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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-01-18
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS. II !,

|a --Fogg speaks Of the cackIings of the
hen after she has laid an egg as oVa' u
tones. Boston zs.aDscxtpG. y 9f55H 81 II
Beware! He who courts aud goes
away may live to court another day; but
he who weds and courts giriss ssin may. Il
get in court against his win. .-Quiz,
--Ae Cortland man whoread at the end r.,
of a friends marriage notice, !" No q
cards q sent him aeucher deck byi the sT
first mail. Marathon Indepeadsst. ! !,
"A leading lady in London society -
t'took the caken by marrying aerbaker W
Hewas probably well-bred fellow when; = :
he found he was needed. " +. sAdosr:
itSSer .5FtJ Hs91@a ,gssiVE .sodF
1ts' Viola" wants to know; what "
rhymes with honeymoon. Wen, dear.
so far as our observation goes, we think "
it is money soon, and don't let your E
| fcud husband forget it. --Burdette. >.
I "A French doctor makes q business 7
| of curing snoring and 'warrapts acute. .:I
for ten dollars. (. But be isn't making,
much money, as few men viii admit that
they snere.-Boston Post. .tii9H IL II
bacon has said that '.reaaiag makes n
a full man. and many restaurant,
| hccpSrS nave hUOpbtu bliC ptes1 ON DuH
plying their customers with gaqrniHg II
lpaperS-N. O. Picayurae. :. s,
i A young woman in OH City posses-
| ses a bass voice with accompass TO q. .hatgS
in the bass cleft. 1t is understood that
h when this girl asks her young man il he
| loves her as much t0-dayJas he did last. 4
I Thursday, he unhesitatingly replies in
| the affirmative. --Derrtct. ls.Ha
AT resent divorce trial the Wifa
I was asked question to which she made
| the following reply: when I was first
| married was go jealous efmy htlsbandf
that / thought every woman saw want
ed him, and now / wonder how ever
could have been sach d fool as 10 have
wanted him mysef.n yeago.a -
tTA gentleman eonversing with d
| group of ladies concerning ah' Absentl,
beauty Of thirty at the very MOST. Ye.
| marks: "How handsome she must have
BEEN The words are crested With
! sympathetic murmufs, and be continues
| imprndently: "And fer that matter she
is so yetr A glacial sflenCe Eensaes,s
with feverish futtering Of, fans{ rmeo
1.-THE following is the reply Of g fond,
father, who had just received q letter
from his son, q student in, hiiJ own alma
mater: MY dear Son-Accept nv,
heartiest congratulations. / vfas engaged
TO the same Miss Bunter when IfRa6 i'm /
/ college, and can appreciate the fun you
are having. Go it while you afe young
Your loving father. .'--Bo1doSl1 OrteNS
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-01-18
Entente COraiale Spilled.

I hrs, Bezumbee, tall, elderly lady,
who always dresses in deep black and is
very much given to making calls. will
from now ON make no more friendly Wis.,
its to the mansion Of Colonel Bailey Day
ton. She was sitting on the gallery sur.
rounded by the family. when q large
turkey buzzard alighted on tree near
the house. .7s e.
What . large buzzard!'' remarked
Mrs. Bezumbee. s..
aEss Is that a buzzard?H asked little En-.
ily, very much amazed.
Yes, my child, that's s a buzzard. y
20 g But it don't look much like your
-" Oficourse it don look like me. Who
says a buzzard looks like me?" asked
Mrs. Bezumbee. Indignantly.
g Why, ma does. Every day when she
sees you coming. she says, ':there Gomez
that old buzzard again. "
Tableau. ~ Texas Sftin0S.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-01-18
SCHOOL AND CHURoH.

