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A wOmAn's Pair Of New Shoes.

When a woman has 3 new pair Of
shoes sent home she performs altogether
different from man. She never
shOyes her toes into them and yaDks
and hauls until she is red in the face
and al out of breath, and then goes
stamping and kicking around. but pulls
them on part way carefully, twitches
them off again to take = last look and
see if she has got the right one. pulls
them on again, looks at them dreaMnily,
says they are just right, then takes an
other look, steps suddenly to smooth out
the wrinkles, twists around gnd SURVEYS
them sideways, exclsims, Mercy, how
loose they are" looks st them again
square in front, works her feet around
SO they won't hurt her quite 20 much,
takes them of, looks Rt the heels, the
toe, the bottom, and then inside, puts
them on again, w5ks up and down the
room once or twice. remarks to her bet
ter-hEif that she went have them ct any
price, tits down the mirror so she 0an
see how they look, turns in every pos
sible direction and nearly dislOcates her
neck trying to see how they look from
that way. backs of, steps up again,
takes thirty or forty farewell looks, says
they make her feet look awful big and
will never do in the world. puts them
off and on three or four times moro.
asks her husband what he thinks about
it, and pays no attention to what hB
says, goes through It all again, and
finally says she win take them. II isa
very simple matter, indeed Chicago
TlgikSfuS
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BELLEVUE, La,
THURSDAY .:::::":::::jANUARY 3, 1889.

TIE New YORK HERALD.-The New
York Herald has long occupied the
first place among American newspa-
pers, and justly deserves the proud
position it occupies. 1t is the ideal
newspaper. Every issue is brim full
of news from everywhere. Brains,
energy and a superb enterprise-pen,
cable and telegraph-contribpte daily
to It's columns.
It's editorials are incisive and able
without being ponderous. 1t is in
dependent in politics, but the staunch
friend of tariff reform and the de-
termined foe OF monopolies.
If any of our readers wish to read
the most newsy newspaper in the
world, the New York Heruld will
surely please them, while its editor
ials will instruct them on all the live
issues Of the day.
See advertisement in another col
umn.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-01-03
A Case In PoInt.


Young Johnnie Jarpley was incTinedto
be good boy. and his mother spent
much time In inseructing him in the
enormity of the sin of telling falsehoods.
and, to impress IL upon him, sound no
By telling him that people who told Lies
choked to death. When Rev. MIR. and
Mrs. Muckle were taking dinner at the
Jarpley's, on return call, " the next
day. Mrs. Jarpley asked her guest: SIS,
Mrs Meckle. you like my cookinge"
1T Is splendid. Mrs. Jarpley, Just
splendid. enthusiastically responded
Rev. Muckle's lady. ''Mr. Jarplsy 10
fortunate in the possession Of such an
excellent cook as yourself"
just as the lady concluded she took 3
sip Of water, and 9 few drops ''Roing
the wrong way" caused her 20 cough
There she goes! There she GOES.
motherm exclaimed yourg Jarpley lin
great excitement II heard her sasv.
when you was ont Of the psrlor, TO Mr..
Muckle, that she wished it wbs 1ovssr.
a. one Of your dinners was enough 30
kill mule, and she wondered how v9a h
husband had ever lived so long. '-Eitss
6urqh C7syohteLe- TeEegragh.
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V1oK's FLORAL GUIDE FOR 1885,
The Pioneer Seed Catalogue of Amer
ica. Thoroughly revised and enlarg-
ed. New shape, new type, elegant
cover, frontispice and three colored
plates. Contains full directions for
planting, transplanting. gardening,
etc.; illustrations and descriptions of
every popular plant, flower and yege-
table, with prices of same. A hand
some present, elegant for parlor or
library table. 'sVick's Floral Guide. )"
containing certificate good for Is
cents worth of seeds. will be mailed
to your address on receipt of only Is
cents-real cost, nothing. Address
james Wick, Scotsman, Rochester,
New York.
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Soar OF RECKLESS.
IAaoeASr Case OF waking che Wr@Rg g@a
sengeR on the RAilreAds

