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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-09-29

e It IS our sad duty to record
w y death Of Capt. B. r. Fort, who
asa At bis residence in this place,
ast Saturday night of malarial
swamp fever. Capt. Fort was an
40 citizen of this parish, plain and
saassaming, Industrious and hard
Working, and quiet and nsefnl citi-
aa' He was born in the town of
la6ay, Georgia, and was about
ssyears old. H
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Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1881-12-03
Little Rock Gazette


A very sad death occurred in the
Arkansas penitentiary Wednesday.
ALI deaths are sad, but Of all deaths
the death from a broken heart is the
saddest. p. E. Sullivan alias Will
liam Delaney, a young man of %
years, one of the train robbers re-
Gently sentenced to 20 years in the
Arkansas p~enitentiary, was the vic
tim of a broken heart. Several days
ago he became gloomy, and going to
DR.. Lenow, prison physician COM
planned of being sick. Upon exami-
nation the physician discovered that
the man was not suffering from any
perceptible disease, but that his
pulse was 40. He was ordered to
the hospital, where every possible
care was given him. He revived af-
ter a short time, but every one could
see despair written on his counte-
nance. He entered the prison cheer
fully and lightly spoke of the long
term of his sentence, but after a
while a letter came. When he read
the lines his spirit sank. Tears told
of a misery that ink could not X
press. He went again to his bed.
THE shadows are gathering fast and
night is expressing me with its dark
ness" he said yesterday to some one
standing near. Zone crime, and
then death in p~enitentiary. My old
father, who has been preaching the
gospel for years, who many and
many a time clasped his hands above
my head and prayed, has been hum
bled in his old age. And my moth
er! If l could only hear her voice.
But walls and law are between us.
l am as one who is dead. She could
come to me, but / cannot go to her."
His thoughts wandered. AT times
he seemed to be at church, listening
to his father preach; and then he
seemed to be playing with his sister.
He smiled and laughed softly.
"Ah !" he would say, ''your brother
never forgets you" Suddenly his
face grew dark, and waving his
hands wildly he began to mutter
broken sentences. "SeiZing the bri-
die rein he sprang upon lis antago-
nist's horse and dashed away" "He
is reading one of those vile books
we used to steal away and devour,"
said one of the dying mans compan-
ions in crime. Halt he exclaimed
drawing a revolver and leveling it at
the head of young Horace" con-
tinued the sufferer. 'sSlowly and
sadly they left the church, and walk
ed along the well-worn path to the
grave of Lawrence. Standing near
the stone placed there by the Indian,
Caspar and his fair companion'-
and he muttered incoherently, the
sentence dying away with a deep
groan. Suddenly he raised himself,
looked i%ntently toward the door and
SLOWLY sank hack. dead.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1881-12-03

The Hampshire Down breed of
sheep originated at the beginning of
the present century in a cross be-
between the old ~white-faced sheep
of Hampshire, England, and the
pure South Downs. After the few
generations of crossing the horns dis
appeared, and the face became black;
in fact, the prepotency of the South
Downs greatly changed the charac-
teristics of the native Hampshire
sheep, though the massive head,
Roman nose, large size, and hardi-
ness of constitution, were retained
in the cross. The Hampshire-Downs,
in some of the best farmed districts
of Hampshire and Berkshire (Eng.)
have gradually displaced the South
Downs, and afford an excellent
breed for crossing with long-wooled
sheep. The lambs are dropped early,
and fed for the market, or sold for
mutton the following spring, and
when well fed will weigh one hun
dred pounds. The fleece yields six
TO seven pounds of good wool, being
longer and somewhat eoarser than
that of the South-Down. The larger
size, strong constitution, and early
maturity of the Hampshire-Down
make it a specially valuable breed
under many circumstances in this
country American Agric1ltTiSt for
December.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1881-12-03
Negro

