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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1895-02-21
TIE HOUR OF PEACE.

,7r,or the doorstone sat the wife,
The twilight falling,
And Tar below the whippoorwlils
Were softly calling.
The sweet winds dropped upon their way
Their honeyed plunder,
And slow and clear the night built up
Its house of wonder.
within the child dreamed deep, and saw
Four angels keeping
Tbeir gentle watch with dropping wings
About his sleeping.
While singing from the steep below,
Where shadows slumbered.
Her true love climbed. and In his heart
His treasures numbered.
And signing family to herself
With purest pleasure,
Life brimming at her lips to full
Uerflowing measure.
She marveled If the happy earth,
This summer even.
We're not the paved work laid before
The courts OF Heaven.
And yet cold wind from the cloud
To snatch in blowing
The little breath between the lips
So lightly flowing:
A pebble underfoot where sheer
The rock descended
Ab, Fate! What slender chances held
Her heaven suspended
-Harper's Bazaar.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1895-02-21
InGn;na Satisfaction.

Biquon, the Paris res taurateur, ac-
quired large fortune. and his wife
carried on the business after his death.
1t is of this time that the story is told
Of poor journalist who was seen in
the restaurant eating small plate Of
stra " berries at season when the
fruit was SO expensive as to be an ex-
sravagance even for the rich. An ac-
quain ia nee saw the wretched penny-a-
liner and smiled significantly. ''Yes," +"
said the journalist, Il know I shall
have to pay ten francs for these, but
the sight of that woman at the conn
ter. who is worth two millions, pick
ing over strawberries for me, who
hasn't got three louis in the world,
gives me e.snch an amount OF satisfaction
that the berries are worth it."-Sap
Francisco Argonant.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1895-02-21
BENTON, LOUISIANA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21 1895.

ter was all gone no ", and their mouths
became dry and parched and cracked
so that they could not talk.
But the outlaw touched the girl
gently now and then, and she an
swered him with look of supreme
content She was willing to accept
that which the saints should will.
Finally her horse stumbled and fell,
and could not rise again. Domingo
caught her in his arms.
Leave me, and ride" she whispered.
But he only raised her to his own
saddle, and the good Juan bore them
both forward.
At last he, too, fell. Then Domingo
laid the girl on the ground, and,
kneeling beside his horse, called him
by every endeariug name, conjured
carry them out of the black horror
out from that cursed place thas had
been named for the father of all evil
the Evil place.
But the Malpais only clutched their
lives the more
He rose and lifted the girl in his
arms and made forward as best he
could Weakly, blindly, staggering
and sometimes falling, but always for
ward, with strength born of despair.
Leave me-" the girl VIII spered
again. "and save yourself"
But Domingo knew the awful jour-
ney was almost done. Before him, in
the white moonlight, a mountain peak
| loo,ned dimly. How far it was he
| could not tell. but somewhere between
him aud it was water
If he could only keep OH a little longer
they would be saved.
But even in the moonlight there
| does distance cheat the eye-does II
| still lie to one. Whenever he raised
his head and looked across the plain
| to the mountain it seemed SO far off
SO unattaina bic, that his heart sank.
Still he struggled on through the
long night. But just before day broke
he fell and lay outstretched beside his
burden on the black lava.
And then the scn came up and bea'
upon them. and they died.
| And old Torreon hcrled the goat:
that he had stolen from the English
man, and looked ever away curiously
towards the east. And the aaob,
hnts OF Manal;llo knew again til;
quies of hun !red years-and th'
Malpais lay and glistened in the sun
ever the Evil l'lace.-Boston Globe.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1895-02-21
EARNEST MUSICIANS.
they Had Their Gwa IDEAS About the
Rendition of Pieces.

