davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1891-01-15

Montgomery Advi;i e.: If tie
rlicc Il cotton wsu.4 so up the far,
ngs Of Alabama would be independ
tia and could make their crops next
,.sr viihont advances of any sort.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1891-01-15

A Planter OF Tensas parish clAiIDs
|, ha.e mad. 700 bales Of cotton q,
El5 ores, 40 Of hich were owe,
tes,d. Most OF lis hands were ne
q, es imported from Moth Carolina
hist year.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1891-01-15

Knoxville Pres: While the peoll
n the South are elat@d over Tie rapic
4 vtloI ment Of material wealth with
ID their BORDERS, they are apt t.
tycriood the tue lasis Of their Ia!
ipr day process. 1t is all eiubracec
IN one little wold of only fonr lettels
-aMnrl.n
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1891-01-15

1T Mendenball experimental TO,
Z FEARS before he was convinced that
y had perfected in &c. G. q. Certain
soagn Cure, the best remedy on
~ lot coughs aud colds. Sold by
Oneal and Barnacastle Il Murtt.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1891-01-15

va chronic coughs are relieved
: more speedily by &C. G. G. Certain
soagh Cure than any other remedy.
n0id BY Barnaeastle 4 Mmff, Haueh-
w and b. +. Oneal, Bellevue.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1891-01-15
The Connecticut
INDEMNITY ASSOCIATION
OF Waterbury, Conc.

OF Waterbury, Cons.
Y. i. SA " YER, President.
OFFERS GUARANTEED INSURANCE
1T ONE-THII1D LESS T,H1y OLDLTYE
RATES.
A nj COMBINES the SECURITY of the
"A safest Companies with the LOG Cost of
common sense requirements. Rates are pro-
lOnnced ample to meet all demands.
Rates are reduced after "A term of years.
Policies are inuoutestible after two years.
Cash Fajtes and Paid up Insurance are
features of this plan.
Company has been in successful operation
six years.
Offers the best in Life, Endowment, Tontine
and Accident Policies.
Chartered by the State of Connecticut.
Capital, $2j00000.
Write to this office for rates and blank APP
plicatioDs.
We want good. live Agent in every town,
city and parish. Address
J. J. SCOTT, State Manager,
80 Common street, Shreveport, La.
dee
New-York tribune., 1891-05-17
HE WANTS TO BE SAVED FROM HIS FRIENDS.

"why do l keep my proposed trip to Europe so
secret1" repeated a man whose circle of friends Is
larger than common to person who had asked him
tho question "Well, to tell the truth, because
I want to escape being made a purchasing agent
for a dozen or two Of people whom I know. When
ever they learn that I am about to go abroad they
oyerwhelm me with commissions Of all kinds one
man wants a photograph of certain tower Of the
castle at Heidelberg; another wants peculiar kind
Of a matchsafe which may be bought at a certain
shop in Paris, still third is anxious to have few
London neckties, and Others want umbrellas. sticks,
opera glasses cigar-holders, jewels something
else It's nuisance in the first place TO buy these
things especially you likely to be In a hurry
M times Then when you arrive back In New
York you likely TO have trouble with the customs
officials friends always expect you to get
their articles In duty free. Besides, no one ever
pays YOU In advance. and you have to so around
dunninC the people To c"p the climax. you often
buy things that do not suit the persons who have
asked the favor Of you. and their disappointed looks
or words make you feel unpleasant, to say the least
Consequently having been through these experiences
several times. now keep my intended departure as
secret possible"
New-York tribune., 1891-05-17
Changing Defeat 10 Victory.

The genius OF Sheridan at WINCHESTER changed defeat
to victory when feeble adver-arles the shape
inefficient remedies fail stay the progress of that OBJ
Bitters turns the tldedrlyes enemy back Nothing
maeria medlcs. OF It, compares this
opponent OF every form OF maarla disease. Chls and
fever. dumb ague. bilious remittent and ague cakelt
matters not-one and all exrpated by the Bltters
tako Of the great preparatlye advance OF
the malaal season. Is to buckle on It were AL armor
OF proof which denes attack SO fortified protected.
you sha be seathless Remember, too that
an cradicator OF liver complaint constipation rheuma-
tism. kidney complaints end dyspepsia
New-York tribune., 1891-05-17
A NEW SEVRES.
From The London Queen.

