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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1878-07-11
A City in Two States.

This is perhaps the only city in the
world that had two Mayors and two City
Governments, police, ETC., and taxed in
two States. The line between Tennes-
see and Virginia is the center of Main
Street, and it gives rise to many funny
scenes; as, for example, the runaway
couple need no coach and four, but,
arm in arm, step across Main Street
and are welded. The fugitive COM
mits crime in Virginia, goes to the
pavement on the other side of tbs street,
and talks defantly to the officer on the
opposite, who has warrant for his ar
rest. A misstep or too bold DISPOSE
ton will sometimes, however, bring him
to grief. Several instances have occur
red of fugitive being hustled across
the line by a party prepared, while in
the act of holding such conversation,
and they tell of a man who defantly
perched himself on pile of store boxes
within six feet of the line, jeering the
officers on the other side, but, unfor-
tunately for him, some law-abiding citi-
zens tilted the boxes, and when he
reached the ground he was in the other
State.---Br,stol Cor. Philadelphia Press.
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FARM TOPICS.
Specia1ties in Farming.

A system of mixed husbandry is UNI
doubedly best adapted to most farmers
in sections where various kinds of farm
products can be grown. This, howev-
er, does not exclude the culture of spec.
ialties, to which more than average at
tention is paid, and from which greater
profit is expected. 1t is inevitable that
this should be so. The time will never
come when cotton will not be the lead
ing staple of some of the Southern
States, though: every year more atten-
ton is, and will be, paid to the other
crops. This is only an illustration of
what everywhere occurs. One crop will
receive most care, and others will be
made subsidiary. The first will be re-
lied on for profits, and the others for
paying the expenses for running the
farm. Unless this is done, the cost of
the main crop is pretty sure to take the
most of the profits, sometimes more.
This has been the great difficulty with
southern farming. The money expend-
ed in buying provisions which the plant
er might himself produce, eats up the
profits on the cotton crop. II does not
follow that the cotton is improbable,
but only that exclusive cotton-planting
is bad policy.
There is always great amount of
needless idleness in growingone crop to
the exclusion Of every thing else. Thus
with cotton, it employs labor on the
farm only few months in the year.
There is busy season at planting time,
another in cultivating, and the third
and last, in gathering and marketing
the crop. The exclusive Western corn.
growing OF a few years ago was open
to the same objection, but the Western
farmer had the advantage of stock feed
ing in winter, SO as to be proitably en-
ployed for part at least of this usu-
ally Improbable season. Corn-growine
is usually recommended to Southern
farmers as good substitute in part for
cotton. But corn is planted, cultivated
and harvested at the same time as cot
ton, and can not be extensively grown
without interfering with that. What
the Southern farmer needs is not to dis
card corn-growing entirely, but to get
some other crop which will better al
ternate the season of cultivation. In
the Northern farmers system of mixed
husbandry, there are corn, wheat, oats,
barley, beans, potatoes, live stock and
fruits, thus having something to do,
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previous disappointment, but it had not
deeply wounded him. CHANGING to be
on the island of Crete, he saw from his
window Greek maiden in the garden
of the opposite house, and at once felt
that his fate was sealed. She was about
Is years old, and Mr.. Stanley has stree
declared that never before nor since has
he beheld so sweet and beautiful crea-
ture. He at once sought out the Amer
lean Consul and revealed to him the
state of his heart. The Consul, who
had himself married Greek lady, babe
him not despair; took him forthwith to
the house of his inamorata and present.
ed him to her mother, who was widow.
Stanley could speak no Greek; the
mother no English the Consul was the
interpreter. He did his work SO well
that at the end of half an hour the maid
en- was sent for. Stanley was forbidden
even to touch her hand but he con-
versed with her with his eyes, and they
soon understood each other well. At
the end of week he was an accepted
lover; at the end of fortnight the day
for the wedding arrived. All this while
he had seen the young lady once day,
always in the presence of her mother.
On the day before the wedding he had
been permitted for the first time to take
her hand and to imprint upon it chaste
salute.
The morning of the wedding arrived;
Stanley was dressed for the ceremony
and was awaiting the happy moment
There entered TO him three Greeks,
whom he had not seen before, and an
interpreter. They were introduced as
the brothers of the bride, and they pro-
duced a parchment which the interpret
er explained. 1t was a deed of settle
ment, binding Stanley to pay so much
year to the mother, so much to each
BROTHER and so mnch to his wife, and
to plank down the first installment on
the spot. In vain Stanley explained
that he was worth nothing and could
not pay; the brothers looked daggers,
the interpreter frowned, and the scene
closed by the arrival of the Consul, who
with difficulty got Stanley out of the
clutches of his tormentors and shipped
him otto Athens. He did see his beau
| tiful Grecian maiden again.
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ROMANCE IN STANLEY'S LIFE.
A Love Story Running from New Yor
Through the Heart of Africa.

