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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-09-24
The GREAT MAJORITY.

Michigan Farmers Experience with
Strapped Theatrical Companies.
mo, it isn't the tramps 1 complain
OF, said Wayne County farmer, as he
called for ginger ale yesterday. II can
drive tramp off by simply bringing
out my shotgun, but with this other
class it's different"
What class?'
''Why, these busted theatrical people
who are hoofng it back to Detroit.
They come along at all hours of the day
and night, and in all sorts of shapes.
When a chap turns into your gate and
announces that he is Damon, and that
Pythias is in fence-corner half mile
back, too far gone to foot it another
rod, aud he backs this up by quoting
Shakespeare and giving you the route Of
his company for four weeks, why, you We
got to do something.
'.Of course"
Romeo came along the other night
and reused me up, and [ went to find
Juliet on the grass under pear tree,
IcSeiuS dIboF Walk Oh bWelby-GWO
miles. They had to have something to
stay their stomachs and put new life
into 'em, and I thought they'd eat me
out of house and home. I'd had lead
ing men, leading ladies, Williams, lovers.
chambermaids and property men walk
in on me singly and by droves, and !
wish the season was over. Gurus how
they all tell the same story
What is it?''
why. they had the boss play and the
keenest manager. Everything was cal
culated right down to cent, company
was the hest on the road, and there
couldn't be no such thing as failure.
But there was. The treasurer skipped
with the funds-weather too hot-too
many roller rinks -allus some good rea,
son for busting up. Poor critters!
Whenever | am woke up at ;ght by a
voice calling out: Me noble lord. a
stranger begs a glass of buttermilk of
thee, I get into my clothes and go
down, feeling as if all the cold meat in
the house likewise belonged to him. n--
Detroit Free Press.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-09-24
Texas centipede.

The centipede is not pretty il sect.
He runs too much to legs. Once /
thought them of no use, but after seeing
a lot of little Chirieahua Indian pa
pooses pulling centipedes from their
holes and greedily deyouring them.
legs, poison and all, no longer doubted
the wisdom and benefcence of their
creation. In the course of my check
cred career | have had several adven,
lures with centipedes and always came
out second best. A centipede can raise
a blister on a mans body quicker than
red hot iron. and If you don't imme-
diately apply remedial poultice oil
pounded prickly pear and dose yourself
inwardly with post whisky-which latter
is warranted to kill anything but an
army mule-the resultant effects may
be serious. Centipedes usually attack
their victim at night, when he is asleep
and can't defend himself. They are
armed with about 200 little lances con-
yeniently lashed to the toe of each foot
-of which they have several at
the base of each lance is "a tiny sack of
venom. If centipede crawls across
your body-which he'll most likely do
if you lie down anywhere within half
mile of him-you'll have no difficulty in
following his trail and you'll remember
his visit for weeks. No man ever died
from the bite of a centipede, but have
known one to make man wish he were
dead. philadelphia Times.
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NUMBER 20.
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Rev. Thomas Spurgeon, son Of the
great London divine, is pastor of o
Aourishing Baptist Church in Auckland
New Zealand.
About twenty per cent. of the grad
aating class at Williams are six feet
high or over, or, to be exact, eleven in
class OF sixty Troy Times.
Christian. make note OF this; The
net gain in communicates the past year
was nine times greater in foreign mis-
sions than in Christendom!--Cb Christian
linton.
1t has been decided to rebuild the
Roman Catholic Cathedral at Charles.
ton, S. c., which was burned in the
great fire of 1861, and.at that time con-
sidered the finest ecclesiastical building
in the South.
There are over one thousand men-
bers in the three Congregational
churches in Scranton, Pa. Between
two and three hundred of this number
have been admitted since the 1st of Jan
uary.
The avarage Sunday plate collee-
tions of Rev. Newman Halls church, in
Westminster Bridge Road, London, is
$175, and OF Rev. G. 81. Spurgeon's
congregation in the great Tabernacle.
$345.
"A Boston Courier reporter asked
the Superintendent of Schools the other
day: How does it happen that there
are so many old maids among the
school teachers?' and he replied: BE
cause school teachers are as o rule,
women of sense. and no sensible woman
will give up sixty-dollar position for
fortY-dollar man."
The journals of the English Society
for the Propagation of the Gospel in.
Foreign Parts are TO be. printed. It
may not be generally known that those
journals contain the earliest historical
records of the Church in America,
Canada, and the West Indies. They
will fill five octave volumes of about
700 pages each, and the cost of the set
will be six guineas. Only 250 copies
will be printed, unless the number of
subscribers who come forward win
warrant the issue of 500 copies, in
which case the price will be five guineas
set.
There is church in Milton County,
Georgia, that's badly split up on the
subject of cyclone pits. 1t seems that
a goodly number of members OF the
church have dug cyclone pits, which is
considered by q majority of the church
as fragrant violation Of their doctrines
and temptation to God to wipe them
! off the face of the earth. As the pitt
diggers were more fearful of cyclones
than of the wrath of the majority, they
have been turned out of the church.
They Immediately organized themselves
into church. under the name of Cy-
clone Primitives - CbicGqo Journal.
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The Water Supply.

