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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1897-08-19
Mr.. Geo. E. Rates.

Is in your vicinity taking orders for G. Fl.
> Miller & Son. Amy orders you may choose
to give me will be filled with strictly first-class
stock, and delivered in prime condition, and
handled as though sent to US.
We aim to deliver the best stock in the coun-
try in frst-elass condition, assuming ourselves
aH risk OF transportation, and if any mistakes
or injury is discovered after the bill is paid, we
wish to be notified of it, and will rectify the
error Trusting that We may be favored with
your patronage, we remain, yours truly,
GEO. f. BATES.
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I HAVE IT.

TTNhe public remembers the Mixed Ground
l. Feed manufactured by me years ago
when doing business under the firm name Of
Ogilvie & Thurmond, hence the object of this
notice, that have resumed the handling Of
Mixed Ground Feed, and have it in stock
equal to that formerly manufactured by me-
None better; nothing as good for stock.-
Quality unsurpassed; yet cheaper per 100
pounds than bran. Mixed Ground Food will be
sold under the brand of Victor" which brand
have exclusive control of. Prices furnished
on application.
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In forty years the population of
Dublin has decreased from PSI, 900
to 2l5,OO0.
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Notice TO Trespassers.

No trespassing will be allowed on Shady
~ Grove Plantation. This is warning that
all who do trespass will be prosecuted to the
full extent Of the law. R. G. STISSON.
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ChlIst the Artist Supreme,

Bishop Thoburn tells a beautiful story
about picture of his dead child. 1t seemed
very imperfect photograph, so blurred
that scarcely trace OF the loved features
could he seen in it. But one day he took
the picture to q photographer, and asked
him if he could do anything to improve it.
In three weeks the bishop returned, and. as
be saw the picture In its frame on the
wall. he Was startled. 1t seemed as If his
child were. living again before him. The
image had been In the old picture, but was
concealed beneath the blurs and mists that
were there also. The artist, however, had
brought 1t out In strong, living beauty, un-
til it was like life in its tender charm. In
every true disciple OF Christ there Is the i'm
age of the Master. 1t may be very dim. Ite
features arc overlaid by blurs and blemishes,
AID are almost unrecognizable by human
eyes. 1t is the work Of Christ in our lives
to bring out this likeness, more and more
clearly, until at last it shines in unGimmed
beauty. This Is what Christ Is doing in
many OF His ways with US.
"Who from unsghtly bulb or slender root
Could guess Alright
The story of the flower, the fern, the fruit,
In summers height?
Through tremulous shadows voices call to
1T doth not yet appear what we shall be- I"
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THE BUFFALO HERD.

The other bufialoes are becoming
used to their new home. There is
another bull which weighs only 100
pounds less than Mckinley, but is not
as vicious. The whole buffalo herd
have wandered about the enclosure
with the greatest curiosity. They
look about for places where they can
escape, but are becoming contented,
as the gamekceper treats them well.
They are, however, wild, and it is
dangerous to venture near them, and
% unsafe for any one to so inside the
enclosure that it is with the greatest
difficulty that pictures could be taken
of them
The dozen antelopes have all eloped.
As soon as they were put into their
thousand acres, surrounded by its
wire fence, they rushed away into the
thicket, and even the gamekeepers
have been unable to find them. Some
times of a clear morning glimpses of
them have been caught in the dis
lance on the rocky hilltop above the
forest, but as soon as any one tried
to trace them they again disappeared,
and are keeping themselves so very
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Temperance News and Notes.