The negro Bishop of Hayti, j.
Theodore Holly, a native of the
United States, and co~nsecrated in
Grace church, New York city, who
during the recent gathering of the
bishops of the Anglican church in
London, was much honored by his
brethren, and who, at the invitation
of Dean Stanley, preached in West
minister Abbey, on st. James day,
closed his address with the following
eloquent words and remarkable
prayer.
"And now, on the shores of old
England, the cradle of that Anglo
Saxon Christianity by which l have
been, in part at least, illuminated,
standing beneath the vaulted roof of
this monumental pile, redolent with
the piety Of bygone generations dur
ing SO many ages; in the presence OF
the
Stored urn and animated bust
that hold the sacred ashes and COM
memorate the buried grandeur of so
many illustrious personages-l catch
a fresh inspiration and a new I'M
pulse of the divine missionary spirit
of our common Christianity; and
here, in the presence of God, of an
gels, and of men, on this day, sacred
to the memory of an apostle whose
blessed name was called over me at
my baptism, and as / lift up my
voice for the first and perhaps last
time in any of England's sainted
shrines, l dedicate myself anew to
the work of God, OF the gospel, of
Christ, and of the salvation of my
fellow men in the far distant isle of
the Caribbean sea that has become
the chosen field of my gospel labors.
O thou Saviour Christ, Son of the
living God, who, when thou vast
spurned by the Jews of the race of
Shem, and who, when delivered up
without cause by the Romans of the
race of Japheth, on the day OF the
cr~ucifiXion, hadst thy ponderous
cross borne to Golgotha's summit on
the stalwart shoulders of Simon, the
Cyrenian of the race Of Ham; | pray
thee, o precious Saviour, remember
that forlorn, despised and rejected
race, whose son bore thy when
thou shall come in the power and
majesty of thy eternal kingdom to
distribute thy eternal crowns of ev-
erlasting glory !
And give to me, then, noJ a place
at thy right hand or at thy left, but
only the place of a gate keeper at
the entrance of the holy city, the
New Jerusalem, that l may behold
my redeemed brethren, the saved of
the Lord, entering, therein, to be
partakers with Abraham, Isaac and
Jacob, of all the joys of thy glorious
and everlasting kingdom"
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1881-12-03

it with fine lace, and pass it under
the blast, and not a thread of the
lace will be injured, but the sand
will cut deep inlo the glass wherever
it is not covered by the lace. Now
remove the lace and you have q deli
cate and beautiful figure rMsd on the
glass. In this way beautiful figures
of all kinds I cut in glass and at a
small expense. The workmen can
hold their hands under the blast
without harm, even when it is rapid
ly cutting away the hardest glass,
iron or stone, but they must look
out for finger nails, or they win be
Whitfield off right hastily. If they
put on steel thimbles to protect the
nails it will do but little good, for
the sand will soon whittle them
away; but if they wrap a piece of
Gotten around them they are safe.
You will at once see the philosophy
of it. The sand whittles away and
destroys any hard substance-even
glass-but does not affect substances
that are soft and yielding, like wax,
cotton, fine lace, or even the human
hand.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1881-12-03
The Home Doctor.

A poultice of fresh tea leaves
moistened with water will cure a
stye on the eyelid.
For earache, dissolve asafoetida in
water, warm a few drops and drop
in the ear, then cork the ear with
wool,
According to a French medical
journal whooping cough has been
successfully treated by DR.. Barely,
of Nice, by turpentine vapor.
DR.. Foote'S Health Monthly advis-
es people to try a newspaper over
the chest, beneath the coat, as a
chest protector in extremely cold
weather.
The white of an egg, into which
a piece of alum about the size of a
walnut has been stewed until it
forms a jelley, is a capital remedy
for sprains. 1t should be laid over
the sprain on a piece of lint, and be
changed as often a it becomes dry.
A lump of fresh lime, the size of a
walnut, dropped into a pint of water
and allowed to stand over night, the
water being poured off from the sed-
iment and mixed with a quarter of
a pint of the best vinegar, forms a
good wash for scruf in the head. 1t
is to be applied to the roots of the
hair.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1881-12-03

