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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-05-10
Corn Raising.

Corn requires but comparatively
little cultivation if the soil has been
properly prepared beforehand, and
whatever work it receives should be
given when the crop is quite Young
thoroughly breaking and pulverizing
the soil are the most important CON.
slderations. The cultivation should
begin as soon as the corn is cleverly
up, with either harrow or cultivator,
and the work should be continued
until the work is laid by. If the corn
is planted in checks, one good plow-
ing each way will secure good crop
other conditions being favorable. 1t
should be laid by before it is knee
nigh, and the last blowing should be
very shallow. A turning Dlow should
never go in corn field after the crop
is planted. The modern one-horse
turning-plow has destroyed millions of
bushels of corn, and The same NAV be
SAID OF the long-shank double shovel.
The turning-plow leaves the field in
ridges. while level culture is the
proper thing. The double shovel will
go too deep in spite of the plowman.
and mutilate the young lateral corn
roots, Every time 5kgse roots are
bruised or broken the corn is damaged.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-05-10
Spring Work.

Now that the vernal season is here
farmers and gardeners should be
ready for active operations afield.
Those who have not needed earlier
hints and neutrality-suspicious. by pro-
viding tools and implements, seeds
and plants. fuel and fertilizers, put
their teams in order and secured good
farm and kitchen help, may find that
delays are expensive, if not danger
Gus. As soon as the weather is favor
able every farmer should take the
field at the head of his forces omen,
teams. etc.. leading in person and
saying: Come. boysr instead of
tarrying in camp and directing his
subordinates to march forward and
open the important spring campaign.
II not already done, the repairing of
implements. wagons. etc. and the
sowing of seeds. plants and trees for
early planting, is first in order. while
the hauling out of manure and obtain
Ing commercial fertilizers Gf to be
used) are essential requisites. The
ooSuh0 VI ldiIu W grass, anu
especially the sowing of clover,
is timely. Flowing gardens and
fields for early crops should be done at
the earliest practical moment. Fix up
the fences and substitute gates for
crooked, warping bars. See also to
the fences. arbors, trellises, ETC., about
the house and garIen. If the soil and
temperature are suitable, pease, spring
wheat. oats and barley may b, sown
this month. Scions should be cut for
grating. especially cherries and
plums. Apples may be cut later
Early drafting is desirable, though
apples and pears may be set until
June if the scions are fresh. As warm
weather comes on overhaul and assert
apples. as one rotten one may affect
the flavor of whole barrel. Look
also to the security of your potatoes.
and to saving them. for they will prob
ably be scarce and dear this spring.
Feed and nurse the COWS that come in
early. and care we'll for mares in foal
and ewes about to lamb. Indeed, take
good care of all domestic animals.
and especially their progeny. N. y
Star,
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SOUTHERN AGRICULTURAL.
Farm Accounts.

We are not stating the case too
strongly when we say that not one in
a thousand of our farmers keep any
thing like complete set of farm ac-
counts. Not one of that number can
tell what it costs to put a bushel OF
wheat. corn or oats on the market.
how much corn they put into the cat
tie or hogs they sell (unless they have
to buy all the food). exactly how
much grain or hay is grown on the
farm, how much milk or butter is pro-
duced. much less how much should be
credited to each COW owned. and so on
through the entire list of farm products.
Without a doubt many field of
corn in our great corn States is grown
at loss. many fat steer or hog is
sold for less than they cost, and many
a COW in good dairy herds does not
give milk enough or of good enough
quality 10 pay for her keep. These
facts are admitted by farmers as alto
gether probable, yet they take
no steps to change this unsound
policy. but pursue the even tenor OF
their way and complain that men in
other lines of business are getting rich
while they are getting poor Does
any one think that merchant, a man.
ufacturer, or railroad, would long
keep from being sold out by the
sheriff it their business was being con.
Quoted as loosely as is that of the av-
erage farm? 1t is nonsense TO max e
the stereotyped excuse: Il have no
time" If man has time to grow a
crop at loss. he can find time to find
out how much the loss is in dollars
and cents, and a few moments con-
temptation of these figures will do
more to save him from further waste
of time in the future than any thing
else can.
When competition in all the walks
of life is compelling the adoption of
exact. careful and economic methods
the farmer can not expect to be sue
cessful under haphazzard, slipshod
measures. He must make better use
of the mental and physical forces;
must appropriate to his use in his bus
mess. as do other men, information
developed in this day and generation;
must have and use scales and meas
ures. and must verify by figures all
that he does. Yes, let us have some
of the figures from your books that all
may see what can be done in this di-
rection. Rural World.
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Gapes and Little Chicks.

