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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1890-12-04
~As | sHELLED THE PEAsE."

V)ver and over, q little song
Sung in my heart. the whole day long;
No matter what task to my lot did fall,
The song made music, amid it all;
washed the tea cups, kneaded the bread
"My love loves mer' in my ear was said;
.sTrue love is better than wealth or easer'
Was whispered to me, as shelled the pease.
And as made custard or baked the cake,
A voice kept saying: For loves sweet saker'
And, when the table I sat for four,
again 1 heard it, DER and DER:
s'True love is better than wealth or ease,
True love reioices in tasks like theser'
The cloLk on the wall, with its pleasant song,
licked away though the hours were long;
At last it was time for my loved ones three,
To gather around the board with me.
In came two, with q merry shout
The children are in, but the father is out
wondered if my True Love 'twould please
To know my thoughts, as I shelled the peasel
a hand is heard on the outer door,
A weIlknown step comes over the floor,
And my Darling is bere; though no longer
young,
1 wondered not that the tune was sung,
For love in its loved one true beauty sees,
When stranger eye might see naught to
please.
The merry children make mirth for all
While the mother smiles and the father tall
Bends low to whisper q loving word,
That by no ear but her own is heard:
Sweetheart, what viands could taste like
thesel
With love, I'm sure, you have favored the
peaser
So over and ever, the whole day long,
Sung in my heart, the little song:
"What matters it if the house be small,
II Love finds shelter within its wall?
Naught else I crave but my Love to please,
Though humble my task, as I shell the pease y
Maud Wyman, in Good Housekeeping.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1890-12-04

In the year 1919 sugar is said to
nave been sold at Is 976d pound, and
was considered very luxurious article
sill the eighteenth century.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1890-12-04
GATHERINGS CRUELTY.
How a Czarina Punished Prince veritzIn
for Smile.

How a Czarina Punished Prince Veritzin
for q Smile.
The Veritzins were mobiles Of enor-
nous wealth and power. Paul held a
high Office in court. One night, glitter
ing with jewels and orders, the young
Prince, who was one Of the handsomest
men in Russia, danced in q quadri lie
opposite the Empress.
AS she passed him in the dance she
fancied that his eyes scanned her gross
figure with covert amusement After
the quadrille she beckoned to him, and
with smile handed him her tiny ivory
tablets, containing seven pages, one for
each day in the week On the first was
written
''The imperial ballroom, st. Peters
burg"
On the last:
"The mines, Siberia"
He read it; his face grew gray as that
of a corpse; he bowed low, kissed her
hand, and withdrew, taking" says the
old chronicle, ''his wife, the beautiful
Princess of Noygorod, with him." He
was heard to say as he left the ballroom:
"My minutes are numbered; let us not
lose one.n
Flight or resistance was impossible.
The hold of Catherine on her victim was
inexorable as death. Prince Veritzin
was forced to remain passive in his PAL
ace while each day the power, the wealth
and the happiness that life had given
him were stripped from him.
! First he was degraded from all bis
Offices at court; next his estates were
conhscated by the crown; his friends
were forbidden to hold any communities
ton with him; his very namei one o.
the noblest in Russia, was taken from
him, and he was given that OF serf
Then his wife and children were driver
out Of the palace to herd with beggars
'sThe last day." says the record, Pau
Veritzin, in rags and barefoot, chaine'
to convict, bade an eternal farewell t
his home, and departed to the dark ant
10y north. BE was seen Of men no more
Chatter.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1890-12-04

The price of good-looking female
slave in the United States of Columb bia
is 500. They are usually excellent
cooks, and many of them are expert in
diving to the bottom of the streams ia
the gold districts and bringing up 3
gouFd full Of gold-hearing sand,
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1890-12-04

ating still in that locality for two
years, had trouble in finding place
Shere they would let me stay all night,
pat finally native suggested that 1 try
Deacon Bledsoe.
=, Iher deakin's sot on 'ligion, the
nloie, and sich, an e allus takes in
strangers said the native. 1 was di-
sected to the deacon's house, two miles
soWn the valley, and arrived there an
e0aF after dark. ! did not onee associate
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1890-12-04
Nothing Important.

