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The Washington times., 1894-11-24
CLARENCE" Bret Harte's new story
(llustrated), will commence in to-mor-
rows ZINES.
Important Change in Schedule Pennsyl.
Vania Railroad.

Commencing on Sunday the 25th instant, the
Chlcago and ST Louis express, now leaving at
3:l5 p M, will leave at 3:40 p m, and the Attain
tic Express eastbound will leave st. Louis at sos
a. M Cincinnati at 4:45 p. M, reaching Wash
ington at 1:25 p N. next day.
The Washington times., 1894-11-24
baltimore fond Market.

BALTIMORE, Nov. 23-virginia Century, 5916
asked; Northern Central 5s, series A, 113 bid;
Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern, 10S1s bid,
I09l5 asked
The Washington times., 1894-11-24

How do those gentlemen feel who have
money invested in Chinese concessions?
The Washington times., 1894-11-24

LEWUEL ELI QUIGG should keep his Speaker
ship boom out Of sight until Mr. Reed has
settled the committee ehairmanships.
The Washington times., 1894-11-24
New YORK stock Exchanae

Furnished by Silsby s. Co. bankers and
brokers, metropolitan Bank Building Fifteenth
street, opposite Treasury, Washington. D. c.
The Washington times., 1894-11-24

United States captains and commodores were
similarly sensitive what chances for promo
ton the ensigns would have.
The Washington times., 1894-11-24

IT appears that IAN evening paper was on
its base just enough TO quote at length the
merchants and trades people" of other cities
who are so careless of their dignity as to speak
collectively in favor of civil service reform.
The Washington times., 1894-11-24
The Posts Lightnin.
Change Editorials.

The Posts Lightning Change Editorials.
In the Genu- Those coTnplacent
ine virtues or civil prigs who lecture us
service reform the through the news
Post IS deyout be- papers and periodi-
heyeT. Gals on the beauties
From an editorial in of cuascuIated gov.
the Washington Post Of ,,,,,,,.,,. a.,,...
November l9l otnel"lSe
known as civil serv-
ice reform, should
enlarge the field
and elevate the tone
of their vaporings
from an editorial in
the Washington Post Of
November 20
The Washington times., 1894-11-24
a GREAT L1TEFARY TREAT.

new story by world famous author is
always an object OF great interest, and espe-
cielly when the author is so eelebrated as
Bret Harte. If Gen. Lew Wallace's sug-
gestlon of an American academy-an i'm
mortal forty-is carried out in this generation
1t is certain Bret Harte's name will be in the
list. Mr.. Harte is distinctly and distinctively
an American author; he is to this country
what Dickens has been 10 England; he has
the rare power to delineate American charac-
ter unequalled by any other writer.
1t is an event of no small Importance to the
world OF literature when Bret Harte writes a
new story. and his many admirers IN Wash
ington will doubtless be glad OF the opportu-
nifty TO read it in THE TIMES. Clarence" is
a story of great power and sustained interest.
There is not a dull word or line in it from
beginning to end, and the humor is as keen
and the satire as incisiye as when Bret Harte's
fame was yet TO be made.
Clarence" will commence in to-morrow's
issue Of TIE TIMES. 1t will appear only on
Sunday, and will not be published by any
other paper in Washington.
g
JOHN JAcoB AsToR will be delighted to
know that the Washington Post, after con-
sulting legal authorities and weighing the
matter carefully for several days, thoroughly
approves Of the resolute prosecution of Tired
Garvin, the tramp. All newspapers with
opinions 10 the contrary will be equally cha
grined TO know the Post has decided that
they ''cater to the mob This is a flnallty.
Let further discussion cease.
Mr.. DEPEw's popularity inthe Bowery puts
him in danger of the jealousy OF Steve Brodie.
IT is a strange turn in New York politics
when Amos Cummings doesn't land on his
feet. And be deserves it.
BANKRUPT Italy might go to war against
China and revive her finances with big in
demnity.
IT appears that IAN evening paper was on
its base just enough TO quote at length the
merchants and trades people" of other cities
who are so careless of their dignity as to speak
collectively in favor of civil service reform.
LEMUEL ELI QUIGG should keep his Speaker
shin boou our of s;-bt ,,p+5l A. Dad h,z
The Washington times., 1894-11-24