4 ~
Three hundred and three school
houses have been builtin Indiana during
the present year at total cost of
$35. 400. a'.'-a 'siitA
LIT is saidt that the lowest easteuff
InGiais that Of eohblers;. and yet itwasa a,
cobbler, William Galley, who first effect
lively carried the gospel there.sHs Ui eloilW
Ninety 4yeass ago the first English
missionary offered himself, and now the
whole number of foreign evangelical iiE
nlissionariesis 5,0Q0s and they are leadl
ers of. native host of $4,000 helpers of
all kinds ati si9@Isi 1la S4fE0d sii
-4Nx Isaac Holden. NJ. P, recently ST
told some school children that. although
he was seventy-iYe years old he had only
recently begun Understand geography.sF
Mr.. Holden should come to America and
run for Congress: 'Faog
The American sBaptistI Home1sMis-glE
sion society has just completed its fiftieth.
year. During its existence 1t has paid
out for mission work 81, 200, 900; for ed.
ueation among colored people and In
dams 81, 100000. and gave as loans to
build churches $500, 900.
The revivalspirit seems to be largely 81 {
abroad in Virginia. Many religious
meetings are attended with extraordinary
results; At an outdoor meeting recently,
In one OF the Methodist circuits, one hum
dred and thirty conversions were rs- 1:
ported. 0.sfa ..;..... -
The New York City Bible society's
report just issued states that for the year.
ending September last 100000 immi-
grants landed inslNew. York, amoagE
whom and among others were dis,
tributed 125, ,935 Bibles and douArtsdo
Bibles, 40, 277a were for officers and "a
crews of emigrant steamers and sailing
ships, and about 81, 900 among Che ifnmt- Q 2
grants landing at Castle Garden.goas 40
t. The Inter-SemiparY alliance recently
met at Chicago. More than thirty theO5 .
logical seminaries of all denoninations
of Christians, including Episcopalians,
Baptists, Methodists, Pfesbyterians,
CongregationalistsJ were reprasented.f
Missions, Catholic Aggressiveness in the
West, Personal Gensecration, and the
Extention of Christ's Kingdom were
among the topics diSchssed. s'.i'islss
f. Jews, Of more ignofanEieiAss; hold
q superstition that they. can for money.
buy good deeds from one another A
case recently occurred N Trey; NJ sXsjI'i
in which Q fracasgtook place pnyaccount
of a Jew refusing to sell his credit IN
Heaven for $50. The Fahbiss,ioh' ksie
ALLOW the practice. but it is derived from
misinterpfeted maxim IN the Talmud:
I s'Good deeds buy the future orld.a'a-sHl 81
|. NJ r Ergaiaael. afa,f, oria.,si,.9 e.f,,,
I The Rev. S. r. Driver, the successor
to DR.. Pusey as Regius Professor of He-.is
brew and canon of Christ church, OK 81
ford, is an able Hebraist, the author OF
the best work on the Hebrew lenses, 4 II
meulberpf the Revision Committees and-Er
la liberal in theology. He took his B. "
a. IN 1870, carried off in icompststio1.fout. &. Z
scao1Iasnops, anu IS as yes 9nse young II
only year or two ago; and his sudden1u
Ifpreferment is without precedent, He
was one of the editors OF the 'varioruhi :
Bible. : Great things reexpected of him, Il
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They finally had left town. Left their I

They finally had left town. Left their
debts---left their creditors-left all the
hollow, false, unreal castle of social
position which they had reared so
patiently around them, all these strug-
Cling, ambitious, unprincipled years
With Aunt Tabby's financial supplies
entirely withdrawn, they knew too well
that further struggle was unavailing.lae q
And Mabel Wilton became the old
lady's heiress, after aIl.-Heten Forrest
GrGUeS.
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AT q juvenile party a young gentle
man about seven years old kept aloof
from the rest of the company, The lady
ofthe house called to him, saying, ''Cofne
and play and dance, dear Choose one
OF those. pretty girls for your wife. .
Not Ikely!'' cried the young cynic.
''No wife for me! DO you think want
to be worried out of my life like poor
papa?"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-01-18
THE NEW YEAR.
O. the usw sear, gladand free,

o. the ussF gear, glad and free,
Fearless, fearless, cirsless, bold,
. Light G every home is he, rtf Z
= Pride ofal.the ypung andiold; .,r..,., Z
Everything is tilled with life,
Every heart IS full of cheer,
Every hu siness has its strife.
In the active glad New Year.
In the busy halls of trade,
In thu rdnfthfng rolling mial a
Where commercial gairs ara made
ass And the wneeis are never stiIG. s'ftass &
Into M IN sioni gran aud hirh. saE z
Into hoveis low and hrow1 ~
CLEANS tne sih e U9ht from the sky,
Comes the .tew Years blessing down.
WSsAE eEs #asa&&s
Bells irp.m every church and tower .
Pea:. aloud their sitvery notes, = ..''' 2,
~ Telling of the New Years power ''s9
s6 fram their noisy. brazen throats; 81 i'i-t
p. Teiief joy through all the7fand, irfT ir.ttH
u Tep of coming days of gold, Eat@ 5
TeD of peace on every hand,
Tell OF shepherds in the fold
Joyous, loYial, happy year.
Chasing gtobm and doubt away,
Bringing light and love and cheer 4
Out of darkness into day,
Glad We hail thy crimson light,
Haitit with the harp of praise,
Hail 1t by Our firesirfes bright,
Through the coming endless days.
Like the falling Of the dew.
On the withered grass and flower.
Like thesHnshfhe Of tho tr1s
Into hearts grown old and sour,
- Like aneagle in its flight p 8li 4
ts. ,0E8r hillteps bright and clear, ssssi n
Cons Is the gentle norningIight q g,t~z
80 Otthe Joyous. glad New Y ear,
sfals is b. iss.,s sstl --Chtcfego IIlter-ocsgns
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Judaism in tie home, says the Jew-
isb Messenger, ''has converted the rude
Bednuin into the s2lf-reliaat Hebrew
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-04-28