x
sengaR on ehe Railroad
BE was the greenest old man you
ever saw. He looked around the pas
senger coach in way TO prove that he
had never entered one before, and he
sat down so softly, and seemed to be
SO afraid Of damaging something, that
all the passengers smiled.
By and by young man went over
and sat- down beside him. This young
man might have been directed By filial
affection, and he might not (which
way, uneleP" be softly asked.
''MeP Oh, I'm gOin' to see my dartsr
in Connecticut"
ever travel muchP"
"This is the first time / WAS ever On
the keers. I've driv off seventeen
miles with the oxen to see my other
darter, but oxen hain't no comparison
to these keers."
II should say not 1t takes lots of
money to go to Connecticut and
back"
''Drefrul lot, but jist sold the farm.
you know"
81 presume you could change q one
hundred dollar bill for me. )"
''Oh, jist as well as not.
Il may want you to by-and-by. This
is good weather, ehP''
Extraordinary weather fir fall. James
has been worried about his corn, but
guess it's all safe"
Nothing further was said for some
time, the old man looking out of the
window and the young man reading q
paper. The train made a few stops,
and the car was so warm that after
awhile the old man began to yswn ana
nod. He fought it off for ten minutes,
but at last his head fell back and bis
gentle snores mingled with the roar of
the wheels.
A slim white hand with tapering fin.
gers rested on his leg, then it was ele-
waited to his breast. Its touch was
that of feather. Its movement was
that Of serpent creeping forward 20
strike The fingers touched an old
fashioned wallet. The young man con-
tinued to read and the old man slept
on. Inch by inch the wallet was lifted
from it's snug resting-place. and the
hand was almost ready to remove It
entirely when something happened.
With sudden movement of his righa
hand the old man pinned the inter-
lopez fast, and bis voice was heard Gale
ing:
''You blamed skunk! But knowed
all the time what you were after!
Where's the CONDUCTOR"
There was rush of passengers, and
they found a helpless, confused pick
pocket and an indignant but yet eiated
old man.
''COnssrn his piktur, but he took me
fur an ole hayseed from back medder!
Work roots on me, will vel Sat trap
fur me and fell into it yerself, ehp"
Even professional pickpocket hadn'k
cheek enough to urge single excuse.
The fellow hadn't one blessed word to
say, and was walked of to the baggage
car to be kicked to the platform at t6e
next station,
Eye see,' said the old man, Is be
turned to the inquiring passengers, az
hadn't orter done it. When man he's
been constable. sheriff or drover all
his days, trsvelin' all over and meetin'
all sorts Of folks, he hadn't Orter play
off green-horn and break a young mans
heart ike this, but felt sort reckless
this mornin'. must put curb on my
speerits; I'm getting too old to be play
in jokes on confdin' young menl"-s
San Francisco Alta.
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This Great State.


