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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1892-05-26
FEEDING CHICKS.
Tare Required in Dealing with the Young
Brood.


Tare Required in Dealing with the Young
| Brood. ..- d.
Young chicks for the first day are fur
nished with nourishment through
the .Yoll. of the egg, which they absorb
before leaving the shell. As soon as
they show symptoms of hunger thev
| should be fed had boiled egrs and
bread crumbs, equal parts, mixed and
crumbled fine. This should be con-
tinued during the day at intervals of
| about two hours for the first week. If
the nights are long they should be fed
by lamp light about 9 p. M, placing the
food on a black cloth or other black OBJ
| Ject, to enable them to see it readily.
Once or twice a week feed them a small
quantity of cooked liver or meat
chopped very fine. Give warm, sweet
milk for their first drink in the morn
ing, and plenty of pure water for the
rest of the day. For the following
two weeks feed them baked corn. bread
slightly sailed and peppered and crum-
bled fine. If this is not convenient, or
for change, feed boiled corn meal one
part, and oatmeal three parts, boiled
dry. Feed this about six times ner
day. and at evening give them q feed
OF cracked wheat or oat meal nm
cooked, as this feed will not pass ont of
'the- crop SO rapidly, thus preventing
hunger during the. night, which often
causes them to over-feed in the
morning. One feed each day after the
hrst week, of rice boiled dry
with little pepper added, is ex-
ceiient' and should be continued for
three or four weeks. After the third
week morning feed of wheat midi
diings, corn meal and oat meal. eoua1
parts, stirred in hot water until ouite
stiff and dry, is very beneficial. After
this feed, for the remainder of the dov
feed only wheat and coarse oat meal
uneooked. A small quantity of bone
meal should be mixed with the soft
feed each day. If this can not be had
use little clean sand or oyster shells
ground fine, If your chicks do not
nave access to grass runs feed them
every day little lettuce, young onion
tops, cabbage or green food of some
KIND, aud be sure that a plenty of
clean, cool water is always within their
reach. + FE U
Hens should be confined with Young
broods until chicks are month or si9
weeks old. Arrange brood coops so
that chicks can have either sunshine or
shade, as they may desire. If no bet
ter shade can be provided, plant a lot
OF sunfiower seed early in spring and
they will make excellent shade bv the
time the cheated term" arrives. lit
tie well cooked meat chopped fine
should be fed two or three times a
week, to both old and young.
Be sure to place the food for your
chicks in clean dishes or on clean
boards, and do not, under any cireum-
stances, feed more than will be eaten
up clean. Occasional change NAV be
made In food. but rely mainly upon
equal parts Of wheat middlipes corn
meal and oat meal for soft food with
now and little wheat bran added,
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1892-05-26
-sffRESfpEFRAGMENTS..

boiled Squads Clean and singo,
wipe carefully with damp cloth, then
| brol the same as spring chicken, or
| they may be roasted Whole before the
fire, trussed nicely and basted often
n Y. World.
--Shrunken, half-worn bed blankets
| or comforts, past using on a bed, mako
| good pads to put under stair carpet.
| They will answer the purpose just as
well as the bought pads, and be q great
saving in the wear of the stair carpet
kerosene will take iron rust and
fruit stains from almost every kind of
| goods, without injuring the fabric.
Wash the soiled spot in kerosene as you
would in water. The spots must be
washed in the kerosene before they
have been PIT into soap and water, OF
it will do no good a"
Boiled Crabs.-Have large pot Of
water strongly sailed, let it boil hard;
put in your crabs and boil them for
twenty minutes. If the water should
cease boiling the crabs will be watery:
Take them out, break off the claws;
wipe the Shells very clean, also the
large claws When cold, place them on
q dish with the large claws around it.
The claws should be cracked before
they are sent to the table. The small
ones are not generally eaten.-Boston
Budget.
Silver Pie.-Peel and CRATE one
large potato Add the juice and grated
rind of lemon, the beaten white of an
egg, one cupful of white sugar, and one
of cold water. Bake in a nice paste
After baking spread on top the whites
of three eggs. frothed, sweetened and
favored with lemon. Set again in the
oven to brown. Lay upon the top small
pieces of jelly or jam just before taking
to the table This is excellent.-Detroit
Free Press.
"A fondu is preparation of eggs,
cheese and butter. Parmesan cheese is
very often used in fondu, but any
good cheese will do. Crate two ounces
of cheese into "a. cooking pan, add half
teaspoonful of salt and pinch of
cayenne; mix in a quarter pound of butt
ter into the melted cheese, and the
beaten yolks of six eggs and stir thor
oughly. Beat the whites of six eggs to
a frothsan add carefully to the other
ingredients. Pour the mixture into lit
tie porcelainlihed patty-pans and bake
the fondu in a moderate oven for if
teen minutes and serve very hot. s.
Merely allowing mold to stand
full Of ice-cold water, which should be
poured out just at the moment the
mold is to be used, will usually prevent
jelly or pudding sticking; buttering the
mold is always sure, but is not de-
sirable for jelly. Some molds, how
ever, will insist upon sticking, es-
pecially when their contents are to be
served on some state occasion. To
make sure that this does not happen
brush the interior with the white of an
egg beaten with. half cup of water,
the shell and white that is left will do
nicely to clear the coffee the next morn
ing. Be careful to touch every in.
dentation in order to bring the pattern
out distinctly; small camel's hair
brush is excellent for this purpose. IN.
Z. " orld. - -
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1892-05-26
3 NOTES ON STYLES.

