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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-11-08
Number of School Children.

Has any one, not conversant with
statistics, any idea of the army of
school children in American The total
enrolment, according to latest data, is
over 100000. Dakota shows the
greatest progress Of late, followed, very
curiously, by Indiana as second of all
States In educational progress. In
New Hampshire, Vermont, South
Carolina, Ohio and Nevada there has
been a decrease of enrolment. The
North Central States are far ahead of
all the rest of the Union, and the
Southern States, while making great
strides still remain in the rear. In
the South Central States seventy-nine
out of 100 children are on the rolls of
schools. The number of children daily
In attendance on the public schools
average about 1900, 900. The numbers
enrolled should reach $4,000, 900, and
the daily attendance 1900, 900. st.
Louis Globe Democrat
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-11-08
Sheep for Wool and Mutton


About ten years ago began with
small flock of twenty scrub ewes and
one thoroughbred Merino buck. I soon
numbered one hundred head, graded
one-fourth to one-half Merino. had
strong constitution and fine fiber of
wool. but wanted still better; de-
sired a larger sheep for mutton, more
rapidly-growing and earlier-maturing
lambs; wanted more wool, too. The
next cross was with Cotswold, high
grazing sheep adapted to Kentucky and
Tennessee--a breed that Colonel
Richard Peters and other eminent au-
thorities considered unfit to breed on
the cotton plantations of middle Geor-
gia. My success has been equally re-
markable with this large frame, long
comb mutton sheep. / have kept as
many as eighty to one hundred head,
generally selling off in early spring the
buck lambs for mutton, and occasion
ally buck and small flock to some
neighbor for breeding purposes. From
twenty head worth fifty dollars, with
the buck, | have in ten years sold wool
and mutton amounting to five hundred
dollars. have lost but few shoep bv
dogs, and my flocks have been very
healthy. entirely exempt from foot rot
and other diseases that these animals
are subject to on the Downs of England
and in some of our Northwesterly
States.
Undoubtedly the Merino is the sheen
to begin with; above all others he
shows the greatest vigor of constitu-
tlon and adaptability to climate, food.
ETC., and by crossing on the Cotswold
or SouthdowE, you have both wool and
mutton, the latter preferable for
mutton, but for all purposes |
prefer the Cotswold. feed
my sheep in winter, two or three
months only, on turnips, cotton seed
and little bran, keeping them always
lat. try to have good bite of rye
for the ewes and lambs from about jan
uary to February when lambs should
drop. The earlier the lambs appear
the better. In my humble Judgment, a
January lamb is worth two March ones.
My sheep and cattle pay enormously in
treading land and patches that pay for
feeding them during the hard part of
winter. l have tried to encourage the
growing OF wool and mutton, as there
Is, think. nothing more profitable.
~. b. German, IN Dirte Farmer.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-11-08
SOUTHERN AGRICULTURAL.


