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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-07-21

how she trembled, ne put be-1 -
lounge and made her drink sos y IL
that Quoted her. Then he sal 1aus'aing
her, and said: Nov tell me whe esa y
name is, and why you want to ' LAY you
steeth.p ktSl A - Sch You
h he spekeuso' gently that at frs, n
could only answer hun with tas a. Aisla
at last he contrived to get ali n, gu
story, and his eyes were wet s nss cd
voice husky several times whila'sIas y
telling it. a '.s she VA
You are dear, brave child i,
said, when she finished. .Ncw %
gong with you to see your faths,.,,as az
But you'll take the teeth g..
won't your" she asked, inpIos;n ~
II shall never have courage to csm.
Never mind that Wen see Il a..
isn't some better way ont II ~. ~
trouble,'' he answered. 49, Aa
So, hand in hand, they went back !.
the sick man; butt cannot tell yom NV Y
happy and proud he was whenstha S ios
tor tod him about Elsie, or how os ss0
fully he fell in with the plan Of 49,; -
nice hospital, where he soon Sot s'aS
enough to work in the doctors han. ~
some grounds; While Elsie, in her nIsss
as nurse to the Doctors baby, rolI ts'aVs =
over the gravel walks, 37rr ,>'NH .
So, though Este kept her teeth r.,
saved both her and herfather iron, 5oy
erty and distress.@-Afrs. II. s. Carr ~ !.
~. Y. Observer. I s1ssF - n - = :"
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ADVICE 70 A BOY.

NY boy, you're soon to be man;
Oet ready Tor man work now,
And learn TO do the best you can.
When sweat is brought to arm and brow
Lon be afraid, my boy, to WORK;
ou' We got to, if you mean to win!
He IS coward who will shirk:
"Roll upyour sleeves, and then go inv
Don't wait for chances; look aboutl
Tnere's always something you can do.
he who will manfully strike out
flndS labor; pseuty of it, too!
But he who folds his hands and waits
For something to turn up" W IL find
The ioiler passes Fortunes gates,
while he, alas, is left behind!
Be honest as the day is long;
Ion grind the poor man for his cent.
In helping others, you grow strong,
And kind deeds done are only lent;
And this remember: if you re wise,
1oHonr 0on business be confined.
Heis fool, and fails, whotries s "
His teliow-men's affairs to mind.
Don't be discouraged and get blue
Ii things don't g3 to suit you quite.
Work on! Perhaps it rests with you
To set the wrong that worries, right
Don lean on others! Be u mani i
Stand on a footing of your owni 4
BE independent, If you can,
And cultivate sound backbonel
Be brave and steadfast, kind and true, q
w 18th faith in God and felow-man
And win from them faith in you.
BY doing just the best you cdnl
,-Eberi e. Rerford.
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Hungarian and Millet as Fodder Crops.

