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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1882-09-07
FARM AND PRESIDE.

"A small piece of salt pork cooked
with string beans adds to the flavor and
richness of the dish.
-Check-reins are entirely discarded
this year at Newport. 1t is well for the
horse if fashion even will lead the way
for humanity. Boston Transcript.
Apple Cake: Two cups dried apples
soaked over night; chop them and SIM
mer two and one-half cups molasses half
an hour; when cold add one-half cup
shortening, two eggs, teaspoonful of
soda and four cups flour. Spice to the
taste.
"A pretty and useful rug can be made
OF piece of stair-carpet. Put fringe on
each end. Often when the stair carpet
is SO much worn that a new one is nec-
essary there will be a yard or more that
is good enough to use for the. rug. II
you choose you can put the fringe all
around tn. Y. Post.
Chocolate Caramels: One cup mo-
lasses, two cups sugar, one cup rich milk
d. cream, and half a cake of baker
chocolate. Boil twenty minutes and
turn into buttered tins. Cut into squares
when partly cold. Flavor with vanilla
as you remove it from the stove.-N y
EIdn1aner. AZ
-Antidote for Ivy Poisoning: Battle
the parts affected freely with spirits of
nitre. If the blistens be broken, so as to
allow the nitre to penetrate the cuticle,
more than a single application is rarely
necessary, and even where it is only APP
piled to the surface of the skin three or
four times day, there is rarely trace
of the poison left next morning. IN
didndpolis Journal. .is
Apple Pie: Take sour apples and
pare, core and slice them. Put the crust
in the plate and then q layer of sliced
apples. and sprinkle over them thick
layer of light brown sugar, then another
layer of apples, and more sugar, and so
on until the dish is full. Put ON a top
crust and bake. Powdered sugar sifted
over the top when done, is liked by
many.-Prairie Farmer.
There is perhaps more hay injured
by not being dried enough than by being
dried too much. One extreme is equally
as. bad as the other. Clover, for
instance, if allowed to become too dry in
the sun, viii loose all Of its leaves and its
blossoms, and the stalks that are left are
of little value. On the other hand, If
put in the NOW too soon it will become
NOW burnt and equally worthless. - Chi
cdgo Journal. s4...3,.
Corn Batter Cakes: Two cupfuls of
white corn meal, onecupful of flour, two
cupfuls OF milk or water. one egg, one
bastingspoonful of melted lard, a little
salt, one teaspoonfuf of baking powder;
make hollow in.the middle OF the meal
and flour, put all the other ingredients
and stir up smooth. When there is no
milk to mix up with add "a spoonful OF
syrup to make the cakes brown easily
on the griddle. Il is practicable to bake
batter cakes without greasing the grid
die. It need only be rubbed with
cloth after each baking Chicago Her.
aid. Ii ssESs7s $50
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1882-09-07
An Appropriation for Cats.

20, pshaw! go buy the cats some
meat yourself, said Colonel James
Bingham, Deputy Postmaster. one dayrto
the engineer, who stepped into the Office
with the request that some money be
given him to keep the felines about the
place in food. The matter appeared
yerytrivial, and Colonel Bingham merely
smiled when he thought of the request.
One day when he was in Washington,
however, the Deputy Postmaster busted
himself by examining the accounts of
the New York post-office, and to his as
tonishment ascertained that an appro-
priatien was made annually of from
eighty to one hundred dollars for the
feed OF the cats in the Office at Gotham,
and the item appeared in that shape on
the books of the department.. When he
reached home he thought over the mat
ter that appeared so trif1ing, and it was
learned that The mousers were an essen
tial part of the force of the Office; that
they kept rats and mice out of the mad
matter, and otherwise made themselves
useful. He also learned that it cost no
inconsiderable sum to maintain. the
couple of dozen cats about the Phila-
delphia ofheeso an item was made for the
Philadelphia Office and about thirty or
forty dollars is appropriated each year
" to feeding the cats. Edwin A. Lewis.
Of the Eight Ward, is the contractor for
keeping the feline employees in provi-
sions,, and he is Familiarity known about
the Office as the cat's-meat'' man.
Lewis has charge of the disbursement of
the appropriation, md although the
names of the animals do not appear
upon the pay-rolls, yet he is obliged to
account for them, and signs the war
rant books ontheir acconnt. IL the cat
family increases in plumbers Lewis duly
reports the fact, and provision is made
for the newcomers.
There are about one-hundred cats Ia
the employ Of the Post-offiee Department
of the Government. and they are paid
for their services with food and shelter.
As simple as this matter seems, vet. the
government expends about 81 900 per
year in the maintenance Of cats at all
the principal post-offices and largo
public buildings in the country.
adelI3hiG Record.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1882-09-07
The Dakota Wheat Region.

