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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1890-02-06
FeedIng and Fatteninr.

Hogs intended for porkers should now
be well on the way to fairness. Wehave
always thought that pork made from
sweet potatoes is the sweetest, best and
cheapest that can be produced on a
farm. Let the hogs have liberal sup
ply OF this esculent every day, feeding
once day on corn, or better, corn meal.
and finishing off with corn-meal mush
fed in clean troughs as the cold weather
and hog-killing time approaches. In
t9lligent farmers need not to be re-
minded that there is no economy in
Withholding food of the most fattening
character from animals intended for the
slaughter. One may stint, to some ex-
tent, the working animals on a farm
without loss or detriment to their work.
ing ability, but every pound Of food
withheld from mich COWS and
p"Fkera sByalYes loss that
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1890-02-06
FlREsIpE FRAGMENTS.

Rye Cakes: Two cups OF rye, one Of
flour, two cups of milk, two eggs, one
teaspoonful of baking powder, little
salt. Bake in cups and serve hot. Good
also for tea.
Printing ink stains can be removed
from clothing by the application of ben
zine or turpentine with a soft sponge,
after which the article cleansed should
be hung out in the air to dispense tho
odor of the cleansing medium.
-Coeoanut Caramels; After the cara
mel is poured out, sprinkle dessicated
eocoanut thiekly over the top, or what
is nicer still, though some trouble, pare
off the hard part from fresh nut and
cut in very thin slices, sprinkle on in
same manner
Lunch Biscuits: One pint of -four,
one tablespoon of butter, three of sugar,
two eggs, one teaspoon of soda and two
of cream of tartar, pinch of salt and a
cup of milk. Cut in biscuits and bake in
large deep pan.-Western Rural.
Pillow shams, which are unique if
nothing else, are made of old scraps of
lace, insertions and edgings put together
after the manner of crazy patchwork.
The stitches may be made with floss or
cotton. The whole is finished with a
ruffie of lace.-Detroit Free Press.
Lemon Toast: Take the ye1ks of
three eggs, beat them well and stir them
into cupful of milk; cut some stale
Dread in slices and soak them for a min
lite in the eggs and milk, then fry to
light brown in butter, and dust on lit
tie powdered sugar, and then add lit
tie lemon juice.
Savoy Cake: Take twelve fresh eggs,
put them in the scales and balance them
with sugar; take out half and balance
the other half with flour; separate the
whites from the yelks, whip them very
light, then sift first the sugar, then the
-four, add some grated lemon peel, bake
in a creased mold.
--Citron Preserves: Pare off the rind,
seed and cut in slices and put in the
kettle; boil almost done, take out the
citron, add pound for pound to the water
Boil thick, then put the melon back, add
one sliced lemon to each pound of fruit;
boil till the citron and lemons are done;
put in jars. Or you can take one-half as
much sugar as citron and flavor with
lemon extract and put in cans.
"A sand-bag is good substitute in
illness for the rubber hot-water bags
that are so much used nowadays. Make
the bag of flannel, about six by eight
inches in size, fill with fine clean sand,
sew up and inclose in an outer case of
cotton. The bag should not be filed
too full; the yielding sand will then ad.
just itself to the body even better than
the somewhat stiff and heavy rubber.
When they are used continuously two
will be necessary; one can then be
warming in the oven while the other is
in use. A little strap on one side is a
convenience. Suspend the bag by means
of stick slipped through this from the
upper CRATE of the oven and let it.warm
without coming in contact with the iron.
N Y World
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1890-02-06
Fruit culture in Our Cotton c,l,,.,.

~.
American farmers raise more Ira,
half Of the cotton consumed in Europe
because nature gives the American is
estimable advantages that will last Is
long as grass grows and water rnns
Apples grown in the Highlands aboya
the city of New York for CONSUMPTION
in Europe, giving the farmer VINO owns
the orchards an income of about tiltv
thousand dollars year. His fruit 4
sent to European cities in his own YES.
sci.
Forty years ago the writer tried toim-
press on the people the fact that deli.
cious pig-meat may be produced in tho
Southern States on figs and clover for
less than half the cost of imported bacon
of an inferior quality. Where the eli.
mate and soil suit figs, grapes, apples
and peaches may be grown by the acre,
at small cost, for home consumption
or expectation. Itpays to preserve fruit
in sugar for the market. These small
industries are having rapid growth.
Cold storage should receive more notice.
The covering that keeps fee from melt
ing is not expensive, and farmer may
find fortune in cold storage OF fruits
ID. Lee, in Southern Cultiyator.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1890-02-06