These are excellent forage plants, and
they possess some rare ADVANTAGES for
farmers who desire to keep a laro
amount OF stock on a comparatively
small amount of land. They attain full
growth in a shorter time than any field
crop that can be raised. Being natives
OF warm climates, it is best not to sow
them till the last of June or the first of
July. as they delight in warm soil and
air. Nothing is gained, and generally
considerable is lost, in sowing them
early. Ii sown as early as most grains
their growth will be small, even though
they have the entire season to mature
in. If . farmer sees that his crop of
grass is to be small. he can make up for
1t by sowing quite largely of Hungarian
and millet. In some cases good crops
have been raised on soil broken after a
crop of hay had been taken off. Az
these crops completely shade the ground
during several weeks. they leave it in
excellent condition in respect to clean
illness. When first introduced MANY
reported unfavorable results from their
use. They were generally sown too
early to produce good crops. and cut
too late to leave the fodder in good con
dltlon for stock. The quicker the
growth the better is the quail
lty of the fodder for all
kinds of stock. If not intended
Tor seed, the harvesting should COM
mence as soon as the grain is formed,
and before it begins to harden. The
crop should be cut and secured without
allowing it to become wet. Injurious
results sometimes follow the use of these
crops, on the account of the amount of
dust they contain. To obviate this the
stalks should be cut several. inches from
the ground and gathered by the hand
rake, as the teeth of a horse rake will
raise and scatter a large amount of dust.
Red clover is more productive than
almost any of the true grasses, and a
more general use of it for green or dry
food would be beneficial. 1t is more
difficult to cut, cure and preserve than
any OF the wild or cultivated grasses.
and it is less desirable for food for
horses. But it is plant that enriches
the soil and enables it to produce larger
crops OF corn, grain and grass. It fur
nlshes an agreeable change from a diet
OF hay made from the common grasses.
and is excellent for mich COWS. sheen
and young cattle. When green it will
keep hogs in excellent condition. and il
the cheapest substance that can be
raised for producing pork. The plant
known as doura, Egyptian corn, or
branching sorghum is very productive,
and notwithstanding the severe drouth
did well in portions of the far west last
season, where most crops failed. The
seed as wel as the foliage of the plant
is valuable. The like was true OF the
early amber sugar cane. although but
little attention has been given to it as a
fodder plant. By sowing rye in ground
planted to corn, when it is worked the
last time. a large amount of green food
can be secured for late feeding. All
these crops will help save hay, and
make it practical to keep more stock on
the same amount of land. They will
also afford greater variety. and by SO
doing improve the general condition Of
animals. = Chicago Times.
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FARM AND PRESIDE.

--Custard to Pour Over Strawberry
Short Cake One cup sugar, one table
spoonful corn starch, one egg and one
pint OF milk. Flavor and cook as Gus
tard.
Among cattle the best animal is
that which converts the largest amount
of food into beef or milk of the best
quality, with the least possible waste of
material.
Corn Starch Cake.-Two cups of
sugar, two cups of flour, one cup of
butter, one cup of corn starch, one cup
OF sweet milk, two teaspoonfuls of bak-
ing powder and the whites of SIX eggs.
-Decaying vegetable matter is what
sandy soils need to give them holding
power over fertilizers and make them
productive. The blowing under of
green crops is ready means of supply
ing the vegetable matter.
Lemon Cream Cake.-One cup
sugar, half cup butter, half cup milk,
two cups flour, one teaspoon cream tar
tar. half teaspoon soda. Bake in Jelly
tins. For inside-The juice and grated
peel OF one lemon, two tablespoonfuls
starch, one cup boiling water, one
egg, three quarters cup sugar.
How often do we hear women who
do their own cooking say that by the
time they have prepared meal, and it
is ready for the table, they are too tired
to eat. One way to mitigate this evil
is to take about half an hour before din
ner raw egg, beat it until light, put in
little sugar and milk, flavor it, and
drink it down. it will remove the
faint, tired-out feeling, and will not
spoil your appetite for dinner. Plenty
of fresh air in the kitchen does good
deal to relieve this trouble, and you do
not then take your dinner in 'at the
pores, as Dickens old Joey declared
he took in the wine.
Stable manure will become over
heated, or rather dried, if left in heap
too long. 1t then becomes much de-
preciated in value. The best manner
of using it is to keep it in fiat, broad
heap exposed to the rain, so that it
may be kept moist, and to turn it occa-
sionally, so that it may not get too hot
and dry. 1t should be trampled and
packed as solid as possible, when it will
heat only moderately, and after two or,
three weeks, should be turned, so that
the outside of the heap may be put
into the centre and have its share of
the heating and fermentation. If the
weather is very dry it would be advisa-
bic to throw considerable water on the
manure 10 keep it moist. -
Queen Pudding. One pint of bread
crumbs, one quart of sweet milk, one
cup of sugar, yelks of four eggs WE'LL
beaten, butter the size of an egg, CRATE
the rind of one lemon and add the
whites of the eggs beaten to froth and
one teacup of white sugar, to be spread
ON the top of the pudding after it has
been baked until done but not watery:
set it in the oven for few minutes,
serve with butter. If needed for din
ner-party it improves the appearance
by spreading on the top of the pudding,
when taken from the oven, a layer of
preserves or jelly and then the sugar
and whites of the eggs over the Jelly;
set it back in the oven and bake slightly.
to be served when cold; cut in slices it
is very beautiful.
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The Marvels Of Surgery.

