davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-05-14
King on Eustis.
New York Herald, May lst.

New York Herald, May 1st.
Gen. j. Floyd King, Member of
Congress from Louisiana, and serv-
ing his fourth term, was asked last
evening whether be agreed with the
views of Senator Eustis of his State,
concerning the Administration. He
replied;
thread Senator Eustis' utterance,
as given by the Herald to day, with
a great deal of surprise. No, I do
not agree with what he says. do
not believe he correctly represents
the views or feelings of and consid-
cradle number of Democrats in
Louisiana. In the first place, all
my information from Louisiana
shows me that the people entirely
agree with the necessity of the Pres
ident making bis reforms slowly in
order to avoid mistakes. He has
certainly SO far committed no mis-.
takes in the appointments he has
made in Louisiana. They have all
been of the best character. This
has been accomplished by pains,
taking and going slow. I know all
the men Mr.. Cleveland has appoint
ed to office in the State, and they
are all of the highest character,
honest, competent and deserving Of
confidence. They are all Demo
Gratis. He has only begun the re-
form of the public services in Lou.
isiana. He evidently proceeds with
caution, as he ought to and as all
good Democrats desire him to.
But what he has done SO far de.
serves only praise, and is a promise
that he will do wisely in the future"
"What leading Democrats in the
State agree with Eustis %
II don't know of one. So far as
the Congressional delegation is con.
cerned, | can tell you this-the
State has six Representatives and
two Senators. Senator EustiS wing
of the party lost E. John Ellis Dis.
trict last November by their unpop-
ularity. This unpopularity comes
from the aversion of the people to
the ring Of which the Eustis faction
is composed, ring more abhorred
by the people than the Tweed ring
was in New York. Mr.. Ellis repre-
sented that District for ten years
consecutively. He declined to stand
for denomination, and the candidate
put up by Mr.. Eustis' friends was
beaten by Republican, Mr.. Hahn.
That leaves us five Democratic
Representatives and two Senators,
Messrs. Gibson and Eustis. Now.
it is fact that Senator Gibson and
four of the five Democratic Repre-
sentatives give the most positive
support to all the President has
done, aud one, General st. Martin,
does not oppose, but takes no part
in these matters; but he also, as all
the others except Senator Eustis, is
hostile to the ring which Senator
Eustis claims to lead. ALI the Dem.
ocratic delegation except Senator
Eustis, therefore, are in entire, cor.
dial accord with all that the Admin.
istration has done and is doing, not
only in Louisiana but elsewhere,
We are entirely confident that the
reforms promised by the President
will be effected in due time. We
look upon him as a brave, able
man,
Love is its own perennial fount of
atrennth Tho ckror,bkL ae
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-05-14
BELLEVUE, IA.
THURSDAY, ::::::::::MAY Ia, 1885.
Wisconsin's tobacco acreage this
year has increased one-third.

China believes in tree-planting. In
Hong Kong $4,000 trees were setout
last year.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-05-14

The United States is provided with
over fifty penitentiaries and 2,4O0
jails. They contain over 80, 900 Grim
inals, and their estimated cost is
$500, 100000.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-05-14

The magnitude of the cattle bust
ness at the West is illustrated by the
fact that one single range in Wyom
ing comprises million acres.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-05-14

The grave of Cyrus Mccormick,
The late reaper manufacturer of Chi
sago, il watched to prevent desecra-
Hon.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-05-14

The hudson river ice crop will
reach 4,0o0, 600 tons this year, the
largest ever known.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-05-14

Ths aggregate loss by fire during
Shs month of April in the United
States and Canada was S7,75O, 900.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-05-14

Senator Beck, on his return to
Washington, from New Orleans said
''that the Exposition was the most
extensive and instructive thing of the
kind ever organized"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-05-14

The reduction of the public debt
during April amounted to over five
million dollars.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-05-14

There are eight cables across the
Atlantic between the United States
and Europe.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-05-14

Greenbacks were first issued bv
the government in 1852
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-05-14

