The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-11-17

A mans heart is his headquarters for good
or evil esS''
more you see. ~ Ut,
The ornaments of home are the friends
who frequent it, @
bore is an nnlncky animal who is most
welcome after he has gone.
It is more shameful to distrust ones friends
than to be deceived By them.
You will never find time for ANYTHING n
you want time you must make it.
The virtue of prosperity is temperance: the
virtne of adversely is fortitude.
Mark the perfect man, and behold the M.
rlght, Tor the end OF that man is peace
A house is no home unless it contains food
and hre for the mind as well as for the body
The easiest thing in the world is to see a
Iauit IN another man and a virtue in yourself
. Adversely is the trial ofprinciple. Without
u a man hardly knows whether he is honest
or not. ~ 5G.-ss-
There are q great many evils in the world
which must be left to check themselves from
excess. - 80
Try to avoid making disagreeable remarks
OF any description, and make no unpleasant
comparisons 1880 :
Every man must work at something. The
moment ne stops working for himself the devil
employs him. = - !
The maple tree is an emblem of Christian
sweetnessit exudes. 80 IS =,
The good man bears with the fault of others
very patiently; the bad man beara with h;s
own N the same way.
Sir says Ruslin, ssthere is only one wav
70 N hat So l..
OF being well served
knows his guilt he Is always afraid that some
one has just found him out
The higher you are lifted by the remarks of
fiatterer, the flatter you will feel when yan
come down to the truth again.
Though avarice will preserve a man from
being necessitously poor, it generally makes
him too close to be wealthy.
Il you wish to be happy you must learn To he
lust deal enough not to hear some things and
just Dilnd enough not to see others.
Reflect upon your present blessings. of which
every man has many; not on your past misfor.
tunes, OF which all men have some
There are some experiences in life which
make 2, us feel like the boy who, when he stubbed
ais toe against sharp stone, said he was too
big to cry and too badly hurt to laugh.
The difference between infdelity and trne
religion is this: The infidel tries to make fhe
world useful to himself. while, the Christian
tries to make himself useful to the world.
The world is full of eccentricities and va
CRIES II some mems bodies were no strairht-
er than their minds seem to be they would ba
crooked enough to ride on their own backs.
Swift said very surily that ethe reason why
90 few marriages are happy is because Young
ladies spend their time In making nets. i,ot IS,
making cakes" Ladies! look wei. to the
cakes ''A0
II yon have found that a dishonest life
uon't pay it Is full time to become honest The
Old adge says, It is not necessary to drink m
the whole puddle in order to find that the
water is dirty
ONLY YoURsELF.-Always remember that
no one can debase You but yourself SANDER.
satire, falsehood. injustice, these can never rob
yon of your manhood. Men may lie about
you, they may cherish suspicion manifold. thew
may make your failings the target of their wifi
OF cruelty-never be alarmed, never swerve an
inch from the line your Judgment and con.
science have marked ont for you They can
not, by all their efforts, take away your knowl
edge OF yourself, the purity of your motives.
the integrity of your character, and the gen.
orosity of your nature While these are left
you are, IN point OF fact: unframed