The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1868-01-04

u The only difference between
savage and civilized society con.
sists in knowledge. Whatever Of
salutary laws, or good government
any nation, or people may possess;
their progress in the arts and
sciences, and their advancement
in the refinements Of life, are in
exact proportion to the efforts
they have made to educate.g The
present condition of society among
the nations Of the earth, as well as
their past history, abundantly
proves this assertion. Wherever
most attention has been paid to
the education of the young, there
it is seen that the arts and refine
ments of civilization have most
advanced, and man is most ennos
bled. On the contrary, in those
portions of the earth, where littley
or no attention is bestowed npon
this subject, we see mankind little
advanced, or still in a condition
of barbarism, wholly subjected %
vice and superstition, the natural
sequences of ignorance. A similar
effect, proportionate to the inter
est manifested for the education
ofleur children, is observable in
our own smaller communities. 1t
is well known that those neighbor-
hoods which have sustained good
schools i'm their midst, are univer.
sally characterized by their intel
ligenee, morality and refinement
of manners; while those which
have done little, or nothing in
this respect, are just as remarka-
bic for their want of intelligence
and refinement. This i6 perhaps
rather bluntly written it indi-
rectiy charges against e@ome com
munities lack of thosN qualities
which justly entitle 8speOple to
respect and admiratiGfE but it is
no less a truth. The kery exist
ence of the cause of thdfact stated,
viz inattention to the subject of
education, is the best eyidepce of
the correctness Ofthe assertion. No
people can claim to b1 highly pol
ished who habituslly heglect their
schools or treat theBs as sub.
ject of but secondary Simp0rtanee.
II Columbia Ark vindicator.
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ADVICE TO Yours MEN---Let
the business of eveRy one alone,
and attend TO youk own. Don't
buy what yoa doHSt want. Use
every hour to advantage, and
study to make eyea leisure hours
useful. Think twice before you
spend a shilling -remember you
win have anotheg to make for it.
Buy low, sell faiTS and take care
of the profits. aIsook over your
books regularly and il you find
an error, trace it. Should q
stroke Of lnisfSftune come upon
You in trade, rEtrench, work hard
er; but never nv the track Con
front difficultAs with .unfiinchipg
perseverance, ssind they win tiisap-
pear at last; Though yoa fail. in
the struggle yea will be henored;
but shrink and you viii be despis-
ed Exchange. -
I Taksn as a class, women
can contriEe more outlandish and
ugly fashions than one would
think possible, without the gift
of inspiraion. Take, for instance,
the wategfall., First, it represent
ed a blaE5ler of Scotch snuff; next
it hung Miown a woinar's back
like q eSavass covered hams after
ward itkontracted, and counter
feited 4turnip on the back of the
head; S5w it sticks straight out
behin@ and looks like "a wire
muzzN on a greyhound. 81 Nest
ling n the midst of this long
stletsh of hair repose a little bat.
J terlCske of a bonnet like a jockeS
sadMe on q long-backed race
hoISe. a w. ssggts
J The custom prevails in Rus
) sisof cutting off the hair of !
w6iow and bnrying it with th,
hEly OF her husband. aiShoult
{ tSis custom ever be introduced il
: sis country, the American goidder
ould get around it by btryint
sheir acaterfalls, and then get
t new one for the next husband, am
a $50 on. ,f.t5.,.g ss.,..slft, 4
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