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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-02-19
How Stuart Finished a Picture,

The late Henry Shaw (the father of
"Josh Billings'O of Lanesboro, when a
young lawyer in New York City, was
very intimate with Gilbert Stuart and
used to pass much time with him.
Those who were acquainted with Mr..
Shaw can easily imagine how a gentle
man with the painters gifts would be-
come attached to Mr.. Shaw, who was
man of rare genius and one of the most
accomplished and fascinating converse
tionists that this or any other country
ever produced. Stuart painted the por-
trait OF a lady in New York who was
fussy, critical, over-exacting and nice to
degree that tried in the extreme his
rather excitable temperament. The
portrait was changed again and again,
the shade of the hair, the color Of the
eyes, the expression of the mouth, the
pose of the head, the arrangements of
the drapery, etc., were repeatedly al
tered at the suggestion of the lady. One
day Madam came in with several
friends to see the portrait, and as usual
she began to criticise, and said, 81 do
not think, Mr.. Stuart, you have given my
eyes the right expression The pa
thence of the artist was exhausted, he
could endure no more. Walking up to
the portrait and drawing back his fist he
thrust it through the canvas, and ex-
claimed, in plain, blunt but vigorous
Anglo-Saxon, ssMadam, - your
eyes!" Throwing the canvas aside
the portrait was finished. He had given
it the last touch.-New York Tribune.
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AFTERGLOW.

Grandmother PAGES with stately tread
Forward and back through the quaint old
room,
Out of the freight dancing and red,
Into the gathering dusk and gloom,
Forward and back, in her silken dress
With its falling RULES of frost like lace;
A look of the deepest tenderness
In the faded lines of her fine old face.
Warm on her breast I'm his red night gown
Like scarlet lily the baby lies,
While softly the tired lids droop down
over the little sleepy eyes.
Grandmother sings 10 him sweet and low,
And memories come with the cradle song
OF the days when she sang it long ago,
When her life was young and her heart was
strong.
GrandmotheI's children have left her now;
The large old house is a Swallowed place;
But shining out in the sunset glow
OF her life, like n star, comes the baby's
face.
lie lies where of old his father lay;
Softly she sings him the same sweet strain !;
Till the years intervening are swept away,
And the JOY of life's morning is hers again.
GrandmOther's gray head is bending low
Over the dear little dOwny one;
The steps of her pathway are few to go;
SThe baby's Journey is just begun.
Yet the rosy dawn of his childish love
Brightens the evening that else were dim,
And in after years, from the home above,
The light of her blessing will rest on him.
-CdrOlfae Leslie, in Christian Union.
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/" ACCEPTED And WILL APPEAR

One evening while reclining
In my easy chair, repining
Over the lack of true religion and the dearth
of common sense,
A solemn visaged lady,
Who was surely on the shady
Side of thirty, entered proudly and to crush
me did commence:
sent poem here, sir,''
Said the lady, growing fiercer,
And the subject which I'd chosen, you re-
member sir, was spring.
But although I've scanned your paper,
Sir, by sunlight gas and taper,
I've discovered of that poem not solitary
thing"
She was muscular and why,
And her temper sure was fiery,
And knew to pacify her would have tO-fib
like fun.
b. So told her that her verses,
Which were great had come to-bless us,
Wed received Just sixty two on "spring," of
which we'd printed one.
And added we've decided
That they'd better be divided
Among the years that follow-one to each sue
ceeding spring.
So your work, Pm pleased to mention,
Will receive our best attention
In the years of nineteen-forty when the birds
begin to sing.
"A. N. Dett, IN Big Lick Va.) Neaos.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-02-19
Not a Panorama.