Bill Nye, the funny fellow who
tells amusing lies for the edification
of the Laramie (W. r. Boomerang,
went to Salt Lake City the other
day, and it so happened that a San
Francisco man bearing the same
name, and who was travelling for a
liquor house, was in the city at the
same time. When the San Francis
co Nye was introduced about town,
he was somewhat puzzled at such
remarks as that last article of
yours nearly busted me-" "Never
heard such funny things as you
write" And the newspaper Nye, ia
the course of a half an hours stroll
down Main street, received orders
for over $2000,worth of Nabob whis-
key. He thinks seriously of going
into the liquor business, while the
other fellow is inquiring the price of
a double cylinder Hoe press and a
newspaper outfit.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1881-12-03
Religious Intelligence.

The Roman Catholic church ha:
sent fifty missionaries to equatorial
Africa.
The Baptists have in the State OF
Ohio 635 Sunday schools, S,736 Off
GERS and teachers, and 5S,2S4 schol-
airs.
1t is said that nearly half of the
strength of the Presbyterian church
in the United States is in the States
of Pennsylvania and New York.
The Church of England Zenana
Missionary Society, has just sent out
seventeen women missionaries to In.
dia, thirteen of whom go out for the
first time.
The Protestant Episcopal church
in Oregon has sixteen rectorS, twen-
ty-six churches and missions and
l,040 Sunday school scholars. The
communicates number 7S5.
Mr.. Ingersoll, according to the
Christian Union, knows no more
about the christian religion than "a
boy would know of q chestnut from
pricking his finger with the burr.
A novel baptism occurred at st.
Charles, III. a lady, who was lame
and unable to walk, was taken into
the water in a buggy, handed to the
clergyman and properly immersed.
The Wilmington Female Bible
Society is sixty years old, having
been organized on December %,
1921, five years after the formation
of the America Society. The sub
scribers last year numbered DIT.
OF the 3,59S Presbyterian churches
on the roll of the general assembly
2,075 received no new members last
year, while CAT churches received
only one each and $50 two each.
The total increase during the past
year over the year before is said to
be less than one-half of one per
cent.
Monster gatherings of the officers
of the Salvation Army from all
parts of England were recently held
in Exter Hall, London. General
Booth, in addressing one of the
meetings said they had now $50 sta
tions, 235 corps, 40 paid officers and
their income was now $250,000 a
year, against $50 900 when the work
began five years ago.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1881-12-03
The Sand Blast.

Says the J0urnaEof Science: Among
Ehe wonderful and useful inventions
bf the times is the common blast.
Suppose you desire a piece of marble
for a gravestone; you cover the stone
with a sheet Of wax no thicker than
b wafer;then you cut in the wax the
date, ETC., leaving the marble
Exposed. Now pass it under the
blast and the sand shall cut it away.
Remove the wax and you have the
but letters. Take a piece of French
plate glass, say two by six feet, cover
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1881-12-03

Indulgent parents who allow
their children to eat heartily of
high-seasoned food, rich pies, cake,
&c, will have to use Hop Bitte-s
to prevent Indigestion, sieepiess
nights, sickness. pain, and. per-
haps, death. No family is safe
without them in the house.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1881-12-03

DELICIOUS LEMON PIE.-Grate
the yellow rind of the lemon and
squeeze out the juice beat the yolks
of eight eggs with sixteen tablespoon
fuls of sugar and four of butter /;
add half a teacupful of sweet milk
and the whites of four eggs beaten
stiff add the lemon and bake in a
rich crust /; beat the remaining four
whites with two spoonfuls of sugar
and some grated nutmeg. When the
pies are done, spread this over the
top and brown lightly.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1881-12-03

