1883-08-02

The City Council of Toronto, Cam
ada, has appropriated $4,000 toward .
public library.
The Bossier banner., 1883-08-02
A False Impression.

> .
A Detroiter who was taking newly
arrived Englishn1an around town the
other day happened to pass a carpenter
shop, and the Englishman remarked
that he had always heard that Ameri-
can workmen were rather slovenly and
careless.
1--WE win 60 in and see, was the
reply, and they entered and sat down
to wait for the boss. The carpenter
was using his brace and bit to bore
holes in frame of some sort, and after
each hole was bored he had to insert a
wooden wedge. When he had bored a
hole he would walk off two feet and
hang up his brace, which would be
wanted again in about two minutes.
After whiting out each wedge he would
turn and place his knife on shelf, and
every time he wanted his hammer it
was on the bench six feet away.
"Ah! find | was sadly mistaken"
said the Englishman, as they finally
departed ''Why, that man had as
much order and system as any work
man I ever saw in England. He must
have occupied four-ffths of his time
walking back and forth for and with bis
tools.
"Yes, he was working by the day,
you see!" explained the citizen as they
walked on Detroit Free Press.
The Bossier banner., 1883-08-02

Emigration from the New England
States TO the West is falling of, and it
is believed that cyclones, hurricanes
and earthquakes have something to do
With the change Boston Post.
The Bossier banner., 1883-08-02

"A Boston bachelor believes that ali
women are firts simply on account OF
his having been refused eighteen times
in one week by SIS many maidens.
The Bossier banner., 1883-08-02

That night you will go home; Cseasr
with Caesars crown upon your brow.
and in few weeks you will be married
to a.woman who truly loves you with
her whole soul. Butnot until you have
taken possession of noble palace on
the Hudson, with luxury and fine horses
all around you, win you begin to realize
into what depths of contempt q sordid
man can descend. IN. z JoaT7rJ
The Bossier banner., 1883-08-02

-Tavares (Fla.l fishermen have in
stitnted new and novel method of
catching fish, which seems, however, to
be very successful. A fire is built on
board laid across a long row-boat, and
the fish, attracted by the bright light,
leap toward it, fall into the boat, and
are captured.
The Bossier banner., 1883-08-02

"Yes, he was working by the day,
you see!" explained the citizen as they
walked on.--Det7ioit Free Press.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-21
Stone for Paving Purposes.

And any person interested in such improvements
will find it greatly to his advantage to communicate
witheus. We invite correspondence on the subject.
The general management and supervision OF the
Balm.
Address YOUR letters to
Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-21

their heads and plunge headlong into the
wall Of water Just rs it is about to break
and dash down upon them. With a seeth-
ing sound the crest Of the wave shoots up.
ward, combs over gracefully, thunders
down upon the beach and goes back with
n roar, and Miss Murray Hill is seen
floating at her ease out beyond the line
of breakers. saw her when she had
been venturesome enough to do just that
thing when the tide was running out with
usual force. The breaker had given her
a hard tussle when she went through it,
and she had turned to swim
in, but the outward current was too
strong for her, and though doing her best,
she was being carried farther and farther
from the land. Did she yell, and swal-
low salt water, and strangle, and sink
Not a bit Of it; she raised one hand out
Of the water to show that she needed as
~sistance, Topped over on her back, spread
out her arms and lay still IS a mouse,
with her precious, sunburned nose barely
above the water, letting the tide have its
own way with her. In one minute
more a couple of stalwart swimmers
were at her side with "a plank and line.
Then she rested her arms on the plank
and was hauled in smiling, for which ser
vice she quietly said she was much
obliged.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-21
HOW THEY MARRIED.
A Written Contract Preferred to n
Religious Ceremony.