In an article under the heading "Cul-
aviation OF Corn" Major j. H. Dent
says Il had visit from and old, ex-
perienced Vermont farmer who had
become rich from farming, and in look
ing at our farms and mode of cultiva-
ton he remarked that Unless grass
and stock were raised on our farms, in
few years we would have no soil to
cultivate, for no lands could last so
constantly cultivated under the plow.' ="
To the above sound Northern con-
ception, Georgia's model farmer re-
plies: 1--WE see it taking place. and
have resorted to terracing to save them;
but nothing will save them and main
tain their fertility like grass, clover
and the small grain cops. Let the cul-
tivation of grain and grass and the
raising of stock be enlarged, and the
planting of cotton be curtailed.
The remarks of the Vermont farmer
call to mind another farmer born and
reared in the cold climate of that
Northern State, who, emigrating to
Western New York in the first decade
of this century. made fortune by
farming and did not have pillow on
his farm. His plan was to convert.
through the organizing power of grass
and the COW, air and water into milk,
butter, cheese and money, with no
pillow to aid the soil in wasting fertility.
In an early day before the Erie canal
was made, when it cost two bushels of
wheat in Western New York to send
one bushel to tide water on the Hudson
river, butter and cheese were taken in
boats and on RATS down the Chenango
and Suequehanna rivers to Baltimore
and other distant markets. Wearing
out land in producing crops which are
worth less than the raw material
consumed in making them, is
one of the worst mistakes in
American agriculture. 1t is bad enough
to throw away honest, hard work on
the farm by misapplied tillage; but to
incur double loss, loss of plant food
as well as of labor, makes such farm
Ing very Improbable industry. To
tell the plain truth in the plainest
manner, how many million laborers in
this great nation of farmers consume
in part the earth's natural fertility to
the injury of mankind? Our present
system of tillage and husbandry has
come to us by inheritance. 1t has
spread almost hopeless sterility over
vast areas of Alaska, Africa, Europe
and America 1t works the soil,
whether deep or shallow, precisely as
a miner works a gold mine-he takes
all that he can find that is worth hav-
ing, and then opens a new placer or
plantation elsewhere. Restitution of
plant food corrects this evil in some
degree. The restitution made is apt
to be defective with diminished capital
in long cultivated fields. Southern
C,GltiUdtor.
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ness thoroughly. than ID a..
bilious to excel in every ss,.
1t is better to feed a COW a..
Of food she has the ability ~, rs
OF. than to try and gain Dros.
ing feed. ~ p
1t is better to fill up the wat.
before it is quite empty, THAI s. \. y
COWS get very thirsty ma s. : = =
much they wont care "a !. s'''s
hours. "
1t is better to teach tha -,
ness than to saw off their h..
1t is better to think twics ~.
strike a COW, than to think tw r1s' .!
out why you struck her.
1t is better to pay fifty doIl,,.
registered bull calf, than I &
grade bull given you.
IL Is better to buy your win
cry than to have her worn ous /. &
ding heavy milk crooks
1t is better to make grapula. 4.
and salt it with brine, than Is -.
in the churn and dry salt Il.
1t is better to consult the Is.
your butter customer, than t,.r /. !.
them eat what they don't like
1t is better to make boz iii.
your cows than to dehorn A.
that you can pack them eIass, I,
shed.
1t is better to give the cows i,
of bedding, than to abuse tass Z
cause they die in the manure.
1t is better to feed extra prsi. /.
tie before the pasture begins d
than to wait till the mill shriurs
1t is a great deal easier 4
dairying special attention, H.,
make it a side issue Of general |,
ing.-A. L. Frosty. in Hoara, d
man.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-11-08
Far Better.

II Is far better to have a cow that
vii give you 800 pounds of butter
a year for five years and then die on
your hands, than to have one that will
give you 200 pounds a year for ten
years and then make you 1900 pounds
of old cow beef.
1t IS better to haze heller calf grow
sank and pot-bellied but thrifty than
one that keeps as ''fat as a seal. p
1t is better to have cow that knows
low to attend to one branch OF her busi-
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The one who will be found in trial capa-
BILE OF great acts of love is ever the one
who is always doing considerable small
ones.-F. ". Robertson.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-11-08

A GRAVE, wherever found, breaches q
short pithy sermon TO the soul -Ha.stasrna
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-11-08

soahce, you know among your acquaint-
ances young woman who Is apt to APP
pear on the streets about the hour when
gentlemen return from business, and you
ind her responding to the smile of entire
strangers-hogs that lift their hats-co to
her and plainly tell her that nearly all
the destroyed womanhood of the world
began the downward path with that very
kind OF behavior.
VI II, for instance, you find q woman in
financial distress and breaking down in
health and spirits trying to support her
children now that her husband is dead or
an invalid, doing that very important and
honorable work, hut which is little APP
preclated, keeping a boarding. house.
where all the guests, according as thew
pay small board, or purpose, without
paying any board at all, to decamp. are
critical of every thing and hard to please.
busy yourselves in trying to get her more
patrons and tell her of Divine sympathy.
Yet II you see q woman favored of fort
une and with all kindly surroundings
finding in the hollow batteries of the
world her chief requirement, living for
herself and for time as If there were no
eternity, strive TO bring her into the
kingdom of God, as did the other day a
sabbath-school teacher who was the
means OF the conversion of the daughter
OF man of immense wealth, and the
daughter resolved to join the church, and
she went home and said: Father, I
am going to join the church, and
l want you to Gomez aOh.
no." he said, 81 never go to
church" "Well," said the daughter, ..if
| were going to be married, would you
not go to see me married?n And he said,
"Oh, yes.o WELL" said she, this is
OF more importance than thatn So he
went and has gone ever since. aud loves
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-10-17
a Strange Indian Tale. J.;

