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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-08-02
longer.

The Republican party prefer Civ
ing to the people cheap whisky and
tobacco rather than cheap food and
clothing. Whisky and tobacco are
not necessaries, and no man need buy
them at any price unless he volun.
tarily chooses to. With food and
clothing it is different, every one
must have them no matter how OK,
tortionate the prices that have to be
paid for them.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-08-02

Six members of the Republican
National Executive Committee are
or have been newspaper men-Quay,
Garrison, DeYoung, Fassett, New
and Davis.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-08-02

When a political party resorts to
misrepresentation and Islander to adj
vance it's cause, it is sure indication
that it is lacking in truth and princi'
pies to work upon. The Republican
party is making it's fight without re-
gard to truth or decency.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-08-02

Burton county, Missouri, has a
school fund of $4,000, which is
loaned at 10 per cent on good real
estate security. The interest is used
in paying teachers salaries.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-08-02

A high protective tariff simply
levies a tax upon every poor man in
the country for the benefit of rich
manufacturers and corporations. II
protects the rich but does not pro-
tect the poor.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-08-02

A British vessel is now surveying
a route between Australia and Cana
da, preliminary to laying a telegraph
cable. The cable will be 1900 miles
long, and the work of laying it will
take three years. :,
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-08-02

Memphis Avalanche: "The fossil
remains of an animal with jaws
feet 6 inches long were found near
Topeka. Kansas, last week. One oil
Ingalls, ancestors, probably. Nc
other known species ever possessed
such remarkable expanse of cheek.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-08-02

Cincinnati Enquirer: If the Dem
ocrats continue to exhibit the COURAGE
OF their convictions they will win
with sthands down"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-08-02

Judge Aaron Melard, of Minneap-
oils, Mimi, has been one of the lead.
ing Republicans of his State but he
now says: Il do not believe in pro-
lection. I shall vote for Cleveland
and Thurman, and will be proud to
do So" The list grows larger every
day and will continue to grow till
November.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-08-02

In 1864, three years after its ad-
mission as q State, Kansas had not a
mile of completed railroad. 1t has
now 5000 miles of railroad.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-08-02

According to insurance statistics
more fires are extinguished by the
use OF pals of water than by all
other means.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-08-02

The Memphis Avalanche says the
Illinois Republicans are waking up
to the fact that a Democrat called
John NJ Palmer is going to be elect
ed Governor.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-08-02

The school census just finished
shows the population of Chicago to
be 8O2, 651. This is gain of about
100000 in two years.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-08-02

Cincinnati Enquirer: Sufficient
time has elapsed since the nomina-
tons at Chicago to render it certain
that no especial enthusiasm can be
awakened for the Republican ticket. !"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-08-02

Horrible deaths from hydrophobia
are reported every day in various
parts of the country.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-08-02

The total value of the foreign
trade of the South American states
is stated to be $500, 100000.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-08-02
DIR. Il. wi. COMEGYS.
Dentist.

nR. t. NJ. COMEGY S Office is over Simon
~ Levys bank building, corner MILAN
and Market Streets, Shreveport, where he will
be pleased to meet all who wish first-class
dental work at satisfactory prices
Office hours from A. NJ. to | P. NJ, and from
to S p, M.
DIR. Comegys will be absent until September
LIST
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-08-02

Pittsburg, Penn, has found that
the Sunday Law reduces the work of
the police courts on Monday about
three-fourths.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-08-02

We are authorized to announce
NEWTON G. BLANCHARD
as q candidate for reelection to Con-
gress, subject to the action of the
District Democratic Convention.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-08-02

