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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1896-06-04
A COMEDY OF ERRORS,
BYHELEN FORREST GRAVES.

Squire Packenham was very angry.
Being member of the church, he
didn't swear. But he slammed the
kitchen door SO violently when he
came in that keturah, his wife, com
pretended at once that some thing was
wrong.
"Dear me, Abram," said she mildly,
looking up from the apples she was
slcing for pandowdy, ''there amt no
occasion to take the door off its
hinges. WHAT'S the trouble now?"
"It's Betsey Briggo." answered the
squire, seating himself, with some
vehemence, on cushioned chair
"The airs that creetur gives herself
exceed everything!"
'sAirs?" said Mrs. Packenham. I
didn't know as them was Betsey
Briggs weaknesses.
81 dunno what you'll call it," said
the squire. ''She was out in the gar
den pickin' peas, an 1 jest hollered to
her, as I come by, to see if she'd be
at her house next Thursday. And, if
you'll believe me, she didn't say
word-neither yes nor mol"
"Well, 1 never!" said Mrs. Pack
enham. "But," with gentle desire
for extenuation, "you mustn't forget,
Abram, that Betsey Briggs is near
sighted"
"That don't prevent her hearin',
does it? the squire demanded,
sharply.
81 didn't think O. that said meek
Mrs. Packenham, rejecting a golden
summer apple, which had bruise on
its melIowest side. ''But I'm quite
sure Betsey didn't mean no harm.
Betsey never does.
81 dunno how that may be" said
the squire, morosely, ''but do know
1 shan't put myself out to speak to her
ag'in, unless she sees fit to apollo
gize."
81 can't make it out at ALL" said
Mrs. Packenham, slowly shaking her
head.
Miss Carter was the next person
who stopped at the Packenham house.
She was spare female, whose exact
age, like that of the obelisk. was
wrapped in mystery, and she was a
book-agent of the most rabid type
and deadly execution.
"P'raps you'd like to subscribe to
the Housekeeper's Weekly Visitor,
Mis- Packenham?" said she, rounding
off her sentences with a prodigious
sniff.
oval, no." said Mrs. Packenham.
"We aren't much O readers here.
cor maybe your husband would
like to take a copy of the Ten Lead
ing American Patriots?'" suggested
Miss Carter, struggling with her ca
tarrhal difficulty.
"Abram don't read nothin' but the
newspapers, said Mrs. Packenham.
'His eyesight amt what it was
"Who's your neighbor down under
the hill?" sharply interrupted Miss
Carter. 'Just beyond the brook,
where the bridge is out of repair?"
'Her name is Briggs" !" said Mrs.
'Betsey Briggs"
"Well, whoever she is,' snorted
Miss Carter, 'she hasn't no more man
ners than a moody COW. Not to notice
me, even, and me standin' there
talkin' myself hoarse to her. Not ever
to turn her head to look at mel"
Dear, dear!" said Mrs. Packen'
ham, "that's very strange! Betsey',
dreadful sociable creetur. Tha
don't seem like her a Bit
'Well. that don't signify" said Mis-
Carter, seating herself, and opening
her leather packet. But I'd Just lik.
you to look at few recent publica
tions I've got here"
"Oh, don't trouble to show 'em t.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1896-06-04
NO. IS.
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.