It should never be forgotten that
water is of more importance to animals
than solid food. Every drop of water
taken into the stomach is absorbed into
the blood and passes through the sys-
tenn, leaving behind it in the blood
whatever injurious impurities it may
have contained. Moreover, the water
swallowed by an animal goes at once
into the stomach and is absorbed into
the blood in few minutes 1.-THE water
is icy cold it takes from the stomach
and blood a large amount of heat and
chills the system dangerously. Most
of the ailments and diseases of cattle,
sheep and horses at this season are due
to impropriety in the water supply;
either it is impure, or scant, or is too
cold; and all these defects should be
carefully guarded against. In the
dairy the water supply is the most im-
portant part of the whole business. M
r. Times,
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CHOLERA.
The Theory That the Disease May be Rem
dered Harmless by InoculatIon.

The Theory That the Disease May be Rem.
dered Harmless by InOculatIon.
People are much more willing to ac-
cept DR.. Ferran's theory that cholera
may be prevented by incubation than
they were DR.. Jenner's positive demon
stration of the efficacy of vaccination.
One is the complement of the other; and
belief in the one is likely to be followed
by a willingness to be convinced of the
worthiness of the other, but as yet DR..
Ferran refuses to reveal the secret pro-
cess which he uses, and the world must
be permitted to express certain degree
of incredulity until 1t knows the cause
which produces the effects claimed by
him. Jenner S discovery was so simple
that the dullest mind could comprehend
it, yet the learned scoffed at il for years,
and the ignorant even now have super
stitious horror of being operated
upon. Had he possessed some
secret device which he would not
reveal even to scientists, the ben-
eficial effects of vaccination would
not have been known when they
were, if at all. DR.. Ferran lives in
very different age, as is proved by the
fact that, although no one but himself
knows exactly what his process is. he
finds many people who are willing to
be operated on.
The report of the experiments in the
town of Alcira, Spain. as made by HIM
self, are of great Importance, if true.
OF the 10000 inhabitants he inoculated
9,100 and of the 1870 deaths from
cholera only ten were of persons who
had been thus treated. This record is
convincing enough on its face, but it
may be that the persons inoculated
were ones not exposed to the full rigors
of the plague, and if so the mortality
might be considered sufficiently large.
The doctor will have to reveal his secret
and give others an opportunity to ex-
pertinent with it before the world will
be prepared to acknowledge him as a
second Jenner. The American medical
journals query that since one attack Of
the cholera itself is no safeguard against
another one, how can inoculat on be
expected to accomplish anything? will
also haunt a great many people, profes-
sionals as well as laymen. - Chicago
Herald.
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stamped on Winny's feet to keep thers
from freezing. Did you notice that I
limp little? Ishall walk lame as long
as live. Sometimes there was splash
in the black water below, as some poor
fellows stifened hold relaxed, and he
fell from his place in the rigging. There
was not breath of wind, nothing but
the bitter, bitter fog. How long could
we hold out? Where were weP How
long would the ship be before she broke
up? Would it be by drowning or by
freezing? We asked ourselves these
questions again and again, but there
was no answer. Death stared us in the
face; we seemed to live ages of agony
in every minute-and yet. will you be-
lieve me, that all seemed little in COM
parison to the thought that after all the
struggles and the sorrows, after all
those ten long weary years, held my
girl IN my arms at last!
She had pulled one corner of the
cloak around my neck q stood on
level just below her, and her hand Law
there with tit was the hand that
warmed me more than the cloak-and
her cheek rested against my own. Often
thought its coldness was the coldness
of death, and almost exulted in the
thought that we should die together.
And then would catch the murmur of
the prayers she was uttering for us both,
and know that life was there still, and
hope lived, too.
Well, well! Why should I dwell Oh
such horrors, except to thank the
Mercy that brought us through them
all? Day dawned at last; and there
was the shore near by, and soon rockets
were fired, and ropes secured, and one
by one the half-dead living were drawn
from their awful suspension between
sky and sea, and landed safe on shore.
They had to take Winny and me to-
gether, just as we were, and even then
they had hard work to undo the clasp of
my stiffened arms about her. I knew
nothing then, nor for long after; and it
is wonderful that Winny was the first
to recover, and that it was she who
nursed me back to life and reason.
And how did l ask her to marry mep
Upon my word, now you ask, I cam t
remember that | ever did. That seemed
| utterly unnecessary, somehow Caste
NASShAASplOfio AOOh W1Gu
you have been staring death in the face
for few hours; and words were not
much needed after we had been together
in the rigging that night. Somehow
was glad it was so; glad my girl had
taken me in my cap and jersey, for a
common sailor, and yet loved the old
Dick through it all; glad she never
dreamed was owner of Indian Creek
farm. and the richest man in that end
of Ontario, and had wealth and posi-
ton higher than Mr.. Lotus, the young
Squire at home. The people she was
with had all gone down on that awful
night; she had no one in the world but
me. We were married at Montreal
the Captain of the Antartic gave her
away and then brought her home to
Indian Creek. To see her face when
she saw the rocking chair, and the work
basket and the thimble! Heaven bless
| her!
There she comes, with her baby on
her shoulder. Come into dinner, friend,
and you shall see the sweetest wife in
the new country or the old; the girl
won amid the oceans rges.-Briqh,
| DaUS
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-09-24
PuNeENT PARAGRAPHS.