From Tho LOhuOh Vuten
some time since new species Of ware was ins
vented BY the Sevres mandatory. which IL was hopd
would withstand the effect Of wet and frost. Tho
attempt has proved perfectly successful large vas,
that has stood throughout the late nclement season IN
the Jaren des Plancs at Rouen has through a.,
ordeal unscathed Henceforth this sort OF pottery VIII
be In request for the decoration OF parks aud gardens
Unfortunately sevres prices beyond the reaeh @
the general public
New-York tribune., 1891-05-17

IL is a beautiful and touching sight when truck
gets stalled in crowded street The sympathy Of
other drivers brings the tears 10 ones eyes II half
a dozen Of them to jump from their seats and
take a hand In strengthening out the middle a few
seconds would suffice TO get them started again their
uneven roads, but not they The New York truck
man knows his rights. lie is not the man 10 help
any one I'm distress. He Just sits his perch and
"cusses" his way out Of the lam.
New-York tribune., 1891-05-17
AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
OUR NEW CONSUL AT CAIRO-A HALf'foh
GOTTEN STATESMAN-THE JURY SYSTEM
IN Observation-Disclosures.
IN WASHINGTON-NO1
rrnon rus REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUNE

rvuou THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUNE
Washington, May 1e.-Genal. big hearted old Johh
Anderson presumably nearing the scene OF MS iu'"
activities H. indeed, he has not already arrlVo"
should not think Egypt very desirable residence se
this season, especially for man OF Andersons ~npie
physique and sultry temperament. The popular loea
i that the winds from the soudan not exactly bleak
and that the consistency of ones shirt collar IS horo
imminently mpcfed at Cairo than at New-orleans or
even at Washington. STILL happen to know that the
big good fmored Con gresham went forth upon ms
Egyptian mission provided with much gossamer, with
russell shoes and flannel shirts, and more OF less
gorgeous surcingles. l know also That he INTENDED 10
buy in London full supply Of cork helmets and other
accessories Of tropca life Moreover he has that tran
ou and deliberate habit which goes far TO mitigate the
seventies of perspiration. He will ride camel with
oomposIre and look through his window at a hot day
with solemnity.
am glad TO hear from some Of my travelling friends
thet Anderson will not necessarily have to rennqush
in Egypt the one game for which he cares-bliiiarus'
He does not play cards checkers chess or doinoe
hut he loves billiards with ardor that KNOWS no
change or faltering. At his club here In Washington
he could be seen almost any afternoon absorbed In 'he
ntcacies Of the and the spread His most ire
ouent compettors were ex Governor and OK
Secretary of the Treasury Boutwell, and Dr. Iulho
Verdi. OF evenings, when there were no fnnctons AZ
the Executive Mansion he would often take MS private
cue under his arm and stroll over to the Whte House
He s and for nearly half century mas peeh We
Presidents most intimate friend. The two were schoo
mates and room-mates in their boyhood and nave mani
taned ever since the aectonate relations when spah8
up between them then. They call each other Beh anu
John and are as much like brothers as two puDhc hc
immersed in serious matters could possibly be-nuch
more So indeed than would be suspected Dy thoSe WIN
knew them only specifically.
Whether Anderson will get on a game with tne
Khcdive remains to be seen. / am quite sure nov"
ever that he will make 1t lively for his Nibs III 'iie
event Of such consumnlation. and that ne VIII isis'
on paying his half OF the expenses for Anderson never
plays foc chances. He pays his game ana you paS
yours no matter who wins. But he Is an out a"n-ou'
good fellow, all tho same, and he carries !us' aiiu.
the middle seam Of his coat great big American back
bone that is stiff enough to prop up the Pyramid OF
Cheops
New-York tribune., 1891-05-17