schools.
Rapides reports Twenty-Five new
settlers from Mississippi.
Live stock are fat and sleek on
Mammoth Prairie, Acadia parish.
From Sept, l to Dec. 8Bayou Sara
compressed $500 bales of cotton.
The hog law agitation has started
in Acadia parish. The Signal says
"the hog must 60"
There are an abundance of fish,
oysters and ducks in the bays and
bayous of Plaquemines.
The Trinity Herald says steam
boats are doing a good business on
the streams in that section.
A Northern capitalists writes that
he will invest $4,000 in the propos-
ed cotton factory at Monroe.
Progress, enterprise, thrift are
now seen everywhere" in Avoyells,
says the Marksville Bulletin.
From January to September 80,
1888, there have been 222 deaths
from diptheria in New Orleaus.
The Guardian says: "There are
about twenty mechanics regularly
employed in Homer and are not able
to do the work on hand"
A fair for the benefit of the white
public schools is to be held at Alex
andria, on the 9th and 10th instant.
The Democrat has received a spec
linen of gold bearing rock from VIM
parish, said to assay eighty ounces
of pure gold to the ton.
The engineering corps of the New
Orleans, Natchez and Fort Scott Rail.
road have now about completed the
survey and located the line of that
proposed road to Sicily Island, about
q miles northwest of Vidalia.
The steamboat Sallie, from Shiloh,
on Bayou Darbonne, with $50 bales
of cotton on board, burned Sunday
morning opposite Trenton. She
was valued at $5000-no insurance.
About $500 in cash besides the cargo
was destroyed. No lives were lost.
Walter Page, of Tennessee, pur-
chased two or three weeks ago, at
public sale, 9,237 acres of land, stu
ated in various sections of Caddo
parish, comprising some of the best
farming and timbered lands in this
State, The sale aggregated S11,525.
Alexandria Town Talk: Last
week the Lecompte Refinery made
10000 pounds of refined sugar
from SO acres of cane, An aver
age of 1888 pounds to the acre. At
s cents per pound the average gross
receipt per acre would be in round
figures 5000 and for the entire 80
acres $4,000"
Times-Democrat: CAS- to the va
rieties of game to be found within
radius of thirty or forty miles of New
Orleans, it may be said that they in
clude nearly everything to be found
on the continent, except some few
species that are peculiar to the fast.
nesses of the Rocky Mountains and
others that inhabit only the polar
regions Perhaps the finest game
bird to be found here or elsewhere is
the wild turkey, which can be killed
in great numbers within a few hours
ride of the city"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-01-03

Frank Leslie's Sunday Magazine
for january is brilliant and inter-
esting number. It's articles are varied,
carefully prepared, and full of inter
est, and its illustrations are drawn
and engraved with admirable clear
ness. 1t takes It's place among the
most important magazines. Terms,
50 30 per annum. Mrs. Frank Les
lie. Publisher, So. So and 81 Park
Place, New York.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-01-03

Nine years ago the iron production
of Alabama was only $4,000 tons.
Last year tho production was 283, 500
tons. Alabama is fourth in rank
after Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illinois
-as an iron producing State. Ten
nessee holds the fifth place.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-01-03

The South is rapidly developing
into great manufacturing region
The immense number of new enter
prises and industries inaugurated
within the past year speak volumes
for the pluck and go aheadativeness
of the citizens of the section.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-01-03

A special to the Times-Democrat
from Shreveport says: "The cotton
factory question is again being ag-
itated, and several of our enterpris.
ing citizens are canvassiug the far.
mers on the subject, and repors that
the prospects for a cotton factory
in this city in the near future are
indeed fattering. Large numbers
we'll to do people residing in the
county are subscribing liberallyn.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-01-03

The farming lands of Illinois have
decreased in value from 20 to 80 per
cent since 1880. There is already a
lsSge emigration from them to Dako-
ia and Texas, and quite number of
the Illinoiseans have settled in Louis
lana also.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-01-03

Louisiana wants more nanufacto-
ries. The clatter and rattle of ma
chinery is the kind of music the en-
ergetic, go-ahead man of business
likes to hear.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-01-03

Since January 1, 1883, the total
amount of railway construction in
the United States has been $3.50
miles. Nearly 1851 miles were built
in the Southwest.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-01-03

The Nashville American well SAYS:
All this talk about sbreak in the
South growth of protection SEN
timent in the Southern tier" and all
that sort of rot superinduced By the
visit of few alleged Democrats
from Birmingham to Ben Harrison
makesus very tired. These Birmin g.
ham protectionist no more repre-
sent the real sentiment of THE South,
or of the Democratic party, than
Longstreet, Mosby or Billy Malone.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-01-03

The yearly income of the great
Kimberly diamond mines in South
Africa is $2O,OOO,OO0, and besides
this it is estimated that fully S1o,-
10000 worth of diamonds are stolen
every year by the natives who work
in the mines.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-01-03

It is said Saxony furnishes the
largest percentage of suicides of any
civilized state. The number in 1887
was one to about every 5000 of the
population III 1881 the total num-
Der was 1913.
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st. Louis Republic: eff there is
anything that Republican does not
var nowadays in States North of
tbs 'hio river, it is free ballot, a
fair aunt and an unbought vote"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-01-03