Scientists have discovered worms
in fishes and are bothering their
brains to know how they came there.
Very simple. We have fed some
thing less than a million worms to
fishes ourselves. All that is neces-
sary is to put a worm on a hook,
drop it into the water and the fishes
will eat it off as clean as a whistle.
Worms in fishes 1t is a wonder
they aren't swimming bait boxes.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1881-12-03
LYDIA T.. PlNKKEAN'S
VEGETABLE COMPOUND
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For all those Painful Complaints and
Weaknesses so Common to our
Female Population.
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1t will cure entirely the worst form of
Female Complaints, all ovarian troubles,
inflammation and liberation, Falling and
Displacements, and the consequent Spinal
Weakness, and is particularly adapted to
the Change of Lie.
1t will dissolve and txpel tumors from
the uterus in an early stage of develop
ment. The tendency to cancerous humors
there is checked very speedily by its use.
II removes faintness, hatulency, de-
stroys all craving for stimulants, and re-
lieves weakness of the stomach. 1t cures
Bloating, Headaches, Nervous Prostra-
ton, General Debility, Sleeplessness, De-
preston and Indigestion.
That feeling OF bearing down, causing
pain, weight and backache, is always per-
manently cured by its use.
1t will at all times and under all cir
cumstances act in harmony with the laws
that govern the female system.
For the cure of Kidney Complaints of
either sex this compound is unsurpassed.
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Western Avenue, Lynn, Mass. Price 81.
Six bottles for IS. Sent by mail in the
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on receipt Of price, 81 per box for either.
Mrs. Pinkham freely nswer all letters of
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No family should be without LYDIA
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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-02-11
Wise Words.

Stay not until You are told of oppor-
tunities to do good, inquire after them.
Geneva is the grain of musk which
perfumes Europe.-[C. NJ. Talleyrana.
think it best not to dispute where
there is no probability OF convincing.
Il Whitefeld.
This world would be o dreadfully
silent place if people talked as little as
they thought.
When all shoot at one mark, even the
gods join in the combat Ralph Wal
do Emerson.
He that cannot forgive others breaks
the bridge over which he must pass
himself George Herbert.
Poverty often deprives a man of all
spirit and virtue. 1t is hard for an
empty bag to stand upright i Frank
lin.
True popularity is not that popular
ity which is followed after, but the
popularity which follows after.-[Lord
Mansfield.
There is perennial nobleness and
even sacredness in work. Were he
ever so benighted, fcrgetful of his high
calling, there is always hope in man
that actually and earnestly works.
Carlyle.
Natural objects themselves, even
when they make no claim to beauty.
excite the feelings and occupy the i'm
sginstion. Nature plesses, attracts,
delights, merely because it is nature
William Won Humboldt.
If you have great talents, industry
will improve them; if moderate abili-
ties, industry will supply their deficien-
cies. Nothing is denied to we'll directed
labor; nothing is ever to be attained
WITHOUT it, Sir J. Reynolds.
All that have accomplished, or ex-
pect or hope to accomplish, has been
and will be by that plodding, patient,
persevering process of accretion which
builds the ant heap, particle by parti-
Gle. thought by thought, fact by fact
Elihu Burritt.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-02-11
Women's Undcrclothing.