To prevent gapes feed the chicks !.
a clean surface. Do not place theb
coops or runs on filthy ground % /
is from the ground that the germs 4
the cape disease enter the windpi
of the chicks. Gapes and filth arc. /,
a rule. found together. hence clsaaE
ness is essential if the trouble is to h
avoided. To prevent gapes. Thorough
ly mix teaspoonful Of spirits trrpel
tine with two quarts of corn maa;
moisten with warm water to the con
sistency of stiff dough. and feed It'll
the chicks three times o week. Htb
disease appears. use only one and
half pints of meal and a teaspooais
of turpentine. For individual cas-.
give two drops of turpentine on
bread crumb twice day.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-05-10

Root-pruning is an advance
barren fruit-tree, but it should ~. Z
practiced in the cultivation Of - y
crop. S0sl
To grow corn successfullv. moi. !,
soil fertile. if not already -. ' "
deep; pulverize thoroughly. msas
drag over it and let it take 4 rain IN :
two; rebreak it no. quite - y
harrow it again; then run a droa eR
it TO make it smooth. Law !, ''a
three and one-half to four Ana ! y
half feet each way Plant good ~. ~
corn. Begin to cultivate earl ~ y
quit early. Do not be too imn,,i ~
to plant Better to wait until s Y
ground gets warm. If you plan, !.
early the corn will make a slow ~. y
the stalks will get hard and tha :.
will never do SO we'll, besides Il
grass or weeds may get iahead n !.
corn. Put the turning-plow j.,
double-shovel under the tool.sh.a =
soon as the corn is planted And 9
the cultivator and a one.horse h,,,.
with short teeth.
In breaking the land good coat !,
young grass and weeds will be turss
under, and millions of seeds H.
terminating will be destroyed. m
making the labor of cultivation ma
less. =
1t is fallacy to throw up a bio ria,
next to the corn to keep it from han.
blown down. The roots hold nm Il
corn. Just as well pile soil around !,
fruit tree to keep it from being blo,,
down. 1t is fallacy to pillow O.,
deep when it is silking, durne !,
drought. to bring up the moisl1r'
The blowing is a serious injury. i
the soil has been properly plepsr,a
the moisture will be brought IN i,
capillary attraction. 1t is falacv i,
undertake, by five or six plowings IN,
field of growing corn, to do the woll
that ought 10 have been done befm,
planting. CaldweH County (Ky.l On
Rural NeU Yorker.
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MISCELLANEOUS.

The consumption Of coal at Pitts
burgh, Pa, has diminished 4,50O, 600
tons year since the introduction OF
natural gas.
In the palace of Catherine the
Great. near St. Petersburg. there is a
room which is lined. walls and ceiling,
with the finest amber.
A novelty in church organs is be-
ing exhibited at Milan, Italy. It is
constructed entirely of paper. The in
ventor is priest.
In Ovid, Mich, after Sunday MORN
ing service. the prominent citizens may
usually be seen racing horses sup and
| down the main street of the town.
All the street railways in Dover.
N. H., are under the presidency Of a
woman. The treasurer is her husband.
and the company feels safe that he will
never get into Canada.
In graveyard in America stands
tombstone with the following inscrip-
ton: 'Here will lie Mr.. James Jones;
at present he still lives and carries on
his shoe store at $50 Franklin street."
-Fliegende Blatter.
"A Montreal newspaper says that a
citizen who had agreed to lease q GER
tain house on University street was
| considerably surprised when he came
to sign the lease to find that clause
had been inserted forbidding him to
play the piano, play cards, or open the
windows on Sunday. He didn't sign.
"A travelling manager of theater
company, who intended playing para
disc" in the south of France and feared
to shock fastidious matrons. to remove
prejudices added to his playful that no
anxiety need be felt by the most refined
and moral, as Adam and Eve would
appear in costumes.
The MERGED Canal, thought to be
the largest irrigation work ever con-
structed in this country, representing
an expenditure of five years of time
and 100000 of money, has just been
opened. 1t is expected to irrigate
about one-quarter of the county of Mer-
ced, CAL, which lies in the heart of the
San Joaquin Valley.
An Eastern man took his under
wear to a Chinese laundry in Stockton,
Cal, forgetting that he had $l15 in
greenbacks sewed in his undershirt.
He fastened to the wash-house, but
found his clothes already in hot water
The Cinnamon all denied having seen
the money, but he looked around for
himself and found the greenbacks be-
hind the stove. where they had been
placed to dry.
"A Philadelphia servant has dis
tinguished herself by an original sort
of private theatricals. While her mis-
tress was away she attired herself in
the best dress of the lady of the house,
made calls upon strange ladies and in
vited them to return her courtesy.
When they called she entertained them
appropriately, showed them over the
house and felt provoked because her
girl had gone out The farce con-
tinued for some time.
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A POPULAR INDUSTRY.
Manicure Talks Unreservedly About Hi.
Peculiar Trade.

