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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-07-02
Hope On, Hope Ever.

Hope on hope ever: Though dead leaves are
In mournful clusters meath your wandering
feet;
Though wintry winds through naked boughf
are signing
The flowers are dead; yet is the memory
sweet
Of summer winds and countless roses GLOWING
Meath the warm kisses of the generous sun.
Hope on, hope ever. Why should tears be
flowing?
In every season rs some victory won.
Hope Oh, hope ever, though you deck loved
tresses
With trembling fingers for the silent grave
Though cold the cheek beneath your fond
caressea,
Look up, true Christian soul, be calm, be
Hope on, hope ever. Though your heart be
breaking,
Let flowers of resignation wreathe your
cross,
Deep in your heart some heavenly wisdom
waking,
For mortal Fife is full of change aud loss.
Hope on, hope ever, for long-vanished faces
Watch for your coming ON the golden shore,
ZEN while you whisper in their vacant places
The blessed words, mot lost but gone be.
fore!'
Hope on, hope ever, let your heart keep sing.
lug,
When low you bend above the church yard
sod,
And fervent prayers your chastenened
thoughts are swinging,
Through signs and tears, to the bright throne
Of God.
Hope on, hope ever Let not toll or sorrow
Still the sweet music of Hopes heavenly
voice,
From every dawn some ray of comfort borrow,
Thatin the evening you may still rejoice.
Hope on, hope ever-w0rds beyond comparing,
Dear to the hearts that nameless woes have
riven;
10 all that mourn, sweet consolation bearing
I'm, may they prove the Christians guide to
heaVeni
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-07-02

VEeETABLEs.-The editor of the
Ruston Caligraph has received rad
ish 213 inches long and two onions,
one foot and the other Is inches in
circumference, raised near Choudrant
station, on the ", S. p. The editor
of the Abbeville Meridional is also in
luck and was presented with four
Irish potatoes, weighing Sc ounces.
These vegetables OF course show the
fertility of the soil upon which they
were grown, Without egotism, it is
assented that Caddo can do as well,
if not better, taking an average crop
as standard-o excellence.
A walk through our markethouse
at an early hour in the morning would
surprise those who have not seen the
exhibits made daily by the gardeners
who supply Shreveport with vegeta-
bles. Cabbages weighing from five
to rs and occasionally one holding
the scales at 40 pounds are offered for
sale six months in the year. Yester-
day morning one of our friends sold
a tomato that measured not less than
IL inches in circumference. These
results are secured on lands that are
MANFRED and fortified. Deep and
thorough cultivation is essential in
raising vegetables for profit or pleas
ure--ShreUeport Times.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-07-02
BE who would sympatize must be

He who would sympatize must be
content to be tried and tempted
There is a hard and boisterous rude
ness in our hearts by nature which
requires to be softened down. We
pass by suffering gayly, carelessly,
not in cruelty, but unfeelingly, just
because we do not know what suffer-
ing is. We wound men by our looks
and our abrupt expressions without
intending it, because we have not
been taught the delicacy, and the
tact, and the gentleness, which can
only be learned by the wounding of
our own sensibilities. There is
naughty feeling in uprightness, which
has never been on the verge of fall,
that requires humbling. There is an
inability to enter into difficulties of
thought which marks the mind to
which all things have been presented
specifically. and which has never
experienced the horror of feeling the
ice of doubt crushing beneath the
feet.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-07-02
The theory In advanced that the

The theory ID advanced that the
spots that appear upon the surface
Of che Sun have an influence in pro-
daCing storms upon the surface of
Che Earth. It has been observed that
whsn the spots are unusually large
or aumerous the storms are more
than Ordinarily frequent and severe
Those who have been watching the
great luminary this season say that
js disc is more than ordinarily spot
ssd a large spot, computed to be
One hundred thousand miles long
snd thirty thousand miles in width,
~ more than four times the entire
area Of the earths surface, is giving
sAs SUMS face the appearance of hav-
inga black patch on it. AS if to
provsths correctness of the storm
theory in connection with sun spots,
cyclones have been quite active in
the western country and a big storm
has wrecked nearly all the fishing
vessels of the coast of Newfound-
land. Unfortunately the Sun is SO
very far of that nothing can be done
70 prevent the spots, otherwise the
prairie grangers might be relieved of
the disagreeable experience they SO
frequently have with the cyclones
that devastate the wild west, and
mackerel fishing might be made a
comparatively safe and pleasant bust
NESS. Il 10 a pity that the discover
iss Of seSsnee cannot be turned to
practical account
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-07-02
Into the Silent Land.

