The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-01-05

"A Beautiful TRIBUTE 70 4
Wire. was guided iii my
choice only BY the blind affec-
tons of my youth. I found
anintelligent companion and a
tender friend, q prudent moni-
tress, the most faithfulofWiyes,
and q mother as tender us chill
dren ever hadsth misfortune
to loose. i met a woman who,
by tender managementaof my
weaknesses, gradually correct
ed the most pertinacious of
them. She became prudent
from affection; and though Of
the most generous nature, she
was taught frugality and econ
o1ily by her love of me. During
the most critical period of my
life, she relieved me. She gen
tIy reclaimed me from dissipa-
ton; she propped my weak
and irresolute nature; she urged
my Incidence to all the exer-
tons that have been useful and
creditable to me, and she was
perfectly at hand to admonish
my heedlessness or improve
dence. To her I owe whatever
| am; to her whatever / shall
be. Tia her solicitude for my
interest she never for a moment
forgot my feelings or character.
Even in her occasional resent
ment, for which I but too often
gave her cause, would to God
/ could recall those moments y
she had no sullenness or acri-
mony. Herfeelings were warm,
nay impetuous; but she was
placable, tender, and constant.
Such was she whom / have lost,
when her excellent natural
sense was rapidly improving,
after eight years. struggle and
distress had bound MS fast to-
gether, and moulded our tenn
pers to each other; when d
knowledge of her worth had
refined my youthful love into
friendship, and before age had
deprived it of much of its orig
nal'ardour. / lost her, alas!
the choice of my youth, the
partner of my misfoftunes, at a
moment when / had the pros
pect of her sharing my better
days,--[S Sir James Macintosh.
| WHAT WE. ARE MADE Or
The following is from am arti-
Gle by DR.. O. W. Holmes
Ifthe reader of this paper
lives another year, his self-con-
seious principle will have mi-
grated from his present tene-
i ment to- another, the new ma
terialsofwhich are not vet put
together. ! A portion of that
body of which it is to be will
ripen in the corn of his next
| harvest. Another portion OF
his future person he will pur-
chase, or others will purchase
for him, headed up in the form
of certain barrels of potatoes
A third fraction is yet to- be
gathered i'm the Southern rice
fields. The limbs with which
| he is then to walk will be clad
with the flesh Borrowed from
the tenants Of many stalls and
pastures now unconscious OF
| their doom. 5.aat
The very organs of speech
with which he is to ask, so wise
y, plead so eloquently or speak
effectively, must first serve his
humble brethren to bleat,, tt
below, and all the varied ut.
terance of bristled or feathereC
barn yard life. His bones them
selves are, to a great extent, II
posse and not esse. q A bag o.
phosphate of lime. which ht
has ordered from Prof. Mape.
for his grounds, contains a larg.
part of what is to be, his skele
| ton. And more than all thi
! and by far the greater part O
|. his body is nothing at all bu
j water; the main substance o
his scattered members is to b,
{ looked for IN the reservoir, tn,
Il running stream, at the bottom