Mexican prejudice against Americans is Stll
strong popular feeling, but it is declining. Some
of the newspapers take advantage of every petty
incident to infame the rescntments of their read
ers. If man be run over and killed on the
railway, q ferocious TRADE will appear in a San
Luis Potosl journal against the management. The
local magnate, the jefe politico, will be called
upon to imprison the engineer and the conductor
and to stop the running Of trains. Whenever an
accident occurs there are camors from the press
and sometimes an arbitrary exercise Of authority
by the State Government. Even greater irrita-
ton is shown when some fancied slight is put
upon Mexican officials The Governor Of Nuevo
Leon recently entered the restaurant at one Of
the railway stations in San Luis Potosl, and with
out making himself known. refusal TO sit at q
tabe with the other passengers OF the train.
seat at another table was assigned to him, but
because he was not served at once he angrily
left the restaurant. The Sext morning local
journal magnfed this scene into wanton and
insoent outrage. and hcaped coarse abuse upon
the railway management and upon Americans In
general There are fewer episodes of this kind
in Monterey than in cities further SOUTH but
throughout Mexico there journalists and Of
fciais whose stock in trade is prejudice against
Americans. So far they consider il safe TO
crticse the Liberal Government of the day, they
nveigh against the concessions made TO American
railways. mining companies and merchants. They
delight in harassing and embarrassing American
interests. The officials are quick to take ad.
vantage OF every opportunity for imprsoning
Americans for debt under State laws, although
under the Federal statutes this is illegal pro-
cess. Their political cry is Mexico for the Mex.
leans, and there are reactionary and conservative
New-York tribune., 1891-05-17

Surgeon NJ. L. Ruth Of the Navy, who is so we'll and
Widely known in New York, has gone to the Yellow
sono Park on special sick leave. lie was dangerously
III during the winter-so much so that it was found
about the latter part Of March TO send him
~ pcrmnda His health improved there but the warm
ther made n necessary for him TO leave before his
recovery was complete. and he has now gone to thf
YcIIowstone Park for further convalescence lie VII
no the gucst OF Captain George :. Anderson 6tf
Cova,ry who has been recently appointed superln
tendent Of The Park BY the President Just before his
tnnoSs Dr Ruth had been assigned 70 the new cruiser
Y"wark lie still expects to report in time to sal
,,.tth her An maiden cruise.
New-York tribune., 1891-05-17

Speaking Of Egypt brings to mind certain Ieiho-
cratic uminaIy who some five years ago. ABOUT as
unpleasantly conspicuous, though in different way
perhaps as the famous Eugene Higgins himself. VINO
will not remember Kelly now that call his name
Kelly of the much-worn carpetbag and the elusive des
tinaton-Keily who persona non grata at Vienna
and in whose anxious face the gates Of the Quirns were
slammed? Everybody will remember him, OF course,
for during quite protracted period he was National
nuisance and aflichon But he dropped out OF sight
and the world gratefully forgot him, and, indeed until
a friend mentioned 1t to me day or two ago, mad
lost all consciousness OF his existence 1t appears
however, f1at Kelly is to the fore. When he dlsap
reared after Mr.. Clevelsnd's persistent attempt 10
quarter him first Italy and afterward Oh Austria II
was not to subside into the mysterious ubrage Of
private station suited to his personal merits but 10
land softly and cnnglngy on a comfortable public
salary. lie is in fact now stationed at Cairo, mem
Der Of the International Tribunal, to which he was
appointed by Cleveland in 1886, and where he has
studiousy avoided that notoriety witch breeds sue
cessors 1t is pleasant to hear Of Kelly agan-in
Egypt
New-York tribune., 1891-05-17

The week has been one Of great social activity
Apart from the usual procession of dinners breakfasts
muscacs. garden parties, tennis etc. there is to be
considered the race meeting given by the Dumblane
c,rb fashionable organization here greatly affected
nv the ieuncsse dorre Of Washington, Baltimore and
Vcu,-Yorlx The event is always Of the utmost con-
,oouence and moment. and this year II brought to-
gether an unusually large number of people OF high
social rank.
The tennis experts are in hard trimming for the
tournament to be held in Wilmington Del. and very
bright hopes are cherished TO Washngton's part
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-04
Late Scientific Theories.

