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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1890-04-10
THE GERMAN DOMESTIC,
She Wears No Bangs, But She Does tn
Work of Two Men.

She Wears No Bangs, But She Does The
Work of Two Men.
The German servant girl has no bangs
nor bangles, nor .fur-lined coats, MOI
four-buttoned kid gloves. She is square.
shouldered, heavy-featured and large.
hmbed. She is neither clean, quick.
nor intelligent, but she can work. She
has the strength of an OK, and is ALWAYS
willing to use it. Most servant girls in
German cities are peasants. Daughters
of the poor town-bred families usually
become factory hands, shop girls or
mattresses.
The conservative peasants, however,
with their old prejudices in favor of
every thing feudal, prefer domestic
services for their children to any en-
ployment. AS soon as the peasants
daughter is fourteen or fifteen years old
she learns how to split wood, hoe pota-
toes and plant cabbages. She milks the
COW before breakfast, bitches her to the
pillow after breakfast, and often turns
burrows all the morning under the direc-
ton of her father, who, in the mean
while, smokes a pipe and rests. She
mows hay and digs water trenches.
During the harvest she carries great
basketfuls of vegetables from the fields
to the barn On her back. When her
younger sister becomes old enough to
help her parents to work the little farm.
however, the eldest daughter loses her
grip on her fathers heart. She is re-
garded by him as an incumbrance, for
nothing is more useless in the ewes of a
German peasant than a grown daughter
who does not earn her living. There
fore, If no Hans or Fritz wishes her to
be his helpmate in raising cabbages and
potatoes, she must go into domestic
service in the city.
Like almost all novices in an occupa-
ton on the continent she serves an an
premiership. For several months she re-
ceives no wages, nor does she deserve
any, for her stupidity is phenomenal.
She has never walked on carpet be-
fore, and doesn't know napkin from a
d1shclotn, or coal-bucket from a ket-
tie. She blacks the Hers patent
leather shoes and oils his rubber boots.
She puts the table-cloth on the floor and
the rug ON the table. In fact, she is as
strange to most of the furniture and
customs in comfortable house as a
Persian or Indian. She learns slowly
and laboriously, but she never forgets
indianapolis News.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1890-04-10

Is necessary to success in the sSl4
the best grasses is to plow tbo l ,.s-se q
SOW the seed. Good, nutritIons -, 81. aaa
VIII not succeed-with few exeen siss'es
on poor and badly-prepared lana ', -
over, there is a degree of skin more
acquired it is true, but danons. EASILY
some practical experience Wiz q
which 1T is not wise to proceed i s'1oss
on large scale. 1t is eouall,, :. o'''e
other branches of farninp 49,, s1s q
stock-raisirg, changes OF metboaa 3
systems should not be too yiolsns .lla
sudden. The point is that exnari alla
should be make on a comnar..s' ~
small scale the first year, in grsss III
ure as well as in any other new e VA a. sult-
ure. We believe the Departp,es.g.- ~.
Agriculture could engage Y
better work than to dist.,, 81
small amounts of the bpst ss's
and approved varieties of grass $500 s'S1
the farmers, who win promise n ~. Y
riment according to directions. ~
and safe way for a farmer to tags ~ 4
value of hay crop is to prepare 1 ~. ~
Tor the spontaneous growth If IN.
grass, blowing and narrowing and fs.s.,
izing a convenient field in Anrn NJ 8,
harvesting when in bloom. The 49,,
will astonish any one who has not 49,
1t, If he will compare the yield. tba -.
and the quality, with crop 81 swsss
perfumed corn fodder, made Of blassso.
Indian corn, pulled one by ono. 81 M
tick of clock, as it were.-soufbsr.
Cu1tiYator.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1890-04-10

