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Farmers Help.

It is now a recognized fact that the
successful cultivation of the soil is both
a science and an art A high degree OF
scientific knowledge is not only requisite
to determine the character of the crops
that shall be raised on different qualities
of land and to preserve the strength and
fertility of the soil, but great skill is de-
manded in the art of planting, cultivat-
ing and securing the crops. Ignorant,
unskilied labor is as improbable in
farming as it is in the mechanical in
dustries. The demand of skilled farm
help is as great in some other sections
of the country as it is in the Southern
States. Experience has demonstrated
that skilled farm help is not to be found
among the majority of immigrants who
come to this country. The working
classes of foreigners, unless they belong
to some of the mechanical industries,
have no aptitude for any special pur-
suit. For digging on the railroad. in
the ditch or canal, or for street labor,
where only physical strength and en-
durance are requisite, they do very
well; but when it comes to working on
the farm they are incapable of any in
te1ligent assistance. They first must
learn by experience, and the details OF
farm labor are not to be acquired in 0
single year. Yet this class of laborers,
Notwithstanding, expect to receive the
wages that arc paid to experienced farm
hands. What is wanted everywhere in
this country are practical farmers. And
there is no reason why there should be
scarcity of this class, any more than
that there should be lack of workmen
in any mechanical branch. 1t has al.
ready been shown in these columns that
the remuneration of this branch of labor
is equitable as compared with other in.
dustries. The inducements are in every
way as DIES rable. If farmers sons
themselves would only understand this,
the lack of skilled labor for the farm
would in some degree he mitigated.
But let young men generally be taught
to believe that labor on the farm is as
honorable as any other employment,
and even more pleasant and desirable
than the ma, ority of industrial pursuits
that all the skill and knowledge they
may acquire may be put to profitable
use in the science and art of agriculture
and that constantly they will receive al
increased reward for their experience
and industry, and the great scarcity o.
skilled help for the farm will soon cease
to be felt.-PhiladeiphiG Record.
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Succession Sale.

Succession of c. C Featherstone, deceased.
Dy virtue of writ of sale issued from the
ID Honorable 2nd Judicial District Court in
and for Bossierp parish, La, and to me directed,
| will proceed TO sell, according to law, at
public auction, to the last and highest bidder,
at the late residence of C. C. FeatherstoIl.
deceased, in said Parish of Bossier, La, within
the legal hours of sale, on Tuesday, March
IL, 1885, the following described personal
property belonging to said succession, to-wit:
About four bales of cotton, two mules and
one colt, one 2horse wagon and farming i'm
plements, Ii head cattle, 20 head hogs, $50
pounds pork, IS bushels corn, 300 bundles OF
fodder, lot of poultry and lot ofhousehold and
kitchen furniture, etc.
In same succession, and by virtue of same
writ, will proceed to cell at the Courthouse
door, in the town of Bellevue, La within the
legal hours of sale, on Wednesday, April 8
1885, the following real estate, to-wit:
Southeast quarter of section 80, township
20, range ID containing 100 acres, more or less
Terms of Sale-Cash. provided the appraise
ment or two-thirds thereof be bid, else OF
credit according to law.
r. E. WYCHE, Sheriff and
ex-oAieio Auctioneer, Bossier Par, La
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The Fork.

In the ancient world the fork for eat
ing was unknown, and the well-bred
sought to display as much deIicacy as
possible in the operation of conveying
food to the mouth with the fingers. II
was thousand years ago when the first
mention of the JorchtttG was made in
Italian literature, and it was then spoken
o as introduced into Venice by a Byzan
tine princess. 1t was at first not favora-
bly, received, and for two centuries came
little in use, either in Italy or the rest
of Europe. No mention of fork was
made in the catalogue of the table fur
nishings at the wedding OF Maria Sforza-
Visconti as late as 1913. Still, the 18th
century saw its use spreading in France,
and the 10th in Germany. 1t was not
until the 18th that it was introduced in
ENGLAND.
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New York Herald
Weekly Edition,
ONE DOLLAR A YEAR.
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Weekly Journal in United States.
Sketches, Cartoons,

