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The Progress., 1893-08-05
Truck Farm al! Orchard
FOR SALE.
A RARE BARGAIN IN THIS

| have for sale one of the most desrd-
he places for truck farming and fruit
growing in North Louisiana. It is situa-
ted one-half mile below Shreveport, on
Red river. in BOssief parish, about thirty
five acres of land. dive ling, barn, tool
roo0a and pigeon loft; about twenty-five
acres in orchard, comprising 800 peach
trees. txO-thirds just come into bearing:
400 figs. 200 pears, besides apples. april
cots, cherries, plums. pecans ahd' grapes
I'm smaller quantities. The very
best O. lands adjaceLt. II pur-
chaser should want TO cultivate addl-
tiOnal lands in cotton. for rent. The
place is admirably situated for trucking:
which, run in connection with a small
canning and preserving establishment
on the place. will yield handsome re-
tbrns from now Oh. 70 anyone with the
health and energy to attend to it. this If
an opportunity not met with often.
The place is owned by Mr.. T. A. Daught-
ry and must be sold OH account OF ms con-
iiuIIed i'll health 10 recuperate which ht
is warned by his ply ysician that he must
leave. For this reason will sell tins val
liable piece of property for the
SACRiF1CiAL PRICE OF $500,
On the extre mely easy terms on Sl,oo"
cash and the balance in one aud TWO
years with vendors lien, retained and
notes bearing s per cent per annum from
dat. The title 10 this properly Il
perfectb aud evond dispute. Call ahn
ee me early for the bargain.
G. D HICKS.
?Oj Milan street. Shrevepo t, La.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-09

man started on a railroad Journey of
over an hour without one. On the trains
between New York and Philadelphia
they filled half the seats. On Chicago
trains they filled all of them. The linen
buster, of various sizes and colors, was
to be seen everywhere about all depotS.
1t was the badge of travel. 1t was the
twin of a railroad ticket. The clothing
stores sold them by the thousand.
Wholesalers made them by the bale.
The mock of Europe, an American was
known by buster as far as he could be
seen.
Where has the buster gone? 1t is still
worn in the West. 1t still appears on
longer lines of travel. Its manifest and
sensible convenience endearS it to mid
dle-aged men. But on a short line like
that between this city and New York
the buster has disappeared as com-
pletely as last winters snoWflakes. The
clothing stores keep them on the back
shelves. Few are sold. The big whole
SaleTS do not sell a dozen where they
once dispose of bales.
In few short years this convenient
garment has been relegated to the
country districts and the provinces.
Yet in our climate. with our hot, dry
summers, our abundant dust and long
railroad journeys, the buster ought to
have become a permanent article of
clothing for all travellers. 1t is now for
those sensible enough to wear it. Yet
how few are the men willing to wear
what is comfortable when other men
have ceased to wear it.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-09
die to have it look like the slab-sided,

die to have it look like the slab-sided,
etc.
"Who does he look like?" you repeat,
looking wise. "Why, there can be but
one opinion on that. He looks like
Yes" interrupts the matron. eager
ly.
"Why, he looks like his mother, of
course"
And, although you don't know It. you
have made friend of the bundles
mother.
But the fates are against you.
Some one calls her.
"Hold baby. just a moment, won't
you? And be very careful"
She takes it for granted that you Will
consent.
it is an honor she does not confer
upon every one.
AS she speaks she lays the bundle on
your lap.
Mechanically, but with an inward
misgiving that all is not well, you reach
your arms around the frills.
She holds up warning finger and dis
appears.
You feel like man about to be cleo
trocuted, only more so.
You eye the bundle suspiciously.
Your first thought is: 1t it alive?
Your second: Will it break?
The first is quickly answered:
Baby, with the intuitive instinct that
all babies possess in q remarkable de-
gree, discovers that it is ill foreign
hands.
Under the circumstances the ortho-
doX baby invariably pursues one course.
He or she yells.
Your baby is DO exception to the rule.
He Immediately sets up yowl that
you imagine must be heard in the next
county.
Vaguely there rush through your
mind things you have heard your mother
or your wife say.
No baby cries unless pin is sticking
it.
An idea of looking for the pin that
may be sticking your baby presents
itself.
You look at the bundle.
You'd have nice time finding pin
among these frills and things.
You realize this at once.
Maybe it isn't pin.
Then you remember another proyorb,
Perhaps the baby is hungry"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-09