Nowhere else in the United States, I'M
less it be in the distant and little known
valleys of Eastern Oregon and Washing
ton Territory. are such large crops of
wheat raised with such small expense
and such certainty of success year after
year. The grain is sown late in the
spring, as soon as the hot suns of the
northern latitude have dried the soaked
lands, and grows with marvellous rapid
ity. By August it is fully mature and
ready for reaping. ALI the framework
is done by machinery. The plowman
rides upon sulky-plow; the grain is
sown with a drill or a broad-caster; the
reaping machines bind the sheaves as
they move over the ground, and the
threshers do their work in the fields
driven by portable steam engines that
burn the straw for fuel The grain is
hauled at once to elevators at the near
est railway station, and then the whole
farm equipment of apparatus is, left
standing in the fields until needed the
next year. Except on the big '.bonanza
FARMS owned and operated by capital
lists, it is rare to find any sheds for inn
plements, or, indeed, any farm buildings
save a little bare box of a dwelling, and
rude stable of boards, sod and straw,
to shelter. the horses from the winter
billiards.. The red barns of the bonanza
farms make a great show upon the wild,
vaeantFprairie, but they are not much
larger than thrifty Pennsylvania farm
ers, who till hundred acres, build to
house their crops and stock.
1t is within bounds to say that, taking
one year with another, profit of ten
dollars an acre is made on the Red River
wheat-lands, after paying all expenses
OF seed, cultivation and marketing. The
great merit Of this magnificent grain
field does not lie wholly in its richness,
however. Its structure is peculiarly
favorable for the transportation OF its
product to the seaboard. Two hundred
and fifty miles of rail transit brings the
Red River wheat to Duluth at the head
of Lake Superior, from whence there is
understandings all the way to New York
harbor. Dakota seems to have been fitted
by nature for a vast, permanent wheat
field. The conditions of climate and sou
exist for producing the best grade OF
wheat and the largest average crops
harvested for succession of years in the
United States, except. perhaps, Wash
ington Territory From, the "North.
aCeSt ,, IN the 1(eufayu.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1882-09-07
Jersey Mosquitoes.

Captain j. w. Anderson, of che Brit
isfi bark Emanuel Swedenborg, which
arrived at Philadelphia last Sunday with
cargo OF iron from Spain, is plainly en-
titled to whatever glory there may be in
spinning the most audicious yarn on re-
cord about the Jersey mosquito. on
Cape May. the Captain swears, his. bark
sailed into vast army of mosquitoes,
ravenous from their long flight, which
took complete control of the vessel and
all on board. In five minutes they had
drawn as much blood as ever an old
time doctor drew from a fever patient.
and in half an hour they had succeeded
in boring through the Captains thiekest
winter overcoat. ..I was driven almost
desperate he declares, and climbed
up to the maintop, thinking to escape
the ferocious animals. You may know
how glad was when I found that they
had not got up so far. The first mate
called to me to know how it was up
there. | told him TO come up and bring
up as many OF the men as could be
spared. This he did and there we STAYED
all night. When supper time came our
Chinese cook went below and filled a
basket with cold vituals, which we
hoisted up to our perches on the shroud.
The men took hour-turns in going down
on deck and managing the vessel. We
slept aloft. as we feared to venture on
the deck. About four o'clock a stiff
breeze sprung up, and the mosquitoes
began leaving us. Many of them staid
on the boat, however, until we reached !.
Delaware. At the Breakwater I at
tempted to send a dispatch to the con-
signees in Philadelphia but my hands
were bitten so badly thatI was unable to
write and had to get the telegraph op.
orator to pen the message. ~ ailalel-
phia Times.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1882-09-07
I Weed Seeds. rss,s

