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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-02-28
For Young Readers.
AN UNHAPPY LITTLE GIRL.

1 don't know how it happened, but the worlds
gone wrong to-day!
There's not bit of real fun in any sort OF
My delly's just as sulky, my dog won't show
his tricks,
My sister Lii IS crosser than pair of crooked
sticks;
When Nursey went to brush my hair she
jerked it by the roots;
And now the rain has gone and spoiled my
best new Sunday boots;
The apple that l took to school was sour as
There's not thing but has spite against
poor little mel
And here's the hardest part of all-the tears
are in my eyes
told mamma, and thought of course, that
she would sympathize;
Bnt when she heard the story, she only smiled
and said:
az think my little girl got out the wrong side
of the bed!"
And then she went and left me there as IL I
were to blame
Instead of other people And it's just per-
feet shame
If girls orly mother, who should comfort
her and kiss,
Is going to say cruel words, and turn away
like thisl
The wrong side of my bed, indeedl I'd really
like to see
What difference that could ever make to any
one but me.
It's other folks I'm talking of, SO hateful and
Who make the good things horrid, and all the
bad things worse,
/ Like cook to-day at breakfast, who lust began
to scOld
Because simply tolo her that the porridge
was all cold
And her mullins were too heavy and no tea
was in the pot;
Suppose was little late-she might have
kept them hot!
Then Kit and Sue came after school, and each
one played so rough,
And talked SO rudely, that at last we broke up
in huff,
And | declared I'd never play with two such
hateful things;
And they said something Just as mean, all full
of pricks and stihgs
I'd like to know whose fault it was, or if twas
wrong to say
That since l was the Oldest there, ought to
have my way?
Now, could mamma think possibly the horrid
things they said
Could have the least connection with how /
got out of bed?
1t makes one so unhappy It makes one feel
SO blue,
To have your mother and your friends all lay
the blame on you.
When any one with half an eye can see as plain
as day
It's everybody else who acts in such an awful
Perhaps they'll all be sorry when they see me
For who would ever want to live the life I've
lived to-day?
Perhaps they'll realize too late how wicked and
absurd
1t is to crush person down without one kindly
word,
And then, perhaps-that is, Ihope-they'I II turn
around and see
How perfectly preposterous their hints have
been to me;
For what does this big world care, when all il
done and said,
For how one wretched little girl gets in or out
of bedl
wide AlUdIte.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-02-28
Dirty NeapOlitans.

It is singular, more than singular,
that people full of piety, charged with
love of art and surrounded by every
thing in nature that is lovely and beau
tiful, should be SO under the domino
ton of the fiend dirt. It is singular
that they should not make some faint
efforts to assimilate themselves to the
conditions about them, that they should
not get into some sort of harmonious
relations with their surroundings.
But they don't. The Neapolitan is
irreVocably dirty. In his natural state
he makes no effort at cleanliness, but
resigns himself to dirt, pure and sim
pie. His body is as filthy as it can be,
and he has not even the hypocrisy to
attempt to deceive confiding world by
keeping his hands and face clean. He
wears dirt as badge, it is q self-evi-
dent, obtrusive truth. When partially
tanned, as in the case of shopman or
shopwoman, a waiter at hotel, or a
musician, any occupation where he or
she must come in contact with other
people who have a prejudice against
filth, he does attempt cleanliness, but
it is hollow mockery, sham so thin
that it is at once detected. He over
does cleanliness as all men do who at
tempt that for which they have no
taste. His neck is so scrupulously
clean down to the line where the collar
encircles the throat that you know at
once that from that point downward
the body is in its normal condition, and
if your eyes bear testimony to his clean
illness your nose does not He carries
with him his own condemnation-one
sense opposes the other. You feel that
his collar has been turned, that the
other end of his turned cuffs are filthy,
and that his stockings are something
awful. And as the pretense of clean
illness on a dirty man or woman is worse
than the undisguised article, worse than
self-evident dirt, you turn from the bo-
gus article and give your preference to
the natural unwashed.
| Likewise in the matter of honesty. If
a Neapolitan had the remotest idea of
| business, could he persuade himself to
deal fairly with any one, and do bust
ness as other people do, would make
much more money. Should he ask even
double the value of an article and stick
to it, he would get it, and he would do
a great deal more business. But as it
is people buy as little as possible. No
one knows what to offer and everybody
expects to be swindled, no matter how
much of a reduction from the asking
price they get. The Neapolitans seem
to regard falsehood as a luxury and
swindling as an enjoyment.
The dirt and dishonesty of Naples are
greater than Vesuvius, and longer to
be remembered than Sorrento. You
never get either out of your nose and
feelings. Think of Naples and these
two blemishes rise first in the mind.
Were the southern end of the peninsula
to sink into the sea, the world, SO far as
the people are concerned, would be the
betterfor it.
| It's true and pity tbs it's true.
| ID. r, Locke, in Toledo Blade,
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-02-28
FARM AND FIRESIDE.

