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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1893-06-08
NUMBER Is.
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Mrs. Lovejoy Aldrich, of Seattle,
Washington, is the widow of two
soldiers. Her first husband was in the
revolutionary war, and the other in
the war of 1912. She is the only person
known to the pension Office who stands
in this position.
"A posthumous work by Cardinal
Manning, being his only contribution
to secular literature,is about to be pub
on Honor" Consistency" Vanity"
Popularity" 1.-The Fourth Estate"
Critics." and like subjects.
Mr.. Henry NJ. Stanley is busy upon
series of short stories for early pub
lcation. They consist of legends and
folk tales communicated to the explorer
by his native followers during his long
and perilous journeys through the great
forests of the Dark Continent.
M. Ernest Lavisse, the new French
academician, is notable for his histri-
onic talent. Indeed it is claimed that
at the Lycee Charlemagne he was won't
to declaim Cicero's orations with such
dramatic vigor as to check any ten
dency to yawning on the part of his
class.
Mr.. George Lizotte and Mrs. Lizotte,
a niece of Justice Harlan, have been on
a wedding tour ever since their mar
riage in June, 1891. They like the life
and say they may continue it as long
as they live. Thus far they have trav-
eled $1,000 miles and have visited al
most every town Of any size in North
America.
Mime. de Lesseps, wife of '1e grand
Francais," can write equally well in
French and English. She wrote novel
several years ago and published it
anonymously. She is collecting her
husbands private papers and corre-
spondence, and proposes, it is said, to
write book explaining and defending
his course in regard to Panama.
Edison, the wonderful, the man
who can work sixty hours on stretch,
the greatest inventor of the country,
has interesting ideas about food.
Variety" he says, lis the secret OF
wise eating. The nations that eat the
tions, and he said to his wife, just after
they were married: 81 wish l might
not eat the same thing twice in q
month"
jaime Whitcomb Riley told the
Louisville people that he is always
troubled with difidence when he goes
upon the platform to deliver q lecture.
II always" says the poet, "have an
ague of more or less pronounced type
when / face an audience. But / have
grown to be grateful for this, because
consider it an acknowledgment that a
speaker owes his audience obeisance,
and that he is fearful he will not be
able to fulfill their expectations.
would rather approach a crowd in this
| attitude than to be too sanguine."
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Modern Battle-ShIps,

From the beginning of naval warfare
battle-ships have been the principal de-
fence of all maritime people. Their de
velopment has enlisted the highest tai
ent, the keenest intelligence. and in
each period types have been produced
which have justly evoked the praise
and wonder OF the sea-going races But
great as was the development of the past,
never before, perhaps, has equal prog
ress been attained in the same space of
time as in the last quarter of century.
At the beginning Of the civil war iron
ship construction was in it's infancy,
and the stately triple-tiered steam line
of battle-ships were supposed to be al
most invincible; but between them and
the mighty ocean fortresses of to-day
the contrast is greater than between
the war galleys of the Greeks and the
vessels that fought with Nelson at the
Nile.-Harper's Young People.
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NEW DEFINITIONS.

Amendments offered to Few of the
Terms and Phrases in Common Use.
Mana biped with prejudices which
he calls principles.
Woman-A biped with more preju-
dices-and less principles.
A Perfect Lady-The highest praise
which the scullery-maid can accord to
her mistress.
Marriage-An investment for woman
and a speculation for man.
Frlendship-A game for two, at which
only one wins.
Society-A hotch-potch of pretentious
people having nothing in common but
uncommon assurance.
Respectability-Consistent conform
ity to inconsistent mediocrity.
Religlon-Eternal principles modified
to suit temporal requirements.
Principle-Any opinion which it is
our individual interest to support.
The Soul-An element of discord, in.
tended by Providence to be saved, and
expected by theologians to be damned
Reputation-Moral capital with which
to deceive our neighbors.
The World-A place in which we all
hate each other for a time, in expecta.
tion of loving each other later for eter.
nifty.
The Flesh-A thing which modern
artists paint pea-green.
The Devil-A discarded illusion, still
popular with the children.
A Good Chap-Anyone who might
could, would or should lend us money
Bad Chap-The same individual
after he has lent us money.
A Smart Man-One who affects tc
despise all but those who despise him
A Wealthy Widow-A woman with e
bonus.
A Politician-One who manipulates
the principles of others for his own in
terests.-London Truth.
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HUMOROUS.