There is only one sudden death
among women to eighty among men
DR.. F. Shue says there are forty va
rieties of edible turtles in the United
States.
The planet Mars resembles the
earth more closely than any other of
the solar systems that we know any
thing about.
A tricycle. has been fitted with two
Maxim guns, each weighing twenty
five pounds and capable of firing 600
shots minute. The machine carries
1000 rounds of ammunition.
Astronomers calculate that the sur.
face of the earth contains 81, 625, 625
square miles, of which %, 814, 121
are water and 1916 are land, the
water thus covering are about seven
tenths of the earth's surface.
Trees are the great water lifters.
The wise men tell us that an oak tree
of average size, with seven hundred
thousand leaves, lifts from the earth
into the air about 1913 tons of water
during the five months it displays its
foliage.
1t is said that in consequence of ex-
periments with the Roentgen rays, en-
abling the reading of the contents of
letters, a Berlin chemist is experiment.
ing with a substance for the manu-
facture of envelopes which will be
impervious to the rays.
The observations of Alva Clark and
Percival Lowell in Arizona have in
creased the number of canals visible
on Mars from 79 to 1873, all in geome-
trical proportions. The seas under
these observations have turned to
prairies and the lakes to oases.
The air is clear at Arequipa, Peru.
From the observatory at that place,
$3.50 feet above the sea, black spot,
one inch in diameter, placed on q
white disc, has been seen on Mount
Charchani, distance of eleven miles,
through thirteen-inch telescope.
The new collector for supplying
| current to overhead wires for trolley
cars is SO constructed that it cannot
lose its place on the wire. 1t dispen-
ses with the overhead wire-switch al
together, and is said to require no at
tention from the conductor in passing
switches or around curves.
English ticket collectors are now
supplied with small electric lamps,
which are fastened to their overcoats,
the current being furnished from q
miniature battery carried in the
breast pocket. The new invention is
great improvement upon the old
fashioned and cumbersome hand
lamp.
Appendicitis, according to professor
Dieulafoy of Paris, is generally due
to the progressive formation of cal
culus analogous to the stones formed
in the liver and kidneys. He thinks
his theory is confirmed by some re-
cent experiments in which appended
It's was produced by surgical means in
rabbits.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1896-06-04


green pea-vines, nttering savage
below as he rushed past, and Mrs.
Packenham hurried, screaming, down
the hill.
"Abram! Mr.. Sweetlands! Cnp'n
Gilliloe!" she shouted. "Help !heip!
Oh, why don't somebody come? Far
mer Ponds Bowse has knocked poor
Betsey Briggs down into the pea-vne
and Is a-gorin' her awful! Help!help!
help! She'll be killed as sure as the
world! Help! help!'
just as she burst into the door at
the end of the kitchen, the opposite
one opened, and in walked-Betsey
Briggs herself, cool, calm and COM
posed, with a veil folded neatly over
her dove-colored silk hat, and trav-
cling bag in her hand.
Mrs. Packenham sat down and be-
gan to laugh and cry hysterically;
Mrs. Sweetlands opened his pale blue
eyes like watery moons; the squire
stared; Captain Gilliloe held out his
two brown hands and waved a fore
castle welcome.
Miss Betsey looked around in gentle
| astonishment.
"Dear mel" said she. "What is
the matter? What is everybody look
ing at me SO for? How dye do,
cousin Giles? Why don't you go on
to the house? l thought you was
comm to make me visit''
I'll don't make out this here
reckonin' at all" said captain Gilliloe,
scratching his puzzled head. "Some-
how the wrong signals have been
swung out. But it's all right now
aye, aye, it's all right now! The fig
ure-head of the Betsey Briggs can't be
mistook.
'I've just been up to Albany" ex-
planned Miss Betsey, ''to order a new
parlor carpet. [ went up yesterday,
and come down on the evening train !;
and"
"But, Betsey," cried Mrs. Packen-
ham, clutching spasn2odlcally at her
friends arm, ''who is that In yo ur
back garden-gathering peas, you
know? For as true as you live and
breathe, farmer Ponds Bowse has
trampled her to death by this time
"Ihat!" said Miss Betsev. ooh,
that's my wire dummy, as I had when
I worked at the dressmakin' trade! I
just dressed it up in some of my old
clothes, as kind of scarecrow-l like, to
keep the pigeons from stealing the
green peas right out of my pods.
They're the sauciest creeturs in all
the world. Why, you didn't never
take it for live person did you?"
And everybody laughed the more
heartily as their folly became appar-
ent to them.
81 declare to goodness was clean
out of my latitude and longitude, .
said the sea captain with chuckle.
appearances are deceitful,' said
mild Mr.. Sweetlands, rubbing his
hands.
II won't believe my own eyes
ag'in!" shouted the squire.
And then they all three went tt
drive the belligerent bull out of Mis-
Briggs vegetable garden, and to patel
up the defective pickets in the fence,
and Miss Betsey herself sat down Il
drink a comfortable cup of tea will
Mrs. Packenham.
"For I'm sure I need one after al
I've been through" said the squire's
wife.
"Well DECLARE" said sympatheti
Miss Betsey, sit must ha' been trial
[ won't never put that dummy ou
ag'in. ''-Saturday Night.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1896-06-04
GREAT GRANDMAMMA's "REMINISCENCES