SOrtS OF mlSeTles, Ior want OF 8
shelter.
A dispatch from Shanghai of July
~ says: "a volcanic eruption al
Bandaisan, fifty leagues from Yoke
hama, Japan, has destroyed several
villages and killed 1000 persons. A
fresh crater has formed and the erup.
ton is still active"
At Scranton, PENN, last week
Vincentson Myers, an old man, blew
his head off by placing a musket in
his mouth and pulling the trigger
with his toes. He was moody owe,
property in Germany that he said he
had been cheated out of.
At Morely's Station, California, re-
Gently, James Mason, veteran stage
driver, committed suicide in horri-
BILE manner. He bought O.pound
box of giant powder, sat on it and
touched the explosive of. The coro-
ner gathered up twenty pounds of
the body in basket.
VIM. Alexander, son of Presby-
terrain preacher, was arrested at
Louisville, Ky, on the 23rd ultimo,
for robbing his own mother of $4,000.
Young Alexander remarked that his
father would be pretty well broken
up when he learned of the theft, but
he said be would just as soon be in
jail es out.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-04-12
The Zulus' Military Tactics.

The Zulus are war like race, and their re-
cent record in the war with England showed
them to have an instructive knowledge of
military tactics best suited to their arms and
themselves. For ages they have held their
own against the other tribes, and rose to their
higher point of power under the rule of the
terrible Tchaka.
In the native fights each man throws his
assagais at his enemy, catching his opponents
ON his shield, if possible, then throwing them
back again. Tchaka had his soldiers assagais
cut nearly through at the base of the Shaft,
so that although still strong enough to kill a
man, they would break if caught upon the
shield or ground, or upon the man falling
with one in his body; this exped!ent placed
all the sound assagais in the hands of his own
men, who then rushed upon their foes stab
bling them without mercy.
A curious fact is that over 1900 years be-
fore Marius, the Roman, in his war with
Cimbri, did very nearly the same thing.
Their javelin, called plum, had the rivet
farthest from the point removed and a
wooden peg inserted just strong enough to
carry it in its fight. Tchaka also invented
the short or stabbing assagai, and introduce
the trick of receiving the enemies secc n,
fire, which exhausted their assagais, and fl,a,
charging home with their deadly shor 4 one
He ruthlessly killed every man '..ho wo
wounded in the back, or who failef, to rotoi,
his spear and shield after the b, til WI,
p. Pond i'll brakes Magazine.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-04-12
THREE MEN KILLED.
An Erie Railway Freight Engine Elk,
plodes Standing on the Track.

An Erie Railway Freight Engine Elk
plodes Standing on the Track.
NEwBURGH,>N. Y April TAT O'Clock
last night the big mogul freight engine
exploded on the Erie railroad at Craig
vile. Three men were killed-two in.
stantly, and one died this morning. The
train was standing still at the foot of a
heavy grade. aud Engineer John Bodlne,
Conductor John Clarke and Fireman
Boyce were standing on the ground be-
side the engine repairing the pipes, which
had become clogged.
The explosion hurled the boiler several
hundred feet over the stream into the adj
joining field. The fre-box was thrown
far into the air, and came down in the
stream. A heavy iron rod was thrown 6
distance of quarter of mile, and Other
parts of the machinery we're scattered ir
various directions. The report of the ex
plosion was heard for miles arou I'd, and
the windows of houses we're broken. Only
the heavy driving wheels were left on the
track.
The engineer and fireman were thrown
on either side of the track and when as.
sistance came they were dead. Conductor
Clarke was yet alive, but his skull WAS
crushed. He had internal injuries. He
was taken to house near by where he
died.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-04-12
A Russian Prison Telephone.

When was transferred from the Trubet-
skoi bastion to the house Of detention, said
DR.. Sokolof to me in Siberia, it was like 60
ing from a sepucher to a watering place
hotel The sound of footsteps, the rumble of
ventilating apparatus, the comparative light
ness and airiness of the cells, the doves fly
ing about the windows and the faint roar of
vehicles in the adjacent streets, which sug-
gested the busy life and activity of the world,
all combined to give me a sense of unwonted
exhilaration. In the monastery" l never
saw human being except the guard, and
rarely heard a sound except, perhaps, the
low tapping of a prisoner in an adjoining
cell In the house of detention, on tho con-
trary, l heard noises of all sorts, and soon
found myself in communication with every
body.
Before had been there a day some one in
the cell below mine knocked out to me on the
steam pipe which ran up beside my door:
"Scoop the water out of your basin" went
and looked into my wash basin and found it
to be empty. In few moments the COM
mand came again in slightly different
form: "Scoop the water out of your water
closet basin" Then the significance of the
direction flashed upon my mind. Somebody
wished to talk to me through the soil pipe
with which his basin and mine were in COM
munication. succeeded, after some trouble,
in clearing the trap, and as did SO a babel
of hollow human voices came up through the
basin, and found myself able to talk freely
with the inmates of eleven other cells, most
of whom were politicals. George KEENAN, in
The Century.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-04-12