the place OF battle and massacre, and OF
ancient afiuence and splendor as well as
it is of present prosperity, to me its
chief attraction arises from the fact
that here the scales fell from Pauls
eyes, and that chief of Apostles here be-
| gan that mission which will not end un.
til Heaven is peopled with ransomed
spirits. So also l saw day before yes.
terday Patmos, where John heard the
trumpets and the waves of the sea
dashed to his feet, reminding him of
the songs of Heaven, like the voice of
many waters"
But this letter can only give hint of
| the things we mean to tell you about
when we get home, where we expect to
be before this month is ended. baptized
by immersion in the Jordan an Ameri-
can whom we met, and who desired the
solemn ordinance administered to him
In the sacred waters. I rolled down
from Mount Calvary or "place of a
skull' stone for the corner stone of
our new Brooklyn tabernacle We
bathed in the dead Sea- and in 'fGid-
cons Fountain" where his three hun
dred Tapped the water from their
hands as they passed through;
and we sailed on Lake Cali
lee, and stood on Mount Zion and
Mount Moriah and Mount Hermon, and
saw the place where the shepherds
heard the Christmas anthem the night
Christ was born; and have been at Naz-
areth and Capernaum, and sat by sJa-
cOb's Well" and saw Tel-el-Keber of
modern battle, and Megiddo of ancient
battle, and where the Israelites crossed
the desert, and slept at Bethel, where
one ladder was let down into Jacobs
dream; but the night I slept there the
heavens were full of ladders, first lad
der of clouds, then ladder of stars, and
all up and down the heavens were the
angels o. beauty, angels of consola-
ton, angels of God ascending
and descending; and 1 was on
nearly all the fields of Herodic,
and Solomonic, and Davidic, and Mosaic,
and Abrahamic history. / took Rome,
and Naples, and Athens, and Alexan-
dria, and Cairo on the way out, and take
the Greek Archipelago, and CONSTANT
nople, and Vienna on the way back.
What more can God in His goodness
grant me in the way of natural scenery,
and classic association, and spiritual OPP
portunity? All yes! 1 can think of
something gladder than that He can
grant me. Safe return to the people OF
my beloved flock, the field of nv work,
and the land where my fathers died, and
in the dust of whose valleys pray God
may be buried.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1890-04-10
The Value Of opposltion.

There is one form OF evil which, while
peculiarly annoying and aggrayating at
the time, may always be made the
source of increased power and benefit
1t is the opposition and antagonism
which men personally receive. Usually
they suffer the sting which this brings
with it to rankle in their breasts and to
foster an increased antagonism on their
part. Yet, could they view it in
another and truer light, they should
rather welcome it as a means of adj
vancement. Under all such contradic-
ton there is measure of truth, often a
large measure, the discovery of which
would be most advantageous. Emerson
puts this well when he says: 1.-THE wise
man throws himself on the side of his
assallants." 1t is more his interest
than it is theirs to find his weak point.
The wound cioatrices and falls off from
him like a dead skin, and, when they
would triumph, lol he has passed on in.
Vulnerable! Blame is safer than praise.
M 7, Ledger,
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1890-04-10
METHODS COMPARED

Farming in the South vs.. Farm,n.
! Ohio.
A recent trip through Ohio and So
cial examination into farm methods f,
lowed in that State, induce me to ms -,
some comparison with our plans At t1s
| South. Il
Possibly the most notable difference,
are found in the fertility of the soil ~
the character of the labor.
The lands in Ohio have been brorob.
to a much higher state of produetIss.
ness than any l have seen at the Sonsb
This IS the result of high rnanuring 4bs
incorporation of vegetable matter ins-
the soil, and judicious rotation u
crops. Much of the land upon the farms
visited will yield, on an average, sixtg
bushels of corn per acre. In Georgia
farmers feel that they do well to ayar.
age fifteen. In Georgia, we cultivate
four acres to obtain the product 81 oDe
If it is true that Georgia lands can Is
brought to a productiveness Of sixtv
bushels of corn per acre. / see no rea.
son why this is not easily possible.
As before stated, this result has beea
reached in Ohio by high fertilization
For this purpose, farmers in that Ststs
rely upon barn-yard manure and clover
mainly. These elements are easily 81.
tainable in Georgia and the South. +
we will only begin, more extensiyels
stock raising. In addition We have ia
stock pea, about as valuable as clover
aud much more easily grown. Glover
requires moderately good land to begin
with; the stock pea will grow on Tia
thinnest soil and make fairly coed
crop. have before given, not only lie
most approved methods for bringing "a
our lands, but the handsome and profit
able yields they have been made 4
produce.
If our farms could be reduced to small
areas, the improvement would not 10
so much of an undertaking. II our
lands are ever brought up, we must %
content to operate small farms. Really
this would seem the desirable thing d
do, as it brings the same results with
much less labor, time and expense.
So many times farmers have been
urged to this course, and so constantly
have they pursued the opposite, thatii
seems useless to make further effort On
this line. A practical demonstration 81
the difference, as shown upon the farms
in Ohio and the average farm at the
South, would, possibly, do more than
many newspaper articles to bring 8
change.
Our farms are not put in shape as the3
ought to be. The lands that should Dc
given entirely to crops are much taken
up by trees, bitches and waste places
1t is not an uncommon thing with US 70
see ''cuts'' cultivated between thickeis
that have roots running from one side
to the other; bitches, at close intervals
overgrown with weeds and bushes
Much of the fertility that belong
rightfully to the crops goes to useless
and hurtful growth. All such CultiYs
tion-or rather the lack Of tier
courages slovenly methods and brings
poor results. This, again, follows from
the necessary abundance of work 0Teg
such extended territory. Large farms
give us SO much land to be looked after
that it is next to impossible to keepitip
shape and make it productive.
The first thing to do If we would ap
proach the results of our neighbors i z
improve our land.-W. J. Nortben ia
Dixie Farmer.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1890-04-10
Too Deep For Him.

