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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-01-15
GEORGES DlsoBEDlENcs.

How Little Boy Learned the True way OF
Showing His Love for His Parents.
1t was such a bright morning that
little George c., when he came out
of the house dressed neatly in his new
suit of clothes, thought their must be-
something unusually bright up in the
sun. 1t was not in the sun; the bright,
ness was in his own heart; he had re-
membered to thank his mother for mao~
ing his clothes. When he walked down
the stoop he thought that he could
never do enough for the dear mother
who was always working and planning
for his comfort and happiness. How he
wished he had pocketful of money, So
that he could buy her a beautiful watchE
His little brain was busy planning
what he would do if he had only lots of
money, when a very ine-looking man
spoke to him pleasantly, and invited
him to take walk. OF course he re-
membered that his mother had told him
again and again not to walk with
strangers on the street, but he guessed
she did not mean this nice-looking man;
she meant bad men. So George walked
along with the man, and, before he
knew it, had told him how he wanted
to earn money to buy a watch Tor his
mother The man was very glad, he
said, that George had told him, for he
knew man who wanted just such a.
boy as George; if George would come
with him, he would introduce him to
the man. Yes. of course, he would
90 very gladly. Where was the man?
| Down on a boat.
They went to the boat, but the man
had Just gone, and would come back IN
a short time; they would go down into
the cabin and wait for him. When
George came on deck, the boat had
gone from the dock, and was sailing
down the lake away from his home.
/ Now the man who had brought him
aboard came up and ordered him to go
to work, at the same time striking him a
heavy blow on the back. At the tlfst
landing made by the boat George was
taken ashore, and soon found that he
was to make one of a gang of thieves
he was to assist them. How constantly
/ his thoughts were of his home, and how
deeply he regretted his disobedience!
What would his mother do! 1t was now
three DAYS since that bright morning,
and she would surely think him dead.
| He could never get. away from these
men, for they watched him every min
ute. He was hungry all the time, and
his body was covered with bruises.
One evening he found that the men
were so busy talking that they were not
watching him, and he slipped out on
the street. Hurrying as fast as possible
from the part of the city where the men
were, he soon found himself on clean
street. A lady found him sitting on her
stoop, and after hearing his story TOOK
him to Children's Home to spend the
night. In the morning the people II
charge telegraphed to his home ano
., his mother came for him.
George though this home never was So
beautiful as it was the day he returned
Sitting with his mother in. the twi1ght'
he was made to understand as ne never
had before that the true way OF show la
love to parents is to obey them. W.
must remember, too, that they, nav
: lived much longer than we, ana knos
I much better than we do what Y W.
and right. Christian Union.
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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-01-15
FARM AND FIREslDE.

With the seeds out pumpkins are
excellent for milch cows, and when
cooked are equally good feed for the
early fattening of hogs.-N. 7. Herald.
For neuralgia, wet a cloth with al
cohol and apply to the parts and cover
at once with hot, dry flannel. Relief
will be sure to follow, no matter what
part of the body is affected.-ToEedo
Blade.
"A new remedy for the worms which
destroy house plants is number Of sui
phur matches placed in the foWer-pots
with their heads down. The experiment
has been tried with success.-N. Y.
Times.
Tree planters should learn to know
that well grown yearling is usually
the best tree to plant. Such. trees have
not been trained into any form, and they
are more susceptible to the operations
Of the planter. Exchange.
To iron velvet that has become
wrinkled, instead of dampening the
wrong side of the velvet, as many do,
place wet cloth over hot iron, then
Law the wrong side of the velvet on the
cloth and brush the face lightly the
way the nap runs.-Atbang Journal.
The wire-fence question has been
solved in new way by the owner OF
thirty-two acre farm in Delaware. He
has surrounded his farm with it, and
uses it as a support for Concord grape
vines, keeping the space on either side
titled and clean. No danger of cattle
installing that wire fence for an open
ing between the posts.-N I. tribune.
Some Western farmers have got to
the bottom of the difficulty in making
good roads when they propose to tile un-
derdrain them. Too much water is all
the trouble with their roads. Unless
| this is remedied the tramping of teams
and cutting of wagon tires will work the
soil into miry condition to at least the
depth that the frost extends Chicago
| Journal.
1t viii not pay to collect forest
leaves to be used as manure alone, says
the Tribune and Farmer, but there is a
profit in gathering them for other pur-
poses They are particularly adapted
| to the wants of many kinds of fruit
! trees anu WIGS DIS Il DllIClls anu VI GIL
enlivener of the soil. When composted
with earth they are excellent for young
plants, and also make excellent bedding
| for stock.
Oatmeal Cruel; Take two ounces Of
oatmeal and one and one-half pints Of
water. Rub the meal in basin with
the back of a spoon, in small quantity
of water, pouring off the fluid after the
coarser particles are settled; but while
the milkiness continues, repeat the op
Grafton until the milkiness disappears
Next put the washings into a pan, stil
until they boil, and soft, thick muci
lage is formed. Sweeten to taste.-IA'
Household.
A late writer gives it as his opinion
that if the ease with which the rasp
berry can be grown were fHlly appre
ciated, there would not be a farmer il
the country who would not cheerfully
set out enough plants to supply hi
family with as many as they could ca
at three meals day during their sea
son; and that there is not farmer
wife who would not rather pick thu
fruit than spend so much time in thu
hot kitchen making cakes and pies
The children would come in for thei
share of the delight in connection witt
the care of the plantation. = Pra6rJ
Farmer
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-01-15