CHINESE naval commander committed
suicide when his ship went aground. If
The Washington times., 1894-11-24

Chicago Grain and Produce Markets.
Furnished by Silsby & Co, bankers and
brokers, Metropolitan Bank Building, Fifteenth
street. opposite Treasury. MashingtoE. ID. G.
The Washington times., 1894-11-24

BANKRUPT Italy might go to war against
China and revive her finances with big in
demnity.
The Washington times., 1894-11-24

Nh. DEPEw's popularity inthe Bowery puts
him in danger of the jealousy OF Steve Brodie.
The Washington times., 1894-11-24

IT is a strange turn in New York politics
when Amos Cummings doesn't land on his
feet And be deserves it.
The Washington times., 1894-11-24

The Washington Kindergarten Club held
its first meeting of the season of 1894-'95, in
the Western Presbyterian Church last even
ing. The address of welcome was delivered
by Rev. DR.. Ennis. A review of the past
year, embracing synopsis of all the meet
ings and work accomplished by the club.
which has been compiled by Catherine Rose
The Bossier banner., 1894-01-18
lOWA'S OLD FAIL FENCE.
One of the Picturesque Features of the
State Recalled.

One of the Picturesque Features of the
State Recalled.
What lazy fence the old rail fence
was. Like thriftless, drunken lout it
zigzagged across quarter sections and
half sections, apparently Indifferent to
time aud caring not whether it got
across the hill next week or next year,
but its windings were SO graceful and
SO restful to the eye that not even thrift
could be impatient with it.
The old rail fence belongs to an age
which has forever passed in Iowa. 1t
is past which, though it was sighless,
almost all pleasure in fact, is now re-
called only with regrets and sighs be-
cause it is forever past and many of our
dear ones have departed with it. When
we were children we used to wonder
and wonder where the old fence ran to,
where it stopped as it wound over hills
and through valleys out of sight, out
into the great unknown of childhood.
Now, when we are children of
larger growth, the problem has changed,
but its solution is just as hard, and we
wonder and wonder where our friends
and dear ones have gone to over hills
and through valleys at the awful and
solemn summons of death. But the
flowers of hope bloom along the path
way just as the golden-rod blossomed
by the old rail fence of our childhood
State Register.
The Bossier banner., 1894-01-18
THE TRADE FOR HIM.
A Barber Was All That He Could Suc-
cessfuIIy Make,

A Barber Was All That He Could Suc-
cessfuIly Make.
He told his friend that his son was
giving him great deal of trouble and
that he was undecided what to do with
him.
He has lost every position have
got for him." he said, land | am in de-
spair."
us he fast and unreliable?" asked
the friend.
''Oh, no; he can be depended upon at
all times, but he makes such bad i'm
preston that no one will keep him."
"Untidy in his personal appearance"
mot at all. He always looks we'll"
Lazy, perhaps?"
'No; but he talks too much. He
can't seem to help it. He talks all the
time, and talks like a blithering idiot
at that. His remarks are made at ran
dom and don't seem to mean anything
or to fit in anywhere. There is no
sense to them, and, OF course in a few
weeks he just talks himself out of his
job"
Cant you get him to reform?"
''Not bit of it. I've tried, but it
seems to be born in him to babble
along like the inmate of an insane
asylum
''Well, there's only one thing to dc
with him.
whats that?"
snake a barber of him. Chicago
Evening Post.
The Bossier banner., 1894-01-18
BENTON, LOUISIANA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 49, 1894.

