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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-05-15

The Modoc tribe of Indians now
number but twenty-six families or LOG
persons. - Chicago JolH4lqA
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-05-15
THE ARCTIC WATCH.

nobold upon the frozen foam,
4 little vessel far from home,
q The yacht Jeanette. -
rhe nolar star above her lies.
/ sward of light set in the skies;
1ha Arctic wave is on her deck.
III Hone has left the broken wreck.
pereft af all things else but Fate,
And sinking, sinking, sinking yet,
behold her lying desolate.
The lost Jeannette!
mead heroes on a field of snow;
nc lonely heart that, beating slow,
Yet dreams of home.
whore golden fruits are on the bough,
And an the woods are crimson now.
The last of that high-hearted band
Eeeps vigil in that bitter land;
and crowned with thorns of frost and pain.
lives DER his boyhood days again;
And In his drear deaJh-watch uplifts
II;e gaze and sees beyond the drifts,
the iceberg tall. a crystal gate,
Nv which his risen comrades wait,
NSt weak and worn like men who died,
But robed, and crowned, and glorihed.
Familiar voices greet his ear;
irhe lips that love him call him dear;
Frost-hower and thorn that bound his head
Mplt off and ii is wreathed instead
with lilies of the pure-in-heart,
His lev garments fan apart;
The pain. and toll, and danger passed,
The long death-watch is done at last!
He stanfis a form of living light,
Ne ioins his comrades in their flight,
They pass the sward set in the skies.
No waste white deserts now to roam,
They upward, upward, upward rise,
And win the gates of Paradise
o, welcome home!
Minnie IrUing, an The Md7lldttdf.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-05-15
During the late storm the Pinto

-Durlng the Iate StOrm Ine TInJO
Lake, California, oyerdowed, and
schools of catfish escaped to the Salsi-
puedas creek, and from that stream ran
into. the College Lake and Paiaro River.
This is natures way of transplanting
fish, and accounts for the tinny inhab-
itants of many isolated ponds and
Iakes.-San Francisco Chronicle.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1884-02-20
The Rival Partners.

A gentleman of mature age waited
upon the head master of commercial
school, with the object of taking pri-
vate lessons in bookkeeping by double
entry. He stated that he had reason
to suspect his partner in business of
manipulating the accounts to his dis
advantage, and therefore desired to
extend his knowledge of bookkeeping
in order to keep sharp lookout. The
new pupil took his seat in a separate
room, and was soon absorbed in the
mysteries of the ledger, day-book,
cash-book, bills payable, petty cash,
ETC., etc. A few days later another
elderly gentleman, anxious to learn,
called upon the schoolmaster. He too
declared that he was not satisfied with
the way his partner kept the books,
and that he wished to obtain the neces-
sary qualifications to enable him to
ascertain the reason why the profits
were not SO large as he expected. His
request to take the lessons in a private
room could not be complied with just
then for want of accommodation, and
he at last consented to join the first
gentleman. '.Hello" he calculated in
a tone of great surprise as, on entering
the room, he recognized in his fellow
pupil his own partner in propria per-
soma. "What, you herer' stammered
out the latter, in faint voice. A mu-
tual explanation followed, and, full of
shame and contrition, the two princi-
pals Of the firm walked home, vowing
to trust each other better in future.
The course Of lessons was brought to
IN abrupt close. Der Friedensboae.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1884-02-20
Knows Better Than to Save Money.

Knows Better Than to Save Money.
II see," said Senator Frye, s'that a
Washington paper, in a very compli-
mentary notice, sets me down as a
poor man, not worth over 1925, 200.
That's too much, y said Mr.. Frye.
.But the fellow who wrote that does
not know the reason l am poor. It
came about in this wise. Twas brought
up in Quaker family, and when in
my boyhood, got chance to go up
to Boston, my Quaker grandfather
gave me IS to spend. l did not know
any boys in Boston, and l could think
of no way to have IS worth of fun
without boys. So kept the money in
my pocket. When | got home my
grandfather asked me how spent the
IS, and /, with the air of one who had
done virtueus action, said, I did
not spend it at all, grandfather; / saved
it and have it in my pocket Where
upon my grandfather said: You may
give me back the money, William. 1
gave you that money to spend at Bos-
ton Ever since that" said the SEN
ator, II have known better than to
save money y LeWistoD,s Journal.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1884-02-20
An Expert Horseman.

