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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1893-06-08

and hands that were almost tranSpar-
ent, so thin were they, walked slowly
into the room where Justice Bloxam
held his court. With bowed head and
wistful air the old man tiptoed silently
to the rear of the room and sat down
in an Office chair which had lost its bot
tom and become incoherent about the
Joints.
In addition to the lawyers, litigants
and loungers who usually frequented
the courtroom, there were many
strange faces-morbid seekers after the
sensational-to be seen on that morn
ing, for a murder case was to be brought
up for preliminary hearing. Chubby
faced young attorneys bustled to and
fro through the throng, bent on keep
ing up appearances and making them
selves conspicuous. At intervals re-
porters would glide into the rear Office
behind the judges seat and make whis-
pered inquiries of the han ghty clerk,
who lost no opportunity of asserting
his American independence by snubbing
those who came to him with civil ques-
tions.
A case in which shrewd bankrupt
was pltting himself against two no less
shrewd lawyers was before the court,
and the audience, which cared not a
plcayune which should outwit the other,
occupied itself with whispered CONVEX
sation.
The old man looked dreamily out
through the window. His eyes were
lifted above the tin roofs of the ada
cent buildings that were glittering un-
der the morning sun. He looked be-
yond the dizzy height of the chamber
OF commerce out into the broad ex-
panse where feecy bits of cloud were
drifting and rifting into soft couches
and snow-like columns. The old mans
eyes were dim with the radiance of the
morning and the memorie of other
mornings
Il beg your pardon, sir?" A sandy
haired youth with match in his mouth
was speaking to the dreamer.
Putty horrible case that, the killin' o.
that doctors wife. Out n Evanston,
warn't it, mister?'
Il don't know, SIR" was the meek
reply. Sandyhair let the front legs of
MS chair come to the floor, unclasped
his hands from around his knees and
gazed at his neighbor with astonish-
ment and disgust. Then with a NUT
tered 'pshaw'' he spat out the match
and stuck an unlighted cigarette in the
corner of his mouth.
AT that moment a stir ran through
the audience, and those who had not an
unobstructed view craned their necks
forward that they might see the muir
derer. The old man clenched his hands
tightly and held his breath as the pris-
oner was brought through the door
guarded by two officers. His hands
We're cuffed together, but before he took
his place in front of the bench the cuffs
We're unlocked. With grin of indif-
terence for the horror on the faces be-
lore him and conceit at the attention he
excited the burly young ruffian extract
ed half plug of tobacco from his pock-
ct and bit off piece as large as wal
nut. Then he began to chew, rolling
his quid about and splitting at cooper
ative cuspidor. His eyes were small
and bird like. They were set deep in a
low. fieshy forehead. His head was
square and closely clipped. From the
top of the head to the base Of his thick
aaas was straight line.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1893-06-08
A Decided Come-Down,

There's a roomer in the air." NUT
tered the impecunious seventh-foor
lodger, as he slid down the rope that
led from his window to the back alley,
that the landlord won't be able to
trace, and I'll bet on it!"-Chicago
Tribune
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1893-06-08
Too Eariy to Tell.

First Fair One-So Fred and Arthur
both proposed to her. Which was the
lucky one?
The Other Fair ons~~T don't know yet
FREQ married her.--Lise,
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1893-06-08
A Hard Woman to Please.

"There is no pleasing Mrs. Adipose,'
said Parker. "She got in a crowded
car the other day, and when three men
got up to offer her seat she got mad.
Took it as reflection upon her size" y
Harper's Magazine.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1893-06-08
did YOU come to hit the plain

-'How did you come to hit the plain
tiff?" said Judge Appel to the prisoner.
''Come to hit i'm, isit? Why, man dear,
your honor, wasn't two fut from him,
and couldn't have missed hittin' him
If had been erQss-eyed. Mount YER
non News
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1893-06-08
She Was the Cook.