In Effect Sunday, May Sd, 1885.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-01-19

the same direction as the car, drawn
at a bigh rate Of speed. The lady
found herself right under the horses
heads. AS the frightened driver
reined up his team with great effort,
it seemed as though she would GER
tainly be crushed by the ironed hoofs,
but fortunately she escaped, and was
up in moment and on the horse-car.
1t passed on, and the woman proba-
bly, did not know how near she had
been to death, just for the sake of
keeping her feathers dry.
People often foolishly take great
risks of death from immediate causes
without thought, while they are at
the same time needlessly worried
about remote causes. For instance,
if the cholera comes to this country
next summer, this same woman will
be likely to worry, as many others
doubtless will, on account of the in
creased liability to death, which ac-
companies the prevalence of that dis
ease. A thousand deaths day, from
cholera, however, would not put her
life in greater peril than it was on
this evening when she tried to keep
her feathers dry.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-01-19

that virtuous women have not been
honored from the earliest times. The
philosopher Mendze grieved when he
saw his mother break her shuttle
the woman Tsoun threw herself on a
sword in order to save her husbands
life; the mother of 40, being so poor
that she could not buy writing mate
rials, taught her son to read by trac-
ing characters in the sand. Women
should be able to read, write, and
use the counting machine, so as to be
in position to direct household.
They should read books of piety and
stories of morality in action, while
avoiding love poetry, songs and an
ecdotes. Women should be reserved ];
and they are cruelty enjoined never
to occupy themselves with other peo-
ple's affairs. Men ought never to
talk of domestic matters, while wo-
men should never talk of anything
else. When visitor is in the draw
ing room, the lady of the house should
not be heard raising her voice in the
kitchen. Women are not to paint
their faces and wear striking colors,
for the insufficient reason that if they
do men will look at them. Young
women, as we'll as young men. are to
be dutiful to their parents, and al
ways in good humor, even when
their father and mother are not.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-01-19
THE DELIGHTS OF CAMEL
RIDING.

The next morning while one of
the men was saddling up he sang to
his camel verse of song that may
have been heard from the mouths of
the Ethiopians of an English water
ing g-place-ssWhen he's up, he's up.
When he's down, he's down. When
he's only half way up, he's neither
up nor down. Surely the author of
these beautiful lines must have had
the camel in his eye when the inspir-
alton struck him. For nothing can
be more expressive or to the point in
describing the movements of a camel
when you are about to mount him.
When he's up it's all right. When
he's down it's just as comfortable,
but when he's only halfway is the
critical jerking and almost neck
breaking moment. A camel will
start from his sitting posture by ris-
ing on his fore-knees, first jerking
you back on his launches. AS he lifts
his headquarters one is thrown sud-
denly forward. 1t is at this moment
when all seems to be lost, and close
proximity of your nose to the dust
must be your lot, that he invariably
staggers to his fore-feet, though
keeping you hanging on more or less
in suspense, according to his amia-
bility of temper. When the brute is
up safe and sound and begins to
walk there is sort of four-time jolt
ing movement, a shift forward, one
to the left and then to the right, then
to the rear, the effect of which is
heightened according to the haste of
the camel. 1t is computed by a cal
culating young Scotch subaltern en-
route, counting by the telegraph
poles, that human being mounted
on a camel is subjected 10 1880 dis
tlnct jerks pei. mile. AS several of
us suffered the second day out from
severe stiff necks, which our doctors
did not attribute to cold, it is more
than possible that the young subs
total was correct.-Nile Correspond
ence of London Daily Meas.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-01-19
THE CHINESE AT HOME.

