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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-02-14

High on the granite walls the builders. toiling,
RaaYed up the massive blocks and slabs to
place,
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-02-14
HUNTING EAT FROGS.
The Experience of "a New Yorker in the
Marshes of Jersey.

The Experience OF u New Yorker IN the
Marshes of Jersey.
1.-The uackensack meadows, over in
Jersey, is about the best place to hunt
for frogs"
So spoke Fulton street marketman
the other morning.
'Last winter" he continued, 81 dug
eleven dozen frogs out of one hole on
Sprout branch of Saddle river. An Or
der came to me for eight dozen, and as
/ had not a jumper in my winter pit at
home, and not u nose was to be seen
above water, the prospects for my $42
for that eight dozen frogs looked blue.
But took a jaunt over to the branch,
and after looking over the ground
found hole that seemed likely, and
all at once the idea jumped into my
head to drain it and dig out the sleep
ing beauties. Water-logged wood and
leaves had formed a natural dam at the
little ponds outlet, and it only took
half days work to cut the dam away
and then bail out the water which
would not flow, and there l had the
whole naked bed of the pond spread
out ready for my work.
with couple of fat boards strapped
to my feet so that l would not sink, |
went over the mud with scoop
shovel, turning it over to the depth of
about eight inches, and out Of that lit
tie pond | took eleven dozen table-size
bullfrogs-not very fat, to be sure, and
awfully drowsy; but soon remedied
that by soaking them at home for q
couple of days in warm water. A frog
takes in water through the skin, you
know, and every conscientious dealer
oaks his frogs before he sells them.
My winter frogs woke right up in the
warm water, and when [ delivered
them were lively and plump"
eff the frog has one enemy he has a
thousand. Herons eat him, and so do
ducks. snakes, fishes, kingfshers, owls,
crawfshes, and most every water in
sect that lives. Man is not his worst
enemy by good deal; and when a man
is willing to pay enough for frog to
enable the hotel to pay me So dozen for
them, then l say man deserves every
frog he gets. Yes, there is money in
frog hunting for one who knows how,
especially in winter. / have what l
call a winter frog-pit at home, made
up of several tubs of mud and warm
water in room kept at a mild tenn
porature all the time, which l stock
well in the fall, and sell from when the
marshes are frozen up. 1t is an old
country idea, and is common in Paris,
where they never see a frog half as
big as our bullfrog from one years
end to the other IN Y. Mail and Er-
press,
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BALLOT REFORM.
How to Eradicate Some of the Iniquitles
of Political "Fine Work.
press.

How to Eradicate Some of the Iniquitles
of Political "Fine Work.
This is one of the reforms which
must come, for without it our system
of popular government can not be
maintained. Every election, especially
in our large cities, shows that until this
reform is secured all other reforms are
impossible of accomplishment. The
control of the election machinery, of
the printing and distributing of the
ballots, must be taken from the poll
ticians and put into the hands of the
State. That is, we must take the power
to control our elections away from the
men who have no responsibility and no
interest in. government save extrava-
gance and corruption and put it
into the hands of officials who
are sworn to do their duty. OF
what use is it to try to get honest
men nominated for Office when we
leave in the hands of the political
workers the power to defeat them at
the polls by distributing fraudulent or
defective ballots, or by making deals
and ''dickersn which cheat the people
of their will? We have talked for years
about reforming the primaries and the
nominating conventions, but not one
particle of progress has been made.
Under the Massachusetts, law any four
hundred voters, in case of a candidate
for State Office, and any one hundred
voters, in case of candidate for les
ser Office, by uniting in petition in
behalf of candidate of their choice,
can have his name printed upon the
official ballots and have those ballots
distributed at the polls at the public
expense. What more certain way of
reforming the primaries could be de-
vised than this? II there were such a
law in New York City there would be
an end to the astonishing spectacle
which is there so often presented of a
''boss" setting up a candidate of his
own for Office in spite of all protests,
and frequently electing him in spite of
all opposition. Under such law both
''bosses'' and primaries would in very
short time lose their present domi
nance in our politics.
In fact, there is scarcely form of
iniquity known to our election methods
which good ballot law would not
eradicate. We should be rid at one
stroke of the assessments upon eandi.
dates, of the bribing and bnlldozing of
voters, of the nomination of notoriousiy
unfit candidates, of ''deals'' and
''dickers" and trades at the polls.
All these would disappear, for the SIM
pie reason that the machinery of cleo
tions would be taken out of the hands
of irresponsible and often dishonest
men. Such an obvious and imperative
reform as this can not be l0ng delayed,
--CeastarV
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Wholesome Regulations.