Into the silent land,
All, who shall lead as thither7
Clouds IN the evening sky more darby gather
And shattered wrecks lie thickly on the strand.
who leads as with gentle hand
Thither, thither,
Into the SILENT
Into the silent land
TO you, ye boundless regions
OF all perfection! Tender morning vision
VI beauteous souls! The futures pledge and
hand
Mho IN life's battle firm doth stand
Shall bear Hopes tender blossoms
Into the silent land
0 land! GLAND!
For all the broken hearted,
me mildest herald by our fate allotted
Beckons and with inverted torch doth stand
10 lead us with gentle hand
10 the Land Of the great departed,
Into the silent land. IEongfellow
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-07-02

THE Minis OF THE GoDs.-L. G..
Dennis, the Florida carpet-bagger
who made Hays President in 1875 by
counting in 200 fraudulent votes at
'Archsr precinct No. q" recently died
Of dslipi@ae sssnsens, neglected, de-
spissd snd obscure, after winning a
bst that he could drink two quarts
Of whisky in two hours. The Green
vile News, in noticing Dennis death
says ''the men who were identified
with the robbery and oppression Of
the Southern States and who assisted
IN the mammoth steal of the country
are steadily dropping away in just
such circumstances. With hardly an
exception they have diedas disgrace
fully ss they lived after relapsing
into poverty and obscurity from the
evil prominence into which they fore
Cd themselves. The most persistent
skeptic can hardly fail to see the
working OF q retributive Providence
in their lives and fates."
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-07-02
Miss Nellie Kent.

Wellington. Loraiu county, O., writes:
&Dr. s. B. HARTsxAN & Co., Columbus,
O., Gentlemen: I have been q great staff-
Fer from chronic catarrh, bronchitis and
neuralgia of the face. I have been taking
your PERuNA for one month. The neu-
ralgia and catarrh is almost well, and the
cough Is Hs.1ch better. ] like your PEsu-
ma very much"
G. E. DupIer, aged thirty-four years, OF
Equality, Illinois, had been affected with
a chronic catarrh which he first discov.
cred six years ago. In succession he lost
his smell, taste and hearing. The disease
was so malignant that it not only attacked
the softer parts, but destroyed the bony
partition Of the nose and seriously affected
the external parts. He could only hear .
watch ticking by holding it close to his
ear. He suffered intense pain in the nose,
from which green, dry clots Of offensive
odor fell. In this condition he presented
himself to DR.. Hartman several months
ago. He can now hear q watch eight
inches from his right and six inches from
his left ear. His taste and smell are again
returning, and the external part of the
nose is quite well. Few more grateful
patients ever left physicians Office than
Mr.. Dupler. He said, Why in the
world was PERUNA not prescribed for
me long agos"
Cramps OF the Stomach.
We have the privilege Of reporting the
following case. Those similarly affected
can get the name and address of DIR.
Hartman. The lady does not want her
name in the papers. For q year, or years,
1.-THE writer does not remember the length
Of time this lady had cramps, the most
fearful, of the stomach, every day and
night, Switch would be followed by that
terrible weakness, which was something
wonderful" The suffering and distress
of this lady was INDISPENSABLE and almost
uncomfortable. After all the physicians
and medicines had failed, and all hope
had almost fed. DR.. Hartman was con-
suited, and from the first day of taking
his PERUNA, the cramps and all bad
feeling left her, and now for over month
has been entirely free from every symp-
tom. A more thankful patient no doctor
ever had
Mr.. Boggs, druggist, Chariestown,
kanawha Co., VIVA, writes "PERUNA
sells well here and gives good satisfaction.
Customers speak well Of it"
DR.. J. Anderson, Coshocton, Ohio,
writes :. "Your PRRUNA sells well and
gives good satisfaction. I consider It
splendid medicine"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-07-02

Home is the one place in all this
world where hearts are suxe of each
other. 1t is the place of confidence.
1t is the place where we tear off that
mask of guarded and suspicious
GOODNESS which the world forces us to
wear in self-defense, and where we
pour out the unreserved communica-
tons of full and confding hearts.
1t is the spot where expressions of
tenderness gush out without any
sensation of awkwardnesss and with
out any dread of ridicule. Let man
travel where he will, home is the place
to which ''his heart untraveled fondly
turns" He is to double all pleasures
there. He is there to divide all pain.
A happy home is the single spot of
rest which man has upon this earth
for the cultivation of his noblest SEN
sibilities.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-07-02
To the Hill Farmers Of Bossier.