GREAT GRANDMAMMA "REMINISCENCES.
"When I hear you children talk so
much about the wonders of the kline
toscope, the horseless carriage and the
X rays" remarked certain great
grandmamma the other day, II can't
help but think of the many years ago
when was little girl and news came
to us one day that somebody had in
vented new sort of wagon that in
stead of being drawn by horses or
mules or oxen ran all by itself. OF
course it sounded like fairy story,
just as if they had told me that the
magic carpet in the Arabian Nights
had been suddenly discovered rolled
away in somebody's attic, but we were
assured that it was really true. There
was something about steam connected
with the mysterious carriage; it either
ran by it, or under it or with it, or
something, we weren't quite sure
which. When they explained it to us
children, people always added It's
upon the same principle as the tea
kettle, you know and although we
didn't know in the least what the
principle was, we did know what q
tea kettle was and we accordingly
pictured to ourselves freakish vehicle
shaped like tea kettle, spout, handle
and all, from which issued a white
banner of steam, and which sung
upon occasion.
In what part of this new wagon peo-
pie were to ride we didn't under
stand, but supposed that they were
slowed away inside somewhere, like
the Greek soldiers in the wooden horse
that our history book had made 80
familiar to u.s. Just how the strange
carriage upon the same principle as
the tea kettle was able to move we
were totally unaware. Tea kettles
never moved; they stood still in one
place upon the stove where they were
put. 1t took a good stretch of the
imagination to fancy them or any
thing like them galloping along much
faster than anybody could walk
faster, indeed, it was said, than q
horse could go. The grown-ups said
that there were narrow rails upon
which the strange carriage run, where
upon we pictured all our country
roads and lanes ornamented with these
things. 1t all sounded very impracti-
cal to us, however, as it did to many
of the grown-ups for that matter.
remember my father saying with much
emphasis: well, there's one thing,
this new-fangled locomotive, or what
ever they call it, can never supersedt
the stage coach. Locomotive! 4
cried one of the little listeners. "Why
great grandmamma, do you mean te
say that you're talking about railway
trains?" eyes," replied great-grand
mamma, "when I was little girl tn
locomotive was just as much of a nov
city to me as the X rays are to you to
day. New York Sun.
The Daily Texarkanian., 1896-02-19

Why suffer with Coughs, Colds,
and LaGrippe when Laxative Bro
mo Quinine will cure you, Does
not produce the ringing in the head
like Sulphate OF Quinine. Put up
in tablets convenient for taking
Guaranteed to cure or money re-
funded. Price 25 cents. For sale
by w. A. Robinson. z 3m d&w
The Daily Texarkanian., 1896-02-19

5000 wards Navy Blue Calico fast coors worth 7c for 2c
Ederdown, 75c quality, going for o.
Graveland Sutng, 65c quality, going tor 9
Fancy Cashmere Mixtures, worth lOc, tor 40c
Black Briiantnes, worth 65c, 10 M
Mohair Mixtures worth jG 25G for ort loc or 25c
Ladies Cloth "a inch wide worth Soc aoC o
Ladies Swiss Ribbed Vests, worth 75c tor M dOc dO
Mems White Taundried Shirts, worth $L5O 9Oc V
Black Iisle Thread Hose worth Toe, for,.'', .4V0
Blankets II A. $3.50 quality ~ 7S So
Fine Line of Hats worth 81 125 each, for 90c @
38 inch all wool Plaids, worth 5Oc, for
r CC
The Daily Texarkanian., 1896-02-19

n The Voters Music House do tun'
ing, repairing and packing ofpianos
and organs. Give them a trial
The Daily Texarkanian., 1896-02-19