Gifted Young Man--Don't talk to me
OF religion or philosophy What light
do they throw on the problem of exist
enee2 Why do I live? What is the
object of my being?
Venerable Sage contemplating him
nIidly-My young friend, 1 am sorry to
say cannot see any good reason for it.
Chicago Tribune.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1890-08-14

Richmond state.l
All the world will want to see Mrs
Frank Leslie's feet since she says the
Marquis do LepYille fell in love with
them,
Kris. Leslie is "a good looking woman
with many Of the charms Of youth,
especially hne figure; but, though
the American people might have will
ingly believed that her feet were hand
some, who would have imagined they
could at once rouse strong love?
Mrs. Leslie's account of the occur
ence is delightfully."- frank. She was
d widow, dressed in the deepest black,
and closely veied, when, one day, she
stepped from cab, and the attention
Of tho marquis, who was passing, was
attracted on account OF the small and
daintly.shaped foot that emerged
from her skirts when she steppea up
on The payeMoai,
What was more natural than that
Or, what a more natural sequence
than that the marquis, unable tt
smother his passion, sought and OBJ
tanned an introduction, and made
declarations After all this it seems {
shame that his hopes Of matrimon.
were not crowned,
Mrs. Frank Leslie's feet will now b
national topic, The country vii
want to see them, or at least thei
authentic photographs,
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1890-08-14
TO TELL A WOMAN'S ACE.
A Shrewd Observer Says Her Hair
VIII Tell ths,Mhoie-stof4:

To tell womsn's age is one OF the
easiest things imaginable, despite the
fact hat many brilliant ladies knock
off few stories oi-their years without
detec;iop, say. the EPaGA.
II art had not come to their rescue
and replaced loa certain extcut the
charms OF youth, any fellow could tell
within year or two, but art has come
to the rescue, wrinkles have been fat
iqoped or assures ppttied, eyes bel.
lddonnaed and cheeks tinted.
OF course you cannot take rake
and scrape of these llxinga, Neither
can you always get elose enough to
peep beneath the cosmetic crust.
What Ia " fellow to do thenY
Well granted that woman who
has just crossed tie storm line, got
under the shade Of artistic embellish-
ments, AND keep9 admirers AZ a
maidenly dIsmnpr, there Is only
one spr1,way 10 analiae the chemcatry
nt tines decomposition,
Observe well her hair.
Her bangs?
No her back hair.
Now don't say it is false. Ealse o.
zeal, sou dan douht ner yOars by thu
threads time weavos. Every yea
adds a hair or two, and, no doubt, If {
woman lives long enough she woulC
become female Esap.
At2s womau's back hair begins {,
fall oyer her collar as pumpkin vim
over y picket fence, Note well th'
direction OF the hair. Hair slants
and a. 80 it takes an angle Of 81, at 80
60, and SO on.
OF course you can't get near enoug
to apply a mathematio tape measure
cut your practised eye wilrbe enough
: Next tn ote the quality. Hair at 2
is moirei at 80 it is satine at S5 it
! pasae satinettei at 41it is rope fit
hang any man that gets noosed IN i
meshes. But all the same both th
!. hair and the woman may be prettie
at 40 than at 20.
Anybody can tell false or store hal
no matter who the previous own'
] vas. II has the don't-belopg the
= look, and all the pomades in the un
verse cannot give permanent tenul
OF Office.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1890-08-14
ALL RIGHT NOW.
The Three C's Road to be Pushed
Ihe Cause Of Non Payment q
Contractors;