The most strenuous efforts viii be
made in several States, including New
York, to improve the medical profess
sion. It is beginning to be recognized
that the present loose plan of allowing
mere tyros to practice on the public
health is dangerous, not only to indi-
viduals, but to communities. The
council of the medical societies of New
York City and county recommends,
among other changes, that a minimum
age be fixed, under which no one can
practice as physician, dentist, or phar-
macist; that not less than two full years
of study be required; that prelimin-
airy studies be required equal to
those required of students admit
ted to a law school; that no medical
school be incorporated without a
specified minimum capital that will in
sure their ability to thoroughly teach,
and no student shall be licensed to
practice who does not reach a grade of
at least seventy in a prescribed course
of study. All courses of study must
include botany, chemistry, physics,
anatomy, surgery, physiology. hygiena,
microscopy, as well as obstetrics and
diagnosis. This form will be COM
mended by every one who seeks a
family physician without running the
risk of securing mere charlataE.--
81, Louis Gt0be-Dem0erQt,
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sTEEL-PLATE0 SHIPS.
How the Action of Salt Water SpoedIl.
Indents Their Armor.

HOW the Action OF salt water speedily
Indents Their Armor.
Accounts from the United States
steamer Dolphin, flagship of Rear Ad-
miral Kimberly, commanding the Pa
cific squadron, would seem to indi-
cate that the action OF salt water
on the bottoms of steel vessels tends
toward rendering them unservice-
able for sea duty in much shorter
space of time than was calculated upon.
The rust and galvanic action combined
have already made little indents in her
plating to a depth Of three-sixteenths
of an inch, which in plates originally
only seven-sixteenths of an inch shows
that considerable care will have to be
taken with the vessels of the new steel
navy that are destined to cruise for
considerable length OF time in the
waters along the South American coast,
without having an occasional docking
and repainting.
The Dolphin is by no means the first
vessel that has suffered from this
cause OF the waters of the Pacific,
which seem particularly bad in their
effect on steel or iron craft All the
steamers of the Pacific Steam Naviga-
tion Company trading on that coast.
as well as the Pacific Steamship Com
pany's vessels, have to be docked and
painted at least three times a year.
The Chilian men-of-war are likewise
great sufferers in this particular, and
are docked every four months, at each
OF which times four coats of anti
fouling paint are applied. The result
in the case of the Dolphin will proba-
bly, be the replacing of her water-line
plates by thicker metal, or the cover
ing OF the present armor by belt of
plates extending a space somewhat
above and below the water line, 1.-The
pitting, as it is called, extends along the
vessels water line. being worst amid
ships and tapering toward the ends,
and all this Notwithstanding the fact
that the vessel was heeled over and
painted wherever practicable during
her stay in the different ports. Cor. ".
Z. Commercial AdGertiser.
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$500 per Annurn.
NUMBER so.
PuNeENT PARAGRAPHS.
-Editor-.T think | write bet,