can never be recovered
aim should be to fatten 4 bo9 :; aae
shortest time. To do this he sbon s 'ls
supplied with as much food as h ~. y
consume without wasting, three - .'1l
day. An animal will eat mora I; ;,'''es
weather than in mild, but fattsn ssa4
because a much larger portion Of tba ~ So.s
is consumed in keeping up the sri tsos
heat; it is burned away in the lnr..
fuel. The first solid cold SMELL $ =
vember, or further South. in Deoo~.i "
should be the signal for killing ans s.
last hog should be in the smolye-hos sas
by the first of January, except ons -
two, that the feast of fat THINGS ~. 8
continue awhile longer. But
should not be butchered until fully -
oreas long as he continues to fatteg +
is better to feed even in cold weatbss
than to kill when only half fat.
The same remarks apply with sin,il..
force to the fattening of steers ave. ,'-s
that owing to the greater ease MIX
which these may be kept dry, clean 49,
comfortable, feeding may be prouerlv
continued even In the coolest waatbass
We have often reminded our reada,a Z,
the Importance of providing eomfo.s
able quarters for all livestock duri,.
the winter. 1t is one of the great fanI,s
in our Southern farming that wa ps.-
sumo too far on our comparatiyelv mia
winter climate. 1t is not only sham
upon the humanity, but reproaeb 4.
the intelligence of the farmer wbs
makes no provision but an open Shea
for his mules, and sunshiny IN sencs
corner for his cattle during the blaqss
and storms of winter. 1t does not eoas
as much, in the long run, to build coms
Portable barns and stables for the uroner
care of prOvender and livestock. as tba
value of the resulting loss and waste n
food, and the general diminished valua
and capacity for labor in the absence #
such buildings. -Seuthern Cultiyator
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1890-02-06
HERE ANp THERE.

The sooner the hogs are slaughtered
after the season becomes cold the bet
ter, as it will save food and labor.
Be careful about the sweet potatoes
If not properly stored they viii no,
keep. They are easily affected By any
change of temperature.
When the lamb gets verminous bron-
chitis give powdered garlic, in bran Il
the animal is old enough to eat dry
food.
Don't breed from inferior ewes. Il
is waste of time and resources. Sheen
do not cost so much that we need TO
keep good-for-nothing flock or animal
During cold weather feed Of hot
mashed potatoes and corn-meal once
day is good for fowls. Give varietyot
food and plenty of it and your fowls viii
keep healthy.
Old broken china or croekerywaFs
should be pounded and given to the
hens. 1t makes excellent grit for grind
ing the food in the gizzard.
Eight sheep may be kept for every
COW, says dairyman, as they win add
but little to the expense, the sheep con
Stunning many kinds Of food that cattle
reject.
Small farmers and villagers may
produce one-half of their meat supply in
the poultry-yard if they viii give the
subject proper attention. It is worth
while to make the attempt
Prof. Atkinson, of South Carolina
finds that the only trustworthy remedy
for the peaeh-tree borer seems to be ia
hunt for the larvse late in autumn and
in early spring, and kill with a knife
Many other methods give only tempo
rary relief.
Can / grow mutton proftably three
hundred miles from the market? asks a
correspondent. Well, Kentucky sells
more than twenty thousand sheep every
year in the Boston market and gets moro
per pound for them than New England
breeders can get for their sheep
The best way to apply salt to land
Is to mix it with the lime or ashes, one
bushel of salt to ten of the lime Or
ashes being the proper proportion. 70
renders the lime more soluble, due %
chemical action.
The farmers Of Texas make Living
so easily that they have no present need
Of the sheep, or at least one would sup
pose SO from looking over the farms in
Texas. Not one farm in fifty has sheep
upon it says an exchange.
About the fourth month Of preg'
nancy feed the breeding ewes grain Be-
fore that they will get along on clean
corn fodder and sweet tender hay.
few roots are in order all the time ana
they may be covered with just sprinE-
ling of meal. Potatoes and apples ma5
be fed.
IF few guinea fowlscan be induced
to roost in or near the poultry-house
they viii afford protection against
They are light sleep
srs and make tremendous racket When
disturbed at night
DO every thing in the dairy at tns
right time and in the right way, says s.s
Northwestern Agriculturist. This wa
require the least labor and the leaAe
are and vexation. The best way . ihs
easiest way. Neglect and doing thias
,ut Of time make hard work and Feas
Ihe profits,
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1890-02-06
The Sources of wrinkles.