MY. Editor: Allow me to- speak
to- the hill farmers of Bossier through
your paper, that I may give vent to
my honest convictions ON a few mat
tiers. We want to become independ-
emit and prosperous. We are tired OF
being in debt, and we want to fall
upon some plan to relieve ourselves
of buying what we live ON at high
credit prices.
We may not be able to do all this
in one year, but by economy and Ia
Dor, based upon good judgment, we
can work ourselves up to it at no dis
tant day. Generally, our hill lands
are good, and on fresh or MANFRED
land, we can make more clear money
than our river neighbors do make on
their land, as our expense is not 80
great as theirs. We can average one
half bale cotton, 90 bushels corn,
40 bushels of oats, per acre, and all
the peas, potatoes and vegetables We
need and some to spare. Now, let
us plant large crops of corn, oats,
peas, potatoes, &c., to live on, and
make our meat at home, for it is a
fact well known to most of our farm
ers, that where hogs are allowed to
run on our stubble land, and pea
fields, that we can raise our meat
with but little cost. In this way our
small crops of cotton would belong
to us when ginned, and not to the
merchant We could not haul many
bales to Shreveport as our river
neighbors do, but we could handle as
much money that we could call
"nsSae" as some of them do. We can
get rid of our surplus cattle, and
keep only those that we need. We
can raise colt or two every year and
work our mares at the same time
We can economist in many ways
We can sell our extra dozen eggs and
pound of butter to buy our sugar
and coffee. We can patch our old
clothes and make them last little
longer, and not put on SO much style
until we are able to afford it. We
can live on less of the luxuries of life
and enjoy better health, thereby en-
abling ourselves to do more work.
If this is not sure way to pros
perity and happiness, let some one
who knows better way speak out.
Raw HIDE.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-07-02

TRUTH.-The condition of arriving
at truth is not severe habits of investi-
cation, but innocence of life and
drunkenness of heart. Truth is felt.
not reasoned, out; and If there be
any truth which are only appreciate
by the acute understanding, we may
be sure at once that these do not con-
stitute the souls life, nor error in
these the souls death. For instance,
the metaphysics of Gods Being; the
'tptan, as they CALI It, ''of SALVATION
the exact distinction between the Di-
vine aud human in Christ's Person.
On all these subjects you may read
and read till the brain is dizzy and
the hearts action is stopped; SO that
of course the mind is bewildered.-
But on subjects of Right and Wrong,
Divine and Diabolic, Noble and Base,
/ believe sophistry cannot puzzle SO
long as the life is right.-RObertsom.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-07-02
Sympathy is needful in order tc

Sympathy is needful in order to
understand the higher feelings
There are cold. intellectual men,
afraid of enthusiasm, who frown on
and forbid every manifestation of
feeling. They viii talk of the elocu-
ton of Isaiah or the logic of st.
Paul, and they think to fathom the
meaning of Scripture by grammatical
criticism; whereas only the Spirit can
interpret the Spirit. You must get
into the same region of feeling in
which prophets breathe, and then
only can you understand them.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-07-02

Gov. Bate Of Tennessee acts. as
his own private secretary, thereby
saving the State $1,000 per annum.
The Governor lisa statesman and can
afford to DO his own work. Werehe
o pot-house politician he would be
sure to ''put on airs" and be above
his business. There is vast differ
renee between brains and brass.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-07-02
The Republican newspapera :

The Republican newspapers of
Iowa aregreatly Disseminated because
they viii be given only nine weeks
between the nominating convention
and the election in which to stir up
tie voters. But 10 the voters it
should be 9 cause for congratulation
that the infictionis limited. Besides,
Il should not take q whole summer
Tor the Republicans to carry Iowa.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-07-02

a baker with whom he chatted the
other day presented Gladstone with
one OF his loves. The statesman was
great enough to carry it home under
his arm.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-07-02