A Prominent Case Now Attracting At
tention at Waco and Its History.
Special Telegram to the Statesman.
Waco, April 1.-THE district court ad-
iourned at noon to day. The Peter Nc
Clelland will case was carried over until
Monday. Hon. Seth Shepard, of Dallas,
leading counsel for the plaintiff, will speak
on Monday. This case is attracting con-
siderable attention. Peter McClelland,
the father of the defendant, was Waco's
wealthiest citizen. When he died about
eighteen months ago, he left a
will giving all his property to his
only son Peter, the defendant in this suit,
with certain restrictions, however. He
willed that his immense estate should be
managed by W. l.. Prather, plaintiff, and
Banker Gilbert for twenty-five years,
allowing the son $3.50 per month, and in
vestiug the proceeds from the estate every
year in real estate, and at the end of the
twenty five years all the property was to
be turned over to young Peter, if, in the
estimation of the administrators,
he was capable of attend
ing to the estate. Young Peter
was 20 years of age when his father died
He brought suit Immediately after his
fathers death to break the will and have
all the properly turned over to him.
Joe Taylor, one of Wacos prominent
attorneys walked off the top of house in
Hillsboro last night while asleep, and
broke his arm in two places. Mr.. Taylor
was in Hillsboro as attorney for Joe
Levine in his trial at that place.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-04-12
WEARING SENSIBLE SHOES.

Broad, Easy, Thick and Comfortable.
New PARA Shoe Aristocrat.
Truly, the woman is known by her shoes
or the heels of them, which are the sisnifi-
cant feature. Frequently it is easier to make
study of shoes while the woman is a girl
and before the skirts have come down and
covered those implements of walking. Peo-
pie say Miss Waddell, Ellen Terry's daugh-
ter, has large feet That is because there is
not another girl in New York who wears
such broad, easy, thick and comfortable
shoes Contrast them with the native speci-
mems. There is Mr.. James Brown Potters
little daughter, slim, trim, graceful, with
her fathers features and her mothers color
ing Note the Melton cloak, wide hat and
the long, narrow, daintily fitting French
shoes that tilt her forward as she walks ever
SO slightly.
Why wouldn't Mildred accept your invita-
ton when you suggested a turn in the park
this afternoon? You know that she is a
famous walker and that her tramps are the
admiration and the envy of the whole set of
athletic girls. Because the fair and discreet
Mildred had gotten herself up for slaughter
and put ON for the first time an uncommonly
swell pair of new shoes. The dear girl looked
uncommonly brilliant, and it was just like
your masculine stupidity to take her bright
eyes, flushed cheeks and quick, impatient
vivacity for signs of correspondingly high
spirits and propose that least innocent bit of
spree. You dull fellow. Her boots pinched
and she was aching to get rid of you, limp
home and screw the corners of her mouth
down with pain until she was in sight of
slippers again.
Mrs. Howard Crosby, the wife of the divine,
is model of a sensibly shod woman. She is
one of the best walkers in New York, and
her shoemaker says that she knows what she
wants in shoes and has it-footwear that is
broad enough and low heeled enough to be
help to locomotion, not a hindrance.
Actresses are apt to be sinners in shoe
leather. Emma Juch has spoiled a whole
scene because she was fairly crippled by
stilted heels that wouldn't let her walk across
the stage decently, and drew the attention of
the audience from the music to her feet.
Rosina Vokes knows better. Her feet,
when they twinkle slowly enough for one to
get glimpse of them, reveal shoes or slip
pers made expressly for them-neat, trinity
| fitting, but low heeled and comfortable
Selma Dolaro used to wear high heels of q
very uncomfortable, Frenchy build. Mrs.
| Langtry sets a better example. She is a
| walker, to keep down the advances of en-
| bonpoint, if for no other reason, and she
wears a walkers shoes. She orders some
| times dozen pairs at time, for she is a be-
| lever in the rule of giving boots long rests
between times to be thoroughly aired and
regain their shape.
| Ella Wheeler Wilcox is somethino 0f a
shoe aristocrat, and INDUCES in all sorts of
caprices, such as shoes made to order of the
material of her gowns to accompany half
the dresses, both for day and evening, that
she wears Annie Jenness Miller, the pretty
dress reformer, advocates, with limitations,
the same idea.-New York Mail and Express.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-04-12
MORMON CONFERENCE.
Second Days Session of Latter Day Saints
at Salt Lake.