W. II. Wells Il Co. will sell you
shoes at rock bottom prices.
The Daily Texarkanian., 1896-02-19
Beware Of Ointments for Catarrh that
contain Mercury,

as mercury will surely destroy the
sense of smell and completely
derange the whole system when
entering it through she mucous
surface. Such articles should never
be used except on prescriptions from
reputable physicians, as the damage
they will do is ten fold to the good
you can possibly derive from them.
Halls Catarrh Cure, manufactured
by f. ]. Cheney & Co., Toledo, o.,
contains no mercury, and is taken
internally, acting directly upon the
blood and mucous surfaces of the
system, In buying Halls Catarrh
Cure be sure you get the genuine.
1t is taken internally, and made in
Toledo, Ohio, by F. j. Cheney q
Co. Testimonials free. Sold by
Druggist, price 75c. per bottle.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The Daily Texarkanian., 1896-02-19
A Butchers Experience.

Mr.. ]. w. Herring, a butcher O
Phornix City, Ala, says. May l4th
1895: "For five years | had indi
gestion, which continued to get
worse until my suffering was in
tense. spent hundreds of dollars
trying to get relief, but grew
worse,until the fall of 1893, when !
began to use Kings Royal Germe
tuer. | took only three bottles,
but began to improve from the first
use of it. / bought it of Dr. D. e.
Morgan, and he can tell about my
case. | cheerfully recommend Ger
metuer as the best medicine fol
Dyspepsia and Indigestion. New
package, large bottle, l08 doses, 81,
For sale by Smith Drug Co.
The Daily Texarkanian., 1896-02-19
For over Fifty Years

AN OLD AND WELL-TRIED REMEDY
Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup
has been used for over fifty years
by millions of mothers for their
children while teething, with per
feet success. 1t soothes the child
softens the gums, allays all pain,
cures wind colo and is the best
remedy for diarrhea: 1t is pleas
ant to the taste. Sold by druggists
in every part of the world. Twenty
five cents bottle. Its value is in
calculable. Be sure and ask Tor
Mrs. Winslows Soothing Syrup, and
take no other kind. S-5-93-ly
The Daily Texarkanian., 1896-02-19
LIyCOLD.TURNER COMPANY'S
Shovel EN- Out S0|6 f!
Talking at an End After Stock Taking.

More good bargains than you ever had offered you pe
fore. For this week see following bargains ana
great many others we haven't space to mentlon'e
The Daily Texarkanian., 1896-02-19
A BIG SURPRISE.
To the Aspirants for City Offices.

On or before April the third there
will be another ticket in the field
which will make some of the candi-
dates for office, look up little and
do some tall hustling, this ticket
will be the only and proper one and
if the puclic are not wide awake to
their cause, sad disappointment
will prevail We are not at liberty
to voice the subject further, but
will say in conclusion that every
one knows the best, and freshest
drugs and garden seed are handled
bv. BEN WILLIAMS u SEEGAR
The Daily Texarkanian., 1896-02-19
EXTRAORDINARY OFFER FOR '96
Jos. w. Vestal & Son, the Little
Rock Florists, Offer Bargains in
Bulbs and Flowers.

For the next thirty DAYS we offel
the following bargains IN Bulbs and
Flowers, as introduction collections
Twenty choice Chrysanthemumsi
our selection, 81; twenty fine Gera'
NUNS for 81; twenty beautiful ever
blooming Roses for 81, Many other
bargains-write us for catalogue
and see our low prices on all kinds
of flower seeds, flowers, bulbs, etc
Address, Jos. W. VEsTAL & SON,
Little Rock, Ark
The Daily Texarkanian., 1896-02-19
A NEW RESORT.
The Half Was Never Told of
the Healthfulness of Moor
ingsport, Louisiana.
NEITHER TONGUE OR PEN
Can Describe the Coming Health Re-
sort on Caddo Lake, Which is
Now Open to the
World.
NEITHER TONGUE OR PEN