in France, by refinement oil Jie
diciaI cruelty, the date Of execution is
not known until the previous evening.
Notices are then sent to the Governor
of the jail, executioner and chaplain.
From the hour of his sentence the Grim
inaI & dead to the world. Environed
by guards, he is taken to a cell with Two
beds. one of which is occupied by q
monster (prison spy. His food IS
taken with a wooden spoon. a Warder
and oendarme keep perpetual watch.
He NAV sleep or smoke or eat but no
visitors are admitted nor any tldlngs
from the outer world.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-01-15

A close estimate in the New YORK
Tarf Field and Farm of the winning
owners of fast horses of the year gives
pierre LoriIlard the lead with So, S3l !
Edward Corrigan second. SoS, zloi
Dwyer Bros. third, S61, $50; George Lor.
lizard fourth, S47,919, and Mr. helsS
fifth, $3o,379.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-01-15

-aYes. my son, the railroadads .
nononoIy' but after you have paid
seyenty-five cents freight on box Wnlcn Z
has come several hundred miles an y
then find that a cartman is going e
CHARGE 81. 80 for hauling It five squares
further you will not talk :, very r. r i nara
40 the monopoly Philadelphia
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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-01-15

She Goes to School With Her Great-CIrand-
mother-The Queer Things She Heard
So
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-01-15
The Time to Fail.
Grocer, to his shopman: ''Pedro, I
owe about three thousand francs.
tIYnc cir y

Grocer, to his shopman: '.Pedro, I
owe about three thousand francs"
Eyes. SIR"
II have two thousand francs in the
safe, but the shop is empty; l think it is.
the right moment to fail
THAT'S just what think"
But | want a plausible pretext for
my creditors. You have plenty of
brains; think the matter over tonight
and tomorrow morning"
The clerk promised to think it care
fully over. On entering the shop next
morning. the grocer found the safe open,
the money gone, and in its place a note,
which ran as follows: Il have taken
the two thousand francs, and am off to
America. 1t is the best excuse you can
give to your creditors. n-4rgoaaut,
"A man of our acquaintance fact
he was cousin of Colonel Mckinney
drank so much chalybeate water for his
health that once when in jail for steal
ing COW he opened vein in his arm
and extracted enough iron from the
blood to make crowbar, with which
he broke his way out of prison. - Aske-
Uil!e IN c. Erlaeiaator,
Arkansas ladies' journal. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1884-1886, 1885-04-11

IF we know any thing at all about "tea-
cup-ology" name given by Boston
girl for peering into the future through a
tea-cup-the temptation to practice it is
irresistible One Of the commonost Of
signs are the little white bubbles which
all declare to represent money. Do not let
it melt away but catch and drink it. A
tea stalk floating on the top of cup Of
tea indicates visitors; if it is soft, your
will be LADY, if hard, a gentle
man. If lady places the wet stalk on
Arkansas ladies' journal. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1884-1886, 1885-04-11
With the exception of General Harri-
son, who was in office only month, all
our Presidents have had blue eyes.