blasted when she went and married
that slab-sided old freak whose name
she now bears, says the Philadelphia
Inquirer.
The fellow that gets the girl you're
after is always slab-sided and freak.
THAT'S one of the peculiaritieS of the
genus home.
Anyway you have called upon her.
She is glad to see yov, and as an evil
dence of good faith fetches forth the
baby.
There is always a baby in these do
mestic affairs.
In the abstract there is nothing so
sweet and charming and interesting as
a baby.
Particularly the first baby of young
and newly made matrOn.
But in the concrete
Well, that is different.
Very.
If you have been there you know all
about il.
II you haven't, why-don't.
You cannot help admiring her as she
comes toward you with lace bundle.
all frillS and rick-rack and passemen-
terie, and things you know nothing
about.
She is we'll gowned in baby blue, loose
ana cllnglng, and her fresh young face
is all aglow with maternal JOY and pride,
and when she says something to the
bundle which sounds like Chinese to
you, you feel sympathetic chord loosen
your tongue, and you say something,
too, just what you don't know, and the
next moment:
Isn't he just the 'weetiest. 'eetiest,
'eety baby boy In all e world?'
You subscribe to this promptly and
emphatieally, although your ideas ON
the subject are vague and misty.
The next is a question, and 1t stag
gers you.
"Who does he look like?"
She gives the bundle of frills and
thing a deXterous hitch, and you catch
glimpse of something pink amid the
white.
Come now" she says. "Who does
he look like? Mamma says he looks
like papa, but | think
She pauSes.
This gives you time to think.
Your thoughts are not particularly
clear, except that it is hard on the bun
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-09
AT CHICKAMAUGA.
Figures Which Tell the Story of
That Terrific Struggle.


That Terrific Struggle.
Blue and Gray.
The terrific nature of the great strug-
gle at Chickamauga my be illustrated by
the record of the Twenty-frst Ohio. In
the course of the battle that regiment
fired 43, $50 rounds of fixed ammunition.
and fought till its last shot was expend-
ed. 1t suffered loss of one officer and
fifty men killed, three officers and nine
ty-elght men wounded, and twelve Of
fcerS and 104 men captured: vet even
such magnificent bravery as its men ex-
mOlted could not suffice TO give victory
to the Union arms.
the total number of troops engaged
on elther side in the battle has never
been satisfactorily determined. The
total strength of the army of Rosecrans
was from $4,000 to $4,000 effective men,
and quite likely was not far from the
tirst-named figure. Bragg's force has
been varlously estimated as having
been from less than $4,000 to fully TO
O0O- The probabilities are that the two
armies i'll number were very evenly
matched.
The losses of Rosecrans in killed.
wounded and missing were over $4,000
men. The losses of Bragg seem to have
been at least as heavy, for there was
terrific slaughter during his desperate
attempts to drive Thomas from Horse
shoe Ridge. Were we to consider as ac-
I eurate the Federal estimate of the Con-
federate loss and the Confederate esti-
! mate of the Federal loss, the figures
would he very greatly increased.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-09
A FAMILY OF SHAKERS
When They Had the ChilIs They
Attended to Business and Shook

When They Had the ChilIs They
Attended to Business and Shook.
Detroit Free Press.
1t was on the Washita river, in South
ern Arkansas. l had been told where
to stop to secure information about a
certain piece of land. L reached the
place to find it a very dilapidated log
cabin, and i'll front OF it sat long, lean
man, who was so yellow in the face tina,
at first took him for a mulatto. He
was stretching and yawning as | rode
up, and he apolOgiZed for not getting IN
by saying:
"'Scuse me, stranger, but its about
time for my chill.'
much ague around here?'
"HeapS of it."
''Do you live here all alone?"
"Reckon not. The ole woman is in
thar, but she's got a chill. Sal is NV
oldest, but she's chillin', too Rube is
beyand the mewl shed, and he's got it
bad today. 1o' can see Danny out by
the log heap, and Susan may be up on
the roof. It's our chilIin' day, and
everybody has got to chill"
L expressed my sympathy, and began
to ask after the land. but he held up a
shaking finger and said:
stranger, l don't know what the
custom is elsewhere, but right round
yere when Teller has a child he makes
1t his business to be chilly. and to tend
to nuthin' else but shakin'. Deed. it's
all he kin tend to. Sorry to disaplnt
yo', but from now to o'clock l shall
hev my back agin this cabinet and be
shakin' all the chinkln' out from atween
the logs. Come back arter that and I'll
talk to YOU
l returned that evening and he cheer
fully gave me all desired information,
and when l rode away he called after
me:
mighty sorry TO hev put yo' to so
much trouble. but we've got to foller
custom, yo' know. when we're a-chillin',
but when the chill goes off and the
fever comes on, then we drap all for
malities and try to act material to every
body.'
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-09

