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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-04-02
FARM AND FlRESIDE.

There never was time when
''trifies' played so important part in
the matter of making the house beauti.
full as now.-N Y Mail.
There is but one way to keep large
flocks of fowls, whether young or old,
and that is to separate them into small
lots, each lot to occupy place by them
selVes.-Iroy Times.
Orange Pudding: Two cups of
bread crumbs. one cup of chopped suet,
three eggs, juice of three oranges, one
cup of milk; pour into cups creased
with butter, boil in a deep pan and
serve with sauce.-The Household.
The fact that our droughts occur
much oftener late in the season than
early favors the raising of the early
varieties of corn. They are certainly
desirable when it is intended to follow
corn with wheat.
A spicy writer in the american
Rural Home insists that even hogs
would rather be clean than dirty, and
that, they would make much less I'M
healthy food if kept in clean, sunny
pens.
Give the poultry cabbage for green
food. Give them warm water every
morning. Feed them literally all sorts
of food. Keep the house clean and
warm-then you will get eggs.-M Y.
Herald.
DO not waste the corn-cobs. Use
them as fuel and save the ashes, as
eorn-cobs contain a very large proper
ton of potash, and are valuable for that
substance alone. In addition, they also
make economical fuel, burning freely
and easy, and can be collected with but
little labor.-Ioled0 Blade.
Apple Tarts Pare, quarter and
boil in half a cup of water ten large tart
apples; beat until smooth; add three
beaten eggs, one grated lemon, half
cup of butter, one and one-half cups of
sugar; beat all together; line patty
pans with puff paste and fill; bake in
hot oven five minutes.-H0uSehOld
This is a delicate substitute fol
macaroni and may be eaten even by
people with sensitive stomachs: Soak
slices of bread in milk until they will
absorb no more. Butter { baking dish
and place layer of the soaked bread
with Il dust of salt; then q thin layer of
grated cheese; then other layers of
bread and of cheese until the dish is
filled. The top layer must be cheese.
Bake in a moderate oven for half an
hour and serve hot Care must be
taken that the bread is perfectly soaked.
Boston Budget.
To make Baltimore apple bread,
prepare dough exactly as if for rusks.
When it is very light, roll it about half
an inch thick. Spread stewed apples
over half of the dough and fold over the
remaining half, Put in pan to raise.
Then bake in a moderate oven. Have
some thinly sliced apples stewed, and
when the bread is baked lay them all
over the top. SpriAkle with sugar,
small bits of butter and cinnamon. Put
back into the oven long enough for the
sugar to form a coating Home.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-04-02
An Initiative Cat.

William Ewing, of Conemaugh, is a
highly respected gentleman of sixty
years of age and is member in good
standing of the Disciples Church. The
necessity for these statements will ap-
pear right away. In Mr.. Ewing's house
were two clocks, one downstairs and
the other up, which had not moved for
two years. A tinker was recently called
in to repair the downstairs clock.
While he was at work Mr.. Ewing's cat,
a very intelligent animal, jumped upon
the table on which the clock stood and
closely watched all that was done.
After the clock had been fixed and
made to strike again the cat disap-
peared. Some time later the clock I'D
stairs was heard to strike. The men,
bers of the family, in great surprise,
fastened up stairs and were astonished
to find that the cat had opened the
clock door and, by inserting its paws
among its works, had actually over
come the obstacle to its running. They
stood and watched it and saw it strike
the pendulum with one of its front
paws, just as the tinker had done with
the downstairs clock. The cat did not
set the hands, for the reason, perhaps,
that it did not know the precise time
JohnSt0tcn Pa. Tribune
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-04-02
LITTLE BuNNiE.
The Cunning Plaything of an Invalid Girl
How He Lost Himself.