Marriage in Indiana is illustrated by
the following expedient Of a Muncie
couple: Last winter Seth NJ. Written,
an eccentric attorney Of Union City,
came here on behalf Of remonstrants in
certain liquor cases appealed from that
county to this. He took up his abode at
the Maddy house, and apparently pre-
pared to stay. The magnet which at
tracted him was found to be a fair fellow
boarder, Miss Maud Macarthur, a blush
ing damsel Of some 30 ummers The
attraction proved mutual, and finally the
devoted couple contracted to become one.
Here it is that Whitten's crankness took
form. He lives, he claims, i'll a higher
moral and religious atmosphere than COM
mon, everyday mortals, and disdained
to approach the Ihymeneal altar under a
license duly issued under the laws of the
state, and made binding by theinterposition
Of preacher OF squire. Spurning these
legal conventionalities, he induced his
fair inamOrata to sign with him a written
contract which sets forth their belief in
the sacredness of a promise to each
other, and its being the only true mar
riage ceremony. They agree that they
shall each, before God the world,
take the other for his or her lawful and
welded husband and wife, to love, to
cherish and to protect, in sickness or in
health, till death or competent legal
authority shall them part, the same
being made binding on their heirs, exec
utors and assigns forever. This novel
document was signed by both the con
tracing parties on Feb. "a. since which
time they have done their best to avoid
being declared %defaulting contractors.
1t has only just leaked out, under the
pressure of threats of prosecution for
living together unlawfully. Under the
statute they are legally married, but the
novelty of the ceremony, or lack Of cere-
mony, causes some excitement, inter
mingled with disgust, in social circles
where the lady has been favorably
known.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-21
IMPALENI ENT.
The Exquisite Cruelty of Oriental
Punishment.
Cincinnati Enquirer.

Cincinnati Enquirer.
A cable dispatch gives the frightful in
telligence that Capt. Riviere, the COM
mander of the French forces occupying
Fort Hanoi, in Cochin China, being cap
tured in IA skirmish with the Anamites,
with fifteen of his men, was executed the
following day with the rest of the pris-
oners. The Paris Gaulois says that the
unfortunate men suffered death from i'm
placement, IA mode of death 50 ".cruel and
revolving that, in case the report Of The
Gaulois should be confirmed, this outrage
would doubtless call down upon its in.
famous perpetrators the Indignation of
the civilized world.
The impaling of persons sentenced to
death for great crimes has been practiced
in the east for many centuries. In, Tur-
key, where this punishment was most
frequently inflicted, assassins whose
crimes were of an aggravated character
were always condemned to die on the
pole; and the traveller who penetrates
into the interior of Asia Minor will now
and then, even in III times, ride past
slender posts erected along the roadside
ON which the skeletons of the ,unfortu,
mates are hanging who have been put to
death in this horrible manner.
Saint Edme in his Dictionaire de la
Pena lite describes the manner in which
this punishment is inflicted as follows:
"The unfortunate man who is to suffer
death by implement is laid fiat upon the
ground, face downward. His hands ar,
tied to his back, and one of the execu
toners assistants sits down on his back,
SO that the victim cannot move. A sec
ond assistant holds the culprit's heat
firmly to the ground, and a third assist
ant seizes his legs, which he holds so tina
he cannot move them. The executionel
now approaches with the instrument o
death, a long stake or pole, which h,
pushes into the body from behind. Tn,
pole tapers almost to n point, but il
rounded off somewhat at the end, so tina
it will not penetrate the entrals at once
The executioner. pushes thi
pole into the flesh as far as he cal
with his hands, whereupon a fourth as
sistant drives it still further with a nal
let. Now the pole, which has penetrate,
deeply into the body of the doomed mar
is set upright in the ground, and the vic
tim is left to die upon it. The weight o
the body presses it further down upon tn
stake every moment, and the point final
, ly protrudes from the breast or side q
the culprit. Some of those upon whor
this horrible punishment has been in
t tiicted died quickly, and their sutferin
: was soon over, but Others are said to hav
suffered untold agony for hours, and eve
7 days, before death put an end to thei
. torments,"
Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-21

Saturday Evening Trains.
The following table shows the date and names Of
roads running trains tn Chicago from the Union Pa
Cihc transfer on saturday evenings:
Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-21
Water Nymphs at Concy Island.
Chicago Journal