| Ii you only had sandwich or pie in
| your pocket.
/ You know You haven't, but you feel
| for them all the same.
| The best you can do is cigar.
| This you half draw out before you
| recollect that the baby is a trifle too
| young to smoke. -
And all the time baby is doing his
best to get into a spasm. t0
You look at the wrinkled, distorted
little face and become frightened.
Why doesn't his mother return?
And when she does?
Won't she think he has been abusing
/! her darling?
No doubt of it.
In desperation yon grab the bundle.
| and bob it up and down.
BABY only shrieks the more.
incidentally you discover that you are
holding the bundle wrong side up.
You reverse matters quickly enough,
but with no Quieting results.
Then you talk to the baby.
You tell him a bear story that you
read in last Sundays paper.
This doesn't seem to interest him, and
you tell him the joke about hen and a
! half.
This has no effect whatever, and you
| little imp will burst.
| at this stage you call him little imp
and don't think he looks a bit like his
mother.
What did she want to have a baby for,
anyway?
And If she must have a baby why
didn't she have one that knew when to
! stop.
You mediate fight.
But that looks like cOwardice, and you
VIII certainly be accused of doing some
| thing TO the child
Suppose it should burst?
You'd be arrested for murder.
BY this time you are scared and
begin prayer for the return of baDy'S
| mother.
Not being strictly religious your
prayer is not Immediately answered
and you become desperate.
On the table you notice handsomely
chased silver hand glass.
10u read the funny papers and be-
think you of hammer.
If you only had a hammer.
a hammer and Il looking glass in con-
Junction have always been known TO
quiet baby.
You reach for the glass.
In lieu of hammer you catch up a
scent bottle.
You place the babylon rug and close
Ills fingers over the bottle and the glass.
Suddenly baby stops crying.
You begin to breathe again.
4ou take out your watch.
Unjust two and half minutes there's
not enough left of the glass and bottle
TO swear by, and baby starts his pipes
| going again.
loa look wildly about.
In
over chair is cushion, one corner OF
which has become ripped.
A feather sticks out.
II you only had some mo!asses.
Here the tates are with you.
There is some OH the table.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-09
The ANGELIC HUSBAND.

There are husbands who are pretty
There are husbands who are witty.
There are husbands who in public are as
smiling as the morn;
There are husbands who are healthy,
There are famous ones and wealthy,
But the real angelic husband, well-he's new
er yet been born.
Some for strength of love are noted,
Who are really SO devoted
That wheneer their wives are absent thew
are lonesome and forlorn;
And where now and then you'll find one
Who's fairly good and kind one.
Yet the real angelic husband-oh, he's never
yet been born.
So the woman who is mated
To the man who may be rated
AS pretty fair'' should cherish him forever
and day,
For the real angelic creature,
Perfect, quite, i'll every feature
He has never been discovered, and he won't
be, so they say.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-09


You feel like a murderer, but someI
thing must be done.
You stick the baby's hands in the
moiasSes.
The act suddenly shuts him up. =
You smile the smile of a fiend.
Then you pluck handful of feathers
from the cushion and stuff them into
the baby's hands.
The crying spell is over at once.
No baby can cry and pick feathers
from one molasses covered hand to an
other at the same time.
AsEou are gloating over the success
OF your scheme the further door opens
and mamma appears.
One look at the horror on her face is
enough for you.
You forget everything, turn and
II you make your escape you are
lucky.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-09

ever. selected figured silk as their fabric,
and while blue in its different
shades seemed to be the favorite color.
the universal garniture was lace. and
more often white than black. OF course,
with such delicate and dressy toilets, it
was necessary to wear some kind Of pro-
tecting wrap to and from the park, and
this Newport dust CLOAK of Redfern'S
seemed to lust about fill the bill.
The model here shown is made of accor-
dion pleated China silk, in shades of
tan and gray. 1t entirely covers the
gown, is glrdled and trimmed with rib
bon. and has a very unique. fancy col
lar. and yoke trimming of ecru lace. If
its half as pretty and stylish as our ar
fist has made it, l should think its
owner would be 10th to remove it, even
though the gown beneath were also a
chef d'oeuvre.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-09
THOUSANDS ONA GAME.
Played for Gigantic Stakes With
out Blink While the Crowd of
Spectators Scarcely Breathed.