China is the country of long tresses
and short feet; a country where tea
is drank without milk or sugar, and
where two little ivory sticks, skillful-
ly handled between the thumb and
finger, replace the fork and spoon
country where you call the first man
you meet your elder brother; where
to ask a bootmaker his address it is
necessary to ask "what noble palace"
he inhabits; country where the
creditor has the right to make an in
solvent debtor pay his bill with a
piece of his flesh, and where the
debtor, by way of revenge, hangs
himself at his creditors door; a
country where the son ruins himself
to buy a coffin for his dead father,
and, covered with hempen garment,
walks backward as he follows his
sumptuous funeral; country where
people work for their rice instead of
working for their bread, but which is
of earth and not of lacquer-work and
porcelain; and where as in other
countries, the husband loves his wife
and the orange-colored mother loves
slant-eyed children.
1t is a country, moreover, where
the bride attaches great Importance
to the personal appearance of the
bridegroom, and the Bridegroom equal
Importance to the moral qualities of
the bride; and the basis of many
Chinese dramas, as of dramas in 9th
er parts of the world, is the passion
of love. Women have been forbid
den to appear on the stage since the
day when a celebrated actress inspir-
ed the emperor with fatal caprice.
The men, who undertake female as
well as male parts, play with good
expression, and use superabundance
of gestures, some of which, though
derived from the observation of real
ity, have at last acquired purely
conventional value. An actor who,
pivoting on his left foot, makes a
circular movement with his right, is
understood to be getting on horse
back. To cut the air with riding
whip is to indicate, through the con-
nection of cause with effect, a gallop-
ing pace. The exhibition of pieces
of gold cloth with wheels painted on
| them has almost an arbitrary mean
ing, and signifies that the emperor is
coming.
Etiquette is rigidly observed. A
young girl walking in the street must
not turn her head round; nor at
home is she to glance slyly at strang-
ers. She is to remember, moreover,
/ that girls who are always laughing
and talking are not esteemed, and
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-01-19
HE SAW HIMSELF.

You must excuse me, gentlemen,
for | cannot drink anything, said a
man who was known to the entire
town as drunkard.
This is the first time you ever re-
fused to drink, said an acquaintance.
The other day you were hustling
around after cocktail, and in fact
you even asked me to set 'em up.
That's very true. but I am a very
different man now.
Preachers had hold of you?
No, sir,no one has said anything
to me on the subject.
Well, what has caused the change?
I'll tell you. After leaving you
the other day kept on hunting for
cocktail, as you call it, until I met
a party of friends. When I left
them l was about half drunk. To
man of my temperament half drunk
is miserable condition, for the de-
sire for more is so strong that he for
gets his self-respect in his efforts to
get more drink. | remembered that
there was a pint of whisky at home
which had been purchased for med
ical purposes. Just before reaching
1
the gate / heard voices in the gar
den, and looking over the fence I
saw my little son and daughter play
ing.
Now you be ma, said the boy,
and I'll be pa. Now you sit here
and I'll come in drunk. Wait now
till / fill my bottle.
He took bottle, ran away and
filled it with water. Pretty soon he
returned, and entering the playhouse
nodded idiotically at the girl and sat
down without saying anything. The
girl looked up from her work and
said;
James why will you do this way?
Whizzer way? he replied.
Getting drunk.
Who's drunk?
You are and you promised when
the baby died that you wouldn't
drink any more. The children are
almost ragged, and we haven't any
thing to eat hardly, but you still
throw your money away. Don't you
know you are breaking my heart?
| hurried away. The acting was
too life-like. / could think of moth
ing during the day but those little
children playing in the garden. You
must excuse me gentlemen | can
not drink again.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-01-19
KEEPING HER FEATHERS DRY.

"Come, come, John, don't stand
here. This rain will put my feathers
all out of CURL exclaimed a young
woman, in our hearing, to her hus-
band the other night, just as few
rain drops were beginning to wet
the sidewalk.
With these words the fair speaker
suddenly made a dash out into the
street toward horse-car that was
coming along, and motioned to the
driver to stop. The bewildered hus-
band followed as best he could. Nei-
ther of them paid any attention to
other vehicles in the street. A heavy
mail wagon was approaching from
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-01-19
AN ARMY oFDRUNKEN roADs.