DR.. Peppenbrook writes in the st.
Louis Globe-Democrat that the general
impression about wrinkles is that they
are caused by worry, but the truth is
that most of them come from laughing.
To know how to laugh is just as i'm
portant as to know when to do it. If
you laugh with the sides of your face
the skin will work loose in time, and
wrinkles will form in exact accordance
with the kind of laugh you have. The
man who always wears a smirk will
have aries of sem1-circular wrinkles
covering bis cheeks. A gambler, who
is accustomed to suppressing his feel
ings, generally has deep line running
from each side of his nose to the upper
corner of his mouth, which in course of
time extends to the chin, forming the
shape OF half-moon. A cadaverous
person is usually marked with two wrin-
kles, one on the jaw and the other under
the eye, meeting at right angles at tho
cheek bones. The scholars wrinkle
forms on his brow, while q schemer-s
wrinkles come around bis ares. and
IKE spoBes af O wheel
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1890-02-06
VALUE OF VEGETABLES.
A List of Those Which Affect Particul.
Organs of the Body.

A List of Those Which Affect Particular
Organs of the Body.
The value of certain vegetables in pre-
venting disease, toning up the system,
and giving better health generally, was
recognized by the ancients, and even to-
day we not only recognize the medicinal
properties of such plants as nature pre-
pares for US, but put high valGe upon
them. Regulation of ones diet is the
great thing in most diseases, and not
few physicians prescribe plenty of vege-
tables to patients suffering from diffez-
ent complaints. The vegetarians, how
ever, carry the question to such an ex-
treme, that vegetable diet becomes in
furious rather than helpful. Meat is
essential to build up strong, healthy It's
sues in the body, and to make every or
gan that supplies the brain with blood
and energy, strong and normal in action.
But the fault of many, again, is that
they live too exclusively on meats, fish
and solid foods. A certain amount on
vegetables should be eaten every day,
so that they can work on the different
organs of nutrition, and stimulate them
in their work.
At some seasons of the year vegeta-
bles can be obtained easily, and they
should be eaten by all, especially some
of the following, which directly or indi-
rectly affect some particular organs of
the body:
Celery acts directly upon the nerves,
and will often cure neuralgia and rheu,
matism. Asparagus will purge the
blood, and thus act upon the whole sys
tenn. Common dandelion and bone-set
leaves, stalks and flowers, boiled IN
into tea will give strength, act as a
good tonic and stimulate the kidneys.
Spinach also affects this latter organ
benefcially. Tomatoes act upon the
liver, and onions, garlic, leeks, olives
and shalots give tone to the whole BODY
by acting directly upon the cireulatory
system. Onions help the digestive or
gans, and increase the flow of saliva and
and the gastric juice. Beans and peas
contain only about two per cent. of fat,
but they are rich in starch and import
ant, and constitute somewhat concer-
trated food. They should not be eaten
to any excess by sedentary persons, but
a little will always be benefcially re-
ceived by the system.-Yankee Blade.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1890-02-06

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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-04-28
The Tnreatene1 Strike

CHICAGO, April 2S.-In regard to the ar
ticipated labor troubles predicted for May l
the Times says: "The gross number of wage
carriers in the city is SO4 7O4. OF these 46.
2S1 are women, who are not meditating 8
strike. The cigar makers, paper hargers
stone masops, bricklayers, plumbers, and
plasterers, now have an eight hour day. All
employees of the carrying trade. all clerks,
bakers, brewers, tanners, professional
man, all bank. broker and real estate en-
ployees-in short all except the few crafts
that have pushed themselves to public no
tice In the projected movement have no it,
tention ofstrking. 1t is thought that actual
figures will furnish but few of the 100 900 or
10000 strikars expected by labor agita-
torsn
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-04-28
The Mississippi

