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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1893-09-21
STILL IN THE SWIM.
He Was Not TOO Old to show HI
Agility.


A lean wirs old fellow from the
country walked into log cabin on the
wooded island in jackson park the
other morning, pushed his hat back on
his head, and inspected the interior
with evident enjoyment.
This looks like old times" he said
turning to two young men standing
near him.
Seen this kind of thing before, have
yOu?" observed one of them.
Seen it before? Well, l reckon!
Why, was brought up in settlement
where there wasn't half of the houses
as good as this one. l know all about
this style of livin', from the word go.
And use to have just as good a time
as boys have now, too"
II don't know about that, Uncle"
said the other of the two young men.
You're not up to all the fun the boys
have nowadays. Trouble with you is
you're not in the procession any more.
You're dropped out, you know, just as
the band is beginning to play"
Dropped out, have II" exclaimed
the old man. Dropped out, hey?' he
snorted, running his hand into his
pocket and bringing it out again full
of gold and silver coins. "Back num-
Der, am l? Look here, young fellow!
Do you want to bet a few dollars
can't outrun you? Have you got a
ten or twenty to put up that l can't
throw either of you down? Can you
turn handspring and light on your
feet stif-legged? Bet you fifty dollars
| can do it! Bet you one hundred dol.
lars you can't! Want to try me on
hop, step and jump? Bet you-hold
on!'
A crowd had begun to gather and
the two young men were edging away
from him.
It'll go you five to one | can jump
further in two jumps than you can in
three! I'll ride mule race with either
of you -dont'be in a hurry!-1'll chin IA
horizontal forty times to your ten, and
I'll bet money | can-well, go then,
goldarn you, and don't you ever pick
up an old man from Hancock county
for greenhorn again as long as you
live!"-Chicago Tribune.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1893-09-21
HE WAS WELL FIXED.
A Candidate for Honors Among the Wal
Street Magnates.

A Candidate for Honors Among the Wall
Street Magnates.
Before NE on a western road sat two
admirable specimens of the genus
"hayseed." They were garrulous old
chaps and talked and chewed tobacco
as school girl chews gum.
81 reckon we'll lose Ben Gross afore
long" said one, branching off on a
fresh topic.
''Eh?''
''Yaas-'t won't s'prise me a bit of
Ben goes to New York an speckelates. "
''No; you don't say Ben's gittin' s
rich s that"
'Wall, l guess he's bout the best
fixed man in our place now, since w.
F. Simpkins died"
eye don't say! How much dye
s'pose Ben's worth now, billed DOWN."
"Wall, We KANT jest tell. l know O
my own sartin knowledge he has over
forty-fye dollars in the bank an his
crop O taters amt dug yit. They'll
bring him in right smart o cash"
''Ge whiz!'
'Yaas-an' John Summers owes him
three dollars and seventy-five cents or
that old game of poker yit, He's slow
but he's good fer it, guess"
The other was silent for some time
evidently Eliminating upon such vas
wealth. Then he suddenly inquired:
''W'at's he goin' to monkey with il
I New York?"
aIdup0o Wall street. like eS not
N. Y. Herald.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1893-09-21
THE DAUGHTER OF WEALTH.
She Has Power that Is Peculiarly Hel
Own.

She Has Power that Is Peculiarly Hell
Own.
How delightful it must be to be the
only daughter of rich and doting par
ents. They toll not, but they spin in
the airy intricacies of the modern dance
with the springy lightness of a mole
cule of atmospheric ether. We con-
slider ourselves quite witty in the
presence of modest little Fanny, who
has but two new dresses year, and to
whom walk in the park with us is
real ecstacy, but in the presence of the
rich mans daughter we are humility
itself.
Her wit is the rarest we have ever
heard.
Her beauty is the finest we have ever
seen.
We confess to her our follies, ctu-
ated by the hope that she may first
pity, tn en- embrace. We hardly dare
to think of her as nesting in our arms.
We glance tinidly at her feet, which
are much smaller than Fanny's, al
though she wears a larger shoe. If
her seal-skin cloak brush our arm in
the lobby of the theater we thrill with
delight.
We are sure we could make her hap
py for life, if she would only marry us.
But, hang it-she won't 't.-Brooklyn
Life
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1893-09-21
A GOOD RING OR NONE.
There Is Peril in Having Poor Stone in
an Engagement Solitaire.