An order has been issued forbidding the
sale OF liquor in the restaurants of the
Maine Central Railroad.
The only effective method OF destroying
anarchy in this country is to destroy the
liquor traffic. Anarchy without beer
would BIZ Ike the lower regions without
birthstone
A movement auxiliary to the temperance
crusade was started by the young women
Of the churches in Harper, Kan, by their
forming an organization and taking o
pledge not to go with men who drink,
smoke or use profane language. The meet
ing was called by the daughter of the Rev.
Henry Farwell.
The men who own bicycles to-day are not
the millionaires, but the wage-earners Of
the country, and their machines were
bought from the money that they were
enabled to save by economizing in some
other direction. And what is more rea-
sonable than that this economy should be
first put in practice by cutting off the
luxury OF drinking2
Since the State has had O monopoly OF
spirits in Switzerland, spirit drinking has
decreased thirty per cent, but there has on
the other hand been an increased consump-
tion Of beer, wine and cider. These state
ments quite account for the anxiety Of the
Government to check the bibulous tend
encies Of the Nation.
An interesting report just issued on
Switzerland says that. according to the
director general Of the Swiss state spirits
monopoly, the aggregate value Of the
strong drinks yearly consumed in Switzer-
land is estimated at S35, 600, 900, a sum seven
times as large as the cost Of the army. The,
population was in 1896. S,0S9,SS5.
"My native city has treated me badly
said u drunken vagabond, "but love herr
STILL" "Probably." replied gentleman,
cher still Is ebout oil you do love-" ,
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GODS MESSAGE TO MAN.
PREGNANT THOUGHTS FROM THE
WORLDS GREATEST PROPHETS.

at Twilight-The Artist Supreme-Even-
ing prayer-When the Great Transition
Comes The Handwriting of Character
Time Purses Away the Alloy.
From pool to pool on wings Of marish gray
The lonely bittcrn shifts his reedy rest;
In garden trees safe hid from curious
quest
The tret-frog pipes the hour Of dusk away:
Above the lawn in tangled maze Of play
The freely swings his eltln torch Of light.
While sweet wood-thrushes thrill with
songs delight.
And whippoorwill takes up her evening lay.
In matted grass the ebon cricket sings.
And dusty moths fit through the windless
air,
The lean hst beats the dusk with eerie wings,
And rest returns to smooth the brow OF
care;
fhe lisping pines breathe low a sweet re-
frain,
And homiug cow-bells tinkle down the
Professor B. F. Leggett
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An Evening PRAYER,

Lord, abide with US, for it is evening and
the night is upon us. Give US thy protec-
tion in and through the darkness. The dark
ness and the light are both alike to thee,
and We shall sleep without fear, for thou art
our keeper. We ask for thy peace. Earth's
peace is easily broken by alarms and by
troubles that spring up continually; but thy
peace Is eternal not as the world giveth
dost thou give, and we long to stay our
weary hearts on thee. We lay at thy
feet the work of this day. Teach us
the lesson thou wouldst have us learn from
its experiences. What is stained with sin
wilt thou gracously cleanse. Correct our
mistakes and let them not mar our work nor
hurt other lives. We ask special blessings
upon our friends. Lead them in paths Of
thine own choosing. Sanctify our home
life. Help US to find the best in each other,
and preserve US from criticism, impatience
and displeasure. May love so abound in our
hearts that all our human relations shall be-
come more tn oughtful and tender Accept
our gratitude for the common mercies Of
Q :ery dGy. Fold us ali now in thine ever
lasting arms, and may the grace of our Lord
Jesus Christ be upon US. Amen.
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or more acres and left to roam at their
own sweet will. They are the first
black. tailed deer brought to New Eng
land.
The Adams brothers have instructed
the gamekeepers to feed them when
they come around. It is probable
that they will not be seen until they
get hungry late in the fall, when the
grass is gone. The country where
they are placed contains roaring
mountain brooks and small ponds
which in measure resemble, their ma
tive country.
The thirty-fve elks which were
brought on last year all survived the
winter and are doing we'll. They were
young animals when they came on,
but their horns have grown out so that
they would not be recognized. They
are very tame, and, although inclosed
in over one thousand acres, the same
as the Enclosures for the others, when
the gamekeeper gives a piercing whis-
tie they all gather around him like
so many sheep. They are exceeding
ly handsome and attractive animals.
They often gather in groups in the in
closure and lie down quietly in the
most docile manner. No one likes to
get near the bucks, however, for they
have a disagreeable manner OF jump
ing on visitors with their forefeet. 1t
doesn't take them long to become ac-
quainted with the people who feed
them and they respond readily to the
calls for meals. They are fed grain,
oats and other cereals, just the same
as if they were domestic animals.
It is not On easy matter to take care
of this large natural history preserve
on October Mountain, anda half dozen
gamekeepers are employed to keep
track of the animals. These game
keepers live in one of the farmhouses
on the land, and they are out day and
night looking after their charges.
Mr.. Whitney has only given up
about three thousand acres to the
game he has already brought on, and
what he is going to do with the other
five thousand acres remains to be seen.
He has large number of game
birds, has stocked his brook with
trout, and it is evident that in few
years this will be the greatest private
game preserve in this country.
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Lively Experience With a Bear.