IL AS the season advances the numerous
weeds that escape destruction begin to
ripen their seeds, and scatter them over
a wide extent OF territory. No time on
the farm can be spent more proftably
than that Of gathering up the weeds be-
fore the seeds are ripe On plowed
land, where the system, of clean culture
is pursued, the weeds will be DESTROYED
long before they are large enough to
blossom, but on the edges of ploWed
land there is always avery inviting, as
well as secure place for weeds to grow.
lis in such locations that weeds are
able to grow unmolested, until they have
matured their seeds; for it is only the
most thorough and careful farmers that
keep the weeds down in such places.
The season passes off SO rapidly that the
weed seeds are ripened before the farmer
is aware of it. Coming as it does in the
haying season, when the farmer is so
hurried with work, that he has but little
time to examine any fields, except those
where he is at work, it is not strange
that many weeds on the borders of the
fields sometimes get the. start of even
those who have well managed farms.
8 IA single hour with q scythe win
destroy q great numbered weeds; but
once hoeing is not sufficient for most of
weeds; many Of them if cut before well
In blossom, win as soon as cut grow
again, sending up numerous shoots
which must be cut again before the seeds
begin to ripen. Twice cutting at the
right time will destroy most Of weeds:
but there are some that SO persistently
send up fresh sprouts that they need to
be etit several times to prevent seeding.
Sorrel belongs to this class, and may be
considered one Of the most troublesome
weeds that infect our land When once
it gets well established on a farm, it is
very difiicrlt to get, rid of it. Where
the land is rich it may be killed out in
plowed land, and ON rich grass land
the growth of the grass is SO heavy that
the sorrel stands but small chance. but
on poorer parts of the farm it requires
constant vigilance to keep it from iniur-
ing the crops. He who intends to keen
his farm well cultivated must see to Il
that no weed seeds ripen in any neg.
iected corner of the farm.-Massachp
sets Ploughnsan.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1882-09-07

The Bezliper Zsstaag prints p
detailed account than has yet appe1
OF the recent shooting Of three chile
by q sentry in Berlin. Two d
children, eleven and thirteen yea:s
were, it appears, playing the othei
on some of the grass plots round
Inyalidensaule when they were va
off by the sentry stationed =
COlumns. After being spoken q W.
times they seem to have left %
hidden ground; but when the sea
was relieved sc five psf m they g
back again on to the grass. %
sentry in turn ~ordersd them %;
this time instead Of obeying theJ -
to mock the sentry and throw ss
at him. Thereupon the batter eI0s|
down his rifle to, the loading
and loaded with ban cartridge. ~
this the children ned in terror ana
nearly reached the Panke BrlQ& q
q report was heard, and the iNp
dren, togetiIer with a third chic ~
years old. who by chance cana
the square at the. momant, AL ien@
ground. Passers, by hastepea
spot, when it was found thai sns
child. who had quite acolde
peared on the scene, was desa
the other two were badly w.
The bullet fred by the sensf!
fact. struck one child below tp1.
shoulder and passed out agan
back. had then passed th1ou
fleshy part ofthe arm Of the scco1f
and had finally struck the fnnn
on the right side of the chesf e. y
through his lung. The senst{
once relieved, and an inqairy = ~
been held; but it is repoFsa
court found that the soldier go
in his rights. and that conseqa
could not be punished in apy Wy
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1882-09-07
a Lo,leIJ, Death.

