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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1896-11-05

Thrift and melody co not seem to
go together, exciaims Harper's Week
ly. The author of 'kathleen Ma
vourneen," who died few weeks ago,
had his share of prosperity during his
career, but came to want long before
the end of it. A few weeks after, died
Percy Gaunt. joint author with
Charles Hoyt OF that famous
and familiar song, "Ihe Bow
cry" and he too outlived his means
OF support. Yet 'The Bowery" was
immensely profitable to some one, and
was reported TO have paid its authors
$4,000; and Gaunt wrote great
number Of ottcr songs, some ofwhica
were popular. But probably with
song writer's, as with persons in other
lines Of industry, it is one thing to
make money and another to keep it.
The obituarians, who dwelt at gener-
Gus length upon Crouch, told one
amazing story about him that he
had been married four times, and had
been the parent of thirty-three chill
, dren. There was certainly no thrift
about that, but the story was printed
without ah;dayiss, and possibly it was
not true.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1896-11-05
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL

It is said that soft wood under pres
sure becomes considerably harder than
hard wood under pressure.
When the British sparrow hawk is
flying toward its dinner it cleaves
space at the rate OF $50 miles an hour.
An electric boat has been'constructed
for the inspection ofthe famous sewers
OF Paris. 1t pulls itself along by u
chain lying in the bottom.
About thirty thousand lamps, gas,
electric and naphtha, are now utilized
in illuminating the streets, avenues,
parks, docks and bridges OF New York
City.
A serum cure for the bubonic plague
has been discovered by Gersin of the
Paris Pasteur Institute. He made his
first experiments at Annoy, just after
the plague of Hong Kong, China, in
1894.
An English motor car manufacturer
is building two-story steel house to
run on wheels, propelled by motor
under it. The top story is collapsible,
so as to enable the house to pass un-
bridges.
The micro organisms thus far dis.
covered in the water supplied to the
citizens of Brooklyn are said to be of
the poisonous variety, but they
are just the food on which the poison.
Gus microbes thrive.
-Four cakes OF manufactured ice
averaging more than s0n0 pounds each
were taken from the vats OF an Orange
(Tezas) company. One weighed 5000
pounds and measured sixteen feet by
| eight and was fourteen inches thick.
A method Of purifying water is in
use in certain continental towns. 1t
is to pass it through revolving vessels
containing scraps of iron. The iron
forms a gelatinous precipitate with
the lmpurlties-makes them "settle. :"
United States Cousul Steiner, at
Munich, Bavaria, informs the Depart.
ment of State that a second exhibition
OF power and labor machines will be
held there in 1898, and American man
ufacturers are invited to participate.
A recent report of the State Geolo-
gist says that the total production OF
oil in Indiana was 1880, 900 barrels in
1885. valued at s., lO9, 500. The proba.
Dilities are that the area of territory
productive OF OIL will continue slowly
to spreld to the West and South until
it finally embraces the greater part of
the area yielding natural gas.
The cause Of sound in steam.
whistle is the same as in any form of
Of whistle or an organ-pipe, viz, vi.
pration of the atmosphere induced by
vibration set up in steam jet d.
rected against the edge OF the bell,
the vibration of the air or steam col
umn IN the bell influencing the tone
according to its length aud diameter.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1896-11-05

