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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1882-02-09
Trimming Trees.

There are frequently pleasant days in
January that the weather is not too cold
Tor the fruit grower to work in his
orchard comfortably. As this is usually
season of leisure, when such DAYS come
they should be improved by looking over
the orchard, and cutting off such limbs
as may be thought necessary for the inn
provement of the orchard. Limbs cut
off at this season of the year, when the
sap is comparatively at rest, leave a
wound that can be more easily protected
from the action of the weather, than ii
cut few months hence, when the sap is
in motion.
10 trim tree just right, requires good
Judgment, a good eye and some expert
ence, as well as good tools. The saw
should not be only sharp but perfectly
straight, and set wide enough to run
easy; the knife and the ak should also
be sharp. To trim trees with poor tools
IS not only verJ disagreeable work, but
it is impossible to do the work well.
Some make a mistake in trimming
trees by trimming too much in the mid.
Ole, cutting out not only large limbs but
also all Of the fruit-bearing spurs, leaving
but asmall amount of bearing wood at the
end of each limb. While it is desirable
to cut out all limbs that cross the other
limbs and to keep the inside of the tree
SO that the fruit can be easily gathered,
there is point beyond which it is not
Judicious to go, as some of the best fruit
frequently grows in the center of the
tree; this IS especially true of some vari-
cites of apples.
There are some pear trees that grow
too high, and need to have their tops cut
off to make them grow more stocky.
The peach tree not only needs to be cut
off at the top but to be headed in on all
sides.
In trimming small trees one thing
should never be lost sight of; that Is,
that the trunks should never be exposed
to the hot sun; if the top does not spread
enough to shape it, few inches of the
lateral branches should be left to furnish
leaves for shade. Where large limbs are
cut off the wound should be covered with
gum shellac dissolved in alcohol, or white
lead mixed with very little oil.--Mas-
sac'satsetts Ploagtman.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1882-02-09
Paris, Mr.. x. was announced. 1t was

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Paris, Mr.. X. was announced. 1t was
he! After Miss Thursby had expressed
her thanks, and Mr.. x. had explained
his conduct, he said: 'sMiss, will you do
me the honor to become my wife?' To
which Miss Thursby replied: "You
know who [ ams but you do not know
the engagements that / contracted
toward my family when left America.
l will tell you what they are in order
that you may see that this marrige is i'm
possible sTmpossibler' ''Listen,l
When I left my parents they
made me promise two things firstly,
that would never sing on the stage,
and secondly, that would marry none
but an American eff Iwere to be-
come an Americana said Mr.. X Then
l should be free to dispose of my heart
as pleased ~, Two days afterward Mr.
X. returned. 81 shall leave for the
United States tomorrow. hope, with
the credit have, to get promptly nat
.uralized an American citizen. Go to
Paris, for it is there | shall come to ask
you to realize your promise; for you
promise, do you not, to be my wife?n
81 promise you." replied Miss Thursby.
Mr.. X, adds Figaro is now in America.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1882-02-09
Salt Tor Wheat rIslas.

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Salt is used as fertilizer, and usually
with beneficial effect on crops. It1
known, however, that a toollibersl aP
plcation of it will destroy vegetation. Y
is applied sometimes on the growing
crop in spring, but usually on the feld
and worked into the soil previous. TO-
seeding. A much larger quantity f1sy
be used when worked into the sell than
when applied directly to the crop; 3o0G
400 pounds per acre may besownbrosa.
cast on the crop, though one barrel p
$50 pounds is about the usual quantity
used, and three or four times that guam
tity may be worked into the soil wlts
safety. Used in this way it is benefcla
In destroying insects and worms i, fns
soil, as well as to promote growth ana
early maturity Of the crop. II is.noI
claimed that salt is a direct fertilizer, fot
sodium is not found to be an elenlenE q
plant food to any great extent Ia ne
cereal crops, but mechanical eilecs
somehow produced which is benehelai e
vegetation to a limited extent. LasbscS
son one of my neighbors used over io4
tons OF salt on thirty acres OF wheat isel
worked into the soil before seeding, iN
which he thinks the crop was much l@,l
proved; the Yield was over thirty bushes
per acre of superior quality Of wp p':.sx
The straw of grain when treated VIZ
salt is usually brighter and cleana 4
rust or fungi than elsewhere, VIM
would seem to show more healthy co1'
dtion OF the plant. r Root
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1882-02-09
A Romantic Story About Miss Thursby,