Mooringsport, a little hamlet,
sleeping on the banks of CaddC
Lake, in Louisiana, has long enjoy
ed a quiet nap, and was known on
ly by few who passed and repass'
ed on steamboats, that used to
make regular trips in the lake be-
fore the iron horse traversed this
country, but it is now invaded by
the army of progress, and the shrilI
whitsle of the locomotive not only
awakens its citizens, but those FOR
miles around.
We clip an excellent article from
the pen of Major Groom, published
in the Shreveport Times, concern
ing the possibilities of this village:
"Mooringsport, Feb. 13, 1885,
l read in your last Sundays issue
your very complimentary and fiat
tering remarks about Mooringsport
and myself. What you say of the
advantages of our place is true, and
yet not halt has been told. Nei-
ther tongue nor pen can describe
it. 1t requires to be seen to be
realized and appreciated. Visitors
to our place invariably remark that
it is one of the most beautiful
places for town and summer re-
sort to be found anywhere.
We have an excellent spring of
chalybeat water and many others
of pure and never failing supply.
We have an excellent locality for
the establishment of manufacto-
ries, with plenty of wood add fine
timbers.
In a short time our town site will
be laid off into lots, and we hope
some enterprising person or com
pany will buy suitable grounds and
erect magnificent and spacious
hotel--such an one as would be a
credit to the place.
| believe that with the advan
tages which we have, we will be
able to compete with any other
point between Shreveport and Tex
arkana. C. S. GROOM"
The Daily Texarkanian., 1896-02-19
Read This and Profit

It has been demonstrated that
HOP ALE is the best tonic for indi-
peston yet made or discovered. It
Is a palatable drink, non-intoxicat-
,ng, and a beverage that will do to
out on any table, and is cheap and
comes in neat bottles and packages
It can be supplied to you by B 9.
vandeweghe, the sole agent at this
,1,ce / IA tf
The Daily Texarkanian., 1896-02-19
A Recommendation From Los Angeles

632 CASTELAR, ST., Los Angeles,
Cal.-After having suffered a long
time from acute rheumatism with
out obtaing relief, used Chamber
Iains Pain Balm and was almost
Immediately relieved ] highly rec
ommend this as the best medicine
known. D. M. HAMILTON, For sale
BY Smith Drug Co.
The Daily Texarkanian., 1896-02-19
WHAT IS H0MEY

A prize was offered recently by
London Tit Bits for the best an
swer to the question, What is
homer" Here are few OF the an
swers which we're received;
Home is the blossom of which
heaven is the fruit.
A world Of strife shut out, a
world of love shut in.
The golden setting in which the
brightest jewel is mother
The only spot on earth where the
faults and failings of humanity are
hidden under a mantle of charity.
The place where the great are
sometimes small and small often
great.
The fathers kingdom, the chill.
drens paradise, the mothers world
Where you are treated best anc
grumbe most.
A little hollow scooped out of the
windy hill of the world, where We
can be shielded from its cares and
annoyances.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1896-05-05
CONTEMPT DEFINED.
6enator Hill Submits the Report Of
Judiciary Committee.
HE PRESENTS A NEW BILL
As the Result OF Its Delibcrations--Ac-
cuscd May 1ie Tried by the Court,
or They May Demand a
Trial by Jury.