Wasn't there posta1-card in my box
on Monday?"
eyes," said the postmistress. 'But
we have our regular clearing out and
washing up here on Tuesday, and as a
good house-keeper can't permit old
letters and things to accumulate
"But, my dear madam
so, don't get mad, now. There wasn't
anything of importance on that postal
Your brother wanted you to go to the
opera with him last night, that's ALL
Harper's Bazaar.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1890-12-04
To Catch Them on the Fly.

Anateur-I want one of those instan.
taneous cameras.
Dealer-Yes, sir Are you going to
photograph birds on the wing?
Amateur-O, no. I'm going to take
views at the seaside.
Dealer-But do you need an instane
GUS camera for that?
Amateur-Certainly. The people are
so fast.-Munsey's Weekly.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1890-12-04
How Ha Chanred His CIothea.

A prisoner recently escaped from
Blackwelrs Island, New York. The
officers soon discovered the fact and
started in pursuit. The fleeing man was
in danger of arrest at any moment by
civilians, as his prison garb proclaimed
him convict. He, therefore, proceeded
to get rid of his striped suit. He darted
through one house and got a coat,
through another and stole pair of
pants, through another and secured a
flannel shirt and hat. All these he sue
ceeded in putting on in the street as he
ran, at the same time discarding his
prison. clothes. He made his escape
good.CN. Y. Tribune.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1890-12-04
Reasonable.

"He shouldn't say shoulder arms to
those cavalry-men.
''Why not?"
'They have nothing but swords. He
ought to saw shoulder blades. Nv 7
Sun,
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1890-12-04
NEWT BLEDSOE'S WIFE.
How She Got the Drop on a
United States Marshal

- n ONE days ago
[MM an old deputy
~/[tEk United States
1UANX@ marshala sat in
.@$& a hotel corridor
Ah y @%AN at Birmingham,
III A\ Ala, and talked
Z//@~ ia about hunting
Z1 moons h iners,
says a Chicago
- Times corre-
V///| spondent.
-SZ some of
R@S $S9Ta1 these moon
sT - sinners" said
$N 49, he, ''are as
treacherous as
Indians, and will shoot at an officer
from ambush, but they are poor marks
men and seldom hit man. / have been
shot at a dozen times without receiving
a scratch. 1t is this shooting from
ambush and the pranks the moonshin-
ers play on revenue officer when they
catch one alone in the mountains that
makes hunting them exciting sport.
81 have often spent night at the
home of an innocent-looking noun
taineer and next morning found my sad
die and bride cut to pieces or my horse
turned out of the sable and driven
away. Up in De Kalb County once /
spent the night at the house of man
who was supposed to be good citizen
and not in sympathy with moonshiners.
slept in shed-room, and there was no
lock on the door. The next morning
my pants were gone. Every thing had
been taken out of the pockets and left
in the room, but the pants had been
spirited away. My landlord expressed
much sympathy for my loss, but charged
me five dollars for a secondhand pair
of his jeans trousers that were probably
worth one dollar when new, and l had
to pay him the money before could get
out of bed.
''The wives and daugh ters of moon
sinners, as rule, are smarter than the
men and much more suspicious of a
stranger. / was over in Clay County on
raid once and was in locality where
almost every man owned still. in
such place it is hard to locate a still
and almost impossible to obtain evi-
dence against the owners unless they
are caught in the act of making the
mountain dew! | introd uced myself
as land agent prospecting for mineral
lands, but the natives did not all be-
lieve my story and / was regarded with
more or less suspicion. was after a
noted moonshiner named Newt Bled
soc, who was known to have been oper.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-11-07