A little group of men were seated one
day last week in the club-room of
downtown hotel, smoking, chatting
and thoroughly enjoying each others
society. The conversation developed
the fact that most of them had seen
service in the late war. and anecdote
and story naturally drifted in that di-
rection. 1t was a characteristic of the
"reminiscences that tales of gore and
bl0odshed were almost entirely. ignor-
ed, and remembrance only seemed to
drift back to the lighter and brighter
side of that memorable struggle.
One, sitting in a window seat, sud-
denly called to his nearest companion:
"Who is that man, Major?' The man
referred to was passing on horseback.
The animal was dainty little mare.
clean in neck and limbs "good one"
evidently. The rider sat erect in the
saddle, but easily and gracefully, with
light hand on the rein. The sombrero,
Texas saddle, boots, jingling spurs,
and dashing air proclaimed the plains
rider, while the confident glance, right
and left, indicated that the rider APP
preciated the public interest in his APP
pearance and get-up.
why, that is John H, lieuten-
ant in my old regiment. He was al
ways great horseman-one of those
men who could teach a horse anything,
and make spirited animal out of the
sorriest plug. He was always up to
some trick or other, in which his train
ed horse played prominent part.
When we were on q scout favorite
trick of his was to ride at full gallop
into q town and drop his horsein heap
right in the street, and the intelligent
brute would lie there as though dead.
He would go off and attend to his bust
ness, and come back to find crowd
around the horse almost ready to mob
him for his cruelty. Flinging leg
over the animals back, he would come
to life, spring up, and be away in an
instant. Many time in dangerous
scouts has this ability to drop his horse
in an instant stood him in good stead,
and enabled him to escape capture. A
peculiar thing was that his horses
would never do their tricks for anyone
else. Officers used to take fancy for
some of his trained animals and pay a
large price for them, only to find that
they were very ordinary and stu
pid brutes out OF their trainer hands,
Sacramento Bee.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1884-02-20
Four Wealthy Women.

Some of the very rich women of New
York have many peculiarities. Mrs.
Stewart, for instance, never opens her
front windows, and she goes out dri-
wing so seldom that even the neighbors
on the adjoining block do not know
her. She is q sincere Christian, believ-
ing more firmly in the English church
than any other, and yet worshiping
more to suit her own quiet taste than
according to any set tenets of faith.
She does not care for her personal APP
pearance, and does not dress half so
neatly as her servants. She walks out
OF pleasant afternoons thrice a week,
and while always accompanied at q
respectable distance by strong man
servant, she looks so complacent that
not one of the multitude are aware that
sac is the richest widow in the world.
Mrs: Stewart always carries goodly
sized coins for beggars.
Miss Wolfe differs from Mrs. Stew
art in this respect: When she meets q
beggar she must know his or her ref
erence before doing anything of SUBJ
stantial nature. It is very difficult
matter to fix the age of Miss Wolfe.
She is no longer young, and yet she
does not look old. She possesses a
face of the type which never ages.
There is q story about her having loved
a brave fellow some years ago, and
that he passed away before the day
agreed upon for their wedding, and
when he was buried her heart was also
put away in the tomb. 1t is a pretty
romance-all devotion, nothing but
truth and pureness, she now de-
votes her life to charity.
Mrs. Goelet, like her late husband. is
of retiring disposition. For intervals
of weeks she will remain closely at
home, out to all callers, and then again
she will be seen at every place of note
in the city. Her jewels are said to be
the finest private collection in the coun-
try. The Goelets were always q Gu
rious family.
But the most sensible and attractive
of the rich ladies in New York whom
this article has called to mind is Mrs.
Marshall 0. Roberts. The widow of a
mining king, intelligent, cultured, and
handsome, she, with $4,000, 900 in her
own right, numbers her suitors by the
dozens. Some time ago. it will be
readily recalled, the gossips said that
she proposed to enter the white house
as the wife of Arthur and its mistress.
According to an informant of mine,
Mrs. Roberts, when this story came to
her ears, burst out crying as though
her heart would break, pronounced it
false, and supplemented it with the
statement that she would never again
60 to the altar as an expectant bride.
She is the center of social circle of
brave men and women, does a great
deal in aid of literature and art, and is
well known to the poor of the Five
Points and the East Side, York
Cor. Kansas CITY Times.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1884-02-20
fore he could give any signs of return
inp consciousness Jack had snrnnr