eyes" Plume innocently answered

"Yes," Plume innocently answered.
"Gentlemen company, too" cried
Mrs. P;ercy}
"It was Mr.. Van Orden, my hus-
bands lawyer" explained Plume.
"Ch, I dare say!" said Mrs. Piercy.
"All that sounds very we'll; but have
the character Of my house to look 10,
and"
''He is coming back with car
| riage.' hurriedly spoke Plume. 81
am to 60 to his wife'5 house at once.
Mrs. Van Crden is willing to give me
the shelter which my own husbands
relatives grudge mel"
81 wish her joy of her bargain, I
I'm sure" said Mrs. Abel Piercy, with
toss of the mountains of false hair
that crowned her head.
| And SO the two women parted in no
spirit of amity.
81 dare say she'll go straight to
the store" thought Mrs. Abel, "and
invent pitiful story for my husbands
benefit. And Abel will make great
tuss Abel always was soft about his
! relatives-but shan't mind 1t. l al
ways have been mistress in my own
house, and I always intend to be, Os-
wald's widow or no Oswald's widow"
Nevertheless, she could not help
feeling little apprehensive when her
husband came IN to tea. For when
Abel really was angry, his anger signi-
! fled something. But to her surprise
he entered oil smiles, and rubbing his
palms, glcefully.
$50 Plume has gomez" said he.
'Ies," said Mrs. Piercy, pretending
to be busy with q knot in the second
child's shoe. "She has gone. But
how did you know it,"
"Van Orden stopped at the store to
tell me" answered Mr.. Piercy.
''strange, wasn't it2 And quite ro-
mantle, too..'
! "What Oh earth is the man talking
about?' Eaid Mrs. Piercy, aroused at
last into something like active inter
est.
"Why, didn't Plume tell you? 1t
seems that those last investments that
! poor Oswald fancied he had beggared
himself with, have turned up trump
cards after oil. And Van Orden tells
me that OswaId's widow is worth 3
! hundred and fifty thousand dollars" !"
Mrs. Abel Piercy turned first green,
then crimson. Alas for the fatal blum
der she had comrnitsei! Alas for the
ruined chances of her three little girls
| to inherit their aunt's money! She
made some trivial excuse about for
gotten pockethandkerchief, and went
up stairs to weep the bitterest tears
she had ever shed.
It was lesson to her, but it was an
expensive one. For Plume Piercy, al
though she always remained on tho
most excellent terms with her kind lit
tie brother-in-iaw, never crossed Mrs.
Abels threshold again. She had been
too deeply stung-too bitterly insul-
| ted there.
"-And it's all my own fault" sadly
reflected Mrs. Abel. "Oh, dear! on,
dear ! why can't we see little way into
! the future: :"-Saturday Night.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1896-11-05
THE FALL O. THE LEAF

1he star o Love in the evening skv,
1he crescent moon like a silver boat
In sea of rose and gold afioat.
Under the naples, you andI
LesI on the old. gray licheued wall.
While soft on our heads the dead leave, fal,.
Why DO you sish9
Ny sweetheart princess with frosted hs ir
Blown from your face In shining mist
Like thist'e-down in the air sun-kissed.
Silver or gold, dear, what do we care?
Gold or silver, it matters not,
Sill It's theme for the poets thought.
Still the old lovers heart is caugn:
In its silken snare.
The dropping tints O. the autumn tree
Are richer than roses in their day,
SWeeter than violets in the May
For rose or violet woat care We.
The wide, fair sunset O. the year
Is loveiieS than its morning, dear,
For you and me.
The star O Love dips low i the sky.
Inc moons white boat is cast on the hill,
The shadows gather more dense and chill.
The deep wood thrills with the owls sad
cry.
A lonesome cricket croons in the wall,
Faster the leaves on our bowed heads fall
As the wind walls by.
Gave me Your hand. Is it growing cold?
Let 1t lie on heart that is warm:
Lean on the strength of faithful arm.
Love like the dead leaf still must hold
Sweetness and song when it has missed
The fire OF opa! and amethyst. :;
Purple and gold.
Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1896-11-05

Conservative Yale College is invul-
herable to the attacks of women. its
doors being still closed against them !;
the faculty have, however, made q
concession in their favor, and have
provided for teachers course. Teach
ers. both male and female, can enroll
their names ii The university cata'
logue.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1896-11-05

