The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-08-28
The Drunkard's Dream.


IA he lifted it up with an sager glance,
And laughed as he saw the bubbles dance.
"Aha am myself agaaG
Here s a truce to care IN adieu TO pain,
Welcome the Gun with its creamy foant
Farewell.to work and mopy home
With jolly crew, and flowing bowl
In bar room pleasures l love 70 ron
Like flash there came TO the drnukards
side
His angel child. who that night had died
with look SO gentle aud sweet and fond, |
She touched the glass with her little wand, /
And oft as he raised 1t up to drink
She silently tapped on its silent brink,
,Tiil the drunkard shook from foot TO crown
And set the untasted goblet down
Hey, man" cried the host, what meaneth
Is the eoyey sick, or the drain amiss?
Cheer nm. NV lad quick the bumper quatf.
And he giared around with hendish laugh
The drunkard raised his glass once more
And looked at its depth as oft before
But started to see on its pictured foam,
, The face Of hit dead little child at home
Then again the landlord at him sneerea,
And swabgering crowd OF drunkaFds leereo
But still, as he tried the glass to drink,
The wand of his dead one touched the Drink
The landlord gasped, u swear my man,
Thou shalt take every drop of this flowing
ean,'
TIE Grunkard bowed to the quivering brim,
Though his heart beat fast and his eye grew
dim;
But the wand struck harder than ever before
The glass was flung Oh the BARRON floor !;
All around the ring the fragments lay,
But the poisonous currents rolled away
The drunkard awoke. His dream was gone.
His bed was bathed in the light ofthe morn;
But he saw, as he shook with a pale cold fear
A beautiful angel lowering near
He rose, and that seraph was nigh him stlil.
1t checked his passion, it swayed his Will,
It dashed from his lips the mad ming bowl,
And victory gave to his ransomed soul!
Since ever that midnight hour he dreamed
Our hero has been q man redeemed
Ard this is the prayer he prays always,
And this is the prayer let us help him pray,
That angels may come in every land,
To dash the cup FROM the drunkard's hand
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The cotton production IS in.
Creasing fast since the end of hos
tilities. The excess this year
over last will be about 50O,O0t
bales. This crop is worth more
to the South than in 1860-61, fol-
it is nearly all surplus. We raise
as much food as is necessary fol
consumption, which was not thu
case in previous years. Cotton
was then sold to purchase sup
plies. Raising now what WI
want, our cotton becomes a sur
plus, aud brings us its whole valu,
in cash. Louisiana has mad
nearly 100000 hogsheads ofsugal
The war, loss Of labor, and tn
decentralization of the negro re
duced this product almost t,
nothing. It is on the increase
and it win not be long before W
can boast of 100000 hogsheadS
The troubles in Cuba will 70
years keep up the price of sugar
for, whatever may be the fate c
Cuba, whether q dependency {
Spain, CT free, or annexed to til
United States, the production {
this article will be greatly dimil
ished. The slaves win be freed
and as this class on that island
far inferior to the African here,
is evident that they will be les
tractable, and less inclined
labor. The falling off of the mai
staple productions will be as gree
as in Jamaica and other islanC
where the emancipation expel
ment has been made. AS a
these facts are apparent, an exit
ordinary effect will be made to i
crease the cultivation of the cal
in this State. Sugar lands hay
advanced in price, and are larg
" sought for. AS soon as skillt
aborers in abundance can be pr
cured the production of sugar ca
be made to reach a million
hogsheads, AS the molasses pa,
the whole cost of cultivation, Il
profits must be enormous. A
the accounts are favorable to Il
Chinese. Sugar is raised in the
country, and a sufficient numb
familiar with this crop can be h;
from that section IN which
grows. Rice is ALSO the che
food of the Chinese. Its produ
ton is on the increase in til
State. No lands in the world a
better located for rice than
portions Of Louisiana. AS rice
the chief food of the Chinese, wi
more competent than they
grow it7-[E. 0. Bee.
PASTE THIS IN Your Hat.