sketches, CaTCOOuS,
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exhaustive summary of the news il
all departments. It is read by up
wards of half a million people and i,
g good advertising medium, reaching
factories, farms and homes of all de-
scriptions in every part of the country.
A Perfect Newspaper.
1t contains all the general news 0:
the daily edition of the Herald, which
has the largest circulation in the
United States.
Independent in politics, it is the
most valuable chronicle of political
news in the world, giving the occur
rences and opinions of all parties, so
that all sides may be known. In the
department of
Foreign News
The Herald has always been distin
guished by the fullness of it's cable
dispatches. The new transatlantic
telegraph cables will increase facili-
ties.
The Farm Department of the
WEEKLY HERALD is practical. It goes
to the point and does not give wild
theories. The farmer will save many
more than
One Dollar a Year
From the suggestions of the Farm
Department alone, concerning soil,
cattle, crops, trees, buildings, gar.
dening, poultry. and agricultural
economy. ''The Home" instructs the
housewife and the children in regard
to economical and tasteful new dishes
the fashions and the making of home
comforts. In addition are given lates
reports of trade and
Produce Markets,
The condition of money, columns 0
miscellaneous reading, poetry, specia
novelties, wit and humor, both socia
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science, the doings of wen-knowl
persons of the world, department
devoted to the dramatic and lyri
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gives the latest and best news of tn
world, it is also a journal for til
family.
! Subscribe one dollar, at any time
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" Following are the appoint
ments of Rev. r. M. Blocker, Pastor
Of South Bossier Circuit, M. E.
Church, South, for year 1885:
Bossie1 Point-Friday before first
Sabbath. at IL o'clock A. NJ, and all
fifth Sabbaths
Fillmore-First Sabbaths at Ii
o'clock A. N. and Saturday.
Observation-Disclosures at 8 80 P. M
Pleasant Valley-Second Sabbaths
and Saturday.
Bellevue-Third Sabbaths and Sat.
urday night Also. all Tuesday nights
Williams Mill-Third Sabbaths al
$50 T. N.
Cotton Valley-Fourth Sabbathl
and Saturday.
Leonard's School House-Fourtl
Sabbaths at $50 P. N.
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FARM Am HOUSEHOLD.

Cookies: Two tea-cups Of sugE4ss
hree-quarters Of cup Of butter, onS
sup of soar milk, sweetened with soda,
autmegsi roll thin; bake brown
hGxge.
Cleanliness in all the surrounding
IF > family mansion pays richly in
many ways, in good health, moral ele-
vation, personal comfort, and dollars
and cents besides.
What is called burnt custard in the
South is simply boiled custard, made
with the yelks of the eggs, and with
the whites beaten up with sugar laid on
top. This meringue was burnt or
rather Drowned by holding hot shovel
over it.
To destroy moths in carpets take
q wet sheet or cloth, lay it upon the
carpet and then rub hot flat-iron over
it, SO as to convert the water into steam,
which permeates the carpet beneath,
and destroys the life of the grub.-N
| Y Herald.
Feed the little chick often-fiFe
times day will not be too often-with
hard-boiled egg, bread crumbs, boiled
potatoes, little craps of meat. Supply
them with fresh water twice day. All
this, If you want fine, healthy birds
Chicago Journal.
A new kind of embroidery, destined
to become immensely fashionable, con-
sists of raised flowers, the pedals formed
of lustrous satin or satin ribbon in oil
the colors and shades demanded by the
artist, and the leaves and calyxes OF
Kensington-stitch in silk foss.-AlbGny
Journal.
| Cream sponge cake should be made
this way: Break two eggs in coffee
cup, beat them we'll; then pour in
enough sweet cream to fill the cup, and
beat again; then to this add one cup oi
sugar and one cup and half of flour,
in which two teaspoons of baking pow.
der have been thoroughly stirred.-1ht
Household.
For wooden stockings, soap the feet
but do not put them into the oven OIL
the wool will shrink; leave them ROLLED
up soaped for q few hours, and Their
rub them through in warm rain water
Laundresses invariably spoil the elastic
tops of stockings by stretching them il
rubbing through; this can easily b
avoided by doubling the top over ant
rubbing the leg double. Socks ant
stockings should never be ironed, bu
merely smoothed with the hand.-Turt
Field and Farm.
"A bushel of apples will make from
four to five and half pounds of evap
GRATED fruit, which will keep any lengtl
of time, and when fruit is scarce viii
bring sixteen cents and upwards
pound. The poor apples, with tn
cores and skins of others, are worke,
into jellies, which find a ready market
The area of orchards does not kee]
pace with the demand for their products
There is bright future for the careful
orchardist. Orchards left to take car
of themselves soon die out. Keep tn
soil rich, dig about the roots, allow n
weeds to grow about the trees. scrap
off the rougher bark. apply thin soap
keep off the borer, and, in short, pe
: them, and the reward will be abundar
apples. Defend the woodpecker; he
the friend of the orchard. ChicaS
Times.
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BurnSs