Prior to 1876, tea was rarely ever used
at receptions in Washington, by day or
night, chocolate being the favorite hot
drink. Madame De Catacazy, the former
Russian Minister'S wife, was the first to
introduce tea on reception day at the
national capital. She used to have a
small low table with tea, lemon and sugar
on it, and only one or two cups and saucers
at time, and poured the tea herself, which
was handed by servants to visitors at her
Thursday afternoon receptions. Although
tea is now SO universally used, one scarcely
knows, after all, to whom one may venture
to offer it. This was the way an attentive
hostess was annihilated by a gentleman
visitor whom, calling on her reception day,
she asked to take cup of tea. He drew
himselfup and sternly replied, Madame,
I never triAe with my stomach in that
way"
Arkansas ladies' journal. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1884-1886, 1885-04-11

the back Of the left hand, and strikes it
with the fingers ofthe right, and it flies off
at the first blow, they are coming in dav.
a. the second blow, in two days, and SO on
Il gentleman, stir the tea briskiy, and
plant the spoon upright in the middle Of
the cup, holding quite still, if the stalk
Is attracted to the spoon he will come that
Gay A long or short stalk will determine
the height Of the expected visitor, and YOU
may tell how long he will stay by balan-
eng The spoon on the edge of the cup, and
seeing now many drops Of tea you can
make it hold without upsetting. Tea
drops counted in this way will also fore
tell the number Of years before you will
marry. In counting for your visitor, you
may call the drops hours, days, weeks or
months. 1t is also sign of company to
forget to put the lid Of the teapot on after
the tea is made; and on no account must
you put the milk into your tea before the
sugar, or you will be crossed in love. IF
a fly fall into a glass or cup from which
any one is or has been drinking, he or she
will have good luck.
Arkansas ladies' journal. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1884-1886, 1885-04-11

People who say that because Mrs. W.
H. Vanderbilt knits Mr.. Vanderbilfs
stockings there is to be stocking-knitting
craze all over the country forget that it
has been the fashion for some years now
for ladies to knit silk stockings for the
gentlemen oftheir families.
Arkansas ladies' journal. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1884-1886, 1885-04-11

: 'n9 eSe u any one outside the family.
Better by far have the cheap, but
graceful Japanese banner, or gay parasol
on the walls of our sleeping rooms than
old family portraits done in oil (nore than
anything else). Why did our forefathers
(and mothers too) take on such an air oil
petrlted martyrdom when they sat for a
portrait? Every one I have been unfortu-
nate enough to see looks as though they
mad Just sat down on a ton Of dynamite
with slow match attached and were
calmly awaiting results.
Take them down from the liyipo rooms
and put them in room by themselves.
they may get more social among their own
set, with them put the cracked old crock
cry and the old junk, the rickety rocking,
chairs, the musty samplers, and long-leg-
gcd, ereepy-looking bedsteads. In this
way you can have family museum Of
ugliness, and some day when it rains, and
you feel that suicide is not 50 bad after all.
you oan go to this museum and stay awhile,
and when you come out the ordinary things
Of life will look worth living for.
Pretty things are so cheap now that al
most any one, no matter how small their
income, can have cheerful, tasty interior
to their homes. Do not have cellers above
ground Open the windows, roll up the
shades, let in the sunshine, let the plush
chairs stay in the furniture store, and put
one quarter as much money into plants,
and every visitor you have will be gay,
talk well, and feel more cheerful for their
visit to you. never could learn why so
many ladies keep reception rooms so dark
and dismal. | knew one lady who was
ushered into one of these dark rooms and
fell over the piano stool before she could
see distinctly; | will never tell what she
said when she picked herself up
Money, and lots Of it, must be awful
nice to have, but it is not necessary to
have it to have a cheerful, pleasant, hospit-
able home. A room with the temperature
adjusted to the season, with cheap furniture,
few pretty plants, one or two new maya
zines, and cheerful greeting to all, is bet
ter than gaudy ruby glass, than silver, or
than gold if bitterness must be a constant
guest amid the splendor.
Arkansas ladies' journal. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1884-1886, 1885-04-11

Miss Francis E. Willard gives as a rule
of life or diet, plain living and high think
ing, and as a warning, high living and
plain thinking.
Arkansas ladies' journal. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1884-1886, 1885-04-11

We will be grateful to any of our friends
j. will contribute matter to this column
4 Good short extracts for home life, indus
tr and amusement
Arkansas ladies' journal. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1884-1886, 1885-04-11
THE Good Time Coming