q AdiHS OHEcSorVeuly ABOUT HIS
Peculiar Trade.
A professional manicure, who has
made small fortune in the practice of
his peculiar profession in this city for
the past ten years, delivered himself
thus pointedly in relation to his peculiar
art.
LESS than fifteen years ago mani
curing was an unheard of industry in
this country, and it was impossible to
procure the implements necessary to
its practice anywhere but in Paris.
Now there are few towns so small that
they have not at least one manicure,
and no druggists stock is complete
without supply of the requisites to
the care of the finger-nails. Doubt
less the present practice is preferable
to the old style pen-knife butchery. but
it is questionable whether our women
and dudes have not let the customary
American excess creep into this as into
most other vices and virtues that we
import from abroad.
''Civilization eliminates from the uses
for the hands certain things which
would make the growth of nails none
too great for the natural wear and tear
on them. and, therefore, cutting or fill
ing them as they grow too long is an
actual necessity. To produce an agree
able result from this process is desir-
able from an aesthetic point of view.
That the sharply-pointed and highly
polished nail prescribed by the profess
sional manicure as the professional
thing is either agreeable to the eve or
in good taste is doubtful. OF course it
is to the interest of the professional
manicure to foster the art.
Taken by itself the fnger-nail is not
altogether lovely object. There is in
it suggestion of our animal nature
and origin. As an unobtrusive portion
of a shapely hand, it is not objectiona-
BILE. but the present object of manicur-
ing seems to me to bring the nails into
the utmost conspicuousness. Nature
has provided the nail with soft, dead
luster, which the manicure surplants
with patent-leather polish. To this is
added point suggestive of the beast
of prey, and barbarous shipping of
the skin surrounding the nail
Good taste would suggest that in
stead of a point the object aimed at
should be a graceful curve, and common
sense teaches that the skin-snapping
process be avoided altogether. The
popularity of American fashions seems
to be that it imports from other coun-
tries only the more senseless of their
fashionable customs, and we are more
likely to follow the Chinese. of letting
the nails grow so long that they have
to De worn in ornamented cases than to
initiate the Chinese or any other
foreigners in the sensible things which
tend TO make life simpler and easier."
~ 7. Telegram.
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HERE AND THERE.