-Editor-'I think / write better
than used to-" Editors wife-''You
write less. That better. THE Jour
nGIist.
If any body wants to test the folly
OF gambling let him take chances at a
charity fair. The experience will be
good object lesson.-BGltinor Anaeri-
can.
-She-'The banks are SO opposed
to giving positions of trust to women,
Mr.. Jones'" The monster-"It is
shameful" She-''You believe in en-
ploying women in banks. thenP" The
monster-'I do. Women are born tel
lers. ~ Time.
-Editor-'That little item of yours
yesterday reminded me strongly of some
of Shakespeare's work. Funny man
(blushing)-"Ah, thank you. tits kind
of you to say so. In what respect?
may / Inquirer" Editor (coldly) TN
age, principally. - Washington Post.
IL notice, Miss Saunders. !" he re-
marked, ''that when two women kiss
each other, they do it in a most raptur-
Gus and fervid manner" ''Yes, Mr..
Clarkson, but that is simply the woman
OF it; there is really nothing exciting
about the affair. IN T. Sun.
Mrs. Naggleton-''I see that some
wretch has been writing book. called,
How to Be Happy, Tho Married
Mr.. Naggleton-"I could have told
that in three words" Mrs Maggie.
tOn-"What are they?" Mr. Maggie
ton-"Get divorce. Puck.
you don't mean to say, John. that
you are going to have ste&m-heating
arrangement put in the basement, do
youP" Il do, Maria, said John, with
iron frmness. I'm going to keep
those feet of yours warm this winter If
it costs cool 81, 900. Chicago Tribune.
-Ponsonby's Prospects. Mr.. Dolli-
ver-"So you want to marry my
daughter? Have you any means OF
existenceP" Ponsonby-"At present,
none, but have very brilliant pros
poets" Mr.. Dolliver-"I dare say,
but suppose l dom die for good many
years, what's going to become of you
en?"-DrGke'S Magazine.
"A country clergyman was boasting
of having been educated at two col
leges. You remind me, said an aged
divine, ''of an instance l know OF a
calf that sucked two cows" ''What
was the consequence" said third
person. why, sir" replied the old
gentleman very gravely. ''the conse-
quence was that he was a very great
calfm
when I was in Congress, said
Hon. Mufty, of Racoen Ridge, ga certain
professor used to come miles to hear
me speak. ''Ah! what was his nameP''
inquired Prof. Surtout prof. Tootles,
of Baltimore, said Mufty. II thought
So" said Prof. Surtout. ''He has
since become celebrated as the author
of Ten Thousand Mistakes in English
Grammar.
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BUILD WELL.


Hlgh on the granite walls the builders, toiling
Heaged up the massive blocks and slabs tC
place,
with sWart and streaming brows and StraininC
sinews,
Under the summers blaze,
ana higher yet, amid the chills of autumn,
Tier upon tier and arch upon arch arose;
,Agid still crept upward, coldly, YEARLY, slowly
Mid winters sitting SHOWS.
from stage to stage up springs the master.
builder,
Inssructing, cheering, chiding here and there:
6ganpsng with scrutiny severe and rigid
Each lusty laborer's share.
Aron lis voice to those most distant shouting
Through the hoarse trumpet makes his orders
swell;
0r utters words like these, to rouse and hearten:
@Build we'll my men, build well
teThe ropes are strong and new, and sound the
pulleys;
me derricH's beams are equal to the strain
Glnaring are the level line and plummet;
Let naught be done in vain
eEsuild that these walls to coming generations
Your skin. your strength, your faithfulnes
shall tell;
That all may say as storms and centuries test
them.
The men of old built wenr'
And ever thus speaks the great Master-Builder
TO us, whereer our Journey work. may be
"Nhate er the toll, the season. or the structure.
Build Well-build worthilyin
III s. BF0tUf, in Journal of Education.
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In a Boston Police Court.

Prisoner, said the magistrate,
'you are charged with being found
dead drunk on the street. What have
you to say?"
Il reckon I'm guilty, your Honor y
''Ten dollars and costs. Next. Same
charge againstyou, sir. Have you any
plea to makeP"
"Your Honor replied the prisoner.
wiping his spectacles on the tail of his
coat and speaking with great dignity,
with your permission wish to enter
a plea of guilty to the charge of being
discovered on public thoroughfare
while in the condition technically and
scientifically known as alcoholic
trance. !"
.'My friend" said the magistrate,
kindly, "your offense is a merely NOM
inal one. You may go. = Chicago
Tribune.
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a ReasonabIe voter.

Who'd you vote for for Congress,
Colonel?n asked one citizen of another.
Jim
"JimP Thought you didn't believe
in Jim?n
~Neither / do That's why / voted
for him. Got tired o. seem him hangin'
round Hgrpey'S MaGastas.
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"A California farmer. believing that
cats viii exterminate squirrels and
gophers. purchased a large number and
set them at liberty on his land.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-01

that all bets stand and must follow the
result of the adjourned meeting.
Eastern dispatches favor the idea that
the fight was fake, but, il such is the
ise, Weir certainly put considerable
snow Of earnestness into his work for the
first fifteen minutes. 1t is a notorious
fact that Weii's hands are very easily
damaged in q skin glove encounter, and,
unless l am very much mistaken, later
adviees will discover the fact that Weir
was virtually incspacitated from punish
ing his opponent before half the eighty
rounds had been fought.
The newly formed Athletic Club has
done we'll in organizing on the lines OF
the California Athletic Club of San Fran
cisco, and if it will but follow in the
footsteps of its illustrious northern
brother, and insist upon every fight
which takes place under their patronage
being conducted with the impartial y and
honesty which has characterized the
battles at the San Francisco
club, l believe that their enter
prise will result in a grand success.
l would warn them, however, that the
conduct of such fights as they propose,
and the first one, if possible, will be be-
tween Jack Dempsey and Johnny Rea-
gan, entails an entirely different course
of management and character of detail
than has signalized the few scrub en-
counters to which the Los Angeles sport
ing public have been treated.
ANGIICE,
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-01
sports of the week.