Rendition of Pieces.
DR.. Stephen Elvey, who did SO much
to render the chanting OF the Psalms
Ineligible in the church service by
pointing" them, was absorbed in his
subject. His pockets were filed with
bits of paper bearing verses from the
Psalms in different forms and with
different readings, and these he used
to discuss with anyone likely to be in
terested or to afford him help.
One summer he paid q visit to Wind
sor, and friend OF his says that he
can remember DIR. Elvey's pulling up
suddenly in one Of the streets of the
town, and to the establishment OF the
passcrs-by asking him, in anything
but whisper:
what is manpeace'
81 don', know"
Neither do |; but when cha antea the
error Of putting the accent in man. in.
stead of peace, is almost universal. and
is an instance of the nonsense made
of Scripture through careless reading
and indifferent punctuation.'
The verse to which he had reference
runs: Keep innocency. and take heed
| unto the thing that is right, for that
| shall bring man peace at the last"
Once, when Sir George Elvey was
conducting rehearsal of the "Mies-
siah," one of the singers finished her
solo with an elaborate cadenza, Sin
George waited until the end, and ther
| asked:
Whats that? Don't you think i
Handel had wanted that he woulc
have written it?"
| "Oh." said the lady, ''we always dt
it that way in London. !"
! Never m:nd," said he. ''Here Han
del shall have it in lis way, SO please
| sing it as it is written. Youths Com
| nan ion
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1895-02-21
A Goo$ substitute.

Nelson's attachment TO his friends
was as ardent as his courage. When
he was presented to King George the
Third at his levee his majesty con-
graduated him on his great actions;
after this eulogium. he condoied with
him on the loss of his arm. Nelson
turned round to Capt. Berry, who had
been the companion of many OF his
exploits, and introduced him to the
king, with this remark: MY loss, /
assure your majesty. is Tot SO great az
you imagine, for here Is my righ,
hard, "~san Francisco ArgaasHk
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1895-02-21

--Buskins were high boots, made IT
velvet or other cloth, and worn by la-
dies. and by ecc!esiastios when cel.t
bgasssg the rites Of las church.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1895-02-21

Don't let your poor goats interfere
with your pleasures" she said, doubt
less some one will miss you if you are
not there"
1.-The devil, no! You know it is not
that, Armeda- But there will be some
good play tonight"
"Oh! very we'll shall go for the
goats again, when have rested"
What? Up the arroyo? Tonight?
That is nonsense. See here-I will go
if you will promise me-
II will not promise. Ifyou Cannot
do this for me"
81 but jested," he said quickly. II
shall go and find your goats"
He turned and rode away. And Ar
media stood and watched until he was
well out of sight and hearing. Then
she went into the bit of chapparal and
returned, driving before her dozen
| fine Angora goats, whose long silken
| coats showed. even in the moonlight,
the purity of their breeding.
''If he rides till he finds them he will
not be IN Manalillo this night" she
| said, contentedly, to herself, as she
| fastened the flock securely in the in
| closure.
1t wanted yet two hours of dawn
when Armeda, lying awake With some
uniformed fear upon her neart, beard
again the sound of approaching hoofs.
She arose, drew blanket hastily
about her and went outside the hut
In an instant Domingo was by her
side and leaned from his saddle and
whispered:
"Get my pistols, quich The regu-
| Not pausing to question, she went
| inside, put on some clothing swiftly,
came out and ran to the corral, where
| she saddled and mounted her fathers
horse. Then she wheeled to the side
of Domingo, handed him pistol and
placed two in her own belt. Domingo
laid his hand on her arm.
"Ifave you thought" he asked.
''Yes," was the firm reply.
eff you go with me now you cannot
return
Il know"
ut will be q race for life"
"Yes, yes" she said, impGtiently
let us he gone"
just then the goats, arunaei by the
, unusual stir at so early an hour, began
=, to move restlessly. This seemed to re
mind Domingo of something. He spoke
, hesitatingly.
"Armeda, l did not go after the
goats"
, II know. 1t does not matter. They
, were not lost. You have been to Man
alillo. l tried to keep you away"
'They were net lost? Good! We arr
: quits, then.'
With this the outlaw bent toward
his companion and drew her towart
. him and kissed her on the lips Thei
they settled themselves well in thei
saddles, laid the reins loosely on ti,t
necss of their horses and rode towar;
the coming dawn.
For long time they rode silently
neck and neck. When the red streak
of the approaching day began to shoy
across the bare, brown plain the gir
looked about her and shuddered
Domingo saw and spoke:
"It is the only chance. They dar
: not follow here"
t Its the Maipais; the Evil Place.
I she said.
Then they rode forward steadily an
, calmly into the black horror.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1895-02-21