"A man is always wanting some one
to tell him how handsome he is. A
woman will just stand before the glass
and see for herself Springfield Regis
ter.
Scientists claim that cigarette-smok-
ing leads to idiocy. We do not know
how true this is, but are satisfied that
idiocy leads to cigarette-smoking.-
Teras Siftings.
"A scientific journal says ''few fishes
die natural death" That is not our
fault. just as many die q natural
death as if we didn't go a-fishing. .--Nors
ristowat Herald.
The worm is not the most despised
thing in the world when it can sleep in
flowers, travel in peaches and rest for
the winter in the pious chestnut.-Nes0
Orleans Rcayuae.
An Ohio court decides that q hus-
band is the legal owner of his wife's
clothes. 1t is to be hoped that in the
future he will take off his high hat while
he and she are at the theater.
Olive Logan says that the Raphael
for which the British Government paid
$3.50, 900 is bad picture. This recon-
Giles us in part TO the disappointment in
not securing it for our private collection
OIL City Derrick.
This is the way the ladies convey
their meaning: Mrs. Brown-'sHow Is
that dear little baby of yours, Mrs.
Smith, ."It was dreadfully sick last
week; thought it would die, but It's
nearly well now.' says Mrs. Smith.
80. I'm so sorry" says Mrs. Brown
Pittsburgh Chronicle.
"A New York lady wants . receipt
'.for making daisy mats from rickrack
braid If this lady will tell us how TO
make rickrack braid and what it is like
after it is made, we shall be pleased to
send receipt for the mat. 1t will be
daisy Boston Transcript.
Hadn't yet occurred:
"Will you walk into my parlorY'
Asked the tonsor of the dude
Who, clad in corkscrew trousers
And an Angio-maniac mood,
Said, "Why weally would like to,
would upon my word.
But the beard longing wait for
Somehow hasn't yet occurred"
An exchange says that .'the first
pure monkey ever born in America saw
the light of day recently in New York. 7
If these Italian Counts who go around
the country disguised as members Of the
Handle Musical Association are foisting
an adulterated article Of monkey on the
American people it is about time to CRY
.HaltI' There is too much adnltera-
ton in our food and amusements. Nor
ristown Herald.
..You should have a thermometer
to ascertain the proper temperature Of
the water, said fond mother to the
colored nurse who was giving the baby
q bath. "Whaforp'' ITO tell when
the water is too hot or too cold. 2
Don't need no eich dockermsnt. Ef de
chile turns blue de water am too cold,
an ef hit turns red den bit am too hot. :
And now the colored lady is open 70 az
offer. - Tsrcs GtfkinQs.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-09-24
BABY DESTROYING.