What Dame Fashion Ordains for Hel
49, - "a SDevotees., - 50 = -
Walking coats no longer have hir
seams but the newest have large hiI
pockets. -..--
A combination of cloth, Bengaline
Indian cashmere and watered silk is
seen in the most elegant recently i'm.
ported costumes
A novel combination in the way Of
trimmings is jet and fur. The fur is in
narrow bands beaded with slender
passementerie Of cut jet
White and yellow blossoms are in
high favor and violets promise to. be
more worn than during any season
since they first came in favor three
years ago. A-'+ Is '5~ '~>''tf
A new and popular trimming is a
passementerie finished with a feather
edge, also galloons and gimps dotted
with shiny black cabochous are much in
vogue.
Long, graceful princess polonaise OF
cloth appear over skirts of repped silk,
with sleeves, collar and vest of the silk
and the hem of the sheath. skirt covered
with rows of silk piping.
The aim of modistes is o'make gowns
as light in weight as possible Very few
OF the handsome wool gowns for the
coming season are lined. They are sira-
ply silk-faced and are to be worn over a
silk or moreen petticoat. 8
The recently received hats. and bon
nets from the most famous Parisihn
milliners show q nelange of MORE an
tique ribbon, flowers, lace and feathers
which, to say the least of it, is, on a sim
gle headgear, rather confusing.
Various weaves in Bedford cord. shot
bengalines, vicuna cloth roughly woven
and English homespun checked, striped
and feeked are among the most stylish
wool fabrics offered for spring gowns
both for home and the street.
A number of fashionable women.
whese'aim is to be very English in their
dress, and who, following the fashion
of certain well-known leaders in Lon.
don, society, have worn richly trimmed
straw bonnets all winter, are now or.
derlng black and other velvet hats and
bonnets, which they intend to wear all
summer, to imrart rich tone and
touch to their airy, light -hued toilets
and costumes. 80 .f -fsS
A London writer's says that on account
OF the extralong sleeves the one-button
glove is imminent. Yet iaotwithstand-
ing this assertion the long-wristed
mousquetaire and the many-buttoned,
gloves bid fair to retain
their popularity. Still, history has fire.
quently repeated itself in the matter of
short and long gloves, the long-wristed
variety having, been frequently favored
and discarded by the fashionable in
past centuries $500
A prevailing fashion of the moment il
bonnet teas" The chief aim of every
tea or chocolate slipper is to appear in a
bonnet or hat thatais either nnd question.
ably of French origin or is distinctly of
the English art style. Spanish hats in
black and yellow are particularly af-
fected, also the large Rubens hats of
black velvet, with soft velvet puff at
the edge of the brim and o full cluster
of short but heavy plumns that droop
over the crown from the kaek.--N, Y
Post
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1892-05-26
Why Eggs Spoil.


