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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1890-01-23
USES OF coTToN-sEED.
Its History ParalIeled Only by That of
Crude Petroleum.

Its History ParaIleled Only by That of
Crude Petroleum.
The history of cotton-seed is in itself
interesting, and marks an age of won
derful progress. For seventy years the
seed was despised as a nuisance, and
burned and dumped as garbage. Then
it was discovered to be the very food for
which the soil was hungering, and re-
luctantly admitted to the rank of utili-
ties, and began to be treated with re-
spect.
Cotton-seed was next found to be nu-
tritive food for beasts; and then this
formerly despised product was dis
covered to hold thirty-five gallons of
pure oil to the ton, worth, in its crude
state, fourteen dollars ton, which
amounted to forty million dollars for
the whole crop of seed. The refined oil
is now worth one dollar a gallon.
But new wonder was yet to come.
Experience showed that the ton of cot
ton-seed was better fertilizer and a
better stock food after it had been
robbed of its thirty-five gallons of oil
that it was before; that the hulls of the
seeds made the best of fuel for feeding
the oil-mill engine; that the ashes of
the hulls had the highest commercial
value as potash, and that the refuse"
of the whole made the best and purest
soap stock, to carry to the toilet the per-
fumes of the best manufacturers.
The history of cotton-seed has, per-
haps, been paralleled by that of petrol
cum, which, in it's crude state, ill-look-
ing and bad-smelling, has proved mine
of wealth in the wonderful substances
that have been produced from it.
Youths Companion.
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a NOISY FAMILY.
Of all the merry pleasures that neighborhoot

cf all the merry pleasures that neishborhood
bestows,
think noisy family is one,
And though my strange opinion makes me many
bitter foes,
IwflI be argued out of it by none.
rsay it's very pleasant when you're sitting out
OF doors
In summer time to hear the noisy folks
All iabbering together and emit hyena roars
OF loud and crazy laughter at their jokes
It's also very pleasant, when the mother all the
day
Is screaming to her little ones to mind;
Though others hear her angry tones half
mile away,
The youngsters never notice it, find.
Tts certainly delightful, when these cherubs are
awake,
To listen to their shouting and their spats,
And also hear their yelling when the slipper
tries to make
Them different from little dogs and cats.
IT'S joyful feeling, when the fathers home at
night,
To listen to the scolding when he's mad.
and hear the baby bawling, and Il children In
Alright,
Commence to shrek q chorus for their dad.
Besides this war of voices that my quiet neigh.
bors hate,
The noisy people slam and bang and pound,
And keep a screeching parrot and a barking
mongrel great,
To heighten the enjoyment all around.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1890-01-23
A NIGHTS WINNINGS.
Story Of q Man Who Knew When Hc Had
q Good Thing.

Story Of q Man Who Knew When Hc Had
Good Thing.
''That's fine building" said to a
friend the other day as we passed tall
structure of red brick downtown.
''Yes, he ereplied; you'd hardly think
that it represents nights winnings at
roulette"
''How can that be? The only gam
bling going on now is of the shoe
string sort on the borders of the desert
in Allegheny, is it not?'
o, the gambling took place twenty or
more years ago in the city of Baden
Baden, when the man who erected that
building lived there. He was poor. and
as he grew toward mans estate desire
to go to America overwhelmed every
other thought in his mind. But he had
not the money to pay his passage.
lone night he CHANGED to be walking
in the grounds of the conversationhaus
pondering upon his unhappy fortune
when the thought occurred to him that
by adventuring the sum of money he
had-which was not large enough to be
of any use-at the gaming table he might
make a stake sufficient to carry him to
America. Without more delay he went
to the gambling hall and, without plan
or special precision, risked his money on
the roulette-wheel. He won from the
very first and left the conversationhaus
that night with money in every pocket.
The next day he played awhile again,
but after adding little to his winnings
of the proceeding night he left the table.
He took with him resolution never to
gamble again and enough gold to carry
him to America and give him fair start
in business there. He has kept both
the resolutions and the gold. The lattev
has multiplied exceedingly"
The moral, tneal, is"
''That 1t is a good thing to MAKE =
resolution never to gamble and to keep
It "-Pittshurgh Dispatch
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Bacilli ON a Bald Head.