'Whata beautiful ring!'' young lady
exclaimed, admiringly, to her brother
the other day. ''You might let me
wear it! don't see what you are car
rying it for. You never put it on"
"Wells'' the young man replied, ''you
See I'm thinking of putting it on some
one. I've noticed if you can once get
an exquisite ring on a girls hand you
can usually get the girl. There's per-
sonality about ring someway that
does not cling to any other article of
jewelry, and it has quite mysterious
power over the one that wears it."
The sister laughed maliciously.
81 think you will find there are sew
eral things abouta ring apart from the
personality Of its owner that may in
fiuence the wearer, " she said; ''its price,
for instance"
'You do not understand at ALL" he
explained Suppose, for instance, I
offer diamond ring to young lady.
I have gone into a jewelry store and
bought the biggest diamond l could
find, and then want to give it to young
woman who knows as clearly the diff
ference between a yellow diamond and
steely white one as you do between a
Worth dress and one made in a slop
shop. 1t may not have shown so plain
ly at night when she slipped it on, and
it looked big and bright, and she did
not care to examine it very closely;
but wait until daylight. Then, as she
turns it around on her slender finger,
she sees it's yellow color, its old
fashioned setting and the feather"
in it's heart, and, sensible girl
that she is, all these things set her
thinking. That old setting startles
her. She can't help wondering how
long ago George bought the ring, and
if some other maid has worn it before
it came to her. Then its size! Every
one will notice it, and of course every
one must see it is not perfect stone
There is that ugly flaw nesting away
| down in its heart. George had said
the ring was an emblem of his love.
| She knew he meant unending and
precious, but now she wonders if there
is a flaw, too, in his love-if time will
| prove him as daylight has the ring, not
half so precious as he first seemed. In
the end It is very discontented and
worried girl the rings owner has to
face when he calls that night, and he
has only himself to thank if he gets
the ring back entirely. It's my own
opinion" the youth concluded sagely,
that many an engagement is broken
because of SO small a thing as the en-
gagement ring."'-Pittsburgh Chroni-
l c1e.Telepraph
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1893-09-21
HUMOROUS.

-'What have you really learned in !
college, Harry, that is useful to your" 1
81 learned that / don't know how to
play poker. Brooklyn Life.
-He-''Don't you think it wrong for
people to marry their intellectual infe-
riors?" She-''Yes, always wrong, and
in some cases quite impossible. Rose
leaf.
-"What made Jaggs leave the lawn
party just after the fireworks began?'
''Well, you see, the fiery serpents that
were sent up looked so natural they
started him to hiccoughing. ."-Iuter-
Ocean.
-Belle-"I was supreme ely happy
the day / was sixteen" Blanche
mo doubt. I've always insisted that
the last generation enjoyed them
selves much more than the present. -
N. Y. Herald.
Mr.. Union Club-'I never get re-
ligious except at twilight, when have
time to sit before the fire and smoke"
Mrs Union Club-''I suppose the fire
and smoke make YOU dwell upon your
future, dear. Club.
Still in Doubt-First Little Girl
''Has your sister begun takin' music
lessons yet?" Second Little Girl
'.She's takin somfin on tn piano; but
can't tell yet whether its music or
type-writin Daily Traveller.
Junior Partner-"While | was TAX,
ing down that buyers order this morn
ing, | told him one of your funny
stories Senior Partner-"Ha, ha!
! Did he laugh?" Junior Partner-"No.
He countermanded the order. Clio
thier and Furnisher.
Not a Good Plan.-One Rich Fa-
ther-''I think it is the best plan for
your son to marry my daughter, and in
that way we can keep the money in the
family" The Other Rich Father-'My
dear friend, You don't know my son. y
Detroit Free Press.
An Experiment-''I got tired OF
riding home in crowded cars, so
bought bicycle" $50 you are going
to ride home on that hereafter"
well, don't know. / got it only
Yesterday, and last night rode home
in an ambulance. Chicago Record.
Young Wife-''This talk about mar
being SO impatient when a woman IL
getting ready to go anywhere is al
nonsense" Friend-'Doesn't your hus
band complain at all?" Young Wife
''No indeed. Why last evening
couldn't find my gloves, and | had {
long hunt for half-a-dozen other things
and yet when l was finally dressed an
went down stairs to my husband, ther
he was by the fire reading and smok
ing as calmly as if / wasn't half al
hour late. Friend-'Well, / declare
Where were you going'" Young VIII
ITO prayer-meeting. buffalo Con
nerciaL
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1893-09-21