The Cunning Plaything of an Invalid Girl
How He Lost Himself.
Bunnie was not little boy, or girl.
but bright-eyed gray squirrel.
When very young he was given to
little girl, who was sick, on her birth
day. She was in bed most of the time,
and little Bunnie would creep under the
pillows, or close to his new mistress, to
keep warm. He grew"very tame, and
he and his mistress were very fond of
each other.
Bunnie was growing larger and fatteI
all the time. He became a beautiful
squirrel, with glossy coat, and
great, fluffy tail that looked like gray
plume, it was so soft and pretty. He
had shining tin house to live in, but
he did not like it one bit. He cried and
scolded, and beat the bars with his
paws so hard when he was put into 1t.
His mistress could not bear to see him
do this, and only shut him up when he
was naughty. So he used to run all
over the house, inside and out.
His nuts and other food he liked were
kept in small tin box on a window
sill. Bunnie learned to raise the lid
with his teeth. He looked very cum
ming while opening the box, and sitting
beside it, nibbling nut, or piece Of
bread held in his paws.
He would play "hide-and-seek" with
his mistress. When tired of play be
would creep up to her, and rest his little
nose against her face or neck, and
sometimes creep into her pocket and 60
to sleep.
One day Bunnie was missing. He
did not come to his dinner; he could
not be found anywhere about the house
or yard. Where was BunnieP
That night his mistress heard queer.
scratching sounds in the fireplace.
She listened, and wondered if it could
be Bunnie
Then she got up, and, after much
pulling, moved a small stove. Putting
her hand as far as she could reach up
the chimney, she felt a soft something:
1t was Bunnie; and very black, scared
Bunnie, too.
He had fallen down the chimney and
been in the fireplace all day. he Les
his mistress put him right into bowl
of water, and while she washed him he
drank as much as he could, for the poor
little squirrel was hungry, and thirsty,
too. Bunnie slept that night on hls
mistress bed, as snugly as squirrel
could wish. He never fell down the
chimney again. = Onr Little Ones.
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to try to get away. and that made the
boiling" 'O0 vac
snuts?n ~ 0oossa'-
ANY shape You please. can tall,
you nice way. Take the cover of tba
yeast-poWder can and cut some round
tl.ln cakes. Put a little grape lam IL
the center OF one, lay another one ova,.
that, pinch the edges together and
when they are cooked they will be roi1nS
balls with jam in the center. The Ger
mans make them so at carnival time
and call them fasching krapfen.''
Another hour of quiet, and then capa
The question: Mamma, what meat Arr,
you going to have for dinner?n
There's beefsteak in the pantry.n
replied Mrs. Howard.
"And now may we shut the door tin
we have dinner ready"
Permission given, the door was sbpt
and through it Mrs. Howard heard :
rattle of dishes combined with mncb
giggling.
At noon Mr.. Howard came home and
looked surprised to see his wife sitting
there so composedly with her SEWING
but she only smiled and did not seem fo
think OF dinner at all. just then the
door was thrown open and stylish
waiter, with mammals white apron on.
made bow and said that dinner was
ready. Daisy wore an apron of mann
ma S, too; her own would not have done
at all, you know. This is a hotel /"
said she, "and you are the boarders'
Each waiter placed a chair for a
boarder, stood silent while the blessing
was asked, and then took seat at the
table
at seems" said Mr. Howard to his
wife, '.that the walters eat with the
guests at this hotel"
81 presume this is the latest style.p
replied Mrs. Howard. waiter,
would like napkin, if you please
And, while you are about it, lust
bring me knife and FORK added Mr..
Howard; land the butter, too, if you
have no objections. -
The walters looked at each other in
surprise. They were sure they had put
on the table everything that was need
ed. How could they have forgotten
knives and forks and butter? Daisy
giggled, but Harry, with great sober
ness, said that it was the latest STYLE
not to put these things on until called
for.
What jolly dinner that was, and so
good, too! There was Saratoga pota-
toes, crisp and brown Daisy's little
hands had peeled and sliced them, and
this was what had kept her so suspi-
ciously quiet. There was the beefsteak,
nicely broiled. There were also cold
baked beans and can of mammals
nice plums.
1--WE do not have desert at this hotel,
| take it, remarked Mrs. Howard to
her husband.
''Oh, yes, we do!'' interrupted both
walters at once, 'but we don't put it on
at first. They never dor
"Oh, | beg your pardon! l am not
used to first-class hotels. -
AT the right time the substantials
were removed and the dessert brought
on. 1t consisted of the fresh dough
nuts and cup of delicious chocolate.
"a very good dinner" said Mr.. How
ard, as they rose from the table, 81
think I shall patronize this hotel again. y
''It has been such a nice Saturday."
said Daisy, as she kissed papa and
mamma goodnight. Il like stormy
Saturdays when they are like this -
Mary a. Allen, in COngregationaIist.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-04-02
AFFECTATION.
An Artificial Garb Assumed by Those
Who Make Pretensions to Qualities
They Do Not Possess.