The Republican Office holders must
al step down and out. ANY Repub-
lisan Asading Office nnder Demo-
cratic aiAministration isan offensive"
Republican and ought to be s.fred"
cut Il ne hasn't got decsncy enough
10 resign.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-07-02

"The time is coming" says Bob
Ingersol, ''when a man will be judged
by what he does with his money!
This is tough news for those people
who pay one dollar for front seat
to laugh at his shallow blasphemies.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-07-02

Grass farming in Missouri is stead
LILY extending, having recently increas-
Cd from IL per cent Of the farming
lands to 20 per cent.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-07-02

How long, oh! President Cleve-
land, how long are offensive parti-
sans to be allowed TO remain in Office
IN Louisiana Turn the rascals out.
They hare 'tlarded the lean earth"
hare long enough.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-07-02

Walker county, Ala, is acknowl-
edged to be the richest mineral conn
ty in Alabama. As yet there have
been few or no developments made
in this direction.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-07-02

1t is said that labor has improved
loo per cent. in the counties in Geor-
gia where prohibition has been
adopted
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-07-02

Land Commissioner Sparks is get
ting disliked by the land-grabbers
and survey swindlers.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-07-02
This Great State.

- Mansfield business men SUBJ
scribed SLIGO to build a high school
for males.
Marksville is abundantly
supplied with turtle eggs at Ave
cents per dozen.
Arcadia has thirty business
houses; two hotels and a beautiful
church is being completed.
The Capitolia a. Advocate re-
ports the crops throughout the en-
tire parish of East Baton Rouge as
very promising.
The colored people will have
grand celebration and picnic at
Shreveport next Saturday, the pro.
ceeds to go toward their normal
school, which will be opened at that
place next fall.
- Mr.. E. \. Buffers daughter,
Georgiana, of Liberty Hill, Bien-
vile parish, has been kidnapped
She is about IA years OF age, 5 feet
in height, dark complexion, and
weighs about 80 pounds.
The Grand Jury of East
Baton thinks that the Police Jury
of that parish is doing an injustice
in refusing to pay per diem and
mileage to all witnesses summoned
to appear before the Grand Jury.
- New Orleans City Item says:
The Assumption Pioneer declares
that the first thug that should be
done by the new Exposition man
agement "is to scrape off the barna-
Giles which attached to the old hulk"
Webster Democrat Tribune, June
Goth: awe bear that mad dog
yesterday bit Mr.. Ike Miller and
three of his little children, who live
a few miles from Minden. Every
body should keep a sharp look out
for mad dogs, as they are getting
numerous.J
- The stock of dry goods of
MIR. julius A. Jacobs, of Shreve.
port, was purchased Saturday by
Mr.. Ransom E. Jacobs, who will
continue the business under the
management of Mr.. J. A. Jacobs.
The stock brought several hundred
dollars over the appraisement.
- The closing exercises of st.
Mary's Convent and st. vincent's
Academy combined, took place at
Shreveport last Thursday. The
graduates were Miss Matte Scopeni,
of Natchitoches parish, and Mary
E. Oneill, daughter of Colonel P. V.
Oneal, deceased, of this parish.
D. G. Paul, Sheriff of the
parish of Rapides, told a reporter of
the New Orleans Picayune "that
he knew poor negroes that would
have this fall between 400 and 500
barrels of corn to sell; aud, with no
whisky to trade for, but the neces-
saries of life, that the whole people
would bein a prosperous condition."
The New Orleans City Item
says: considering the ease with
which pardons are obtained, and
the heavy cost of procuring convic-
tons, the New Iberia Farmer, out
of consideration for taxpayers, sug-
gests that pardon petitions be got.
ten up in advance of trial, thus spar
ing the public treasury a heavy out.
lay"
At Alexandria last Thurs !
day A. A. Goodwin was tried by
jury five, charged under Act 81, |
Legislature Of 1884, of sending a |
threatening letter. He was found.
guilty, and sentenced to six months |
in the parish Jail, $50 fine and cost
Of prosecution. An appeal was taken
to the Supreme Court, and he was
released on bond.
- The following are the Louis
lana postofices, of the Presidential
class, with the salaries for the next |
hscal year: Alexandria S11OO:
Ration Rou0o OF QnO no.o,Ss:ul
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-07-02

In Effect Sunday, May Sd, 1885.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-07-02
W.. ID. Boggs.