He was dying and alone. Not one of
his kin was near to render the last sery-
ices of love to the man whose life had
been q wreck. He was self-ruined man.
He thought of it bitterly even then, as
he lay under the trees with the blue skv
for roof and the leaves bending over
him with plying shade; thought of his
wasted opportunities, his blighted facul-
ties, and the shame of this death, like an
soutcast or wounded animal! burning
with fever. he could not crawl again to
the cool running stream that seemed now
to be purling through his brain. Listen |,
Was that his mothers voice? No! it was
only one wild bird calling to another.
His means disturbed the winged crea-
lures about him. O, God! was this what
his years of manhood had led to-a
lonely death in the woods, with no
kindly hand to close his sightless ewes |?
Where were they all! He called feebly:
.'Motherr' for his mind wandered. The
sound broke the stiffness of the woods
and bright-eyed squirrel frolicked down
the tree and looked curiously at the
dying stranger who was pewerless to
harm it. He was dreaming now of
home; he thought he was IN his own
room under the roof, where the scent Of
the laburnum trees reached him, and his
mother held his hot hand in hers and
smoothed the moist curls from his fore
head; and he could hear the woodpecker
on the roof tap-tap-tap, and thus dream
ing he fell asleep, and slept till the
shadows of night slanted through the
trees, and
In the dim and distant ether
The first star came shining through
AND another-and another
Trembled softly in the blue.
Then he awoke, clear headed, and
with the calm OF great silence about
him; his dim eyes wandered to the stars
to the cool blue skies-to the far off
Heaven above, where he knew now his
mother had gone; he was not thirsty,
nor hungry nor suffering any more, and
all the letters of ice and sloth seemed to
have fallen away, and soul and body
alike bathed in the waters of ineffable
peace; he did not even feel the chill Of
death on hand and heart, and the brea Ga
that fiuttered on his lips was as serene
and painless as the sweet cool evening
air. What he did feel at the last was a
caress-warm and loving and gentle as
a mothers kiss the farewell OF his last
friend, who had deserted him for a few
hours to find a mouthful of food. The
faithful dog that through i'll report and
abuse had followed the fortunes of his
master; whose half-human heart was
rent now with dumb sorrow. who all
night long watched there by the silent
form and kept every harmful thing
away. tss
So they found them-the dead man
and the dumb watcher; and few lines
announced to careless world, .sAnother
tramp found deadr' But He who caretb
for even sparrow's fall, who sees the
and from the beginning, will make His
OWN record of that lonely death.
Leave him to Gods watchful eve.
Trust him to the hand that made him."
Detroit Post and Tribune.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1882-09-07

Charley! Charlcy!' called mn !.
her younger brother; s.doss't o. sr, y
those briers; come over here Il N
gardenl tail .ffk NE ~ = "
.Ho! stay in the garden! who wan,
to stay IN the gardenPh answered m, ss'
Charley, with 1great conleInnt ~. u
guess you think I'm a pirl ID want =. i
play where IT'S all smooth md ss,s Y
things Ho!n M agf,y..sIgf - s' '
That's not it. Charley. but Y.
know we both have on our foo,l slsals !
and we must be ready to, ruu ou;si
when we hear the carriage drive m n,s, !
the gate with Aune May and coS, i
Harry and Alice.'' ,,s $3.50
81 know that as we'll as you tlo i "a
Charley, pushing his way thhjbSk n.
hedge as he spoke. &. Girls srep oosi
for any thing but to sit and seT 81 /
mean to cl---'' s. i il 3sisa Il 81
Ella felt like giving some aucrv !.
swer, but she checked herself. asJ 81
on with her sewing as she st undsr IL
big tree, wondering what made ChsrLs|
break off his sentence SO suddenly
Ella. Elsism cried q 3jitifullFo;sk i
last. !. come help me! 'm aettiuc 4
torn. O-oh!''
Sure enough, Charley pas ssttine u
torn; some big thorns had CAUGHT ii
new trousers, and the harder BE ytr1r
gled the worse inattershenanie
"Hold still DEAR said Ella. = c,pt
help yod while you Kick 81 "a b9rs'
now you re- free. ) Obi Oharleyfas
Charley, clapping bis hand ii bh |
trousers, knew well enough what Elkt |
.'OhM meant. 1T meant anernik n +
tear in his new clothes, two coqsni
coming to spend the lay, and j id
little boy sobbing in the nursef3 Ill
the nurse would stop scolding and msh
him fit togo down and see the Dmpnt
The very thought of all this nasI
made him cry.
oh! tAey'n BE- hers III iif mllt
boo-hoor' he sobbed;..what Shalt IN
why, stand still, that 3 81, III
Ella, hastily threading her needle Vii
a long black thread; !, stand juzt Il
dear, till I mend It. = : ''s
= ..Mend It u cried master Chkla. "A
lighted. 20 Ella. VII sypu2
an Certainly + wiil,n She answered
very gently, at the SAND tins bekiHnh,
to draw the edges of the, tear toeelhs
you know girls are not good III u
thing but tolsitlaiid sew +
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1882-09-07