The crevasse In the great MorgaDza dixie,
in Pointe Coupee parish, Ia growing wider
a. the rate of 200 feet dsy-snd the depth
is now 80 feet Captain Price, of the U. g.
engineers, is striving to hold the ends of the
levees, and hopes to succeed in doing go
when the willow mattress has been sunk tc
day. Planters in the Teche country are
now more hopefufg ssThey do not think they
will be oVerhowed to any great extent by
the Ponte Coupee crevasses. The situation
at Bayou Sara Is somewhat improved. A
fall of IS inches In the river at that point has
relieved some of the residences OF water, and
number OF the people who fled when the
town levees gave away have returned to
their homes, The river continues to fail at
Vicksburg and the flow through the Raleigh
orevasss 10 East Carroll parish grows smaller
day by day. Ie is now believed that the
Martuez crevasse in East Baton Rouge PAL
ish will be closed t. lay, thus saving the
lower portion of that parish and the eastern
banks of Ascension and st. James parishes,
yet free from the crevasss water from Mia.
A dispatch from ST Joseph says the evees are
eli holding WE'LL The backwater is about stand
still and it is not believed that over Is per cent
ofthe cultivated land in Tensas parish is under
water.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-04-28
Railroad Accident.

STAUNToN, Va, April 2S.-At three a. m.
today the express train of the Chesapeake
and Ohio Railroad, for Washington, was dc
scending a heavy grade mile west OF
Staunton when the break rod of the engine
fell the air brake was rendered useless
and the wild train rushed into Staunton at
eighty miles an hour, tearing away the de-
pot roof The Pullman sleeper left the
track and was thrown On its eide. In 1t
we're fifteen members of the pearl OF Pc
kin" troupe en- route 10 Raltime "a, announced
to play there tonight Of the company.
Mias Myrtle Knott was injured and died
while being taken from the car; Miss Edith
Miller, leg broken; Mrs. Edward Webb, Ed
weird Stevens, Miss Bertha Fisher, Louis
Harrison and Miss lone Durham all escaped
with slight cuts and bruises. w. F. Kill
patrick, lumber merchant, New York, leg
severely torn l.. NJ. Sloman, commercial
traveller, Cincinnati, bruised. The car took
FIRE but was put out by oitizsns. The re-
port from the superintendent says that the
rear sleeper AusterliIz left the track and
topped over on the platform at the passen-
ger station.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-04-28
An Appeal to the Voters
ALEXANDRIA, VA, April

ALEXANDRIA, VA, April 3. ism
Gentlemen: have submitted my name -.
candidate for Commonwealth Attornev. snd -;
with earnestness that l solicit You sn,,.a -
The struggle that am making is not Tor H. is' A
pose OF gratifying any personal feelings Lone bn.
the purest and best are entertained Is .e fnr ~.
opponents. They are Battling to achieve ,nGc,.
l am doing likewise. 1t is for the subs.snce Is
ever, and not for the shadow, that ! all fgb,;,
The sufrrsges of free PEOPLE have rers,,a5
granted my opponents opportunities that sbonli
have enabled them ere this to be eslsG ned in i;,a
upon firm and substantial basis. ak asan.
tive born Alexandria,, 10 be given the SAM
chance, and il it is YOUR will TO 10 so I rror,is
not to forget that a. q public office i, nnL
trust" I have neither the inclination uo-tb
means to buy the election. | simply submit %
claims and ask thst they be considered q the.,r!
spirit that father would bestow upon aa,stior
involving the success and elevation of h ~.
l am an Alexandrisn, in every sense o, the ,go1
born in the Fourth ward and removing sever,
years thereafter TO the Third, where | have rc,tl
ed ever since. When but eleven yesrs Of aye I A..
tered st. Johns Academy memter OF tIs
Junior class, and for my record while there cover
ing period of seven years refer 10 my il,.ri
and tutor, Mr.. &. L. CsrDe Il WAS upon mis- Adybr
that BEGAN the study of my profession Af,,r
graduating eagerly sought emp oyi 4ent III
law office, but meeting with no success ID thiscty
determined TO try in the DistcIct OF Co uu5
finally secured it with the late Judge Il. Miser
Here devoted three years to hard study, dush.
which time l contrived TO earn sufficient m,aus
to pay my tuition in the Law Department o..
Columbian College, where in June, 1856 le
ceived my degree and have since practiced before
the courts OF both Alexandris and Washington.
Respectfully yours, CHAs BENDHEIV
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-04-28
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Black lead ia reported to have been fouDd
near Beaver Dam station.
Thu strike at The Pccshontas coal mines
was ended on Saturday, the strikers having
returned to work.
Over $50 600 worth of horses were dis
posed of at Harrsonburg last Monday. The
purchasers were mostly from the Eastern
cities.
Special invitations to the Lse monument
uaveiling were mailed on Saturday to RI.
Hon. W. E. Gladstone, Lord Salisbury, Lord
Wolseley and Count Won Borcke.
The shipment ofstrawberries to the north
etn markets from Norfolk on Friday was the
largest that has ever been known In the
month of April in the history of truck raising
in that section of the country.
A man named Gongs was arrested near
Pulaski City, Friday, charged with the
murder OF County Treasurer Caddel few
weeks ago. 1t Is eaid the detectives have
in their possession the gun with which the
murder was committed, but will not give
any Of the evidence away.
1t is learned that the Postmaster General
has suspended G Wsddy Wilde from his
position IS postoffice inspector, and this &C.
ton is said to be due TO the fact that an In
dictmert was recently found against Wilde
on account OF alleged illegal interference In
the election In Richmond in 1855.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-04-28
Severe Hail Storm.

