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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1897-08-05
Cucumbers Cooked and Uncooked.

Cucumbers are largely water, con-
tanning, of course, the mineral salts
found in all succulent vegetables. Ii
served uncooked, pare, cut into thin
slices and soak in cold water. AS soon
as they become crisp and tender cover
with a French dressing. Do not add salt
TO the water in which they are soaked.
Large, full-grown ,cucumbers cooked
daintily may be digested with ease by
the most delicate stomach. Cut them
into halves, then into quarters, then
into eighths; put them in baking pan,
cover with boiling water; add tea
spoonful of salt. and simmer gently for
20 minutes. Lift them carefully with
strainer, arrange neatly on slices OF
toasted bread, and pour over them
sauce made as for asparagus, using for
the sauce the water in which the cucum-
bers were boiled-Ladies' Home jour
nal
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1897-08-05
PRACTICAL ARRANGEMENT.
A Gift of Magic Possessed by Some
Housekeepers.


Housekeepers.
Most women have domestic tastes |
and a genuine love of home which en- |
able them to bring out the hidden |
possibilities in things and create Il |
home from the most meager begin |
nings. A kind of magic gives them the |
power to give to any place where they |
may dwell, for however short time, |
the air and atmosphere of home. No |
one but a woman would have evolved
a comfortable chair out of a cast-otf
barrel, stuffed out with the excelsior
of packing and covered with simple
cotton cloth. No one else could have
created with little paint a stand or
bookcase from deal packing box. Yet
many an army quarters or settlement,
so distant from civilization that the
furniture van never reaches it, has been
temporarily fitted up with these ma
terals. which were left from unpacll-
ing. \ few prints have been hung on
the bare board walls, a few womanlv
tritles scattered about by way of dec
grafton, and, behold. the lares and
penateS of home have found resting
place. The rude surroundings have
become domestic. a bit of drapery has
b~'n hung here, and the light shaded
there, and a certain air of elegance has
been impaired to the rough frame
work from which the entire picture is
built.
Because a wise woman can evolve an
| orderly arrangement for distant post
| from these rude materials it does not
prove that it is economical or wise to
| employ them when. with very little
| >NCrtion, anyone with ordinary ability
can earn money enough to buy good,
ServiCeable furniture. Such makeshifts
are only excusable in the wilderness,
| where time often hangs heavy on ones
| bands, and there is no other furniture
to be had. Many a woman has pounded
her fingers and wasted much valua bic
time in the effort to make barrel into
a comfortabl chair, when, with the
| same amount of eXertion, she could
earn money to buy much better chair
from dealer. When comfortable, pref
| ~ chairs can be purchased at IS cents
low prices, it does not pay to spend
much time in using up barrels and old
boxes for furniture.
1t does show a lack of sterling good
sense and a lack of self-respect to be
content with such makeshifts, when it
is SO easy to procure substantial furni-
ture at a price which any American
workman can pay. 1t is foolish to feel
disturbed and ashamed because your
house is simple and unpretending. Get
the necessary articles of furniture first
and get them of as substantial char
acter as you can. Show and shallow
pretense are always expensive. No re
fined woman, with the womanly gift
of arrangement" ever tolerates sham
:, The camping furniture described, made
from the crude materials on hand. has
a certain rude grace in harmony witt
the simple surroundings of frontic
life In it's place and way it possessc'
a dignity which is utterly wanting
when it is introduced where it is no
necessity. a barrel fashioned to imi
. tate all elaborate upholstered chair
= with materials that cost more than tn
price of good chair purchased out
;, right of responsible dealer, is vulga
. thing.-N. Y Tribune.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1897-08-05

They always talk about the seven
ages of man." said the Curious One.
why not the seven ages of woman2"
"Becau use, my boy" replied the Know
ing One, "oue is enough for them
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1897-08-05

Henry kraemer, barber in Bay
onne, n j., some time ago lost dia-
mond ring. A few days afterward,
while breaking an egg laid by fa-
vorite Brahma hen, he found the dia-
mond in the egg. lie thinks he has
struck diamond mine, aal carefully
guards that ben.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1897-08-05

The extent of the gold fever in
Alaska at present may be inferred from
the fact that a man who offered $1.ES an
hour to assistants could only get four,
all others prefeFring 10 trust 10 inck
IN getting claims which wqpld pan
OUT better, a
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1897-08-05
After Escape.