SHER1FF'S SALE-J1RAH l. FOOTE, PLAIN.
~ till. Va. James b. Lewis. Louisa i, lewis.
Alfred BOurk, Isaac Bourk, Newman Camnhali
PENDANTS. ~ 70.
Under and BY virtue Of an order Of ale and do
district court of the tirst judicial district Of the
stato Of Montana. in and for the county Of LOWS
and Clarke. ON the Gath day Of October. 4. Is
$50, in tho above entitled action, wherein
Jltah l. foote, the above named plaintiff.
Obtained Judgment and decree Of foreclosure
Newman Campbell Nildn Campbell. Alfred
Bourk, Isaac Bourk, B. Harris and b
Brown. defendants, on the Esd dav ~
October, A. u. 1880, for the sum Of g. 1867 be-
SIDES interest," costs and attorney fees which said
decree was on the 23d day OF October A. d, 1880.
At pags.,l am commanded to sell ali that
certain lot piece. or parcel of land situate lying
and being IN the county of Lewis and Clarke,
sta ts, Of Montana, and bounded and described
NJ, The .outh 100 feet Ct lot number 20 in block
dition to, the city Of Helepa, Lewis
according to the official plat Of the ssid ad.
dition fled in tho office Of the comfy recorder.
July 18th. 1888
Pqblio notice is hereby given that on Saturday,
~. OF that day, at the front door Of the court
house, Helena, Lewis and Clarke county, Mon
tana, l will, in obedience to said order Of sala
ana decree of foreclosure and SALE cell the above
Described property. r NO much thereof, AWAY
ne necessary to satisfy said Judgment, with Ia
for cash in hand.
Given under my hand thi. 25th day Of October
A. D. 1870. ChAS. nj. JFFFERIS. Sheriff
ISAAC HoLbRooK. Deputy Sheriff
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Tell him you'll shoot if he DON'T says

"'Tell him you'll shoot if he DON'T says
she.
"I'll shoot if you don't' says I.
"Divil wurd did the burglar say. Gus,
an it was all could do to keep me face
straight.
:. Break open the door, says she.
.'All right says l.
Wall, put me shoulder aRin it an she
an the gintleman kept movin' backward
maxim hole in the wall an crawlin'
through it.
II boosted meself agin the door two or
three times and then the door whit wild u
rip an crash, an the lady gave scream.
an, by the piper that played before Moses,
what do you Think"
told him that didn't know what to
think.
"Out jumped big black cat. Av course
she'd locked the door afOre she whit out an
locked the haste in. But I never cracked a
shmile an looked as solemn as an owl. an
said it moight a. been burglar, an bur
glars was moighty. dangerous and paple
fust whack at 'em always.
WELL the jintleman whit downstairs
wild me, lookin' mighty sheepish, an whin
We got to the bottom Pat says he, quiet
Wis, SIR says I, dacent an respectful
DO you know how to how'd yer tonguer
BY me sowl, does that says I, AN
shure niver says won word about burglars
when they turn out to be CATS
Here's tin dollars says he, AN mind
ye knpe quiet about it,
!. If sphake won word about it to any
living sowl.' says l, may me tongue niver
sphAke won word agin.'
An thate how pot tin dollars for dom
thrillin' Job an sayin' nothin' about it,.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-11-07
THE KANGAROO METHOD.

It Works Well in Australia and Sheep
Stealing Is Decreasing.
Australia has good method, which is
called the Kangaroo method, and has worked
go we'll that canvassing for votes has practi-
cally disappeared there. and sheep stealing
is on the decrease, writes Bill Nye. You
are of course familiar with this method
more or less. and 80 need not 90 into de-
tail, but the principle ia there as we'll as
here, that even if you buy a
voter, you can never feel sure
that he will not be replevied by some one
else. A man who will sell his vote will also
lie. or leave his honor in the Grand Central
depot; therefore you can never feel sure OF a
vote unless after buying it you ace that it is
deposited and counted, or counted at least,
This method will insure secrecy, and also
give the voter while in the booth chance
to think over his past life. If per
could b. hung up in these booths asking
the voter if he has used Biair's soap. ana
also bidding him good morning in a bright
and ohipper tone. Some murmurinc is he
ing done here, of course, regarding the
great expense to city will be at or to in or
rooms or considering places, but If We are
doing right We must not pause to reckon up
the expense. The estimated cost Of our fail
election here is $464.746, aud there ia q
great deal of excitement over this, especially
by those who do not sea any
immediate prospect of getting some
Of it. The money will 90 almost
directly to the paper man, the printer and
the carpenter, at least as near as YOU can
make half million dollars go in New York
to the man it was destined for. Naturally
some Of 1t will stick to those whose adhesive
palms are extended especially in the fall of
the year; but l am betting on the beauties
Of this ballot, and nov il the good men Who
battle will also ballot there viii be a great
light dawn on the future. and its rosy rays
will even stab their little rudy promises
litical present.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-11-07