A Love Story Running from New York
Through the Heart of Africa.
From the Graphic.I
There are few men to whom life should
apparently be so pleasant as to Mr..
Henry Stanley; there are few, however,
to whom it seems to be so bitter All
England is ready to do him honor; he
has been overwhelmed with praise and
congratulation; the Queen has received
him; Parliament has thanked him; the
two great journals for which he has
made his explorations have amply re-
warded him. But he is sullen, morose,
discontinued and savage.
Mr.. Stanley has had a romance: it
ended unhappily for him, and this has
soured him to the heart. Before he
went upon his second expedition to
Africa, he met and fell madly in love
with the charming daughter of wealthy
citizen of Jewish extraction, whose
name is, perhaps, best known in con-
nection with the erection of an extern
sive opera-house. Mr.. Stanley's passion
was deep and violent, but he was told
that he must wait, and that an immedi-
ate marriage was out of the question.
He was anxious to win even greater
fame and fortune and lay them at the
feet of his beloved.
1t was at this moment that the second
African expedition was proposed to him :;
in it he saw the coveted opportunity for
distinction and reward, and he eagerly
embraced the perilous commission.
Throughout the whole of that terrible
journey through the jungles of Africa,
amid all his tolls, dangers, sickness,
and disappointments, he was sustained
by the thought of his love, and by the
confident hope of receiving the reward
which was dearer to him than the ap-
plause of the world or the riches of Col
conda. He gave the name of the young
lady to the most beautiful lake which he
discovered, as he gave it afterward to
the handsome boat in which he made a
part OF his exploration-the Lady Alice
At length, the source of the Congo was
found; the great deed was accomplish
ed; and Stanley returned with q proud
and happy heart to the coast. At Fan
Abar packet Of letters was awaiting
him, and he fastened to open them,
hoping to find some messages of love
and affection from the mistress of his
soul. A fatal blow struck him. One
OF the letters contained the intelligence
that Miss Alice - had been married
several months.
From that moment Stanley was
changed man. His delight in life was
wholly lost. His natural good humor
and buoyancy of spirit gave place to
long fits of melancholy, alternated with
violent outbursts of petulance and an
ger.
This, however, was Mr.. Stanley's Sec
ond love affair. He had experienced
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A Bad Case of Nightmare.

George Andrews, who is employed in
the telegraph Office at the Pennsylvania
Railroad junction, below Middletown, lis
subject to nightmare, and while affiict-
ed thus one night last week thrust his
foot through pane of glass (his bed
being near the window and a piece of
the broken glass cut into the sole of his
foot, severing two of the small veins
just under the instep. His brother,
who was sleeping with him, was awak-
ened by the cold feeling of the blood,
with which he found the lower part of
the bed literally saturated. Medical aid
was summoned and the flow of blood
stopped. But for the fortunate and
timely discovery by his brother the
young man would have soon bled to
death. At last accounts he was doing
well.-Lancaste,. Pa. Express.
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TROUBLED.

1 vex my soul with life's great problem; sit
And fold my hands, and ponder all the day;
At last, half weary of the hopeless task,
turn to find the light has slipped away
When the gray east is dawning into gold
wake, and murmur that the whole world
So soon to be aroused from quiet sleep,
To bitter penury and orphans cries.
And while the morning hours are speeding
Ilet my daily duties lie undone,
The while think and shudder DER the wrong
Men compass 'twixt the rise and set of sun.
Then, when high noon is shining in the sky,
turn me from my meal, and can not eat
For brooding DER the famine stricken land,
Where thousands die of hunger in the
street.
And yet. again, when household friends are
And have welcomed them as best may,
At all their words of comfort, hope and cheer
sadly smile, and turn my face away.
How can smile when earth so stricken ISL
When behold her sin and pain and woe2-
How can mingle in their joyous cares,
And let these questions all unheeded go?
Oh, child of earth, whose spirit waxeth faint
With thinking of the evils life doth bear,
Canst thou not trust the pulses of the world
That throb so hotly, to thy Fathers cares
Into thy charge hath He not given space,
All of thine own, to make look green and
sweet,
To be haven unto troubled souls
To be a resting place for weary feet?
Doth He require at thy hands aught but this,
To let thy garden show itself so fair
That others, seeing it, shall straightway go
And till the portions given to their care.
Till all are like to thine? He doth not need
That thou shouldst aid Him any other way,
By weak repinings and by fruitless tears
Because of evils which thou canst not stay.
A Thousand years are as single day
To Him who doeth all thinps for the best
Vex not thy soul, do what thou canst and
pray,
And leave with Him the care of all the rest.
Friends InteltiQeacer.
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Judge Hilton's Testimony.