elder ly lady, who took me away he
meath her waterproof, thinking should
do for an office umbrella for her son.
When they discovered, however, that
the rib was in two and that was spot
ted with holes, they ragged together at
the old gentleman for owning such an
umbrella | was kept at the Office un-
til one of the clerks fell over me and
broke two more ribs. My owner now
declared that had been an admirable
new umbrella when he bought me the
week before, and the unhappy young
man had to give him another, where
upon he got me as gift. l was sorry
for him, for he told his master that the
new umbrella had cost him fifteen shil-
lings, but soon | discovered that he had
picked it out of the stand at a doctors
house. He tried to mend me with a
boot lace, but my appearance was now
hopelessly plebeian, and l heard him
tell his sister, who lived with him, that
he was really ashamed to be seen on
the street with me.
One day our door stood wide open,
and so did the door that was only sep
arated from ours by an iron railing; so
she took me into the next house and
left me in the umbrella stand there,
taking away a new umbrella in ex-
change 1t is in this house l am lying
now. They offered Inc to the milkman
and the postman, but neither would
have me; so was carried contemptu-
ously into the closet, where l now lie
j. NJ. Barrie, in Two of Them.
The Bossier banner., 1894-01-18
LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN.
New Orleans Boys and Their Accustomed
Fishing Grounds.


Fishing Grounds.
The New Orleans small boy rarely
fishes in the Mississippi pot fishers
take its ugly Buffalo fish, huge blue
CATS and ''mud-cats," with trot-lines,
and wharf rats have some luck with
the hand-line at the edges of wharves;
but as for fishing with the pole for
small fry-Tll tell you: Il once saw a
boy tie railroad spike to forty feet OF
small line and cast the iron into the
river from the stern of steamboat
lying at wharf for repairs That
swirling, boiling current fioated the
spike! Imagine dropping into those
waters without line and with ones
clothes and shoes on! But that is what
q great many persons, some dear little
children among them, had to do one
winter morning. thiEk it was New
Years day-when five of those great
steamboats, burned to the waters edge
in few minutes, like SO much straw
or shavings. Some were saved by men
in skiffs, while others were never seen
again. l know a man who, when
youth, saw that whole river harbor one
day dotted with drifting steamboats,
and ships, burning and sinking; but
that was-as the old black woman
who sells pies and "stage-planks'
(gingerbread) on the landings would
say--''in de enju'in' o. de waugh
No. the right sort of New Orleans
boy fishes in Lake Pontchartrain,
when he can afford 1.-THE lake is five
or six miles from the city's main
streets-and sometimes catches that
handsome and delicious panfsh, the
| croaker, and even, though more rarely,
| the sheepshead. They are so named
| because the croaker makes a little
| croaking noise as he flounees about in
your fishing boat, and the sheepshead
| has face whose profile is like that OF
sleeps, and some true teeth that
show with his mouth shut. The lake
is thirty miles wide and over forty
long, so that as one looks across it he
sees only sky and water meet and yes
sells sink below or rise above the blue
horizon. Away back in the geological.
ages, be 'ore anybody's aunt was born
the Mississippi river used to rul
through this lake. ~=St. NICHOLAS,
The Bossier banner., 1894-01-18
VOLUME XXXII,
AWAY FROM HOME.

little Elizabeth, how shall l say
The ioy you put in my heart one day
when was in Gotham, a thousand miles
Frnm hoRo and the light OF my dear ONES
sgiloS?
Vour caerub face with the winsome eyes
At erst was full of shy surprise
Rut soon you gave me your heart, and then
Twas here at home with Boy Blue again
Little Elizabeth, do you know
You surely will when you older grow
How lonely it is when one is away
A Amonth, week, or single day
From those who love US and whom we love?
And how we welcome, all else above,
face, a hand touch, a tone of voice
THAT takes US home where our hearts rejoice
Little Elizabeth, motherless child,
wonder if she is reconciled?
wonder if mothers when they die
Look down on their loved ones from on high;
Perhaps, in walking tn. streets of gold,
little child she mag behold
And fold it close tJ her heart, and then
Be at home on eIrth with her babe again.
-WilliayI s. Lord, in Chic ago Record.
The Bossier banner., 1894-01-18
A Rose Cloth.