A veterinary writer says that man.
gers should be nearly on level with
the feet, and that high hangers irritate
the throat and create tendency to
heaves.-N. Y. Herald.
Puff cake: Half a cupful butter,
one and one-half eupfuls white sugar,
one cupful sweet milk, three cupfuls
flour, two eggs, three teaspoonfuls OF
baking powder.-Tbe Household.
Frosted feet: Rub the parts affect
ed with kerosene every night. Use
plenty of it and sit in front of moder-
ate fire while applying it. Three or
four applications should complete the
cure.-Ercbdnge.
Baked sweet apples: Wash them,
do not pare or core them, set them in
the oven in baking pan with little
water in it and bake slowly several
hours. When done, they will be of a
rich, dark brown color.-N. Y. Tribune.
Don't let the hens get into the horse
stables. If grain is fed to the horses
the hens will want their share, and in
getting it will so foul the feed that the
horses will not relish it. The best place
for the poultry is in their own quarters.
1t pays to keep them there and treat
them well.-M 7. Examiner.
Potatoes intended for seed should
receive no rough handling at any time.
If any are bruised, spread thinly in a
dry, cool place until the surface has
dried over. If put in large bins while
the skin is bruised many of the eyes
will have their vitality injured. This
is the cause of many unexplained fail
ures of the potato CROP Chicago Irtb-
at9ae.
Plum pudding: Four eggs well
beaten, one and half pints of milk,
one and half pounds of butter or suet,
flour to make stiff batter, one pound
of raisins, one and half pounds of
currants, half pound of citron, half a
nutmeg; grease your pudding cloth
well, then dredge with flour, and tie
tight, giving little space for swelling.
Put into boiling water, and boil gently
for three hours, turning frequently.
Dip in cold water, and turn out.-De-
tr0it Post.
An Ohio farmer has been successful
in growing the Hubbard squash by the
following method: In spring manure
strip of ground extra good through
what will be your potato patch; this
should be near the middle When
the time comes for planting squash
seeds make q row of hills on this
ground previously prepared, planting
the seeds between the hills of the po
tatoes. The first potatoes dug should
be those adjoining the squash row; this
will allow the squash vines room to run
without being further disturbed. Where
he has followed this plan he has never
had vine injured by the squash bug,
and. further, he gets two good crops of
the land.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-02-28
HeIned Rob Himself.