fore he could give any signs of return
ing consciousness. Jack had sprung
to my assistance, and was ready with
his pistol just as broke the villains
arm; but he saw how matters were 90
ing, SO he reserved his fire, knowing
that | wished to take the fellow alive if
possible. We bound his legs together,
but when I found how badly his right
arm was broken l left that one hang
and dashed the left arm to his body.
AS soon as this was accomplished we
put the schooner about and made back
toward the bay, for I was determined
to land the rascals in Mobile as quickly
as possible. We moved them aft upon
the quarterback, and when they came
to their senses and realized what had
happened, they raved in all sorts of
shapes. They swore that no Jail or
prison could hold them-that they
should surely get away again-and
their first work would be to send me
and my two boys out Of The world, but,
if we would let them 60, they would be
more considerable, and would not harm
us. They kept up that strain until they
found it would ~: work, and then they
assured us that t! BY had untold sums
of money concealed in various places.
and if we would let them go they would
make us rich.
But, they succeeded no better than
before, and then they went into bloody
threats again. This they kept up until
they found that we were paying no at
tention to them. and then the one whom
had attended to, and who proved to
be Matt Vickers, seemed to discover
shat his arm wanted caring for, and
ere long he began to groan with pain.
But I could give him little hel D. l
fixed a cushion for his arm to rest upon,
and thus he had to remain and make
the best of it. He begged to be let up,
but there was so much ugliness in his
tone that l wouldn't trust him.
We dropped anchor close to the city
about II o'clock at night, and Jack
pulled ashore in the boat, and soon had
some officers aboard, into whose hands
we resigned our prisoners. Matt Wick
ers had his arm set by an experienced
surgeon when he got ashore; but not
long ;fterward he had his neck broken
by the hangman, and in this latter
catastrophe Adolph Leroy bore him
company.
The reward of $4,000 was cheerfully
paid over to us, SO that our little bit Of
trouble and excitement turned out we'll
for both us and the community at large.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1884-02-20
A Corner on Ice.

The first man to strike the corner
where the porter had thrown pail of
water over the dag-stones and pro-
duced glare of ice was an insurance
agent He slid to the right, clawed to
the left, clutched at a sunbeam, and
went down with the exclamation
Hanged if I don't!'' He rose up to
jaw and threaten and collect crowd
and almost whip somebody, and he
went away stirred up for all day.
The next man was tailor-tall, spare
and solemn. His toes all of sudden
turned out, his left leg was lifted, and
he spun once and half around be-
fore he went down with the remark:
Il knew 'twould happen!" He got up
to hurry along out of sight, and it was
easy to see that he had calculated on
about so many falls for the winter.
The next was leshy man with
smiling face and an air of good nature.
He lost no time in going down and when
he struck he realized that he had hit
something. And yet what he said was:
''Is it possible!' He got up slowly,
forced grin when the boys chaffed
him, and looked back three times to
make sure that he hadn't made a hole
in the sidewalk that would prove man
trap for other pedestrians.
The next was bank clerk with a
pencil over his ear and a preoccupied
mind. He was swinging his right hand
and rushing right ahead when he sud-
denly saw billions of stars shining in
the morning sky. His first thought was
that somebody was celebrating Fourth
of July; his next was to scrabble up and
search for an asylum where he could
hunt up his collar button and splice his
suspenders. Not word escaped him
until he was block away. Then he
remarked: ..At six per cent. it would
be $854.17.''
The next man was a strapping big
fellow with an ulster on and red silk
handkerchief hanging ont of q pocket.
He began sort of shuttle as he struck
the spot, increased it to regular
breakdown" and finally went down
with regular whoop that was heard
half block away. He was up in q
moment. Diagonally across the street
he saw man in an express wagon.
The boys called to him that he had
lost his red handkerchief, and that his
nose would sadly miss it, but he would
not wait. He strobe across the street
and up to the wagon, and as he hauled
off and hit the driver singer on the
ear he groWled out:
There, hang you! That makes US
even.''
'.What even?' shouted the driver as
he rose up and adjusted his cap. but
the other was gone. Detroit Free Press.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1884-02-20
Peculiarities of TennysOn.