An Artificial Garb Assumed by Those
Who Make Pretensions to Qualities
They Do Not Possess.
This evil propensity, for such we I'M
hesitatingly designate it, has, alas! q
deep and wide-spreading influence.
From the sublime subject of religion
down to the slightest punctilio of de-
pertinent, what is there in any way
noble, ''lovely, or of good report" that
affectation is not impudent enough to
counterfeit? But happily Or the inter-
ests of simplicity and truth, the counter
felt is as different from the reality as
the paltry tinsel from the pure and solid
gold, and though the one may glitter
and dazzle for awhile, yet the other will
only stand the test of time and trial.
The triumph of hypocrisy is short, and
even when at its highest glory the
tlimsy disguise reveals more than it con-
ceals. But this is fact of which those
who wear the mask are probably not
cognizant; for had they the power ito
see themselves as others see them,"
they would cast the disguise aside. This
idea is eminently suggestive of the
source from which affectation springs,
namely, heart that has never been sub
Jected to the scrutinizing process of
determination. Hence we shall find
that an affected person is invariably a
self-ignorant person, and one who pos
sesses mean mind. PHILADELPHIA CAL.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-04-02
HOW HE MANAGED 1T.
a Thrifty Brooklyn Man and a Chicago
Millionaire.

Millionaire.
Well, how many of the people in this
metropolis are worthy only SO far as a
mere veneer makes them so? Here is
very interesting true story, and L am
sorry to be obliged to omit the names.
There lived in Brooklyn boarding
house gentleman, his wife and their
pretty daughter. He was salesman in
Broadway dry goods house, and his
salary was $4,000 year. He had saved
$4,000 in the course of thirty years of
hard work. Last summer the wife and
daughter went 10 Bridgehampton, Long
Island, for little recreation, and there
met young man from Chicago, who
instantly fell completely in love with the
Young woman. He seemed to have
money, and the father was sent for to
come down and look him over. The
man of business ascertained in half an
hour that the youngster was the son of
a rich merchant, who was rated among
the millions by the commercial agencies.
Indeed, the Chicago merchant and his
wife were at that moment in Bridge
hampton. The Brooklyn man formu-
lated scheme and hurried to Brook
lyn to put it into execution. In that city
of churches there are to let full appointed
mansions, in which are not only furni-
ture, but bedding, tableware, silver
service, china, lace curtains, piano and
library. The best of them come high, to
be sure, but they are exceedingly sump-
tuous, and to live in them is to enjoy
life as though you owned them. Our
Broadway salesman at $4,000 a year
hired one of these elegantly furnished
houses for six months, paid two months
rent in advance, moved in and sent
word to his wife and daughter to invite
the Chicago folks home with them. The
Chicago folks accepted and came along.
They found their new-made Brooklyn
acquaintance living in one of Brooklyn's
finest dwellings. The practiced eye of
the Chicago merchant saw that it must
require an income of at least $4,000 a
year to even live in such house-more
likely it would require double that sum.
The Brooklyn man evidently was very
rich, and his daughter was doubtless
well worthy to be the wife of his son.
The boy pressed his suit. He was asked
to come again in few weeks and get
his answer. He did so, and was ac-
cepted. The girl could not then be
married too soon, and December was
named. Accordingly, just before the
holidays there was grand wedding in
the mansion. There was big handful
of Chicago guests who congratulated
the young man from Chicago on his
good luck in getting so pretty bride,
and one apparently with such well-to-do
parents. 1t was very successful we'd
ding, and the bride is very happy pre-
sumably in her Chicago home; but the
Brooklyn mans lease of the mansion
ran out on the 10Th of this month, and
he is now back in the clearinghouse,