The underwear departments i'll the
large stores Of Broadway and Sixth
avenue are usually in the charge of fe-
male clerks but not invariably. and it
it not so very rare to see an unblushins
man displaying these innermost gar
ments to fair but equally unblush'
ing customers. The imported gar
ments, az rule, are simpler than those
of American make. The French
sacuue. clemi.e, with puckering string
around the neck, is shown In heavy
percales. Fine scalloped points edge
the neck aud sleeves, and there is more
or less of ueedlework French night
dresses are now made with boX-plaits
in the back instead of a yoke. Several
large box .plats hold tho Iullness on
the shoulders, while the front is shaped
like square or pointed yoke, which
is made up of fine tucks in clusters,
with perhaps some embroidery he.
tween. Tho killingest thing in tue way
of night gowns is to be worn in the
daytime. Forgive that Irishism. What
1 mean is that n sort Of French pegnuir
of muslin or cambria, full enough to
conceal tho figure tolerably we'll, is
worn by women in their own rooms in
stead Of a common form Of wrapper. II
is most rayishing garment, and, mark
my word, the wearers will not be able
to resist the temptation to let the men
admire them in it. There will be moth
ing improper in that proceeding, for
the article covers the arms and neck
completely, and is only seductive by
reason of it's Wilderness and clingincss;
but there is a step further that the de-
signers intend our fashionable women
to take. In the stores / see white mus
lin morning garments without sleeves,
deliberately trimmed with lace and en-
broidery, and calculated to "masL" the
masculine boholler on sight, provided
the protuded arms be anything to brag
of. 1t is wise woman that knows her
own arms, and some scrawny ones are
bound, / suppose, TO be exposed to
pity, by means CT this garment. To
return to apparel which only us.ands,
OF all men, See, permit me to say thai
new chemlSGs are cut to fit pretty
snugly around the waist, neck and
wrists. This gives them IA shapeliness
that is new and attractive. They are
buttoueu on the shoulders, 50 that
there need be none of the old-fashioned
hosting over the head. lou simply
touch Your shoulders, and down the
chemise drops to the floor This is
handy in dressing, because change
can be made without danger of mus
sing the hair. Conservative women.
with cid fashioned notions about COW
ering the arms warmly, have sleeves
L.. l.
tight sleeves; but those who in
tend to display the arm in evening
dress leave out the chemise sleeve alto
gether. Still others do not even have
straps over the shoulte's. but wear a
chemise that is no more than n muslin
cylinder reaching up as far aa the arm
pits, and depending on the embracing
corset for support Clara B.lle.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-02-11
A Preventive Of Drowning.

A Wesleyan minister has patented an
invention which appears to be simple
and practical means of lessenipg the
number of deaths by drowning. A
chemical preparation is inserted in q
portion of the coat, waistcoat or dress.
1t does not add to the weight or in any
way alter the appearance of the gar
ment. The preparation is inserted be.
tween the lining and the cloth; in the
case of coat it is placed on each side
of the breast and up the back. The
moment man falls in the water the
coat initiates, and he cannot keep bis
head under the waves. The invention
was practically tested at the swimming
bath of the Sheffield Bath Company.
First, two small pieces of linen, with
part of the preparation inserted be-
tween the folds, were thrown into the
water. The linen instantly iHhated, 80
as to form a miniature cushion, and
foated about the bath. An attendant
Of the Company then put on coat with
the preparation inserted in it. He first
went under sho bath. where he
was thoroughly drenched, to show that
initiation would not take place under
the ordinary circumstances of shower.
Under the shower-bath the coat did not
alter its proportions in any way what
ever. The attendant then took O
"header into the water. He reap.
peared at the surface almost immedi-
ately and the coat promptly inflated.
Entering q p irt ST the bath deep enough
to take him up to the eyes, he could
not touch bottom at all. and the water
scarcely reached his chin. BY strug.
gle he dived partly beneath the surface,
but came up again Instantly. Divesting
himself Of the garment, it Il ,ated about
the bath until it was taken out. The
inventor then attached piece of lead
weighing three pounds to his appliance,
which prevents the appearance of q
short, light sleeve or liuins, and threw
it into the water. The sleeve, o. touch
ing the water, instantly expanded like
small bolster, and ii )ated about the
bath we'll out of the water. sustaining
the lead weight till both were lshed
out. The experiments were as interest
ing as they were successful. The in
ventor states that his apparatus, which
would simply form an additional lining
inserted iu u portion Of the garment
would sustain a person in the water al
long as he could possibly endure thu
exposure. For forty-tive or fifty hours
it would be effective for its purpose
In the event of person losisg con
seriousness, the lining in the back would
form kind of bed, and that in thu
breast pair of pillows, against which
| his head would rest.