Mrs. Portly Pompous-Do you under
stand how to cook properly.
Bridget-Indade, mum, | do. The
perlaceman who used to call on me in
me last place was regular epicac.-
Texas Siftings.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1893-06-08

A few blocks north of the river stands
a square, gloomy building, with iron
barred windows. In dark and dingy
cell below the street level a burly young
man lay on an iron bed. He was fast
asleep and snoring Justify. 1t was the
old mans son.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1893-06-08

eagerness to embrace the loved one
At last the thin, wrinkled lips touch
the soft, tender ones and-splash'
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1893-06-08

All of those who had thronged the
courtroom were gone with the excep-
ton of the old man. He sat in the
bottomless chair with his hands clasped
and his eyes turned toward the floor
Painted there on the boards before him
was picture-a child's laughing face
with mass of brown hair floating
about it, and blue eyes that seemed to
look the love that the rosy lips fain
would speak. Long the old man gazed
with the picture shimmering and dane
ing before his eyes. Now and again it
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1893-06-08

The charge against him was double
one: house breaking and murder. He
had broken into the house of a DIR.
kingley, in Evanston. After rifling the
china closet of what solid ware he could
find, he made his way to the doctors
bedroom, with the intention of taking
his watch and money. Mrs. Kingley, a
very light sleeper, was awakened by
some noise, and, seeing strange figure
in the room, screamed. That scream
was her death warrant, for the robber
drove his knife deep into her bosom.
Before the assassin had time to leap
through a window DR.. Kingley, who
had been reused by his wife's cry,
grappled with him. The physician was
member of an athletic club and had
won prizes more than once for wrest-
ling, throwing the hammer and other
Samsonian feats. He easily kept the
murderer captive until the police ar
rived. AS it happened patrolman was
passing the Kingley residence just as
Mrs. Kingley screamed. Blowing his
whistle shrilly the officer leaped the
fence and, running to rear door, burst
it open and entered. A few moments
later two other policemen ran up to the
| corner just after the first man and Dr.
Kingley came out with their prisoner.
AS the young ruffian heard the Off
GERS tell their story and listened to the
bereaved husbands tones full of sor-
row and suppressed fury he grinned
broadly. When asked if he had any
thing to say for himself he grinned.
That was his only answer. Justice
Bloxam committed him to answer in the
county court. No bail, of course, was
| allowed. AS the officers We're about to
| lead their prisoner away deep groan
| was heard from the rear of the room.
All those present looked around, and
the murderer's eyes dispassionately
| turned toward the sound. What he
saw was a white-faced old man sup
| ported in the arms of a sandy-haired
youth on one side and a fat young law
yer on the other. Their burden had
| tainted, and the rigid face, so thin and
sad, looked as if the angel of death had
swept it with his wing. One moment
| the assassin gazed, and in that moment
abe thin blue eyelids were raised. Fa.
ther and son looked in each others
| eyes. The slender, wasted arms of the
old man were held out beseechingly
and the trembling lips formed two
words: "My boy!" An instant the
prisoners thick lips seemed to twitch
and his eyes to glisten; then, turning tc
his guards with a scowl, he said:
"What'r youse fellers stannin' there
for? Come on r I'll leave yer"
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1893-10-05
Tariff Anarchists.

We find the following in the columns
of a contemporary, whose name we with
hold out of respect to the memory of its
former reputation for fairness, trust
worthiness and relia Z. In COM
menting upon the wool situation it says:
''The feeling in the tariff question is ap-
preaching a very acute stage, and there
are those who predict not only strikes,
but violence, if it is materially changed
or if the present condition endures for
80 days longer" Evidently the writer
meant 'if it is not materially changed" :"
ETC., else there is no sense to the phrase.
We can hardly credit this as being the
opinion Of staid and heretofore con-
servative publication having its home in
an intelligent community and catering
to an intelligent, thinking and law abid-
ing constituency. 1t savors too much Of
anarchy, destruction, blood. and all the
terrible things which such men as Gov
eSnor Waite and Most talk so freely of.
Whence is to come this violenceS And
why1 Why this incendiary talk? Have
the people lost respect for laws and
abandoned their reliance upon the bal
lot2 Is partisanship so uncomfortable
that it would do violence because of de-
feat at the polls? Our contemporary has
permitted its political prejudices to warp
its Judgment and sway its reason
Wool and Cotton Reporter.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1893-10-05
HELPLESS WOMEN.
They Still Exist In Their Picturesque In
capabilities.