Figaro tells a queer story about Miss
Emma Thursby. At Stockholm one
night after concert, as she was waiting
for carriage in the rain, a footman ia
elegant livery came up and said that his
master had ordered him to place his car
rage at her disposal. ssWho is your
master?" II have orders not to reveal
his name, but to insist upon vour max
ing use of his carriage y In short, Miss
Thursby, with one of the persons who
accompanied her, entered the carriage
and were driven to her hotel. During
her visit in Stockholm, and in every
town in Sweden and Norway where she
went, Miss Thursby found the carriage
with the two white horses and the two
servants at the door whenever she
needed it, but the owner failed to make
himself known. Finally three days be-
fore Miss ThurshY left Scandinavia for
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1882-02-09
Dime Novels.

A young murderess in ST. Louis con.
fesses to have committed her dreadful
crime under the inspiration of the vicious
literature found in dime novels. She
was poor but respectable. Her life be-
came insupportable when contrasted
with the good times which was ascribed
to girls who ran away from home and
lived in the gilded palaces of sin which
the unfortunate imagine are asy-
lums of refuge. This is a strange
confession for young woman to make,
but there is reason to believe it is liter
ally true. The country is flooded with
vile publications calculated to lure from
respectable paths the young and unsus-
pecting. The glamour of romance
which they throw around youthful esca-
pades robs the inconsiderate lawlessness
of youth of all its repulsiye features.
The effect they have had upon boys,
nearly every parent fully appreciates.
But until the case of the young st. Louis
woman was brought to light few sup
posed the corrupting influences of the
alleged romances were undermining the
restraints and decencies of girl-life.
Hundreds of boys have been brought to
shame by them. The young lives that
have met with premature eclipse by the
poison which the dime novel supplies
are innumerable. Perhaps they will go
on multiplying to the end of time, unless
parental influence can meet the evil and
supply an antidote. There is apparent
ly no other way of counteracting the
disease. There is law for the assassin
and the common stabber, but none for
the moral murderer, who spreads with
invisible poison the spotless whiteness OF
young lives, even before they have grown
out of infancy,-Onaaho Herald. SIS
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1882-02-09
New ENGLAND Pr

The New England Protective Asso-
citation of Hotel, Boarding House and
Restaurant Keepers had convention in
Boston to discuss the s'dead- beat and
devise means of discriminating him.
A report of the proceedings says: Sad
faced women remarked that there was
no place here or hereafter bad enough
for the beat-forgetting boarding
houses evidently; and rate men claimed
that the wrongs inflicted on them by
beats were harder to bear than the sui
ferings of the Pondas.' - Legislation
on the subject was demanded.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1882-02-09

"A cattle drover tells of an old Cana
dian farmer who keeps his money rolled
around broomstick. The other dav
when he bought some cattle of him he
had nearly $4,000 in five-dollar bills thus
preserved,
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1882-02-09

"A number of Washington people are
trying to get up sort Of relief arrange
ments for dismissed clerks and clerk
esses. 1t is proposed to levy contribu-
tons OF ten cents a month on all Gov
eminent employees for fund to provide
temporary relief for the 'bounced'i and
to secure their passage homewsrd
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1882-02-09
Fable...The Clam and the Jackal,