Clergyman-You say you are going
to marry again. You surprise me. Why,
this will be the fourth time, will il
not?
Eminent Divorcee-Yes; and as
you've performed the ceremony every
time, and my next husband isn't very
well off, 1 thought I'd see if you
wouldn't make some reduction in your
charges es-Drake's Magazine.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1893-09-21
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Rev. G. c. Tenny has been sent
out from Michigan as an Adventist
missionary to India.
Rev. DR.. w. Pope Yeaman, of Column
bia, Mo-, has accepted the presidency
of Grand River Baptist college at Gal
latin, Mo.
In Pennsylvania, women belong
ing to the Protestant Episcopal church
not only vote for vestrymen, but are
elected to that Office.
The Lords Day union has been or
ganized in India. 1t was suggested by
our Rev. F. w. Warne, ,of Calcutta, and
is designed to agitate in favor of Sun
day observance.
Rev. Henry A. Adams, formerly
rector of st. Paul's Episcopal church
of Buffalo, and later of the Church of
the Redeemer of New York, has joined
the Roman Catholic church.
Mrs. George William Curtis has es-
tablished free scholarship fund in
memory of her husband in the Staten
Island academy. 1t is the proceeds of
the edition of "Prue and l." published
last Christmas.
"A bill providing for freedom of pub
lie worship has been introduced in the
Hungarian parliament. 1t comedies the
right of everyone to choose the form of
religion each may prefer. It's practice,
within the requirements of public order
and morality, is guaranteed.
I'm one hundred and seventy years
after the death of Christ the whole
Bible had been translated into Latin
by some unknown author into what is
now known as the old italic version.
BY the year 300 it was extant in Greek,
Syriac and Latin, and by the ninth
century in thirteen languages.
"A conference has been suggested
of Congregationalists, Christian or
Disciples, and Free Baptists, to pro-
pose basis for practical alliance be-
tween the three denominations, the
proposed basis to be submitted to the
representative bodies of each denomi-
nation for discussion and possible rati-
ication.
Rev. DR.. E. R. Knowles, of Worces-
ter, Mass, has declined request to
take charge of the Gallican church in
Paris, from which Pere Hyacinthe has
retired. AS the church is now in the
| jurisdiction of the archbishop OF
Utrecht Father Hyacinthe can not
| longer act as rector, because he mar
ried after his ordination to the priest
| hood.
| UNl,o N,eso oh,ea%ts u1,1,a M;ccior
airy society last year received s152, 1886
| Of this amount S54, 800 came from the
SWEET fund, and S97, ,766 from all Other
funds. There were sent to the Amer
lean Home Missionary society in New
York S173, 400; s76, ,6s9 of this through
the Massachusetts society, and S9S,94
direct. There was spent in home mis-
sion in Massachusetts, s6s, 543.-Chris
tian at Work.
Application has been made to tn,
Worlds Gospel union for an envangel
ist under the following conditions;
small country church in Illinois has be
gun to plan for special revival work th'
coming fall. They are now praying
earnestly that God may send them ;
chosen worker as an evangelist at tina
time, and one of the workers has give1
ten members of the Ladies' Missionar,
society pig each. These women are t
take in washing, sweep the school
houses, ETC., to get corn to fatten tn
pigs. and in the fall the pigs will b
sold and the money used to pay tn
evangelist.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1893-09-21
Witherinp Irony.

A young woman of this city whose
quick wit is responsible for the loss of
a number of friends has just seen an
other retire from the list.
The young man was in philosoph-
ical mood and remarked:
"Self-study is bad thing"
Il shouldn't be surprised" she re-
sponded fiippantly.
Now, am sure that if I were to de-
vote time to thinking about myself l
should become very narrow minded" "
''Oh, yes; you'd probably have to in
order to grasp the subject
And for the time he really felt as
she had pictured him.-Washington
Star
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1893-09-21
Animal Intelligence,

Watts-I tell you, old man, saw the
most remarkable exhibition of animal
intelligence to-day that could be imag.
ined.
Potts-What was it.?
Watts-A bridal party started from
the house across the street from where
! live, and one of the horses attached
to the carriage threw a shoe. Now,
what do you think of that?-Indian.
apolis Journal.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1893-09-21
VOLUME XXXII.
ROsY.CHEEK AND CuRLY-HEAD.