A paper on "The Evolution Of Electric
and Magnetic Physics" recently read by
A. E. Kennedy before the Brooklyn Ethi-
cal Association, contained in condensed
form much of the most advanced thought Of
some of the foremost scientists of the day.
Mr., Kennedy said that in electro-magnetio
science the great achievement since Fara-
davis time has been the determination of
the fact that all electricity flows or tends to
fow in closed curves or circuits, so that the
electrostatic circuit, the galvanic circuit
and the magnetic circuit, each resembling.
as il were, an endless chain or bundle of
endless chains, have all been defined, and
the laws which control their respective
types have been found to exhibit wonderful
analogies.
Another important landmark in the do
main of electro magnetism 10 the due ap-
probation of the influence of the ether.
While originally the electrical activity
seemed to be confined to the battery or con-
ducting wires of galvanic circuit, it il
now believed that the ether surrounding
these conductors plays fully as active part
in the process Of conduction, so that the
mind sees free space no longer void, but
filled with an active and responsive sub
stance, the ether. Once more in the evolu-
tion Of thought the tide of belief has turned,
and we hold that Torricelli, under some
what altered premises, that Mature abhors
vacuum" The properties Of the ether al
most threaten to surpass In interest and i'm
DoFtanes ths properties Of the matter II sn-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-04

carpenter. And up on little wooded hill.
above and beyond the Virgins FOUNTAIN
you may hear at certain seasons OF the
year, II you lay your ear carefully to the
ground, a strange and a far of sound, a
steady and monotonous stroke. Sometimes
1t IS very low, sometimes more loud;
bnt always harmonious and musical,
albeit bit sad. Sometimes it may be
likened to the dull and steady
stroke OF weayer's loom. Then it
is like the stroke of hammer. And the
tradition runs that this is the stroke OF the
carpenters hammer, coming down to us
through more than 1900 years; coming down
TO teach man still that he is not better than
his toiling Savior, but must still eat his
bread in the sweat of his fece; to teach poor
tired woman of toll that wherever she bends
her back in patient duty, Mary may lean in
helpful pity from her loom in the heavens
above. All, how much Tor man there is
here in Nazareth still
But the people seem weary, as il they had
hardly yet rested from wandering in the
wilderness. The low stone fences are stoop-
ing down into the earth, all brier- grown and
hidden by bad husbandry amid rank weeds.
The very camels seem tired as they groan-
Ing kneel in the dirt and dust before the
Virgins fountain. Yes, they surely are
very Tired. Far from out the far dawn of
time they have come down to us bearing
their heavy burthens; with their everlasting
lessons OF patience and of peace, kneeling
under all their loads.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-04
The Thrill Along the Wire.

Patrick B. Delany, the well-known teleg-
rapher. is inclined to the belief that the
thrill along the wire" which a telegraph
operator says has been felt when working
with certain operator, while with others it
is absent, is very much matter of imagina-
ton. In summing up the various consider
ations bearing on the subject, Mr.. Delany
says: II have been thinking backward
over the many years and wires covered by
my own experience as telegraph operator,
looking TOR thrills, as it were, but am
unable to join in the liberal eorroboratlon of
this operators experience which his story is
said to have brought out. II he had said he
was thrilled by a irst-class lightning sender,
and was able to take the sending and put it
down, I would go long way in his direc-
ton. for there is glory in being able to tell
great sender to go when he inquiries after
an hours silence on your part: 'r-u-tr
But was never thrilled, like the man who
started this discussion, in working with an
inferior operator. I have been strongly in
huenced under such circumstances, bnt not
in the way he describes-rather more in the
line of murder"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-04
The Telephone situation.