Visitor (at museum And youactual-
" think the savages intended to kill
you?
Tatooed Man-Yes, but it was only
after l had escaped that I discovered
their designs upon me.-N. Y. Journal
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-02-06

There can hardly be any fear of over
doing the mutton business. Its con-
sumption is increasing each year. and,
with rapidly increasing population,
the prospects for the mutton raiser are
exceedingly bright.
A Western farmer having kept about
200 sheep on his 200 acre farm for the
past 20 years, now desires to sell the
flock because his land has become too
rich to raise fax, wheat or other of the
small grains. This is surely an unusual
reason.
Pay good price for a ram rather
than have poor one as gift. The
farmer who then takes good care of his
sheep is generally satisfied with the
breed ne has, while he who starves his
flock and provides no proper shelter for
them is ever looking for better breed.
Corn is the most available feed, and
may be fed to advantage alone. provi-
ded a sufficient amount of laxative
coarse feed be added. such as clover
hay; but for fattening sheep a better
ration is half corn and half barley, or
add to the corn rye and oats.
Ii you have 500 with which to buy
sheep. buy few good ones rather than
a lot of culls; do not let the butcher
Gull your flock; do not keep your grana-
ries full of grain and not feed it, do not
permit the sheep to stay out in cold
storms; do not expect heavy feeces and
good lambs from ewes wintered on
straw.
A good, vigorous ram can be bred TO a
large number of ewes, and if he be of a
good breed, we'll cared for during growth,
so as to procure good development,
and then carefully managed during
breeding season. he will improve every
lamb in the flock.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-02-06
adolescence, can make up for a want of

candescence, can make up for a want of
nature.
This perpetual splitting up of the pas
sion of love into two species, one of which
is.condemned but admitted to be useful,
is it not degrading? There is in Emer-
sons theory Of the relation between the
sexes neither good sense, nor manly feel
ing. nor sound psychology. 1t is found
ed on none of these things. 1t is a pure
piece OF dogmatism, and reminds us that
he was bred to the priesthood. We are
not to imagine that there was in this
doctrine anything peculiar to Emerson.
But we are surprised to find the pessi-
mism inherent in the doctrine overcome
Emerson. to whom pessimism is foreign.
Both doctrine and pessimism are part of
the puritanism of the times. They show
society in which the intellect had long
been used to analyzs the affections. in
which the head had become dislocated
from the body. The relation between
the blood and the brain was not quite
normal in this civilization, nor in Emer-
son, who is it's most remarkable repre-
sent4tive.-John Jag Chapman, IA the
February Atlantic.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-02-06
HORSES.

Breeding and raising of average farm
horses cannot be considered profitable
at present prices, yet farmers have more
or fewer Of them, and ii is hardly good
economy to allow them to run down
now. especially when it is remem bered
that all they lose now will have to be
made up later on.
Comfortable quarters, regular feeding,
watering and grooming make it certain
that the food necessary to keep horses
in good condition can be materially
lessened, and this. of course, M cans
less cost in wintering. Loss of condi-
ton with any class of stock means a
double loss. for it is double the cost to
redeem it.
1t is better economy to own brood
mare worth $500 than it is to keep five
brood mares representing the same am
cunt of investment as the produce of the
one mare when bred to the right horse.
will sell for more than the product of the
five common mares, and it takes just
one-fifth the care and feed to keep it.
Bred for long generations with wide
chests, strong loins and legs. Shire
horses are very essential part of the
machinery of large cities. English
horses were descended from many diff
ferent stocks, SO that by suitable breed
ing of different tribes exactly the sort of
horse required might be produced.
Every stallion in France standing for
public service must have a government
veterinary certificate. Veterinary in
spection will drive out unsound stall
lions by requiring every stallion in our
own country to have State certificate.
and farmers will, as class. readily pay
more for the service of a horse warrant
ed to be sound.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-02-06
POULTRY.