Columbia Recvrdi
The work on the Three C's road
from Rutherfordton to Marion and
through tue N untain passes to con-
meet n,th the liue AZ Johnson Clty,
4enn5 is 10 be pushed with. rapidity.
The work through the mountains will
be very difficult, but the route and
workipg plans are ready,
Mai. j. +. Jones, the head Of the
sys,em In the South, last week re.
ceived the necessary checks to pay of
all the employees and contractors at
this end Of the road, the non.payment
Of whom gave rise to the report that
taerood Aad Jailed. The explanation
Of the matter is in the fact that the
officers Of the road in the North were
forced to pay the July interest on th'
bonds Of the road, and accordingly
as the payments were very large, they
let the minor accounts IN the soutl
run over. As stated above. all thes'
accounts have now been settled, ant
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1890-08-14
Beware Of ofOlntmentfor Catarrh that
= FA Contains Mercury,

Beware Of fOintnentfor Catarrh that
= "i Contains Mercury,
as mercury VII surely destroy the
sense Of smell and completely de-
range the whole system when enter
ing 1t through the mucous surfaces.
Such articles shoold never be used
except on prescriptions from reputa-
BILE physicians, as the damage they
will do is ten fold to the good you
can possibly deFiYe from them. Halls
Catarah Cure, manufactured by F. j.
Cheney & CO., Teledo, o., contains no
mercury, and is taken internally, and
acts directly upon the blood and mu'
cous surfaces Of the system. In buying
Halls Gatarrh Cure be sure you gel
the genuine. 1t is taken internally
and made in Toledo, Ohio, by F. ]
Cheney & Co.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1890-08-14
PulpIt and the Stage.

Rev. F, NJ. Shrout, Pastor United
Brethren Chu cl, Blue Mound, Kan
says 81 teel i,r,y duty to tell what
wonders DR.. X g's New Discovery
has done for mo My lungs were badly
diseased, and my parishioners thought
could live only few weeks. took
five bottles of DR.. Kings New Discov.
cry and am sound and we'll, gaining
26 pounds in weight"
Arthur Love, Manager Loves Fun
ny Folks Combination, writes after
thorough trial and convincing evil
dence, am confident DR.. Kings New
Discovery for Consumption beats 'em
all, and cures when everything else
fails. The greatest kindness / can do
my many thousand friends is to urge
them to try it," Free trial bottles at
Mcfarland & Co.'s Drug Store. Reg
ular sizes, SOC. and 81.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1890-08-14

A Kingston (Ga) dispatch in the
Atlanta Constitution says; Mr. John
McCraney, living near here, has
found most wonderful stone. While
plowing on sandbar in the Etowah
river he saw something shining with
the most brilliant of lights just to one
side of him. He stopped his pillow and
went to pick it up. 1t was clear white
stone, the size of an egg, rejecting in
one way all the colors of the rainbow.
Turning it over the colors took on the
character of spirit level, following
each other up through the center OF
the rock till all were gathered in one
end, Mr., McCraney has been offered
$1,000 for it, but refused it. He will
take it to Atlanta to have it tested. 1t
may be diamond. 1t temts a perfectly
white light in the dark,
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1890-08-14
YOUNG GIRLS AS PUZZLES.
HOW SUCH A MAID AMAZED AN
ELDERLY NEW YORKER.
She Had Lived Forty Years. But Had
Never Succeeded in Making
Them Out.