If the state were as hard a master
10 men as money is the world would be
tull of treason.-Ram's Horn.
-"Why do you ask me for my auto
graph?" asked the poet, who liked to
hear words of praise. Because you are
the only one who can write it" said the
applicant, meekly.-Vogue.
ed.-Lester-"What num-
Der of ships foundered on the sea dur
Ing the past winter!' Jester-"Yes;
but they won't begin to compare with
the number of schooners that will go
down next summerr'-Truth.
I'm Smoking Car.-Drummer taking
out well-filled cigar rcase)-"Pardon me,
but have you a match?" Seedy indi-
vidual (suggestively) -''Yes - but l
have no cigar" Drummer-'Then you
won't need the match. Yankee Blade.
A Politician on the Watch-"You ou
don't seem to be one of the people who
think the Office should seek the man."
"Yes," replied the politician, a little
doubtfully, 81 am. But believe it's.
the mans business to keep in hailing
distance. e."-Washington Star.
A professor has made the calcula-
tion that, if men were really as big as
they sometimes feel, there would be
room in this island for only two profess
sors, three lawyers, two doctors and
reporter on a paper. The rest of US
would be crowded into the sea and have
to swim for it.-Tit-Bits
Mrs. Lansington-"I hear your
daughter was married recently" Mrs
St. Clair-''Yes, two months ago" Mrs.
L.-'What kind of a match did she
make?" Mrs. st. Cob, safety
match. Her husband is worth quar-.
ter of million, and gave her one hun.
dred thousand as marriage portion" "
-Tit-Bits.
Why He Succeeded.-"Who is your
doctor, George?" ''Dr. Smoothman. u
'How did you come to have that hare.
Drained creature?" "Oh, my wife once
asked him if he could tell why she al.
ways had cold feet, and he told hel
that they were so small that they
couldn't hold blood enough to keeI
them warm. She wouldn't have any
other doctor now. Buffalo News.
Mary Belle Freely says that tn,
emblem for the Worlds fair womant
building should be an apple, and sh'
adds: ''But for Eve the men would b,
to this day, / suppose, idle, naked, sun
burnt loafers like Adam; no bette
than the beasts, the serpents and tn
insects. But she courageously took tn
apple, rescued the world from sloth, In
difference and stupidity, and lifted tn
race to a level little lower than tn
angels" Good for Mary Belle! Pu
the apple right there, and let 1t be
hells.aewer.-st, Louis postrPispstOl
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HER ADVENTURE.
The One Exciting Event In the Life of q
Bank Presidents Wife.

The One Exciting Event In the Life of a
Bank Presidents Wife.
An old lady, wife of bank president,
had one happening to relate-as she
does unceasingly-the single adventure
of her life. But that was sufficiently
exciting to last throughout an ordinary
existence. Her home was entered not
long ago by gang of burglars, whose
search was for her son, the cashier to
open the safe for them in the bank
next door.
At sight of the young man led away,
with revolvers pointed at his head and
surrounded by desperate masked men,
his mothers fright and horror found
vent in wild cries and passion OF
tears.
The rest of the family were gagged,
handcuffed and bound to chairs. She
was tied to bed and camphor and
water left close at hand.
No one else took any notice of her,
but, as the strange procession moved
off, one of the rutfians hastily stepped
back to where she lay, stopped over
and kissed her shriveled cheek, muir
muring in her ear: 81 had mother
once"
An incident so romantic that it does
not ring true. Which it is.-N Y.
Times
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THE KURLANDERS.
Subjects of Russia Who Are q Superior
People.