Whenever a fortified epc ia ri..l
a temperature of 92 degrees the NJ
ing process begins, and wAss
temperature falls much below
point the process ceases. Ate, 4
or four alterations Of This k;,i
embryo chick dies, and the IA
process begins. Now It Is eyidp,,S
if the eggs were not fertili,pd
Matching would not begiu, N
would the rotting and hence |,
would be an absence Of rotten !,
The remedy, therefore, is to pr'
fertilization Of the eggs, and tlbI
be secured by the destruction oft
rooster.
Every rooster not intended esBs,
ly for breeding should be kills
sold as soon as big enough d
Not over one rooster should
kept on any farm, and Tia!
cooped and mated with not
exceed ten hens, and the eggs 1
those hens should be kept or sod
pressly for Matching. The Other
should be kept especially for egg
market or table use, aud no roa
should ever be allowed among Ii
On the ordinary farms about one4,
of the fowls are roosters, whhA
about nine times as many as then
be any possible use for.
Unfertilized eggs will keep front
to four times as long as fertilizeda
1t is safe to say that in the ID
States alone there are 2O,OOO,Ooe !
tecrs, and that $4,000, 600 OF then d
positive and expensive nuisance su
for the table at the right time
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1892-05-26
chicks That Are Featherlng

When little chicks (abont two veg
or more old are feathering, thev z
very nourishing'food, or they willdsE
as the growth of feathers enie'7
them. That is the reason 50 %
chicks die at two or three weeks q /
instead of younger. Keep them W.
especially at night, and feed neals
ground bone, with a varied food' ~
four times a day. DamPness mas
guarded against, as it will proFe =
to the chicks. Farm and Fireslde
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1892-05-26
No Eggs.

We are often asked why the I
that are in perfect health and well
do not lay. The reason is that !
majority of cases, the hens are tOoV
fed. They are kept up to a fat %
ton, fed perhaps three times
and their reproductive Organs
ranged. When the hens have giddir
suddenly die, have soft livers Ehsi
amined after death, and are very
the indications are that they Do
have sufficient exercise and are ied
li'A,rally for profit. Farm and
side.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1892-05-26
HERE AND THERE.

"A good man and good toa
beat the world and kill oil proeIa''
ton.
AS far as possible, feed all Joulal
on the farm, and raise on the ia14
you feed.
Farming must be made more ~
ter of business, and must be eon0N.
upon business principles. II IS aas n
to manage farming loosely aaa
compare its results with those oOa.
by the systematic merchant OF -
facturer.
No single breed OF fowls W. j. (
swer all requirements. Hthe ogf
to secure eggs without reganp,
sale OF fowls a non-sitting breed Nv NJ
If broilers and fowls are tne , -
the market breeds shodfd be pre-, I.
A reliance on old and tried ~. q,
of fruits is the proper thing for y /
in fruit culture. Many Of t saS,i
fruits are as prolific and prohsps I
they were generation ago /,
scientists and the nurserymen
experimenting. .A
Opposition to book farmn $500
ing way as fast as new ways s1 i d
- 40
gain ground, for which let p c,.
thankful. With more knowieass ~
business is sure to follow bes's
and consequently more prom .,rs
To be able to sell well, tae :. ~.
must be Il persistent reader =
papers, particularly those us,t VI
agriculture; but to keep aOre. ...,.,Is
what is going on in the asI go. n
world, and for their own in9ess. ~ .
should read at least hale . WV
D@ra,
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1892-05-26
Fan. Gazette. aug sat i.
Speaking 10 ~

=, Speaking. to Io-s-
The horse is possessed as :.
hearing as his owner, ps ~ q
., De m made to heed words J, y
given in moderate tone = = q, 9 CON
hun hurled s5, at him with all d Il. s ).
the drivers lungs. sons me- - '''e's
IN the IL habit of yelling At t. t ha''
as II they We're half a mill ss y
seem to think it is the o n,l'e aRal
along with a team. Il rn,s wv
horses have been educated d't !. 3
but there is no need Of ts. = laal
in the first place. acaOgs
l notice that the boysa. !,
don't mind as we'll Is Il : sae9
mllder spoken neighbors; H., .
have became used to n. '.sv %
found that nothing less ,ha ,asa'
howl land may be elod sa az
whlp' means much, 1t is u w.
that children CONSTANTS IN, aUIq
least attention to rebnlas .Oae
same holds good with doss ~
in obeying orders belies. 'ao =
it is best to speak to borss,s =
comewhat above the orlips,..
taking care to make the CON- :, y
tinct.
Never give a word Of comu
less it is meant. Some men 81.
when they don't mean for ~
stop at all; result Is, when i, NY
whoa and mean it, the bo,,. ' !!
always stop. Another tbinr !.
sary-when certain horse h, /.
always make him obey. Some s
are Ike men-they hear, M, /
heel, and it is necessary 10 wal. ]
up every now and then. Ihay. \
seen a man yet that didn't SON.
get ratified and yell at his tenn !.
all his power, nor a team tb.i ~
make most any man lose Il, /.
occasionally; but there is no D.sI
either man or team making a ii;
lt.-National Stockman Farme,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-07