Upon being interviewed with respect
to the pending change in the Woman's
Hotel, Judge Hilton made some severe
remarks upon the female sex. He said
that you can not get women to accept
any help given on the condition of sepa-
ration from the other sex; that,in short,
women will not be kept away from men :;
they can not be tempted by any COM
forts or luxury to stay or live away from
the other sex. He added that you can
run hoteA.exclusively for men, but not
for women. "The majority of women
not over fifty years of age entertain
some hopes of a union, and a great
many over that age also do. and you
can not do any thing for them if you
make the conditions impair their
chances in the least" Then Judge
Hilton went on to say that women could
not be coaxed to the hotel, simply be-
cause they would not sacrifice male
company. They would rather stay at
boarding houses and put up with hall
bedrooms, poor fare and skimp furni-
ture and have their gentlemen than take
the luxuries of Stewards without them.
They promised and promised and
promised to come, but at last would
back out by admitting that they would
rather stay where the men were" But
worst of all was one of Judge Hilton s
concluding admissions. 1t was given in
the following form: "You can't deal
with women, anyhow, without a great
deal of trouble. ''-NeV York Telegram
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and something ia sell na.,,,.s
month in the year.

and something to sell ne,,,,
month in the year. a,
Still, almost every farmer
specially. What tits depend. y y
farm, location and taste. Fa,i
fer as much as any class j sef
and in the different kinds 81 ha s9fsss
there is variety enough q N; ssas
kinds of men. A farmer has ss
the right, but it is his dutv 4 ~ ~
he likes best, forthis is the seerss y y
cess in any avocation. hefsrns.
delights in horses or cattle. a. ~. WI
pigs, will do better generally I sT
himself mainly to whichesss" !. y
speeialties he prefers, of eou,ss y
into account the adaptation II IL
and locality to the business. q = n
his own desires. There are M, NJ NJ Y
who, in addition to the love u .
more kinds OF these animals, h,,s
an appreciation of their fine no; ,m
the Judgment, skill and patients ' :.
sary in a successful breeder !,
not follow that because farmsr
live stock, he is qualified Il H.
successfully and intelligently 4
many who begin with entbasi.sn
succeed in breeding a lot of =
The skill of the men who or;s,
such breeds as the Short Hon !.
Cotswold sheep and Essex piOs
compel success in any ayocation
same may be said Of men Wha
proved highly successful in on'
wheat, potatoes or any one Il
numerous kinds of fruits. Tba 4,
is due less to the kind Of crop nv
the character of the man who on,
There is an advantage in nj
some one crop a specially, in,h
that it enables farmers to urox
small farm, something on larce
1t costs considerably less Der AZ
/ grow fifty acres of wheat, harysx
thresh it, than to grow five acres
small farm most operations mush
a small scale, and therefore done
disadvantage. But If the small n
will select the crop which he ii
successful with, and it viii ust,E
one in which he is most epthusissi
can devote his main attention d
and secure a more decisive su601
he could by treating all crops
He need not abandon other bid
unless experience proves this adFx
but he win have the satisfadim
only of CRAFTY ing his own desire,
of making more money than /
drudged away most Of his time d d
thing in which he took little intssz
Country Gntlem0n.
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GEORGE SILVIA, handsome, intelli-
gent and refined young Hindoo, attends
the ladies' door at the fremont House,
Chicago. He was taken to England
some years ago by British officer and
received the benefits of a thorough En-
giish education. He has some reputa-
ton IS translator and has arranged
several East India stories for st. Niche
las and other magazines.
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Start Right and Then Stick,