A remarkable surgical operation was
performed recently in Vienna by Pro-
lessor Theodore Billroth, which marks
new step in the art of healing by ex-
cision. 1t is the first case on record
where the removal of part of the hu-
man stomach, with tumor and its roots
attached, has been successful. DR..
Lewis A. Sayre, a well-known New
York surgeon, being interviewed by a
New York reporter regarding this case,
was asked:
"Have operations as diffi,;,ult as gas
trectomy been performed successfully
by American surgeonsP"
30 yes. great many. One OF the
most remarkable operations which have
come under my notice was performed
last year by physician living some
where in the backwoods of North Car
DINA. The patient was colored bow
about eight years of age, who was dying
OF hunger on account of a cicatrized
structure of the Rsophagus, the result of
drinking by mistake large quantity OF
a solution of commercial concentrated
lye- This had closed the esophagus so
completely that he was unable to swal-
OIL ohAhSs duu Ho udu DoG0 Kept
alive for several months by enemata and
by rubbing the skin with cod-liver oil.
The physician introduced hard rubber
tube into the stomach, the outer end of
", which he closed with an ordinary cork.
Ihe operation necessary to accomplish
TINS was IN many ways similar to that
performed by Professor Billroth. The
boy recovered SLOWLY, but never had
any peritonitis, ordinarily the cause of
death after this operation; but he came
very near dying from an over quantity
OF grated ham and biscuit three weeks
after the operation. In feeding the
nsophagus' is simply removed to the
outside OF his person, for it is rubber
instead OF being muscular tissue. The
boy, after thoroughly masticating his
1000, simply spits it through the tube
INTO his stomach in semi fluid state.
In this manner his life has been saved.
and he is now independent of the strict
ure OF the @sophagus.n
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That Bedroom.

al What about itp Well, good many
things might be said. 1t ought to be a
place for quiet and refreshing sleep.
But it is not such a. place. Restless
tossings with troubled dreams are
II there, Morning after morning finds
the sleeper weary, Hstiess and dumpish.
he wonders why it is so, and we
wonder too. But our wonder is that he
. does not make it e. matter of thought.
and learn how to sleep as he should.
When anything is wrong with us there
is q cause for it. AS a rule, that cause
is not SO obscure as to require the aid
OF a modern scientist, with all his lar
gon OF incomprehensible techniealities
covering his still more, incomprehensi-
bic ideas. or want of ideas, to ferretit out.
10 exercise the demon of restlessness
is not bedroom work alone. He who
seeks the comfort of sound, refreshing
! sleep must properly control his habits
by day as well as by night.
So much may be said about sleep in
general that the bedroom is id dan
ger of being forgotten. After all, that
q particular bedroom does not differ ma
terially from many others of this kind.
feet long, ten feet sFide and seven
feet six inches high, it has a capacity of
nine hundred cubic feet. 1t has o dool
opening into the nextroom and another
into the hall leading to the stairway
and hall below. One large window.
with sash supported by pulleys and
weights affords, or ought to afford, ain
and light from outdoors. The fourth
wall is solid. The bed stands in corner.
with the head to this wall. Two walls
confine the exhaled air about the head
OF the sleeper. The bed rests on springs.
with mattress and feathers above. The
breath of the sleeper is doubly foul from
! late and full suppers, and from ulcera-
ton of the respiratory membrane,
caused by chronic catarrh. In such
: case good ventilation is more than usual
9 necessity. Is it attended TOP Take o
peep at that room. Doors closed-wm-
doys carefully closed to keep out night
air. Any good work on ventilation can
! De consulted to ascertain how long nine
hundred cubic feet of air will supply
respiratory material in such room for
one occupant. And vet that is a nice
bedroom, genteelly furnished If good
sleeping is not done there the failure il
less chargeable to the room than to its
management. How manv cases of the
kind have you meswith, rnaderP-J S.
Galloway, &c D.. IN Psychological Jour
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Tne Culture Of Special Crops.