the expense of other people. Shame for
consenting to remain on any terms in dis
honorable possession of these things, which
represented by-gone robberies and
wrongs inflicted upon the general peo-
pie of the nation: He said: eff there
were lord or the son of a lord here, would
like to reason with him, and try to show
him how unfair and how selfish his position
is. would try to persuade him to relin-
quish it, take his place among men on equal
terms, earn the bread he eats, aad hold of
slight value all Difference paid him because
of artificial position, all reverence not the
just due of his own personal merits"
Tracy seemed to be listening to utrerances
of his own made in talks with his radical
friends. in England. 1t was as if some
cavesdropping phonograph had treasured
up his words and brought them across the
Atlantic to accuse him with them in the
hour of his detection and retreat. Every
word spoken by this stranger seemed to
leave blister on Tracy's conscience,
and by the time the speech was fin
ished he felt that he was all con-
science and one blister. This mans
deep compassion for the enslayed and
oppressed millions in Europe who had
to bear with the contempt of that small
class above them, .throned upon shining
heights whose paths were shut against
them, was the very thing he had often
uttered to himself The pity in this mans
voice and words was the very twin of the
pity that used to reside in his own heart and
come from his own lips when he thought of
these oppressed people.
ITO be Continued Nezt SuadGy.I
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-07
How to Read the TorSue.

The perfectly healthy tongue Is clean,
moist, lies loosely in the mouth and has no
prominent papillae. The tongue may be
furred from local causes or sympathy with
the stomach, intestines or liver. The dry
tongue occurs most frequently in fever, and
indicates nervous prostration or depres-
sion. A white tongue is diagnostic simply
OF the feverish condition, with perhaps a
sour stomach. When it is moist and Yellow
ish brown it shows disordered digestion:
when dry and brown, a low state of the sys-
TEN, possibly typhoid. When it is dry and
red and smooth, Inflammation, gastric or in
testinal, is at hand. When the papillae on
the end of the tongue are raised and verv
red the strawberry tonguei is developed and
that means scarlet fever. A sharp pointed
red tongue suggests brain irritation or in
hammation, and a yellow coating indicates
liver deraneement. 1t will thus be seen that
It Is worth while to acquire the reading OF
health barometer at once SO useful and so
handy.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-07
TIN SUPPLY OF THE WORLD.
How It Is Found In the Beds of Ancient
Rivers on the Malay Peninsula.

How It Is Found In the Beds OF Ancient
Rivers ON the Malay Peninsula.
Experts attached to the geological sur
vey regard the prospects for American tin
hopefully but not with confidence. There
is plenty of that metal all over the United
States-not only in Dakota, California and
Virginia, where millions of money are
being expended in preparing to mine for it,
but also in Montana, Wyoming, Maine,
Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts,
along the Hudson, and elsewhere. Wherever
coarse granite exists, the industrious pros
pector will find this valuable metal. But
the difficulty is to get 1t out at small
enough cost to compete with the foreign
product.
,Two-thirds of the tin produced at present
in the world comes from the Straits of
Malacca. The backbone of the Malay
Peninsula is granite range of mountains
containing the same formation as that of the
Black Hills in Dakota, with irregular veins
of coarse rock that holds oxide of tin.
Severe rains accompanied by tremendous
tornadoes are characteristic of the climate
in that region. They wash away the sub
stance of the hills, which is carried toward
the sea by the river, the tin being dropped
on the way because it is heavy. This has
been going on for ages, and in the dry chan
nels where streams formerly flowed the
mining is done for the metal, which is found
in little round nuggets like shot of different
sizes These nuggets are separated from
the gravels by the crudest conceivable
methods of washing, and sent to Singapore
for shipment to various parts of the world.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-07

ter 6 ore ofnuts in the hollows of the great
fallen trees and beneath the huge boulders
thai strewed the ravine. He never
d polested them and they did not fear him
and when the sound of the hunters guns
echoed through the woods they would run
to his den for safety. He knew the haunts
of all the squirrels in the neighborhood of
his hut and where was hidden their winter
store of nuts, but he, as hungry as he had
been at times, never touched them.
He, too, like the squirrels, had laid in
some nuts-hazel nuts-but he needed some
thing besides, so he had dug some roots,
which he was familiar with in the old coun-
try, and with these he had kept off sickness
and disease. asked ii, while in the woods,
the thought of theft or suicide as a means of
ending his troubles had ever entered his
mind. He said: "My mother taught me
better than that"
The man mad been in the woods since last
April. His hands and feet are much FROST
bitten. Once last fall he was mistaken for
Fitzsimmons. The illustration is from an
instantaneous photograph. The man was
taken to his rude home in the woods and
photographed as seen. II. O'D.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-07
The Electric Torch Lamp.