They were playing pool (never mind
though from the appearance of their
hands they earned their daily bread bv
the sweat of their brows.
1t was IN large pool room, and all
of the tables were in use. Only a few
loungers were watching these two at
first, for they played rather indifferentIy.
Lets make it Interesting and play
for some stakes" said Player Number
One.
Very well. Make it 500 game"
There was no smile to show that
there was a joke. They played more
carefully and each won a game, during
which a rev more loungers were at
tracted by hearing the size of the stakes.
linen ,Nl Number Two proposed that the
stakes be raised to 200, and they each
won another game. Some of the others
stopped playing TO watch this large
game.
This is getting monotonous." says
Number One" let's have just one more
game for 5000 side.''
Number Two demurred, but finally
agreed.
All the other tables were deserted by
this time, and the men crowded around
the table to watch the game.
Five thousand dollars is a big sum,
young men," said an old man who had
been playing billiards. land neither of
you looks able to lose tat much. Don't
make fools of yourselves. Don't play
for that amount"
But he was told to mind his business.
and the game was begun.
1t was close. Each got seven balls,
and the fight came for the last one.
Number One had first shot, leaving a
set-up for Number Two, and he put the
ball in pocket.
The spectators, who had been watch
ing the game, almost holding their
breaths, let forth cheer and looked to-
see what Number One would do or say
Come, let's settle up. How much do
owe you?' said he unconcernedly.
Five thousand ems at forty cents a.
thousand. That makes 81. Come on in,
next door and have one on me-"
And the specta tors, who had held
their breaihs, swore at the printers.
and then they went next door. TOO.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-09
MEMS FURNISHING DEPT,

Yesterday witnessed one of the
greatest days in the history of this de-
partment. Our clearance sale of sum-
mer goods is success. Prices talk.
See and be convinced. This
week we VIII put the knife into
Negligee Shirts.
Our 75c Shirts, with two collars, go
for SOC.
Our $3.50 Shirts, with two collars and
one pair cuffs. go for S1.I9.
Our S1.25 Shirts. collar attached, go
for Sl.00.
Our $3.50 Shirts, collar attached, go
for 1925. %
Our $500 Shirts, collar attached, go
Our S2.25 Shirts, collar attached, 90
Our s2.75 Shirts, collar attach ed, go
for S2.19. 50
Our " $500 Shirts, collar attached, go
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-09
Our Problem of Transportation.


Street railways in Massachusetts, are
adding to their plant freight and bag
gage cars. This is as it ought to be. The
TEN of truckage in metropolitan cities
York. for instances more on
parcel than it is for the carrying of the
same thousands of miles by ocean and
hundreds by railway. The situation at
present is anomalous. A passenger
pays $40 to go to Chicago. while a hun
dred pounds of freight cost, say, fifty
cents. When, however, the passenger
reaches New York he pays five cents to
travel ten miles, and the trunk fifty
cents or more for the same distance.
His trunk goes behind the horse as it
did century ago, but he goes by steam
or electricity, means OF transportation
III this case hardly two decades old. 1t
is time to think of the suburban freight
problem.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-09

HERE is moth
ing so mysteri-
GUS a b O u t
clothes as their
disappearance.
Feminine fash
ions are perpe-
tually t a x e d
with discard
ing the COM
Portable for the
new; but the
ways of men
with their wear
Wabbles III like
manner from
the convenient
to the novel.
Ten, e V e II
five years ago,
all men wore
d u S t rs. No
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-09
Advance Sheets tnobtainable.

Texas Siftings.
Papa, dear" SAID the testy old mans
daughter as she bent fondly over him
during his last illness. forgive NE for
asking you, but what are you going to
leave your darling daughter when
you die?'
"Fatherless" cried the irascibIe old
gentleman as he rolled over with his
face to the wall and kicked so hard
that he almost fractured the footboard.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-09
One objection.