Is nearly over! Ihe time IS near AZ hahd
when one can pay visit and not have
aid pieces of good-for-nothing crock
er thrust down their throat, or be
obliged to sit in some uncomfortable
.cd straightforward, wobbly chair, that be-
bnged to some gone but not forgotten
grandmother among her wedding things"
0tcourse these thing are all right in
their place. In every heart there lies
sweet, tender memories of a day that is
dead" and dear to every heart are the
common things Of life, made sacred by the
touch ola vanished hand, :" but to parade
Them, and harpupon them, simply because
they are old, and sing songs of praise over
alt of old broken crockery that should
b used to decorate the back alley, is why
I've utter this wall.
Our grandmother was not the grand
mother Of our sometime guest, and the
P'Ied, HopPy old embroidered sample"
'h willow trees with cast iron branches
aaS'ng over grave, gives our guest
nI' Would to heaven it would be a
N'a0 chlll, but no, she must at least SIGH
Pa say "Hov lovely?" We shall be held
E''untable for that lie
recourse, if all our relatives were "a
lY' IN song and story, if they topped
M, "a last hop on FIodden Field, or gasped
S,n la a., gasp in the glorious Field of
%VI''n Of Gold we might be excusabIe if
n, 'u' w. we took up the wondrous tale, and
be,, 1Sn'Iy enlarged upon it, but when
. goOd vi 'n0 nor romance In the le-
N NY WV, nn'n the interest begins and ends in
Aipn My evident fact of age, It is an enter
M ,+''' we may well hesitate to offer
pao,., Dlg is really beautiful that is
a oo,,.a excuse .1, for making much of it,
nc; ba,,;, 0ld orookery that never was
hts bonl AZ Old long-legged bed-steads
sote5 o15 nave ,. step ladder attachments !;
palp,, y, ny soup turoens with one or both
On s ,,eot On with putty, are an out OUT
n or5 r,ln'd taste. What # the e" o g%s-
pl,s s 5s, o'e dead long ago ~, (and 1iI no
ov5 die. i was enough ugh ( to kill i'll
pot ip1 ,a such lot Of stuff, that at fact fact
'''' measure beautify the article
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-08-15
A COLORADO ROUNDUP.
Crowds witnessing the Branding OF
CattIe-How The Work is Done.

The announcement that the round
up" would be at the mouth of Cow
creek on Thursday induced many of our
citizens Of the "tender.oot" section to
avail themselves of the only opportunity
they would have during the year to see a
roundup" at so short distance from
Greeley For this purpose many were
up 10y 3 80 o'clock Thursday morning
and ready for early start, in order to
reach their destination before the days
work began. The morning was delight
fully cool and the ride very pleasant.
Arriving at the place about Z o'clock no
cattle were to be seen, but in a sh Drt
time large herds were in sight at differ
ent points and at 8 o'clock some 5000
head of range cattle were gathered on
the plains near the Platte river. In this
herd were many different brands.
During the days those brands were
"cut out" from the main Eerd and each
brand kept in bunch by itself After
his work was finished the cattle were
all started north, except the 40" brand,
belonging to Gale & Peasley. These
were driven to a corral, where a fire was
kindled and the branding performed.
This seemed very cruel work lassooing
small calf either by the neck or hind
legs and dragging it TO the fire, where its
left ear was cut off AMI two large brands
burned on the left side, the animal al
ways maniiesting great pain. Nearly all
of the ladies went to the corral to see
this branding done. but after few NOM
ents none were to be found short of the
river bank. About 3 o'clock the party
started for home, having seen the full
working of the roundup" They were
pleased with the trip, but decided never
10 rise again at 8 or o'clock for a similar
purpose. Greeley Coli Tribune.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-08-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Americans have $l25,OOO,OOO invested
in Mexican railways.
A German chemist is said to have dis
covered an antidote for strychnine.
Four millions of false teeth are manu-
featured in this country every year.
One-lifth of the legal voters of Massa-
chusetts are veterans of the civil war.
The wheat crop of Colorado will this
year amount to nearly 100000 bushels.
Biologists say that the coal beds of
the earth will be exhausted in 1850
years.
Women are paid forty cents a day and
their board as farm labore!s in South
Carolina.
A strawberry nine inches in circumfer-
eHce has been produced in Washington
Territory.
Piute Indians are proving successful
farmers on the Pyramid Reservation in
Nevada.
The people of the United States con-
sumo more lemons than those of all
other countries combined.
The Palace which the city of Marseilles
presented to Napoleon III is now used
as cholera hospital.
There is nothing small about Gu ter
county, Neb.; even hail stones, the home
product, reach a diameter of eight
inches.
Worth's black list, Just issued, has
names of 200 ladies who, through van
ity, order better dresses than they can
afford.
A floating island about one hundred
feet square Is at present an interesting
object in that portion of Lake Marsebesic,
Me, known as the BLACK Pond"
An estate in Wiltshire, England, which
was valued ten years ago at S240,000, was
offered for sale few days ago at 100000
and did not receive single bid.
The Connecticut river, once a naviga-
bic stream for considerable distance, is
said to be drying up because of the de-
struction of the forests along its water
shed.
Aroostook county manufactured 1000
tons of starch last year, which was almost
three times as much as TIE year before.
This is doing pretty stiff business.
Here is suggestion from Denmark.
In that country the law provides thai an
intoxicated person shall be taken 10 his
home in carriage at the expense of the
man who sold him the last glass.
Forty Moors. sent out by their govern.
ment to study the manufacture ofbreech-
loading guns, are coming to the United
States, and will enter the employ OF
various arms manufacturing concerns.
Afghanistan's population Is about
equal to that of the State of New York,
while tie extent of this territory. 225 600
square miles, is considerably less than
that of Texas, which contains 537 ,504
square miles.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-08-15
THE COUNTERFEITER,S DOG.
An Ingenious Way Of Carrying and
COncealing Money.