Special crops are becoming both prof.
table and popular. 1t is mark of en-
terprise for farmer to leave the old
and beaten track and lay out a new one
for himself, and he may often find that
u pays to do this. Many farmers are
eagerly considering how they can in
crease their incomes, which are mar
rowed and siortsned by the low prices
ct grain and other staple products,
vs. which are far more cheaply grown upon
= Western land that costs but few dol
lars per acre than upon farms costing
ten times as much. And it has turned
out that those have done the best in
tention to special crops Crops of this
kind depend for their profit upon near
ness to markets or upon the possibility
of making market for them. The large
cities and towns supply good markets
for such special products as poultry,
sweet corn, cabbage, caulifiower, celery,
se small fruits, melons, cucumbers for
pickles, and fresh vegetables of several
kinds. But these crops require special
=. attention, and in general the whole at
srtention and care of the grower, for
greater success. This is necessary for
$ several reasons-among others that will
be obvious may be mentioned that early
$ and successive planting are necessary,
s. as well as liberal manuring, practical
knowledge of the habits of growth of
a. each, the special diseases and parasites
fss which trouble them and must be guarded
stSagainst, quick and forced growth and
- the best methods of disposing of them.
This technical knowledge will easily be
ss gained alter short experience, during
oaa Whiehs perhaps. some loss and disap-
'sspointnlent may be met with, but this is
to be looked for in all new ventures
and very often the way to salts
factory success is found through a
- few failures. Many markets for these
products are in an undeveloped con-
: dftion, but require only the attempt to
start business to make it successful.
q This is especially the case in small
: towns and rural villages. in which it is
s. u well-known fact that early grown,
fresh vegetables and fruits are very
y often much scareer and more difficult
to be procured than in the large cities,
and where finely grown vegetables and
fruits are but rarely seen. The mar
skets, then. must be sought and often
made, and it is great advantage and
helps in this respect that real good and
c1oice farm and garaen products will
misery case make marx ct for them
sefT@ M 1liey are only offered. Con-
trarytothe usual opinion in this respect,
itis not the demand that brings out the
supply although this is true when de-
- 4nand Nexisting; but the supply actu-
S ally ereAtes q demand, because it is a
speelR Etrai tot human nature that one
60 wants whatever one sees and
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The following bit of Paris gossip
was IN letter from young American
to his father: "All the theatres and
many of the churches are now opsn
every Sunday in this city,"
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Rock Cakes.-one pound of flour.
halt pound of sugar, six ounces of but
ter. six ounces of currants and three
eggs. To be made into little cakes and
baked in tin.
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During Postmaster-G General keys
term heleceived a complaint tAas'some
information, written ON a postaissefq Y
an attorney in a suit then pending, psa
been read by the Postmaster cf me
town in which the attorney lfyeds ana
by him accommodated to the oP
ponent The Postmaster-(ieueFA pfv,
mulgated a regulation forbidding y
persons employed in the postal scry,ee
to read the contents. OF postal caras
The regulation is still in force. lne
law prcscribes a penalty OF nes ~
than $l00 or more than $1,000 for sscl
case of disobedience of department reS
ulationS. sSs@fs. az aafssa
stlA One of the conductors On the en-
eago, Rock Island q Pacific Railrpsa Z
a former President of the Boston !,
Providence Railroad Company, one y
the. wealthiest corporations IN ~
England. His name is Blum, Finsr
ciat reverses resulted in his retirenep
from the Boston q Providence.
3 --Siemens, the great European elsv
trician, has cleared $40, 600. 900 1pm
his Inventions, and expects to MAKE 4
much more from the electric ralfoas
which he has lust put in operation y
Berlin,
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1881-12-17
Human Endurance in the Water.