Baltimore was visited yesterday evening
about O'Clock by the worst hailstorm that
has ever been seen here. The hail was &C
companied by high wind, heavy rain and
thunder aud lightning. The hailstones were
perfectly enormous, many of them being as
large as hens eggs, and some of them ss
large as mans fist. They did great
amount of damage, smashing windows in all
parts of the city by the thousands, driving
horses wild with fear and pain and fright.
eung people out Of their wits. Many runa-
ways occurred. Some horses and carriages
we're abandoned 10 the streets, their owners
leaving them to seek shelter. In number
of churches services were broken up, end
there WAS almost panic. This WIS notably
thu case at ST. Patrick g Catholic Church,
where great crowd was present to see the
Cardinal While the damage was extensive
being estimated at 100000. there was,
as far as reported no loss of life, though
there ware several narrow escapes. The
storm lasted about Is minutes. The hall
was not like the snow coated hail. bnt was
plain hard ice, frozen through and through,
clear as crystal, and solid as rock, some
of them ragged and sharp on the edges as
NCeei Dldue. IL WouG thiouSu euiCh pnuoo Va
glass as if they were tissue paper.
The storm came from the west, local In
ita character, and swept to the east with
rattle like heavy musketry, frightening pee
pie out of their vita, making some of the
supersttious think that the day of judgment
had come. and hitting those who were on
the streets many hard knocks, and driving
them into places Of shelter.
In the annex the rain, wind, aud hail did
even more severe damage than In the city.
Walls were swept dowo, houses unroofed,
glass smashed, and other damage done. IL
ia noteworthy that after the fierce and wick
ed visitation beautiful rainbow of
promise and peace spanned the heavens
with its radieDt arch. The storm was the
heaviest ever witnessed at he Signal Office
10 Baltimore.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-04-28
Telegraphic Brevities.

The Ohio legislature adjourned to-day till next
January.
Troops have been sent to quell antiJewish ri
OTIS in Galscia.
The o. s. Court at Pittsburg to-day refused to
order sale of the Allegheny Valley railroad.
The village of Cobalt, Conn, was almost destroy
ed by an incendiary fire til IS morning. number
of hors es aud COWS persisted.
Hon. John E. Smith, Associate Judge Of the
Fifth Judicial Circuit of Maryland, died at his
residence in Westminster this morning.
One child was burned to death, three others rs
tally burned and woman fatally injured by
Jumping from burning building in Milwaukee
this morning.
The report that several lives had been lost in
the vicinity of the Lodel, La, disaster has been
confirmed A family named Watson, numbering
five persons, was drowned.
saw mill in srarkoy county, N IS, was burn
ed Saturday night. In their efforts to escape from
the flames seven men were drowned. The build
ing was surrounded by water seven feet deep.
At secret Getting in Indianapolis yesterday
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, Bail
way Conductors Trsnmen and the Railroad
Mutual Aid Society protested against the passage
of Senator Blair's arbitration bill.
Both sides in the Chicago carpenters strike re-
sumed the struggle this morning. large numbers
of non unicn men are pouring into the city. Some
of the latter h I'VE been stia ked but the police
say the men will be protected in their work.