A banquet cloth that will probably
De known to the descendants of ita
owner as ''our great-grandmother'a
rose cloth" is at least four yards in
length and very wide. 1t is of linen
that is plain, fine, heavy and lustrous,
Over the entire center are wrought
pink roses full blown, half blown and
in bnd; roses turned toward you, roses
in profile and roses with their heada
turned away. Next the roses is a
drawn-work border, then wide band
of rosebuds on the plain linen, then a
second drawn-work border, and then a
wider border scattered with rose clus-
ters and their foliage. A similar cloth
has good-sized center of drawn work.
and next it band of flowers at least \
yard wide The flowers are two shade7
of pink chrysanthemums of medium
size, joined by pale green ribbon thai
winds in and out. The part of thu
cloth that falls over the sides of tn,
table has border of drawn-work apd
then q wide one OF plain inen.-N. <
Pust
The Bossier banner., 1894-01-18
To Reckon the Meter,

Everybody knows that the French
standard of measurement is the
meter but how many correct an
swers do you think you could get
should you put the question to the first
one hundred persons you meet? What
is the basis of French measurement?
What is the meter part Of? Should
you be fortunate enough to get sim
gle correct answer it would be some
thing like this: The French standard
measure of length is founded on the
measurement of the earth from the
pole to the equator on the meridian OF
Paris, This total distance is divided
into ten million equal parts, each one OF
which is a ''meter," The meter is 1904
English yards. Chicago Nail
The Bossier banner., 1894-01-18
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

Somehow sitting up close to people
you don't like very well never makes
you any warmer.-Atchison Globe.
"A man wise in his own concett be-
comes in bad fix after the conceit has
been taken out of HMM. o. Plea.
yune.
Did you say, Aunt Sarah, that
your nephew was studying theology?"
"Yes, he's a bibulous student. ."-CIeve-
land Plaindealer.
-He-"How is it, do you suppose,
that short men are usually funny?'
She--''Why, brevity's the soul of wit" +"
Harvard Lampoon.
Shetland what qualities do you
think woman should possess in order
to make an ideal wife?" He-"Exactly
those which she doesn't my. Herald.
Once Again.-Watts-" told you
to send me some fair-sized oysters, and
you sent me lot of EN- hardly bigger
than peas" Grocer-''Well, they were
fair size-church fair size. Indian
apolis Journal.
-Indianian-"Yer offerin' the hoss
mighty cheap. Do ye own him fur
sure?' Kentuckian Cooking anxiously
towards the ferry)-''Yes, he's mine,
an I'll never go back on him. "-Cleve-
land Plain Dealer.
-'I think love of football must be
inherent in the Pigskin family"
What makes you think SOP" ''Why,
whenever little Jennie wants to play
the game his mother kicks. IN. Y.
Press.
kitty Got It.-Bobby-"O, mamma,
mamma! Tabby's got awfully rich
since you've been away" Mamma
And how did she get rich, Bobby"
Bobby-'Why, papa made the men
give twenty-five cents to the kitty
every time they held three of kind or
better.-Truth.
II am afraid there will be great
many people out of work this winter"
said the philanthropist. Yes" an
swered the editor, as gloom swept over
his face, "and every one of them will
undertake to write poetry. Wash
ington Star.
Painful ssity.-Hungry Hig-
chance git" Weary Watkins
''What!" Hungry Higgins-"Got to.
The last brakeman that ketched me
stealin' ride made me pay forty cents
for excess baggage. = Indianapolis
Journal.
Different. = Chollie - "Old man
CASHIER drove that boy of his to drink"
Barry-"Why, thought the old story
was that one man could drive horse
to water, but forty couldn't make him
drink" Chollie-"But, my deah boy,
this wasn't water. detroit Free Press.
-''Sell you nice alligator bag for
three dollars said the gentlemanly
buy a valise. what on earth do
want with an alligator bag?" asked
the old man. 81 amt goin' to Floridy;
I'm goin' to Chicago. ."-Indianap
Journal
-Travers-"Did you find five-dol-
lar bill in the pocket of that overcoat
you prepared for me?" Tailor-'sYes,
SIR Travers-"Then why the mis-
chief didn't you send it to me?" Tailor
You told me you didn't want to see
the bill for six months. IN. Y. Herald.
30, you horrid men!' she shrieked.
81 know what you are. You're bur
glars" ''Well, exclaimed Bill Blud.
geon, "ef that amt like womanl
''No, marin, yer mistaken. We hain't
burglars. We're jes company that hez
to 'pologize fur furgittin' ter bring
long our calm cards. See?"-Wash'
ington Star.
The Bossier banner., 1894-01-18
Hard to Please.