Saymonne claims to have isolated a
bacillus, called by him bacillus erin
iyorax," which is the cause of alopecia.
1t is, he says, found only on the scalp of
man, other hirsute parts of the body and
also the fur of animals being free from
it. The bacill: invade the hair follic1es
and make the hair very brittle so that
they break off to the skin. Then the
roots themselves are attacked. If the
microbes can be destroyed early in the
disease, the vitality G: the hair may be
preserved, but after the follicles are in
yaded and all their structures injured
the badness is incurable. The follow
ing is DR.. Saymonne's remedy to prevent
badness: Ten parts crude cod-lfyer oil.
ten parts of the expressed Juice OF
onions, and five parts of muciiage, the
yelk of an egg, are thoroughly shaken
together and the mixture applied to the
scalp, and well rubbed in, once a week.
This. he asserts, will certainly bring
back the hair if the roots are not already
destroyed, but the application of the
remedy must be very distressing to the
patients friends and neighbors. Med.
lcal Journal.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1890-01-23
BELLEVUE, La. THURSDAY JANUARY 49, 1890.

ing state of perfection, and in the Well
lngton Museum is part of the skim
covered neck of another specimen. The
feathers attached to these remains, or
otherwise preserved, are long, narrow
and hairy, and strongly resemble those
OF the emu of Australia, the nearest an
tipodean relative of themoa still extant
The specimen of skin and flesh in the
Wellington Museum was found on the
sandy floor of dry cave, in passage
through which current of air continu-
ally moved, and thus made every condi-
tion favorable for long preservation.
The occurrence of the moa and kiwi zap
teryx) in New Zealand alone of all the
lands of the South Seas furnishes an in
teresting and puzzling study to scientists.
Both in animal and vegetable life it pre-
sents so many curious features that sew
eral naturalists consider it as distinct
biological province. On this point the
opinions of Capt. T. w. Hutton, close
and observant student of New Zealand
natural history, are most valuable and
interesting. He dissents from the opin-
ion both of Darwin and Wallace that
New Zealand is an Oceanic island'
from geological point of view. owing
to the absence of terrestrial mammals
(of which, as is well known, there are
no indigenous varieties whatever in the
colony and the meagerness of its fauna
and flora; that is, they consider that it
has never formed part of continental
area since its last emergence from the
sea. Captain Hutton, however, finds in
the wingless birds of New Zealand a
fact quite as strongly in favor of former
connection with some continent now
disappeared as a terrestrial mammalla
would be, since they have no superior
means of dispersion, and thinks that the
New Zealand forms are remnants of
those that formerly occupied a large
continental area.
On this point the moas afford some
very interesting facts. In physical
structure they indicate an intermediate
order between the so-called ostriches, or
rheas, of South America, and the emus
and cassowaries of Australia. Like the
rhea, it has only three pairs of eternal
ribs, while the emus, cassowary, and
even the apteryx have four. The
structure of its egg-shen also resembles
that of the rhea, and its feathers, pei
Wis and skull are those of the emu.
From these signs of relationship to
species so far removed at present in
geographical location as the rhea and
the emu, there is reason to suppose that
the three varieties have developed from
a common stock which formerly occupied
continent stretching from South Amer
lea to Australia, and perhaps to South
Africa also, where the curious order of
struthious birds is also represented by
one or, at most, two species of ostriches.
The amount of study that has been
given to the moa and kindred varieties
of New Zealand birds is very slight, but
when it shall be further prosecuted it is
likely to show some interesting facts,
not only to the student of New Zealand
fauna, but to the general inquirer into
the origin and development of species.
Cor. N. Y. Times.
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THE ORATORS DESCENT.
How q st. Joe Speaker Quieted q lTixtar
of Patriotism and whisky.