be accredited as an aliment for all the
little ailments that may occur.
1t is very important, too, that Prof
Binz does not at all accept the usual
distinctions between spirituous and fer
mented liquors. While he can not but
lament the disastrous consequences
both to the individual and to society. Of
excessive indulgence in spirits, he main
talns that 1.-The confirmed beer drinker
is no less an alcoholist than the spirit
drinker, though the outward effect on
his bodily frame may be different.m
The dire effects of beer drinking is at
tracing the attention of the German
Government, and the resulting race de-
terioration is making itself felt. The
other point stated by Prof. Binz is no
less important. He urges the hurtful
effects of the by-products, and does not
conflne his view to fusel oil. at is the
duty OF science to acquire more exact
knowledge of these by-products, of art
to eliminate them from alcoholic drinks.
and OF the State to repress the sale of
impure alcohols." Every gain in SAM
tary knowledge and in study of the
conditions of perfect health tends to
drive alcohol from use and to find in
those foods which correspond with the
human system the ailments which sus-
tain human life.-M. Y. Independent.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-04-28
Eucalyptus Trees and Malaria.

About 100000 eucalyptus trees have
been planted on large tract of land in
the Roman Campagna by the Trappists,
to whom the tract was granted by the
Italian Government The vast marshes
in the vicinity of Rome have exhaled
deadly vapors for many centuries, and
no device hitherto employed has dimin-
ished their malarial influence. But the
planting of eucalyptus trees has already
made Ire Fontane the abbey of the
Trappists, habitable throughout the
whole year, although the monks have
heretofore been compelled to desert it
during the sickly season. The result
has excited the wonder of the Italian
Government, and intelligent people ev-
erywhere are discussing the Importance
of introducing the eucalyptus in every
malarial region where it will grow. The
tree is useful for building ships and
bridges, and also for railway ties, and
as its growth is rapid the considerations
in favor of its introduction are many.
The eucalyptus thrives in France, Spain,
Portugal and Italy, and in Australia it
is especially fourishing. 1t may not
prove adequate for the removal of the
box of quinine pills from the pocket of
every resident of New Jersey, but it will
certainly thrive in the south, where its
influence is so much needed to counter
act the miasma which produces deadly
fe'gers and devouring epidemics. ~. y.
Null and EMPRESS
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A New England Cure for Intemperance.

There are great many Incorporate
persons who would like to become tenn
perate; but the overriding love of the
taste of liquors conquers all their good
resolutions, and again and again they
fall. . '..
Many years ago there lived in New
England large family of children, the
mother of whom, when any sickness
occurred, obliged the invalid to swal-
low dose of castor oil in port wine
wine was never used for any other pur-
pose in that family; and the bottle
labelled port wine was horror to each
child. ...I ..-
The family grew and separated, 60
ing to all parts of the Union. 1 have
taken pains to trace each member, and
not one of them had any inclination to
drink intoxicating liquors. 1t has been
no effort for them to be temperate, their
stomachs loathe the taste.
Would it not be well for those afflict-
ed with the ''vice or disease of in
temperance, who desire a cure to try
the New England prescriptionP-San
Francisco Rescue.
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WOman's Sphere in India.


The essential features of courtship
and love as viewed by the western mind
do not enter the matrimonial calcula-
tions of the Hindoo. To him they are
eXtraneOus issues-after events. There
is to the ''mild Gentoo' no period of
honeyed courtship, no sublime passion,
eliminating in marriage, as with us.
Courtship pure and simple becomes to
him an after-marriage duty, and love,
he thinks, must reasonably follow.
The Hindoo parent earnestly believes
that The early marriage of his children
is paramount duty, one of the first
laws of life, most essential to their hap
piness and welfare, and pleasing to God.
He desires, therefore, to see them form
ally united in marriage during his life
time.
Tho Hindoo boy or girl is also taught
from infancy to regard early marriage
not merely as possibility, but car
dinal religious duty, pleasing alike in
the eyes of their parents and their
Maker. Ii is not, however, with them
q question of discretionary age, per-
sonal taste or selection, nor of worldly
means; all these RhUdG dago .(God will
give). Their first duty is marriage; but
their parents arrange that. There are
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-04-28
Two Enterprises.