Did you ever sit in one of the grand
stands at Coney Island and see the girls
in fancy stockings wade in till the puny
surf Just about wet the tops of them.
the stockings, please Northumberland
then hop up and down, clinging to the
ropes and yelpingi Well, that is what
you don't see at the unheard-of bathing
places am telling you about. You
would be surprised at the number of girls
who are expert and daring swimmers
Murray Hall daughters of from 10 to 20
summers, who walk coolly down to the
breakers, follow out the recedinp
sweep Of water till they reach an
incommiug "roller," then poise them.
selves on tiptoe, stretch their arms above
Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-21

Tho only known specific for Epileptic Fits. N
Also for spasms and Falling Sickness. Nervous
Weakness 1t instantly relieves and cures. Cleanses
blood and quickcns sluggish circulation. Neutra-
lires germs Of disease and saves sickness. Cures
Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-21

and the rustic Of skirts as the room op.
posite was entered by belle No. 2.
II was a lucky escape. The stocking
was afterwards discovered, but as no
owner could be found for it, no scandal
was created.
To hear the hero of this story relate it.,
with all the dash and style of a true Ken
lucky story-teller, would give an outside
individual a good idea of the powers Of
entertainment of the Kentucky people
who follow Mr.. Knott, crowd his rooms,
and swear by him in all the acts of his
political career. r. G. CRAWFORD.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-21
Instantly KclicXcI.

Mrs. Ann Lacour, Of New Orleans, La,
writes; I have a son who has been sick for
two years; he has been attended by our lead
ing physicians but all to no purpose. This
morning he had his usual spell Of coughing, and
was so greatly Frustrated in consequence, that
death seemed imminent. We had in the house
a bottle of DIR. VIM. HALLS BALSAM for
the LUNGS, purchased by my husband, who
noticed your Advertisement yesterday. We adj
ministered it according to directions and he
was inst antly relieved.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-21
Opening and Closing OF Mails.

Local mails for state of Iowa leave but once a day
viz: 4;S0 a. M.
A Lincoln mail is also opened at 1880 a. M.
Office open Sunday from 1900 M. to 100 p. m.
THOS. +. HALL, Postmaster.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-21

LADY BEAUTIFIERs-Ladies, you, can
not make fair . skin, rosy cheeks, and
sparkling eyes with all the cosmetics of
France or beautitiers Of the world, while
in poor health and nothing will give you
such rich blood, good health, strength and
beauty as Hop Bitters. A trial is certain
proof.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-21
PROPOSALS FOR CURLING AND
GUTTERING.

SEAlED PROPOSALS WILL BE RECEIVED BY
> the undersigned until ~ o'clock noon OF Mon
day July 2nd, A, d lSS3, for the curbing and gut
tering OF that part Of Capitol avenue lying between
the west curb line Of Fourteenth street and the east
curb line OF sixteenth street, in the city OF omaha
All said work 10 be done and material furnished IN
accordance with plans and specifications on file In
the otioe of the BOARD Of Public Works. ,
BIDS to he made separately for limestone and
sandstone and on printed blanks furnished by said
board. The board reserves the right to determine
after the bids shall have been opened whether sucih
contract shall be let, either tor limestone. or for sand,
stone BIDS TO be accompanied by the signatures OF
OF the contract, will enter into bonds with the city OF
omaha IN the sum OF five hundred dollars Tor the
faithful performance Of such work.
The Board OF Public Works reserves the right 70
reject any or all bids.
JAMES CREIGHTON.
Je lstav.tw
Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-21

About those mosquitoes in Texas,
Says Sweet they no longer ve1 us,
When the trouble is imminent
Use st. Jacobs Oil liniment,
Contented and happy it makes us.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-21