Formerly, when chickens were hatch
3D. corn meal dough was mixed up with
cold water and scattered on board for
the little things to run over and soil.
Such work is exceedingly useless and
Improbable. Neither is it wise to keep
a hopper OF the fattening cereals before
the hens at all times.
In judging of the age of poultry, the
size and appearance of the spurs form a
guide. Again the skin on the legs of a
pullet or cockerel is smooth and has a
fresh appearance. while that of the
adult fowl yearly Crews coarser and
more shriveed.
the gristle forming at the tip of the
breast bone is supple and tender in
young birds. Ducks which have ar
rived at the age of two or three years
have deep depression down below the
breast feathers, and their waddle be-
comes more and more ungainly.
Cabbage is one of the very best vege-
tables to feed to poultry. as it keeps
green long time and the chickens en-
Joy picking at it. Hang it up where
they can eat it readily. without scatter
ing it about or soiling it. A supply is
usually abundant.
The best is best By the introduction
of improved blood an increased weight
OF one or two pounds for every chick
raised, and an increase of one or two
dozen eggs from every cross bred pullet,
can be procured. Anything is not good
enough.
Pure bred stock is not necessarily the
best, but the common focks should be
crossed with pure bred cocks or cocker
els. The larger fowls usually give US
coarser meat, and the farmers wife her
self will choose one of a mixed kind:
but profits can be increased by simply
using pure bred males.
A consensus of opinion among poultry
keepers is that backwheat is an excel
lent food for fowls. Some aseribe their
profit to it's use. chiefly. or course. this
means that all other conditions of care
and food are properly supplied.
1t is not we'll to try to raise our chick.
ems on the manure pile, for when broil.
ers are found with an especially fine
flavor it is owing to the nature of the
food they get. Pure grains and meats
soon prove the manner of their keep.
ing"
Geese are profitable. They need no
more water than do other classes of
poultry. Let the goslings be Matched
early; their food is largely grass, and if
they can avail themselves of it while
young and tender they can be grown
with very little expense. indeed.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-02-06

year. IL this be 30, some men would
not find much profit in dairying if they
counted the cost closely.
No matter how strongly breed tends
in the direction desired, to make any
great results possible this tendency
must be backed by a proper physical
organization. A COW cannot produce
the yield of butter she should if she
cannot digest sufficient food.
1t will not pay to feed milk to COW
if it can be fed to any other smaller ami
NAL. 1t is a strong heterogeneous food,
but experiments do not warrant bank
ing much upon it to feed back to the
COW which gave it.
When dairy animals are to be fully
fed in winter, roots and ensilage are
valuable additions to their rations.
Where high quality of butter is the
aim, oats. bran, meal and kindred
things are better than linseed meal, cot.
ton seed meal and malt sprouts.
II the COW keeps in good health it is
to the interest of the owner to feed her
only 80 much as will be turned into milk
and butter and support life easily. High
feeding beyond the normal produces
fat, which is but waste for the dairy
man.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-02-06

does not strike roundly. One of these,
the Little Giant" has never been
weighed. 1t is said to weigh compare
lively little. being of some light Japan
ese metal; but it is thirty feet across. 1t
is used to announce births or deaths n
the royal family. Its clapper is small,
elongated affair that strikes the bell
with a double sound, and the Little
Giant" is easily recognized when heard.
The bell of Notre Dame in Montreal
is the largest bell in America, but not
the sweetest. This attribute is claimed
by the biggest bell of Trinity's chime in
New York. which is so SURPRISING in it's
delicacy and SO penetrating in it's pure
ness that rich and poor alike stand all
night. in all weather, to hear it ring in
the new year. The most Indictment
weather never keeps them away, and 80
demonstrative do they sometimes be.
come at its sound that Trinitys rector
has once or twice forbidden the chime to
ring at midnight. 1t is cast in E. fiat.
The countries of Turkey, Greece, Italy
and E ,ypt have not many famous bells.
Bells are not in good repute there from
the fact that criminals wear them
around the neck and lepers are strung
with them. In the temples the high
priests decorate their robes with small,
jangling bells, and this is another rea-
son why bells can not become common.
In Turkey they are conspicuously I'M
popular and that country is the only one
that positively forbids the ringing in of
the new year with bells. The first New
Years chimes we're rung in England in
1900, and so quickly did the news of them
travel that soon every capital of Europe
had chimes. America has the most
chimes of any country in the world, and
few cities of the United States but have
their Ginning bells. The voice of the
bells has, since the introduction of the
church bell first blessed in 500, been
the means of announcing the new year.
They hang between the spheres, as high
toward heaven as towers can be built,
and are supposed to be capable of tell
ing to the universe what can be told by
no other medium. namely, the dawning
of new year.-Cldrence S. Russell, an
Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-02-06
EMERSON'S IGNORANCE OF
LOVE.