and still selling goods in the Broadway
house at $4,000 year. Almost all of
the $4,000 he had saved is gone, too.
But he has married his daughter to the
son of Il millionaire, and she has prom
ised to take care of him.-N. 7. Core
spondence Utica Observer.
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The Device Designed by an Intelligent
Railroad Man to Relieve Blockaded
Train.
''This little snow snap doesn't amount
to anything" remarked an old railroad
man. IF you want to see snow that's
snow, just go out to the Sierra Nevadas
on the Central Pacific. If train gets
stuck in drift here for half an hour
people think it an awful thing, but re-
member, once where whole train was
buried in the snow for week An ava
lanche came down the mountain side
and buried 'em under some hundred feet
of snow. There want much use of
digging for 'em, cause the snow would
pile in as fast as it could be dug out.
But the passengers were starving to
death and something had to be done.
The relief party got a surveyor to locate
the train, as nearly as possible, and it
was designed to put party on the top
of the slide with a drill to put hole
down through to the train in which some
food and drink could be poured. But it
was soon found that the slide was shift
ing all the time near the top, and the
tubing which was put in the drill hole
was broken off. That scheme had to be
abandoned. Then suggested a plan
that was Immediately adopted. We
rugged up little iron concern to fit one
OF the rails, attached a rubber hose to
it, and pushed it in by means of iron
rods. Putting on one rod after another
we succeeded in showing it clear in so
that it reached the train. Using the
rubber hose for speaking tube we told
the prisoners what they should do. At
taehlng the air pump on the engine to
this hose they pumped in hot soup and
bits OF meat and bread, vegetables, etc.,
every time they wanted meal. Be-
tween, meals they pumped in whisky,
beer, Kerosene oil, and stuff like that
all through the same tube. Then had
another idea. BY supplying the hose
with plenty of hot-water, and by keen
ing the pump going, we succeeded in
thawlng enough of the snow along the
rail to let the passengers crawl out after
they had been in there a week. But
that air pump saved their lives. l tell
you an air pump is a fine thing
20, certainly" said an incredulous
listener, "but viii you please tell me
how they managed to keep fire in the
locomotive and work the pump under
the snow?n
Don't know anything about that.
They did it, that's all. Hope no one
doubts my truth and veracity. If I'd
a-oeen IN there I'd have known all about |
IT, But L was on the outside. You |
can ask a man to be in two places nj |
once ?, and know everything, can your
Feck's San;
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1t has been discovered by Dutch
scientist that the gum which collects on
the branches of certain trees especially
the cherry. peach, plum and others
bearing stone fruits due to disease of
the tree. The disease is produced by
mighty organized fungus, whose, action
causes the formation of gum, and it is
quickly reproduced in sound trees when
they are inoculated with pieces Of the
gum containing any of the fungus.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-04-02

A Kansas City editor has patented
pair of triple shears. 1t is an instrument
with three sets of blades, two of which
when properly manipulated will adapt
themselves to the columns of any news
paper and cut both sides, while the third
set viii chop the clippings out at the
proper place. Chicago Herald.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-04-02

An engraver's mistake lately
caused the brides parents to say on the
cards: '.Mr. and Mrs. - respectfully
request your presents at the marriage
of their daughter" etc.-N J, Sun
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-04-02
SOME SNOW.

The Device Designed by an Intelligent
Railroad Man to Relieve q BlOckaded
Train.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-01-29
RIGHTS ALONG THE CONGO.
Portugal Unwilling 60 Give Up Anything
Italy Asking a share.