An old man with a sachel and cane
yesterday stood in front of the Detroit
Opera House for long half-hour, sur
veying the building with curious eve,
and he finally entered, walked up to the
box-office and asked:
What's the regular price to 90 imp"
Well, about six shillings,' answered
Shaw.
g Ill give you ten cents!"
The Treasurer hesitated for while.
but finally took the money and told him
to 60 up. The old man went upstairs
to find every thing dark and deserted.
He took seat, fixed his gaze on the
drop-curtain and didn't get tired out
for about half an hour. Then he
walked downstairs with slow and dig
nified step, put his head into the box
Office and said:
If you call that a panorama then
you don't know what a panorama is,
and if folks come along and paw six
shillings to see it, there's heap of fools
IN this country! Good dayI'- Detroit
Free Press.
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l5
IF the accounts from central and
southern Russia are to be believed, the
corn beetle, which may be ranked as
first cousin to the Colorado potato
beetle, has been committing fearful raw
ages there, displaying healthiness of
appetite which bodies i'll for the future
agricultural prosperity of that region.
The pest has been spreading ever since
1866, and the damage wrought last year
in the districts of Puitown, Ekaterinos-
lay, Saratoff, Kherson, and the prov
inces of the Don was equal to II, 100 600
roubles. Neglect and idleness have al
lowed the destroyer to multiply so fast
that it will be very difficult now to check
him. Wherever the ground has been
dug up, enormous quantities of chrysa-
ides have been found, which in spring,
will turn into beetles.
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SEASONABLE RECIPES.

GOOD COFFEE.-Take one egg, one
cup of white sugar; stir together to a
froth; have your coffee cups previously
well warmed; put two teaspoonfuls Of
this in each cup; pour coffee in boiling
hot; stir thoroughly and add thick
cream.
GINGER COOKIEs.-One cup sugar,
one of New Orleans molasses, one cup
shortening butter is the best, but if
very salty should be previously melted
and drained off-one tablespoonful gin
ger, one even teaspoonful of alum, two
of soda, each to be dissolved in three
tablespoonful of boiling water. Stir
the whole together as thick as possible
with spoon before adding the alum !;
mix as soft as possible to roll out; bake
quick. JOB
BOILED RIcE.-Make a beg three
fingers long, dip in hot water and put
in your rice; tie, leaving room for the
rice to swell; put in pot with cold wa
ter; let come to boil (put salt in the
water); cook from half to three-quar-
tiers of an hour. When done, it will
turn out dry like mold. Serve with
milk or butter and sugar. Turn the bag
often to keep it from sticking to the pot !;
it is well to put sauce-plate in the bot
tom to prevent its burning.
COCoANUT CAKE.-Three eggs 1.-THE
whites of two of them to be used for
frosting), two-thirds of cup of sugar,
two-thirds of cup of sweet milk, one
and two-thirds cups of flour, one tea
spoonful Of cream of tartar and half
teaspoonful of soda. Bake in thin round
tins; make frosting of the whites Of
the two eggs, well beaten, with four
dessert-spoonfuls of white sugar; spread
on the top of the cakes and sprinkle the
grated cocoanut with the frosting.
OYSTER OMELET.-Twelveo oysters, if
large, double the number if small; six
eggs, one cup of milk, one tablespoonful
of butter, chopped parsley, salt and
pepper; chop the oysters very fine; beat
the yelks and whites of the eggs sepa-
rately, as for nice cake, the white until
it stands in heap. Put three table,
spoonfuls of butter in a frying pan, and
heat while mixing the omelet. Stir the
milk into deep dish, with the yelks
and seasoning. Next add the chopped
oysters, heating them well as you add
gradually. When thoroughly mixed
pour in melted butter, and finally whip
in the whites as lightly as possible.
Have the butter in the pan very hot, and
pour in the mixture. Do not stir it, but
when it begins to stiffen slip broad
bladed knife around the sides and eau
tiously under the omelet, that the butter
may reach every part. AS soon as the
center is fairly set, and the bottom
brown, turn out into hot dish. Lay
the dish bottom upward over the frying
pan, which must be turned upside down
dexterously. This brings the brown
side of the omelet uppermost. This is a
delicious breakfast or supper omelet.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-02-19