One day a Farmer who was working
in the Field heard a great noise in a Thick
ct, and upon proceeding TO the Spot he
discovered a Clam and Jackal engaged
in deadly strife. The Clam already had a
Bay Window over his left eye and had
lost two teeth, and the Jackal was spit
ting blood and limping around ON three
legs.
''Ah! I'm glad you've Gomez cried
the Clam, as he caught sight of the
Farmer.
''And so am To added the Jackal.
Sand why this fierce strugglep'' asked
the Farmer, as he sat down on stone
between them.
'.Tll tell you in very few words"
said the Clam. ssThis Jackal went out
of his way to ridicule my speech. Now,
| do not want to Drag, but claim to use
good grammar in my talk, and I II leave
it to you if l don't?''
THAT wasn't what raised the Row."
protested the Jackal. 81 was walking
along the Sand when this Clam made
fun of my Gait. I don't claim to be as
graceful as a Cow, but the Clam had no
business to say that my Walk reminded
him of milk-stool running away with
a Barn-yard.' =
my friends replied the Farmer, as
a Hornet settled down on the back of his
neck, ''you are both wrong. In the first
place, if the Jackal had kept to the
woods the Clam would never have no
ticed his awkward Gait. In the second
place, if the Clam had kept his Mouth
shut the Jackal could have found M
fault with his Grammar
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1882-02-09
NOR AL.

SIN the third place. added the Hor-
net, as he carefully lifted the Farmer over
the nearest brush, ''if you had kept to
your field no Hornet would have con-
structed an Orphan Asylum on the back
of your neck. y
4 Aas.4a ANNEX.
The time to quote philosophy is after
the brickbats have done flying. Detroit
Free Press.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1882-02-09

supply OF sap. At the present time the
tree is full of foliage, though every other
one on the mountain except the ever
greens are bare of leaves. -
Another Bonapartist legend has
been exploded. 1t has been related that
when Prince Napoleon, afterward Ma
poleon Ill, descended on Bologne. he
carried with him tame eagle, the sym-
Dol OF his dynasty, which behaved like
frightened sparrow when events went
against his master. Count Orsi, who
took part in the exploit, says, however.
that the tame eagle was bought for one
pound by one Colonel Parquin during a
brief visit ashore on the night before
tbs Inflated attempt at rebellion.
Prince Napoleon never saw it; he did
not bring it with him, and it flew away
during the disorders of the mornings
failure.
A Paris paper tells of a man in that
city whose practice it has been to hire
an apartment, at rent of three or four
Thousand francs for term of three, six
or nine years. Then he begins to play
on the trombone, and to play abomina-
bly,. At first he plays an hour night
and morning; when the neighbors be-
gin to complain he plays two hours,
and SO goes on gradually until he plays
from eight O'Clock in the morning until
nine O. clock at night. BY that time the
landlord or the tenants have offered him
sufficient pecuniary inducement to
sacrifice his lease, and the trombone
player departs and besins his tricks
elsewhere,
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-09-07
Match Making In Castle Garden.

Castle Garden, as we'll as other places,
has its romances in real life, in proof OF
which the following is worth relating:
This morning corpulent and benevo-
lent looking farmer, who gave his name
as Amos Miller, from Germantown, N.
Y, called upon Capt. l.. p. Reichardt at
Castle Garden. and said: 81 will give 825
O month and full board to o man and wife
who will come to work ON my farm"
There were no married couples in the
garden. Mr.. Miller felt sad and remark
ed: II can't possibly go homo without
'em. He then asked permission TO speak
to some of the applicants for employ
ment. This was allowed. and soon after.
ward the match making farmer induced
tall, fne.looking German, named Adam
Horner, TO join his life and fortune with
comely little German girl, named Ro-
siba Haeffner, both Of whom hail from
Wertenheim, Baden. The groom. who
is "A years old, had for his best man Cap.
tain Reichardt, and the bride, who is but
IS, was given away by Matron EsslinRer,
and Pastor Berkemeier tied the nuptial
knot. The.y Young people had never be-
fore spoken to each other. Farmer Mil
Ter, Who appeared elsted ct his success
at match making, heartily congratulated
the bride. and gave the groom s. not6
ITO put up the beer" as he expressed II.
After the ceremony about half dozen
persons Of the two sexes asked Captain
Reichardt IL he would kindly remember
them in the next opportunity. and give
them . show whenever married couples
were wanted ON fsrms."
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-09-07
The Pale Girl in summer.