81 have lived forty years, and can
not make them out yet"
1t was the editor Of well-known
magazine talking to a Philadelphia
Press writer on the subject Of young
girls.
"What am / to think OF the one
that bothered me for half hour this
morning?" he asked. "She is bright
writer, and we use some OF her work.
l know her father. Nice man, wealthy,
brings up his girls with great care.
This is Helen, his youngest. She
floated into the Office this morning,
looking astonishingly stylish and
elaborate in a pure white dress, white
gloves, white shoes and big, black lace
hat. / asked her about her father, and
then she began to rattle on about the
way she was passing the summer out
on the Hudson.
"Papa has fitted up the cupola of
the house for me-" she said. ~ had
some fun painting the walls myself.
There are rugs and table, and some
jolly easy chairs, and l can take my
friends up there in the evening, and
we can make as much noise as we
want without disturbing the family.
It's real fun when there are any men
about. A friend OF mine came up the
other day, and / want to tell you some.
thing, il you'll promise to keep it Sc
cret. This friend is an awfully hand
some fellow, and / just knew that
Mignonne-that's my chum, you
know-would try to get him away
from me. Mignonne bet that if we
took him up in the cupola after dinner
he would try to kiss her before he tried
to kiss me. That was equivalent 10
to declaring herself more attractive
than |, and it made me mad, ! tell
you. But ] took her bet, and that
night we all went to the cupola. Pret-
ty soon it grew dark, and no one said
word about lighting the gas. Well,
| won the bet. Jack tried to kiss me,
and never noticed Mignonne at ALL"
| looked at the chatterer very se-
verely and asked il Jack succeeded in
his effort to kiss her Instantly her
animated face grew naughty and an
cry in its expression.
j am not in tho habit of permitting
young men to kiss me-" she said, in
freezing tones,
"But," said |, "you let him try. In
what manner did he try?"
"Oh," she replied, she put his arm
around my waist, and we struggled
about a good deal for minute or so,
and he pleaded with me to let him kiss
me just once, il only behind the eal.
1t was fun, and then IL waG such a
jolly good ans on Mignonne, She had
to NOPE all by herself"
"If you will fad more battling
paradox" continued the editor, "than
the girl who considers II no Joke tc
r struggle with an amorops young man
in a cupola, but grows rigid when 1t il
presumed that she would consent t
q be kissed, l would like TO examine it
o | am free to confess that the young
lady of these timesand parts is beyond
t M understanding"
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1890-08-14
The south's Prosperity.

The Manufacturers Record Of Au-
gust 8, 1890, says;
The contrast between the West and
Northwest and the South is being
very strikingly brought out at present
by the daily crop reports, In the for
mer sections disastrous crop failures
seem to be the order of the day.
From Kansas comes the report of a
corn crop of only 20 per cent. Of last
years, while Dakota sends out doleful
tales of short yields of cereals. In the
South the farmers are rejoicing over
the finest prospects known for many
years, and the indications now point
to the largest cotton crop ever raised,
with prices high on account of the
steadily increasing demand throug h.
out the world for cotton goods.
Stanley" said the late Henry w.
Grady, sis but an advance agent for
American cotton goods" for wherever
civilization is pushed into new regions
the demand for clothing necessarily
follows. And so, while the South
keeps on extending its cotton area
and enlarging its crop, prices have for
several years tended upwards.
Already the movement OF cotton to
the towns has commenced, and every
where through the South the farmers
are made glad by the prospects of an
abundant harvest. This means a
great surplus of money in that section
which will still further help on the
industrial development OF the whole
South. With prosperity ruling every
where in the South and New England
and Western money crowding down
to share in the profits that must fol-
low the building up OF such great in
dustrial interests as our country has
not yet seen, we may look for sea-
son Of wonderful activity from Mary
land to Texas.
The past week has witnessed the
organization OF many enterprises
Following in the line of the steel
works reported last week comes the
contract for steel works at Middles.
borough, KY, to be built by English
people at cost Of $539,000; at Ash
land, in the srme State, plans are be.
ing matured for large steel works. In
Alabama a $25, 1000 -four mill company
and $4,000 fertilizer factory com
pany have been incorporated. Ir
Arkansas $4,000 ice factory will bt
built Virginia shows $4,000 hard
ware factory company at Basic City
100000 boiler and machine works a
Buena Vista a $2OG00Q rolling nil
at Glasgow, to ba removed from Ohio
a 100000 wooden mill company a
Clifton Forge 100000 company tc
build reduction works at Mineral City
and $1Q0,QQ9 Woodworking company
at Culpeper In Texas a $l00.O0l
agricultural implement iaorogy ha
been organiaedi $4,000 iron worE
and a $4,000 printing and lithograph
ing company. All along the line tn
South is growing and prospering
4oiigiIy ig seop e(spyvGeFs, aRd tn
fall aeason will, we believe, show
degree for prosperity far greater thar
the South has ey0r befoFe enjoyed
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1890-08-14
Epoch.

The transition frem long, lingering
and painful sickness to robust health
marks an epoch il. the life oi the indi-
vidual. Such a remarkable event is
treasured in tie memory, and the
agency whereby the good health has
been attained is gratefully blessed.
Hence it is that so much is heard in
praise OF Electric Bitters. So many
feel they owe their restoration to
health to the use of the Great Altera-
tive and Tonic. II you are troubled
with any disease OF Kidneys, Liver OF
Stomach, of long or short standing
you will surely find relief by use o.
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