SIOUX FALLS
JASPER
STONE
Company.
LIsconroRArgp
This company Is now prepared to receive orders for
SIOUX FALLS JASPER STONE, for
Building Purposes,
And will make figures on round lots for prompt deliv
cry. The compai y is shipping
Paving Blocks
To both Chicago and Omaha, and solicits correspond
ence and orders from contractors. engaged in paving
streets in any Of the western cities.
TESTIMONIALS.
SUPERINTENDENT OPPICK, Chicago, West Diy-l
ison Railway, Chicago December >, 1882.
d.. Elwel, President Sioux Falls Water Power COM
pany.
DHAR SRI have received from your company
since October !, 1882, about 100 CaIloads OF granite
paving blocks and have laid them between the rails Of
our street railway tracks in the heart of the city. I
have been using paving material In this city for many
years, and | take pleasure in saying that in my opin-
ion the granite paving blocks furnished by your COM
pany are the most regular in shape and perfect in
form, and as far as | have been able to judge, ate
possessed Of as durable feature as any material that
has ever been offered or laid in the city.
Yours, JAS. X. LAKE.
Copy.
SIS. LOUIS, March %, 1888.
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN
This IL to certify that I have examined q piece Of
granite taken from the Sioux Falls Granite Quarries,
and, in my opinion, 1t is the best stone for street pay.
ing have seen in America.
(Signed) HENRY LAD,
Pres. Board Public improvements.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1883-05-18

Hold on to your tongues when
speak harshly.
bold on to your hand when ron
are on the point of punching.
scratching, stealing, or doing any
improper act.
Hold on to your foot when YOU
are on the. point OF kicking, run.
ming from study, or puFsuiJfg the
path OF error, shame or crime.
Hold on to your temper when
you are angry, excited, Of imposed
you. -
Hold on. T.. your hsart when evil
associates seek your compau5, auJ
invite you TO Join In their mirtL.
games and rcvelry.
Hold on to your good namo az
all times, for 1t il oil moro yalue
than gold, high places, or fashion.
Hold. on to TRUTH it will serve
you we'll and do you good through
out eternity.
Hold.on to virtue-Iti is above NIL
nSI!cs gI!os. 70 you, at al times and
), Hold on to your character, for.
u u. aud ever will be, your best
wealth,
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1883-05-18

puts 4 IN his mouth when the min
lister pionoaHees the benedie.fia.
ana when they get out doors he -
all ready 10 spit. He always ,loss
thaf. Well, my ehum had ! nre-
ent on Christmas OF q pssic har
just about rs big as pas robseco
boz, and all you have TO slo i -
touch . spring aHait plays .ShIs :
daisy, shes a dpmpling.' | Dor.
rowed it and put In pa's nirfoi.
pocket where be keeps his tol,.ss.,
box, and when the choir cot most
through Staging pa reached bis
hand III his pocket aud began ~
tumble around foe q chew. ia
touched the spring, and iust ~
every body bowed their hcads 70 rs' ~
ceive tho benedIction, and II vas :.
still you could hear a gum drop. the he
music box began to play, aud IN the
stillness 1t SOUNDED rs n cb,ich or
gan. Well, | thought ua woaId
sirk. The minister heard Il and 4.
looked at pa, too, aud pa turned
red, and the music box kent up
She's o daisy,' aud the minister
looked mad aud said amen, and the
people began to put to put on their
coats, aud the minister told tho
deacon to hunt up the source Of
that worldly music, and they took
pa into the room back OF the pulnit
aud searched him, and ma SAYS pa
VIII have to DO. churcbed. They
Kept the music-box, and | have rot
70 carry In coal to GET money enough
20 nay my clium a new music box.
Well, | shall have to 90 and get
that vaseline, or pas log will suffer.
Good -dav.'
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1883-05-18

GEORGE WOOD, Chaneell...

Jackson county. first Monday Of March
aud September. continuing six..days.
Harrison county, second Monday In
March and September, continuing six days
Hancock county, third Monday In March
Greene county, fourth Mondays In March
aud September, continuing six days.
aud september, continuing six days.
Marion county, second Monday after the
fourth Monday in March aud September,
continuing six days.
Perry county, first Monday after the
fourth Monday IN March aud September,
continuing six days.
Wayne county, fourth Monday after the
fourth Monday Of March aud September,
continuing six days.
Clarke county, first Monday in May and
November, continuing six days.
Lauderiale county, thirdI Monday of
May and November, continuing twelve
days.
Kemper county, second Monday In May
and November, continuing six days.
Monthly rules of Chancery Court on the
second Monday In each month.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1883-05-18