A strange tale of a gold plato with
inscriptions falling from Heaven,
printed in Tamil and Telegu, is in cir.
culation in India This mysterious
tale is as follows: A plate which was
made Of the most beautiful gold, with
the following inscription, accidentally
fell down from Heaven, on the Temple
of CAST Viswanath, at Benares: From
the month of November, 1888, God
Himself will rule as Emperor OF
Hindustan, incarnating Himsolf in hui.
man form. From this time there will
be justice all over the world, and tho
NUNS that is, sages-will be in 8
very prosperous condition, and will
be worshiped by the people. On the
9th Of March, 1889, at Aswani N akshat,
the sun will rise on the 45' in Mena
Lunga. The day will increase and the
night will decrease till the day. be.
comes fourteen hours and the night
ten hours. All the diseases Of men
will be cured, and the age of man,
which is at present established as 100
yeas, will in future be 125 years. -
Hindoa Patriot.
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SCHOOL AND, CHURCH.

i - - & 3 $50 -F-
In the Austral Islands, in admin.
STEERING the Lords Supper, the mis-.
sionaries use bread fruit, steamed and
,ut up into cubes, and for. the wine.
fresh orange juice.
Ohio and Michigan are better pro.
vided with public-school libraries than
my other States. The former has l91
and the latter 154 volumes for every 100
pupils in average attendance. In the
Southern States no public school librar-
les of any consequence are reported.
Tobacco is to be shut out at the
Chamberaburg pa. )Acallemy. No boy
will be admitted who uses it in any
way. Boarding and day pupils will
be treated alike. The ground taken is
that tobacco produces baneful effects
on the minds and health of the stu
dents. ...s~
Small Western colleges often have
difficulties in their career. O4e col
lege in Indiana has had various trials.
Its entire faculty has been arrested and
convicted of malicious trespass; some
of its faculty have INDUCED in libel
cases, and now its furniture has been
seized by local creditors. -,
The new Catholic university at
Washington has 100000 in funds,
with 100000 more subscribed; 65S
acres Of property paid for; the divinity
building 1915, 000-ready to be PAID
for as the contracts call for payment:
chapel and library provided for by
donor, and eight divinity chairs en-.
lowed in perpetuity.
AS an illustration of the fact that
school attendance during epidemics
largely contribute to the spread of in,
fictitious diseases, it is stated that dur.
ing the late serious outbreaks of diph.
liberia in the ironstone villages of
England the closing of a school proved
in every instance an effective means
of bringing each local epidemic to an
end.
The growing cosmopolitanism of
Boston University is strikingly shown
in the fact that it's seven hundred and
seventy-fve matriculants last year
came from nineteen foreign and from
thirty American States and Terri
tories. Among them were bearers OF
university degrees from no less than
seventy-one American and foreign
universities. colleges and professional
schools. The instruction was given
by one hundred and twenty professors
and lecturers.
"A little box came into missionary
collection inscribed with the singular
words: "'Tis But It was from a
lady who had never felt that she could
do much for missions. But she had
been accustomed to buy good many
things for herself which she did not
absolutely need, saying: Its but a
dollar" or "'Tis but a trifle.'' This
year she determined, when so tempted,
to put her '''is buts'' into the mis-
sionary box; and it surprised her to
find that they amounted to one hum
dred and fifty dollars. w. :,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-10-17