WASHINGTON, April B0.-Senntor Hill
from the committee on judiciary, sub
mitted report upon the bill in relation
to contempts of United States courts,
the senator presenting new bill as the
result of the committees deliberations.
The bill defines direct contempts to be
those committed during the sitting of n
court or judge in chambers in its OF
his presence; oil other contompts are i'll
direct 1t provides for the immediate
and summary punishment of direct con.
tempt without written accusation. Es.
pecial interest in the bill centers in the
provision for the punishment of con-
tempt of court committed not in the
courts presence, as III the Dcbs case.
The provision upon this point is as
follows:
"That upon the return Of an officer
or process or an affidavit duly filed
showing any person guilty of indirect
contempt writ of attachment or law.
full process may issue and such person
be arrested and brought before the court,
and thereupon Il written accusation,
setting forth succinctly and clearly the
facts alleged to constitute such con-
tempt, shall be filed and the accused re-
quired to answer the same by an order
fixing the time ana place for hearing
and the court may OH proper showing
extend the time so as to give the accused
a reasonble opportunity to purge him
self of such contempt.
'After the answer, or i'll case Of re-
fusal to answer, the court may proceed
to hear the accusation upon such testi-
mony as may be produced. If the ac-
cused answer the trial shall proceed
upon testimony produced, as in criminal
cases, and he shall be confronted with
the witnesses against him, but such trial
shall be by the court, or, i'll its discre-
ton, upon application by the accused q
trial by jury may be had as in any
criminal case. If found guilty judg-
ment shall be entered accordingly, pre-
scribing the punishment.
The bill allows appeal to the supreme
cOult
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1896-05-05
.LEONISTS DEFEATED.
The Nicaraguan Rebels Driven Into
the Last Ditch.
MANY WERE SLAUGHTERED.
Insurgents Surrounded In Momotombo.
Large Supplies of Arms and AM
munition Received by the
Government.


MANAGUA, Nicaragua, April 99.-The
government here is celebrating n great
victory over the insurgents. Having
captured La Pax, Pueblo Luevo, Pital,
Momotombo and Canas from the rebels.
the government now controls the east
ern part of the Leon railroad.
Three officers and some men were
killed OH the government side, while ~
officers and 500 men among the rebc.S
were slaughtered. President Zelaya and
General Paiz led the government troops.
Two thousand rebels are surrounded
i'll Momotombo and unless they escape
in 24 hours they may be killed.
Five thousand rifles and Krupp guns,
with ammunition, arrived ut Greytown
OH special steamer from New York
for the government in charge of Colonel
Donaldson of New York. Two thou
sand rifles and ammunition have also
arrived by special train from Salvador.
Hundreds of families have escaped
from the rebel city of Leon and have
gone to Salv Ndor and Guatemala. The
surrender of the rebels is expected to
occur uny day,
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1896-05-05
MARQUETTE STATUE
Comes Up For Consideration In the
Senate.

Comes Up For Consideration In the
Senate.
WASHINGTON, April 20.-The naval
bill was temporarily laid aside in the
senate to consider the acceptance of .'.e
statue of Pcre Marquette, presented hy
the state of Wisconsin, and now in Statu-
ary hall.
At the outset Mr.. Palmer Dem, Ills
presented resolution expressing the
thanks of congress to Wisconsin for Til
statue of the renowned explorer and
discoverer of the Mississippi river, and
formally accepting the gift.
Mr.. Mitchell (Dem., Wis., was then
recognized for speech recounting the
services of Marquette among the In
dianas of the northwest.
Senator Mitchell's speech was fol-
lowed by remarks from Senators Kyle,
Palmer and Villas, all of whom eulo-
gized Marquette and declared that he
was honored, not as n churchman, but
as u great historic character.
The senate passed without opposition
the resolutit accepting the Marquette
statue,
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1896-05-05
New Incorporntlons.

COLUMBUS, o., April 29.-The Parish
Of the Church of Our aavior Of Akron
the Linnwood Boat club, Cincinnati
the Charles Hanauer Cycle company
Cincinnati, capital stock $20.000; the
National Amusement company, Harri-
SON township. Montgomery county, cap
ital stock $4,000 the Card Electric com.
pany, Mansfield, increase of capital
stock from 100000 to $l50,000; the
Tuscarawas Railroad company, New
Philadelphia, capital stock SJ50,000; the
New Concord Cemetery association,
New Concord the Union Clothing COM
pany, Columbus, capital stock $4,000
the Ohio BARRIERS Mutual and Benefi-
cial association, No. ], Columbus.