Washington Star
II am against the requirement of any
new territory by this country" said the
man who is critical as to language.
why ?"
"This country has mora hard names
now than the public can learn to pro-
nounce in the next hundred years."
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-09

Speaking of summer silks, here's one
made into costume for lawn party.
1t is delicate fawn color. with HAIR
line stripe of a darker shade. and is all
strewn with tiny pink rosebuds. The
skirt has the fashionable trimming
of insertions. which. i'll this case,
are of ecru lace, as are the
collar and flowing undersleeves
There is becoming arrange
ment of rose pink velvet bands at the
waist, and the quaint picture" hat is
of lace with rose velvet loops and a
bunch of plumes. The girl who gets
herself up in dress like this cannot
help being pretty. if she tries, and the
other girls will ali wish they had chosen
something of the same sort. | am sure.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-09
And 1t Is the More So When
the Baby Has the Best
of the Argument.
1t Makes No Difference
Whether You Are Married
or Single.
It's a Trying Time. and You
Generally Wish You Were
Anywhere Else.

You may be married, have children
of your own, but that makes no differ
ence.
It's an epoch in your life that sears
itself into your brain.
You have called upon friend. dear
little woman that you know we'll and
like as sister. or maybe you had hopes
in that direction yourself, which were
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-09
PILLOWS IN. HA MMOCKS
Some of the Picturesque Fads of
the Summer Girl Who Is
Now in Full Bloom.
The Popularity of Pillows. and
the Very Latest Thing in
Hammocks.


WAY from the sights
aud sounds of a great
city, with no fear of
the smirch from its
dusty streets and the
WEAKNESS from con-
tact with its perspir-
ing crowds, beyond
reach OF the hum of
the too familiar and
overload mosquito,
the summer girl has
found. a convenient
L..
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-09
DISUSED BUSTERS.
Where Have They Gone - Very
Convenient They We're.

Philadelphia Press.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-05-10
A Big Runite Duped.

John c. Dillman, proprietor OF Hotel
Dillman, had business in Big Run one
day last week and while there he was
introduced to Big Run politician as a
Peoples Party candidate for county
treasurer. The Big Run man claimed
to have considerable political influence
and was willing to use IL il he was fur
nished with Doodle Dillman carried
the joke through and requested the
man, who held the vote Of Big Run in
his power, to come around in the morn
ing after the bank opened and he
Dillman-would furnish the money, as
he was Il little short Of ready cash that
evening. The Big Runite came around
in the morning dressed in his best,
thinking, no doubt, that he had struck
''snap." John c. had driven home the
night before and the 'boodle seeker"
in an off-hand way, learned that for
once he had been the victim of politi-
cal joke.
There are quite a number of fellows
just now who have wonderful amount
of political influence that can be pur-
chased at fair price, ,and one feature of it
is that any or all candidates can buy it.
Such influence has not much wait.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-05-10
Early Demise.

Alonzo Foster, twelve-year-old son of
Mr.. and Mrs. +. Foster, of Main street,
died at ten o'clock on Friday night,
May 3, 1888, after an illness OF nine days,
from inflammatory rheumatism, which
went to his heart. The funeral services
were held at the home of the parents
Sunday afternoon, conducted by Rev. ].
c, McEntire, and was largely attended.
The remains were buried in Beulah.
Alonzo had been playing with some
other boys along the banks of the Sandy
Lick creek and had either fallen or
waded into the water which was the
beginning of the ending of his young
life. He was regular attendant at the
M. f. Sunday school and member of the
writer's class. His conduct in Sunday
school was always commendable and he
seemed to be interested in the lessons
studied.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-05-10
Wrong Name.

Among the marriage license published
in last weeks Brookville Republican was
the following:
William Mathews, Of Rathmel and
Maggie Schultz, of Reynoldsville.
There was mistake made somehow
in the name of the lady, it should have
been Maggie Sheets. Miss Maggie
Schultze is well known for many miles
in the surrounding country, having
been assistant postmaster here for four
years, was an assistant in the Seeley,
Alexander & Co. bank for short time
and is now clerk in Schultze & Sons
grocery store. Miss Schultze has had
to explain the mistake many times in
the past week. We don't know wheth-
er Miss Schultze has any intentions of
getting married soon, but the man who
is fortunate enough to get her will get
a good wife.