The Clarksville Glenn Iobaul
Leaf says money and nerve can pa|
Tugs, which now sell at 81 and sas|
at 81 and So by July 4
This country annually import
about $50 000 600 worth of raw Sill
1t is said that Patterson. N. j.. nam
featured last year 500. 00o 900 wori
Of silk goods.
Steps are being taken to build 4
fruit cannery at Mckenzie, Tenn
West Tennessee is one of the larges)
fruit growing sections in the colInifJ
and n factory of this description wcul
be a benefit to the grower and sAf
per. besides giving employment II
many men, women and children.
The farmer who has seven
breeds, and who keeps poultry 81
eggs and market. need not separss)
them unless he wishes to hatch lsTg|
numbers of chicks. II he win select
certain proportion. and mate tbemis
the purposes desired. the Others mal
be allowed on the range.
-Rumors are rife that numbers q
farmers in the dark district Of H
lucky who sowe hurley seed will ls|
set out the plants. owing to the V
preston in the hurley market and "
extensive preparation being made q
an enormous crop this year.
Rotation of crops battles 10 |
measure. the root enemies. both insee|
and fungus, that prey upon thoa.
Each plant has its own peculd|
enemies. and changing OF plants y
moves them to fields unoccnpied
such enemies. This is true Of g
enemies of the above-ground grows
of plants to an important degree.
The tendency of the tobacco trss|
in all grades is to avoid the oss|
smoked article. Curing and COOKE
are very different processes u
correct theory of curing by fire : 2
to cook the sap of tobacco buI
SO dry it into a gummy resi-
Gus substance as to give topses
a smooth, oily appearance; mot y
slick marbleized gloss that appsn|
harsh and slaty. Tobacco Leaf
A hot-bed on the farm 10 va'
easily, cheaply and quickly conslrae
ed. Haul out fresh manure as la'ss
as you want your be !, turn itadaIs|
two and then.level down. put a nv.
of boards eight or ten inches hlgn :
top. and fill in six inches OF Woa
dirt or rich garden soil. In TINS ps.l
your seeds, and if you haven g..
sash 10 cover your bed use light 2
vas, protecting it with Cd ese
when the weather is extra cool
The most perfect filth is reqllA
for the tobacco crop. No other pas
contains SO much mineral eieIliess
One thousand pounds of The fresii pl 81
contains 1917 pounds OF ashes
this consists of 81 pounds OF rotasA !
pounds 1of magnesia, 70 pounas. !.
lime and 10 pounds of silica. IL III
as much as 1000 pounds o. W.
contains, and as sill this mineral = y.
ter is derived from the soil, u ~.
how essensial it is for a gooa ~ ss|
that the soil should be pulEefi1s4
the most perfect manner
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-05-10

WHATEVER is done for a child as q
child must be done while he is child.
Aromatic as this truth is, it is not practic-
ally held as truth by parents, teachers or
preachers generally. Those who are re-
sponstble for the training of children are
inclined to feel that the most important
period of child's life is little later on
than now. Yet the time of times for t. q
improving of a child's mind, ami for the
shaping of q childs character, is at the
present hour He who fai's 70 realize this
is so far uafiit to aave the custody Of
children IS. 5. Tsnaks,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-07-03

twitched once or twice, showing his yellow
teeth, and then upper and lower lip separated
wide, and when they met again the green
sprigs and white blossoms were in the
horses mouth. A scream from the girl as
her new hat was snatched from her head,
an agonizing "Och, Himmelw from her
mother, ana thoroughly disguised horse
as he spat out the tasteless garland and re-
sumed mis- aspect of melancholy, was the
tableau that ensued. A fight between the
Irish driver and the girls big brother was
only prevented by two policemen, and the
German family party returned to the Gar
den with rueful faces.
''ShI | buy me yat'r blow It in fer beerf
An inebriated but Jolly young fellow
stopped me in front of hat store on the
next corner and earnestly asked advice as
above, while he displayed two-dollar bill
in his right hand.
why, buy hat, my boy" said l.
"B'leeve yer right" asserted the youth,
and | watched him while he purchased a
pearl-colored derby of the halter. When
he came out he and l climbed on the same
open summer car going uptown. His old
hat, wrapped in paper, seemed an incum-
brance to the young man, and after riding
few squares he reached over the side of
the conveyance and dropped the old hat
into the street. The watchful conductor
saw the bundle fall, stopped his cal, rescued
the hat from the pavement, and replaced 1t
on the seat beside its owner. In a few
moments the youth turned his head and
saw the bundle beside him. He started
slightly, then picked up the package and
examined it curiously with a puzzled ex-
preston, and finally dropped it again into
the street and sank back in his seat for a
nap. An old fellow who boarded the car
at the moment picked up the package and
replaced it carefully on the seat beside
the young man. Some of the passengers
smiled and awaited developments. But no
developments occurred until a new pas
senger jostled against the youth in climb
ing aboard and woke him. Then the inebri-
ated chap spied the hat again, rubbed his
eyes, took a second inspection, removed
his new hat from his head and looked at
both hats attentivelY. For a few moments
he seemed plunged in deep thought, and
then deliberately but unsteadily rising to
his feet, he kicked the old hat spitefully off
the car and half way to the sidewalk. The
and they smiled quietly later when the
young man awOke from another nap with a
start and looked all about on the seat as if
he expected to see the obstinate old hat
back beside him again
There is n good deal of amusement to be
got one way or another out of the Bowery
on Saturday night; aud do not know any
better way for a quiet observer to get his
fill of amusement on that great thorough
fare than to walk the entire length between
9 o'clock and 10 O'Clock at night and keep
his ewes wide Open
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-07-03
A Child for It's Board Bill
From the Boston Traveller.