They Still Exist In Their Picturesque In
capabilities.
When the extreme of the tailor made
fashion was replaced by the present soft
frills and furbelows, a universal cry of
jubilation arose from the newspapers
announcing that now women would be-
come once more as sweetly feminine and
helpless as in the Miss Burney days,
when they swooned at the slightest prov
ocation, from which we may infer that
a woman's character is as protean as her
garments.
However, if the newspapers had
stopped in their headlong joy to reason
upon the subject, perhaps the prospect
Of arevival Of the Evelina type would
not have seemed such matter for gratu-
lation. If woman once begins to be
helpless, there is no telling where she
will stop. 1t is very nice indeed to have
pretty woman unable TO cross fallen
log in the woods without mans assist
ance. But if she faints dead away in
the middle Of five acre field when a
bull is beginning to lower his head and
raise his tail her dependent condition is
not quite so pleasant. Then the ability
to kilt her petticoaties and run is Il quail
ity more likely to be appreciated by her
escort.
The public need never have feared that
helplessness was a lost art, for the in
capable type has not become extinct by
any means. 1t was hourishing like the
green bay tree in retired hooks and cor
ners during the very height of tailor
reign and athletics. There now exists a
woman who, prevented by her mother
from marrying hcr lover in their youth,
was welded to him when about 80 years
old She still wore the banded hair and
dove colored, full skirted dresses that
had gone out Of date years ago. and she
was, oh, 50 delightfully."- helpless and de-
pendent! Her husband came home one
winter day and found her half frozen
and crying, without spark Of fire i'll
the house. The servant had left in the
morning. and tie fire had gone out, and
although there was abundant fuel the
mistress did not know how to build a
fire, and so was compelled to sit in the
cold until her husband returned and
brought his vigorous mind to bear on
the case.
If pictureiqre incapability should
really prevail again in all its mighty in
ertia-of which there is no probability
certain serious disadvantages may ap-
pear that are now hidden under the ruf
Hes and rosebuds. and the present time
may be regretted, when woman winds
her watch, keeps Ler appointments, al
swers business letters and appreciat.,
her husband insiead Of merely adorh.s
him KATE CHASE.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1893-10-05

was preferable to shop work and other
employments usually chosen before
housework by ambitious girls. Mrs.
Shaw's manager became interested in
the 'ssecond assistant" and helped her to
means and leisure for study, even sup
plying money for her tuition and excus-
ing her certain hours day from house
hold labor.
Miss Robinson entered kindergarten
college and graduated in 1888. She has
studied and waited seven years for the
fulillment of her hopes and was enabled
to put her hard earned experience to i'm
mediate use. She had taught some in
the charity schools of Boston and was
engaged to introduce the kindergarten
system into the Hillside Avenue school
at Waterbury. Conn. She was married
in 1885 to George S. Abbott of Water
bury, but continued to teach her classes
until the little ones originally placed in
her care had graduated for the primary
departments Of the public schools.
| Since resigning from official connec-
tion with school work Mrs. Abbott has
kept up her interest in kindergarten
teaching and encouraged and helped
others to extend and maintain the system.
She has been prominent in the Connecti-
cut Valley Kindergarten association, and
also in founding and strengthening as
sociations for the headvancementof Of women,
among them the Old and New club Of
Boston, the Woman's club Of Maiden,
Mass, and the Woman's club Of Water
bury. EDINE HOWARD.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1893-10-05