Wife-Tell me honestly, John. If I
should die, would you marry again?
John desiring to please)-Marry
again? OF course l wouldn't. Such an
idea would never enter my mind.
Wife (angrily)-Oh, you wouldn't?
suppose. No doubt you are sorry you
married me- Oh, you wretch!
John (still desiring to please)-You
don't understand, my dear. l was jok-
ing, of course. l meant l would marry
again.
Wife (more angrily)-You would, eh?
You arc in an awful big hurry to get
married again. Perhaps you wish l
was out of the way. l know you
would be glad if died, you wretch
Judge.
The Bossier banner., 1894-01-18

After long struggle the company
organized to catch porpoises for their
skins has gone into the hands of a re-
ceiver. There has never been time
when the company could supply thede-
mand for porpoise leather to be turned
into shoe laees, but in spite of the cx-
cellence of the leather for shoe uppers,
it's price has always prevented its get
ting hold upon the market. The oil
of the porpoise, of great value for sew
eral purposes, is only slowly becoming
known to the public.
The Bossier banner., 1894-01-18

Topaz took its name FROM Topazas,
an ialaRd in tha Red sea-
The herald., 1894-10-26
RORNBROOKED AGAIN.
The Chronicles Find Of Hanchetts n
ssPrnfs CIt.rr

The Chronicles Find of Hanchetts and
"Prof." Click.
The San Francisco Chronicle has been
again Hornbrooked. and that on the pei
mystery of Los Angeles. the disappear
snce OF II. Jay Hanchette. Every once
in while come imaginative person finds
Hanchette, but in each case the dis
covery has proved fraud.
Yesterday morning the Chronicle
printed a dispatch from Pittsburg which
also appeared in morning contempor-
sry, to the effect that Mr.. Hanchette had
besn seen at Pittsburg. that he had reg
istefed at hotel and that he Is en-
poyed by q business house there.
1t ie not necessary TO state moro than
the eource of the story to show how
much credencs s to be put in it; it
comes from "Prof." w. s. Click, who
acquired considerable noteriety here as
the spiritual advihor of murderer Fritz
Anschlag, who committed suicide in the
county Jail by poison which he obtained
from some sympathizer'
A year ago, identically the same story
was told by prof" Click to Frank
Virgins at Chicago. The "Proi." very
reluctantly went into details, after
much solicitation, giving the name of
the hote! at which he said Hanchette
had stopped. Virgins at once inves-
tigated and found that the whole story
was false. Hanchette had not registered
at any hotel, and was not connected
with any firm, in fact had no existence
except in the fertile brain OF "Prof"
Click.
While the whole story is not up to the
famous Chronicle naval duel, it il good
enough Hornbrookism to 60 on record
The herald., 1894-10-26
THINKING IT OVER.
THE MANDAMUS CASE AGAINST
CLERK WARD.
Judge Shaw Overruiss tho Demurrer
and Takes n Motion to Strike
Out Streets Amdavlt Un-
der Adviscment.