woman, with a good deal of false hair,
frizzed and puffed and braided on the
top of her head, and a complexion that
bore remote witness to the constant
use of cosmetics. And Mr.. Piercy, at
his end OF the table, was evidently i'll
at ease as he broke his egg and nibbled
diligently at his roll.
''Eut what was I to do, my dear ?"
said ne, after brief silence. which
was by no means peaceful.
"Do?" shrillv retorted Mrs. Piercy.
"Why, what do other people do? Are
We to keep a home Tor the INDECENT
poor, or refuge for the widowed and
fatherless?"
"My dear-my dear" pleaded Mr..
Piercy, who was a small man with tnin
hair and spectacles, "you may be c.
widow yourself some day."
"And if am shall not go begging
among my relatives, that you may de-
pend on" said Mrs. Piercy. "And,
after oil, she isn't any relative OF
your-only your brothers wife. I'd
like to know what earthly claim she
has upon You! I declare the more 7
think of it the more I am amazed at
the woman's presumption. Her very
name is an aggravation, too. Plume
Percy indeed. I'll wager my new
lace pin that she was a second-rate
actress when she married your brother.
No, Mr.. Pierey, if you think that l."
But here the torrent of the lady's
eloquence was cut short by the unex-
pected appearance on the scene of the
very subject of her objurgation-a
tall, pretty woman Of about four and
twenty, whose wavy, golden tresses
and delicateIy fair complexion con-
trasted vividly with the deep mourn
ing weeds she wore.
''A veil down to her feet" mentally
calculated Mrs. Abel Piercy. "And
six-inch bias band of the very best
Courtland Grape on her gown. Iwon-
der who's expected to pay for all this?"
Abel Piercy, tho Eindest hearted of
little men, welcomed his brothers
widow with genuine hospitality; but
Matilda, his wife, looked askance OF
her, with no friendly smile.
"Of course you will consider this
your home," said Mr.. Piercy, as he
made haste to draw chair close to the
fire.
"Until you are able to suit Yourself
somewhere else," crisply added his
wife.
The widow said little; she only
looked, with large, wistfuI eyes, from
one to tho other as she sat there, the
morning sunshine turning her fair
locks to braided masses of gold, the
pearly de'icacy of her skin arousing
the ,liveliest envy in Mrs. Abel's heart.
''Though, of course, it's only some
French baln:, or Cireassian cream or
other, that I haven't heard Of" said
she to herself.
But after Mr.. Piercy had buttoned
on his overcoat and gloves. he came
back to the breakfast room, while his
wife was putting up the children's
school lunches in the pantry.
''I'm not much OF talker, Plume" I"
said he, in an odd, hesitating way !;
'hut you are welcome. my dear-very
welcome. And hope you will try to
feel at home. Don't mind Matilda
;ast at first. She's a little peculiar,
Matilda is, but T do assure you
she's"
MIR. Percy" uttered sharp,
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1896-11-05

I Argentina means to get ahead of the
European Powers in taking possession
of the South Shetland Islands on the
elge Of the Antorctic continent. An
expedition will be sent out for the
purpose this ysar. The islands may
possibly be Of some use as sealing
and whaling station.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1896-11-05
Nansen and His Wife,

DR.. Nansen, it is said, is about to be
remarked to his wife, in consequence
of the fact that prior to his departure
on his last voyage in search of the
North Pole he divorced her, in order
to permit her to marry again in case
of his disappearance or death without
going to the trouble of proving his de-
cenge
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1896-11-05
Testing ArraTS.

In Japan archers test their arrows
by balancing them on the nsiis Of the
second and third fingers of tue left
hand, and rapidly tWi-ling them by
the festhered end with the fingers OF
the right hand. II the arrow makes q
whirring sound it is crooked and must
be Strengthened. -Pittsburg Dispatch.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1896-11-05
Queer ReIis iOuS Sect.

The Muggletonians were religious
sect that arose in England in the mid
die Of the seventeenth century, being
SO denominated from their leader,
Ludovic Muggleton, o journeyman
tailor, who, with another impostor,
named Reeves, asserted that they were
the two last witnesses Of God that
should appear before the end Of tho
world.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1896-11-05
subscriotIon, $ 90 Year, In Advance.
A GARLAND.

Dropping harebells. white and blue, -
Sodding on your slender stalks,
Turn her thoughts to where "a grow,
' Mind her OF our woodland walks.
Rushes, bring before her eyes
! Marshy moorland, boulder strewn.
Where the long-hilled curlews' cries
| Break the drowsy calm OF noon.
Heather. watt the scent to her
OF purp.e-sheeted hills;
Willow branch. bring sound and STIR
b OF innumerabie rils.
Azure-blue forget-me-not,
Askest thou thy message meetT
Nathless thou full we'll dost wot
What to whisper to my sweet.
Elizabeth Gibson, in st. Paul's.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1896-11-05

Greece has only twelve miles of ter
fitory for each mile Of seacoast, while
England, which ranks uext, has eighty
four and ono-half miles to each milo
of shore.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1896-11-05

In discussing ". ". Astor's chance
OF espous:ng royal princess Euro.
pean paper recalls the fact that the
founder of the Duke OF Flies family
was Scotch peidler, Adam Duff by
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1896-11-05
name.