''Talk about cool thieying opera
tons, said a wholesale druggist of
this city, ''but what do you think of a
man standing by and seeing his prop
erty carried away in bulk right before
his eyes, and never knowing it? Well,
l did that very thing one day last week,
and found it out only yesterday Our
house had ready for shipment to diff
ferent customers in the West several
cases of opium, quinine, and other val
liable drugs, worth in the aggregate
several thousand dollars. They were
on the sidewalk ready to be carried to
the freight depots was standing in
the door when two-horse truck
stopped in front of the store and backed
up to the sidewalk. 1t had our name
on the side. There was no one but the
driver, and as one or two of the cases
were quite heavy he asked me to have
some one from the store help him load
them. called porter and he helped
the truckman put all the goods on the
truck. The driver drove away. This
week we received inquiries from all the
consignees as to the goods, and inquiry
on our part ELECTED the unquestionable
fact that the truck was not ours, and
that we had aided thieves to plumber us.
There seems to be no doubt that the
wholesale drug houses of this and other
cities are being systematically robbed
by gang of thieves, who are in collu-
sion with the clerks, porters and other
employees. No other article of mer-
chandse can be so easily or profitably
appropriated as drugs. They cannot
be identified and many classes of these
goods offer large value with small bulk.
A dishonest drug clerk has rare oppor-
tunities to make money at his employ
er's expense with comparatively little
danger of detection. There are middle
men who pay large percentages to
clerks. know several former drug
clerks who are now proprietors of pros
porous retail shops, and who, I am
morally certain, were enabled to en-.
gage in business entirely on the profits
OF their stealings from their EMPLOYERS.
A few ounces of quinine or opium, or
other drugs that are always in demand
at high prices, taken from packages
daily; are enough to bring big returns,
and it is next to impossible to know
whom to suspect in an establishment
where large number are employed.
Thousands of dollars are lost in this
way annually by the wholesale houses.
and understand that decisive meas
ures are to be taken to ferret out and
break up the gang. Three or four of
the middlemen are almost positively
known. ~ Y. San.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-02-28
Wounds Of Generals in Action.

A curious article might be written
on the immunity from wounds in action
of some Generals, and the ill-fortune
of others in becoming the billet for
bullet. No commander adds Mr.. A.
Forbes in the EngIGb Illustrated Mage
zine), was ever more forward IN the
fighting line than Sheridan, yet he never
got scratch. Skobeletf, who many
time went at it with his own good sword
and in his white coat and on MS
white charger headed every charge VIA
a reeklessriess that men called madness
had as complete an immunity as 10
carried the charmed life that ms s0i-
diers ascribed, and was wounded Only
in the quiet trenches by chance p ssl !,
fired into the air a mile away. wen.
inoton was but once hit; the onnes
that carried away his boot heei
scarce gave him confusion.
Grant was never struck; no mols
was Napoleon. Of Sir Neville Cnsh-
berlain again. one of the most alssn1
guished officers of our Indian ariDi,
the saying goes that he never Wens ~ M
action without receiving q wound, an1
the gallant old man has been hgnnnP
pretty steadily ever since the frs1 ~ >.
CHAN war. Bazaine was . man 20 WIZ. =
fortune was not stingy in the mal1e H.. -
wounds. At Borny there came % III III
the leaden reminder that he was niy = =. -
though this time it was into nesfiy :
great sham as itself.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-02-28
Farm Cellars.

Farm cellars are usually made recep-
tacles for milk at this season. They
are, on the whole, perhaps better for
this purpose than any other place
where there is no specially provided
dairy, but in most cases are not very
well arranged. As rule they are not
well lighted or ventilated, are too damp
and too cold. and too often are used as
stores for Objectionable matters; or
rather these matters, such as some
odorous vegetable, are not properly
cared for and become Objectionable,
more on that account than for their in
trinsic character. But the general care
of cellars includes their proper use for
all purposes, and few suggestions at
this time may be useful. Ventilationis
perhaps, the most important matter to
be considered, And this is so because of
the fact that the cellar necessarily be-
comes filled with what we may call
''ground air" or air which percolates
and circulates through the soil. Here
tofore this fact has been wholly ignored,
and it has only been brought to notice
since the rise of what might be called
sanitary science. This air which rises
from the floor and percolates through
the walls of cellars at every change of
temperature or pressure is known to be
charged with much unwholesome and
injurious matter, which, of course, finds
its way into the dwelling and en-
dangers the health of the occupants. 1t
also Injuries the milk, meat, or other
articles that may be kept in the cellar,
and is the unsupported cause of much
trouble in this respect. So that the
ventilation of cellar should be very
thorough, and air should be admitted
from the purest source and discharged
into some channel by which it may be
not only carried off. but actually drawn
into it. A chimney that is in use is the
best outlet for the ventilation of a cell
lar, and the outer air, brought in at least
three feet above the ground. is the best
source of fresh supply. The next i'm
portant matter is the temperature, and
this requires much careful arrange
ment. Because cellars are used as
places for general storage, and while
vegetables require to be kept as cool
as possible, milk and cream need to be
kept warm. This makes division of
IHe cellar requisite, anu separate apart
ments for the vegetables and the milk.
Then the ventilation should be also
made separate, for it will not do to
take air from the cold vegetable apart
ment into the milk-room. The latter
must be kept wholly separate, and can
be heated in several ways. A very lit
tie heat will raise the temperature of q
moderate sized cellar. A block of iron
made red hot, pan of hot water, few
hot bricks will often warm milk eel.
lar sufficiently, while pailful of water
placed in cold vegetable cellar will
absorb the cold and prevent frost, fol
| the water will freeze first and in freez.
ing will give out a large quantity of it:
latent heat, which actually raises the
temperature of the air in the cellar
N. Y. Times.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-02-28