The Many Deaths of Children Caused by
| Ignorance and Neglect of Parents or
Attendants.
1t has come to be gospel with young
married folk that the second summer is
the destroyer of the baby. It is fate
kismet. That the second summer costs
more lives than it ought is not the fault
of the summer; it is the fault of the
heat and the parents. The summer
heat is dangerous to all young children;
it is in connection with the bad diet of
the second summer that it is fatal 1t
| is well-established fact that nearly all
the mortality of second-summer babies
is from diseases of the digestive organs,
and these come from irrational artificial
feeding. Children come to the table.
eat pickles, unmashed or fried lumps of
| potatoes, beets, radshes, and the like,
and the trouble begins, The stereotyped
answer to the question; .'What does
the child eat?" is: 20, it eats at the
table with the rest of the family"
The result is enteric diseases and
death, and the cause of death is
ascrloed to the second summer y The
first summer the baby stays at home,
has its natural food, and pulls through
fairly well. But the second sammer it
must show off. 1t is trundled down
town through the heat of July or Au-
gust day, is overheated. excited, and its
nervous system put to the strain. Keep
the yearlings at home; give them a
grass plat and sand-pile. Do not let
them come to the table. give wholesome
food-milk, oat meal ground very fine
and stirred and cooked for twenty min
utes. Put them tobed at dark with a
garment they can not kick off when the
nights are cool. Battle them in tepid
water night and morning. Stay at home
with them and take care of them YOUR
self. for it is not ''the second summer
which kills the children. but the ignor-
ance or negligence of those who attend,
or rather do not attend, them. Colds
and calves get through their second
summers quite as well as their first, and
there is no reason that the human ami
NAL should not live quite as close to ma
ture and do quite as wei. IndiGnap-
OILS journal.
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Why He Didn't Go to Dakota.

$50 you've given up the idea Of
going to Dakota to settle DOWN. said a
Gotham bachelor to Brooklyn Bene.
dick.
..Yes. forever" he replied with
sigh.
whats the reasonPf
"Sht'' he Kissed, as he glanced
neryously at his wife. but seeing that
she was occupied he whispered:
II am told that out there the atmos-
phere is so dry and clear that talking
can be heard for more than a mile. . =
n. Y JonrnaL.
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VOLUME XIV.
CONDENSED ROMANCE.

"Duck? Dovegs
Young love.
Die cast;
Clings fast.
"Nuff sed;"
Must wed.
Parents kick,
Lovers stick.
"Can not be! !"
"We shall see!iP"
Bright night;
Seek flight.
Church found;
Grist ground.
Folks come:
Struck dumb.
'sToo late"
Fixed fate.
First year,
Skies clear.
Years two,
Rather blue.
Years three,
Jamboree.
Spats; sport;
Divorce court,
Groom, bride
United.
Hearts crack,
Jill, Jack
Trot back.
Il. e. Jones, tn Judge.
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The tribal government of the Cher
okees is democratic in form, with an
elective chief magistrate and an upper
and lower house of representatives.
The judiciary is also elective, and Grim
inals are punished after the manner of
the whites Chicago 7Inaes.
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The last blow to the roller-skating
rink has been given By Philadelphia
physician, who says that roller-skating
en1arges the feet.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-09-24

"A deaf mute was recently ordained
q clergyman of the Church Of England
by the Archbishop of Canterbury.
New-York tribune., 1885-01-16
NEWS FROM THE SUBURBS.
HIGHWAY ROBBERY AND ASSAULT.