at salt Lake.
SALT LAKE, April AT the se,ond
days session of the Mormon conference,
Elder Rudger ClawsoD, who was convicted
of polygamy and afterward pardoned by
President Cleveland after three years, i'm
prisonment, said he was convicted for
obeying the law of God, and he saw 300
of his brethren come there for the sane
offense.
"But feel frst-rate now, said he' Il
am not whit discouraged, and have Just
as much faith-yea, even greater, than
four years ago. trust 1 may always
be able to express feeling
of this kind, and, if necessary, l
would offer my life for the gospels sake
When Christ's servants go to prison rather
than obey an unjust law, Christ will be
with them, aud he hes been in prison with
our brethren"
Apostle Herbert j. Grant followed and
read the ordinances and principles of the
gospel
"The animus of our enemies is theil
knowledge that Mormonism is trus, which
they hate to acknowledge, and, unless VI
live up to all the laws given us from God
we will never enjoy the celestial king
DOM"
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-04-12
How One Town Avoids Strikes.

In Olean, N. Y, where all increase of 81
per cent. in population has been provided for
within the last three months by additions to
its manufacturing industries, through the or.
gained efforts of a board of trade, the can.
italists have inaugurated novel movement
which not only aids materially in the growth
Of the place, but gives such advantages to
the laboring men that the chances for strikes
and kindred troubles are reduced tn a mini
mum. Any manufacturer locating in Olean
is guaranteed homes for his e,nploves built
after their own plans, and sup oiled TO them
at actual value, the tenants paying thereon
the rental price of from S. to IS Der month.
Thus is left with the lab Jrer the option Of
owning his home, or # paying rent. the
terms in either instanc Z being the same. save
in the matter of int rest upon the UNPAID
portion i'll case of p rchase. This the cant
talist taxes as d IS profit upon the trans
action.
In the one ms ance the man who buvs ba
his nome pah for in few years; in tn,
other the te AaDt pays in the same tim
nearly as .peb and does not own single
In Oleah dc laboring classes are not slow t,
see the H'r9ntage of buying; the manufact
urer 5 q tn advantage of steady and reliabl
labor thurs afforded, and the resident capital
ISL. n SGre prevention Of strikes and safe in
Cestment of his money. The example of tn
[ monj ed men Of Olean is worthy the emula
! tiell of those in other towns whose growth
retarded by the too conservative policy Q
capital. -Exchange.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-04-12
LIFTED WELLS.

o chat you we're alive again, and here!
The wells that fell between us long ago
Are lifted. Once few alone could know
Your deepest soul. Now time has shown how
near
You stood to us, even when we Shrank in fear
Lest keen shaft of satire from your bow
Should make you seem sometimes half friend,
half foe,
To those whose vision was than yours less clear;
But now your heart with all its hidden springs
Lies written in your books and in your life.
All, we could talk together now, and naught
Could intervene to clog the spirit wings,
To chill the feeling or confuse the thought,
Or cloud the speech with argument or strife.
C P. Cranch in The Century.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-04-12
The Laws of Nature.