How st. Joe Speaker Quieted q Mixture
OF Patriotism and Whisky.
Down in Southwest Missouri four OF
five years ago town had all arrange.
ments made to whoop 'er up on the glo-
rious Fourth. The citizens had con-
tributed in liberal spirit, the day was
fine, and the crowd large and enthu-
siastic. The orator of the day was slim,
cadaverous-looking man from St. Joe.
To stand off and look him over, you'd
have bet your last dollar that an old
gander could have run him all around q
ten-acre field. There were some lofty
spirits in town that day, and one Of them
was Jim Bucks, a mixture Of patriotism,
whisky, high jump and rough and tun-
Bile. Jim sized the orator up, determined
to have some fun with him, and took
seat directly in front of him as he stood
on the platform to speak. The orator
hadn't spoken a hundred words before
Jim interrupted him. He did this twice
more and was warned to go slow. He
didn't go much on dreams or warnings,
however, and watched for another op-
portunity. Pretty soon the orator said,
''And so this little band of pilgrim
fathers set out with stout hearts and
unwayering faith in search Of
SIN search of slxunksl'' interrupted
Jim.
The orator made long jump, lighted
down on Jim Bucks, and inside of two
minutes he had licked him SO thoroughly
that Mrs. Bucks would have passed him
by for splatter of pumpkin jelly which
had dropped from dinner basket.
When satisfied that his work was thor
oughly done, the orator returned to the
platform, and continued in the same
calm and unruffled tones:
liberty of speech and freedom Of
conscience, and they found them at Ply
mouth Rock"
He went on and delivered really
eloquent speech, lasting nearly an hour,
and he was just concluding when Jim
Bucks crawled out from under wagon
half a mile away, where he had been
laid, and queried of those around him:
Say! is that feller still speakin' or
fightin'? Durn me, but I didn't s pose
oratory included iumpin' Jim Bucks
liver out of his bodyr'-N. Y. Sun.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1890-01-23
The CreoIes of LouisIana.

The usual impression obtaining con-
cerning Creoles is that they are all Of
them possessed of dark and swarthy
complexion, hair black as the ravens
wing and eyes Of "ebon darkness" a
New Orleans acquaintance says that
many have hly-white compilations,
golden locks and ''eyes Of heavens own
blue" The Creole girl is usually re-
fined and dainty, sensitive and sympa-
thetic, 1ight-hearted and sunny-tem-
pered. She is usually brought up
quietly, and she is content to remain at
home. OF course the majority Of Creole
girls are dark-they are n2t-brown
maidens. Denver News
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1890-01-23
HASTE MAKES WASTE.
The Best Method to be Observed in Orde
to Avoid Idle Hours.

to Avoid Idle Hours.
To waste time is worse than wasting
money. You may have more money than
you can spend, but you can never have
too much time; and fyo waste dollar
you may make it up by economy or a
lucky stroke, but an hour wasted is gone
forever.
''Time goes on-a file that wears and
makes no noise. Time is ne'er over
taken" says the old Scotch proverb. Q
How little we value it! To the young
it is often their only wealth, yet what
a rich store it is! How many old and
middle-aged people would give any thing
for return of only few of their wasted
years. AS King Richard II. said: "I
wasted time, and time doth now waste
me-"
1t is too true of many of us that we
take no heed of time but from sits loss. -
We merely shuttle through the world,
and at the end of our journey have little
to show for our heeting hours.
Economy of time develops so mahy de-
lights, and gives so much freshness
to life, that it is shame to waste
it. But perhaps many young people
have no definite idea how to save time,
and few practical hints may be Of
service:
Time may Ge saved by early rising.
But you say it is unhealthful to curtail
your natural sleep. So it is; but that
need not encourage you to lie In bed an
hour after getting awake, as 1 know
some young people do. That does moro
harm than good.
But if you can not break yourself
wholly of this practice, why not utilize
these doing minutes by running through
in your mind what you have to do that
day-map out the plan of campaign, as
it were? Then you can get up with a
definite idea of what you may have to do.
Have some employment to take up at
odd moments and be punctual. Five
minutes here and ten there, too late for
meals, drives or appointments of any kind
amount to hours in the day.
Keep your surroundings tidy, and
every thing in its place, or you will al
ways be hunting for what you have mis-
laid and throwing away valuable mo-
ments wholesale.
But remember that ''haste makes
waste" Of time as wall as any thing else.
A thing we'll done is twice done, and do
ing things in a hurry is almost as bad as
not doing them at all, for they are
scarcely ever well done.
Do one thing at time. Over-actiye
people are apt to get into way of think
ing about what they shall do next, when
all their energy should be concentrated
on the occupation of the moment.
Do your work thoroughly. Sipshod
work is the worst waste of time; in fact,
it is time absolutely thrown away.
Care and economy of time is not only
wise policy; it is a duty. The most
expensive thing in the world is to
kill time. Amusements in themselves
are not to be deprecated. "All work and
no play makes Jack dull boy" but, de-
pend upon it, those people who are so
destitute of resources in themselves that
they have to be perpetually amused have
never mastered the secret of economy of
time, and are among the most miserable
people in the world.
Avoid this as you would plague, and
now, while you are young, take care Of
the moments, and the hours will take
care of themselves.-Golden Days.
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HAPPINESS.