comes In at the window loves flies
out at the door. And then, afier
fixing The date OF Jour aqueous ex.
eiirslon to the scene OF former rev.
eiles as being in April, you 90 and
Tell ghost story about the night
ingAle making vocal June's palace
paved with loye. Now, don't
know anything sbont Jnne's palace,
or What it is paved. With, hnt when
you get 10 nighIingalrs am In the
front row. This Is "a Chicago poem,
and ought therefore to have some
kiud OF Typographical harmony
about IL. We might overlook the
sitting by the streamlet part. ON
the ground that you had the ca
tarrh, aud couldn't smell the only
stream iu this vicinity. Poetic II.
oense would cover that, but the
Nightingale racket won't work.
And then Ia the last verse you Just
beat the record by saying that sthe
strealnlct now is frozen, thonight.
ingales are lied, the corn. fields are
deserted, and every rose Is dead
! don't vee any reason to doubt the
absconding Of the nightinsales II
they heard the first two stanzas of
tho poem, nor 10 the tleseriion OF
the coru-helda q matter of surprise,
because In this country we ,lon't
plant corn until May aud any ex.
cursions through corn.Helds in
April would necessarily be tinged
with fruitlessness. But the frozen
streamlet will never do. Chicago
IL u great winter resort, but II yon
aud the victim of tue poem could
purr around each other ia April Of
one gear on the banks OF y creek, it
doesn't stand to reason that in the
succeeding April there would bo
skating, does 1t, now n
"Well, realI-, sir, I thought that
was a good poem. Mamma thought
10, t0o.p
"Your mother IL doubtless an
cstimable person." said the horse
reporter, " but ~ a rule the .judg.
Ineut Of the gentle sex Ii more val
nable In connection with how to
compound bsndoline, or the most
approved method OF doing mp back
halr so as to mako it look their own,
than when matters OF u purely lite.
rary character are under considera-
tion.n
Then you can't print my
verses " said the young lady.
"Oh, yes, they will be printed.n
Thanks. Will it be sure to 20
In II YOU sny so ~
"Yes.p
+" Well, didn't know. You
seem rather young to have such u
responsible positions
I" "Yon remember what Socrates
said," replied the horse reporter /.
" Young men tor war, old men for
counsel'-in divorce cases.n
/" Good day, sir" said the poet.
bon jour-" replied tho horse re-
porter. II don't know what bon
Jour means, but the literary editor
always says 1t, aud when il comes
70 talking any thing but United
States he 10 u large white daisy
with o yellow spot in the centre"
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1883-05-18

Quit whati Quit telling your
innocent, c0n6dlng, trembling
children about ghosts and heb
goblins. You are throwing sor.
row upon yonng hearts that will
cling there through life. How
many mothers there are Aho quie t
their children by saying, "Bug-a.
boos will como and take you Off
"Oome, old nigger, come and
well, will you hush this minute r.
The poor child always believes all
its own mother says aud why
shouldn't iti
It ought to believe her; that is
nlial duty. The sobbing, fiutrciing
heart is quiet, but not com; ;osei.
Those fearful eyes close In slcep
Of terror; a weary aud brokun rest
llows; the child dreams--but oh !
Who can tell the sadness Of u child
while It dreams in sleep ffighteu.
ed upon it BY alarms Of all that Is
terrible and repulsiyc.
Such iuhuman treatment endan-
gpFs the miDd--the intellect. Moth.
ers bewarel And see that no
nurse, or servant, or elder brother,
or sister, drive sorrows of grief to
the very so1l Of your child. AL
sorrow early planted and watered
by tears, will bring forth q harvest
OF bitterness aud despair.
How common . habit is this TO |
teach children to fear unseen dan.
gers at aigltflll The pc,crful |
night, So full Of sweetness; th6
night that brings fresh honey drops |
OF dew to bless the flowers and |.
ypfresh the dry leaves; the night
that brings rest for the weary, this
dearest time OF all, is to be made
terrible to children. What wick.
ednessl Why, 1t IL blasphemy to
make the little ones believe that
God forgets them, and sends tor. |
mentors to trouble them in the
silent watches OF the night.
Parents, think Of this, See that |.
your children hear no ghost stories. |
See that they are taught TO love
the Pver,prescnt Saviour, aud to
honor His blessed name. |
- -