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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-05-08
Our BOyhO0d's Days.

It is rather a fine thing to be a boy,
and have free indulgence in the health
full sports of youth, rather than the
more harmful pastimes of after years.
The pure spirit of the boy turns in
stinctively to those recreations which
appeal to the heart, and cause many
older people to look yearningly back to
the days Of their youth. See with what
beaming tenderness the small boy seeks
to win the confidence of the poor friend
less, covering dog that he finds roam
ing sadly through the street. The
boys face glows with compassion, and
his voice is low and sweet as he muir
murs pet names to the forlorn animal,
slowly approaching it with outstretched
hand, ready to tenderly pat its shaggy
coat. Gradually the suspicious of the
dog are overcome, and the hand of the
boy lovingly caresses the harmless brute
with kindness that only boy can
show. With his arm soothingly around
the dogs neck, the boy cries in hoarse
whisper to his friends, hitherto hid be-
hind the fence: give got him, boys"
and they appear cautiously on the
scene, while the first boy occupies the
dogs attention with endearing epithets.
To practical youngster it is only the
work of moment to affix the ancient
tin-pail to the reluctant tail of the dog,
and with wild shout of joy the boys
jump back while the terrified dog, with
this rafting unknown horror in close
pursuit, tears madly down the street,
rending the air with bowls. This is
one of the most hallowed and unalloyed
pleasures that brightens boys life,
and yet there are heartless men who
would rob our youth of such harmless
pastimes as the foregoing. What use
are stray dogs and old tin-pans if not to
be united by our boys in the closest Of
ties? A hard hearted man in Flint,
Michigan, a fiinty hearted man we might
say, had some innocent boys dragged
before minion of the law (Magistrate)
and fined $40 for indulging in the time
honored practice of tying dog to tin
pan and then letting the tin-pan loose
Detroit Free Press.
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FARM AND FIRESIDE.

GRAHAM BREAD. II pint of sour milk,
small half-cup of sugar, l teaspoon OF
salt, egg, 2 large spoons OF Hour, ana
] teaspoon of soda. Mix soft batter
with Graham -four, and you will have
delicious cakes baked in gem-pan, or,
if preferred, in loaf.
SAUCE TARTARE.---1 raw egg, tea
spoon mustard; mix we'll together; add
small half-bottle of oil, the juice OF !
lemon, ! teaspoonful of chopped onion,
teaspoonful of chopped parsley, ! tea
spoonful of capers chopped fine, and l
tablespoonful of vinegar.
PLUM PUDDING.--The following re-
ceipt, originally coming from England,
has been tested for 40 years: pound
raisins (stoned), pound currants, !
pound suet Chopped very fne), ! pound
moist sugar, ounce citron, and 6 eggs.
Use flour or bread-crumbs, and mix the
whole well together. Boil it at least 8
or Z hours.
BLACK GINGERBREAD.---1c cup sugar
house molasses, cup sugar (brown) Z,
l cup warm water, II heaping table
spoons sifted flour, l teaspoon soda
mix with the -four tablesoon of ginger,
teaspoon of cinnamon, tablespoon OF
butter, egg; mix molasses, sugar, and
butter well together with the warm
water, then the other ingredients, and
bake in Saratoga ron-pans.
HERE is good cake without eggs:
One and one-half cups of milk, three
and two-thirds cups of prepared flour,
one heaping cup of sugar, little salt,
and nutmeg Tor cinnamon), and plenty
of raisins, or currants if preferred.
When you have stewed prunes, substi.
tute the juice (sweetened to taste) fol-
milk; it gives a delicious flavor.-Dr
Foote's Health Monthly for April.
To CURE HAMs.-To 4 gallons o.
water add pounds of salt, 2 ounces
saltpeter, 2 ounces pearlash, quart o.
molasses. Boil the whole together un'
til the scum issdone rising; skim well
and when it is cold pour over the hams
which should be packed as close as pos
sible. After remaining in the pickle
from four to six weeks according t.
the size of hams) the hams can b
smoked. After smoking put in thu
pickle to keep from the flies. The mea
must not be frozen when put in tn
pickle.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-05-08

ironing, and singing with all my might.
When stopped, man at the window
clapped his hands, and said, 'Ah, little
girl, you sing like Bird sand who
are vou?' I asked. well, I'm Helmes-
berger. I'm the musical director from
Vienna. I'm going to give some con.
certs here in the village, and when get
through in Kaschau Pm going back to
Vienna; and if you want to 60 with me,
I'll take you, he added. Them" said
Madame Gerster, laughing, al remem'
Der how they fixed me up. Father was
to pay for my tuition, and mother was
to keep me in clothes. remember how
cried and laughed and sang all the way
to Vienna"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-05-08
Mistakes by Travellers.