Auditor w. D. G. Spike, of Pierce
County, Oregon, camping with his
family on Dead Mans Island, had a
lively experience with bear that some
of his party, out blackberrying, lad
stirred up. He was carrying an IRON
bound milk can, and came out from
among the underbrush just as the
bear was about to strike woman. He
yelled, and the bear turned for him
and knocked the can from his grasp.
It looked dark for him, when he man
aged to get the can, which was q wide
mouthed one, and by o quick turn
iammed it over the bears head. The
terror of the party was turned to
laughter, and the bear was shot.-New
York Sun. ',--- .-.-------.. ----~---
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The ISarest Book.

''The rarest sort of book" says
Mr.. Bagehot slyly, sis a book to
read;" and "the knack in style is to
write like q human being" 1t is
painfully evident, uron experiment,
says Woodrow Wilson, in the Atlantic,
that not many of tie books which
come teeming from our presses every
year are meant to be read. They are
meant, it may be, to be
pondered; it is hoped, no doubt, they
may instruct, or inform, or startle, or
arouse, or reform, Or provoke, or
amuse us; but we read, if we have
the true readers zest and palate, not
to grow more knowing, but to be less
pent up and bound within q little
circle-as those who take their pleas
ure, and not as those who laboriously
seek instruction-as means of see.
ing and enjoying the world of men
and affairs. We wish. companionship
and renewal of spirit, enrichment of
thought, and the full adventure of the
mind; and we desire fair company and
n large world in which to find them.
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Where 1t Shows and Never Rains.

Roborowsky, the Russian explorer:
has discovered a place in central Asia
where no rain, but only snow, falls at
any time throughout the year. He
found this delightful summer resort III
the Thibetan highlands, at an altitude
of II, $50 feet. The thermometer on
June Is was twelve degrees below
zero, centigrade. There was no sign
of life, save the appearance of q few
Grongo antelopes, and these were III
such an exhausted condition that they
passed within q few yards of the e..
plorer without showing any sign OF
fear.-New York Times.
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EACH ACCUSED THE OTHER.
The Jury Could Not Decide and Convicted
Both to Be Safe.

The Jury Could Not Decide and Convicted
Both to Be Safe.
The most remarkable murder trial ever
held In Georgia came to an end at Jener.
son in the conviction and death sentence OF
two men, each Of whom charged the otne!
with the crime. The jury openly decided
that, in the conflict Of testimony between
the two, the safest and best course was to
convict both. The crime charged against
them was murder OF most horrible sort.
Last March NJ. C. Hunt, q well-to-do mer-
chant Of that place, was approached py
farmer named Grady Reynolds with an Of
fer to buy him out. Hunt agreed to sell,
and Reynolds told him that the purchase
money was in bank In an adjoining VIII
lage. In settling up his affairs Hunt Sc
cured $500 in cash, and one afternoon
started In a buggy with Reynolds to secure
the balance Of the money due from the lat
ter. A few miles out in the country Hunt
was taken from the buggy. shot IN the PACK
of the head, beaten nearly TO Jeny, ana
hnried in q deep and muddy stream OF
water. -,,,,
REYNOLDS came back to this village and
took charge of his store. When inquiry was
made about Hunt he told the inquirers that
the former proprietor had gone out to Ne.
voda TO witness the -Fitzsimmons
fight. Shortly afterward man by the name
of Bud Brooks offered for sale horse for
merly belonging to Hunt, and this ultimate.
ly led to search for the body. When IT
was discovered both Reynolds and Brooks
were arrested, and each told an apparently
straightforward story, accusing the other
NJ having killed Hunt and having turned
over to the alleged accomplice his valu.
ables. The two were given separate trials
and, although the evidence was OF On ex.
actly Iopposite character, both were found
guilty Of murder Id the first degree.
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CIVILIZATION OF THE INDIAN.
The Red Man Is Person of Great In
ventive Genius.