The past week has been prolific in
fights and fighting gossip. Joe Lannon,
the Northwestern heavyweight, struck
his colors to Jack Ashton, the English
pugilist and old.time companion of John
L., after standing before his conqueror
for the number of rounds stipulated in
the articles of battle. How it came
about that, after fighting eighteen rounds
and little to choose between them, the
referee gave Ashton the opportunity of
which he took such good advantage, is q
mystery, and will doubtless remain 30
to all except the referee and his advisers
Ashton's work in the extra round was
simply terrific, and the way he punished
aLannon when he got him on the ropes
proves that Ashton is dangerous Gus.
toner for any man of his weight to
tackle.
The Duffy-Meadows contest at the Cal
,ifornia Athletic Club had some
what unsatisfactory termination. Duffy
had undoubtedly the best of it in the
opening stages, and retained his advan-
tage throughout, but it was anybody's
battle when the referee gave his award
ia favor of Duffy, on the ground that
-M0duOWb nau uelD6rately I0uled him by
resorting to butting tactics.
The life of the sporting editor is not
happy one. He is expected to prophesy
the result of every contest, from a dog
fight upwards, that is on the tapis, and
there is an old saying that one should
never prophesy unless he knows. When
a sporting editor, then, gives it as his
opinion, that James, the slugger, will
have an easy victory unless, indeed, the
fight is declared draw, it is somewhat
calling to his feelings to find in the
Contemporary editions of the morning
papers, that the fight is in progress and
the betting 100 to 80 on James op-
ponent.
The Murphy fight, for the
feather-weight championship of the
world, has proved an exception to the
run of champion encounters.
It is true that no definite conclusion was
arrived at by the first meeting of these
men, but Billy Myers, the referee, taking
a new d parture from the ordinary
routine of pugilietic business, has ordered
the men to meet and decide the question
of merit on or before Tuesday evening
next. Further than this, he has decided
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-01
ADVICE FROM BELOW STAIRS.

Bridget, would give all of my wealth for
half of your health"
"Sure, ma'am, yor need only give So, for
that's the price of six bottles of j. V. S. as
the boys call 1t. joys Vegetable Sarsaparilla
will make you strong as me, ma'am."
Mrs. ]. Barron of 142 Seventh street, San
Francisco, writes: al have been taking the
California Remedy Joys Vegetable Sarsapa-
rilla) with immense benefit. 1t is perfectly
splendid to build up nervous, rundown and
worn out women" Mrs. Fred 10y of 327 Ellis
street, Mrs. G. Werner of 235 Berry street, San
Francisco and hundreds of others relate the
same experience with the pure vegetable juices
# this California compound
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-01
NEWS NOTES,

The Local Purity League of Los An
geles will hold its regular weekly meet
ing this afternoon at 5 o'clock, in the
Fort street M. E. Church.
christopher Barrett was arrested yes
terday afternoon for petty larceny. F.
@. Smith charges that Barrett, while
rooming with him, stole a suit of his
clothes and So in money, and undertook
TO get out of town with them.
There were nine vagrants brought
down from Lancaster yesterday on SEN
tences of ten days each, and lodged in
the County Jail. The thrifty Constable
brought them all down in wagon, thus
clearing good figure on mileage.
About midnight last night Lawyer
Grant ran into the police station and an
nounced that a man was trying to get in
to his house on Fort street. An officer
was sent around to capture the would-be
burglar, but he was not to be found.
The Finance Committee of the City
: Council met on Saturday and decided to
recommend to-day, that hereafter no
officer or employee of the city be allowed
ste purchase supplies without an order
from the Committee On Supplies, and
the bill when presented to be accom-
panied by the order.
The Cooperative Evangelistic Mission,
located at SO Wilmington street, in charge
of A. B. Phillips, Missionary District
No. 1, organized it's Sunday school at
2:30 yesterday. The following officers
were elected: Mr.. II. R. Brown. Super
intendent; Mrs. S. NJ. Adams. Assistant
Missionary; D. G. Shultz, Secretary
VIM. R. D. Cady, Treasurer Miss NJ. A.
Bingham, Organist.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-01
Denar Inffings.