One of the first lessons to be learned
in travelling is to place no confidence in
the supposed ignorance of the people
you meet. 1t is the most natural thing
in the world to talk freely and care
lessly in English when surrounded by
foreigners, and one rarely appreciates
how general is the knowledge of the
principal modern languages all over
Europe until he has been Inundated at
least once by the discovery that what
ever he may say in any language and at
any place is quite sure to be understood
by some one present. Very amusing in
stances are related of mistakes in esti-
mating the character of fellow travellers,
and the latest which has come to my
ears is concer ming the poet Longfellow,
who, it is well known, is often claimed
to be an Englishman. The story goes
that Ernest Longfellow, the son of the
poet, met in railway train in Italy an
agreeable and apparently well informed
Englishman, with whom he had an en-
tertaining discussion on the merits of
the English poets as compared with the
Americans. The Englishman calmly
counted Longfellow in the list of his
countrymen, and was much disturbed
at the positive assertion of his young
fellow-traveler that the poet was Ameri-
can. Both supported their opinions
with the assurance of unquestionable
knowledge, and the discussion only ter
minated when at last the young Ameri-
can produced his card and announced
that, as he was the son of the poet, he
might be supposed to know his nation
atty. One hears so often scraps of
English, evidently not intended for gen.
eral understanding, that at last the
sound of the language in foreign
country gives him almost the same i'm
preston as it does to find himself an
involuntary eavesdroper. For my own
part, when l hear English, am always
tempted to stop my ears.-Paris Letter
Philadelphia Times.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-05-08
Madame GerSter'S GirlhOOd.

Madame Gerster is said to have COM
municated to gentleman of the press
the following interesting incidents of
her youth: "My father was carpen-
ter in Kaschau. I used to go to school
and work at home. I sang about my
daily work, as a bird sings, because my
heart was full of joy and music. Some
times poorer people stood in front of the
window. | thought that it was great
compliment, and | would sing just as
well as / could. Well, one day when
father was out to work and mother was
away at the market, felt very happy.
! was just twelve years old then, was
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-05-08
USEFUL AND SCIENTIFIC.

SMOKE is not, as many persons imag-
inc, lighter than air; it is, however,
carried up by the heated air, which, be-
ing lighter than the surrounding atmos-
phere, is pressed upward. Smoke as
cends because it is intermixed with
vapors, gases, and warm air.
PAINT often blisters from heat, be-
cause the heat penetrating through the
paint extracts some little moisture from
the wood and turns it into vapor or
steam. As this vapor requires room, it
throws up blisters in the paint to make
room for its expanded bulk.
LUcIFER matches will not ignite if
they are damp, because the cold pro-
duced by the evaporation of water neu-
tralizes- the heat produced by the fric-
ton of the match across q rough sur
face. Again, the damp prevents the
free accession Of oxygen to the match,
without which it can not burn.
ALL spiders are furnished, at the ex-
tremity Of their body, with four or six
teatrlike protuberances or spinners.
Each of these protuberances is furnish
ed with a multitude of tubes, and from
thread. These threads again unite and
form the one we see used by the spider
in weaving his web.
Two German men of science who are
about to set out from Zanzibar to ex-
plore the Dana River, which reaches the
coast considerably north of that port.
will communicate with the outside world
during their absence by means of carrier
pigeons. If possible, these travellers,
DIR. G. A. Fischer and a. Denherdt, will
make their way into the equatorial lake
countries.
Mr.. NORDLINGER of Stuttgart has in
vented and patented process by which
hop stems can be made the source OF
fiber almost equal to fax. The stems
and other parts of the plant are boiled
in water, to which soap has been added,
for three-quarters of an hour, thorough
ly washed, and then again boiled in very
dilute acetic acid The fibers are now
washed free and dried, and when prop.
erly combed can be worked like other
textile materials.
ATTENTION is called by Mr.. w. Kent
in an article on the Strength of Ma
terials,n in Van Nostraad's Magazine
to the important practical fact that the
process Of COMPRISING metal while in
the liquid condition has been found tx
cause great increase of strength, an(
it is likely to be extensively adopted il
the manufacture of steel. The process
of cold-rolling has been found to in
crense the strength of bar iron in SOM
cases as much as 100 per cent.
The London Graphic gives an &C
count of an instrument used at the Kew
and Oxford observatories which regis
tiers the amount of sunlight during an,
given time. The heliograph, as it
called, consists of solid glass glob
four inches in diameter, which forms
spherical lens. A slip of cardboard i
so placed that when the sun shines it
rays are concentrated upon the card
board and burn q continuous line. Tn
cardboard slip is marked with line
showing the hour. Should the sun
obscured by clouds there will be blanl
which can be exactly measured.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-05-08
The P0mp Of Death.