Subjects of Russia Who Are q Superior
People.
They are all peasant proprietors,
these Kurlanders, self respecting,
thrifty, Industrious people. Their blood
is not German, but their people have
enjoyed centuries of German civiliza-
ton. They are Slav, and would be as
dirty and shiftless as their kinspeople
of Russia had they known no other
government than that of the drunken
elder or the county police. In the land
they came from the roads are well made
and maintained; every village has a
tidy schoolhouse. The fields are well
drained and cultivated; the mobiles live
upon their estates, and exercise an ex-
cellent influence about them in the ad-
ministration of justice and the main
tenance of local institutions.
The people belong mostly to the
Lutheran church, and everywhere you
find well-educated clergymen, who do
their duty conscientiously, foster lib
eral education, and cultivate their land
thoroughly. The people of these Baltic
provinces have been loyal to the czar
throughout the two centuries that they
have belonged to his empire. They
have enjoyed a large measure of local
self-government, and it is this that has
made them SO superior to the rest OF
Russia. Their towns are centers 7of
commercial and intellectual activity;
no schools in Russia compare with those
which the Germans maintain here, and
the university of Dorpat is far beyond
anything dreamed of by Russian. The
people of these provinces were emanci-
pated from serfdom nearly a generation
before the Russian edict was promulgat'
ed. The czar's government has produced
misery and mischief by its measure
the German provinces effected the
change so simply and wisely that it has
resulted in blessings.
The Russian emancipation created {
vast gulf between the noble and peas
ant, which thirty years has only wild
ened. The emancipation along tn,
Baltic has created an excellent class o
independent farmers, who regard thei
interests as identical with those o
their former landlords, and who talk
the liveliest interest in protecting thei
present system of education and ad
ministration against the demoralizini
influences OF the Russian priest an'
pelieemea,~-PoultRsy Bjgelow, N eoG
temporary Review
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He Wanted Particulars.

''Sleep?" responded the large, good
natured comfortable-looking man, to a
question the man by the stove had put
to him. "Sleep? sleep all night like
a baby"
What baby?" queried a nervous,
harassed-looking young fellow, with a
strange glitter In his eyes. What
baby, say?" he repeated in harsh and
hollow tones that frightened the COM
pany, for they did not know that he had
been father for only year.-Detroit
Free Press
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SPRING FLOWERS.

Blossoms That With Pomp of Color and
Beauty Upturn Sweet Faces to the Sun.
Even in the matter of posies history
repeats itself, and the rose, so dear to
the Roman emperors, who used it in
such profusion, is to be the blossom par
excellence of the approaching season.
AS the orchid predominated last year,
so this summer the rose will reign su-
preme. Since it came over to us fom
Persia, in days long gone by, confined
as 1T was then to one species, to the one
tinge OF yellow, most marvellous re-
suits have rewarded the culture of
the florist, until now the quaint conceit
is for a single rose of rare and
beautiful type for the corsage, and
for household decoration an artistic
arrangement of few choice flowers is
preferred to a profusion of commoner
varieties. Indeed, at luncheon last
winter, when flowers were costly and
scarce, lady gifted with an orchid
taste and daisy pocketbook gave a
luncheon for which a single dollar had
to do duty in the purchase of flowers.
And after much deliberation and pric-
ing of cheap blossoms she selected for
her table single beautiful rose, per-
feet of its kind, and paid for it the en-
tire amount. This she set in rare old
vase of shimmering Venetian glass, and
no scheme of elaborate decoration ever
received more genuine admiration than
did this single queenly flower, that
rose to the occasion and shook out it's
fragrance and held up it's handsome
head most proudly. One thing to remem-
ber about your rose is that it will
last longer if you can contrive to wear
| it with its head downward. The rea-
son is hard to account for save on the
| general principle that roses, like the
women who love them, have little ways
of their own past finding out. Every
one knows how graciously flowers will
| keep their freshness when worn by
some women; how quickly they lose it
on another woman's bodice. The why
has never been satisfactorily explained,
but experiment has proved that roses
will retain their beauty longer when
worn if they are wired, though the
wired blossom is short-lived and unsat-
isfactory for the house. Of all roses
the American beauty just now takes
the lead in favor for personal adorn-
ment, for it tones in so armoniously
with the seasons color.-N. Y. Sun.
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AND-SPLASH.