The serenity Of Lii i..l. rAtcinpted
| years sank from sight, and hg seemed to
look down an illuminated depth into the
very heart of life Love and death were
there; agony and sin; joy, derision, temp
tation, despair; the curse Of the suicide,
the laughter Of young girls, the sorrow
that cries i'll the night. 1t was all SO ter
ribly clear 1t racked him, inundated
him, knitted itself to him.
One after another faces arose, young
and old; hands seemed outstretched. He
heard words that contained the glory and
| fire of diamonds, SO real they were, so
trenchant. Oh, if he could but write
them as they thronged into his mind-if
he could tell the wonderful story that
unfolded itself before him like scroll
upon the darkness might not some stand
and listen?
He shivered and looked around, emerg-
ing from his waking dream as from a
trance, and almost startled to find him
self alone.
! What was this marvellous change? He
seemed on the threshold Of a secret, the
door open to his hand. He was as one
l
born again under new conditions, with
keener faculties for reasoning and feel
ing. A fire had touched him-a fire Of
love. 1t lightened the dark places of his
nature, melted the crust that held the
currents Of knowledge imprisoned, and
he felt stimulated to walk victorious
where before he had stumbled.
He thought Of theplay that but a short
while since had been SO dear thing to
him. Crude. false and sterile it seemed
now.
And yet to venture again-dare he doit?
Even while lie questioned he knew he
must. His fingers tingled to grasp pen.
The delight of the artist, the creator,
| quivered through him. It was tempered
by sickening edge of dread. but still it
was delight.
In a little while he was again in his
own room tearing tho leaves Of the re-
/ jected play to pieces. He flung them into
the CRATE and toached them with match
Virginia was right. hesaid, his voice
broken, as if he had run Il long way, and
indeed his inaar self had journeyed to
far, undreamel Of heights that night.
ssYou are false. Notaword Of you shall
Two
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1893-10-05

He stood with bowed head watching
the papers. They rustled in swirl of
wind and fame, subsided into spasmodic
chickering's, and nothing was left but a
handful of charred fragments light as
thistle down
"God, help mel Give me my dream. :"
he murmured, his lips scarcely moving.
A sustained burst Of deep toned sound
from the organ foated to him through
the closed doors 1t thrilled him to the
heart. He seemed to hear Virginia's
stanch words in their delicate intona-
tions:
II believe III you, Tom"
Louder the music rolled, higher, sweet
er, one keen minor note transcending the
heavier volume and crowning it like a
star. The mans longing eyes frightened
as he listened The festival of harmony
augmented his strength. His love rushed
out to meet it like flood meeting flood.
Virginia seemed playing a pean Of sane
titled victory fit for crusader who holds
his standard aloft, though a ranking
wound pales his lips.
He would accept her message.
Until tine last vibration had sunk to a
caressing whisper he stood entranced.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1893-10-05

Mr.. Macbeth, the Pittsburg glass
manufacturer. says that he does not
need and does not ask for protection.
He ships his wares to Europe and can
ship more when the exchanges are made
favorable by the removal of legal re
strictions.
Several of the Philadelphia manufac-
turers Of woolens are ready to abandon
the protectionists. The difficulties Of
getting suitable qualities Of wool cause
them more trouble and expense than
they anticipate from revenue tariff.
The theory of making the agricultural
sections export enough at low prices to
keep up home market at high prices
for manufacturers does not even work
for the supposed benefciaries. The tar
if hits them, and its general effect is to
restrict iOarSets for everybody. 1t low
trs wages by making employment in
factories uncertain and gathering an
oversupply of labor in factory towns.
Chairman Wilson and his committee
will take up the tariff at an early day,
and when they take it up they viii not
let it go until it is revised according to
Larry Meals resolution in the Chicago
convention. st. Louis Republic.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1893-10-05
ITO BE CONTINUED.

II never was more firmly convinced Of
the power Of imagination" said man,
ethan was by something that happened
to me on the occasion Of a visit to friend
1t had been an extremely hot day, and
when l went to bed at night the heat
seemed almost insupportable. Itseemed
to me that if l should open the door from
my room into the hall it would make a
little circulation and make the air more
comfortable, and felt safe in doing this
because l am an early riser, and knew
could get the door shut before any
body was stirring in the morning. So |
opened the door, with the pleasant result
that had anticipated, and when l went
to close it in the morning found that
had opened not the door into the hall,
but the door into closet. New York
Sun.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1893-10-05
A Plea For EGoism.