Notary Public, Bosaier Parish. Lou,a,...
~ Businssspromptlya ttendsdto. Ossaa =
Red Land, La. v9seesa -
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-07-02

- The following are the Louis
lana postoffices, of the Presidential
class, with the salaries for the next
fiscal year: Alexandria S11OO;
Baton Rouge $500, Donaldsouville
$1,000, franklin $1,000, Lake Charles
s14OO, Monroe s14O0, New Iberia
sl4Oo, New Orleans $500, Opelou-
sas s11OO, Plaquemine s11OO, Thib
adaux $1,000, Shreveport s21OO.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1885-07-24
VIRGINIA DEBT QUESTION


The Malone rea1justers and H. r.
ocrats Of Virginia seem Il i. e -
mind in regard to the debt ano..;.. !,
tbatsiate~ They are deterniinea y,
abide by the contract which The s,,,
made with iis creditors under lbo n...,..
ions Of the Funding Act of is-l
What alike eHbarrasses and anger. ,l,m
: the recent decision Of The San,ss :
Court Of the United States w,,;,,L n
effect nullifies and repcals aIl~-...lt
legislation Of that state since thu F,.l;os
Act substantially putting the debt ans.
BACK to the position in which il stood Be-.
fore any regulating acts had baer ,,..
SGD These acts, considered as law. are
dead and imperative, becaus. tbev are
inconsistent with the Supreme law #
the land The only law that i really
living, and which, as contract ,be
regulators Of Virginia cannot LIN j.
Che Funding Act Of 1871; and tb;, law
the predominant public sentiment Of
Virginia does not mean to. carry Into
Effect III good faih. How will .Lese
repudiators manage to get rid ofltho
legal effect produced by the rdrep.
decision of tie Supreme Court o,>be
| uited States? How will the STATE h.
able to collect taxes aud, at tho same
time repudiate the tax.recaivable
coupons, when the Supreme Court saws
hat It must receive these il
iuly rendered BY taxpayers. y
10 collect anything? How will the state
practice the fraud Of reputation when
he supreme Court has in effect killed
al the state laws that authorize and
protect such fraud? These ara me
questions which the readjustcrs and the
Democrats Of Virginia are now STUDYING
with unusual interest. The people Of
he United States. as well as the
,rcditors Of the state at home and
lbroad arc waiting with not little
ntrest to see what the answer will be.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1885-07-24

A committee having been appointed
BY the county commissioners Of St
Marys county to confer with commit.
tees from the other three counties Il
lower Maryland on the subject Of a
home asylum for the insane, two coun-
ties are in readiness for business VIII
not the county commissioners Of Calvert
and Prince Georges counties
soon follow suit, SO. that The
work may 60 on The question
Of the erection of such an institut.s@ is
not one that appeals to the partnership
or prejudice Of thinking men,
but matter that addresses itself to the
reason and good Judgment of all persons
who have the true welfare Of their
counties, with a ppoportionate degree Of
feeling for their unfortunate fellow be.
ings at heart. 1t is not political gues-
ton, nor one in which politicians d. sucb
have any concerp; it is ond purely Of
local ecenomy. If we cad properly,
care and provide for our insauaa -
cheaper than BY sending them ohio In
institution at distance, It is ri II and
proper that we should do so Poli3cit n
generally, imagine that they haac the
world III. sling, and that gae rest O.
mankind should bow as subjects to- their
selfish pFejudiccs and fanatical views,
and the people are at times, dispdSea e
allow them full freedom Of thought 4 ac-
ton; but there are other times when they
should be made take a back seat. Sc
let us keep all politics, aud politicians
also, out Of this question aud lcst
from a business standpoint with an eye
single to the interest ofFIl' tbs
people. So far as we are
concerned We intend spariug NJ
pains to effect the erection o.
the proposed hospital If we
succeed we will be sa isfed With having
assisted in the accomplishment of good
work; if our efforts are fruitless we will
be comfortably consolcd with the knowl.
edge that the object was worth the effort,
and that We earnestly bent our efforts and
energy to do our people service such a
service as is required Of every man who
holds that the interest of his people should
be paramount to the gratiacaaon.of per
'onnl prejudioes, or selfish agsran-
dizement,