Ihe keu MAN lR q IerSOn OIL UEeaI LII
ventive Genius.
s'The majority of persons who view
articles made by the American Indian
worked in metal, as exhibited in the
museums of the country, express sur
prise at the proficiency disclosed,
says one of the curators Of the No.
tional Museum. "Many of the ANU
lets, armlets, buttons and other decor
ations to be found in the possession OF
the Indian are of SURPRISING finish
and workmanship. In silver, espe-
cially, are they skilled, and the deli.
cate tracing and outline of the silver
decorations are often a. source OF Won
der, even to those most familiar with
the red men of the plains. Among the
tribes most remote from civilization
those who have not been brought up to
agricultural pursuits, but roam over
the country as in days of old--there ls
to be found scarcely an Indian who
does not possess numerous articles Of
silver, which are worn in lavish pro-
fusion. The smallest child in the
tribe is robed in skins fastened with
silver buttons and otherwise orna.
mented; indeed, it is characteristic
of the Indian parent to lavish the ex-
tent of his wealth on the boy who will
be his heir, if he survives q life OF
strife. The beautiful buckskln,
which in finish is like that OF
undressed kid, is often heavy with the
weight of silver, and even the tiny
moccasins of the same skin are
adorned with buttons and fasteners OF
precious, metal. The ornaments OF
this class of Indianss are not OF crude
workmanship, but are of excellent
finish and design. The general con-
ception of the Indian is that of an in
dividual totally or largely devoid OF
invention. There can scarcely be
more erroneous impression. In place
of lacking capacity for invention, the
Indian, on the contrary, is person
of great inventive genius, and his
crude surroundings and the infre'
quent need of exercising his talents
alone prevent his genius from being
developed. In other generations and
under other conditions the inventive
genius of the Indian was developed to
an extent far beyond the modern con-
ception. The mound-builders and the
cliff-dwellers have left monuments
which display genius equal to, if not
SURPRISING, the originality Of the
modern inventor. An attempts being
made by the National Museum to
eliminate this ignorance OF the
Indian, so far as it lies in the
scientists power. Consequently,
with this work of education III view,
the scientists are preparing groups OF
figures dealing directly with the life
and customs of the Indians, snd, so
far as possible, forming fac.sin!iles OF
the home life of the uncivilized man,
his code of religious beliefs and
worships, and the aids which he EN-.
ploys in performing the little work
which his necessities and the love for
adornment require. Among the group
of figures which have recently been
placed on exhibition in the west hall
of the museum is one representing
the methods employed in working
silver into decorations and useful
ARTICLES"
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Time PurgeS Away the Alloy.

"I saw in Rome" says a modern writer
IAN old coin, silver dtnarius, all coate
und clus,eu Nth green and purple rust. /
called it rust. but. 1 was told that it was
copper; the alloy thrown out from the silver
until there was none left within, the silver
was all pure. 1t takes ages to do it, but 1t
does get done. Souls are like that. Some.
thing moves in them slowly. till the debase-
ment is all thrown out. Some day perhaps
the very tarnish shall be taken off," Well:
there is this alloy. this tarnish, in all Of US.
and the education of life is to purge it all
away-by sorrows. by disappontments, by
failures, by Judgments
"By fires far iiercer than are blown to prove
And purge the silver ore adulterate.
Canon Farrar.
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three years somewhere in upper New
York, where there is a firm rock foun.
dation.
Original Way to Get Rid of Fleas.