Four young men, Michael Maddgan, jr., James
McGill, Charles Kearney, and Newbury Merritt, all
ex-penItentlary convcts, yesterday were charged
before Justice M. H. Henderson. at Port Chester,
with having committed an assault npon William
Whaien who fought in the Rebellion, and
robbed him of S5 so. For some time Wnalen
has been an inmate OF the Soldiers Home at Bath
N. Y, aud with view of obtaining pension he
visited Port Chester TO see John FOren, q foreman
in the iron works of w. z. Abendroth s& Co.. and
prominent member of the G. A X. The post was
preparing to hold ia for its benefit, and Whalen
was invited TO spend the evening. He left the room
about midnight and was followed by the gang and
dragged along Adee-st. to q lonely spot east OF the
Irving Hotel where Merritt seized him by throat,
threw him down. jumped upon him and held hm
while the other men robbed him of all the money
had They also robbed HIM OF his discharge papers
and his q. A. X. badge.
While Whalen was down one Of the robbers cried
GIVE 1t to him; (; make au end of hiln so that he
can tell no tales" Whaien was then beaten about
the head and face in brutal manner, until Benja-
miu Mead, a broker. heard his ca for help and re-
sponded. when the ruffians fled, not, however, be-
fore they had been recOgni zed Mr.. Whalen was
restored to the care of his friend Mr.. FOren.
and yesterday, before Justice Henderson, pre-
ferred a complaint against the prisoners and war
rants were issued for their arrest. Another COM
plant was preferred against Maddigan by his
father, for a brutal ASSAULT upon him.
New-York tribune., 1885-01-16
KILLED By A GROCER,s WAGON.

Mary Ann Elsoman, age cight, daughter of Peter
Escman, insurance agent, of No. lGl MOntiosc-
ave. Brooklyn, was run over and Instantly killed
in Gral,am-ave, near her homo. 70 which she was
going from school at noon yesterday. AS she
stepped on tine Crosswalk of the street, " Ill am
Fisher age sixteen, of No. Sll ilerhImer-st drove
1apld.y through Grahamaye., with a spirited horse
attached To a grocery wagon. As he approached
th. Qiri he did not sacken his speed aud the horse
struck the child. knocking her down, and the
wagon wheels passed over her neck and face The
boy did not halt, hut whipped up his horse and was
ont of sight before the spectators could stop III.
The little girl found to be dead Coroner Hcsse
found the base of tho skull and the lower Jaw
fractured. Much excitement wss created ia the
vicinity, which is the centre OF the densely popu-
lated Sixteenth Ward Detective lime subse-
quently arrested Fisher, vino is employed by Henry
Rothrnan, q grocer in Albany-ave
New-York tribune., 1885-01-16
WILL THEY ENFORCE THE LAWS.

The Police and Excise Commissioners yesterday
conferred with Mayor Grace az his request, with
regard TO the enforcement Of the laws regulating
the sale of honor. There was an interchange Of
views the general nature of which afterward
explained thus by the Mayor:
Icaled the Police and Excise Commissioners together
consultation aud to concert means whereby to
close up the dives, the places of i'll rcpute and esta
lslncns where liquOr is sold without license Both
Police the Excise Con nssoners expressed their
earnest wish TO do every thing IN their power 20 secure
the object referred 10 aud To cooperate IN regard 10 IT,
They also agreed with that hquordcaiers legally
licensed and complying with the law should be pro
tected The two Boards coucurref in the belief that IL
was best that theg should act together and consult ire
queny concerning the details OF plan for mutual CO
operation In carrying out the law Police COinEissoher
Porter and Excise Commissioner Mitchell appoint
ed a committee devise measures which should Insure
harmonious action shall expect early report show
ing that they prepared for practical work looking to
the abo Of all Illegal establishments and securing
an impartial and fearless enforcement of the laws Ihs
should cnrtauly be done. Tho Commissioners showed
list of IL places where liquor Is sold contrary 10 law
Some are unlicensed, have hal their licenses
voked and many of them entitled to license.