There seems to be pleasure in store for
the pale young girl when the school
closes, the books are slowed away in the
dark closet and the new clothes are made
ready for the summer holiday. Visions
Of travel, of seashore enjoyment and of
possible CAVITY at fashionable resorts fit
through her head and keep her busy.
Preparation for jaunting keeps her in a
whirl of excitement for two or three
weeks, for girl must have trunk of
new things before she can set out on o
summering expedition which has for its
object increased strength and renewal Of
health for her.
Macy people think it greatly to the
advantage of pale girls to send them to
elegant and costly hotels, where fashion
regulates with strict precision thu num-
Der of changes in dress which are each
day to be made. At the dinner tables of
these hotels is daily exhibition of q va
riety of food, some of which is fit to eat,
while some is not. Accompanying it is q
catalogue of the articles to be eaten,
which is generally printed in bad
French, the French, however, being in
many instances superior to the cookery
In the morning the inmates of the hotels
ride in covered carriages so that the sun
cannot bronze their delicate skins. In
the afternoon they go to their rooms, ex-
hausted by the 1abors of the morning,
and refresh themselves by taking maps.
In the evening there is hop or q
dance or ball. Most of this
method of daily life is improbable.
Some of it tends to indigestion and kin
dred miseries. None of it is calculated
to give the pale girl that healthy glow
which she needs, or that firmness of
muscle and general health which every
growing girl ought to enjoy. The fash
ionable summer resort system leaves two
great necessities for the girl unsupplied.
One of these is sunshine. The other is
exercise.
The careful observer of life at the sum-
mer hotel will notice that the chief con-
Germ of the girls and women is to keep
their skin from becoming sunburned.
To do this they cover themselves with
capes. laces, handkerchiefs, parasols and
gloves of various materials. A recent
authority on fashionable apparel decreed
that Lisle thread and silk are not proper
materials for gloves, because the sun
shines through and tsns the skin. There
fore the young ladies must swelter in
buckskin gloves, in order that their dear
little hands may be sufficiently pale and
delicate when they return home. As to
exercise, there is little or none of it, nm
less it may be the dancing in the big din
ing-room at night. The atmosphere of
such room is not always the best thing
in the world to breathe.
This state Of things grows worse and
worse each year and harder and harder
on the pale girl. If the girl could leave
half of her uncomfortable clothing at
home and rough it at some plain place
by the seaside for few weeks, dressed
in boating-suit or something equally
free from formal display and elegant dis
comfort, she might gloriously gain
health, strength. and fitness for the work
Of next fall. She needs sunshine, pure
air. good food and plenty of common
sense.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-09-07

The Georgia Citissn relates the follow
ing incident:
In shs upper end Of this county, last
week negro, whose nane We failed
70 learn, appeared with the smallpox.
When Il became known the citizens
Of that section quarantined him in :
cabin isolnted from other houses, and
warned him TO remain there until the
disease had subsidized. the patient then
being IN state Of oonvalsscsnce. But
when the negroes 81 work ON the Red
Clay and Onitewah connection, now
in progress Of construction, learned
that cass Of smallpox vas near BY.
several lsw1ess and hsartless sooun-
drsls, fearing : spread 81 Ne dissass,
srmsd thsnsslvee fsw nights EGO,
ard peoooeded 10 ~ po1ient's oAbin, end
9 y Nv - bid shot hin 1hrouGk ~
vjn6oW, 1ro1 ~ hoass, and Hkoea1Iy
eEonA1pa ~ par victim. Ihe wvooohGs
ma1e thois oo6apo.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-09-07