A very common but reprehenSlDle
practice is that of holding burn as
close to the CRATE as possible, s'to draw
the fire out"--not out of the fireplace,
but from the injured part 1t is quite
feasible to conceive that such pro-
ceeding may give ease by deadening
sensation in some instances; but it by
no means follows that it does good or
expedites recovery; indeed, we shall see
that in such case the loss of sensation
really proves further damage to the
tissues. Burns have been divided by
surgeons into six classes: () Simple
scorching, sufficient only to redden the
surface. (2) Blistering; the cuticle
raised and forming little bladders of
water. (3) The skin denuded of its
cuticle. This is the most painful stage
of all, as it leaves the nerve ends ex-
posed. (4) Destruction Of the entire
thickness of the skin; painless, or nearly
so, because the sensitive nerve bulbs
are destroyed. 60 Destruction of all
the soft parts; and (6) charming of the
bone-two conditions very difficult to
imagine as co-existent with any remnant
of life. It can thus be readily under
stood how burn of the third order of
magnitude can be converted by addi-
tional heat into the fourth, and tenn
porary relief from pain purchased by
transforming trifiing injury into a
serious one, liable to be followed by
severe illness and permanent deformity,
A most mysterious cause of death after
burns is the liberation and bursting OF
certain blood-vessel IN the stomach.
The connection between the two has
never been discovered. People talk
about this or that being good for % burn,
but not for scald, or vice versa; but
practically no distinction is to be drawn
between the two, further than that, as
we know the highest temperature OF
| water, we know the utmost limit of an
| injury in scald, whereas there is no
limit TO the possibilities of burn. To
keep the air from both is the main OBJ
| ject in treatment. Cook, who generally
appears on the scene of the disaster
with -four dredge, is a very efficient
surgeon for burns and scalds Of the frs;
degree-this little scientific technically
viii comfort the sufferer marvelously
but where the skin is raised or broken,
something of an oily nature should be
substituted. Cover it up with lots Of
cottonwood, IS though you wished Il
keep it as warm as possible; and, mind
no soap and sugar on any account
HaTper's BazGr.
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~ Last Monday Mr.. Richard s.
Sandidge departed this life at his
home near Fillmore, aged IS years,
2 months and % days. In the death
of Mr.. Sandidge Bossier loses one of
her most highly respected citizens.
He was an upright man in every par
ticular, and was universally esteemed
by all for his noble traits of charac-
ter. Mr.. Sandidge leaves a wife,
several children and grand children,
and relatives and many friends to
mourn his death. After a busy and
useful life, he died honored and re-
spected wherever known, peacefully
passing to the Beyond where mortal
sufferings are known no more.
$50 fades the summer sun away;
So sinks the gale when storms are oeri
So gently shuts the eve of day,
So dies the waves along the shore
His remains were followed to the
Fillmore neighborhood cemetery last
Tuesday morning by large con.
course of people which fully attest
ed the universal esteem for him. The
funeral exercises were conducted by
the Rev. R. M. Blocker, pastor of the
Methodist church.
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Cuban women are said to be
born lovers. Love is the motive
of all their music. Each piece
of their dance music is love
song without words. Every move
ment of their dances is eloquent of affcc-
ton rendered or advances repulsed.
Their whole lives are thus contracted
The men keep them shut up in the
houses. Their girlhocd is spent behind
the iron-barred windows of the paternaf
home; their womsnhood behind the from
barred windows of husbands house.
They are not artists. writer's, sculptors,
poets, lawyers, ministers, school teach
ers, school commissioners, e-keepers
and the like, as our women are. The
Cuban men are passionate and jealous.
Chicago Journal
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COmstable's Sale.