Everything in the world which must
be felt with a glow in the breast in order
| to be understood was to Emerson dead
| letter. Art was name to him; music
was a name to him; love was a name to
him. His essay on love is nice COM
| plication of compilation and elegant
phrases ending up with some icy moral
| ity. 1t seems very we'll fitted for gift
book or an old fashioned lady's annual.
He says 1.-THE lovers delight in endear-
ments, in avowals of love, in comparisons
of their regards. :. {. The soul of each
detects defects in the other. and hence
arise expostulation and pain, which
leads to reunion and the repair of
wounded affection. Meantime, as life
wears on, it proves game of permuta-
ton and combination of all possible po-
sitions of the parties, to employ all the
resources of each and acquaint each
with the strength and weakness Of the
other. =. At last they discover that
all which at first drew them together
those once sacred features, that magical
play of charms-was deciduous, had
prospective end, like the scaffolding by
which the house was built; and the puri-
fcation of the intellect and heart from
year to year is the real marriage, fore
seen and prepared from the first, and
wholly above their consciousness.
Thus are we put in training for love
which knows not sex nor person nor par.
TALLY, but which seeks virtue and wis
dom everywhere, to the end of increas-
ing virtue and wisdom"
All this is not love, but the merest
literary coquetry. Love is different
from this. Lady Burton, when very
young girl, and six years before her en-
gagement. met Burton at Bologne. They
met in the street but did not speak. A
few days later they we're formally intro
duced at a dance. OF this she writes:
"That was the night of nights. He
waltzed with me once and spoke to me
several times. | kept the sash where he
put his arm around me, and my gloves,
and never wore them again"
We are all so concerned that a man
who writes about love shall tell the truth,
that if he chance to start from premises
which are false or mistaken. his conclu-
sions will appear not merely false, but
offensive. 1t makes no matter how ex.
allied the personal character of the
writer may be. Neither sanctity nor ia
tellect. nor moral enthusiasm. though
they be intensified to the point of in
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-02-06
AGRICULTURE.

If we would succeed in growing large
wheat crops we must study the fertility
of the soil, the proper depth to break it,
it's preparation, and the proper amount
of seed to SOW. Afterward not very
much of the responsibility rests upon
us.
The farmer who only believes in rails
ing corn for the ears and allows the
stalks to go to waste, is far behind the
times. No matter how abundant the
stalks, it is his business to save them for
his cattle and to procure cattle sufficient
to consume them.
While there may be but little plant
food in dry weeds, stalks or coarse
litter, and may not add much to the
fertility if plowed under, they will help
to keep the soil loose and friable, not
only making it easier to work, but will
afford better opportunity for the roots
of plants to penetrate it.
1t is not practical to put manure in
cold storage, nor to build houses for it.
The best we can do is to put the fresh
manure on the land. There is no loss
from sun drying, and when the rains
come they will wash it into the soil,
where the ferments can reduce it into
plant food.
1t is hardly question with those who
study the prices from year to year that
the farmer who sells his grain in the fall
or winter succeeding the harvest gets
more for it than he who holds it longer
for the sake of better prices. The losses
upon wheat crops held over some years
are enormous,
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-02-06
HOKTICULTURE.