Man and animals are able to sustain
themselves for long distances IN the
water, and would do SO much oftener
were they not incapacitated, in regard OF
the former at least, by sheer terror, as
well as complete ignorance of their real
powers: Webb's wonderful endurance
will never be forgotten. But there are
other instances only less remarkable.
Some years since, the second mate OF a
ship fell overheard while in the act OF
listing a sail. 1t was blowing fresh the
time was night, and the place some
miles out in the stormy German ocean.
The hardy fellow, nevertheless. managed
to gain the English coast. Brock, with
a dozen other pilots, was plying for
fares by Yarmouth; and, as the main
sheet was elaybed, sudden puff of wind
upset the boat, when presently all per-
ished except Brock himself, who, from 4
in the afternoon of an October evening
to l the next morning, swan thirteen
miles before he was able to hail vessel
at anchor in the ofing. Animals them
selves are capableo of swimming immense
distances, although unable to rest by the
way. A dog recently swan thirty miles
in America in order to reioin his master.
A mule and a dog, washing overheard
during gale in the Bay of Biscay. have
been known to make their way to shore.
A dog SWAN ashore with letter IN his
mouth at the Cape of Good Hope. The
crew of the ship to which the dog be-
longed all perished, which they need not
have done had they only ventured tC
tread water as the dog did. As GER
tain ship was laboring heavily in the
trough of the sea, it was found needful
in order to tighten the vessel, to throw
some troop-horses overheard, which had
been taken in at Corunna. The pool
things, my informant, a staff-surgeon
told me, when they found themselves
abandoned, faced round and swan fol
miles after the vessel.-Poputor Sci
ence MonthLv.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1881-12-17
A Rabbit Plague.
AN AFFLIoTIoN OF AUSTRALIAN AND NEW
ZEALAND FARMERS.

AN AFFLICTIoN OF AUSTRALIAN AND NEW
ZEALAND FARMERS.
The "rabbit plague" has come to
be looked ON in Australia as almost as
great bane as the smallpox now visit
ing Sydney. In New Zealand especially
are its ravages fearful and widespread,
whole runs having had to be abandoned
to the er-victorious bunnies. But
now an organized system of destruction
has been hit upon which seems likely to
arrest at least the plague. The new
remedy is phosphorized oats, which are
found to be the most enticing and the
most killing bait yet hit upon. The
rabbits devour these with avidity, while
they did not seem to care for the white
arsenic.
But difficulties have arisen in the way
of actually getting the rabbits poisoned.
The ordinary method adopted is to sell
the poisoned grain to the trappers at so
much per bushel, and to pay them I'd
per skin that they may bring back.
An enormous amount of rabbits were
got rid of in this way, and yet it was
discovered that somehow they did not
all disappear as they should have done,
and in certain inclosed districts could
have been made to do.
It was found that the trappers who
had devoted themselves to rabbiting as
a profession not unnaturally conceived
the idea that if once they cleared q
whole district of rabbits the hope of
their gains would be gone, and, conse-
quently, they have, wherever the rab-
bits were found to be disappearing too
fast, been in the habit of removing the
grain when enough rabbits seemed to
them to have been poisoned. In fact, q
breeding stock has been left throughout
the Southland district. In addition to
this, it has been found that the pro-
fessed rabbiters have been in the habit
of laying the poisoned grain in heaps,
to the great admiration of passing cattle,
who of course speedily devour it, with
the natural consequence.
Some time ago q run-holder in Vic
toria paid penny each to certain men
for every rabbits tail they should bring
him, conceiving that the loss of those
appendages would be fair proof of the
death OF the former owner. A short
time after it was remarked that the rab-
bits were running about looking pos
teriOri like Manx cats, from which it
was justly inferred that the iudicious
trappers had prudently cut off the tail,
and left the possesser to increase and
multiply It is an interesting question
how long it would have taken, accord
ing to the Darwinian theory, these rab-
bits to develop into tailless breed.