An intimation is made that the
Federal Offices in the South will be
filed BY good Republicans" We
don't know the article.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-01-03

The largest organ in the world is
now being built in London for sgd
ney. It win cost about S75,sOO.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-01-03

Although Italy has the highest
murder rate of any country in Eu-
rope it has abolished capital punish
mont.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-01-03

Reports from Arkansas state that
cotton is about all picked from the
hill lands, but the bottom fields are
still white.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-01-03

The ratio of saloons in New York
is about to 2l4 1t is proposed to
reduce the number to / for 500 peo-
pie.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-01-03

Rhode Island is going 70 hsve B
State baseball league. The lines Of the
bordering States are to be strictly der
fined. In other words, over the fences
viii be out.-LOaCeH Citizen.
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New Book.


SELF-CULrURE; PHYSICAL, INrEL1EoTU-
AL, MORAL AND SPIRITUAL. A course
of lectures by James Freeman
Clarke. Boston: James r. Osgood
& Co. $1.50.
1t is very common, in speaking of
this book or that, to say that it is
"well worth reading" So common
is the application of this phrase to
current literature that we are not apt
to take it at its full meaning, "Worth"
is sturdy old Saxon word. It in
dicates q complete and full recon-
pense for all expenditure. In this
sense is DIR. Clarke's book swell worth
reading" we'll worth the time requir-
ed for the eye to see every word on
each of its four hundred pages; well
worth the time for the mind to APP
prehend and the heart to assimulate
it all, and doubly worth the time if in
the life of the reader the purport
and instruction of the book bears
fruit in resolution and in action.
DR.. Clarke is a prominent Unitarian
clergyman of Boston. He is pas
tor of the Disciples, and a man of
thorough scholarship. In this book
he has opened to the vision methods
of self-training toward the end of
attainment in true manliness.
Mans duty of as perfect seIf-de-
velopment as is possible to him is
| plainly set forth. Formerly we
were told of the formation of charac-
ter, and this was inculcated as though
each man could carve himself into
what he pleased; that by sheer force
of will he could make himself
character to suit himself. Instead of
the formation of character we now
speak of the development of charac-
ter, which Is much truer word
There is a seed of the future in each
of us which we can unfold if we
please, or leave to be forever only
stunted, half-grown stalk"
The keynote of the whole book
may be found in these words. With
a hearty belief in Gods intention for
each individual, the large scope of
mans own duty to himself as man, is
a cardinal point in DR.. Clarke's doc
trine He considers from an affirma-
tive as well as negative standpoint
the objection that a pursuit of self
culture tends toward selfshness,
leaving with us, however, the firm
belief that self-culture will lead to-
ward philanthropy, while philanthro-
Ply, pursued as a motive, must, at
last find itself lame unless propped
by self-culture. Virtue, drawing
constantly upon itself, must at last
drain its fountain head; we must
constantly receive if we would often
give.
The title of the book classes the
topics discussed as physical, intel
lectual, moral, and spiritual self-cul.
ture. Only one chapter is devoted
exclusively to the frst-named neces-
sity, although a proper respect for
physical strength runs through all
the lectures Self-education of i'm
agination, intuition, reflection, meth
cd, introspection, observation, the
conscience, the affections and social
powers, the temper and the will, of
courage, of hope, by means of amuse-
ment, by books and by the use of
money, is thoroughly mapped out
for the student of himself.
The Nashville American we'll says:
All this talk about "break in the
South ''growth of protection SEN
finaut IN tbo Co,tL,,. =, |
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-01-03

The Memphis Avalanche says the
Arkansas river is rising SO rapidly
that a disastrous overflow is feared.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-01-03

The hop crop of the Pacific slope
Is said to be magnificent.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-01-03

The South is solid for a reduction
of war taxation, aud any body who
poses in any other attitude is simply
a rank impostor.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-01-03