When l go home. this welcome waits
Each evening when the day is fed:
Tic pStteiirg Of little feet;
Then cIingirg arms and kisses sweet
From rosy:cheek and curly-head.
They come with shouts Of rioting;
They're laughing so they scarce can speak!
A pair of highwaymen are they;
And i, an easy:yielding prey
TocuFiy-head and rosy-cheek,
But curly heads will sometimes ache,
And fill our souls with sudden dread;
And roses fade, while hearts stand still
Oh may there come no touch of i'll
To rosy-cheek and curly-head,
God bless all little cheeks OF rose!
Where'er they bloom, Thy sunlight shed!
Bless little heads of ripping hair!
Oh take into Thy tender care
Each rosy-cheek and curly-head!
Edgar w. Abbot, in Outlook.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1893-09-21
An Humble Beginning.

He-I am so glad that you are will
ing to begin housekeeping in a simple
and economical way, but are you sure
you can get along without servants?
She-Yes, indeed; that's easily fixed
We can hire furnished apartments
which have been left in charge of a
housekeeper, you know; and as for the
meals, we can leave our orders with o
caterer.-N. Y. Weekly.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1893-09-21
The Umbrella Question.

Jimpson-By George, there goes
fellow with my umbrella.
Pottles-Well, why don't you make
him give it up?
Jimpson-Confound it, the man ] got
it from is right behind him. Just my
Internal luck!-Troy Express.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1893-09-21
The Missing Link.

The hand-organ has often been voted
a nuisance, but never before, probably.
for the reason that it set up too high
standard.
Edith had been to church for the
first time.
''And what did you think of it?'
asked her mother.
Il didn't like the organ very WE'LL
''Why not?"
''Tause there wasn't any monkey
with lt,''-Harvard Lampoon.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1893-09-21

"Why do they call it the early ros.
potato?" inquired the sweet young
member of the cooking class.
Because that is it's name" respond.
ed the teacher, smilingly.
''Yes, know, but they might have
been grammatical, and called it the
early rising" she said, as she dumped
a spoonful of yeast into batch OF
dough.-Detroit Free Press.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1893-09-21
Comforting.

Mamma (reprovingly)-If you go on
being such bad boy, you will turn
mammals hair white.
Little Johnny (thoughtfully)-Don't
you think real nice, soft white hair
would be sort O becoming to your
complexion, mamma?-Good News.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1893-09-21
A Trade Secret.

Kownter - Did Taype marry thai,
rich widow to whom he pretended to
be an English lord?
Sayles-No; he gave himself dead
awav. One afternoon when she wished
him to call her little daughter, what
did the blamed fool do but begin to
bawl out; "Cash. Cashr'-Puck.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1893-09-21
Why He Did So.

"Why did you tell Wearisome that
you didn't have time enough to listen
to his fish story?"
81 thought had just as much right
to tell a lie as he ad."-Brooklvn Life
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1893-09-21
At the Seaside,

Mr.. Shabby Genteel--I desire to put
up at this hotel.
Clerk-Have you any baggage?
Mr.. Shabby Genteel-No, sir.
CIerk-In that case the first thing you
will put up will be ten dollars in ad.
xance.-Texas Siftings.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-05-26
AN EPILEPTIC FARM.
A German Institution for Unfortu-
nate Incurables
Victims of the Disease Received as Work.
ers in n Community and Afforded
Every Opportunity to De-
veiop Their Talents.