A great many men throughos /,
country are ..going back to inni !
this year, and an unusual numM
young men are looking out forsd
in the same business. The rep0s !
come from the West, of revival 4
the old-time importing of new xr
and the accounts of the taking upd !
farms in New England, are amoH l
best signs of the times. II ths a
farmers will only start right, sud
stick to it, their success may bsis !
in advance. Want Of foresisH !
choosing, and stability Of purpose
effort, are at the bottom Of haiti
ures in farming, for it is even rnOA \
astrous for a farmer to make " ,
and radical changes in his bai
plans than to "put all his eggn 7
basket" by depending on one I
The farmer who rotates" from
to cows, and from cows to gran
from grain to fruit, with every fa
ton Of the markets, is pretty ~ i
get in one crop that he can't "fs
a mortgage. Y
Every farm is better adapted y A
industries than Others. II the ~
low and springy and cold, foot
other diseases will take the profn \
sheep. Ii there is not plenty q \
cool water, and pasturage epa
adapted to cows in its chemicsles !
teristics, and that does not shrIl B
by the end of July, dairying w
prosper. If the grain-producig
ments in the soil are exhausted, Z
sect-enemies or climatic inhuenc \
terfere, grain crops will fan
trees must stand with their iea' J
water,'' owing to lack Of drsllis
charas will prove Disappointing
Then again, men are as dlits1
their farms. Some have just the
to bring together a dairy Of COWS
ly every one of which shall bes'
mixer" and by gentle, Clean
dent management secure Large I
for the best Of products. Anc.0d !
the faculty of having ~
his seed, his fertilizers, ~
and seasons, just r@ :
coax fields of waving gram w
soil. Another will have Z w
sheep, every one of which y
though bred to enter for the !.
at the County Fair. Still ano' !,
plant and prune and shape %
OF half-a.thousand apple tres !
they shall all stand UNIFORM .
symmetrical, Welding just suea h !
in just such quantities, Is e !
when he bought the trees from = !
cry. The point is that ever :
farming as in other occuPsiae "a !
ascertain what his complal NJ !,
forces and outward circutnsMss !
enable him to do best, and 90 Y !,
rule, diversified farming y !
except in localities pre-emlaeas., n !
ed to one branch, like the dan |.
of New York or the natural 4 !,
Of the West. III. !,
A snug little orchard: nel's ~, !
grass, corn, and root crops; - q /,
able drove of cows or sheep; !
choice breeding mares 4 2 pen /
hogs; a yard Of poultry; ~. ;0 Xiii
crops to experiment oil.s'hs .siet
Toned method is about ing e. !
most comfortable, after az ,,sde /
cialties require special knosTIf 1
special conditions of success. 1
like a one-legged milking.s' s~;rs
stand alone; while varied lM d
various supports Golds" h''
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MosT people breathe properly often
more by accident or instinct than by de-
sign; but, ON the other hand, hundreds
of thousands do not breathe properly,
while many thousands at this present
moment are suffering from more or less
severe affections of the lungs or throat,
owing to faulty mode of respiration
in other words, because they breathe
through the mouth instead of through
the nostrils. The mouth has it's own
functions to perform in connection with
eating, drinking. and speaking, and the
nostrils have theirs, namely, smelling
and breathing. In summer time the
error of respiring through the mouth is
not SO evident as at the colder season,
when it is undoubtedly fraught with
danger to the person who commits this
mistake.
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English papers contain advertise
ments of persons who offer to "teach
ladies the habits of good society,"
New-York tribune., 1878-06-11
PEACE IN CEBA.

Araip il ia announced that the Cuban revolution
has definitely and cOnclusively collapsed. In the
Havana Cathedral Te Deums have been sung for
the paciicaton, and there have been festivities IN
Santiago de Cuba. But 1t would be premature TO
affirm that the beautiful aud qucenly island will
now enjoy entire repose. It has been substantially IN
state Of siege for half generation. It's population
has been exceedingly discontinued for much longer
period It's geographical position cannot be changed
by any political event. The same feeling which led
the United States in 1913 to offer 800, 100000 for
Cuba still exists. and in spite Of the vigilance OF
our Government, may provoke other ana uh-
lawful nvasons II is only twenty-five years
since the Ostend manifesto declared that the island
ought to belong TO the United States. Since 1919
there has been st res of Cuban cOnspiraces every
one of which has resulted in failure more or less
rapid. There was the memorable fascO Of 1901,
which cost the adyenturer Narcisso Lopez his life
Then came the outbreak of 1855 Then in 1867
began the war which has now ended a war OF
sl,irmshes of guerilla operations, Of assassnatons
raids and robberies. Since chat time the mother
country has sent to Cuba $4,000 soldiers, and
has lost nearly all Of them; while more than
$4,000 Cubats have been killed in battle, and
nearly "A, 900 prisoners put TO death. The eXpendl-
lures of Spain have been enormOns mp to 1871 they
had reached over S7O,O0O0OO. The amount of
money dsbursed by the patriots cannot be definitely
stated but it has not been small
The result so far as can see of all this loss OF
life and money IS that Spain still holds on to almost
her last remaining colony as tenaciously as ever
Without being any longer a drstrate Power ID spite
of home dssenslons and of military weakness, she
keeps what every great maritime Power is anxious
to possess She has been saved by protectOrate OF
iealouses without which France, or England, or the
United States might have taken possession OF tine
island by military force and under the thin disguise
of humane Intervention. Our avOwed policy has
not been one Of aggression The expeditions against
Cuba which have sailed from the United States
have always been discountenanced by our Govern
ment. though they have not always been prevented
We have been ready to purchase, but we have
officially gone no further; and apparently we are as
far from acquiring Cuba as ever There must come
great chances changes before tie dreams OF some
Of our politicians shall be realized. Meanwhile, the
lesson remains Of the folly Of rebellion without
reasonable hope Of success. Perhaps the motives OF
many Of those engaged in promoting and proiong-
ing hostilites in Cuba Will not bear rigid inspec-
ton At any rate their sacrifices and their suifer-
inps have availed nothing. They began with Cuba
colony Of Spain. and SUCH as entirely as ever 1t
coutipuaa IA he