FATHER O'HAIRE, Roman Catholic
priest who has been II years mission
ary in South Africa, is now in England
with the view of establishing an Irish
colony in the north of the Transvaal.
About u months ago Protestant gen
ueman being in Natal offered him 1000
acres of land in the Transvaal for the
purposes of Catholic mission. He
takes out with him on his return con-
siderable number of tradespeople and 20
,r 80 families in order to establish a
white colony. Father O'Haire describes
the Zulus as standing in physical and in
tellectual capacity supreme among the
savages Of the earth, and believes that
they may be highly civilized. a
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To Mr.. Howells we are indebted for
some very charming works of fiction.
OF course the hero is always cultured
Boston man, but then we get used to
that, and there is little doubt that if the
talented editor of the atlantic MONTHLY
were to leave out the somewhat excess
sively nice and thoroughly proper Bos
tonian, there would be universal feel
ing of disappointment among the read
ers of Mr.. Howells's works. Besides it
is pleasant to meet an old acquaintance
often and SO we would not for any thing
sacrifice our rather tired-out, blase man
of the Hub. But there is one thing that
Mr.. Howells might improve ON, especial
~ as he lives in Massachusetts. Mr.. II.
always labors under a disadvantage on
account of a lack of women. This in
variably brings disappointment to the
heart OF one OF the perfect young Bosto-
mans. For instance, in "a Foregone
Conclusion there is only one yonug
lady, while there are two adorers. The
same deplorable state of affairs exists in
6 Private Theatricals.' Inss The Lady
of Aroostook" the same lack of lovely
woman in sufficient quantity causes one
young man to find an early grave.
g The Undiscovered Country is Mr..
Howells's latest effort and it is now run
ming in the Atlantic Monthly, and here
we have to start out without sufficient
provisions for the voyage, as it were, for
there are the usual two men and only the
one lone woman. Late statistics show
that there are some 10000 more women
than men in Massachusetts. With such
an abundant supply to draw on, Mr..
Howells might at least let us have a
couple of nice girls in each book If he
would take the precaution to provide
himself with a good supply of young
women at the beginning Of book it
would save him infinite trouble towards
the end. If he found at the closing
chapters that he had too many on hand
he could easily send them West, or
marry them of, or make woman's rights
women of them. Detroit Free Press.
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AGRICULTURAL NOTES.

WARM seed, fresh water and good
house for poultry helps to ''shell out the
eggs
VARIOUS plants affect milk. Horse
radish has tendency to prevent coagu-
lation, while Canada thistle and wood
sorrel hasten it.
CALc1NED plaster is the best article
ever used to stop the bleeding of grape
vines. Put on the dry powder little
at time till the sap ceases to come
through it; it will take but a few min
utes, and can be bought of any marble
worker.
E. j. CoBLE writes to the Indiana
Farmer that he has sold in eight months.
from two cows, 537 pounds of butter,
besides the amount used in his family
This is good yield, but the amount of
money received, $3.50, does not show
profitable business.
w. A. ARMSTRONG, of the Elmira On
" Farmers Club, remarks that as a
rule it is better to sell what are called
finished products-those into which the
raw products are transformed--than to
carry off the grain, hay and other coarse
fodder, where the object is to maintain
cheese can be kept up with profit much
longer than the sale of the grass, hay
and grain that enter into these products.
In the one case there are annual stores
of manure to put back on the land, but
in the other there is nothing to compen-
safe the loss of fertility inseparable from
plant growth.
In recent number of the husband
men VIM. H. Van Sickle speaks of his
experience in drilling corn, saying: 81
have drilled corn for a number of years,
and find that it yields better than
when planted, if not drilled too
thick. l drilled from 10 to 20 acres
last spring on good ground, pastured
last year; one half acre, or nearly an
acre, | MANFRED. One man drilled all,
think, in day and half, and drilled
plaster with the corn. One attended it.
Two men husked it all except five days.
work. The crop was about 2,4OO
bushels of ears; it was common thing
to find three or four ears on stalk, and
several stalks were found with five ears
each"
SAVE! SAVE! SAVE! the often vast
ed fertility. The farmers savings bank
is the compost heap, and it never fails,
as do the savings banks of cities. The
sign on its doors is, Railways open for
deposits or drafts'' Fallen leaves, dead
animals, slops from the house often lost
in the drain, dry muck, the urine of the
stables, night soil, turf, leaves from
hedge rows, are all matter for deposit
in the compost heap which passes them
through its laboratory, and converts
them into what is as good as ready
money for use in the field and garden.
All of these hould-be-deposits are often
wasted, and the farmer in place of them
spends his hard income for chem
ical fertilizers, which are well enough
in their place, but not economical until
all the home resources are exhausted
Land and Hoy,ap
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Tom, and there might be such a thing