A man who lives in Willow Creek
Canyon was in town last week for
grub and told the reporter a queer
yarn. He prefaced his story by say
ing that he always keeps a supply of
whiskey on hand as remedy in case
of rattlesnake, scorpion, centipede
or tarantula bites. He has several
times of late been annoyed by COM
ing home from his work at night and
finding the demijohn lying broken on
the floor and the whiskey wasted.
Thinking it the result of accident he
kept sending to town for more demi=
| Johns so often that his merchant be-
gan to suspect him of having taken
to hard drinking, and this was par
ticularly regretted from the fact that
he has always been known as very
steady, temperate, hard-working man.
Last Wednesday, not feeling very
well he took a lay-off, and was lying
in bed reading, when, hearing noise
he looked around and was astonished
to see aregular army of horned toads,
of all ages and sizes, coming through
a crack under the door. Having a
curiosity to see what they were after,
he did not disturb them, but waited
for developments. The one appear
ing to have command of the foraging
party went straight to convenient
chair from which he climbed up the
window-casing, and then to the shelf
where the whiskey was kept. Find
ing a new demijohn he signalled to
his companions, and about a dozen
of the largest went to his assistance.
Gradually crowding themselves be-
tween the top of the demijohn and
the wall, they managed to tip 1t from
the bottom, when it was but an easy
matter to send it crashing to the floor
Then ensued a scene indescribable
The whole mob came tumbling ovel
one another to the spilled whlskey
and eagerly drank what did not run
away through the cracks in the floor
In about ten minutes there were il
the neighborhood of one hundred
horned toads as drunk as drunk coulC
be and having more fun than circus
After laughing himself well, he rose
to drive the topers out, and looking
through the cracks in the floor, saw
another army under the house as
drunk from the leakage as those il
the house. He says that while he
had a whole lot of amusement, it was
at the expense of both his pocket and
his reputation, and he has put lash
ing around the demijohn and stopped
up the cracks in the cabin Walkel
Lake Bulletin.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-01-19
Beautiful Hands.

Such beautiful, beautiful hands,
They are neither white nor small,
And you, know, would scarcely think
That they were fair at ALL
I've looked on hands whose form and hue
A sculptor's dream might be,
Yet are these aged wrinkled hands
Most beautiful to me.
Such beautiful, beautiful hands
Though heart were weary and sad,
These patient hands kept toiling on
That the children might be glad.
l almost weep at looking back
To childhood's distant day,
think how these hands rested not,
When mine were at their play.
Such beautiful, beautiful hands,
They are growing feeble now;
For time and pain have left their work
On hand, and heart, and brow.
Alas! Alas! the nearing time,
And the sad, sad day to me,
When meath the daisies, out of sight,
These hands will folded be.
But oh! beyond this shadow lamp,
Where all is bright and fair,
| know full well these dear old hands
Will palms of victory bear.
Where crystal streams, thro' endless years,
Flow over golden sands,
And where the old grow young again,
I'll clasp my mothers hand.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-01-19
SHALL WE EAT THE SPARROW

The Ornithologists of America In
solemn council assembled have de-
cided with respect to the English
sparrows to turn the rascals- out.
The lively British bird must go.
This is all very we'll, but the Amer
lean Ornithologists have also decided
that he shall make his exit through
the American stomach, and it is now
simply question of whether the
American stomach, already over
loaded with foreign iniquities, can
stagger under this added response
bility.
"Make sparrow pot-pie of him.
says the American Ornithologist,
and he will be reduced in numbers.
Now pot-pie as an instrument of
determination to anything except the
human species is open to grave sus-
pieions. II would have been much
more practical and deadly had the
American Ornithologists said: "Make
him fashionable on honnets."
The English sparrow, from all ac-
counts, is fecund and predatory
nuisance. He has not only destroyed
the balance of animated nature and
driven out the insectivorous birds
that kept down our vermicular pests,
but he consumes about one bushel of
grain to the acre and makes no re-
turn for it. He is not even decent
scavenger, for he turns up his nose
at anything but the best of food and
and the dalntiest of crumbs. He is
therefore, in the mildest possible
phrase, an unmitigated curse, not un
like the locusts of Egypt or the bee
ties of Colorado.
But the proposition deliberately
made by science to the American
people, that in order to get rid of
this curse we must eat it, is some
thing that will give the native appe-
tite a-pause.
1t is quite true, according to the
epicurean statistics, that the gour-
mands of New York have been eat
ing him for some time at the fash
ionable restaurants under the hal
ucination that he was a reed-bird.
But it is well-known fact that the
gourmands of New York will eat
anything if it is only carte. and in
order to exterminate the sparrow by
the dietetic process we have got to
get the entire population to 60 into
the sparrow eating business with dill
igence and zest.
There is another consideration of
weight here. 1t is said by those
who know that one swallow does not
make a spring, and it is equally evil
dent to those who have tried the pot
pie experiment that fifteen sparrows
do not make one swallow.
With these distressing facts star
ing the American Ornithologists in
the face, it certainly behooves them
to think of some more feasible plan
of turning the rascals out than by
eating them, and we suggest that il
would be much more expeditions to
wear them.-N. Y. World.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-01-19


