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has opened a Livery Stable in the
Town Of Abbeville, where he is
prepared to hire horses, car.
riages. hacks etc. and receive the
anne at very moderate prices.
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C%nltivators, Solid Steel Cultivation
Tsetl, and poinss, Wrought IRON Stsnd.
ard Clltivator Teeth and Points. Sayre q
Patert For q Roe, Shovel Plows. Shovel
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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-05-06
An Eccentric Female He,.s

In a little hut near Greenv;,.s 5
County, N. Y, lives q femaIs 0Irsas
): She ! has no visible means Of s,,ooa asn
it is surmised has little mo0 0appor b,
est, on the income of which 81. ~ inte.
to subsist; Her name is Ju liz S s.s,Sstdrs
she is said to have been born Il I n. I'd
For the seven years or morn thu y ssa'ga
lived in that vicinity she has , =. sle b.
particle OF fire in her house. Shs aad |,
stove, nor even a fireplace. wv = y
weather is very cold she lies i n h Dc
does all her necessary cooL;a oed &s
house of a neighbor, abont Y u
distant. She makes her hrs.a a1u niA
ring up flour and water and hsl, y 81
that condition. She is said = A,asg III
a beggar, but confines herself !. y !. quh
families in her immediate vicinity ,'e 4 "
ing the seven years she has IVY y De
present abode she has fatty rss.. y =, az
pay any taxes, and has escaped ' nv b
ment by barring her door ana ~ Pr
to let the collector or anybodv a ss.uslg
upon her. The neighbcrs tIr s,ss y
have her taken to the poor-hou usssa = .
cared for, but she persists in savi iru y. y
she is not pauper, that she res Ivy aa
help, and that she will mot ~ slls %
poor-house if she dies in resist;n ~ y, y as
hcers' She appears to have been = ~ Y,
educated. 'Oeu Eea
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-05-06

ulated to an unusual growth, laying the
foundation in the land for great benefit
to future crops. The roots run deep and
spread wide, rendering the soil, at their
decay, very porous. The air circulates
freely through the toughest clay, and
water finds its way among growing crops
that follow clover turned under by the
plow.. For hogs there is no better past
ure. A shoat that weighs fifty or sixty
pounds in the spring will, by the time
new corn is ripe enough to feed, weigh
from 200 pounds upwards, if kept during
the interval in clover, and may be fat
tened ready for market with very little
expense for corn
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-05-06
Clover as a Renovation.

A correspondent of the Chicago Tyrb.
"'ae, writing on this subject, says: Is. The
value OF clover as renovator of worn.
out soil, and as a pasture for grazing an.
lmals, is not yet properly understood by
the great body of Western farmers.
Won-out land, upon which clover has
grown a couple of seasons and then
plowed under, are made almost ms fertile
as ever. Those best posted practice
plowing-under the second year while the
plant is in blossom. On this blowing
fall wheat may be sowed, or the ground
fallowed for spring grain. For feeding
green, it is especially. valuable. TIE
Western Farm Journal says that to paw
the largest profit it should be used by
grazing animals; yet, for those so situa-
ted as to make it available in that way,
to cut and feed it in the manger in the
green state. the largest returns are OBJ
tanned. Directly, because the yield is
very large from given surface, espe-
cially valuable to milch-cows kept in the
stable or yard; and indirectly, becatise,
when cut in this way the roots are slim
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-05-06

tally. as well as the gentleness exhib-
tied in the treatment of domestic ami
mails. are no doubt partly applicable by
the conditions of Mongol existence, but
these virtues have been powerfully fos-
tered and developed to an unparalleled
degree by the mild and generous infu-
ence of Buddhism. The material con-
ditions of his nomad life have not
changed for two thousand years, and It
must be owing to the doctrines of
Guatama alone that the Russian tray
eler found it hard to recognize in the
Mongol of our day the ferocious Hun
who followed Attila, and the savage
Tartar of Genghis Khan.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-05-06
How q Physician Captured q Burglar
With . Paper Bag.