Tom, and there might be such thing
as Baby being unwelcome.
Years passed, and Ivah-well, when
she saw clearly that Tom could do with
out his sister, she went to help certain
young lawyer, who declared that he
could not do without her. And "Baby"
is Ivah's baby yet, for her two strong
boys who came to her in her happiness
and prosperity, can never displace her
mothers baby, with whom Ivah learned
to bear the cross, whose pathetic cry
called her into the sacred path of Duty,
which leadeth toward the sun-rising.-
Sarah Winter Kellogg, in the Youths
Communion.
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Mr.. OLIVER DALRYNPLE, tne
Minnesota farmer, intends % - N
so, 900 acres of wheat this 80
will have 20 steam tbrashers y ~
tons with 100 reapiDg .mac nm. 49,. p
year he employed 600 lspoI, ,,Ssr I
this year viii increase the NUM-
700. .ss*ss,
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-Snoods-simple ribbons 49,
through the hair, and knoftea - s IN
with pendant ends--are reylyesa ~. y
are in the richest Oriental oon s.;sss a
finished at the end With gola r''
tasSels.
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SEvENTY-FoUR streets were added to
London last year,
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AAO TioHCu WOuel nave Such a
knack of making things look their best,
and you have such taste, Marie, that it
would be a real favor to me if you would
see to the setting of the table, Ivah
said, with her prettiest manner, which
was very pretty indeed.
So Marie, her skill and self esteem
battered, went to the dining-room, and
did her best at spreading the table, and
lvah praised the result By some SINH
lar faaesse Marie was induced to take
charge of the ladies' parlors. Then
Ivah beguiled Marie, who was naturally
good-natured, to learn cake-bakine.
Marie became positively infatuated with
the work, and every morning, right
after breakfast, she would 90 to the
kitchen and make the cakes for the fol-
lowing day. Time which belonged to
her own affairs and to Baby, Ivah gave
to attending Marie to lectures and con-
eerts and other amusements less dissi-
pating than the theater.
10 tell how Ivah's work for Marie
was done, would be to tell a long and
wonderful story of patient, persistent,
Watchful, adroit devotion, under MANY
trying circumstances.
In the midst of the training, Ivah was
asked to become the wife of a man
whom she much esteemed, and towards
whom her heart had long been tending.
de was talented young lawyer, well
started upon promising practice. 1t
was very enticing to the girl-for Ivah
was not yet 21-the thought of quiet
home where she could get away from
people and have rest, cherished and
cared for-she who had been always
caring for others.
But she dared not let 60 Of Marie and
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1880-03-15

Friday night . burglar entered a front
room Of the house Of Michael Pinsslly,
in the rear Of the wsshos Brewery, be-
tween A and Howard streets, Virginia;
and stole $l47. Mr.. Pingelly and bis
family were In o rear room at the time
and heard the thief but did not interfere
with him.
A couple Of chaps named Jas. Price
and Charles Dudley, pleaded guilty this
morning before Judge Moses OF disturb.
ing the peace. They resisted arrest and
fought all the police forcs, and Judge
Moses set 8 P. N. for sentence.
Owing to the recent heavy fall OF snow
in Cono, the work Of sinking a shaft on
the Center claim has not yet been com.
meuoed.
All tho good land in Mason Valley Is
taken up. Government land. unim.
proved, IL held at 81 an acre and above.
A new sidewalk has been laid from
the Hale & Norcross Office to the corner
OF Flowery street south.
Tho only copper mine now being
worked in Mason Valley is that belong.
ing to John Daniels.
The house OF James johnson, in the
lower end OF Mason Valley was destroyed
by FIRE last Tuesday.
Oscar Steel, Of Virginia, has been
charged with drawing and exhibiting q
deadly weapon.
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The ocean Gapping Q Fort.

ASTORIA, Oregon. March l3.-In con-
neotion with the loss Of the Dilbarrse,
the Astorian today says: Major Throck'
morton. commanding the post at Fort
Stevens, informs us that the erosions al
that point from snoroachments BY the
ocean are constant and rapidly incress.
ing, and he believes that Fort Stevens
will be totally washed away within
three years unless the government soon
adopts vigorous means Of preservation.
The Major says that strips Of earth rods
In length and width often disappear In q
twinkling, and so rapid and extensive
have been the srosions lately that only q
strip OF perhaps forty yards remains to
protect the Notifications, parade grounds
and earthworks from destruction.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1880-03-15