Take away the DISCUSSES and solemn
bugbears, and the actings by candle
light and fantastic ceremonies, the wom-
en- and the weepers, the swoonings and
the shrinkings, the dark room and the
ministers, the kindred and the watches,
and then to die is easy, ready and quit
ted from its troublesome circumstances.
At the same time in which you die, in
that very night, thousand creatures
die with you; some wise men and many
fools, and the wisdom of the first will
not quiet him, and the folly of the latter
does not make him unable to die.
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Waiting for the Good Time Coming

"Gem'len," said Brother Gardner as
Waydown Bebee finished breaking out
a pane of glass with his elbow, " it hez
panied me to obsarve on various occa-
sions dat de Guild populashun of dis
kentry am ON de wait. Dey am given
to sittin' down in de house or on de
fence an waitin' for de good time
comm. l war ober to see de ole man
Penny las night. He ar on de wait.
He's bin waitin' for de last fifty Vars,
an de good time hain't got long yit.
I found him wild de raggest sort o.
clothes on ye cher seed, pockets empty,
wood gone an -four out, an de way he
looked up at me as I walked in was
huff to bring on chill. All de odder
folks aroun' had work an plenty to eat,
but de Gle man was waitin' fur some
body to com long an take him out to
hunt a job in keeridge an pay him fo'
dollars day. He amt de only man
round heah who am waitin', stead OF
gwine out an lookin' for work. I tell
you dis big world doan' car a copper
wedder sech men starve to death or
not. De world owes nobody muffin. De
man dat 'spects to git long 'aa hev sun
thin to eat an place to live hez got to
bounce aroun' an let de world under.
STAN dat he's on de git, If any well
man, no matter what de cutler, walks
dis town wild an empty stomach it am
his own fault, an hain't gwine to fill
it fur him. Now let de purceedins pur-
coed. "-Detr0I Free Press.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-05-08
He Had a Good Time.

When Peter Koven came down from
the North with his sachel over his
shoulder, his face was clean, his con-
science at rest and his clothes passably
good. When he stood before the bar OF
Justice yesterday his eyes were bunged
up, his nose flattened out, and but for
rents and holes in his clothes they
wouldn't have been worth looking at.
az hear" said Peter to an officer at
the depot, "that this is great town fer
fun. I will tarry here and have good
time"
At II O'Clock that night he was found
in an alley, jammed head first into a
barrel and his money gone, and when
they took him to the station for being
noisy drunk, he wanted to die.
"Peter, did You have funp" kindly
inquired his Honor.
"Don't say any thing-don't say any
thing!" pleaded Peter in whispers.
Peter, it has been written that the
hardest task in the world is for wise
man to keep from making fool of him.
self on occasions. and perhaps you are
not 50 much to blame, but those who
dance must pay the piper, you know
"And didn't t pay?" whispered Petel
as he looked down at himself.
eyes, think so. Now 60 and gel
your sachel where you left it, set YOU
face towards Canada, and march along
You won't want any more fun unit
bumblebee time, and that's eighteen
months ahead by the feel of the weather
this morning"
Peter went. If he had had any coat
tails to wave they'd have waved glat
farewell to Detroit, as he whirled thu
| corner.-DetrOtt Free Press,
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The Physical Paradox.