'.He is long way off, said the
leader OF the regulators, halting and
watching the m, ag specks ahead of
him; zone cannon tell here how far.
Distance cheats the eye-it lies to
one"
He shaded his eyes with his hand,
and looked a long time toward the
east, and again to the west, from which
they had come.
''We will go back" he said, after
little; Il am ashamed to give up, but
it is just as well-he is safe-I make
no doubt of that"
He nodded meaningly in the direc-
ton of the riders. '.Just as safe,'' he
added. ''as though we had a rope
around his neck
"But the girl?" asked one of the
band.
The leader only shrugged his Shout
ders in answer and set his face to the
west.
When the fugitives, looking back.
could see their pursuers no longer.
they rested a little. Domingo un-
slung the leathern water-bottle from
his shoulder, which had not been
touched until now, and gave Armeda a
drink
Then he made motion as if swal-
lowing some himself, and poured lit
tie of the water into the palm of his
hand and moistened the mouths of the
horses with it.
The midday sun rose high overhead,
and as they rode on through the long
afternoon, on through the scorching
desert, on through the terrible NAL
pals, it beat down upon them merci-
lessly.
The wind that came across the
dreary waste was blown straight from
fiery furnace. The air shimmc-ca
with heat, and the bright metallic
glitter upon the polished lava burned
upon their eyeballs and made then,
reel, sick with a dizzy faintncss.
Once Armeda swerved from her sad
die and would have fallen, bit was
stayed by her companions hand. He
gave her more water to drink.
And when the moon came up again
they yet rode-riding for life. They
rode now from something more terri.
| BILE than the rerulars. But they rode
slowly. uncertainty, and tho miles
svetshya aaagef and longer; the WA
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-10-14
THE JONESES OF MISSOURI
Make an Attempt 20 Exterminate
Themselves
Two Men Fatally and One Seriously Injured
but the Woman Was 1ore Fortu-
nate and Escaped

AURORA, Mo-. Oct. 13.-A shooting
ARRAY, in which two men were proba bly,
fatally injured and third man seriously
injured, occurred here this evering. The
trouble occurred at the home of Louis
Jones, whose married daughter, Sarah,
who is living apart from her husband,
appeared at the house in company with
one Alexander and demanded her person
al effects. The woman had been living
recently at the home of Alexander's faith
err and mother. The Jones family refused
to give the woman her things and quar-
rel and hight followed when they attempt
ed 10 prevent her leaving the house with
young Alexander. During the scuffie
Alexander drew a revolver and used 1t
on Thomas Jones, the woman's broth err,
and Louis Jones. her father. Louis Jones
also used his gun and succeeded in put
ting two bullets into young Alexanders'
neck and the other penetra ted the fore
head just above the temple and entered
the brain. Alexander cannot live.
bullet passed through Thomas Jones'
body. entering ON the right side below
the ribs and coming out at the back. Old
man Jones was shot in the mouth. ALI
of his teeth were knocked out. The wo-
man was not injured.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-10-14
POPULISTIC CONFERENCE
The California State Central Committee
Gets Together
To Formulate Plans for the Next Campaign.
Reports Of Alliance Success in
San Luis Obispo

SAN JOSE, Oct. 13.-This evening a
central com IN ittee of the Peoples party
arrived in town for the purpose of hold
ing conference tomorrow afternoon re-
garding plans Tor the next campaign.
Among those here are E. M. Wardell of
Monrova, J. E. Camp of Sacramento, c..
A. Barlow of San Luis Obispo, Populist
candidate for the assem bly, at the last
election. In addition to the abuve, T..
" Gator, w. H. Gilstarp, editor of the
Tulare Citizen, J. w. Wasser, c. H.
Arnold, editor the of Paso Robes lnde-
pendent, John S. Dore of Fresno, candi-
date at the last election for state control
Ter, and l.. D. Gibbons of San Luis
Obispo are also here. Several of the above
are also delegates to the annual meeting
OF the Farmers State alliance, which
convenes in this city Tuesday. The com
mittee is called this early because OF the
annual meeting OF the alliance, at which
it is expected at least eighty delegates
will he present, and the fact that many
delegates are mem bers of the alliance.
Charles H. Arnold of Paso Robes is a
very enthusiastic alliance man, and in
speaking OF the work of that organiza-
ton in San Luis Obispo county, said {:
1--WE have a -four mill that is doing a
splendid business and has been the means
of reducing flour from So to So per barrel.
We also have one of the best tanneries in
the state and large lime kiln. At Paso
Robes we have a warehouse that has
800 tons of grain in 1t and thus save $4,000
in storage. We had some trouble with
the -four mill owing to clashing among
the stockholders. but we made clean
out OF the undesirable ones and last
month cleaned up $780,.
Wednesday evening John p. Irish and
Thomas V. Gator will have debate on
finances in Eintracht hall.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-10-14
RESOLVE AGAINST REBATES
Life Insurance Companies Take Step
in SeIf=Defense
A Referee to Be Appolnted to See That No
Rebates on Premiums
Are Given