Ten thousand employees under the
War Department have been classified
in the civil service in accordance
with the order Of President Cleveland
of May 6 last, which extended the
operations OF the law to practically
oil Government employees.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1896-11-05
TOngue Lost to Save Life,

A New York florist recently wss
stung in the tongue by small insect.
The injury was SO serious that sur.
geon was compelled to cut. the mans
tongue out in order to save his life,
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1896-11-05
/Hele1a, Montana, claims to be the
richest city Of its population in the
rnr1d

Ii Hung Chang says there are mill
ions Of people in China that do not
know that China had war With
Tcpan
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1896-11-05

lsSs L iG1sOA WAS
not in q good
humor that day
as she sat at the
breakfast table
pouring coffee for
her husband and
dispensing bread
and butter to the
three plump lit
tie Piereys.
She was q hand
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1896-11-05

Japan.
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THE YOUNG WIDOW.
EY RUTH RANSOM.

z RS. PERCY was
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1896-09-24

his neiehbor, must consent 70 b. robbed
In turn. The man who ID yearning tor
. 30 cent dollar 20 pay his debts must
agree 20 accept o 30 cent dollar for the
labor Of his hands and the products OF
his toll. II We insist ON debasing our
currency to the standard Of Me1ico and
the central and south American states,
then we must be willing to acoept their
standard Of living ~ well 40 the stand.
ard Of civilization Of these Latin. Amefi'
can republics.
"My countrymsn, let ~ not forget
that ours is the only Anglo Saxon re-
public the world has ever seen, and, re-
membering with pride that no nation
has ever yet been strong enough TO On.
slave any portion Of the Anglo. Saxon
race, let as not unwittingly enslave our.
selves but rather let us bury this her.
esy Of unlimited silver coinage in the
same grave where we buried it, twin
companion, the greenbaok heresy, near
ly quarter Of q century ago and then,
facing to the rising sun, continue our
onward march until this republic stands
tall and stately among the nations Of
the earth. like city set upon . hill.
that can not be hid" Loud and pro.
longed applause.l
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GOING DOWN.
The Wool Industry of Ohio
Under Free Trade.
A LOSS OF OVER 100000 sHEEE

In the Buckeye state IN One Year From
Lack Of Tariff Protection for Wool
There Were Over 100000 In 1894
and This Year Only ages. s.ese-ststis
tics AZ Furnished to the state BY Town
The effects of free wool tariff are
plainly manifested in the return Of the
township assessors Of Ohio, a. certified
to by the auditor of state. When il
was discovered last year that there had
been decrease of over half million
in Ohio from 1894 it occasioned general
comment throughout the state. This
year IL is found that the loss since 1895
is still greater, the number being re
duced by over 100000. The statistics
were collected by township assessors
and transmitted to the state auditor BY
the auditors in all the counties. The
subjoined table shows in which counties
the greatest decrease occurred. It will
be noted that the loss was heaviest in
the great wool producing counties. Fol.
lowing is the table:
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1896-09-24
MASON AGAINST BRYAN.
The Old-Time Greenbacker Does NJ
Favor the Silver Candidate.

The Old-Time Greenbscker Does Not
Favor the silver Candidate.
Republican State Chairman Elkin of
Pennsylvania has received the following
letter from Samuel r. Mason Of Mercer,
Pa, who received l,758 votes as the
Greenbaok candidate for governor In
1878:
MDRCER. July IL
Ny Dear Sir-My attention has been called
to report that am going to support the free
silver party in the coming political contest.
believe it is generally known that am and 81.
ways have been bimetallist, but not ct the
ratio Of 10 to On the platform adopted at
Chicago could not be . bimetallist ON any
ratio In my Judgment, no greater calamity
could befall the country than to place In power
s.president whose only recommend alton for
the place IL that he was able to make an in.
cendiary and revolutionary speech that Sc.
cured his nomination: who expects to rally to
his support Populists, anarchists and every
other discordant element in the whole country.
The platform as adopted was carefully pre-.
pared to catch all these parties. The covert
attack upon the president in his efforts to up.
hold the law and upon the Judiciary for sus-
tanning it. is only . bid for the votes Of the
worst and most dangerous element the coun.
try has to deal with and who are menace to
any well organized government Yours truly,
g. r. MASON.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1896-09-24
wing figures