It has been said that "the blood is the
source of life." It's as truly the source of
disease and death. No life, that is to say, no
blood, no organ OF the body can normally per-
form its functions when supplied with impure
blood. The fluid that should carry life and
health to every part, carries only weakness
and disease. Blood is the source of life, only
when 1t is pure. II it has become diseased, it
must be cleansed by proper medication, else
every pusation of the human heart sends a
wave OF disease through the system. To
cleanse the blood of all impurities, use DIR.
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and Pleas
ant Purgatiye Pellets, the most effectual al
terativc, tonic and cathartic remedies yet dis
covered. They are especially Efficient in scrofu-
Lus diseases
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An Antidote which will cure every va
riety of Ague, Fever and Ague, and Chilis
and Fever, and leave no bad trace or disor-
der in the system, has been discovered by
one of Americas greatest Chemists. This
preparation or principle Is known by the
name of CLIFFORD'S FKBRIFUGE. Being
entirely free from minerals or other deleteri-
GUS materials, it accomplishes its work with
out being in the least harmful to the system.
Entering the blood, 1t disinfects and elimi-
mates ali the poisonous miasm or malaria,
and thus accomplishes . sure cure.
j. G. RIcHARDsoN, Prop'r,
For sale by all Druggists. st. Louis.
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pRor. EDWARD Fosr1NE told a Balti.

PROF. EDWARD FONTINE told Balti-
more audience the other night that
many of the common Impressions about
Patrick Henry are all wrong. The ora
tor was not iliterate but had received
an excellent classical education from
his uncle. The popular idea that the
oratorical efforts of Henry were I'M
studied was also erroneous, for his
speeches were carefully elaborated, and
the lecturer furnished evidence to show
that some of them had been committed
to memory.
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Quit brooding over your troubles,
misfortunes and losses. A brave man,
with soul in him worth anything,
gets out of such pitiful ruts and laughs
at discouragements-rolls up his
sleeves, whistles and sings, and makes
the best of life. This earth is not Par
adise-you are only on the road there,
if you take the right direction.
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I'm swimming down the river, Paul
Boyton should be attended by directors
who will see that he makes no runs on
the banks.-New Orleans Picaya,se.
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ALL who have used NATIONAL. YEAST say Il
Is the best, and always reliable. II you have
never used 1t, give 1t trial.
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We desire to make 1t known far and wlde that our
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We send 100 Labels, stamped With your name and
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The Hartford herald., 1879-06-11
Tobacco Market.

Sales of Tobacco at the Louisville To-
bacco Warehouse for the week ending
June 9TH ls79-240 hhds. divided as fol-
lows:
76 hhds. New Leaf, at 1925, 100, l6.
so, 1900, 1850, 1915, 1880, 1910, ll.25,
1000, 900, $50, $40, $40, 10, 100, :.
20, 7.S0, 40, $50, 600, 600, 5.45, $50,
4.95, 4.65, 4.s5, ABS, sos, $50, 400, 7.6o,
500, 4.sO, 600, $50, $40, $40, 600, 4.O5,
$50, $50, $40, 6.lO, 700, SIS, 40, $50,
5.6a $3.50, 4.75, 6.6O, 4.75, sos, $50, 6.7O,
$40, 600, 4.O5, $50, $50, $40, Clio, 100,
5.s5, 40, $50, 500, $50, 4.75, sos, ESQ,
500, 6.lO, 4.65, 400, $40, $50, $50, 4.sO,
5.O5, 4.sO, 80, 5.25, AGO, $50, 4.95, 4.15,
5.25, 4.35, $50, 800, 5.25, $40.
SO hhds. New Lugs at 40, $50, $50,
1856, 3.O5, 800, $40, $50, 2.4O, $40, 24O,
2.9O, 2.45, S.95, go, $50, 300, go, $50,
800, $40, $40, 3.35, 3.15, $50, S.45, 2.25,
2.35, $50, 2.15, 2.O5, 3.15, 2.6O, 2.35, 2.55,
S.65, $50, S.l5, 800, 3.45, 2.6O, 2.2O, 2.1O,
$40, 2.95, $40, 3.95, 2.4O, 3.e5, 9.35, 2.4O,
2.25, $40, 2.60, 30, 2.35, 80, 3.45,
Sc hhds. Old Leaf at 80, $50, 6.10,
6.2O, $50, 600, $50, 4.75, $50, 5.25, 5.95,
4.O5, $50, 5.S5, 800, 800, $50, 4.65, 800,
go, $50, 80, 4.65, 5.O5, $50, 5.35f 80
400, 5.I5, 4.iO, 5.s5, 4.75, 400, go, $50,
400, $40, so, $40, so, 500, $40, 4.S5
800, $40, 4.S5, 5.I5, $50. fIst
40 hhds Old Lugs at $50, $50, S.55, 3
10, $40, $40, 2.75, 2.6o, 2.65, go, 2.75
$50, 800, 2.s5, 2.75, 800, 295, go, 2.65,
400, $40, l.s0, 200, 2.35, 2.4O, 800, 1915
2.s5, 3.55, 2.45, 30, 235, $50, $50, $50
S.s5, 2.75, S.s5, $40, 3.s5, 2.s5, 2.3O, 2.6O
go, 2.90, S.25.
The receipts and sales of this week
have been the largest of the season
prices have been very well sustained in
the main; old medium leaf was shade
easier toward the close of the week
The other grades remained firm. Con,
siderable tobacco is being put ON the
market i'll bad condition and of course
does not command full figures. Care
should be taken to prize in good order.
The sales for the week 1915 hhds
Sales since June LIST 2, sos hhds. Re
ceipts this week 1870 hhds.
Yours truly,
SHERLEY x GLOVER.
The Hartford herald., 1879-06-11
SUNDAY SCHOOL IN
PAPERS, "
BOOKS, REWARD CARDS, etc.
Are needed in every we'll conducted school.
Send for samples and price list To
CAPERTON & Gates,
~ ll9 Fourh St, Louisville. ky