Mrs. Sedgewick, q stately matron, in
Vatican wrapper and blonde cap, re-
ceived Dolly in the great drawing
room.
"Ohl'' said she, lifting up her eye
glasses, you're from the florists, are
you? Well, 1 know nothing about these
things-I only want the rooms to look
elegant. Tell your husband to spare nc
expense"
"Mr. Frixham is not my husband,
said Dolly.
"Your father, then"
'But he is not my father" insisted
Dolly, half laughing. "He's no rela-
ton at all. I will tell him, however"
Exactly" said Mrs. Sedgewick. 81
particularly desire plenty of white
roses, as l am told they are customary at
this sort of affair. It's an engagement
party"
Indeed r said Dolly, trying to look
interested.
Between my daughter, Clara, and
Mr.. Alfred Fitzlan," said Mrs. Sedge-
wick, with conscious complacency.
Dolly said nothing, but the room,
with its futed cornices and lofty cell
ings, seemed to swim around her like
the waves of the sea. And as she went
out, with Mrs. Sedgewick still chatting
about white rosebuds and begonia
leaves, she passed the half open door of
a room, all hung with blue velvet, where
yellow tressed beauty sat smiling on a
low divan, with Mr.. Fitzalan bending
tenderly above her.
He has only been amusing himself
with me-" said Dolly to herself.
There was a sharp ache at her heart;
but, after all, it was only the sting of
wounded pride. Thank Heaven-oh,
thank Heaveni it was nothing worse than
that.
Honest John Deadwood was driving
old Roam steadily and soberly along past
the patch of woods where the velvet
messed boulders lay like dormant beasts
of prey in the spring twilight, when a
gray figure glided out of the shadows
and stood at his side.
"John" she whispered.
Dolly ISIS never your"
Eyes, John" said the girl gently but
steadily, I'm going back home with
you"
"God bless you, Dolly~ said the man
fervently.
"For good and all. if you'll take me,
said Dolly shyly. 1--WE had quite
enough of city life; and Til help you
with the greenhouses, and I'll try to be
y good little housekeeper at home. Shall
I, John?"
John put his arm around her and
Rugged her up to his side
"Darlingr said he husxily, cts most
too good news to be true; but If my word
is worth anything you shall never regret
your decision of this day."
So the pretty flower girl vanished out
of the bower of smilax and rosebuds.
The Sedgewick mansion wasn't decor
ated at all, and Mr.. Frixham had lost his
new customer. And the turquoise ring
came back to Mr.. Fitzalan in blank
envelope.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-09-07
TIE FLOWER GIRL.

''She has got face like one of her
rose buds" said Mr.. Fitzalan to his
friend, Frank Calverly.
81 have heard of her more than once,
returned Frank. "'The pretty flower
girl, people call her, don't they? Old
Frixham has doubled his custom since
she came here"
"And the best of it all" added Fit
zalan, with laugh, sis that she is quite
unconscious of her own ATTRACTIONS
little country lassie. who thinks only OF
her business, and never dreams that she
sortment."
Lets go in and buy a Marechal Mel
bud and two or three sweet verbena
leaves" said Calverly. 81 should like to
zee this modern Flora of yours"
Dorothy Penfeld stood behind the
counter OF florists store, sorting over a
pile of fragrant blossoms which lay on a
tray of damp green moss. Trails Of
smilax wove their green garlands up to
the ceiling; heaps of gold and rose
petalled buds lay in the window; drifts
of purple heliotrope perfumed the air,
and white carnations lay like hillocks of
snow against the pains of the window,
while spikes of perfume3 hyacinths and
cape essamine flung their subtle scents
upon the air. And Dolly herself. with
her round, dimpled face, pink cheeks
and soft brown eyes, exactly the shade
OF the ripping hair, which was brushed
simply back from the broad, low brow,
was . fitting accessory to the scene.
She looked up - the two gentlemen
entered. and . sort Of crimson shadow
overspreaa her face for . second.
Have you got one Of my favorite
buttonhole bouquets made mp, Nisa
Penheld?' Fitzalan asked, with care.
Les bow and smile.
II don't know" said Dolly, softly.
"a rossbud, sprig Of heath and two Of
three myrtle leesves--that il what you
like. No, have none made mp Just II
present; but I can tie up bouquet in
half minute, Mr.. Fitmlsn."
Ono for me roo. il you please" said
Csverly, touching his hat.
'sJust the somer'
Dolly lifted her long eyelashes, whict
were like fringes Of brown silk and gave
him shy glance.
"A little different please. Consuli
your own taste. Mis- Pen0n11."
II like The double blne vlo1otn," sid
Daily, gently. with gsranium leaves.
ts1hsn thsy shall b ny lAvoFits low
IN, alsc, " ed CnyeTly. Gnllantly.
1hs Os.1lsnen - kasd1y 1nlsn thei
leavo Wken a. Ekixhnm, ~ 1oris1
ounG5od n, WITH soend, I'd lnoe, shinin(
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