DR.. Thomas H. Andrews, well known
as the demonstrator of anatomy at JET.
ferson College, returned to his home, No
LIZ Spruce street, about one O'Clock
Thursday morning. He was about re.
firing when he heard noise down stairs.
and going to the head of the stairway he
discovered the figure of man moving
about the parlor. The Doctor, having
no revolver, was nonplussed for the mo.
ment how to brighten the burglar, if not
capture him, but noticing a small paper
bag ON stand he blew it up and ciinch-
ing 1t at the top cautiously made his way
down stairs. When near the bottom 81
the stairs he saw the man coming from
the parlor. The Doctor brought the bao
down on the railing and it exploded with
q deafening report. The burglar tum-
bled over on the floor in fright. and in
81; an instant DR.. Andrews was upon him.
The man begged the Doctor to have
mercy upon him, and said he was shot.
The noise of the encounter awakened
the inmates of the house, and q servant
was dispatched for an officer. The
frightened burglar continued to beg for
mercy, saying that he had a wife and
several children. He said his name was
george Campbell; he was . bookkeeper
ana lived in Camden. After a short
struggle the burglar succeeded in MAX
ing nls escape. On examining the par
ior subscription book was found, con-
tanning about dozen names, for an edi-
non OF Shakespeare, of which a sample
copy was left: 1t is thought that the
burglar called to see the Doctor in the
afternoon, and not finding him in, he hid
himself until the family retired, when he
began his search for valuables. The the
DRY IS borne out by the fact that the serv-
ant oid leave man in the Office in the
aIternoon, who said he would wait for
tne Doctor, and he was not seen to leave.
Press. o''o 9
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-05-06

COMPARATIVELY few buffalo have ranged
during the past year north Of the boundary
between the United States and Canada, and
before very long the animal Will be extinct
In 1877 some $1,000 robes were gathered AZ
Fort Macleod. and . large number at Fort
Walsh. In 1873 the number was II, 797 At the
former and 16, 607 ut the latter place; while
last year only 5, 764 came in at Fort Macleod
and S,277 to Fort Walsh. This will, in . great
measure, explain Indian poverty and suffer-
ing.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-05-06
Frank Doll. a f;ve-ve.r-oId -.

uIrErank Doll, . five-year-old bow Of
Mcnean County, Pa, was amusing him
sen with some matches and an old DOW
DER keg, the other day, in the unner
room OF his home. There was lust enough
powder left in the key to blow the root
o. inc house of and mangle the bow 20
that be died in short time.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-05-06

The late Isaac Butt, lawyer and then men,
Der OF Parliament, was going home late one
looking ruffian in one of the suburbs OF Duh
lin, and asked what he was going to stand.
well, replied Mr.. Butt, meekly, "I'm yery
sorry that can't give you much, my friend.
but what have we will share. Here. he
continued, drawing revolver from his
pocket, lie weapon which has six chambers.
will give you three, and But here the
lawyer found himself alone.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-05-06

The beautiful hill of Posilippo, near
Naples, Italy, on which is situated Vir-
girs tomb, Is soon to be tunneled for a
railway.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-05-06

MRS. FRANCES HoDGsoN BURNETT
looks wonderfully young matron to
have attained international fame. One
would pronounce her scarcely thirty.
She is rather low in stature and well
proportioned. To a fresh English color
she adds an American softness and del
icacy of expression. She has lumi
nous brow neyes, and is fair. with rich
auburn brown hair and finely cut feat
ures. She dresses often in black satin,
with pulled sleeves and skirt, and vel
vet vest, finished at the neck with a
ruche ct black lace and bunch of vio-
lets at the throat. Her beautiful hands
look innocent of pen-and-ink labors.
They are housewifely, maternal hands.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-05-06

In the Chinese army thirty men beat
tomtoms for every hundred men who
fight. No Chinaman can fight without
a big noise around him to stiffen his
spine.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-05-06

THE Russian Government make the nm.
pleasant discovery that, while for years past
the private sales of gunpowder throughout
the empire have not exceeded 700, 600 roubles.
n 1917 the returns reached LOCO, 900 roubles.
The increase Is attributed to Nihilist nnr.
chases.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-05-06

A WOMAN stung 10 the nearest approach to
perpetual motion.-Keokuk Consttston,
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-05-06

Ii your lamp is heavy bit of long, narrow
paper will make . lamp lighter
Isdependest.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-05-06

On! the Spring, the beautiful Spring.
OF all the four seasons the cussedeef thfnr.
Over the housetOps 1t whistles and rolls.
Over the people and telegraph-poles,
Raining,
Thrashing around,
Filling the eyes full OF pulverized rroundi
beautiful SPRING. with Its opening buds.
House-cieaning troubles, torn carpets and
Oil give US one crack at the people who sing
The metrical glories Of beautiful Spring.
Chicago TrIbune.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-05-06
Queries About COrnstalks.