-Nowadays-vide the opinion of a
veteran social Observer ''girl to get
a husband must be either pretty and
dashing or rich and vulgar The re-
fined, modest, educated and ladylike
girl of now apparently many years ago
islands no chance in cities like New
York, where fashionable society is a
glazing sham" And it must be admit
ted that there is more truth than poetry
in the veteran Observers opinion.
Y. Mdil
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-02-28

A religious society has been ~ ".
covered in Brooklyn which has kept ~, sn0
dead body of its leader for fourteen u o1 y.
in the expectation that life wiz n M. ii
stored to it. One of the members pa saw !.
s.Brother Haynes is still with us. nc e !, Z
only dead for a punishment, ana ID ~ :
few days will return to life. 10y ~ I'M N
he never wanted to die, and mace -
his mind that he would not. goa, ~ =
punish him, caused his death; DuI -
will restore him to life to WorN .d LIZ,
earnestly for His glory. = -0'VO''s"
Eagle.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-02-28

Some New York doctors should paw
their billspromptly. The following are
their reputed yearly incomes: Lewis
Sayre, deformity specialist, SAC, 900;
Austin Flint, ST.. liver and lungs, $780,
600; Cornelius Agnew, eye and ear, $780,
600; I. E. Thomas. diseases of women,
$4,000; Robert Taylor, deformities,
5000; Alfred Loomis, fevers, S35, 900;
w. A. Hammond, nervous diseases,
$4,000; j. III. Carnochan, surgery of
the bones, $25, 200; Abraham jacob,
diseases of children, S25,OO0.-M r
Heus
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-02-28

ION Wall Street," writes a New
York correspondent, could is an OBJ
ject of alteration and admiration; Van
derbilt is looked upon as a lucky dog
and good fellow; Sage as miser;
keene as typical gambler. - Chicago
JotyRoE
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-02-28

"A large furniture house n y. TT 4
York employs woman to travel IOr -. =
Her husband was in the employ q ~ ~
same concern. and, upon MS q asn' "
solicited the situation s''d gO'
=. Herald,
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-02-28

Flour to the value of 1926. 600, 600
is annually consumed in Great Britain
and Ireland.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-01-04
The Damage Done by Sheep Dogs.