looked as if the wanton hair was blown
by gust of wind across the smiling
face. Merry eyes CLEANED through the
riffs at him who sat and dreamed. At
last man came to sweep out the
place. He touched the old man gently
and said in no unkind tone:
you'll have to go out now, mister
You'll have to go home. Court is
closed"
The old man meekly rose, and as he
walked toward the door the vision
fioated on before. Down the narrow
stairway he crept and out upon the
pavement. People passing jostled him,
but he needed them not. for above their
heads the laughing eyes, the saucy lips
and brown head floated like phantom
of the past. Caught up by the sweep
of the crowd he was carried along
north with it, but before him went the
vision as though it were guiding star.
Pushed and buffeted here and there, he
took no heed of his direction, only look
ing to the vision to lead him where it
would. When the Clark street bridge
was reached he failed to realize it, and
walked slowly on with his hands
clasped and the merry face still going
on before. A bell rang. He heard it
not, for the childs lips were parted
with a smile. By and by-not long,
but how long he knew not-he came to
the end of the bridge. As he looked
down, down into the muddy, Opaque
stream, the vision danced on the waving
ripples and the blue eyes seemed to say:
Come" The old man stretched out
his arms, and it seemed as if the vision
his boy, his darling baby, the treasure
of his heart-foated nearer, and it
seemed as if the rosy lips were pursing
themselves for kiss. Nearer and
nearer came the bonny face, and the
cid mans arms were trembling with
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VOLUME XXXII
MEMORYrS FACE.

They hod not met for forty years,
And they looked each other DER
To find one trace of the merry face
That the childhood playmate wore;
The golden hair was streaked with gray,
The laughing lip firm set,
The eye was dull. the form grown full:
..How changed" they said, land yet
They had not met for forty years,
And they looked each other DER,
There was scarcely trace of the merry face
That the childhood playmate wore:
The cheek was brown and thin and old
That used to be so sweet,
And they did not know in the step SO slow
The tread of the boyish feet.
ave have not met for forty years."
They said; us it you and 1,
II we cannot trace in the olden face
A bit of the long goneby?"
And the answer came: "You remember the
time
When the stovepipe tumbled down,
When we played hispy, when you and
Rolled hoop through the midst OF the town;
"You remember the orchard with summer
sweets
And the hatfuls we used to shake.
You remember" ''Oh, yes, it is you, OLE
Ches,
1t is you and there's no mistake
"Ah! the lip. and the cheek and the eye may
change,
And the hair grow white and thin,
But the forty years cannot make US strange
We are ourselves within"
~Yes tt C eye Of the soul can keep its light
And the voice Of the heart can sing
The same old song, as sweet and stroug
AS in youth" Then let US bring
Our store from the childish chanpeleSs mast
Till me nory's face shall flame
With the ruddy glow of the long ago.
For our souls are just the same.
Julia H. May, in Detroit Free Press
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SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Washington and Lee university has
graduated thirty-seven governors, eight
United States senators and thirty-one
college presidents.
DIR. E. P. Goodwin, of Chicago. who
has recently had his quarter century
anniversary, has received in twenty
five years 1858 members by letter and
1852 by confession, 1866 in all.
Mrs. Lyme Stephens is the only
woman who has ever presented ca
thedral to religious community. 1t
stands at Cambridge, England, is dedi-
Gated to Roman Catholic worship and
cost S400, 900.
The Presbyterians have contributed
toward the establishment of the Meth
odist university at Washington as much
as the Methodists have, while the total
contributions from all other denomina-
tions is not equal to that received from
the Presbyterians.
The Newark and New Jersey Meth
odist conferences have adopted strong
resolutions with reference to the race
track bills, branding with ''infamy
those members of the legislature who
voted for those most infamous laws"
and promising support only to those
candidates next fall who pledge them
selves to repeal those laws.
Rev. Hiram Brigham, who for thir-
ty-four years has been laboring among
the natives Of the Gilbert islands, had
the satisfaction of seeing the printing
of Bible, in the language of the Gil
bert islanders, in the composing and
press rooms of the American Bible So
ciety. He began the translation of the
Bible for the benefit of the people in
1858. :
-Congregationalists and Presbyteri-
ans in Canada are earnestly considering
proposals which look toward an ulti-
mate union of the two churches. The
proposition comes from the Congrega-
tionalists in Ontario, and was presented
to the Toronto presbytery. The paper
was signed by eleven representatives of
the Congregational churches. 1t con-
templates corporate union, and is ex-
ceedingly friendly in tone.
Yale, in the new revision of its
course, has added very greatly to Its
list of electives. The number of courses
offered in the prospectus of 1898 and
1894 is 147, againsti12S last year and 100
the year before. Of these are 13 in phi
losophy, in political science and law,
10 in history, "a in modern languages,
10 in English literature, 26 in ancient
languages, 10 in biblical literature, 4 in
the fine arts, 20 in physical science, 8 in
music. The longest increase is in the
natural and physical sciences.
1t is reported from Rome that the
pope has just completed an examina.
tion of the question of the study of the
Scriptures, having devoted inquiry es-
pecially to the diverse opinions of sa.
wants on great biblical questions. 1t is
said that he will indite letter to
bishops requesting them to enjoin upon
| their focks a more profound study OF
the Scriptures and a larger place in the
schools for the study and critical ex.
planation of hermeneutics. He urges
the necessity of keeping in the track OF
modern progress and discovery in order
to adapt Catholicism to the needs of the
| day.
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LOST HIS JOB.
He Was Not Quite Right on the Pronuncia-
tion, Unfortunately.