The pay-car will visit the Santa Fe
office to day,
Saturday was the biggest day for
orange shipments so far this season.
Fortv-eight carloads we're received for
delivery by the Southern Pacific alone.
The gross earnings OF the Atlantic and
Pacific for the month OF February
amounted to $20l, ,480 an increase of
$l9,906 over the corresponding period
last year.
General Superintendent ]. A. Fillmore
will pass through this city on No. 10 to-
night en- route to Ell Paso. He will stop
over in Los Angeles and make an in
.spection of things here on bis return.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-01
PERSONAL.

Mr.. j. w. Oliver, of New York, is at
She Hollenbeck.
The Efie Ellsler Company arrived last
might, and are at the Nadeau.
Mr.. E. w. Morgan, of Des Moines, Ia,
mas rooms at the Hollenbeck.
Mr.. and Mrs. Studebaker, of South
Bend, Ind, are at the Hollenbeck.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. L. Harmon, of Char
sotte, Mich, are at the Hollenbeck.
DIR. Smith, U. S. A., accompanied by
mis- wife, registered yesterday at the
Westminster.
Mr. and Mrs. Jessie B. Alexander, of
San Diego, are visiting the city, and are
at the Hollenbeck.
Mr.. G. W. Fairbanks, Chief Counsel
for the 1. B. & W. and the 1. D. & s.
roads, accompanied by his family, ar
rived in the city yesterday, and are at the
Nadeau.
Mr.. Samuel Haslett. Mr.. Sidney Has
lett and Mr.. G. W. Frink, of the firm OF
Easton, Eldridge & Co., arrived from
San Francisco last night, and are at the
Hollenbeck.
Mr.. Fl. B. Wilkins, General Freight
and Passenger Agent of the California
Southern, accompanied by his chief
clerk, Mr. Geo. II. Mcmillan, returned
from San Diego last night.
Mr.. Samuel Storey, member of Parlia-
liament for Sunderland, and his son, Mr..
Fred @. Storey, returned to town yester-
day from ramble around Southern Cali
fornia and took up their old quarters at
the Nsdeau. Mr.. Storey, Sr., will leave
for England in few days.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-01
A New College.

Work has been commenced on the
college which the Sisters of the Immacu-
late Heart of Mary are about to erect on
the Pico Heights. The Sisters have for
over a year past been conducting small
school at the back of the Cathedral, on
Los Angeles street, awaiting an opportu-
nifty to blossom out in full. The building
they propose to erect will be very
handsome and commodious one, and
will cost about sec, 900. The site, which
is west of the Schumacher tract, was pur-
chased at an expense of SIS, 900.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-01
The stomach DistiIs Acids.

These, If existent in natural quantity, and
unvitiated by bile. play their part in the
functions of digestion and assimilation. But
the artificial acid resulting from the inability
of the stomach to convert food received by it
and heartburn which are the most harrassing
symptoms of dyspepsia. The best carminative
is Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. Far more
effecti e is it than carbonate of soda, magnesia
or other alkaline salts. These invariably
weaken the stomach without producing
permanent benefit. No man or woman chron-
ically dyspepsia, and consequently nervous.
can be in possession of the full measure of
vigor allowed by nature Therefore, invig-
crate and reguls te the system, and by so doing
protect it from malaria, rheumatism and other
serious maladies
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-01
REAL ESTATE BUSINESS.
An increase in Sales of a Half a
Million Dollars.

Million Dollars.
The real estate business picked up
quite encouragingly last month, and the
total amount of the sales shows an in
crease of $500 ,697 over those in February.
The weather during a considerable
portion of the month was extremely un-
favorable for business, for during this
time strangers and possible purchasers
could not get out to look at lands.
Under these circumstances the increase
in the sales seems remarkable, and the
future is considered most promising.
The sales for March were as follows:
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-01
UndeIiyered Telegrams.

The following are the kilograms re-
naming at the Western Union Telegraph
office, Court street, March 31st: Miss
Donaghe, Miss L. M. Ready, Mrs. Clara
Holbrook Smith, William A. Smith,
James Beck.