Why is it, asks silver man, that sill.
yer will purchase just as much of ev.
erything as it would before the fall in
silver9 The answer is, it will not, as to
corn, among other things-corn, the
greatest cereal crop Of the country. A
silver dollar will buy as much, for we
have kept that at par with gold. Bnt
silver in the dollar has fallen off in the
years from 1878 to 1896 from $1.OO4 to
50.5 cents, and corn has gone up from
80 to 80 cents-silver down 30 per cent
and corn up 25.-Cincinnati CONNER.
cial. Tribune.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1896-09-24

The contest before us is to be no walk.
over. Republicans may as well disa.
buse their minds Of that idea right at
the start. The silver Populistic craze is
widespread, powerful and contagious
It has behind it not only the unreason.
ing prejudice and folly Of a large mass
of the discontented, the unfortunate,
the hopeless, but also the selfish i'm
pulses and the untold wealth of the mil.
ionaire mine owners of the west. II is
no holiday joust that the friends Of
sound money and national solvency have
set out upon. 1t is a tremendous con-
fiict with the hosts Of Unreason, in
which every man and woman who loves
our land and wants to see its beneficent
institutions perpetuated must work with
unremitting zeal until the polls close on
Nov. S.-New York Mail and Express
(Rep.)
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1896-09-24
A covNrav,s paooassa
Il II True That 'ths Gold Standard Aaaks'
Hard Times"

II II True That sths Gold Standard Makes
Hard Times"
Said Candidate Bryan In his Albany
speech: 1.-THE gold standard makea
hard times"
For 20 years the gold dollar Of 95.t
grains has been the legal unit Of value
In the United States. For Is years gold
has been the legal standard for pay.
ments. For 43 years gold has been the
actual standard.
It is going none too far to say that all
the prosperity this country has ever en-.
joyed has been experienced during the
past 48 years,
The happiest period of Is years In on,
history was from 1879 to 1893. The in.
dustries, agriculture, commerce and
business in all lines f1ourished. The
general development was never eQualed
in any part of the world.
Large sections of the west practically
uninhabited in 1879 rapidly became
populous. Not only was the land
brought under cultivation, but factories
were established near the farms.
The iron and coal deposits of the south
were developed during that period, and
manufacturing industries sprung up in
every state. Nearly three times as
many cotton mills were built in the
south between 1879 and 1898 az were
built during the previous 100 years, and
the increase of spindles was more than
$50 per cent.
There was no less wonderful develop.
ment in the northwestern states. Every.
where energy. enterprise and progress
were marked. All elements of the pop.
ulation shared in this unprecedented
prosperity.
Then came the change in national
policy. No sooner had the Democracy,
on free trade platform, come into
power and begun the work Of tariff re.
form" than the doors of the mills were
closed, hundreds of thousands of men
thrown out of employment, industries
brought to standstill, and the greatest
and richest country under the sun found
itsel in the grip of distrust, demoraliza
tion and panic.
Mr.. Bryan was member Of the way,
and means committee that launched the
economic policy which we'll nigh
wrecked all interests, industrial, fnan.
cial and commercial
Now, as the candidate of q party
which seeks to deceive the people as tc
the cause of present conditions and to
blind them to the responsibility for the
general disaster. Mr.. Bryan goes around
the country bawling that the gold
standard makes hard times.
Times. Star.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1896-09-24
Chapter ON Money Makins.


II man takes piece of steel worth
10 cents and makes Of it watchsprings
worth 800, that is skill.
II he takes a piece of paper worth Q
cents and writes ON it q poem that sells
for $50, that is genius.
II he takes . farm worth o5 an acre
and by his labor and knowledge puts It
in heart again and makes it worth $40
an acre, that Is work.
II man takes q hammer worth 60
cents and in . day g use Of it earns d. .86,
that's hard work.
II man buys yearling at o trotting
sale for e15 that in its S-year form de.
velops ability TO make mile at . :O6L
gait. that 10 Judgment.
II man buys silver mine he has
never seen and II makes him million.
aire, that's luck.
II . man buys an article today for
$50 and sells it tomorrow for IS. SO,
that's business.
But whom government takes 6o
oents' worth Of diver and coins e into
. castwheel. and says leGislatively that
IL u 100 cents. oe . dollar, and peys q
out - sunh 20 IT. creditors, that @ not
ananos. but htehwsy robbsey. New
Yosk eun.