A Lisbon special says The Portu-
guesc Government, as well as Por-
tuguese public opinion, is strongly OPP
posed to any cession Of the rights
claimed along the Congo by Portugal to
the African international Association.
A Paris telegram of the 9th says
Premier Ferry to-day informed the
Cabinet that France was in almost com
plete accord with the international
African Association upon the question
of marking the limits of the free Congo
territory. The negotiations between
the Association and Portugal, however,
NJ. Ferry said, were not going ahead
satisfactorily, and he doubted if they
would succeed at all. 1t is denied here
that France and Portugal have con-
clrdcd a treaty for the division of the
Congo estuary.
In the Chamber Of Deputies this af-
ternoon. says Rome telegram, SignOr
Mshcini, Minister Of Foreign Affairs.
stated that an Italian colonization ex-
petition would soon 60 to the Congo
country. and that another expedition
would about the same time proceed to a
fertile, unoccupied region in another
part of Africa. The latter place, the
Minister said, he did not care at present
to name, as its publication might inter-
fere with the plans of the Govern
ment. Signor Mancini stated that
the Government favored colonial
ton within certain limits, pro-
vided the occupation was justified by
the economic and political interests of
the country. He said the rights of
other Powers would be respected. The
Italians themselves would labor to de-
velop colonial trade, and would trust to
their own exertions and money. Italy,
he said, would not fulfil her mission if
she remained an idle spectator while the
other Powers were busily engaged in
colonial projects. The Italian delegates
to the West African Conference had
been fully instructed as to what part
they were to take in the debates in re-
gard TO future annexationS.
The North German Gazette refutes
the statement that the Conference has
recognized England's claims to the Niger
delta. The paper says the Niger-navi-
cation act, as compiled by the Confer
ence, distinctly points out the posi-
bihty that in the future various Powers
may exercise suzerainty over the Niger
delta. The Gazette further states that
the Conference throughout its delibera-
tons has carefully avoided recognizing
any claims to the territory in question.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-01-29
I oss AND GAIN.
CHATTER l.
~1vas taken alex q year ago
xy,,n hitios,s fever"

CHATTER I.
~1vas taken alex year ago
with bilious fever"
.uv doctor pronounced me cured. but
-, .,cr .ga,n with terrible pains In my
bac IN and sides and got 80 bad
Could not novel
shruDki
r,.,.,,, 90 q mounds TO 40! had been doc
,,..,, say nv liver but 10 did me no soou.
,aia not EXPECT to live more than tnree
months. began to use HOP bi,,e,s 10,
rect!y my appetite returned my pamsd !. ~ =
ne nv entire system seemed renewed M
n Nv magic. and after using several bottles YES
am not only As sound as a sovers,gn' ny yu '
weigh more than did before. 10 IaoP
ters owe my life. H. ri'1r~iN
Dublin, June 9, 1851
CHATTER III.
"Malden, Mass. February !, 1850. cen
tlemen.-f suffered with attacks Oh SICK
Ne~rnlgia. female trouble, for years In the
most terrible and excrnciatlng nanne,.
No medicine or doctor could give me re-
lief or cure until used Hop Bitters,
1.-The first bottle
Nearly cured me-;
The second made me as well and strong az
And have been 10 te this day"
NV husband was an invalid for twenty
Kidney liver, and urinary complaint.
pronounced by Boston's best physi-
clans
seven bottles of your Bitters cured him,
and know OF the
Lives Of eight persons
In my neighborhood that have been saved
" And many more are using them with
great benefit.
They almost o..
DO mirRclesi" Mrs. H. ~. SedcN'
How TO GET SIcR.-Expose yourself DAY
and night: eat too much without exercise
work too hard without rest; doctor al the
time: take all the vile nostrums advertised,
and then you VIII want to know ho,o 10 ges
weH, which is answered In three words
Take Hop BitteB
None genuine without bunch OF green
Hops on the white label. shun all the vie
poisonous stuff with Hop" or Hops" In
their name. ja l-Ih("Jsa@i uiih
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-01-29
One De,iarReusrx,.

A Washington letter to the Balti-
more San says One Of the guides at
the Capitol to-day found pocket-book
containing twenty dollars in money,
bonds valued at Ell 200, and a number
of notes and other valuable papers. He
reported the finding TO the Capitol
police. Soon afterward gentleman
from Richmond reported to the police
that he had lost the pocket-book. He
was sent to the guide, and upon de-
seribing Il the property was handed
him. lie rewarded the guide by hand
ing him one dollar.