The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-10-23
Gold Facts.

| CnaG accomplished 1dnguOr JndG was
necessary to avoid a rupture of his con-
tracted pantaloons, paused in ecstatic
rapture as his optics rounded the prom
| ontoTy of his noble Roman nose and
received upon their refine the impress
| sion of fair vision of loveiiness that
! graced, with an entire absence of art
one of those ornate pine boards that do
duty as sofas in the Burlington park.
! The mingled notes of harmonious music
fioated in softened cadences on the
meliiduous air of evening and smote
the ear of Adolphus with distract
ing vigor. The band was playing, a
band of mosquitoes, engaged by the park
commissioners regardless of the bills.
Adolphus hastily resented the too in
innate approach of member of the
band and the conclusion and immediate
safe escape of the intruder attracted the
attention of the hitherto apparently un-
conscious divinity sitting upon the
smooth side of the pine board aforesaid
| (the under side not being planed), and
she unsuspectingly raised her eyes, re-
vealing at the same instant double
row of exquisitely white and regularly
set teeth.
With that maidenly reserve becoming
q young girl, she promptly restored her
wandering optics to subdued attitude,
and, with that intuitiye perception char
acteristic of womanhood, reflected pen
sively that she had made mash if
Adolphus had failed
But she didn't say anything.
She merely tapped the toe of her
boot with the handle of herparasol and
waited developments.
Adolphas reflected that he didn't
know for his soul whether she had
smiled on him or laughed at him.
Adolphus was one of Burlington's IS
best young men, and the untold wealth
that his father had boarded was by no
means limited to the size of Adolphus'
pantaloons.
With that versatility of resource
characteristic of the dude, he stopped,
scratched crooked and rusty pin from
the macadamized road which passes for
a graveIed walk, and with it tenderly
grasped in his lily digits and a quart ol
Iime-sto dust under his finger nails,
he approached the object of his desire
SOW, excuse me. Pway did you
dwop this?''
A smiling acknowledgement that she
had, led to further conversation, and in
a few moments the two souls were en-
rapport or words to that effect, if that
is the way to spell it.
The acquaintance led to friendship
the friendship to an intimacy, and the
intimacy to an ice-cream saloon, where
under the melting glances of the gen
| 10 FaS oA Nv fha e1lTs
quence of her eyes, supplemented BY
the enthusiastic co operation of her cor
aline gums, Adolphus' wealth and the
caterers ice-eream daily disappeared
in geometrical progression.
A troubled look gradually stole int
Adolphus Augustus languid eyes, a!
the drain upon his purse maintained
with a relentless and insatiate appe
tite, gradually reduced him from atfiu
ence to want. Under the extraordi
nary mental strain, as, day after day
the dairy and his bank account wer,
exhausted to furnish frigid lacteal t
the warm-hearted and giddy youn2
creature, who had learned to dote or
him so fondly, he pined and wasted
away until his attenuated bifurcatet
garments tapped like sailors breeche
about his knees.
But there was no respite.
Day after day the old longing, sh
said, returned Adolphus neglected hi
club. His dues were unpaid. Their
seemed to be no end to that woman
appetite or her capacity. His plait
ulster was still left from last winter
wardrobe, and with unsteady gait an,
, haggard brow he seeks the Intervention
of my uncle and procures the mean
wherewith once more to crafty, alas
not to satisfy, the cravings of disor
dered stomach. As they approach tn
portals of the palatial refrigerato
where frozen pudding is retafled at fiji
teen cents aspoonful, Adolphus can no
fail to note that while carking care, like
worm in the mud, has gnawed on hi
! damaged cheek. in just that same rati
has the manipulation of corn starch an
Gillett's extracts arisen in splendor, an
the dome thatprotrudes obtrusively froI
his countenance exceeds any similar dt
sign presented even by a GovernmeT
contractor. The end is reached. No
OF the sweet ones appetite, but of Ado
: phus' pocket book. Not nickel lef
! Not street car ticket. Gone is wealt
: and happiness, gone is the languid. n
pose of those halcyon days when
; thought was burden. But the apps
tite remains vigorous, active, aggre.
, sive.
The chill blasts of autumn moan
: solemn requiem through the denude
; branches of the trees. The boys n
I longer wash their feet in the fountai
at the park; the bull-frog croaks in tt
! Third street pond gutteral roundela1
u The night watch dozes tenderly an
!. peacefully on the pine seats, the pa
moon looks down in waning splendC
J and sad-eyed grief upon the danglin
: form of the late Adolphus Augusta
while the retreating dog-star beholt
with sinister glance bridal pair d
parting on an extended tour through
region of perennial ice-cream. r.
: Bnrdette, IN Burlington Ha1Okeye.
:, The absurd office of Kings cocl
, Grower was continued so late as Il
: reign of George L During Lent 9
Q officer denominated the Kings Cocl
: Grower" Z" eroWed the hour every Mol