SUMMONS-lN THE DISTRICT COURT OF
~ the first judicial district of the state of Mon
tann, in and for the county of Lewis and Clarke
Emma Weldrube, plaintiff VI. Fred Weldrube
defend mt.
The state Of Montana sends greeting to the
above named defendant:
You are hereby required to appear in an action
brought against You by the above named plaintiff
in the district court OF the first judicial district
Of the state Of Montana, in and for the county Of
Lewis and Clarke, and to answer the complaint
filed therein. within ten days exclusive Of the
day of service) after the service on you of this
summons. if served within this county: or il
served out OF this county, but within this dis
frict within twenty days. otherwise within forty
days, or Judgment by default will be taken
plant.
The said action is brought to dissolve the
bonds of matrimony heretofore and now existing
bstween said plaintiff and defendant for tbs
reason that id defendant abandoned said
nlaintif willfully and without cause. and has
continued go to do for more than twelve months.
And you are hereby not, fed tina. if you fail to
appear and answer the said complaint, as above
required, the said plaintiff will obtain iudg-
ment BY defanlt against you, and ask for the re-
lief demanded in complaint.
Given under my hand and the seal of the dis
trict court of the First Judicial district of the
state of Montana, in and for the county of Lswis
and Clarke this twenty day of October, in
the year of our Lord. one thousand eight hun
bred and ninety.
IsEAL.l JOHN. BEAN. Clerk.
By H. R THOMPSON Deputy Clerk.
{. b. NOLAN, Atty. for plaintiff.
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NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATIVE, SALE OF
~ real estate. In the district court OF the First

NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATOR, SALE OF
~ real estate. In the district court Of the First
Judicial District of the State Of Montana, in and
for the county Of Lewis and Clarke.
Notice Is hereby given that in pursuance of an
District Of the State Of Montana. in and for tho
day of May; A. D. 1899. in the matter cf the ess-
admini.tratrix Of said estate will soil al public
suction. to the highest BIDDER fer cash, lawful
money Of the United States Of america. and sub
Saturday. the sth day e Noyember, 4. p, 1890,
house. in the e:ty Of Helena county Of evils ana
time of his denth, and all the right, title ard in
terest that the sad tate has by operation of law
or otherwise ACQUIRE other than or in addition
to that Of tkaeaid h. NJ. Dunphy, at the time of
his death. in and to all that certain quartz mill
and wafer right situate, lying and Icing IN tho
county of Lewis ana Clarke, state of Montana
and described "a follows to-wit:
certain quartz mill, situate near Park City,
together with the caachiuery aud certain water.
right attached thereto.
Terms and conditions of sale: Cash, in lawful
m oney OF the United States of America
Ten per cent of the purchase money to be paid
the administratrix on the day Ct sale, balsnce On
confirmation of the sale by said district court
Deed at expense of purchaser.
SUSAN NJ. DUNPHY,
Adm'x Of the Estate of E. NJ. Dunphy. deceased.
Dated Helena. Mont. October II. 1890.
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SILENT BE; 1T WAS THE CAT.