NEW YORK, Oct. 13.-The executive
officers of most of the large life insurance
com panies held a meeting Saturday 10
devise m cans for stopping the practice of
giving rebates on premiums. President
J. r. Hedgman of the Metropolitan Life
presided. Resolutions drawn by Com
missioner g. S. Morrill, were adopted
After setting forth the facts that the
legislatures of twehty-one states have en-
acted laws forbicding rebates under
penalty; that such laws have generally
been dead letter; the companies have
placed themselves without exception in
opposition to rebating, and that the
practice can be suppressed only by the
active organized cooperation OF all life
insurance companies. The resolutions
were as follows:
Resolved, That each of the subscrib-
ing companies agrees that it will not pay
or allow, or offer to pay or allow, nor
permit any person connected with it in
any CAPACITY to pay or allow or offer to
pay or allow any rebate of premium, IN
any manner whatsoever, directly or in
directly; that referee be appointed, who
shall examine into and decide all charges
of ROTATING by agents or others, and whose
ion OF the referee that any person con-
nected in any capacity with any SUBJ
scrlbing company has maze any rebate,
such person shall i'm mediately be dis
missed from the service of said com pany
| and shall not, for a period of two years
thereafter, BIZ again employed by any
| company party to this agreement.
The referee is empowered to procure
! prosecution for violation of the laws
| against the Relating and to employ coun.
sci to assist. fund of $40, 600 is to be
| made up and maintained in the referees
hands by assessments on the subscribing
| com panies. The referee is to receive d
salary of $4,000 year and his incidenta
| expenses, and is to be further allowed
an amount not exceeding $4,000 for a sec
rotary and clerical assistance.
The agreement is to go into effect
November LIST next. Ex- Ex-Governor Will
liam 4. Russell wan suggested as The
referee called for in tho agreement.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-10-14
AID FOR THE INSURGENTS
Arrests for Carrying Ammunition to the
Insurgents
The nansger of the Cleveland Athletic Club
Is Employed as Instructor in Cav
airy Drill

HAVANA Oct 13-Ancel Tammavo
"yo'
June Nelly ana cart driver named
France have been detected IN the act OF
RENTING ammunition to the isnurgents.
Five firemen bave also Joined the insurg
onts
enu,
Inc insurgents nave captured In san
tiago bay merchant steamer which had
been equipped as a man Of war by Spain.
The crew in CHARGE ware disarmed and
- i,I, "i'0
were enen iipelate''
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-10-14
A Handicap Road Race

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. l3.-The an
nual ten-mile handicap road race of the
California Associated Cycling clubs over
the San Leandro course brought out
eighty-fve starters today. The limit was
four minutes and the handicaps ranged
from that down to ten seconds. There
was no scratch man, as W. ]. Edwards
failed to start. The race was won by
MacDougall. $3.50, of the Acmes. with
Charles Birdsall, 1920, of the California
CYCLIC club, second, G. A. Nissen, 10 Sec
onds. of the Acmes. won the time prize,
and F. NJ. Byrne, 10 seconds. Of the I'M
perials. was one-fifth of second behind
him. There were the usual number of
accidents where so many men start and
broken wheels and shins were common.
MacDougall's time was &c 80 1-5 and Mis-
sens 2:S5. Although the latter won the
time prize he finished thirty ninth.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-10-14
CUSTER POSTS RESOLUTION
Is Very Likely Indeed to Attract Wide
Attention
Congress Will Be Asked to Admit confed-
crate Veterans to the Privileges
of Soldiers Homes