Hard to beat-A china egg.
Sweet strains-Clear honey.
An ex-purt-The frozen fountain.
Always turn a cold shoulder to the
fire.
"Dog-will" is the new color. 1t turns
to ':Purp-n."
The raisin in boarding house pudding
is an oasis in the dessert.
With child the spanker boom always
regulates the cut of his jib.
The one-armed soldier ought to make
good shorthand reporter.
Making q note Of 1.-THE man who
sells his vote for greenback.
When you meet a milkman in church
he seems like a fish out of water.
A young man who fell in love with a
feshY girl, confessed that he was infat-
uated.
What lovers swear-to be true until
death. What husbands swear-unfit for
publication.
A prominent Boston physician is report
ed as saying. eff child does not thrive
on fresh milk, boil it."
What should man be called who
| takes the place of another in brass
band? A substitoot.
Some one says that shaving shortens
| life." This must have been the invention
of man with dull razor.
| 81 love the silent watches of the night
| as the nocturnal thief said when he was
robbing jewelers. shop.
1t sends cold shiver down the back
of a bank president to find Canadian
guide book lying open ON the cashiers
| desk.
A Chinese doctor at Victoria is said to
lose very few patients. 1t is suspected
that the almond eyed fraud never gives
any medicine.
A market reporter says that his sweet
heart encouraged him, and he thought OF
| marrying her at once, but that a further
advance was followed by decline.
Johnnie was kicked by his pony
"What made him kick you?' inquired his
| sympatbizing aunt. 81 don't know,
| sobbed Johnnie; ~ didn't ask him.
A Chicago coroner who recently sat
| upon man found dead in the gutter, re-
turned the following verdict: ''The re.
suit of a constant drain upon the system u
| Maud S. has beaten her own trotting,
and the cow Bomba, before she died,
beat her own yield of milk. The next
rara auis will be hen which shall beat
her own eggs.
A Georgia couple were recently mar
ried on horseback. They began theil
welded life by looking out for the name
chance, and they may have regular cir
Gus before they get through.
Fussy old maid, (entering base bal
ground) )-"Why, what did they all begin
to yell fowl for, when came in? Dc
they mean me?" Polite gate keeper-"Oh
| no mum you amt no chicken
| ssFaShionS in children's shapes will be
the same as usual this winter" says al
exchange. We are glad to know this
as we have always argued strenuously
against changes in the prevailing style
of infants.
A man is always fool, If he be young
the world says, "When he is older, h,
will know more" If he be older, it says
"He is old enough to know better Ant
when he is old, it says; 'sThere is NJ
kind of fool equal to an old fool''
After Santa Claus had put cabinet or
gan, seal skin sacque, lap robe,
box of gloves and Webster's unabridged
dictionary in a Chicago girls stocking
and saw that it wasn't half full, he wa
seen to climb out on the roof, sit dow
in the snow and weep bitterly.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-01-19
CONSUMPTION CURED.

An old physician, retired from practice, having
had placed in his hands by East India mission
airy the formula of simple vegetable remedy
for the speedy and permanent cure of Consumption,
Bronchitis, Catarrh Asthma and all throat and Lung
Affections, also positive and radical cure for Ner-
vous Debility and all Nervous Complaints, after
having tested its wonderful curative powers in thou
sands of cases, has felt it his duty make it known
to his suffering fellows. Actuated by this motive
and desire TO relieve human suffering viii send
free of charge, to all who desire it, this recipe in
German, French English, with full directions for
preparing and using Sent by mail by addressing
Powers Block, Rochester, y. Y. nov24eowly