AAo uOOAs OpCAOu oO1VAJ 6uu 1ltGl h
dozen men with weapons in their hands
entered without q word. Not ,move-
ment of the invalid's face showed that
he understood the errand that had
brought these stern, silent men to the
cabin. W &sa.1 r..
"Howdy!" he saluted. .'Take cheers,
gentlemen"
''Jack Harris said the leader Of the
vigilantes, 1--WE want your
! oval, haint We got me?" asked the
other, quietly. @
YES" muttered the leader. IAN
we're a-goin' to keep yer' Z z...
oval, don't reckon I blame ye."
Harris answered. s'Hit's BEN a long
time sence We got q chance at me an I
don't wonder We want to keep me. Did
the preacher give ye inforrnationp"
"Yes."
HAS he got the reward yite"
mo, of course not! We want goin'
to do no cash in advance business. .
There was the sound of struggle at
the door and a voice crying:
Let me 60 in! I s0iN 60 in!''
Hits the preacher some one said.
Bills arholdin' him outside
pistol CLEANED from beneath the
table and Jack Harris hard hand
leveled it at the leaders, head"
Let him in!' he said, sternly.
The preachers white face was flush
ed and there were tears in his eyes as
he limped across the room to jack
Harris side
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man, piainly, almost shabbily, dressed.
aad as he stepped awkwardly back and
forth behind the rude pulpit, the last
conner saw that he was lame. But with
WOndrous power he sent the words of
the Gospel thrilling home to the hearts
OF the border congregation. The story
tho young preacher told so
thrillingly was that of the great love
of the Saviour, and SO sweet was the
picture he presented that each
nearer felt as it.. he had never
heard the story before. The last conner
scarcely moved as he drank In the
eloquent utterances. He forgot the
congregation, his surroundings, every
thing. and knew only the words that
the pale-faced preacher spoke.
Then he rose and slouched out, aud,
mounting his horse, dashed away down
q bride path, where, he neither knew
nor cared. Presently some small ami
NAL sprang from the path, and the
horse swerved to one side, and
the next moment there came a
blow on the riders head as if the
great blackberry tree that stretched
far above had fallen upon him.. Then,
as he fell silently from the horse, the
animal kicked the unconscious man
before he had hardly touched the
earth. .@~@ --@
An hour after, tho pale-faced
preacher, limping along the path, al
most stumbled over the PROSTATE
figure beneath the great blackberry.
The old SLOUGH hat had fallen from
his head, ana the blood from q long
wound across his forehead had soaked
his matted hair.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-10-17
He Stood to Reason.

Judge, " said the Montana lawyer.
as he leaned back in his chair and
threw one foot up on the table, II OBJ
ject to the witness answering that
question. and I'm ready to argue the
point. It stands to reason
$50 will you, young man." roared
the judge, ''if you've got any speech
to make. Get up on your feet or I'll
clap you in the calaboose for contempt
OF court quicker'n you can accept an
invitation to drink. y
And the young lawyer stood to rea,
son. ~ Chicago Tribune.
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THE BORDER PREACHER.
A Singular But True Story-Lights
and Shadows of Western Life.
Written for This Paper.1

2LlGHT shone from
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CHICAGO JOURNALISM.
An Eastern Tribute to Western PLUCK
Brains and Enterprise.

An Eastern Tribute to western PLUCK
Brains and Enterprise.
Chicago journalism, like the city it.
self, is one of the wonders of the times
The New York newspaper editors and
publishers claim for themselves the
first place among the press of the
is acceded to by Chicago journalists.
There is a certain dignity which may
perhaps carry influence that only be-
longs to age, a stability that only the
lapse ofyears can bring.
Chicago newspapers can have little
of this. But they have every thing
else that the great newspapers of New
York have-capital, editorial talent.
reportorial enterprise and competent
business management, and an un-
equaled field both for the collection of
news and the extension of their circu-
lation, and some of these qualities in an
intensified and greatly developed De-
gree. As newspapers, that is, as gath
erers of the details of the worlds daily
history, and its presentation with full
ness and skill they have no equals on
the continent. -.
The enterprise of the Chicago news
papers stops at no expense, staggers
at no difficulties. Its special telegraph
wires are like the spokes of a wheel.
reaching especially all important
points of the Northwest. The citizen
OF Chicago, as he opens his morning
paper, has the satisfaction of knowing
that no important event that has hap
pened anywhere in the known world
the day before has been missed from
it's news columns.
Editorially, the Chicago newspapers
are In no respect inferior to the best
published elsewhere in the United
States. There is, it is true, running
through q majority Of the articles, an
indescribable quality due to the infiu-
ence of a community where, according
to the local slang, every thing goes
and goes like thunder" disposition
to carry point by the use of tha
bludgeon instead of the more artistic
flourish Of the rapier; but, like most
Western writer's, Chicago editors go to
the point aimed at by very direct lines,
and when it is reached no reader has
any difficulty in finding out what it is
=. L. White, Il, Harper's Magazine
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.'Oh. my friend, = he cried, what
have Idone? What have / donep" =,
Delivered my note, reckon."
''Yes, and sold your liberty for
money! But God knows am innocent
Of any intent to do SOL" He buried his
face in his hands. Il. ri
Now said Harris, sternly, 'Hud-
den, give the parson his reward. Wen
the moneys in his hand I'll drop this
gun. While hits up you know how
safe your life is!'' n
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HOW THEY WERE SAVED.