A singular condition of affairs regarding
the custody of child was brought to light
in the supreme judicial court this morning
by the hearing by Judge Allen of a petition
for writ of habeas corpus. The petitioner
was Daniel Lucy, a resident of Lynn, who
sought to regain possession OF his daughter,
Nellie Lucy, 80 years. The little girl had
been in the custody of Michael WEIGH, who
resides at 70 Harvard street, since the death
of her mother, some time during the latter
part of last December. Welch was in court
this morning, together with the child, to
show cause why the writ should not be grant
ed. He had no counsel, and amazed the
court by the statement that, although no
relative of the child, he proposd to keep it
in charge until the father liquidated an
alleged debt to him of $50, due for the main
tenance of the little girl siuce the death of
her mother. Judge Allen lost no time in
granting the writ This is probably the
first time since slavery was abolished in
Massachusetts, that human being has been
held as collateral security in this common
wealth,
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Anew ENGLAND CONSERVATORY

kW MUSIC, FINE ARTS, ORATORY,
U Literature English Branches. French, Ger
man, Italian, etc. LARGEST and lest
EQUIPPED in the WoRLD-100 Instructors, 2,252
Students last year. BOARD AND ROOM, with
Steam Heat and Electric Light FALL TERM
begins Sept 10, 1885. Illustrated Calendar free.
Address f. TOURJEE, Director, Franklin
Square, -BosToN, MASS.
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The White Sulphur Springs,

Greenbrier Co, w. Va,
THE most celebrated of all the mountain re-
L sorts, and one of the oldest and most popu
1000 feet; surrounding mountains $500 feet
Send for pamphlet describing hygienic ad
vantages. b. f. EAkLE, Superintendent
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The TANNHAEUSER BEER

The TANNHAEUSER BEER
Is a Special Brewing of tho
BERGNER & ENGEL BREW
ING COMPANY, and unques.
tionably the Finest Light Beer
extant. 1t is brewed from the
finest Pale Canada West Barley
Maitland Saazer Hops, and highly
recommended for its tonic and
nutritive qualities.
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THE ORIGIN OF BEER.

IN Jolly field of barley good King Gambri
nus slept,
And dreaming of his thirsty realm thu
merry monarch wept
SIN all my land of Netherland there grow
no mead or wine, ~
And water / could never coax adown thii
throat Of mine.
'Now list TO me, ye heather gods, and eke
We Christian, too.
Both Zernebock and Jupiter, and Mary. clat
in blue:
And mighty Thor, the Thunderer, and any
else that be,
The one who aids me In my need his servsnl
will be-"
And as the sinful heather all in the barley
lay,
There came in dreams an angel bright, who
soft these words did say:
Arise, thou poor Gambrinus, for even al
around
n the barley where thou sleepest o necta
may be found.
In the barley where thou sleepest Their
hides nectar clear,
W hlCA LlSn bndil hAOW AL AaNSA hlLilC1 az
porter, ale or beer"
Then in terms the most explicit he put tn,
monarch through"
And gave him ere the dream was out thu
recipes to brew.
Up rose King Gambrinus and shook him IL
the sun;
Away, ye wretched heather gods. with yor
I'm quit and done!
Ye've left me with my subjects in error ans
in thirst;
TIL in our dreadful dryness we scarce know
which is worst"
Il was the good Gambrinus unto his palac,
went,
And messengers through all the land unto
his lords were sent.
leave Odin, under pain of deathW Hh
orders were severe,
Yet touched with mildness-for he sent the
recipe for beer.
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Attention r. r. L.

For sprains. bruises, rheumatism, swell
ing, cuts, burns, etc, in man, and splint
ringbone, epizootic, scratches, etc, in horses,
Rangum Root Liniment is a sure cure. The
liking of LinimentS" is the universal YER
dict. Never fails to cure any ailment that
can be reached by an external medical APP
plication. so cents per bottle. For sale by
Lippman Bros, wholesale agents.
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Summer Tariff.

The adoption of a summer tariff at the
Harnett House. below what has heretofore
been the rule at that excellent hotel, is sure
to be productive of satisfactory results, and
indicates the wisdom of the management.