The acid of all fruits has its value in
the demands of the human system, and
it should be the duty of every farmer to
provide for his family all the standard
fruits he can possibly cultivate. Peach
es, grapes and trawberries should GER
tainly not be neglected.
Apple trees are slow in coming into
bearing. and a crop of peach trees
planted between the rows will live their
shorter life, bearing several crops of
fruit, and be out of the way before the
apples crowd them greatly. The latter
will protect the peach trees, while the
peaches will check growth in the apples
and induce earlier fruitage.
A large number of orchards have
never paid and never will. The most
common cause is starvation. for the av-
erage farmer who plants an orchard or
buys one goes on treating the land as if
such thing did not exist. He crops
the ground, in rotation or out of it, until
it is wonder that his orchard lives at
all.
To have Strawberries in perfection re-
quires little more care than most far
mers are willing to give and yet good
variety in soil, we'll enriched, will, with
a little cultivation given at the proper
time, secure to US this most delightful
fruit in abundance in its season; and
when we take into consideration their
medicinal value. we should be prompted
to give more attention to their cultiva-
ton.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-02-06
DAIRY.

When using the separator the milk is
thoroughly aerated during the process;
also. there is removed from the milk a
certain amount of albuminous matter
which would otherwise remain largely in
the cream, and which easily undergoes
putrefactive fermentation.
A dairyman on large scale says that,
with the most prudent management. he
cannot produce butter at a lees cost
than u cents pound. and to do this he
must have cows which make 300 pounds
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-02-06
ASLEEP.
BY CHRISTINA RossETTI.

Sleeping at last, the trouble and tumult
over,
Sleeping at last, the struggle and horror
past,
Cold and white, out of sight of friend and
of lover,
Sleeping at last.
No more tired heart downcast or over
cast
No more pangs that wiring or shifting
fears that hover,
Sleeping at last in dreamless sleep
locked fast
Fast asleep. Singing birds in their leafy
cover
Cannot wake her, nor shake her the gusty
blast.
Under the purple thyme and the purple
clover,
Sleeping at last
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-02-06

prayerfully, and if at the appointed
time you still desire me to say yes, /
will say it,"
"NoblY spoken, and like you,
Sidna; but l do not know what to
choose"
Just then dinner was announced
by Miss Ross's house maid, and Mr..
Lorne, who had promised to dine else
where, arose to go.
He thought it over much; but
could not decide, what occupation he
desired. He didn't want to drop
anything from his list of talents and
accomplishments, and finally went
into the church, with dim and half
defined desire to stick to everything,
and make everything perfect.
But alas! The first year passed,
and Trevor Lorne, struggling desper-
ately with sermons and stories, and
scientific articles and temperance pa
pers, with pastoral work, medical and
legal studies, made but little progress
and people we're disappointed.
He started out so brilliantly in
everything, and yet was such dis
NAL failure in all. He left the min
istry and tried the bar. 1t would do,
he said, till something better turned
up. But nothing better seemed TO
turn up, and Mr.. Lorne discovered
that he had no desire to unravel
knotty law problems. Miss Ross was
steadily gaining fame and fortune,
but she only wrote stories, excepting
upon rare intervals. And thinking
Of her and the wholesome truths she
had SO sharply told him, Trevor
Lorne, at last, in humility of soul,
acknowledged that she was right
and concentration of purpose was
better than gold.
Il will succeed yet" he thought,
"but how and in what? Ii man is
ever known at all, he is usually
known by one thing and not by many
things. What do l really desire
most?"
After much thought, and much re-
viewing, and many feelings of sorrow
to give up anything, he decided at
last. He would apply himself to his
one talent, which should blossom
into absolute genius. He would con-
secrate himself anew to the ministry.
His mind was made up. He laid the
others away with sorrowful sigh, to
be used hereafter, if used at all, as a
means of recreation only. "Ye can
not serve God and mammon." He
had been trying to do both and
failed. He wondered if Sidna would
really wait; and then went to work
once more as pastor who meant to
do his duty, and who had discovered
that the calling would not only
"do as we'll as anything" but very
much better, and his heart and soul
was in the work. The next time he
came down the steps of the pulpit of
Glendale church, Sidna Ross did not
linger by the organ, but was the first
to clasp his hand, and to the low
spoken words:
"Are you ready to say yes and
end my waiting2' she replied:
Il am ready to say yes But your
waiting was an education much
needed, and think you will agree
with me that concentration of pur-
pose is better than gold"
NOBLE, 0.