1t seems to ne to be fact that Orn
stalks, grown under favorable cOndi-
tions, and cut at the right stage, are
eaten green by well-fed stock with as
keen a relish as any of the grasses or
small grains are while green. 1t is
also fact that l have never been
able to dry the cornstalks so that stock
would eat them clean with the same
relish as they do dried grass. My cows
have told me time and again, by their
actions. that dry cornstalks, after they
have picked the leaves off, are of no
more use to them than nutshells are to
me after have picked the meats out.
Why is there this difference between
green and dry cornstalks? When
green, much of the nutritive value and
much of the relish of the fodder is in the
juice of the stalk and much of this Juice
is in the pith of the stalk. tits my opinion
that In the process of drying much of
this juice passes from the stalk into the
leaf, and is evaporated from the leaf,
and that the dry stalks retain but very
little food value.
The German tables. given us by Prof.
Atwater, put the food value of dry corn
stalks at about half the value of good
hay. Now, if this value is concentrated
in the leaves, it follows that the leaves
on well-cured fodder are worth pound
for pound as much as good hay. / find
by weighing and stripping such fodder
as saved last year. that I get sixty per
cent. of leaves and forty per cent. of
stalks; in feeding, the cows eat about
fifty per cent. and seem to relish it as
we'll as good hay, and think it makes
as much milk as the same quantity of
good hay would make. l find the stalks
after the COWS have eaten the leaves
very valuable as absorbents, one ton of
them (after passing through the cutting
machine) being able to absorb aud hold
for carrying to the field as much urine
as eight tons of well-dried loan. There
fore when my cows tell me that dry
stalks are not fit to eat, I reply that I
am glad they think so, since / am thus
saved the labor of four shovelings and
two earnings on several tons of loan.
The other problem is connected with
the difficulty Of drying corn fodder so
that it can be stored in NOW. have
tried the experiment, when the fodder
seemed to be quite dry, of packing it
in narrow piles like cordwcod, with the
butts out, the dry taps and leaves in
the center, thinking that with the butts
exposed to the air, what little moisture
was in them would dry out, leaving the
centers dry and bright; but thinking
SO never made it work SO, for results
show that the leaves in the center of
the pile kept drawing upon what moist
ure there was in the butts. and having
no chance to get rid of it by evapora-
ton, the center became moist first, wet
second. and more or less rotten at
last. Until corn fodder is quite dry it
must be SO placed that the progress of
evaporation from the leaves is not
stopped; to put stop to this progress
is death to the quality of the fodder
Anset W. Putnam. in NJ y Tribune.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-05-06

he makes all contracts and payments;
there is no appeal from his will. This
failure of the Mongol women to exer-
else any ascendancy is ascribed by our
traveller to their want of comeliness.
The national type, the mode of life,
and the traditional uncleanliness of the
Mongol race, do not permit the feat
ures to acquire sOftness or regularity.
Here and there, however, in the tent of
some Prince, you encounter fine face,
graceful and attractive woman; but.
in that case, the person SO exceptional
~ favored will count her adorers by
hundreds, for the modern Mongol is no
more Indifferent than was Attila to the
charms of the fair sex. As a rule.
however, the Mongolian is not a faith
full and devoted husband, but he
is, on the other hand, an exemplary
father, full of tenderness aud devotion
to his children. The latter testify, on
all occasions, a profound veneration for
their parents and for all old people.
They never fail, in business of any i'm
portance. to seek the advice of their
elders. and to follow it with scrupulous
exactitude. Another virtue of these
people which may be noted here is their
hospitality, which often touches the
most prodigal extremes. Under what
ever roof you enter you are sure to find
a kind reception, and you are not al
lowed to leave without accepting at
least one cup of tea. For his guests
the master of the house has always in
reserve an ample quantity of spirits, or
OF the national kumys, and he will
willingly kill one of his latest sheep
even to feast stranger. This hospi-
, 1880-03-18
TIRED OUT.