Thou shalt be happy So told my heart
One summer morning many year ago;
Thou shalt be happy; thou shalt have thy part
OF mirth and feasting in the great world s
Thou shalt have health and wealth, high fame
and praise,
Thou shall have sunshine on the dullest days.
And, best of all, my heart, thou shalt have
love-
Thus. in the morning of my days, spake
Unto my heart, and gladly II replied:
THE world is all before US, we can make
Joy for ourselves. never ebbing tide"
so we set out, my heart and l, in mirth,
To seek for happiness-upon the earth.
God gave US health and wealth, and we were
glad
Thus for a season, waiting joys to come,
God gave US fame and praise, a little sad
We were, my heart and i, amid the hum
or voices lsuding us, till one, more dear
Than all the rest, spake gentle words and
sweet.
Then we grew jubilant with right good cheer,
And happiness came on with flying feet,
Drew near-but passed Alas Ny heart and l.
We could not hold the radiant wanderers
fast.
One rose-touch of her lips in Aeeting by
Was ours; one precious look-the first, the last
She will return, we said, with loves new birth,
There must be happiness for US on earth.
We lost fair health, my heart and l, and fell
Sore sick; were sorrowful, found dreary ways
We lost our wealth, ana none oTSW uear 10 tell
OF comfort waiting US in better days:
But where is happiness? Alack We ind
She is not ours TO beekon as we list;
We have no magic spell wherewith to bind
This rare, bright visitant to earth. We missed
The royal road TO happiness; but, To-
Something is saved US from the wreck of all.
We have content, though doubtful blessing go,
And peace entwines our crosses great and
small.
We learn, my heart and 1, the worlds true
worth.
And seek for happiness-but not on earth
Al the Year Round.
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GUTHRIE BROS.

PRACTICAL PLUMBERS, STEAM AND GAS
L Filters Roofing and Jobbing. Terms rea-
sonable. l25 street
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A Cumberland county New Jersey
peach-grower rented his orchard of 10000
trees to Phineas Hines on shares. Hines
has presented his landlord with one-half
the crop Ten peaches, the story is, we're
the entire product.
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red felspar and white quartz, mixed with a
little mica. As felspar is decomposed by
the action of the air, all the shores have
become frayed and ragged, being indented
by many caverns, which in process of time
fall in and thus diminish the size of the
islands. This chemical force of decom-
position and the mechanical action of the
waves have parted into three pieces that
which was once doubtless on island and
in times yet more remote Chincha was
probably connected with the coast, as
shown by chain of rocks which inter-
vene between them and hill near the
village of Pisco. Being of volcanic origin
the group may one day disappear beneath
the waves, as islands have done in various
parts of the world.
To visit the guano fields one must go
out from Pisco in row-boat and land by
means of steep ladder, which leads to a
wooden platform built high upon a
perpendicular cliff The northern island,
which is about 1,400 yards long by 600
yards wide, is still covered with excre-
meIt, though not to any great depth.
The beds have been worked downward,
the material being removed in layers and
placed in fiat trucks; then conveyed by
tramway to the edge of the cliff, whence it
is run down in chutes into barges waiting
below, and transferred by the latter to
vessels which lie off the islands. The
principal cutting is about one hundred
yards from the brink of the precipice, and
is fully seventy feet deep, showing the
great amount of labor that has been &C.
complished.
A small steam-engine of twelve-horse
power is used in digging out the guano,
and also for loading the trucks. A crane
projects from the engine and from its
chains is suspended an iron trough, like q
huge coal-hod, with six gigantic teeth at
the edges. By working one chain, this
hod is made to fill itself ty digging deep
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likely dEshcA lOI any ldluuy. ~ Sdh NC
either grated or scraped with knife, the
latter being the English method of pre-
pairing it for the roast beef of old England
when the one surely called for the other.
Prepared this way the pungent effiuvium
has brought tears to many an eye.-Prairie
Farmer.
COLLECT THE LEAVES.
The gardener knows right well the value
of decayed leaves, and if he does not keep
a heap decaying to furnish him with what
he calls "leaf mold,' he looks about him
growing certain kinds of plants that de-
light in it. On extensive places, where
room can be obtained, it is we'll to have
leaves collected and kept for this very pur-
pose. 1t is bad policy to burn such ma
terial where manure is hard to get.
Leaves make the best kind of an absorb
ent for the liquid portions of manure alike
for the stable, the pig-pen or the barn
yard. If nothing else can be done with
them, bury them in the soil and let nature
do the rotting. The soil will be enriched
thereby. The true policy is to convert all
kinds Of weeds, leaves and by-products of
the garden into fertilIzing material. 1t
is found now that even the rich lands of
America will not go on forever giving
bountiful crops if nothing is returned to the
soil.
In the fall gather up the fallen leaves,
so that the place may be neat and tidy.
Make them pay part of the cost of labor
by converting them into humus for other
plants to feed on. Some may not know
that even hot.bed can be had in the
spring by the use of these very leaves in
stead of manure But to do so they have
to be kept dry all winter in some form or
other, and then wetted. A slight fermen-
tation takes place that is strong enough for
many purposes. Half fresh manure and
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BRowN's Bronchial Troches have d.
rect influence on the ipfamed parts, giving
relief in coughs. colds and the various
throat troubles to which singers and puohc
speakers are liable. Sold only in boxes.
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So much in excess of the supply is the
demand for whalebone that several ton:
were sold last week in London at the
enormous price of 81 $50 per ton.
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BRaDYcRoTINE VS.. headache, and Brady.
crotine wins every time.
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NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.