j! Fl. Nattin vs. b. f. Keeth.
Dy virtue of writ of fieri facias to me di
- rected by the Hon. p. r. Gilmer, Justice
of the Peace, Third Ward, Bossier Parish, La
have seized and will proceed to sell at pub
lie auction, in Collinsburg, La, in front of J
II. Matthias Store House, Monday, April 9Th
1885, between the legal hours of sale the fol
lowing property, to-wit: An undivided one
half interest in 80 acres of land known as the
b. +. Keeth place.
Terms of Sale-Cash on the spot, subject t.
appraisement.
BARNES, Constable,
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~ Farmers are now under good
beadway with the work of another
crop and plows are running regular
" through the country.
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WEEKLY
Missouri Republican
A Chance to Get Valuable Household
Articles for but a Fraction
Of Their Value.
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Sc so.
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Farmers and Mechanics Black
smith Shop, $50 worth of tools fol-
$25. This set of tools consists of
40-lb Anvil and Wise,
18-inch longs,
Glib. Hammer, with handle,
| lib Hot Chisel, with handle,
No. 81 Stock and IDies,
Farriers' Pinchers,
Farriers' Knife,
| Shoeing Hammer,
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~ Messrs. Henry Dreyfuss &
Sons stock is complete in every de-
tail: their prices are as low as the
lowest in the Shreveport market.
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PREAcHrNe.-Following are the APP
pointments of Rev. T. B. Harrell for
The year 1885:
Ganey Greek Church-First Sun
day and Saturday before, in each
month.
Red River Church-Second Sun
day and Saturday before, in each
month.
New Bethel Church, at Rocky
Mount Third Sunday and Saturday
before m each menth.
Belleyue-Fourth Sunday in each
month, at II A. NJ. and 7P. M. Pray.
er meeting every Thursday night.
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V. SMEDET.
Watchmaker and Jeweler.

MATCHMAKER and JeWeIfr.
Takes this method of announcing ta sseT
l. his old friends and patrons and
the public in general, that Re viii. y, t
tound on Market Street in Pegel nty lltd
ing, Shreveport, La. where I . ia PR r;-f,t o
repair Watches, Jewelry, &e., promptly si.d
at moderate prices. He also bas ai IL. 4
Watches Jewelry, Sc, for gale riieal ~ T. ah
Satisfaction guaranteed.
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n The regular meeting of the
School Board of this parish will be
held at Bellevue on the first Satur-
day of April. All the members are
requested to be in attendance, as a
organization is necessary.
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~ Oysters, stewed, fried, or raw,
a, The Commercial-Gem Restaurant,
Ma 90 Texas street, Shreveport.
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" Following are the names of
oficers and members of Haughton
Council No. 1883, American Legion
of Honor, instituated February 3,
1886: w. a. Bledsoe, Commander;
E. M. Platt, Vice. Commander; J. W.
Prince, Orator; FL. Barnacastle, Past
Commander; ]. W. Elston, Secretary;
W. D. Cahill, Collector; DR.. Paul
Lawrence, Treasurer; j. NJ. McClana
han, Guide; Jos. L. Martin, Sentry
RF. Bruton, A. L. Strange, mem
bers. Stated meetings of this Coun-
ell are held at Haughton on the first
and third Saturdays in each month.
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~ The Rev. A. r. Banks will
,,raach at Bellevue on Sunday 29th
instant.
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~ Wind and March are boon
companions.
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~ The best bargains in dry goods
= Mr. julius A. Jacobs, Shreveport.
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Died

At the residence of her grandfather, Capt
Winston, near Collinsburg Bossier parish, on
the 18th March. 1885. Miss SARAH MEANS
daughter of Mai. ID. 4. and VI. u. Davidson, iii
the 18th year of her age. A. d. B.
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% Winter retreats slowly and
sullenly.
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An Independent Newspaper of Dem
ocratic Principles, but not Controlled by
any Set of Politicians or Manipulators
Devoted to Collecting and Publishing ell
the News Of the Day in the most inter-
esting Shape and with the greatest pos
sibIe Promptness, Accuracy and Impair
TALLY; and to the Promotion Of Demo-
cratic Ideas and Policy in the affairs Of
Government Society and Industry.
The Evening critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1881-1885, 1885-01-10
EAST WASHINGTON.

A VERY BAD BoY.-Charles Angelo
Simpson is only IL years old, but he is a
very bad boy. He stole watch belonging
to his grandmother yesterday, for which he
was arrested by the officers Of the Eighth
Precinct. Charles Angelo will, If he gets
bis deserts, spend his minority at the Re-
form School.
A LOCAL AcTREss.-"I.ittle Oriole," the
Young star of East Washington, will leave
the city Sunday ON professional tour. She
win take the leading part in German
comedy company, leading the life Of an
actress.
FRANK NICHOLSON CAPTURED Frank
Nicholson, Of East Washington, tho jail
breaker, has been captured in Norfolk. He
will be brought back to this city to serve
out his time.
HESRoosT RoBBERIEs.-The number of
henroost robberies which have occurred
recently in East Washington suggests the
pIopriety of putting the oldtime, but some
times effective, trap-gun on guard.
A PAINFUL WoUND.-Willie Annandale,
small boy, residing near the toll-gate, had
one of his eyes nearly put out yesterday by
being hit with stone.