$50 you would marry Ethel?" de-
manded the father, as he wheeled around
to face the trembling lover. .
ayes, sir" ...., ....,.......
Sand you have money in the bank
real estate bondsAstocks, say $4,000
WORTH"
"N-no, sir, but can work up. II
am bound to win, sir. ....t.I....,
"HowP ..........
81 shall 90 to Florida buy 100 acres
of land, raise 100000 oranges per
year for the market, and in ten years L
Shall be rich g.r........- tg e.
'Hum! Yes! HUM growled the old
man. VERY enterprising-very good
opening, young man?"
"Y-yes, sir!''
al have an enterprise on hand as
well. Ethel will marry a Buffalo
widower this spling. He is consump-
tive. He won't live two years. He
will leave her 100000. Go hence! Go
to Europe for three years. That will
kill him, bury him and give her year
to wear weeds and get over her grief.
Then she's yours, cash and all, and [
will put my hand on. your head and
bless you!
When the young man left the house
he didn'tseem to believe it, Wall Street
Daily Ne,cS. .'
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-04-28
Drink, But Remember!

Ii you think it is your duty to drink
Intoxicating liquors, by all means do so.
On no account violate your conscien-
tlous convictions, but while you raise
the cup to your lips, remember that
this draught represents the bread of
some starving brother; for the food of
at least six million persons is grasped
by the malster and distiller, and its
nourishment destroyed.
Remember that SO long as you are in
health these liquors are unnecessary;
two thousand medical men have as
serted it, and hundreds of thousands of
teetotalers prove it. ...rl .r..
| Remember that most persons who act
as you do ruin their health and shorten
their lives by so doing. 3. .t..
Remember that not drunkenness
alone, but drinking, fills our jails and
penitentiaries, our poor-houses and our
lunatic asylums; employs our Coroners
and our hangmen, and works mischief
| incalculable on all ranks and both sexes,
of which no human institution takes
cognizance.
Remember that drinking retards edu-
cation, industry, and every branch of
political and social improvement.
Remember that multitudes yearly die
drunkard's death. -..'..
Remember that every year multitudes
from your moderate ranks recruit
the wasted army of drunkards.
Remember that every drunkard once
tried to follow the example you set, and
on trial fell from his slippery grounds
into the whirlpool of intemperance.
Remember if you sanction the GUS
| tom you are answerable for its fruits.
Remember that the weak and tempt
ed ones look toyou, and that under God
it depends on you whether they may be
drunkards or sober men.
Remember that ''to him that know
eth to do good and doeth it not; to him
it is SIM and that there is ''woe for
that man through whom offenses come
to the little ones "
Remember that you can not be neu-
trail; and there will be day when you
will be unable to plead ignorance.
Remember that all this weight of re-
sponsibility rests with you, as you raise
the cup, if you think it right, but we
envy not your conscience.-C. d. SEQ
field.
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Aunt Sukey's Dream.

All the colored lottery players in the
city were highly excited over little oc-
currence recently. An old negro woman,
known as "Aunt Sukey," who lives in i.
shanty on the river side, between Seventh
and Eighth Streets, happened to dream
that a benk in which she had 81, 100 de-
posted was broken into by burglars and
her money stolen. The news so excited
her thatshe rose in her sleep and started
to walk to the bank. She woke up, how
ever, before she had gone more than a
few squares, and was so overioyed to
find it was only dream that she told
it to several of her acquaintances. The
news spread rapidly all over the city,
and the lottery. players, who are guided
mainly by dreams and omens, com
menced playing on that number in
nearly every lottery Office in town. 1t
is not on record that they realized any,
thing, but the run on it will probably be
kept up for several days. -Louisville
Conrier-Journal.
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Temperance Items.