GAN FRANCISCO. OCTOBER IS, 1890: sEALRD
y proposals will be received at the office of the
President of the Board of Trustees of the Cali
fornia Home for the Care and Training of
Feeble-M Mind ID Children, Room SO, Occidental
Hotel, San Francisco, CAL until l O'Clock p N.
on the oath day of NOVEMBER, 1890, for the
several branches of labor and materials re-
quired for the erection and completion of a
building for epileptics for the California Home
for the Care and Ira ming OF Feeble Minded
Children. located on the land known as the
VIM. McPherson Hill Ranch, near Glen Ellen,
Sonoma county, California.
Plans and specifications for the said work can
be seen daily from O'Clock A. N. to o'clock P.
II at the Office of the architects of said Board,
Copeland PIERCE, 126 Kearny street, San Fran
cifco, Cal.
Blank proposal forms and all information in
regard to the manner in which proposals are to
be rendered to be obtained from the Architects
aforesaid.
Each proposal must be accompanied by
bond Of 10 per cent. of the amount of the pro-
POSI- rendered.
No Chinese labor, or materials manufactured
by Chinese labor, to be used in the construction
of said work.
The Board of Trustees reserves the right to
reject any all bids if found nee essary, as the
public good may require.
KATHERINE LATHROP, President.
A. E. OSBORNE, Secretary.
For the Board of Trustees of the California
Home for the Care and Training of Feeble
Minded Children. o25-4tSa
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1890-09-03
EASY Squares:

No. 227..

I consider my cure by S. S. S. one of
the most wonderful on record. Ihad the
worst type of Scrofula from my infancy
until 1 was % years OF age. My whole
young life was embittered and made
miserable by the loathsome disease. 1
not only suffered from scrofula, but was
so marked that I was ashamed to asso-
ciate with, and was avoided by my play
mates and fellow Workmen. [ tried
every known patent medicine, and was
first and last attended by more than
dozen reputable physicians, but in spite
of all, the disease continued to grow
worse. About four years ago friend
from Pittsburg advised me to take
S. S. S., which I did, and after taking
seven bottles [ was cured sound and
we'll. The old Skin peeled off and was
replaced by new skin, as smooth and
free from blemish as any person. [
have had no return or symptom of the
disease. HENRY Y. SMITH,
Belmont, w. Va.
Treatise On Blood and Skin Diseases
N allied free. SWIFT SPEFIC CO.,
Atlanta, Ga.