On the western coast OF Slessin9, - u
Where the North Seas waters fow. " +
The fishing town OF Husum lies @ @@
And brave old woman's sacrifice
Once saved its folk from woe. s +
In the bitter winter weather s@ 8. 7"
There Is Ice upon the sea,
But seldom can the people pass ''">" I
Upon the harbor, smooth Us glass :
And clear as ice can be. ~
So when this happened, all rejoiced,
And hnstened from the town
Down TO the frozen, glistening sands,
And soon the merry, laughing bands
We're skating up and down.
Old Gretchen. stretched upon her bed,
B,held the skies with fear;
Tho III and poor, and quite forgot,
She watched for those who needed not
The danger that was near.
She saw the clouds together roll
That brought an ocean blast,
And hobblinK to the door, she CRIED
With all her might: MAKE haste! the tide
The lido Is rising fast!'
But no one heard her feeble voice,
Nor saw her wild alarm; =
None dreamed that soon the cruel waves,
Mig bury them in billowy graves, II
Were they not snatched from HARM
So summoning all her strength, she plucked
brand from out the fire;
She hurled it, blazing, on her bed,
And while with tottering steps she fed,
The flames rushed high and higher.
The skaters saw the burning house,
And toward the dixie they ran,
The leader shouting: ''Brothers, fly!
IT'S Gretchen's cottage-we must try
TO save her if we can!'
All hastened-women. children, all
On Gretchen's help intent,
When, scarcely had they left the ice,
There came crash, repeated thrice,
And waves rose turbulent.
All! then the grateful people saw
The wOman's kind device:
She burned her only shelter down
To save the folk Of Husum town
From death upon the ice
And need tell you Gretchen lived
Henceforth all care above?
Each tried to serve the other-thus
A blessing waits for all Of us
In kindly acts of love.
lima ~ Pratt, IN Golden DAYS.
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regular mass that moved restlessly in
the darkness. Observed closely, it
would have resolved itself into num-
Der of horses tied to sapplings, and
stepping about restlessly as they
stretched their heads toward the tempt
ing leaves beyond their reach.
Divine services were going on in the
log building and the tones of the min
lister tloated out into the darkness
in solemn cadence. Often they
were interrupted by a deep,
grunted "A-a-a-naen!" or "U-m-m-
ah! Vas, Lord!'' tho manner in
which many border worshippers
express their appreciation of the
preachers utterances.- A mounted
figure came close to the shaft of light
and dismounted. AS he did SO, the
stamping of the restless horses reached
his ears. Noiselessly he made his
animal fast to a red-bud stem and
crept through the bushes to where the
uneasy equines were tied.
lie passed from horse to horse, feel
ing swiftly over each, rs if in the dark
ness his hands were doing duty for
eyes in revealing the merits or de-
merits OF each animal. The result
was not pleasing one for he uttered
grunt OF disgust and muttered, half
aloud:
This yere's the orneriest lay out o.
horses in seven States. Horses. huh!
They're buzzard bait. This leetle
FLY is the only. one with takin'."
The voice of the preacher came
clear and strong to the ears of the man
among the horses. He listened mo-
ment as the clear voice told i'm simple
words the sweet truths of the Bible.
Some how, the words of the Good
Book seemed to the man i'm the dark
ness to be addressed directly to HIM
self, and, presently, as he listened, he
removed his old slouch hat as rover
emily as If he had been within the
sanctuary. ~
Then. as the words of invitation and
consolation rang out clear and sweet,
the man by the horses removed his
hand from the neck of the little mare
and muttered: Preacher is sumner.
shore. Reckon I'll leave the iilly.
Might belong to the preacher, an bein'
q preacher, o course, hits the only
boss he's got.'
As he returned to his own animal.
he paused again to listen. Presently.
he dropped the hand that was untyine
the bride, and strobe into the bar of
light that shone from the open door.
Hanged il | don't try hit whirl, .
he muttered. BEN q long time sence
I've set in church.
His slouching entrance was scarcely
noticed by the congregation Of shock
headed men and sallow-faced women
90 attentive were they to the preachers
utteranOes.
The preacher was q small, pale-faced