OF one thing the telephone subscriber may
rest assured, and that is that from now on
he will see very marked improvement in
the telephone service, and probably, by and
by, a reduction in the rates. The expira-
ton by 1898 of the earlier telephone patents
is beginning to agitate the minds Of many
capitalists and others who know how rich
the harvest of telephony has been, and as it
takes years to get a good exchange system
in working order, one hears already of
movements that tell of taking time by the
forelock in this matter. A significant incl
dent occurred a week or two ago in one Of
the inland towns of New York State, where,
on the proposition being made to cut down
some disused telephone circuits, the owners
objected strenuously. They said that when
the courts stopped them on the ground of
infringement of patent they cut the wires at
both ends, so that there was no danger.
Moreover, as soon as the chance offered and
they were free by the lapse Of the Bell pat
ents, they would resume their work, start
another exchange and give the people the
benefit Of lower rates.
1t is not to be supposed, however, that the
telephone people anywhere are sitting still.
The telephone ranks, when the business was
started were largely recruited from thssmore
pushing, ambitious and enterprising young
operators in the telegraph field, and those
men, experienced now and rich with money
they have won for themselves, will make
strong fight to hold the fort. They see that
even without patents the telephone ex-
change work is in one sense monopoly,
because it is silly and useless for q sub
scriber to be connected up with two ex-
changes, when what he wants is one ''cen-
trail" through which he can reach every
body. The local telephone companies all
over the country are building fine new ex-
changes, improving their facilities, and
putting their wires underground, 80 that
when the evil day comes, they can turn to
their own advantage and to the discontinue
of would-be competitors the popular cry
against overhead wires.
Concurrently with this local improve
ment, long-distance telephone wires are be-
ing extended everywhere connecting these
exchanges and their groups of sub-ofhces, so
that even now one vast telephone network
covers the most progressive parts of the
Union. 1t is expected and predicted in
some quarters that the Western Union Com
pany will be one of the first TO jump into
the ring. and it has many incentives to do
go but seeing that its old compromise with
the American Bell Company brings it $780,
600 a year, for which it does nothing abso-
IuteIy but set still, it is not unreasonable to
suppose that some fine day or other another
compromise will be tried. This, however,
will not prevent very active outside compe-
titiou. and even if it did, there is all the
endless work to be done in equipping fac
tories, Offices, hotels and dwellings with tele-
phoues to take the place OF the tinie-honored,
universal but inadequate bell and speaking
tube
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-04

virons and pervades. Mr.. Kennedy drew
attention to the pregnant fact that the evil
dence in favor OF the proposition that light
is vibratory disturbance in the ether of an
electro-magnetic nature. is such that almost
amount to demonstration. When this shall
be generally accepted the whole domain Of
optics and radiant energy will be enrolled
as one department and property of electro
magnetic physics.
The prospect opening out is brilliant
one, and we NAV well believe that in science
the same evolutionary process which has
united electricity and magnetism, and
welded both with radiation, will continue
to magnify, simplify and unity. In arts
electricity Is destined, even apart from
future discoveries, to take into its own
hands the distribution of power. The tele-
graph has conquered time, and the electric
motor is born to triumph over space; but
whether we watch the vibration OF the teleg-
raphic recorder that spells its message
across the sea, or watch the electric ear,
urged by invisible hands, pursue Its steaIthy
way. the rhythmic words Of Ruskin rise into
recollection: "Not in a week or a month or
year, but by the lives of many souls Q
beautiful thing must be DONE"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-04
BEETS IN THE NORTHWEST.
ItRagfnS to Look as If Sugar Making Il the
Farmers Salvation.

ItRagfnS to Look as If Sugar Making l. the
Farmers Salvation.
st. Louis Globe-Democrat1
The time is coming when the West will
produce as much if not more sugar than the
South, and that sugar importation will ab-
solutely cease. was through Kansas this
fall and found many places where the re-
turn from sorghum was far higher per acre
than from corn. Since then have been
through Nebraska and the Dakotas, and the
thousands of pounds of beet sugar produced
was genuine surprise. At one factory
alone they are turning out over 200 barrels
day, and there other concerns nearly as
large.
The beets seem to take to the soil, and the
product per acre is enormous, while the
sugar is splendid. It has been successfully
demonstrated again and again that the
farmer cannot live by corn or wheat alone.
or by the two combined for that matter. and
it looks to an unbiased traveller as though
in the West and Northwest hundreds oi
acres will soon be devoted to beet culture,
and that big money will be made BY the
men who make the venture