life is friehtful. The dead bodies lie
IN every direction, embedded 10 the snow
or on TOP Of It, and present . picture
Of desoiation as dismal a. u a
BLIGHT had fallen ON every living thing.
The few survivors are worn to skeletons.
and wander aimlsssly about In search Of
food, which In most cases they are an
able to obtain. Letters from the dis-
tricts named state that nearly oil the 1--we
stock will perish before spring. Inc
loss il estimated roughly ct 5 l,00o,0OO:
Scores OF stock raissrs will be reduced
from afflusncs to poverty. The snow
lies from three to Ave feet In depth, and
gives no evidence Of thaw. In the yicini.
ty OF Soda creek much Of the stock will
be saved, as the farmers have feed.
Mr.. Edwards. OF Kamloops. arrived here
yesterday. He confirms the report given
above. The Indians were losing their
bands Of horses. At Chillicothin, Har-
per will DO Q heavy sufferer, the snow
there being four feet deep, with . heavy
crust. The Royal City was bloeksded
In the ice since December. and escaped
by cutting her way out. She has sus.
tanned NO damage. The Reliance will
arrive here In Q day or two from the
scene OF the ice blockade.
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CalInruIn.

VIRGINIA. Crr. March IS. 1880. &C. y.
Gordo.. Secretary: During the past week
2i6 tons Of ore have been extracted. On
our $40 level west crosscut No. 2 Is now In
GO feet. and continues in . hard vein for
nation. On our 1900 level U west cross.
cut has been extended % feet through
very heavy vein material. requiring care
full timb-ring. On our 2l00 level the
excavation 10 completed and the upraise
started to connect with the level above.
On our 22Oe level the joint east consoli.
dated crosscut. on our southern boundary,
has been advanced 81 feet, and continues
in q favorable vein material with streaks
Of quartz; total length. lcO feet. On our
$500 level. owing to indications oil water
and the inability Of the Ophir pumps to
stand an increase. work has been tempor-
arily suspended in the south lateral drift.
The c. L @. shaft has been sunk and tim.
bered IS feet; total depth. 50 feet below
the 220O level. The bottom 10 in . vein
material showing some quartz.
W. II. PATTON, Supt.
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THE SUBJECTS


For fever and ague. and remittents, are the
debilitatsd, bilious and nervous. To such !.
sons Hostettsr's stomach Bitters afords .
quste protection from the malsriai py by
increasing vital stamina and the n fani
power Of the constitution. and By king
Irregularities Of the liver, stomach and wells.
which increase the danger 70 be spprehended
from pissma. Moreover. Il sradicates ma.
larial complaints Of an obstinate type. The
neld In which this ltsding family medicine has
achieved some Of Its most astonishing and
amply proven effects, 10 . very wide one. In
south America, Mexico. and across the seas. II
has given unmistakable evidences Of Its curs'
tive value. At home and abroad 10 has always
sustained It's high reputation. NOR has IL ever
been auected BY competition Of 90 called tonics
represented to possess kindred or equal efics-
cy. 1t stands alone. ~unequalsd among our
national remedies,
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DC. Pasrick's BaIl.

The grand ball Of the Emmett Guard,
Virginia, to be given in aid OF the sui.
fering people Of Ireland, next Wsdnes.
day night at National Guard Hall. will
give all a ane opportunity to enjoy
themselves and at the same time turn
th.ir enjoyment to good account. 1t Is
like dancing ones way along the road
to heaven. 1t IL something to have q
chance 10 dance food into the mouths Of
the hungry aud clothes upon the backs
OF tho naked and to relieve suffering
and distress by mirth and hilarity. Yet
the Emmet Guard offer their friends the
opportunity and ought to be thanked by
everybody for 1t, a. well a. literally pat.
ronized ON account Of Il. There is no
doubt but that all who car 60 will DO
there aud people ought to stretch q
point to get there.
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Patent Awitchcs.

New patent revolving switches are
being sot up by the Virginia & Truckss
Railroad Company. They are in the
form OF q hollow pillar Of cast iron,
down tho side Of which the abort lever
hangs when not in use, dropping into a
notch and preventing the switch from
being moved by acting as = latch.
Through the center OF the switch column
rises an iron rod supporting Q lantern.
This lantern Is square and makes me
fourth OF q revolution for each move.
ment OF the lever OF the switch. bringing
to the view OF the engineer Of the OF.
pected train q colored bullseys lamp
three inches In diameter. The glass il
Of different colors for tho different tracks,
and as far as no can see the light the
engineer can tell the exact position OF
the switch. Should o person attempt TO
wreck q train or interfere with or break
the lamp. the engineer would stop his
train, knowing that there was something
wrong. The switches are so constructed
that they can be locked after being prop.
erly set.