Those who wish On original way Of
getting rid of feas might try some
plan like that adopted by Professor
Gage, at one of the buildings of Cor
nell University, and described by him
in "Insect Life" This plan consisted
in tying sheets OF sticky fly paper.
with the sticky side out, around the
legs of the janitor, who then for several
hours walked UP and down the floor Of
the infested room, with the result that
all or nearly all of the heas jumped on
his ankles, as they will always do, and
were caught by the fly paper.
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The big game that William G. Whit
ney has brought on from the Rocky
Mountains to occupy his 5000 acres on
October Mountain, about four miles
from Lenox, Mass, is creating great
interest among the New York people
who have summer places in Lenox
and vicinity. He has secured some of
the largest butfaloes in this country
and has considerable other wild game
from the Rocky Mountains, the only
specimens which have ever been
brought to the East, except q few
which the late Austin Corbin had up
in New Hampshire. They are the
finest specimens that could be secured
in Montana, Wyoming and along the
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Longevity Of Teetotalers,

The following statement appeared in
late issue OF the British Medical Journal:
"The remarkable difference in favor Of
abstaining lives over those Of non-abstain-
ers, which has characterized the yearly re-
turns OF the United Kingdom Temperance
Insurance Company for quarter Of a CEN
tury, has been again exhibited. During
last year, In the n-abstaining section,
the actual death claims were S56, or forty
six fewer than the expectancy. In the
temperance sections the actual death
claims were 246, or 118 fewer than the ex-
pectancy. In other words, II the death
rate OF the abstainers had been the same as
OF the non-abstainers, instead Of 246 there
would have been 320 deaths, or seventy
four more; while II the death rate OF the
non-abstainers had been the same as of the
abstainers, there. would have'been eighty
four fewer Deaths"
In the face Of the great popular fallaeyi
that intoxicating drinks are necessary to
preserve our health, this statement from
the very best medical authority Is, to say
the very least, of paramount importance.
Cali that a man hath will he give for his
life," says Holy Writ, and It may be reason
ably presumed that II mankind generally
were positively assured Of longer life on
condition that they totally abstained from
drinking alcoholic liquors, the ranks Of the
teetotalers would be swelled to formidable
figures.
There is peculiar life insurance COM
pany in Great Britain, which has no coun-
terpart in the United States. It Is the
United Kingdom Temperance Insurance
Company, and 1t makes specially Of di-
viding its policies into two classes-policies
issued to total sbstainers from alcoholic
drinks, and policies issued to non-sbstain-
ers.' The non-abstainers are not intemper-
ate persons; at least they are not at the
time the policies are taken out, because no
insurance company will write q policy up
on the life Of man who either admits, or
upon medical examination Is found to be,
using intoxicants to excess at the time he
makes his application.-Sacred Heart Re-
view
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When the Great Transition Comes.

Some day it may happen that, having made
his visit to our neighbors, Death will have
mind to call on US, and We shall 60 softly
about our changed house in sad amaze
ment. Or feecy cloud, which only lent
pleasing softness to the arch of blue, will
suddenly gather into thundercloud, and
lay desolate our golden cornflelds. Or
fine passage from the prophets, whose lit
erary grace and felicitous imagery we
have often tasted, will Hing aside its en-
broidered cloak and spring upon US, grip
ping our conscience and heart with iron
hand. We shall be taken ftom the midst OF
the multitude. among which we were hid.
den. and the cross we had seen on others
shoulders shall rest on our own. Before, we
had marched along on the outskirts Of life:
now, we are brought into its secret place,
where Jesus traveleth with His companions
along the sorrowful way to fulfill the will Of
GOd.-Ian Mlclaren.
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The Handwriting of Character.

Even now character writes itself dimly on
the face and in the voice when any trait OF
character dominates over all other traits it
is certain to push itself into some tpye OF
physical evidence. 1t is only when there is
great balance OF character that 1t Is
difficult to read the writing on the wall
and give the Interpretation. Now if this is
so while we are emcompassed with this
muddy vesture of decay, how much more
must it be 80 when the spiritual body fits
the spirit as this material body never can
do. In each giving an account of himself to
God no language need be used. The soul in
presenting itself before God comes into
light which reveals its inmost character.
The personal self revelation will be inevi-
table and complete. 1t will not be testimony
from within. but testimony from without
Reuen Thomas, D. D.