1t is singular to contrast the growing splen-
dor and prodigality of the dress of one sex
in this Nineteenth century with the sobriety
of the dress of the other sex, which has
shrunk within our own recollection into a
grim uniformity of black kerseymere. The
laws of nature are reversed, if it be true, as
Mr. Darwin teaches, that the male bird owes
the hues of his plumage and the beauty OF
his form to his desire to please the hens and
obtain the honor of natural selection. In
modern society it is the hens who carry the
gay feathers Shall we say with the same
motives, and with equal successl-Homt
Journal
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-04-12
A HOUSEHOLD CUSTOM.

A strange household custom in Holland
is the custody of the ''guest money" by the
mistress. Each guest is, as in England, eX-
pected to fee the house servants In Hols
land, this money is at once handed by the
recipient to the lady of the house, who at
certain seasons of the year such as Christ
mas and Easter, divides it equally among
all her staff. Not bad plan when one
thinks it over, but rather startling at first to
the guest.
And now for Dutch food. All food is
good in Holland, all cooking excellent, beef
and mutton even better than in England,
vegetables in abundance. Butter is very
good and plentiful and is used without stint,
but-everything is spoiled by being served
cold. Rich dishes which would be most. ap-
petizing were they eaten piping hot, become
repulsive, indigestible masses of grease
when served from cold dish on a stone cold
plate. During the whole of my stay in Hol-
! land never once saw dish covered or a
plate heated.
| Cakes are speciality with the Dutch.
Each town has one or more of its own, and
it was interesting to trace the ancestry of
many of our American ones. WafileS met
me at q kermes at The Hague. The koeki e,
which is to be found all over Holland and is,
in fact, the Dutch word for "little cake" is
actually and etymologically the ancestor Of
the New England cookie. Doughnuts l met
everywhere, though l cannot imagine from
where they got their ugly name of dough
nut" In Holland they are called spritsen,
and in French Canada, where they are a
sort of national cake, they are known by the
name of croquignoles, and sometimes beig-
net, which latter name is simply the French
for fritter. imagine that in one way and
another we owe good deal Of our cooking
to Holland.-J. E. Brooks in Good House
| keeping.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-04-12
Some Fort worth parties are now work

Some Fort Worth parties are now work
inc ON scheme which if successful will
be of great benefit to horse raisers of
Texas. They are going to ship to New
York and other large cities of the east q
large number of the smallest Texas ponies
that can be found, with the purpose of
disposing of them to parties needing
small riding animals or children's ponies
They have secured pasture short dis
lance from the city where they will collect
the first shipment, which will probably
consume some time, as they calculate to
ship none but fine looking animals. This
is looked upon by horse raisers as move
that will be likely beneficial to their bust
ness, as hitherto they have had no avenue
whereby to dispose of their very small
stock, which was consequently dead iose
to them.-Fort Worth Gazette.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-04-12
THE M'CLELLAND WILL.

A Prominent Case Now Attracting At
tention at Waco and Its History.
Special Telegram to the Statesman.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-04-12

The large reservoir used for the storage
of water for the town and the Texas Trunk
railroad at Daugherty bursted Tuesday
morning with terrific crash, flooding al
most the entire town. Fortunately it was
early in the morning before the citizens
began to stir, or several lives might have
BEEN lost. 1t will be rebuilt at once. This
loss falls entirely upon Mr.. j. s. Daugh-
erty, of Dallas.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-04-12

The San Antonio Times says that At
torney general Hogg may have case
against the Texas Traffic ASSOCIATION, ouU
it is a little strange that after all the time
that organization has been In existence
the discovery is just now made that IL is
crooked.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-04-12
Woman Suffrage in Iowa,

DIES MONIES, April IA resolution was
passed by the house to-day providing for
an amendment to the state constitution
granting suffrage to women.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-04-12

The Boston Transcript thinks that it is
much easier to organize trust than to trust
an organization.