A tall, broad-shouldered. fne-look-
ing young man passes in all the pride
of youthful manhood. A few moments
later crowd has gathered about the
poor wretch. whose muscles are strug-
CLING against each other in terrible
spasms. No pen could depict the hor-
rors of the scene or the dreadful
grimaces and contortions Of the vic
tim. 1t is unnecessary to dwell upon
it IN a few minutes he is again a
sensible, rational, quiet man. 1t is
familiar but very sad incident that oc-
ours almost daily. The unfortunate
young man is the victim Of disease as
obscure as insanity and almost as in
durable. He has epilepsy-the falling
sickness-fts, the old people call it.
The tide OF humanity surges on, and
except for few sympathetic words
the incident is forgotten
As no one can depict the dreadful
horrors of an attack, so no one can ap-
preciate the dreadful mental affection
that accompanies the bodily disease.
In most cases II Is absolutely incura-
DIS. saws IUt sun Molly
palliatives are known to medicine. and
many cases are known in which the
disease has ceased TO trouble the vic
tim. but in spite Of the assertion Of
discoveries of new remedies or the an
vertisements so often seen, il is a fact
that no one remedy is known
which will cure ell or even a
large proportion OF cases of epilepsy.
This results from the nature of the
disease. which IS not physical but q
functional one II IS not, in other
words. necessarily accompanied By any
definite defect in the bodily frame, but
is the result produced by irritation Of
nervous centers, which irritation may
be produced by a variety of causes
Sometimes a splinter of bone penetrat-
ing the brain has been known 70 pro-
duce it How hopeless is the thought
OF medicine 70 remedy an infrrnitv
TINS caused A. other times it seems
TO depend ON an hereditary dilata tion
Of the arteries OF the spinal cord bu.
in the vast ma jority Of cases the doc
tors can assign TO definite cause 20 the
periodic explosion Of FERROUS energy
which is the characteristic Of the dis
ease
Sensible peoolc o: Gc-ua-5. seeing
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-05-26
"a LITTLE NONSENSE"

A Fate to Be Auoided.-''Why have
you never learned to-use tobacco?' ''Oh,
] don't want to live to be one hundred
and fourteen. Judge.
A Pleasant En- baarassment. They
say Parkerberry is financially embar-
raised" Yes. he is He has more
money than he knows what to do with. :"
Puck
On the Ocean Steamer-"Does the
captain say whether we shall break the
record or not?" Yes. he says the rec
ord or the boiler must go" How love-
ly!''-Tit-Bits.
His Head is Not Turned.-First
Stranger-''It seems to me | have seen
your face before" Second Stranger
''Quite likely That's where carry ii. -
Yankee Blade.
Time is Fleeing. --Cholly-"W
ly. | must be going. It's so late. you
know" Penelope it's only seven
o'clock" Cholly-"laas: but it's near
Iy twelve in Lordon, Y know. Truth.
He Knew.-She-''I don't feel bit
well this evening. I'm so dull and
drowsy. Do You know what is good for
that tired feeling the advertisements
tell about?" He-"Eleven o'clock, l
fancy. It's now three minutes of it.
Good evening. Detroit Free Press.
1T beats all!' exclaimed Uncle Jo-
siah as he handled his first Columbian
stamp: 1T beats all how everything's
CROWN in this CROWN country. Why
only last month postage-stamps We're
only little insignificant things, and Jest
look at EN- now. Boston Transcript.
You aren't behaving very well.
Tommy" said grandpa. you know
what ] would do if l were a little boy
like you?" "Yeth, grandpa" said
Tommy. You'd do the thame ath |
do, 'cauthe if YOU didn't you wouldn't
be little boy like me "-Harpers
Bazaar.
you might let me take this household
paper, Tom. 1t only costs dollar n
year, you know" Mr.. Harduppe-'If
that were all. | could afford il, perhaps.
hut You would be sure to try some of
the recipes for making over some of
your old dresses without expense. and
we could never afford that in the
world. -Somerville Journal.
George" she said. the engage
ment ring you gave me is too large and
cannot keep it on" I'm sorry to
hear that" he said. 1T will be too
bad if, after the time I've spent in
counting You, / should be obliged to
look around for another girl whom it
will tit" But" she continued Il
think can manage to get along with
1t by wearing a keeper. N. y. Press.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-05-26

generally shrugs, of the shoulders, and
frequently these very shoulder shrug-
gers are the most superstitious of man
kind. Few people indeed have any
idea that when they indulge in super
stition they are performing the rite OF
a religion which dates back TO many
years before the advent of the Chris
tan era, but such is nevertheless the
case. The popu!fr superstitions of the
day are older than our religion and
our customs In the darkest DAYS OF
ancient history supcrstitions took
their rise in the shape of religious
beliefs. The seed was sovTn not IN one
place but wherever man existed, for the
same superstitions hourished in va
rious parts of the world among ma
tons who had no cornrnun lea ton
with each other. They were handed
down from generation TO generation,
frequently remodeled to suit the cxi-
gencies Of the times. 50 that the per
son who to-day seeks the four-ieafed
clover or breaks wishbone j. only
following in footsteps made hundreds
of years ago.