Tennyson passes most of his days ut
Farringford, surrounded by the lovely
and romantic scenery for which the
Isle of Wight is noted. He spends on
an average six to eight hours day in
his library engaged in literary work.
Orders are always given that he shall
not be interrupted except for most mo-
mentOus reasons, and he never is; for
the members OF his family and his SER
wants think his making of line of
quite as much Importance as the crea-
ton of new world-an opinion which,
it is needless to say, he fully shares.
Perhaps if his wife-she was Emily
Sellwood-were dying she mi ght ven
ture to have him informed of the fact
during his hours of work. She would
not be willing that his sanctuary should
be profaned for any less cause, because
she religiously believes that William
Shakespeare is scarcely the equal of
Alfred Tennyson. If she were capable
of forming or cherishing any other
opinion, it is doubtful if he would live
with her. She probably preserves her
connubial place by the most rapturous
worship and the most absolute self
effacement.
There have been awful instances of
the invasion of Tennyson's library
while he was in the throes of compost
ton, owing to the relaxed vigilance of
his domestic dragons. The scenes
that followed can hardly be described.
The poet, in his wrath, ragged like mad,
threatening to destroy the intruder,
and literally tearing the little hair he
has left. The very idea of interrupt
ing Alfred Tennyson in his hours of di-
vine inspiration seemed to him mon
strous beyond belief, a hideous crime
eternally objectionable. He has never,
believe, made any physical assault
upon an unfortunate intruder, though
it would have been supposed, from his
furious demonstrations, that he could
be appeased with nothing short of
homicide.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1884-02-20

A Washington letter, speaking Of the
employment of women in the depart
ments, says: .sWomen are doing better
work every year, and the feeling Of
sentiment, 50 much an influence in
their behalf, is giving place to the rec
ognition of their efficiency. They are
employed as telegraph operators at the
hotels here, and the proprietors Of the
Arlington, Ebbitt and Riggs very frank
" say they prefer women as opera
tors. because they are prompt, sttent-
i've and obliging.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1884-02-20
The Editors Wife.

Eugene Field, the poet-humorist, at
the Chicago press meeting, responded
to the toast, 1.-The Editors Wife, as
follows:
No eloquent thought and no flowing word
That the most Of you, list'ning enraptured,
Would allure me from viands SO temptingly
That spread f'Ts missed the extempore speeches
you've read.
But my heart beats responsive to one theme
divine
SO l throw down my napkin, my fork, and
my knife,
To speak to the toast of the editors wife.
And of course youth agree-since our wives
are all here
To brighten the scene and partalke of our
That the best of all angel kind heaven has
TO bring man sympathy, peace, and con-
To add to his joys and lessen his woes
To sew on his buttons and patch up his hose
And to smooth out the kinks and the wrinkles
of life,
Is the idol we worship-the editors wife,
When the editor comes from his office at
At a very late hour, in a dubious plight,
The Impression prevails and the story is
That an editors wife can be always cajoled
With a db about bridges and 'broken-
down press
But we who have been there are free to con.
That when husbands are late and suspicious
are rife
1t is best to own up to the editors wife.
All such fables are cruel and men are I'M
To libel a sex of such generous mind
Vhn ov1iz ol npprrht v,oor
That we may afford to exhibit them here;
The women who scrimpingly, patiently wait
For the annual feast at three dollars per
For OF all the wild joys in the circus Of life
banquet seems best to the EDITORS wife,
That the ladies regard me with sinister eyes
Who more than the wife of our bosom de.
serves
The sweet veneration her beauty preserves9
grow white
Her beauty CLOVIS ever as pure and as bright
AS when she faced poverty, sorrow, and
strife,
And blessed our estate as an EDITORS wife,
And some Of US, glancing back over the years.
Can call up sweet visions all hallowed by
tears
A dress, or toy, or hood that is torn,
Or quaint little shoe that a baby has worn,
Or white little face lying under pail,
that 8 all;
But we know the great grief that has clOuded
the life
And broken the heart of an EDITORS wife.
You may drink to your trade and your Great
ures of fame
] raise not my glass till hear sweet name;
IT'S to her who alone uncOmpiainingly bears
The all OF her sorrows and most of our
cares
Whom the wealth of sweet influence subtly
inspires
Our grandest achievements and noblest de-
Stress
TITS to her would drink--our companion in
life
Gods best inspiration to the editors wife!
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1884-02-20