Few SCIENTIFIC workers have spread
their interests over so wide a. field as
Sir John Lubbock; and yet it is not diff
cult to trace a certain thread of continil-
ity running through all the subjects to
which he devotes his leisure with such
exceilent effect. For example, his re-
seArches into. the origin of civilization
and INTO the habits of ants and bees. di-
verse as they appear, have still this
point IN common, that both deal alike
with the evolution of social commune
ties from lower sporadictypes Of life. In
deed, he holds that, though the anthro-
pold apes approach nearest in all animals
to.man IN bodily structure, the ants NAV
fairly rank next to as in social ORGANIZE
ton and in general intelligence. They
even show certain indications of pro-
gressfve Development within their own
aelasA Eof some ruder species live main
Eby the chase, Ike hunting sayares:
other more highly evolved types have
domesticated the aphides, and SO re-
semble the pastoral races of mankind.
while still higher kinds, such as the
harvesting ants, have reached the agri-
cultural stage of civilization. Their
marked division of labor, their institu-
ton OF slavery. their elaborate archi-
lecture, a1d their regular roadways. all
bring into strong, relief the analogy of
their nests to human societies.
: When Sir John Lubbock began his ex-
perlments he intended to conduct them
chiefly with bees and wasps. He soon
found, however, that those singing and
flying insects were unpleasantly excita-
BILE in temper, and that ants were much
easier creatures to observe from every
point OF view. To ants, accordingly. the
larger part of his volume is devoted.
Inc particulars about the different modes
q lighting adopted by the various spe-
eIes, thelr manner of building, their ath-
ietic games, their cleanliness and their
drunken actions. are often ludicrously
quaint ln their suggestiyeness of human
anaiogles. Even more SO are the facts
IS 10 their domestic animals, which Sir
John Lubbock has very specially inves-
tigated. Besides the aphides, which thew
milk as cows Ito adopt the usual similel
and whose eggs they preserve through
the winter. they keep several other do
INVESTIGATED insects, belonging to over 500
species Most Of them, including the
two commonest, a beetle and wood
louise, have lived so long in their under
ground homes that they have become
quite blind by disuse of their ewes; many
OF them seem to produce secretions which
fAe ants eat; while others appear to act
sssscavengers, ortoemit agreeable odors.
~ some cases the insects are so helpless
that they have to be fed by their masters.
Equally curious are the relations SUBJ
sisting between the different kinds of
ants themselves. One small species lives
in the wallis which partition the nests of
9 larger neighbor; and these occasionally
Parry off the Larvae OF their involuntary
hosts asfood. In another case, smaller
kind seems to be kept like cats by its big
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1882-09-07

AN old Kentuckian says: I'm all nv
life have never seen two genuine negro
women kiss, and ! have often heard nv
father remark the same thing. He was
over sixty years old, and frequently told
us twas tradition through all his family
that the negro women never kissed. 4
friend of mine, who has been great
traveller. who has visited Africa and
Hayti, has remarked to me the strange
fact that negro women never kiss. Why
is it?''
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AN exchange rather dryly 81
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the oppressive weather doesn
the weather at all
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An educated catfish, which answers
its masters call and does many tricks,
amuses people in Paducah, Ky.--M T.
Post,
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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1882-09-07

- Few scientific workers have spread
their interests over so wide a. field as
Sir John Lubbock; and yet it is not diff
cult to trace a certain thread of continn-
ity running through all the subjects TO
which he dnYDfes his lais11ra@ with ruah