Judge Shaw has taken under advise
ment the motion of Attorney Wilde to
strike out the affidavit of A. r. Street,
in the action brought by Street to com.
pei County Clerk Ward to print the
names of fusion candidates in the COM
ing election in two places on the ticket.
The case will no doubt be settled early
today, as in any event now it will keep
the printers humping" to get the
tickets printed by Saturday next an the
law requires,
The demurrer to Streets affidavit,
which County Clerk Wards attorneys,
Messrs. Lamme & Wilde, Allen & Flint,
&. 2. Adams and J. r. Finlayson pre-
sented, alleges that the affidavit does
not state sufficient fscts to justify the
issuance of an alternative writ of man.
date. and further that there is provided
by law a speedy and adequate remedy
for errors in the ballot named and
described in the affidavit.
This demurrer being overruled, the
attorneys moved to quash the affidavit
because tho writ was imprudently
granted. When this failed the motion
to strike out, which WAS taken under ad-
yiHement, was made.
Judge Wilde has presented to the
court an anawer to the petition Of Street
which denies that any certificate of
nomination was filed with the clerk by
the chairman or secretary of the Peo-
ple's party convention, wherein the
nomination of Alfred Rigsby Street as a
candidate for county surveyor OF Los
Angeles county was certified to.
The only witnesses examined were
County Clerk Ward and his deputy, r.
A. Marshal. Mr.. Marshal, being
practical printer. was questioned as an
expert in regard to the length of time
it will take to print the ballots If the
court sees fit to rule 80 that a change
must be made and the names 80 put on
in two places. The testimony was to
the effect that If euch change were Or
dered no printing Office in Los Angeles,
nor all of them combined. could pro-
duce the tickets in the required length
OF time.
Serious complications will, no doubt,
result in the event OF q decision for
either party unless the case is decided
today.
The herald., 1894-10-26
GRAND FREE BARBECUE

And Basket Picnic at Kedondo Beach,
On Saturday, October 27th.
After the Friday night meeting at the
corner of Fourth and Los Angeles
atreets the People's party's big tent will
be removed to Redondo. where it will
be pitched early Saturday morning
ready for the big barbecue and basket
picnic. Prof. R. V. Rork, the famous
blackboard philosopher, will instruct
the people during the afternoon. w.
Bowman. J. R. Rush, H. H. Savage and
others will deliver addresses in the big
tent. Several trains to accommodate
the crowd are being arranged for.
Everybody invited to partake OF the
free and mcni6cent repaet.
The herald., 1894-10-26
DID YOU SEE THE WATCH
1t Is Now ON Exhibition and 1t Is
Beauty.

1t Is Now ON Exhibition and 1t Is
Beauty.
In the window OF Montgomery Bros.,
on North Spring strest. is the elegant
gold watch which will be presented to
the young lady receiving the greatest
number Of toboggan slide coupons be-
tween now and November 10Th. Go and
take look at it. 1t is a beauty.
Holders of coupons must have them
punched at the toboggan slids before
they can be used for voting. When they
are punched and brought to this otice
they will be deposited for safe keeping,
and on the 10Th of November the
award will be made.
It costs but cents to try for present
worth great deal. Cut out your
COUPONS,
The herald., 1894-10-26
Three Pairs of Trousers.

Frank Barry and John Murphy were
arrested last night by Detective Bates
and new pair OF pantsloonn found in
their possession awaits q claimant at
police headquarters. The officer got on
the trail of the men through the fact
that they had disposed OF two similar
pairs of trousers early in the evening.
The herald., 1894-10-26
Wauted in San Diago.

Frank Walker was arrested in this
city yesterday and booked en- route to
San Diego. where he is wanted on a
charge of seduction under promise OF
marriage. Walker refused to disclose
the name of the girl. He contented
himself with saying that it wac put up
job and that he would bo able to clear
himself.
The herald., 1894-10-26
That Joyful Meeting

With the exilarating eense of renewed
health and strength and internal clean
illness. which follows the use of Syrup Of
Figs. 10 unknown to the few who have
not progressed beyond the old time
medicines and the cheap substitutes
sometimes offered but never accepted
by the well informed.