but yer can't tell how got that" said
one of the ''fnest." exhibiting crisp $40
and a grin of satisfaction that stretched
hts capacious mouth almost from ear to ear,
Wherever have lived, says writer in
the New York Herald, have always made
it rule to cultivate the policemen on the
beat. This man and were on good terms,
and knew that he had good story to tell
me. ! congratulated him on his good luck
but professed my utter inability to even sur.
mise how it happened.
Faith, thin, it's fur holdin' me tongue
about q thriflin Httlo job did fur foine
jintleman that lives ON me beat, SO it is.''
/ saw that the secret was 30 sore burden
to him that he would have to relieve him
self Of it.
''Shure," he continued. ''if I tell it to
some one kin hold me tongue about il
afterwards. No one loikes to have pace
Of good luck dhropped right down at his
faat an not shpake won word about it to q
livin' soul.
SWELL, thin, it was passin' the corner of
the shtrate that me foine jintleman lives ON
late last night, a wonderin' whittier Tim
Doplln had remirubered me instructions
coAcAfnirN where to lave the bottle of
,hs wsn sn2'sa saana, TT but
.as3 'Ay '"'A "e"ss sn0 lamp
:. Pat says he.
"'Yis,' says l.
Theirs q burglar in the house. says he.
The divil,' says l.
~. .'Lastevise,' rsys be, I'm not shure that
yer to foind out what the divil it is.'
Faith Gays !, I'D ~ lave tackle the
civil himself as a burglar, so I'm the man
fur ye.'
house, and inside the hall door was his lady
pany, though maybe she was drissed wall
enough fur perliceman. In wan hand
she'd poker an in the ither pistol.
"Oh, Charley says she; that's her hus-
band, not me. I'm SO glad you've found q
periiceman; WIZ afraid he'd come down
an murther me-
IF it's all the same to yer, num- says
]. wud ye Civ me the pistol; We could hurt
burglar wust wild the poker II yer held Il
Vid both hands.'
"'You see there's no tellin' what a nery-
GUS woman will do wild wan Of thin wipina.
in her failins. an / knowed she couldn't
hurt no wan wild the poker.
"Well, she told me they'd como homo
late from the thayater, an jist before she
war goin' to bed she vint to the kitchen to
git somethin' an she couldn't omen the
the door whin shs wint out; an thin ehe
heard noise, an then she knoved a buro-
lar had looked himself in. an she wouldn't
let her husband open the door 'cus be
moieht get shot.
Faith, says to meself, it's not muoh
persuadin' he naded to lave the door alone.
or Pm no judge o. human natur'.'
But the lady's words wuz moighty conn
fortin' and made mo feel bold az a lion. for
shure knowed that burglars don't iock
Themselves in Kitchens If haven't been
long on the force.
well, they showed me the way upstairs
they lived in the third Aat-sn, it.s
moighty careful they vaA too, that l wint
fust. An whin 10 got to thu lsndin' they
showed me the kitchin.'
II tried the door an found il locked.
"sWhat shall I dor Gays /.
aIsll him 70 como out says sha.
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LOVES GHOST.

In some soft twilight. an unbidden guest,
Unseen yet felt by some chord in thy breast
That only stirred when was nigh,
! shall come to thee. l whom men call dead,
hut with SO noiseiess and SO slight u tread,
Taou wilt not know that it is l.
!hongh in thine own may gaze fairer face,
Aud loves fond light dwell in beaming eye,
In some soft twilight shall claim my place,
Ana she will wonder at thy slow reply.
Menu ies that bind our hearts can never die:
Thy lips shall suddenly grow white and dumb.
In some soft twilight when slowly come.
AS the gray shadows creep nthwart the sky.
May spencer Farrand, in Inter- Ocean.
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Roa.d Trim Rate, to ch,c.~o.

Commencing Oct. is the Union Pacific
Railway viii sell round trip tickets fron,
Helena, Mont. to Chicago, nls. and return.
at e82O0. Tickets good going thirty davs
and returning thirty days. extreme limit
ninety dayA
A. E. vRAxm, r. &P. Agent
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