Ask yourself hard questions about
yourself; find out all you can about your
self. Ascertain from original sources if
you are really the manner Of man you
say you are; if you are always honest; if
you always tell the square, perfect truth
in business deals; if your life is as good
and upright at II o'clock at night as il
is at noon; if you are as good temper
ance man at fishing excursion as you
are at Sunday picnic; if you are as
good when you go out Of the city as you
are at home; if, in short, You are really
the sort Of man your father hopes you
are and your sweetheart believes you to
be.--Panola (fex.) Watchman.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1893-10-05
NUMBER 8
THE JEWELER.


A new belt is made Of shells fastened to-
gether with flexible links.
Fine large pearls are superb sleeve but
tons surmounted by tiny diamonds
A new thermometer is silver circle sup
ported by back leg like a photograph
frame.
A charming chatelaine pin is an overlap
ping wreath Of white enamel leaves with q
tiny pearl between.
A handsome design is diamond flower
de-luce holding by two diamond chains a
bar made of four lustrous colored pearls.
The Roman fasces of white enamel and
gold tied with ribbons and hung with u
white enamel wreath is distinctly novel
and pretty brooch.
Hairpins with gold enameled balls ara
among the prettiest novelties. The ball
may be Of white enamel with gold mark
ings, or gold and dark blue.
A necklace is made OF small crysoberyIs
and pale blue sapphires. These are con
nected by little gold disks and have two
lower festoons similarly combined.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1893-10-05
a kINpERGARTai.
Career Of Woman Of Pluck. Talent an
Great VTzefuInass

SuACDA "a a " AO&nAu VI Atuchs A1lenI ana
Great Usefulness.
The kindergarten system Of the Con-
necticut valley and large contiguous
region in western Massachusetts and
Rhode Island owes much of its useful
ness to Mrs. Elizabeth r. Abbott, who
has been an active educator for the past
10 years. She was a pioneer in kinder
garten work in Connecticut. Mrs. Alb
bott was born in Lowell, Mass, in 1852.
In girlhood she becalne disciple OF
Elizabeth Peabody and intended to de-
vote her energies to the kindergarten
method of teaching. Her father, w. S.
Robinson of Lowell, died, leaving her
without resources before she had fitted
herself for self support, and she engaged
successfully in various callings until she
drifted into Mrs. Shaw's charity kinder
garten and nursery in Boston. Mean
while she had taught country school
and boarded round in Maine, had kept
a private school, tried bookkeeping and
learned to set type.
Her position in Mrs. Shaw's institu-
ton was nominally that Of second as
sistant,' but the duties proved to be
those Of kitchen maid or cook, yet it
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1893-10-05
WOODBURY.. n J, THURSDAY. OCToTBER 5, 1898

amDied drowslIy on, I5nvranL rnat Inr
splendor Of youth and love was eddying
in warm glances around bis frosty head.
Il had just cashed my check and was
walking up Broadway AS came near
Bond street CHANGED To look up and saw
an auctioneer's flag over dim shop in a
basement. went down. The place was
packed, the bidding was brisk. Pieces of
quaint pottery went for a song. old min
iatures, shaNls and rugs. went nearer.
All, how | longed for money, money,
money!"
He paused, and Virginia gave an un-
easy glance at the package.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1893-10-05
For the Good of Others

Reu. Mr.. WiIIiams Heartily En-
dorscs Hoods SdrsGpGriIIa.
We are pleased TO present this from
Rev. A. A. Williams, of the Sillsbee
street Christian Church, Lynn, Mass.
"I see noreason why a clergyman, more than
a layman, who knows whereof he speaks,
should hesitate to approve an
Article Of Merit
and WORTH from which he or his family have
been signally benefited, and whose cOmmenda-
ton may serve to extend those benefits to
others by increasing their confidence. My wife
has for many years been a sufferer from severe
Nervous Headache
for which she found little help She has tried
many things that promised well but per-
formed little. Last fall a friend gave her a bot
tie of Hoods Sarsaparilla. 1t seems surpris-
ing what simply one bottle could and did do
for her. The attacks of headache decreased in
number and were less violent in their inten-
sity, while her general health has been i'm
proved. Her appetite has also been better.
From our experience with
Hoods SarsapariIIa
have no hesitation in endorsing its meriis.''
A. A. WILLIAMS.
HOOPS PILLS are the best family cathartic,
gentle and effective. Try a box Price Csc