A clever adaptation of the electric lfght
has been made for the purposes of theatrical
display. 1t is named the "torch'l lamp and
consists of large incaLdescent bulb with
-four lenses fused on to it, all the surface
around them being frosted. The effect OF
this combination OF n true sDheroidal form
OF globe with frosting and lenses is to pro-
tect the light in the form of four condensed
beams. An American firm has sent large
number of these lamps to Europe within the
last month, to be used for the production OF
the opera Robert lie Dfable." The lamps
were mounted on torches, which contained
small storage batteries. Little vanes at the
base of the lamps reYoived with the least
motion of the air. and gave a rotary motion
to the lamps, the beams Of which would
then flash in every direction. This lamp is
also used with excellent effect as loco
motive headlight.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-07
A Common-Sense Remedy.

In the of curaves what you want is something that
will do its work while you continue to do yours-a remedy
that will give you inconvenience nor interfere with your
business Such remedy is ALLcocKs Porous PLAsTERs.
These plasters not experiment. they have
for thirty and their value has been aed by the
highest medical authorities well by voluntary testimonials
from those who have used them.
ALLcocKs Porous PLAsTERs purely vegetable and
absolutely harmless They require change of diet and
not affected by wet cold Their action does interfere
with labor business you toll and yet cured while
hard at work They that the youngest the Oldest
the most delicate person of either them with great
benefit.
Beware Of limitations and do
and let explanation yss
accept a substitute.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-07

nothing more to do in this world of USE
ful sort, than an earl finds to do. But he
smothered that part of his thought as well
as he could; he made every effort to drive
it away, and with fair success, but he
couldn't keep it from intruding little now
and then, and when it intruded it came
suddenly and nipped him like bite, a
sting, burn. He recognized that thought
bv the peculiar sharpness of its pang. The
others were painful enough, but that one
cut to the quick when it came.
Night after night he lay tossing to the
music of the hideous snoring of the honest
bread-winners until and 3 o'clock in the
morning, then got up and took refuge on the
roof, where he sometimes got a nap and
sometimes failed entirely. His appetite
was leaving him, and the zest of life was
going along with it.
Finally, one day, being near the immi-
nent verge of total encouragement, he said
to himself, and took occasion to blush pri-
vately when he said it: eff my father
knew what nv American name is-he-
well, my duty to my father rather requires
that furnish him my name. 1 have no
right to make his days and nights unhappy.
1 can do enough unhappiness for the family
all by myself. Really, he ought to know
what my American name is" He thought
over it while, and framed a cablegram in
his mind to this effect:
''My American name is Howard Tracy"
That wouldn't be suggesting anything
His father could understand that as he
chose, and doubtless he would understand it
as it was meant, as the dutiful and affection
ate desire on the part of son 70 make his
old father happy for moment. Continuing
his train of thought, Tracy said to himself,
"Ah, but if he should cable me to come
homel I-I-couldn't do that mustn't
do that. I've started out on . mission, and
1 mustn't turn nv back on it in cowardice.
No, no, 1 couldn't go home, at-at-least 1
shouldn't want to 60 home"
After a reflective pause, "Well, maybe
perhaps-it would be my duty to go in the
circumstances; he's very old, and he does
need me by him to stay his footsteps down
the long hill that inclines westward toward
the sunset of his life. Well, I'll think
about that. Yes, of course, it wouldn't be
right to stay here. If I-well, perhaps
1 could just drop him line and put it off
a little while, and satisfy him in that way.
1t would be-well, it would mar every
thing to have him to require me to come in
stantly."
Another reflective pause-then: "And
yet if he should do that I don't know but
oh, dear me-home! How good it soundsl
and a body is e1cusable for wanting to see
his home again, now and then, anyway"
He went to one of the telegraph offices in
the avenue, and got the first end of what
Barrow called the usual Washington
courtesy" where "they treat you as