Ask for the old paths, where is
toe good way, and walk therein,
and SO shall find rest for your souls.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-01-03


The Louisiana Methodist Confer
ence, after a session of five days
held in New Orleans, adjourned on
December Gath. The appointment
of the ministers for the ensuing
term for the Shreveport District are
as follows;
Presiding Elder. B. Classify.
Shreveport. Fl. Scruggs. Moor
ingsport-J. S. Sanders. Caddo-
r. j. Harp. Mansfeld-T. B. White.
Grand Cane-W. f. Henderson.
Many-Enos B. Foust. Sabine
S. S. Holiday. Bellewood-H. j..
Boltz. Pleasant Hill-A. D. Ne
Voy, Jr Coushatta-N. S. Cornell.
Red River-G. q. Green. Wesley
J. B. Williams. Valley Circuit-A.
T. Galloway. South Bossier-Louis
A. Reed. North BOssier-A. A..
Cornett.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-01-03

st, Louis has two-thirds of the sa-
soous IN Missouri.
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BAY window parlor csEs sre 90
latest things on wheels. = Chicago Rss'sg
al
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Some Passing Events.

Quitman, Georgia, is to have a
100000 State bank soon.
Gadsden, Ala, is soon to have a
100000 cotton factory.
Over $4,000 pounds of tea is an
nually sold in Savannah, Ga.
Austrian and italian peasants are
focking to Brazil in large numbers.
Mobile proposes to establish a
mammoth brewery, and will make her
own beer.
Ninety thousand dollars, it is said,
goes out of Georgia every year for
onion sets.
A manufactory of hardware special
ties is to be established in Gadsden,
Ala, right away.
New York spends more than $40,-
100000 a year upon its streets,
schools and other municipal obliga-
tions.
There are about 10000 lacemakers
in Normandy; altogether in France
there are nearly 100000 women en-
gagged in this industry.
Iowa is now the second State in
the Union as regards railroad mile
age, Illinois being the first. Iowa
has upwards of $500 miles of road.
way.
Connecticut western news., 1889-08-28
SHEFFIELD.

The friends in Sheffield, of Rev and and Mrs Mason Noble, of Oriole, Fla, have sent them $82 as an expression ot sympathy in the recent loss of their house and furniture by fire
 .Rev Sanford Brusie, of Claverack college, preached in the Methodist church last Sunday morning and even- ing. ..
 Miss Louise Hillyer, of Providence, R. l., is visiting her mother and sister, in this village.
 Roland M. Smith is visiting relatives in Canterbury, Conn.
 Rev Dr Grover, of Nashua, N. H., will preach in the M. D. church next Sunday morning.
 MT living, the druggist, got his stock moved and settled last week and Mon- day morning the post office was placed in its new quarters.
 Rev George B. Vosburgh, of Decatur, Ill.,, occupied the pulpit of the Cong. church last Sunday morning.
 Extensive preparations are being made to give the 49th Regiment and all other old soldiers, residents of Sheffield hearty welcome next Thursday. Many of the houses as we'll as public build ings, will be trimmed with bunting and it is earnestly desired that it be made a general holiday.
Connecticut western news., 1889-08-28
THE TWISTED REGATTA.

The oft postponed boat races took place at Highland lake in Winsted last Saturday afternoon, and were witnessed by about 1500 people. J. H. Van Keuren was chosen referee and time keeper, and Geo. W. Lee as starter in all the races. The contestants in the single scull races were ". J. Shea, of Hartford, and Messrs Moore and Craw- ley, of Boston. The course was two miles with turn. The race was won by Shea, who beat Moore boat length, and Moore beat Crawley boat length. Time 1505. The first prize was $1OO. The other two prizes were gold medals.
 The single junior scull amateur race between Harris and Keary, both of Hartford, was won by Harris. Time 19.46. The prize was gold badge.
 The double scull race with Shea and Harris in one boat and Moore and Crawley in the other boat, was won by Shea and Harris, who landed 8 boat and a-half length ahead of their compe- titors. Time 12.15. First prize $50. Second prize, gold badge.