He Was Not Quite Right on the Pronuncia.
tion, Unfortunately.
One of the cormorants who, with
broad wings aslant, are sweeping the
political sea just now in quest of food,
walked into the office of a western cor
respondent last night and said: 81 am
from California, and l am after an Of
fee"
''Sit down." said the newspapers
man; glad to do anything for Cali
fornie. What part of the state are you
f:om?"
81" he said, "am from San Joes"
"What?'
"San JOeS"
my friend" said his entertainer, 81
pity you. The name of that town is
San Hozay Take a couple of nights
off, come around both nights, and will
endeavor to coach you little on Bret
Harte nomenclature. You might get
tangled up with San Joaquin Coahuila,
Cajon, Calabasas, Escondido, Gualala,
Manzanita, Nojoqui, San Mateo, San
Miguel San Luis Obispo, San Pablo,
Santa Margarita, Santa Maria, Santa
Monica, Santa Paula, Santa Ynez-all
the male and female saints in the cal
endar. You might go to the White
House and attempt to tell Private Sec
retary Thurber that you are from San
Observation-Disclosures. He is dead
onto all of those names. Come and see
me again before you tackle him. ~
Washington Post.
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Her Conclusion,

The youth of thirty summers was
talking to the girl of twenty about his
teeth.
Just think of it, he said, I'm cut
ting wisdom tooth in my upper jaw
''People don't have wisdom teeth in
the upper jaw" she contended
'But I'm cutting one," he insisted.
''Pshaw," she said, as women argue,
''that isn't a wisdom tooth, that's just
an ordinary intelligence TOOTH" and
the young man refused to continue the
discussion.-Detroit Free Press.
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A Place of SeclusiOn,

Prosperous-Looking Party - You
ought to be ashamed of yourself. You
never see me loafng about the streets
drunk.
Homeless Hawkins-No, jedge; but 1
hain't got no place to go to, like you
have.-Puck.