Can any one tell who is the author o! the
Ielica,e and tender lines?
he does well who does his best;
Is lie weary? let him rest,
Brother have done my best,
aul' wesgy-,le me rest
After toiling oft in vain,
Batlled, yet 10 struggle ioin;
After toi!ing long, to gain.
Little good with mickle pain,
Let me rest. But lay me low,
Where the hedgeside roses blow
Where the little daisies grow,
Where the winds Il maying 20;
Where the tootpaths rustics plod,
Where the hree2e.bowed poplars nod
Where the old woods worship God,
Where His pencil paints the sod,
Where the welded throstle sings,
Where the young bird tires his wings;
Where the waiiug plover swings,
Near the runlet's rushing springs!
Where, at times, the tempest's roar,
Shaking distant sea and shore,
Still will rave old Barnesdale DER,
To be heard by ME no more!
There, beneath the breezy west,
Tired and thankful, let nae rest,
Like q child that sleepetn best
On its mothers gentle breast.
, 1880-03-18
Rut one month has scarsely closed, and

RuC one month has scarsely closed, and
yet Philadelphia girl is already dis
gustod with leap year, The other even
ing as she began WIN you - her
young man, without wasting to ascer.
tain whether or not she was going to
propose, sprans from the sofa, leopad
through the sash, and has carefully
avoided the house ever since And yet
aware that she possessed very large
mouth, she was merely abont to ask,
"Wi.l you please shut your eyes wmIo |
gape%
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1880-04-03
NEIGHBOR JONES.
BY JOHN Y. YATES.

I'm thinking, wife, of neighbor Jones.
the man with the stnlwart arm
He lives in peace and plenty on a fort
acre farm;
When men are all around us with hearts
AMI hands a-sore,
Who own two hundred acres and still are
wanting more.
! He has pretty little farm-a pretty lit
+ tie house;
He has loving wife within, as quiet as
as a mouse;
His children play around the door. their
fathers heart to charm,
Looking just as neat and tidy as the tidy
little farm.
No weeds are in the cornaeld, no thistles
in the oats;
The horses show good keeping by their
tine and glossy coats;
The cows within the meadow, resting
meath the beachen shade,
Learn all their gentle manners from
gentle milking maid.
Within the field on Saturday he leaves
no Graded grain
10 gather on the morrow, for fear OF
co.uing rain.
He never had lawsuit, to take him to
the town,
For the very simple reason, there are no
fences down;
The bar-room in the village does not
have him for charm
can always find my neighbor on his
forty acre farm.
His ceres are so few, he plows them very
deep;
lis hisown hands that turn the sod, tbs
his own hands that reap;
tie Las place for everything, and every !
thing in its place; /
II sunshine smiles on his fields. con-
tentment on his face.
day We learn lesson, wife, from pru-
dent neighbor Jones,
,na not sigh for what we haven't got
give vent to sighs and groans?
he rich amt always happy. nor free
from life alarms,
Sut blest are those who live content,
though small may be their farms.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1880-04-03

Brace up" We like that slang
phrase. We like it because there's
lots OF soul in it You never knew
a mean. stingy, snivel-souled man
to walk up to an afflicted neighbor.
slap him on the shoulder, and tell
him to "brace up" 1t is the big
hearted, open-handed, whole souled
fellow that comes along when you
are cast down, and squares off in
front of you and tells you "that
won't do, old fellow, brace up" 1t
is he that tells you a good story and
makes you laugh in spite of your
self; that lifts the curtain that dark
ems your soul and tells you to look
out and see the light. 1t is he that
you that there never was u
brilliant sunset without clouds. He
may not tell you SO III just such
words, but he will make you "brace
mp" and see the silver lining for
,o.r elf.-EI.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1880-04-03
NO. H..
LAW IN THE WILD WEST.

A Carson City paper reports the
following lively law proceedings:
Yesterday afternoon young
man came into Justice Cuey's 's
courtroom, with the rim of his
hat drawn over his eyes, and re-
marked:
"Do you know me?"
Il think" replied the Judge,
meekly, that you are the chap 1
sentenced for stealing, about year
ago" :.
That's just the hair-pin l am,"
replied to other, land there's twen-
ty dollars for my fine"
but you served your term in.
Jail, said the Judge, "and owe ne
fine"
'@That's all right, old boy; but I'm
about to commit an assault and bat
terry, and I guess I'll settle now.
You're the man I propose to lick"
"Oh, that's it" replied the Court,
pocketins the coin, "then you can
start in, and we'll call it square"
The young man advanced to the
Court and let out fis left. The
Judge ducked his head, and rising
up, lifted the intruder in the eve
with a highlander, and sent him
over against the wall. In mome?t
the Court was climbing all over the
man, and in about three minutes
his face was hardly recognizable.
The man begged the Court to let
up, which he finally did. As the
fellow was about to go ont, the
Judge went after him and said:
"See here, young man, I don't
think the fighting you did ought to
be assessed at any more than 81 so.
Here's SIT so in change. I amt
charging you anything for fighting.
out just for n.y. time Next time T
won't charge you a cent"
The rough took the change and
he next train for Virginia City.