TACOMA, WASH. Oct. 13.-At the reg
ular meeting of Custer post No. 6, g. A.
X, of this city, Saturday night. notice
was given of resolution to be introduced
at the next regular meeting which will
attract widespread attention. At the Ma
tional encampment held at Pisttburg in
1894, and at the last encam pment held in
Louisville, the question was limited at,
but Custer post of this city IS the first
organization in the United States ever
asked to take formal notice of the mat.
ter. George Hazard, well-Known DEM
ocratic politician and chief advocate of
Senator David B. Hill Democracy in the
Pacific northwest, a member OF Custer
post, gave notice that he would next Sat.
urday nigh. offer a resolution providing
that Custer post appoint committee of
five to memorable congress for the pass
age of law doing away with the distlnc-
ton between Federal and Confederate
veterans so far as relates to their admiss-
ion to National soldiers homes; in short
tha at disabled ex-Cociederate soldiers be
admitted to National soldiers homes on
exactly the same footing as ex-Union SOL
diers. Mr.. Hazard, while not an active
Grand Army man, has been member of
Custer post since July, 1888. In the late
war he served in company G, Thirty-sixth
Indiana volunteers. He was Slightly
wounded at the battles of Shiloh and
Perryville and at the battle of Stone
River, Tennessee in 1862, he was severely
wounded in the left hip joint and yet car
ries in his body lead from the latter
wound. In 1890 he wrote and issued a
pamphlet entitled The Democratic Party,
the True Soldiers Best Friend, With
Some Observations on Pensions and PEN
zion Legislation by Pensioner. His
proposed resolution has stirred up much
feeling in Custer post, many mem bers
being outspoken against its passage. I'm
der the rules it will lie on the table two
weeks after being introduced.
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Northwestern Cities Will Form
a Coast League
PROFESSIONAL BASEBALL
Manager Barnes Will Reorganize the
California League
Good Prospect Of Arranging Football Game
Between Students of Harvard
and OF Princeton
Associated Press Special Wire.


PORTLAND, Ore, Oct. l3.-There is
apparently 10 doubt of professional
baseball league in the Pacific north invest
next season. Applications for member
ship in the league have been received
from half dozen cities. but only three
have been definitely decided upon. These
are Portland. Tacoma and Seattle. Vic
trrla is Just now the choice for the
fourth city to com plete the circuit.
The intention is to organize The league
OH percentage basis and have sinking
fund established. Each city will be
called upon TO deposit $500 with the pres
ident OF the league as guarantee OF good
faith. 1t is also intended to recomm end
the signing of playing managers in order
that expenses may be reduced to mini
mum. R. J. Glenalivn, who will control
the Portland franchise, has already adj
vertised in Sporting Life for players,
stating his address as Detroit,
Manager Barnes, who is now in the
his ultimate object in going to California
to play winter baseball is to reorganize
the California league next year. He says
he has already accepted the applications
of the cities and may INCREASE the CT ruuit
to six towns. he has monopoly. bav-
ing already secured protection from the
National leagne. Barnes is verv anxious
that series of games should be played
between the winners OF the two leagues
for the coast championship in 1896.
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OPPOSE THE FUSION TICKET
The Good Government Club
Gives Its Reasons
THE ALLIANCE WITH PLATT
Whose Machine Defeated Efforts TO Re-
form the Schools
And Imposed a Law to Disfranchise independ-
ent Voters and Facilitate Bribery
at the Polls

Associated Press special Wire.
NEW YORK, Oct. 13.-The executive
comm ittee of the Good Governm emit
clubs issued an address today setting
forth their reasons for opposing the
fusion ticket. They say that if the COM
mittee OF fifty had effected IA union on
a non-parrisan platform in support OF
non-political candidates, it would have
been acceptable to them. The address
continues:
The committee OF fifty, disregardng
the resolution under which it was ap-
pointed, bought from the leaders OF the
Republicans and from the State Democ.
racy, by promises of money and moral
support, certain admirable judicial NOM
nations The other places ON the tick ct
they conceded to be party spoils.
So long as the honorable and wealthy
men of this city are willing 10 lend the
weight of their II ames and the power OF
their resources IN such traffic in an at
tempt to purchase the government from
the politicians, we shall have corruption
by whatever party name it may be called.
The argument of the fusion ticket is
said to be the choice of the evils, one
which was used in 1890 to gain support
for the peoples municipal league and
because of which $4,000 votes stayed
away from the polls.
Says the address:
THE people of this city cannot close
their eyes to the fact that the committe g
of fifty has made an alliance with Platt i.
They remember that last winter Platt's
machine defeated all efforts to reform
the schools, repudiated the very princi-
pie of civil service reform which Repub-
licans had embodied in the constitution
of the state, and rejecting a simple and
effective ballot law; it imposed upon
you law formed to disfranchsa inde-
pendent voters and facilitate bribery at
che polls"