THE YOUNG LADIES of Topeka, Kan,
have organized Red Ribbon Clubs, the
members of which pledge themselves to
reject all attention from young men
who use intoxicating beverages. This
is practical prohibition Chicago Inter
Ocean.
The PROPOSED PROHIBITION AMEND
MENT was passed by the Senate of Ore
gon by vote of eighteen to ten, and
by the House by a vote of fifty-two to
six, two members being absent from
each house. The measure will come be-
fore the next Legislature, two years
hence, and if agreed to then will be SUBJ
mitted to the vote of the people.
THERE WAS A SCENE in a New Haven
Catholic Church that might be enacted
in all churches with good results. The
priest preached Temperance sermon,
and then asked every man who would
take pledge to abstain from liquor
year to hold up his hand. Sixteen hun
dred hands were raised, and, with all
the Solemnity of the sacrament, the
priest administered the pledge to them
they on their knees and he with the
crucifix in his hand.
INDAYs PAsTI have seen some drunk
enness and the effects thereof. L have
seen the dead bodies of women muir
dered by drunken husbands; l have
seen the best men in America 90 down
to disgraceful graves; have seen for
tunes wrecked, prospects blighted, and
L have pursued great many pages of
statistics. There are crimes on the cal
endar not resulting from rum, but were
rum eliminated, the catalogue would be
SO reduced as to make it hardly worth
the compiling. Directly or indirectly,
rum is chargeable with a good ninety
per cent. of the woes that affiict our
country. Nasty, in tie Toledo CO.,
Blade. Pow
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-04-28

"A bankrupt's lot is not happy
one in China. The broker of a
silk firm in Shanghai which had recent
ly suspended payment was set upon in
the street by creditors of the firm,
beaten and hung up by the cue so that
his feet swung clear of the ground.
Having been discovered by the police in
that painful situation, he was taken for
protection to the police station, followed
by the creditors, who declared that if
he fell again into theirhands they would
bite him to death and eat him after
ward.
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Temperance Reading.
THE DRINKING BRIGADE, OR THE
BRE WER' s. COUNSEL.

Brew, brew, brewl
For there's gold in the sale
Of our jolly brown ale,
And together wen wink,
. While the poor ninnies drink.
How they go for the slush
When their money is flush, .s..
Till they quarrel and fight,
AS they reel home at night, -.r A
All as drunk as can be,
Coming fresh from a spree:
But you know it's our trade,
While our license is paid;
So huzza and huZza! ...t ...
For the drinking brigade.
nil, Brew, brew, hrewi
Through the whole of the land f"t
Wen supply the demand, f.|....
For we care not for right,
Let the people get tight; ,..
We have nothing to lose,
Let them drink when they choose.
For we feel not the pain,
And we see not the slain; ...
Or the murdered ones gore. .I
AS it flows on the floor.
All our fortunes are made, 10. .- .,.
And our taxes are paid,
And we stand at the head
OF the drinking brigade.
We have influence great,
In each county and State;
AND we care not for those
Sober people, our foes,
THOSE fanatics, who think
There's no good in strong drink
Let them blow about jails,
AND complain of our aes,
Or the drunkards who die,
AND the women who cry
Ger the graves that are made
BY the old sections spade, r.
On behalf of themselves
And the drinking brigade.
Drink, drink, drink
Let each jolly old soul
Hug his firm friend, the bowl;
And forever we'll sell
Till they sink into hell;
As we laugh at the deed,
While the children in need
To the work-house are led,
And on charity fed; ....
Till they blow off the froth,
Ere they suck in our broth,
Their own selves to degrade, .-t
In support of our trade,
And the revenue drawn
From the drinking brigade. .;..
You should drink while you can,
Ills by far the best plan,
For the use of your tin
Well fill up your skin
With our jolly brown beer,
Which we brew every year. .
Ills to finger your cash,
That we simmer and mash
The vast mountain of grain
From the valley and plain.
.'Tis alone by our aid
That the drunkards are made.
SO three cheers, and huzZa
For the drinking brigade
I...R. Thompson, in Nel0 HdUen Commonwealth.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-04-28

The idea of the stars and stripes of
our national flag is said to have been
suggested by the coat of arms granted
by Henry VIII. to Lawrence Washing
ton. The shield is ofsilver or white and
has two bars in red, surmounted by
three tive-pointed stars or rowels, her
aldically known as mullets. Over the
shield is the crest, a helmet encircled
by ducal coronet of gold, out Of which
issues raven with partially uplifted
wings. ....I-
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-04-28

One night lately a middle-aged man
asked the Sergeant at a Parispoice sta
ton to arrest him because he was ut
terly destitute. He described himself
as Baron Won R. and gave as his
place of domicileV Vienna. Papers proved
that he spoke the truth. He had held
an important post, which he was COM
PEELED to resign on accounted a scandal.
Then he took to Baden and Monaco and
lost all. Then he gave German les
sons and got employment as clerk in
several business houses, but was dis
charged as incompetent and earned
a living as eleaner-up in various work
shops. From that he came to picking
upa living on the street ..