Inc damage done by dogs, always O.
the most worthless character, in all
districts where wool growing is carried
on to any extent, is only known to those
who dire lily suffer from them The
feeling in such districts against dogs
as rule is very bitter, and many val
liable animals, guiltless of harm, are
frequently destroyed There is scarce
ly a Legis AZURE in any State, where
wool growing is prosecuted to any ex-
tent, which is not applied to for laws
TO protect sheep against the depreda-
tons OF dogs, by imposing a dog-tax,
and creating fund out of which the
damages shall be pad 10 those suffer-
ing from dogs where the owners Of these
midnight providers may be unknown.
I'm many regions where sheep farming
is almost the exclusive line pursued.
and on the successful prosecution OF
which farmers rely almost entirely for
their income, the ravages of scalawag
dogs, which nobody Is willing TO own
when these charges are brought against
them, will sometimes in n single night
or two sweep away the profits of a
year. We are not surprised that peo-
pie, especially farmers who live, in the
ma n. isolated lives, should value the
protection which good dog VIII afford
to their premises. This, no one can
deny is more or less valuable, though
it is a well-known fact that burglars
care little for dogs They know how
to ''fix' them, if they are likely to stand
in the way of their operations and upon
the whole the loss suffered from sheep
dogs are hundreds of times over greater
than any protection afforded by them
against thieves.
We know it to lie fact that many
farmers have sold off their sheep simply
for the reason of the damage suffered
from the most valueless sort of mongrcl
dogs. No matter how numerous these
sheep killing dogs abound in neigh
bOrhoOd. nobody owns them nor pays
taxes for them, though they are found
to be fixtures upon their farms. But
there is enc sure mode of discovering
the guilty parties That is by examin-
ing their mouths and bodies for the evi-
dence of their crime. They are sure to
have plenty of blood-stains about them,
and If traced to them by this unques-
toned sign. no opposition should save
them from death and their owners from
being mulcted in round damages. The
loss of so much valuable stock is enough
TO excite the Indignation of every farm
er suffering in this way; and there
should be nothing short of penal stat
ute as perhaps the most certain remedy
against these villainous depredators. II
will, if anything is calculated to do so
put the owners of such dogs in a very
unpleasant position. 1t is needless to
say that we have great love for reputa
bic dogs. No animal shows so deep an
attachment TO their owners, and there
are many breeds of these. The value
of many of these are placed side by side
with two-f1rty horse; but while we
freely make this statement, we as freely
repeat that there is no greater evil,
arising far above a nuisance, than ma
iority of the dogs everywhere existing.
-Gern,Gntoscn Telegraph.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-01-04
What q Fat Man Thinks and Says Of
His Kind.

Flesh is materialized philosophy.
Fat men are nearly always philos-
ophers. Dickens challenged the world
to point out a mob of fat men, and
although / was not as well acquainted
with Mr.. Dickens as am with certain
active young fellows who visit me the
first of every month. yet / agree with
him, / never saw mob of fat men. |
never saw fat man hanged. Once in
Kentucky fat man was sentenced to be
hanged, but when an appeal to the SUI
preme Court was taken the Judges,
who were too fieshy to pull on a boot
comfortably, told the condemned man
that he was too fat to be hanged with
any degree of pleasure, and consequent
ly gave him palm-leaf fan and
sent him to the penitentiary to
await a pardon, which was not
long in coming. 1t was afterwards
proved that the fat man was innocent
History shows that all philosophers
were fat, that is, history proves that
some of them were fat and that others
should have been. Don't understand
me that great flesh is to be desired. I
do say though, that flesh is conducive
to philosophy. for none but the philos-
opher can enjoy an excess of adipose
tissue. When a man discovers that he
is getting fat the revelation does not
impart thrill of pleasure. For some
time he has noticed that his appetite is
unusually good, and he has occasionally
detected in himself disposition to talk
of beefsteak and to read with pleasure
the old English novel where great roasts
are described in detail. His friends
used to ask: ''How tall are you?'' but
now they want to know how much he
weighs. He is annoyed. He does not
contemplate with satisfaction the grad
ual filling up of his 'weskit' and the
tightening of a coat which was once
too large for him. He decides to diet
himself, but he soon abandons the idea
Il never saw a man gain flesh SO
fast said friend, meeting him at the
Governors reception. ~ by, only
rail. How much do you weigh. any,
how?"
Another man comes along and says:
''Hellc! When are you going to stop
growing?'
We'll" he finally meditates, Il am
fat, and can't help it. A man who's
going to be fieshy will be in spite of
everything he can do. / don't intend
to let it bother me-"
After this life is much smoother. He
finds himself laughing heartily, and he
reads humorous works with a zest he
never before experienced. He is a
philosopher now; not on account of
mental maturity; not that he has learned
to place the proper estimate on the
worlds pleasures, but on account of
his flesh.-M. Y. Mercury.