a good story is told of dog whose
depraved instincts had led him into
ruffiah society, and TO his becoming a
working partner in smashing" bust
ness. 1t was his part to carry the coun-
terfeit coin. In putting off bad money
for genuine, the chances of escape, should
the utterer be detected in the attem Il.
are much enhanced if, in the event Of a
policeman being called in, DO other bad
money is found on him. For this the
mongrel in que stion provided. The
"sours," as pewter pieces are called in
London, were cont iDed in an oblong
iron tobacco box, which the dog is
taught to hold tight in his mouth, and
when TIE smasher had dIspo ed of the
solitary false coin in his possession, il
Was easy Tor him to get another.
But in thus instance the vilIainv 10
both cur and master was brought to lirht
and prosperity punished. The man. with
the dog at his heels, went into butch
er's shop in London. designing to ex-
change bad half crown piece for a good
two shillings aud half pound of steax.
Tue butchers Dog, haIfbred mastIff.
happened to come in at the same mo,
ment, but whether it was his keen in
stinc; that led him to discover that the
other was up TO no good, or whether he
was merely pugnaciOus and over rire
for fight, as are most butchers dogs !,
not known. Anyhow, the butchers
honest dog made such sudden and
fierce attack on the counterfeit carrier
that In spasm of fright the tobacco box
was jerked out of the mouth ofthe latter
and the spurious pieces sent spinnire
over the floor. The consequence was
that the snasaer, who in his IA /, fury
betrayed bis ownership bv savagelv
kicking at the iCtcher's dog, was an EST ed
and condemned tn ten years' penal scrvi
tube. As for the c1ine,'s cur, it WIS :
badly injured by the masItf-s teetn = al
the policeman fet justified in dispatohin.
It on the spot. English Paper.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-08-15

10 devour the literature in chunks and
hunks, and of the half dozen people who
came along and asked the price of his
he answered only one, and him
so absent-mindedly that no sale was
made. In about half an hour the old
man returned. He halted at the back
end of the wagon and took IN the situa-
ton and then asked:
George, what you got?"
STORY"
What about?"
"Injuns."
''Do they kill anybody"
"They are after fellow, and J guess
they'll git him."
Hes the hero l s'pose?"
YES"
Don't sell any taters, does he?"
"No."
81 thought not, but reckon I'll soon
know the reason WHY.
With that he leisurely climbed over
the tail board, reached for the boy, and
the shaking up that youth received will
make him dream of earthquakes FOL
manv nights TO come.
"You don't want any more OF that,
said the old mar as he finished business
and dropped the fly overheard. The
Iniuns not only overlook the hero bu
they slew him in the most fatal manner
and dom you forget it! Now you ei
upon gallop and sell these taterS" De
| troit Free Press.