Horace Taylor, son of Blackstone and
Elizabeth Taylor, was born in Ohio coun-
ty Nov. 9ith, 1892, and departed this life
in Bandcra county, Texas.
The subject of this notice cmigrated
to Western Missouri in early manhood,
where he continued in prosperous busi-
ness until the breaking Out of the late
war. He entered the Confederate service
and followed its fortunes until peace was
made, after which ne came back to the
home of his boyhOod and remained for
several years, filling, for Il length of
time, the position of Deputy Sheriff of
Ohio county. His health falling him,
he went - TeXas, and was married in
that State 70 Miss Mollie Henry, April
20 1874, who, with two little children,
Leila and Byron, is left TO mourn his de
parture. Many hearts i'm Kentucky
were made sad when the news of the
death of Horace Taylor came from the
flr-of Lone Star State. As youth he
was noted for his nobility of character,
and for his high personal bearing. In
his more mature years, during his So
iourn i'm this State, hewon the love and
admiration of all who knew him. II
was the fortune of the writer TO follow
him i'm the Deputy SherilIship, and he
well remembers the many expressions
of .n,,n,.n.nti, inn anI .npfiI.psa snn,-
ing from persons of every class, in re-
gard to Horace Taylor. He was an
honest, noble man." universally came
from the lips Of those with whom he
had associated, and transacted business.
have thought never knew a trucr
man, warmer friend, noblcr speci-
men of manhood. Brave generous,
kind, sympathetic and tender, fixed i'm
purpose, firm in principle and unswerv-
ing 10 what he thought was right He
scorncd little act and pandercd not To
those who would compromise principle.
But his career is ended; his soiourn
ON earth is done. His body rests quiet
ly inthc Bandera cemetery, but his spirit
we trust, is in the 'rcalms of the blest."
His bereaved widow and children in
Texas have the warmest sympathy of
his numerous friends and acqmintances
here.
Peace 10 his memory"
Beaver Dam, June 3, 20.
The Hartford herald., 1879-06-11
Graduated.

Miss Lizzie Walker, daughter of our
distinguished fellow citizen, Hon. f. ID.
Walker, graduated at Lynnland Insti-
tute on Thursday of last week. She
read an essay on the occasion, that we
learn from those present, did her great
credit. She received the gold
medal the only one awarded for
superior scholarship and faultless deport-
ment. Miss Lizzie is n combination of
beauty, intellect, goodness of heart and
sweetness of disposition rarely, if ever,
met with. May. all her bright dreams
and fanciful visions of happiness that
her imagination brought TO view in the
vista of the future on that, her COM
mencement day, he fully realized, is the
wish of her numerous friends.
The Hartford herald., 1879-06-11
Somebody's child.

Somebody's child is dying-dying
with the flush of hope ON his young face
and an indescribable yearning to live
and take an honored place in the world
beside the companions of his youth
And somebody's mother is thinking OF
the time when that dear face will be
hidden where no ray of hope can
brighten it-when her heart and home
Will be left dcsolate-because there was
no cure for consumption. Reader, il
the child he your neighbor's, take this
comforting word to the mothers heart
bg0rc II Is too tate. Tell her that con-
sumption is durable, that men are liv-
ing to-day, aged, robust men, whom the
physicians pronounced incurable at the
age of twenty-five, because one hmg
had been almost destroyed 6y the dis
ease. DIR. Picrce's Golden Medical Dis
cOvery is most efficient Alternative for
separating the scrOfulous matter from
the blood and lungs, and imparting
strength to the system. Ii has cured
hundreds of fconsumptives.