The northern parts Of Minnesota and
Dakota are filing up with Canadians
who started out to settle in Manitoba,
but after arriving there repented.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1884-03-26
To the Editor Of THE EVENING STAR:

10 tie fAntOr OF HI EFESISG STAR
In an interview with Commissioner EIfnOntls YES
:erday, you report that gentleman as saying:
AS Ia this form Of government said Mr. EiInonds
Il nave ne NOR Interest u :.H r C!ti-
- t@le Irr saA u -tS aL I-A,d IN form Of
Chicago wherr could ~ Ia : ,.e.ot after nm,
IN uxh' things wSu] l., ,l.eI:lt md a., =
government Sinr' / haNe Lst,t her, nave son 10
TINS rInS ala. sad that ar. T. hav,- -,
h.re h. would leave to- city Thor ar, iit,Iy.i
others III The city who f. tgj-c a. IL ,io,-s'
Il has been Generally understood that owing 70
or peculiar Relations - I'll" general government
The present system IF being taNt. AMI Governed
without our consent, VS. designed especially f.,r
this District. But according 10 tlr CoilIa.-~ Io :
Ed,noiti, II = rue best form pf government rlr
o'h'r Cities iid II Tor Other cfie tncn why not tor
towns: IL ~. then what become, OF rrnubils.lb
government" III The people al n cti~ ana town,
are 10 t deprived ~ tue TLat 10 p, III themselves
then who Is 10 govern them, IT ~ ir. L. hive
government Then some iuu. ar i!en IC'I,t Govern
and from whom they To get fEeIT iIt npIfv IN
hot Irom The people. then from whom II from
themselves then they bccolna tiiCtatorS II from
otherN VIII" at without authority IRON. the people
then they become the Tools of dctatOrS IIGn .t-v
~ would be 20 Slide INTO monarchy under MI
EdnOnds Ideas ~ government lie SIy-. II ,-,,n
heTt I" i've had baen living IN Chicago. wller,
'ouid not ~ 10 Il G'Ot aIt''r nine O'Clock nI-ht
Without putting pistol ia Inv pocket Ithougnt
Things would be different uu,icr THIS form OF GOV
eminent Since have lived here have seen 10
reason To change my mind
IL would sscru by this that no man is SAT-. In the
streets IL got, " otli.i, after, o,.o.D AZ MIN
WITHOUT a pistol IN his packet. ami that L. ni.ike
lie s+CuT- III that ciJerpTi>I.s city her cIIIsu~
should make haste and deprive tclll,tlVt, ~ n,
potlcdi rights lay inviting some power out side of
'n-sO to appoint soldier ana two eli LtiI, from
distant states or foreign countries 10 r!s. OYER
then Away with Su-h u0i!-..I-, I have v,;tl;-rJ
tIc streets III Chicago at al hours If the night With
Out revolver. ana Without b-lug nGlt-~te,i feeling
mat my NE Wa as safe - in Washington. Men
are Il. safe HI chicago a. ia Washington. and, at
toTuhS Jo statistics WGIi-en irc much safer.
Nj Eiin"iids ody s:-.-A man To my Office
this morning aAd said II are 10 have suffrage
mere t WOULD i'dNc TIN city Their, arr a nITsirtI
otEtrs Ia tAe CITY "io feel just liz dos" Well
suppose there l.. what ds~-S that prove II CrIN
proves that we have hundred cnpInis OF repuIli-
can government In this city That II all II das.1
hot change human nights bcCau,s. a fry solIIl,-
Inllli0naiTes, who come here 10 ESCAPE. taxation
VINO are 80 cold blOCded ami mean nat Tht of
get elected 10 any Office object Ia popular suffrage
VIII Mr. EdmUnds please inform Us " mo- I, Ia rfIIr
II The people do not: anu where rulers are TO get
rheir authority II hot from the people!
j. H. CRANE